Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls

Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls

DITW 1 Mar, 2020 @ 9:41pm
[0.8.4.02] Repair tool tutorial unclear to new user
At the very beginning of the game, you need to grab some tools and put out a fire. Afterwards, it is unclear how to proceed.

As a completely new player, I didn't understand the room I put the fire out was a cargo room, and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to open the door to the north so I could continue on to the next area, which is where the tutorial text seemed to be indicating to me was the cargo room.

While in the cargo room (that I didn't realize was a cargo room), I was stuck with the interaction option to view cargo. My assumption was that this was somehow a bug that was overriding my interaction option to open the door.

I eventually figured it out by finding a video of someone else doing the tutorial, but it was quite frustrating.

I think moving the repair tutorial text to be inside the room you need to repair would help clarify. Additionally, it would help to show icons of the required tools near the tutorial text that says to use them. I think this would help reinforce exactly what the player needs to do.

Everything past this point seemed reasonably easy as I began to understand how the control scheme worked.