Riot, we need to talk about your tutorial. -.-

Black k 9·5/2/2015, 10:49:58 PM·5 votes·585 views

Honestly. Any successful game has a good tutorial, and by tutorial I don't mean "omfg click the flashing thing that's impossible to miss, did you get that?! I'll say it again."

Most really, really good tutorials teach the player without even saying a word. Take Capcom's Megaman X's tutorial level for example. Every single part of that NEVER has anything directly telling the player what to do or how to do it. The game allows them to learn and proceed on their own terms.

Riot's tutorial... it's bad. Really bad. Horrible even.

Imagine yourself a brand new player to league of legends, Okay?

Now, you go into this "tutorial" and are told what to do and how to get to it. Seems simple enough. But it's what comes after that's terrible.

The "Objectives" (that don't even appear in-game) give you bonus gold, you also start with bonus AD and AP. And whilst your turrets are fine at normal HP, the enemies' turrets are WEAKENED. Their level 1 Turrets have 1200 HP whilst yours have 2000! What is this?!

I checked out the tutorial and i had 157 AD as Ashe at LEVEL 3.

Imagine you've just finished this so-called tutorial and think to yourself "hey this game's pretty easy, I think I'll go into pvp now" as any new player to a game would think, not wanting to go up against bots.

Then they get their asses handed to them as the game didn't mention that all the bonuses, objectives, and easy kills wouldn't be in the game.

Riot please, you need to fix this.

Now.

6 Comments

disregardable5/2/2015, 10:57:17 PM1 votes

Isn't Megaman X a platforming game? That genre is generally simple enough to where it doesn't need introduction.

Not to mention you aren't actually allowed to play PvP until level 3, which finishing the tutorial still leaves you at level 1. They said earlier that they don't want people to LOSE in the tutorial, and making it a realistic 1v1 bot scenario would make them lose way more than they already do.

Nick Valentine5/2/2015, 10:58:22 PM1 votes

The upgrade to tutorial is supposed to be Co-Op vs Ai where your stats are normalized but the enemy is significantly weaker.

Akeydel5/2/2015, 11:04:38 PM1 votes

Well, thats why you HAVE to play bot games until level 3. The tutorial isn't very good. But (i think) what it's trying to do is explain the game in a broad sense, let you experience a bit of it, and win a game quickly. Then you have to go into bot games, and play in a still-not-quite-real-but-closer situation, learn how the game really works.

Its like someone trying to teach you the overarching parts (laning, objectives, cs, jungle, and fighting) and that's it. The increased AD and decreased tower HP should probably be told to the person taking the tutorial, but I dont know anyone who has taken it more than once (at level one) and at that point you don't know about what numbers are reasonable.