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Will you at least consider more in-game menu tooltips

quelaag
quelaag Member Posts: 60
in Feedback and Suggestions

Something, ANYTHING, that disperses information in a more trickled-in, naturalistic way especially when said information is relevant. In the ESC button menu, maybe beneath where it shows offerings, please consider having add-on tooltips. If it’s important enough to show up in a pictorial form, it’s important enough to tell about. Because otherwise, you’re literally just saying ‘older players, you can be in on our little secret. Newcoming players? You can get F*CKED! We don’t value you!’

Maybe killer tooltips you can click through under the ping section, the kind of vague tips you see in loading screens as a new player. Maybe they start showing up after the first down, so people don’t have a hissy about too-early clues.

If you want to retain new players, stop demanding that they go on an extra-homework-deepdive on fckn reddit or wiki. Not only is that absurd, and a wall of nonsense that directly contradicts best practices in design - when presented with a huge wall of largely indistinguishable ‘info’, none of which is currently very emotionally relevant when not playing, people tend to just go ‘euch, tedious’ and move on. That’s just how the brain works. That’s why math classes don’t start with a whiteboard full of tiny formulas wall to wall, but introduces concepts as they’re taught.

I used to try to introduce friends to the game, and I don’t anymore. Their first experiences were confusing and tediously chaotic, leaving them bored and annoyed because there was so little information to go on they didn’t feel like they had any agency or engagement with the events. And I’m sure I don’t need to mention the FNAF incoming player that got a refund after just being instantly hard tunneled out by much more experienced players and punished for it lol.