#Make. An actual. Tutorial.

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steep crescent
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Prepare for my absolute rant/yap fest

It is EXTREMELY difficult to get good at Tetris unless you sink 10 hours a day into it. Especially if you’re new. I’ve found that it takes new players 50+ hours of gameplay to start being able to not die to base gravity and themselves.

That basically means dying on quick play’s floor 2 50 times in a row.

The current tutorial is literally just the controls. That’s it. The game tells you absolutely nothing about what you should be doing.

It’s like explaining to somebody how the pieces in chess move, then expecting them to have fun when they get destroyed like 20 times in a row. The worst part is that at least in chess, you get some sort of indication that you’re doing well; taking the other guy’s pieces. In tetris? Clearing lines doesn’t really do that. It’s more like “barely surviving” than “actually making progress.”

The implementation could probably just be how chess.com does it; puzzles and lessons.

Lessons on chess.com briefly walk you through a concept. Simply put, they give example positions on what you should be doing.

Puzzles aren’t really a “tutorial,” per se, but they serve a (somewhat) similar purpose, particularly if there’s some sort of explanation saying why the puzzle’s solution is the best move.

The system could likely work similarly to what chess.com has, just that the things are Tetris, not chess (e.g. a lesson on what piece dependencies are.)

There are two issues I see with implementing something like this.

  1. the Tetrio team already has their hands full with stuff.
  2. People have already made guides on other platforms. However… I don’t think those guides are actually reaching newbies. So the proposed feature still serves a purpose; I just thought I should bring this up.

It’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing.

topaz sleet
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i don't think anyone would disagree with you but it's very difficult to just make a full fledged tutorial

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oh i didn't fully read oops

violet panther
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I think it would be very beneficial, and there’s definitely many players myself included who would be happy to do this. It would help most if it were at least mentioned somewhere in game though, so new players who aren’t on the discord and such can actually find it

arctic talon
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Recently I finished recording a video where I took 2 complete newbies and made them 1v1 after I trained them for a bit. It was so hard to try and teach them certain concepts. The one I mostly struggled with teaching was actually dependencies, so I think something like this would be very beneficial

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Or maybe I’m just a bad coach who knows

raven horizon
wild ferry
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I have two points to bring up.

First, I think it would be helpful to have a central, in-game resource that details mechanics that aren't immediately obvious. Things like how B2B works. How spins work. How surge works. Maybe even how SRS+ works, including the full kicktables. These are things that have unambiguous, factual answers, yet those answers can only be found externally (on a discord or wiki, typically).

But second, I don't think there should be "advice" in-game. That's risky. That risks biasing the playerbase towards a particular playstyle, or overemphasizing certain skills in favor of others. This might not even happen intentionally.

On top of that, advice ages. Strategies change as the game changes and more techniques are discovered, so any advice the game gives may soon become outdated. Thus I think it's best for the game not to endorse any advice in particular, and instead leave that for external sources.

In short, a manual would be welcome, but we don't need a full-on strategy guide.

whole kraken
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yeah i kinda feel like this is due a merging