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I will mention some things that didnt make my new player experience easier:


NE items don`t give skills. As i understand that biggest advantage of becoming citizen is that i can start gaining skills, yet items i receive for becoming ciizen don`t give me skills.ˇ


Slugroaches. They are green and very fast, moving in random directions every few seconds. It is very hard to spot them in the crop fields and is very hard to chase them down.


Weak Slugots and Elslugs. Both of these are immune to penetration damage, that makes them impossible to kill with firearms(except with E bullets, which newplayers dont have). It is confusing at first at you can`t kill them with firearms, because you can kill Dweebs with them.
After you realise that you can kill them with melee only, your only option is to avoid them.ˇ


Unblocking skills. Reaching Saransk on your own is rather impossible for newplayer and it doesnt help that you cant unblock in advance skills that havent reached 100% for first time.


Earning Pnotes only via picking rocks.


Creature speed in general. Mobs move very fast and can go rather large distances in matter of seconds, you can never be sure that a mob which is on the edge of the radar atm will not be behind you in the next few seconds.


Steel pick. For me Steel pick started losing Skilling and SAU gain rate before i reached 50% effectivness on it, none of the other items acted like this.




Я напишу про несколько вещей которые не сделали мне жизнь легче как новомы игроку:


NE предметы не дают скиллов. Как я понимаю то самый большой бонус ситизена это то что твои скиллы будут расти, но предметы которые ты получаеш за ситизеншип скиллов не дают.


Slugroaches. Эти маленькие, зеленые монстры очень быстрые и двигаются в случайном направлении каждые несколько секунд, увидеть или догнать их на кукурузном поле очень сложно.


Weak Slugots and Elslugs. Эти монстры иммунны к огнестрельному оружию, это смущает потомучто Dweeb не имеют етого иммунитета, для нового игрока убить их не возможно.


Разблокирование скиллов. Для нового игрока достич Саранск живым почти невозмошно, и тот факт что разблокировать скилл который не достиг 100% в первый раз не делает жизнь легче.


Пноты можно заработать только добычей руды.


Скорость монстров.  Все монстры очень быстрые, нету уверенности что монстр который сейчас на краю радара не будет рядом с тобой черес несколько секунд.


Steel pick. Кирка теряет Skilling и SAU gain rate даже то того как эффективность достигает 50%, другие предметы работают иначе.

about the slugroaches, if u want to hunt them and u use a riffle point the aim cross above the creature whit a bit, like u shot in the air, but just a bit above,
 
I think is a bug ....it seems like u try to shoot in the foot and the creature avoid it somehow, is a graphical miss

Just to be clear, I`m not complaining but simply providing info for devs or anyone else on what things can be changed to make newcomer experience easier/more pleasant.

Just to add a little more information, NE items are "Newcomer Equipment" that only come from the new player tutorial. They do not give skills because they do give 100% effectiveness no matter what your skill level. So if you want to collect resources as quickly as possible and don't care as much about skill and SAU gains use the NE tools, but if the opposite is true don't use NE tools.

From my experience every item that gives skills has the same skill/SAU gain progression and should match the effectiveness level (EL) of every other item. I recommend submitting a bug Helpdesk ticket here on the forums with as much detail as possible, including screenshots of comparable items (steel pick and steel axe, for example). It's possible that there is some kind of bug with your character.

Just to add a little more information, NE items are "Newcomer Equipment" that only come from the new player tutorial.

I didn`t do tutorial and got my set of NE items for becoming citizen, it`s also written on wiki that you get NE items when you become citizen.

Remember, this is a video game, not the Navy Seal's. It's not suppose to weed out the weak.

Now i begin to understand why i found everything in Fallen Earth so incredibly unbelievably easy. Mobs that were right for my defense and combat skill were located in the next zone and with the ones that the game recommends you u can't die even if u miss 90% shots and take a small nap during the battle.
And even then there's still few ppl who complain the game is too hard! 




Now i know why i'm different, this is my special training of AW...

Using the road to reach Sar is supposed to be a reasonably new Citizen safe route for players that have a HK-A1 NE.



If new citizens are finding that the mobs along the road cannot be avoided and are making Sar unobtainable - then this sounds a level design bug and a Tech Forum bug report (plus a Helpdesk ticket) would be appropriate.

realized that it might already be really easy for Newcomers to get to Sar and back, though only after their first visit. Are Newcomers able to use the bot transporter system? If so they make a single dangerous run to Sar from NU and back - whether with or without a more skilled guardian player - then they use the transporter system until they become Citizens. Clones are not charged when a Newcomer dies (unless that has also changed) so there's no penalty for changing into a bot to use the transporter to hop back to Sar, re-humanize, unblock, de-humanize, hop back to NU, and re-humanize again.

I do not think that Newcomers can get skills.
Newcomers cannot use the teleport to get to Sar - they need to go to Sar on foot (and they will get an extra 50 clones if they succeed).
After that they will be able to teleport to Sar (I think).
Then when they are a Citizen then they will be able to teleport to Sar.

The main issue with the above is that Newcomers will not know to make sure they go to Sar so they can benefit from the teleport to Sar while skilling in NU at a later date (when they are Citizens).