Will there be a ship training school so new players can learn tips on how to fly? This may show them some aspects they may not have known about before.asked by CDFWolf
TL;DRNo dedicated school is promised; Squadron 42 is intended as the training experience, with Arena Commander for practice and website tutorials, and targeting improvements for joysticks and gamepads are being worked on.
Well so, okay, the intention in the final game is that SQ42 is your training experience, which is designed to have a cool story, but there are definitely areas that are a bit like training or tutorials, introducing different flight techniques, or management of ship systems. Once you've gone through SQ42 you'll have a good background in it all. Of course there are some people that don't want to worry about the story etc, so might just jump into Arena Commander for practise, and on the website we'll have some tutorials/lessons/reading so you can have a look at, for example, advanced space manoeuvring 1, where it'll show more sophisticated techniques and so on. So yes the game will be friendly to new people, especially for those that don't play space or flight sims already. It's actually one of the best things about developing and releasing the game like we are, there is just so much feedback and so many suggestions for how to make the game as fun as possible for release. Right now we're working on targeting, especially for joysticks and gamepads. That'll all be in 13.2, which I'm pretty sure will make a lot of you happy, I used to be terrible with a gamepad and now I'm pretty good so a lot of you will be far better!