For everyone who is complaining about no tutorial!

from Demigod Forums

I have made an awesome quick tutorial for you guys. I cant believe myself that Stardock/GPG havent included one for this game - its a joke! How are we meant to learn how to play it?

  • Click to move your Demigod. You can select him by clicking him.
  • When you kill anything - except for minions - you get money and experience (except from towers).
  • Items cost gold. To buy them, visit the shop and click on the item you want. If you have enough gold, you will recieve it and get the bonuses stated in its description
  • To buy citadel upgrades, click the citadel and click an upgrade you want. The numbers up top which are labelled 1-10 represent your War Rank.
  • Gold mines give you gold.
  • More flags mean a higher war score.
  • To use an ability, click it.

Hope this helped everyone who has been complaining and flaming GPG and Stardock (who are the publishers, not makers of the game btw) for not including a tutorial in this deep, complex game. There are also a ton of guides found around this site - but a tutorial would be much better!

Hope this helps the reviewers at Gamespot too!

The Bad

  • Major online connectivity problems  
  • No tutorial or story-based campaign  
  • Only eight arenas.
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Don't die.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

dgl-dazk, are you the same as dalzk?

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top
  • When you kill anything - except for minions - you get money and experience (except from towers).

Untrue, Towers are woth 300 GP each.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top
  • Holding CTRL makes you only target Demigods.
  • Holding ALT makes you move aggressively.
  • Towers hurt,  especially early game, try not to get into range of more than one at a time.
  • Clicking the slot to the to the right of consumables opens the favor item menu. Once you choose a favor item you cannot change it for the entire match. Once you buy a favor item it is free to choose from then on.
  • You earn favor by completing matches, online and offline favor is seperate. You get 75 favor for winning, and 10 for losing. There are also bonuses of 15 favor points for : Doing the most damage, getting the most kills, getting the largest kill streak before dieing, having the least deaths, destroying the most structures, getting the most assists, buying the most citadel upgrades and finally for getting the most gold.
Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

I have made an awesome quick tutorial for you guys. I cant believe myself that Stardock/GPG havent included one for this game - its a joke! How are we meant to learn how to play it?



Click to move your Demigod. You can select him by clicking him.
When you kill anything - except for minions - you get money and experience (except from towers).
Items cost gold. To buy them, visit the shop and click on the item you want. If you have enough gold, you will recieve it and get the bonuses stated in its description
To buy citadel upgrades, click the citadel and click an upgrade you want. The numbers up top which are labelled 1-10 represent your War Rank.
Gold mines give you gold.
More flags mean a higher war score.
To use an ability, click it.
Hope this helped everyone who has been complaining and flaming GPG and Stardock (who are the publishers, not makers of the game btw) for not including a tutorial in this deep, complex game. There are also a ton of guides found around this site - but a tutorial would be much better!

Hope this helps the reviewers at Gamespot too!







The Bad


Major online connectivity problems  
No tutorial or story-based campaign  
Only eight arenas.

Great another noob tutorial who is this Dalzk anyway:banhammer: :banhammer:

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

haha i just realized you can change name that appears

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

I honestly believe several of you have missed the sarcasm that I detect in the OP's post.

Reply #9 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Shadow_Avenger, reply 8
I honestly believe several of you have missed the sarcasm that I detect in the OP's post.

Dalzk is my ESL teammate I didn't miss anything

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

The problem isnt the obvious - i mean selecting a demigod and clicking to move, nice one, even my cat worked that out.

 

The problem is describing the gameplay to someone not familar with DOTA. At a glance it can be confusing and not overly intuitive to work out how it works - ie utilising your own creeps vs theirs etc.

 

This thread fails.

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Deepjay, reply 10
i mean selecting a demigod and clicking to move, nice one, even my cat worked that out.

I would like to see that.

Reply #12 from Demigod Forums Top

The problem is describing the gameplay to someone not familar with DOTA. At a glance it can be confusing and not overly intuitive to work out how it works - ie utilising your own creeps vs theirs etc.

if you just take your time to play a game or two and you still dont understand how the game works then you are fail.

Reply #13 from Demigod Forums Top

some part of me agrees because I'm an intuitive player too,

but I must also defend those who simply aren't getting the gist of a game all by themselves

and need guides instead...

Reply #14 from Demigod Forums Top

Some of the important features need to be told imo.  For example, how can we capture the flag??  If you walk up to the flag it will just spin if there're no enemy demis around and the capture bar take a while to appear.  And where can i buy items?  where's the artifact shop? What are those look like?  Oh we can upgrade at citadel? Oh we need to walk up to citadel to access it? Well there're just too many questions for new players and i understand the feeling of not knowing everything and getting called noobs.

Reply #15 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting dgl-DalzK, reply 12
The problem is describing the gameplay to someone not familar with DOTA. At a glance it can be confusing and not overly intuitive to work out how it works - ie utilising your own creeps vs theirs etc.

if you just take your time to play a game or two and you still dont understand how the game works then you are fail.

Your comment reminds me of those "I'm rubber, you're glue" playground insults.

The game may be obvious to you, as well as many other people who have played DoTA.  However, for those that don't, there's a lot of things in this genre that aren't immediately apparent. 

From a high level point of view, noobs have no chance of knowing the following:

-tradeoff between increasing damage/attack speed, versus health/armor

-how to flag lock

-importance of citadel upgrades

-the massive penalty of dying

-team synergies

-I can go on and list more, but you probably get teh point by now.

 

I've met so many people online on both my team and the enemy team who had no concept of these things.  Needless to say, the game was basically ruined so they played worse than AI.

At the very least, a tutorial would help bring the skill level floor up a bit.  It would help make noobs not so nooby.