In-Game Game Guide?

posted on November 28th, 2010, 9:25 pm

This has probably been suggested, and I apologize if it has, but would it be possible to put the "Game Guide" in the Options menu?

I don't know how all you freaks know what counters to use when ( ), but a guide would allow us mortals who haven't memorized such things to compete better. It might also prevent spamming early on because people could know what ships to build if he see's a bunch of K'Vorts coming his way.

posted on November 28th, 2010, 9:36 pm

It might also prevent spamming early on because people could know what ships to build if he see's a bunch of K'Vorts coming his way.

If you see a bunch of K'Vorts and still think about what to build: Too late. 


However I dunno if the devs want to include something like an ingame-guide (also it'll be hard to play a game while your opponent is in the game-shell to open the ingameguide from within the options-menu).

And in my opinion, memorizing a ships class name and weaknesses and advantages isn't that hard usually. Learning the passives actually is good enough to compete, and they are fully explained in-game.

posted on November 28th, 2010, 9:51 pm

IIRC the loading screen hints sometimes say what a passive does (im very unsure if this is right, I havent been able to play FO for over a month now ). I think a good addition would be to show specific counters in addition to the hints, or to give more detailed info about the passives like what ships have the passive and a few examples of what ships the passive counters.

posted on November 28th, 2010, 9:56 pm

Passive say which ships (long-range, short-range and support) do best/worst against the ship in question and tooltips show the range of a ships weapons and which are support. The only thing I can think of is adding the type and size of a ship into its tooltip.

That should cover pretty much everything relevent.

posted on November 29th, 2010, 12:47 am

Passive say which ships (long-range, short-range and support) do best/worst against the ship in question and tooltips show the range of a ships weapons and which are support. The only thing I can think of is adding the type and size of a ship into its tooltip.

That should cover pretty much everything relevent.

Yeah, that might be better.

Range, size and whether it's a support ship or not. That would help.

posted on November 29th, 2010, 1:08 am

I actually think it might be cool, but not doable.  I am constantly in need of checking the guide when I play because I fail at FO.