The Repopulation team will be deploying a new patch today that brings the new tutorial system on board alongside improvements to the UI, crafting enhancements and over two hundred bug fixes.
The largest addition this patch is a new tutorial. The Repopulation is a sandbox, and the open ended nature of the game is a contrast to what many MMO players have been used to. We found that many players left the previous tutorial and then entered into the world without being fully prepared for what to do next. Although there was one case of a mailed mission in that tutorial, it was for the most part a driven experience through the tutorial and there were no generated missions inside of it. Numerous uncovered topics became a point of confusion for players after leaving it. The new tutorial aims to tackle those problems. It takes place in a large new outdoor area. While the required portion of the tutorial is still very short, there are many optional offshoots to it, including generated missions, adversarial camps, harvesters, and other topics which were only briefly brushed through in the previous tutorial. There are also new mentor NPCs who are available to answer many common questions in the game. We also continued the process of adding more image based tips, and this will continue in future patches.
Read the full update blog on The Repopulation site.
