Tutorial mission for teaching the basics

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• Movement
• Simple Jump
• Double Jump
• Shooting projectiles
• Throwing explosives
• Timed explosives
• Status effects

Etc

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This should appear if you have never played an offline match before. You can choose to skip the tutorial before, or during gameplay.

One scenario I like is:

• You start off as a solo kobold and meet a tutorial NPC. They tell you they are expecting an attack imminently and you have been summoned to deal with. You are taught how to move, jump over a gap and then shoot. The terrain is non-destructive and missing the gap is non-fatal. You are lastly expected to backflip over an obstacle and throw a grenade into a hole (for what purpose). This teaches basic movement systems

• The tutorial NPC is then killed off by the invaders. You have 3 weak enemies to kill which are setup in such a way that the bazooka, shotgun and grenade will work on each. They will only have about 20 hitpoints each (and called something like "grunt"). This teaches basic weapon systems, and using the right weapon

• You find that they have captured one of your teammates. Upon meeting the teammate, you find out that you share weapons. You can switch to the team mate and use one of the weapons in your inventory to break loose (blowtorch?). This teaches teammate switching and inventory management.

• Once the team mate breaks out, the jail guard boss appears and has 150 health. This is more freeform and you can use any attacks at your disposal to take them down. The guard will have a bazooka and good aim, but won't be able to move. The player should learn to take cover where possible. One of the team mates may die at this point, depending on how well the player acts. If the players health gets too low, then a health create will spawn. If the player manages to kill their own team then they are respawned before the fight. Repeated failures may mean you are gifted a stronger weapon, or subtly increase the damage of your weapons on enemy players. This teaches more tactical combat.

Notes about this scenario:

• The NPCs do not generally move, this is to save me having to write code for it at this stage.
• The terrain is indestructible to be a safer environment for the player to learn.
• Player weapons have unlimited ammo.
• There is no timer for the player's turn until they fight the boss, which will give a 45 second timer to perform an action.