Community Task - Help Messages

We're going to add help messages on death for those with the F1 help messages still on (read: new players), like the suggestion here. Since the community spends more time with new players than us, and there are more of you to ease the load, we figured community input was the best way to produce this help content.

We're looking to have somewhere between 50 and 100 tips.

Here's what you need to do to help out:

• Think of something that'd be helpful to know as a new player
• Think of a way to communicate that quickly
• Check noone has posted it before you in the thread
  
• Post your helpful tip inside a code box:
  
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  Be sure to keep your tip under 20 words or so, something you could read during respawn time.

That's it! Thanks a lot to everyone who takes the time to write out helpful tips.

 

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Enemies can use your tunnel.

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Spikes will stun you for a short period of time!

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Saws will instant kill you

 

Why most of the suggestions end with an exclamation mark?

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Sometimes teamwork is the key to success

heh

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Try to help your team mates if the situation gets tight

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You can use your shield as a glider

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Wood blocks are cheaper than stone ones, but also weaker

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Knights can use their swords to destroy wooden blocks and shops

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1 bomb can take up to 3 hearts damage

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Water bombs and arrows can be used for extinguishing fires too

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If a friendly saw kills a teamie, it will automatically switch off

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Drills are a fast way to dig, but give you 50% less stone

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Best players can play any class when it's needed

 

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STOP HOLDING YOUR DICK AND F*CKING HELP ATTACK!

Oh wait. They're supposed to be encouraging, right? Hmm... How's this?

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Make sure you're helping your team advance; don't just hide out the back!

Can't think of anything else specific atm (and need to go sleeps), but I'm thinking it would be nice to have a goodly selection of messages along the theme of teamwork-- use it, plebs!

 

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 Try not to die in doors - it'll let enemies through! 

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 If you see an object/body holding a door open - move it away! 

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 Don't use ballistas for defense, rather, bring them to the front lines! 

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 When you encounter a player named Arcrave, make sure to use water bombs! 

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 Visit the KAG forums for more friendly help and advice! 

@8x I guess exclamation marks at the end of these are encouraging ;^)

 

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A bomb's timer lasts four seconds before exploding

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After you light a bomb, let the fuse burn a bit before throwing it, so that your enemy can't react!

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If you're throwing a bomb, jump in the direction that you're aiming to throw farther!

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Try bomb jumping--drop a bomb on the ground, then shield downwards as it explodes!

(Then again, maybe we shouldn't tell newbies to try bomb jumping...)

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If your enemy throws a bomb too early, you can pick it up with [C] and throw it back!

 

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Aside from being eaten by a grue dark tunnels leave the risk of walking right into mines or traps.

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Retracting spikes deal less damage and have a delay but are less likely to hurt your team.

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Supporting solid walls with backwalls is important but often overlooked.

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Collect hearts in your inventory so you can heal later.

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Doors at ground level are vulnerable to boulder bashing.

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Teammates will not love you for lighting a lantern in their secret tunnel.

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As a builder block up the enemies doors and trap them in their own castle.

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Big spikepits are usually uneconomical, make multiple small ones.

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Kill/death ratios are not the ultimate aim of the game, winning the match is.

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If you have 500 coins spend them.

 

I think you meant a mine?

 

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Don't use drills to mine stone, you will waste 50% of stone mined! Only use for emergencies.

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Try and get video evidence of people griefing or hacking first before yelling for an admin.

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Red names are admins, Green names are Guards. Guards have the ability to ban too.

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There is a red barrier at build time, it will soon go away. Always keep an eye of that timer!

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Don't be afraid to tell everyone you're new!

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Press E when in battle, sometimes you will find things in enemy backpacks!

I still stood under 20 words, don't yell at me.