FTUE: Winterstate

hello and welcome to Pocket Gamer not busies youtube channel I'm John Jordan and today we're in our first time user experience playlist that's where we play game for the first 10 minutes or so get the first time user experience which is the thing that developers spend a lot of time crafting the thing that is most important if you want to keep a player who downloads your game so the game we looking at today is a winter state from finish developer play Raven who have a pretty high reputation not had any massive hits yet but they've done some pretty interesting games in their short lifespan and spymaster being I guess the the most interesting one which is a world war two strategy turn-based game that was super good so we so no pressure play Raven so we've just kind of slide the game I'm just going to go into the tutorial so i guess the is a bit the background is is like a an arctic winter has happened all over the US and it's kind of like a mad mad max in the

American winter as opposed to the Australian desert so ur vehicle combat so we're going to hit the start combat button you can see this is our little chat we're going to draw of it you know this used to be quite popular than its kind of drawing a route people plate draw race I'm sure and obviously Oh quite control which is the big one so we go throw line actions going to happen we can see where we go bigger text animation right okay so we'll be going to draw this again i think that tell me to do that but i'm going to guess that's what I have to do obviously is interesting with you torial how much they tell you to do is lots of yours now have buttons do this do this do this do this um I think a bit patronizing depending depends on your oddities of course and you see now I've actually kind of got you by to this but I guess this isn't what I slightly more like for me cool I've game for people who like vehicle combat matter if I would continue moving on so a brutal wink and we're not really I'm sorry destroy these

three targets that didn't do very much by driving past them okay but that's the tutorial you know she Troy's it's basically you draw you draw a line and your vehicle follows at Lund i'm going to draw a line that's quite nice as well so this the kind of the high-level map a harm more bad guys like I could stop are so he's going to try roadblock so we can see this kind of nice user interface nice graphics they're showing us there's me that's what the enemy doesn't look like obviously is going to be imagined single-player campaign mission and obviously I would imagine that as what all games are doing now pvp as well so it's going to fight so a little hidden in a very reversing that's again being very popular than these little kind of hints that come up and start combat so okay so he's rushed up was that were a bit strong girl that's always gonna do tall isn't it so from a little room hoping to clever with this over just gonna drive past him and then move up something vehicle by tapping on it ok

what else with it like that okay any strategic advantage not really clear cuz yeah come the wrong way well that's picocon bezmen at least i know he's got less help of me he's trying to get away and maybe I maybe I missed out I assume he's not allowed to get away so would be ok kind of thing any kind of it but you wouldn't really want to stop his ass with him no we didn't become humble games is it ok so pretty simple again remember to upgrade my vehicles weapons and ability I guess that's a main metagame I'm going to draw again let's see what this baby can do look at them am I find this time ok so we see at the bottom there's rewards an XP a means is all because fairly standard people who've played free to play mobile games

there's going to be a gameplay this is what we're seeing here this is what we can do emissions are going to draw lines and and that's going to be the kind of game play called gameplay but actually the core part of the game we're going to play this game for weeks a month is going to be the next game which either than me between we buying new vehicles and leveling them up so I go over the ok so it's gonna so seeing an energy energy mechanic now you'll see that tops minutes use the firebomb so if powered up I get to use particular types of weaponry target the HQ so I'll just throw it up there because it's not within range okay so you see where that green circle is now the problem going to happen and look at the farm to work okay so tap it so that could have been to guess that really because I was happening ok look ok we see see what's

going on so when it sometimes interesting that some some developers make the tutorial hard to see what kind of users they're going to want them ok so that was interesting so just quickly today went t I played that tutorial those kind of three levels without logging in to Google Play services so that's something that you can do because people don't like log into Google Play services often or if it's Apple you know that kind of game center line so obviously it's nice to do that in a frictionless way and then when they you know they play through the tutorial at least a part of the tutorial I've leveled up but at that point you've kind of asked them for identification about who they are which is useful for you if you're going to send push notifications and stuff so we're going to need supplies text is a tiny bit little isn't it i'm going to liberate the farm so it's going to do that ok we see a trading post one ok so there's goods so it's going to be looks like a pre detailed selling element in here ok

we're gone the wrong way I've gone the wrong way problem and I need going to go into the Trading Post I want a big flashing thing so look at there's me and all those other guys ok so it's going to be a bit harder it's a nice it's a two turrets two trucks and a big HQ so is it going to help me out with some hopefully summer some goodies so I can see there's these things I have to do like trusty things have to go over probably first ok here I don't get too close to that one because that's gone so let's get around there take him on come on take him out first assuming I'm battling this time in terms of taking more damage to me and

not using the brake lever blow up ok so now I can go on my merry way try and pair up here okay so let's power up with it so if i go around here let the target put the phone ok but then do ok so it's doing kind of consistent damage doing these on fire taking damage over time come off so i go to this one and get another fire bomb ok so which we go over here so

we're getting target of this going boom so we just leave it presumably just blow up buddy p bit dull and that's always the HQ that's there I guess I wouldn't he wouldn't nice he took a seminar damage but then I got going and fitch out for myself so we could kind of do a loop like this to encourage this guy to come and get me and see come on clear this the kind of area of attack it's going to recharge my fire bomb focus Ike uses fire bomb on this guy though he'll be moving so that will make it harder see got him if I move that's cool here

so use these are kind of bitter kind of action things a bit of strategy as well it's not the most fast-paced thing in the world I guess it'll be interesting a lot of games now have kind of like auto modes and such like this clearly is not an auto mode type game this is a game that kind of them in the best regions of kind of all Western gaming is getting you to the actually being kind of good at something then is he the HQ isn't a Gotti work from anywhere no no no para tu thing is to avoid me so go to this the one looked at before shelters okay start to build okay one building and building washer one building there okay I'll go to that farm did night ok so one of them speed that

up six to do it now okay I can't go to the X I'm guiding a mite or away you sell goods I can also okay sort of goods so I'm training bit as well never again got a heavy oh ok my watch them build these items that sounds good got enough cash to build a second vehicle kind of build this crazy thing load beast can spend one diamond gate now err it's crashed ok I'd be a particular problem there with YouTube gaming crashing so just restarted so we just see my load beast has loaded I've

been completed so missions complete Sammy sea level 4 let me go like that kind of pops pops out try out the load beasts says the young lady the Enigma was when i was trying before and now i'm going to try out the load beast assign this so assigns dr atul a beast and that is a big load beast defend the farm we don't know no one will get confused so where's Mitch farm so I'm going to fight against for I've got to go so to be interesting I was seeing how I guess how it layers up how we have different combat vehicles start combat so there's my HQ and these guys are gonna come in so protector HD from the enemy so i guess i can draw a line you might see what happens it would be

better off using appearances guys super slow so maybe actually bit more careful but and these got a cut coming up back on taking the loop around there he's got a big gun on still make needs me I'll be learning gonna they're gonna mean trouble in Greenwich this guy is gonna be five on that movie okay so that's easy peasy but this guys getting to be a trouble she's moving out the way to reverse university now those guys just pretty powerful let's link up now and get so they give me outflanked this guy's just get a big enough he's going to lighten up a little which one looking up isn't as you've got a shield

that's cool these guys shield 5 on him come on that's all over by the shouting there we go so we've seen those early cheetos were pretty easy and now can suddenly see just having to two vehicles in there how use different vehicles and that suddenly gets bit more complex and now tis about the man destroy the so so this kind of interesting at this level they've lost the kind of tutorial lady it's now assume we know what we're doing we're going to see is the kind of maps kind of fog doubt we can come a box you see our next mission we've kind of got the levels and go to the Washington do the trading staff got the workshop here

where we can so we can see different vehicles and their different um shield and their weapons so can we do anything with that can we upgrade it not mobile what else we got missions and that was the destroy the enemy vehicle and guess we've got the obvious things at the top we've got is a energy bar and see the kind of counting down there to get more fuel so that's does it say that when we how much energy we use those rewards that say how much energy i want to hear that three in the corner let's gone swinging something hopefully we've got the soft currency so i can't find those and the gems which of the heart-pounding which i can go in and buy so they've given me basically a power board well ATP or dollar in american money and then these are the so you can see i get two

different levels i can unlock at level 28 i can unlock this once that one well there's a little place with the gun placement and that's a setting thing that doesn't and that's the dome just looking looking at different ways of house we kind of interact with these things so that enigma is the driver of that her attributes you've got five cent speed and who's driving Jake's got a five cent house so we could take Jake out put him any other the other way around I guess that's going to be a just easy thing as well that comes in and we can see that that Terry's has twice the power of the machine gun bore me frost trailer so there we go that's the game and the first music spirits are pretty pretty nice i think the the kind of you I and

the kind of tutorial I guess could have been a bit smoother I think for the players of a lower level by pretty much I guess guys would not guys guys or girls who've played these kinda going forward roughly know what they're doing is straight forward into that degree so kind of quite hard to officers often balance tutorials about how much hope hand-holding you want to put in there can they come a bit off-putting but we've kind of seen the metagame we've kind of seen our vehicles with another vehicle that's pretty good that's good to get that in early obviously it helps into the into the it's a game of all the gameplay of having two vehicles amazing much more complex and interesting so there we go let's win two state from play Raven games free to play download it if you like look of it and don't hit to subscribe to our channel so we do a lot of this first-time user experience and when we play games for the first time just kind of give a taste of really verb of kind of what the initial kind of experiences so if you like that kind of stuff do subscribe and then you won't miss anything and hopefully we'll find some some gems that you wouldn't

otherwise have found and yeah thanks for watching hope to see you again soon