Beginners Exercises - LLA-Gaming/SS13-wiki GitHub Wiki

"Learn as you play exercises"

The very first round you play wont be easy, this game has a learning curve. There is no "tutorial" or "level 1" You are going to jump right into the action and you may die. If you are eager to learn you can keep trying, and there will always be other shifts. Here are some little "Learn as You Play Exercises"

Navigation and Items

Firstly, you need to get your clothing. Head over to the blue and pink lockers and open them, pick up a jumpsuit you like and a pair of shoes and place them in your backpack. When you're done close the locker.

  • Use the movement keys (arrow keys, numpad keys with numlock off or WASD with the in-gamehotkeys on) to move.
  • Click the locker with an empty hand selected to open it.
  • Right-click the locker and choose a jumpsuit you like, click the 'Move to top' option. Alternatively (heh), ALT+click the tile with the locker on it to see a list of everything on that tile (clothes in this case).
  • Click the jumpsuit with an empty hand to pick it up.
  • Switch hands by clicking on the hand button, middle clicking or by pressing Page Up.
  • Repeat this for shoes and pick them up.
  • Click the backpack with the hand which has the jumpsuit in order to place it inside the backpack.
  • Place the shoes inside the backpack.
  • Click the locker with an empty hand to close it.

Clothing

Now you'll need to head out of the Arrival Shuttle to a secluded area and change your clothes.

  • Head out of the Arrival Shuttle to the north.
  • Go into either of the Escape Pod shaft (red doors).
  • In your inventory bar on the bottom left, click the gray jumpsuit, that you're wearing, to take it off (notice that your PDA and ID also fall off because the slot availability changes depending on your clothing).
  • Now open your backpack and take the new jumpsuit out.
  • Click the now vacant slot (where your jumpsuit used to be, the left side of your inventory) to get dressed.
  • Pick up your ID and place it back in your ID slot (bottom row, third left slot from your hands).
  • Pick up your Tablet and place it on your belt (bottom row, second left slot from your hands).
  • Now remove your shoes, take the new ones from your backpack and place the new ones on.
  • You may leave the old jumpsuit and shoes here as you won't need them anymore.

Internals

The station has likely been beat up a bit since the beginning of the round, and so it is a good idea to put internals on for just in case we come across a place with no breathable atmosphere. The internals can be found ready in a box in your backpack. Take them out of the box and put them on.

  • Open the backpack and take out the box.
  • Open the box with your other hand.
  • Take out the breath mask and place it in your mask slot (upper slot of your inventory).
  • Pick up your PDA from your belt and place it in your free pocket (bottom row, to the right of your hands).
  • Take the emergency oxygen tank from the box and put it where your PDA used to be on the belt.
  • Turn internals on by clicking on the internals status icon (number 13 on the HUD-image above).

Writing

It's good to have things written down, so I want you to write your name on the sheet of paper in the Security Checkpoint.

  • Head out of the maintenance shaft through the same door you came in.
  • Go south past the arrival shuttle and then to the right.
  • There is a small office with gray and red floors there with a desk which should have a pen, a sheet of paper and a recharger.
  • Get to the desk, pick the pen and click on the sheet of paper.
  • Write "Assistant [your name] arrived on SS13 on [date here]" (Example: Assistant Matt Droid arrived on SS13 on 27.11.2010) and hit OK.
  • Put the pen back on the desk, examine the note (Shift+Click it), and close the window after you're done examining.

Radio

Okay, you're an assistant, which means you can theoretically work anywhere and assist with tasks. Practice dictates otherwise, but we won't pay lazy asses round here, so try to get a job now. Try to ask someone if they need assistance.

  • Using the radio is simple. Instead of using say "Hello" like you would to say things to the people around you, you use say ";Hello". Basically you add a semicolon before your message. Some departments have department radios (e.g. security, engineering, medical). As an assistant, however, you don't belong to a department, and as such don't have a department radio, but when you do, it works by writing say ".h Hello" (or #h, or :h for departmental radio, whichever suits you best).
  • Be polite and professional when asking. An example of how to ask: say ";This is assistant [your name], I've just arrived on this station and am wondering if anyone needs assistance with any job."
  • Then you wait for a reply, if someone says they need you, then go to them and learn from them, you can continue these exercises at any times. If the call ends up with you dead on the floor, don't get mad, it happens all the time.
  • If you don't get a reply, continue with this exercise.

Tablet

You have been issued with a Tablet computer which you should now have in your pocket. I want you to enable the Tablet's flashlight and send a message to some random person.

  • Your Tablet already holds a pen inside, which is removable by right-clicking on the Tablet and selecting Remove Pen.
  • The Tablet can also hold an ID card inside it. Take your ID and click the Tablet with your ID in active hand to place it in. Your Tablet/ID combination can be held in your ID slot to function as an ID card but this way you can also save one inventory slot.
  • Open your Tablet by clicking and dragging the Tablet to anywhere you can see on the screen. You can also take it in your hand and use it by clicking it again or pressing Page Down.
  • The Tablet has several tools available. Different department's Tablet's have more specific tools like health analyzers and power monitors. Yours is simple however and only has a few basic tools.
  • To enable the flashlight click the 'enable flashlight' link at the bottom. Note that the flashlight is very weak. You'll see the difference in dark areas such as maintenance shafts.
  • To send a message, open the Messenger from the main menu.
  • You'll see a list of detected Tablet's, click one at random and send a message to them. Message's content is your choice, if you can't think of anything just say "Hi!", don't get upset if the recipient doesn't answer, they're probably dead or just very busy.
  • Close the Tablet.