[tunnet] I'm 2 minutes in and stuck

the game has told me to place a relay

and it will not let me place the relay

left clicking to place relay does not do anything

it shows this preview, then doesn't place it

lily! help

You don't have any credits! Check in the room before the mainframe and in the kitchen for toolboxes with glowing particle effects coming off them, they give you enough credits to get you through the tutorial.

oh it costs money to place as well as to buy?

Yyyyyep.

It also costs money to drill, whenever you get to that point, but once you get the network up and running you get a trickle of income.

I'm going to be honest I respect what this game is trying to do but it has way too many rough edges for me to like, personally.

the scanner seems to make the exact same sound in all circumstances

is it based on direction or proximity or

I literally pointed it at every wall in the building and got the exact same beep every time

I think I am probably not gonna buy the full game

getting stuck twice in the tutorial is a dealbreaker

I don't regret the $6 I spent on it since it's just $6 going to an indie studio and some of it was fun, but, like

There are so many rough edges that are super unintuitive and frustrating

(For the record, the way the scanner works is that you get a proximity icon in the upper right of your screen, but I ALSO didn't spot it for like, five minutes.)

The real hell part is after you get through the start of the game and get more of your tools, namely the network filters which can speed up your network by sending back packets that aren't addressed to the destination endpoint. This is important and helps you optimize.

...but.

Getting them to work is HELL because of the way everything automatically snaps to the nearest port, so if you're trying to set up your network architecture right you have to do it in a very specific order or else your ports will link wrong and you'll have to start over.

Which is the point where I basically gave up on the game.

alas

It's a great concept that could've used another, like, six months of QA and playtesting to smooth out all the rougher edges.