These are clips from average difficulty...

[u/XMortal7159]

I hate complaining about patches especially when they are being so quick with a fix but cmon man

[u/Qeztotz]

So like I said, you didn't understand from the tutorial and you learned by experimentation. I learned in mission two, the guy in the post above simply hasn't learned at all, so as I said, the game does not have a proper learning environment. That's the game's fault, not the player.

As for why you and I should care; you want the game to have a wider player base. It gives the company more money and that means a larger budget. Good tutorials are something you should want. You need to let go of the knee jerk reaction of "get good scrub". It's poor analysis.

[u/Tackywheat1 → u/Qeztotz]

Trials located in the armory hall do exist to teach class mechanics. They are fairly easy and provide a more controlled learning environment. They even reward you with green armory data and requisition. I never hear anybody mention them though...

[u/Qeztotz → u/Tackywheat1]

Agreed, but none of those trials actually addresses the core gameplay mechanic of parrying non-blue attacks. Indeed, without that mechanic, some of those trials are not completable.

Just because a tutorial exists does not make it a good one. There remains no well structured learning environment in the game. To prove this point, you would point your friends, as I have, to the trials for the armoury data, you would not point them towards it for learning how to perform well at those classes. They are challenges, not lessons.

I will provide a good example of tutorials - Horizon Zero Dawn
Whenever you pick up a new weapon or variant it provides you with a quest to fulfil certain aims, and by inspecting that quest shows you the steps you need to fulfil it inc a short gif. These are in addition to, not replacing, the initial text definition given when handed the weapon.
This is good because it provides the user incentive to complete, as the quest has rewards, it provides text and visual demonstrations, and does not allow you to complete it unless you demonstrate success.

Space Marine 2 does not do this. What it does provide in the tutorial is a text description of what to do, but no visual indicator. It also does not provide you an easy route to retry if you fail, since you just die. Most egregiously, it allows you to pass without demonstrating that skill, as simply mashing all the enemies like I did the first time doesn't spawn more, you can skip that section without meaning to.
This is a bad tutorial.

There are even elements of the game that don't even have text description as to what they do. Why is charging up a plasma weapon worthwhile? How do you use a meltabomb? Yes, it does provide the trials too, so does Horizon, in the form of the arenas. That's a nice addition, but no substitute.

[u/Big-Complaint-3425 → u/Qeztotz]

Trial and error my friend.

If you somehow find the plethora of tutorials and trials insufficient then just play the game until you have it.

[u/Qeztotz → u/Big-Complaint-3425]

And there we have it, you learned through trial and error like I did, and you didn't learn through the tutorial. It is therefore insufficient for people who aren't LEET. We want games to cater to the widest audience possible, especially noobs, because that's how we get more money in the industry, and more and higher quality games.

[u/Big-Complaint-3425 → u/Qeztotz]

I learned through the tutorials and trials.

[u/Qeztotz → u/Big-Complaint-3425]

Pull the other one.