Some people want advice, but you really shouldn't give much other than pointing a beginner in a direction you think he'll have fun.Ī beginner isn't a beginner anymore if he knows what his buttons do. Mousing the hotkeys or looking at the keyboard lasts only so long there's so much to learn here that he will eventually pick up on some of it.Īdvice at this stage is actually sort of detrimental, so it should be minimized. A beginner who enjoys himself and plays the game enough will pass the beginner stage on his own. Learning is hard and playing games is supposed to be fun. No beginner actually needs to learn anything. I prefer beginner, as it has fewer negative social connotations.īeginners just need to have fun in whatever it is they are doing. 'Beginner' is interchangable with 'newbie' or its various synonyms, though I rarely use those terms myself even as insults. I define beginners as anyone whose skill resembles a person who has never played Age of Wushu. This is a good way to identify where you and others stand, which is how you'll know what kind of advice you need to get to the next level. I have probably used the term 'expert player' over 9000 times while writing for Massively, and I've held an opinion on what an intermediate player is since long before I was blogging. All of them are fairly discrete, and they are pretty universal, whether you practice swordsmanship or carpentry (or do either in a video game). So this time, we're going to talk about skill levels and what they mean. However, I realized somewhere in the middle of writing it that I used terms about 'skill levels' that I have never really defined, and I figured it would be a good thing to do that before I went any further.

The second is one about reaction times, perception, and brain chemistry. I started off writing something lame, but I scrapped it because I didn't like the topic. Fun facts for fans of the Art of Wushu: I wrote three articles about Age of Wushu for this week.

Age of wushu guide for beginners