DoaA Tutorials Tutorials to help you get started in Death of an Aberration, from managing your character to taking on Missions and participating in battle.
This Thread contains information on: ▪ Tutorial: Personal Armory Space; Everything you own must be listed in your Personal Armory Space. Learn how you can store your Weapons, Equipment and Ammunition, and keep track of Currency and unlocked or purchased Perks. ▪ Tutorial: Choose your Loadout; This tutorial can help you create some smart loadouts using the space available to you. Every weapon has a weight value, and you have a weight limit. Learn how to quickly and easily set up a loadout for your mission. ▪ Tutorial: HP Bars; You'll need one of these with your name and headshot image, for use in Missions, Tournaments and Events. Learn how to use our user-friendly HP Bars! ▪ Tutorial: Exploration; Learn how to make your way through the areas contained in Missions, search for loot, and encounter enemies. ▪ Tutorial: Battle; Learn how to get through a Battle intact, correctly following our Systems so you can earn full rewards for Mission Completion! ▪ Tutorial: Armory Shop; Learn how to spend your Currency Points (CP) in the Muse State Armory, or your Squad's Armory Shop, to get a hold of new Weapons, Equipment, Ammunition and Perks.
If you are looking for these things, you're in the wrong thread!: This information can be found in the "Squad and Character Systems" Thread, located in the Main Hall, or you can click here. ▪ Squad Structure; How the Squads of the Muse State Military are formed, what their Members' Ranks, Levels and HP amounts are, and descriptions for each and every Rank. ▪ Squad Tiers; What perks Squads can have, and how the Squads can be upgraded to have even better perks for Members. ▪ Weapons, Ammunition, Equipment and Perks; An explanation of how Weapons, Ammunition, Equipment and Perks are gained and managed, along with the Weight System. ▪ Currency Points (CP); An explanation of the currency of Death of an Aberration, simply called "CP", that is used to buy and sell items between players, or to/from Armory Shops.
This information can be found in the "Enemy Systems" Thread, located in the Main Hall, or you can click here. ▪ Enemies; The enemies you'll encounter in Death of an Aberration. Machines, Human Enemies, Aberrations, and more as the story progresses. ▪ Encounters; Enemies will appear in your Missions in Dangerous Areas, if you roll a certain dice result. The chances of encounters and the type and size of the enemy force will be different for every mission, so pay attention to the Mission Templates for info on what you could be up against!
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:41 pm
Tutorial: Choose your Loadout At the beginning of every mission, you must choose a loadout of Weapons, Ammunition and Equipment to take with you, and you must select the Perks you'd like to use for the mission. This tutorial will show you how to quickly and easily do just that.
Weight Limits for each Rank Here are copy-and-paste-able Weight Limits for each Rank. When posting your Loadout, the first item that should be in your post is one of these.
Weight Values of Weapons and Equipment Here's the list of Weight Values for each Weapon and piece of Equipment. For your convenience, they come with copy-and-paste versions in the code sections under each. When choosing your loadout and selecting Perks for a Mission, you'll need to post stating what you're bringing with you, before the Mission actually begins.
xxxxxxHealing Items xxxxxxxxx2 ██ Small Healing Item
[color=white]xxxxxxxxx[/color][size=9]2 [color=lightgreen]██[/color] Small Healing Item[/size]
xxxxxxxxx4 ████ Medium Healing Item
[color=white]xxxxxxxxx[/color][size=9]4 [color=lightgreen]████[/color] Medium Healing Item[/size]
xxxxxxxxx6 ██████ Large Healing Item
[color=white]xxxxxxxxx[/color][size=9]6 [color=lightgreen]██████[/color] Large Healing Item[/size]
Setting up your Loadout and starting the Mission Once you've decided what your Loadout will be, you need to post it at the start of the Thread for the mission. Once all participants have posted their Loadout, the Mission can officially start. Here's a little template to help you do this quickly and easily. Just copy and paste the code into a new post at the start of your mission's Thread, and then edit and preview the post to make sure the details are correct and there are no errors in the formatting of the text.
Note: You can post your Loadout in any design you wish, so long as the information is easy to understand and the details are all correct -- and so long as you follow your weight limit and all of our rules, of course. Feel free to make your own custom Loadout Post Template if you wish. MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE ALL THE SAME INFO THAT APPEARS HERE!
[color=white]xxxx[/color][size=11][b]My Loadout:[/b][/size] (Paste Weapon 01 here.) [color=white]xxxxxxxxx[/color][size=9][color=darkviolet][b]WEAPON NAME[/b][/color][/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Damage per Strike: xx[/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Strikes per turn: x[/size]
(Paste Weapon 02 here.) [color=white]xxxxxxxxx[/color][size=9][color=royalblue][b]WEAPON NAME[/b][/color][/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Clip Size: xx[/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Damage per Bullet: xx[/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Ammo I'm taking with me: xxx[/size]
(Paste Weapon 03 here.) [color=white]xxxxxxxxx[/color][size=9][color=royalblue][b]WEAPON NAME[/b][/color][/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Clip Size: xx[/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Damage per Bullet: xx[/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Ammo I'm taking with me: xxx[/size]
(Paste Weapon 04 here.) [color=white]xxxxxxxxx[/color][size=9][color=crimson][b]WEAPON NAME[/b][/color][/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Clip Size: xx[/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Damage per Bullet: xx[/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Ammo I'm taking with me: xxx[/size]
(Paste Weapon 05 here.) [color=white]xxxxxxxxx[/color][size=9][color=crimson][b]WEAPON NAME[/b][/color][/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Clip Size: xx[/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Damage per Bullet: xx[/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Ammo I'm taking with me: xxx[/size]
(Paste up to one Rocket Launcher here.) [color=white]xxxxxxxxx[/color][size=9][color=darkorange][b]ROCKET LAUNCHER NAME[/b][/color][/size] [color=white]xxxxxxxxxxxx[/color][size=11]Rocket Damage: xxxx[/size]
[color=white]xxxxxx[/color][color=orange][b]Grenades[/b][/color] (Paste any Grenades here.)
[color=white]xxxxxx[/color][color=lightgreen][b]Healing Items:[/b][/color] (Paste any Healing Items here, in order of smallest to largest.)
xxxxMy Loadout: (Paste Weapon 01 here.) xxxxxxxxxWEAPON NAME xxxxxxxxxxxxDamage per Strike: xx xxxxxxxxxxxxStrikes per turn: x
(Paste Weapon 02 here.) xxxxxxxxxWEAPON NAME xxxxxxxxxxxxClip Size: xx xxxxxxxxxxxxDamage per Bullet: xx xxxxxxxxxxxxAmmo I'm taking with me: xxx
(Paste Weapon 03 here.) xxxxxxxxxWEAPON NAME xxxxxxxxxxxxClip Size: xx xxxxxxxxxxxxDamage per Bullet: xx xxxxxxxxxxxxAmmo I'm taking with me: xxx
(Paste Weapon 04 here.) xxxxxxxxxWEAPON NAME xxxxxxxxxxxxClip Size: xx xxxxxxxxxxxxDamage per Bullet: xx xxxxxxxxxxxxAmmo I'm taking with me: xxx
(Paste Weapon 05 here.) xxxxxxxxxWEAPON NAME xxxxxxxxxxxxClip Size: xx xxxxxxxxxxxxDamage per Bullet: xx xxxxxxxxxxxxAmmo I'm taking with me: xxx
(Paste up to one Rocket Launcher here.) xxxxxxxxxROCKET LAUNCHER NAME xxxxxxxxxxxxRocket Damage: xxxx
xxxxxxGrenades (Paste any Grenades here.)
xxxxxxHealing Items: (Paste any Healing Items here, in order of smallest to largest.)
xxxxTotal weight: xx
xxxxPerks Selected: "xxxxxxxxx" and "xxxxxxxxxx" (or paste the Perk Images here from the Perk System).
Once you have the blank Template ready for your loadout to be pasted in, please keep the following things in mind: ▪ Add in the names of your Weapons underneath their Type. For example, under "Blade", you can put the name of the blade, for example "Steel Edge".
▪ Make sure the colors for Weapons Names and their Types match up! Blades are "darkviolet", small firearms are "royalblue", large firearms are "crimson", and rocket launchers are "darkorange".
▪ Make sure you don't exceed your Weight Limit, and make sure you don't carry more Grenades or Healing Items than you're allowed to.
▪ With any Healing Items present in your Loadout, change the text from, for example, "Small Healing Item", to the Healing Item's actual name -- for example, "Bandage " and add how much HP it heals -- for example "Heals 10% Max HP". This will end up being something like "Bandage Heals 10% HP" appearing next to the green bar for that healing item. This is to make it easy for everyone to know what your Healing Items do!
▪ If you have any perks selected that REDUCE THE WEIGHT VALUE of a Weapon or piece of Equipment, make sure to change the numbers and bars accordingly. For example if my Handgun weighs 2 points less because of a Perk I've selected, I'd change the Weight value from "12" to "10" and take two squares off of the bar for it when posting my loadout at the start of the mission.
▪ Please remember that you cannot dual-wield ANY Weapons unless you have a Perk selected that permits you to.
▪ Make sure you only choose Weapons, Ammunition and Equipment that you actually own, and only choose Perks you have unlocked!
Here's an example of a completed Template, using the Weight Limit of 85 for a Lance Officer:
xxxxxxHealing Items: xxxxxxxxx2 ██ Bandage Heals 10% Max HP xxxxxxxxx2 ██ Bandage Heals 10% Max HP xxxxxxxxx2 ██ Bandage Heals 10% Max HP xxxxxxxxx4 ████ Treated Gauze [M] Heals 30% Max HP
xxxxTotal weight: 82
xxxxPerks Selected:
If you've done everything correctly (and are using Weapons, Ammunition and Equipment you actually own, and Perks you have actually unlocked), then you're ready to start the mission. Wait for any other Participants to post their Loadout as well, and the Mission can begin.
If you'd like to save space on the page, feel free to nest your loadout post in spoiler tags.
