Because it's a fking huge-arse long wait for people with average machines, and even for people with good rigs it takes about 30 sec-2 minutes.
That's enough time to display 3-4 tips. There should be like a button to press to scroll to the next tip. There should be diagrams of things like tech trees or combat situations to act in tandem with the hints/tips, rather than pretty but ultimately unhelpful pictures of the map you're going to.
The tips currently in the game are woefully short and uninformative, and I could easily come up with like 100 tips that will get new players off to a good start without having to go to the bother of asking other players and risking trolley/obnoxious responses.
Things like what you should do as a marine: positioning yourself adequately far from teammates so you don't get in each others way, making Harvester destruction a high priority, using burst fire, spreading out during the early game, mine placement, strafing and jumping to avoid skulks rather than backpedalling, etc.
Things you should know as aliens: that res node harrassment beats taking on marines any day, that fades should try and blink upwards momentarily to throw off aim, that lerks should try and fly erratically up and down to avoid fire.
This would have done at least something to overcome the fact that there is no tutorial. And I don't just mean obvious hints like "you can pick up your teammates weapons/ you can hold shift to sneak up on rines" either.
That's enough time to display 3-4 tips. There should be like a button to press to scroll to the next tip. There should be diagrams of things like tech trees or combat situations to act in tandem with the hints/tips, rather than pretty but ultimately unhelpful pictures of the map you're going to.
The tips currently in the game are woefully short and uninformative, and I could easily come up with like 100 tips that will get new players off to a good start without having to go to the bother of asking other players and risking trolley/obnoxious responses.
Things like what you should do as a marine: positioning yourself adequately far from teammates so you don't get in each others way, making Harvester destruction a high priority, using burst fire, spreading out during the early game, mine placement, strafing and jumping to avoid skulks rather than backpedalling, etc.
Things you should know as aliens: that res node harrassment beats taking on marines any day, that fades should try and blink upwards momentarily to throw off aim, that lerks should try and fly erratically up and down to avoid fire.
This would have done at least something to overcome the fact that there is no tutorial. And I don't just mean obvious hints like "you can pick up your teammates weapons/ you can hold shift to sneak up on rines" either.