Freindly training mode?

I was wondering if their will be a user friendly training mode like in Half Life? Learning to jet and fight at the same time is difficult for a first time player, so giving htem something simple would work. The only good training mission in t1 ((the first one), where you had to fly from thing to thin until you reached a goal near the top. That definetly helped a few freinds i was introducing get used to flying.

Doing somehting like this (maybe a little harder or complex) would hlep build player confidence, and allow them to play th egame without getting frustrated by their inexperience.

Yeah... its called singleplayer.

Singleplayers focus is exactly that. I found the T2 missions were kinda assuming you played the first game, and you cover alot of ground in the game without practice.

Thus far it seems like Irrational will tackle all the problems with introducing new players. Somewhere along the story line you'll probably end up with a training session with Julia, giving her the basic rundown of all the weapons.

My words really, but in my opinion... I think Irrational has the brains to take that approach.

Hopefully the bots dont suckass like they did in T2. Id accualy like to play the single player part.