First Steps in Nock

Welcome to your first steps in Nock! This guide will help you find your feet.

## Loading Nock For The First Time

After loading Nock for the first time you will be greeted with a tutorial. Follow the hints from our friendly bot Clip and get comfortable with the controls.

You can do the tutorial with me below, I'll take you through step by step! [ tbd. insert tutorial step by step ]

## The Main Menu

Welcome to the main menu! There's a lot here but it's nicely organised around your 360° view.

Starting from your far left,

* The **News** card: This displays important news and updates.
* The **Boombox**: Shoot this to toggle the music and skip to the next track.
* **Show/Hide Menu**: Shooting this hides the menu so you can play with the menu ball!
* Main Menu options:
	1. **Play Now**: Shoot this to access more choices listed below. Quickplay: Find a game as fast as possible Play Online: Choose what modes you play, casual/comp, 1s/2s/3s Custom Game: Create a custom game with your own settings and fun custom modifiers. [ libnk to custom game section ]
	2. **Loadout**: Shoot this to change your bow, blocks and avatar.
	3. **Season Pass**: Check your progress on new cosmetics!
	4. **Training**: See controller mappings and replay the introduction.
	5. **Settings**: Change gameplay, blocking and VOIP settings. [ Link to full setting section ]

* **Park**: Shoot this card to join the Airside Park social lobby
* **Leaderboard**: There are separate leaderboards for Weekly Wins, 1v1 and 2v2 competitive modes.
* **Player Information**: Here you can see your own rank, core level and more.
* **Weekly Challenge**: Check your progress towards this weeks rare cosmetic! [ Link to cosmetics ]
* **Online Player Information**: Above your avatar there's information about the current players online, there's also another party join button here.
* **Credits**: Turn 180° in the main menu and you'll see a credits button, take a peek at the amazing people behind Nock.

## Playing Your First Games!

You need to play a bot match before accessing online play, take what you learned in the introduction and show them who's in charge!

Check out some tips for beating the bots here: [ tbd. Link to training resources ]

Now that you're familiar with how a match is being played you can access the Casual online mode. You need 10 games in this mode to unlock Competitive modes. Competitive modes are full of experienced players, while the game will try to create balanced matches *this might not always be possible.*

Shoot "Play now" from the main menu, then shoot "Play online".

Here you can select what playlists you queue for, the top row is "Casual" and the bottom row is "Competitive". Go ahead and shoot the "Casual 1v1" card, this is the best for beginners. Then shoot "Find game" below and the game will start searching for match partners.

If you want a more social experience though, shoot Casual 2v2, you will need to work with your teammate to win!

You can wait in the menu and practice arena while waiting for matchmaking, there is also the Social Lobby aka. Airside Park for you to hang out at.

## Practice Arena

After selecting a game mode and hitting "Find game", you will be returned to the main menu to wait for a game. In the main menu you will see a new matchmaking window has opened. You can shoot the **Practice arena** button to be taken to an arena with bots.

Matchmaking will continue here while you play against bots, the number of bots will always be equal to the number of players in your party (up to 3 players). You can change the bot difficulty from the pause menu.

## Custom Game

Now you have played some online matches lets explore the **Custom Game** option.

With up to 6 players in a party, you can arrange games where you can select the teams and bots, modify game settings and cause mayhem!

* Shoot PLAY NOW in the main menu.
* Shoot CUSTOM GAME.
* Choose teams, arenas, add bots and change the match settings by shooting OPTIONS