As mentioned by the earlier comments, there does exist a tutorial, albeit really limited because it doesn't mention some other key game mechanics (i.e, it tells you of the presence of a down/revive system, but it doesn't tell you you only get 1-4 downs depending on skills and difficulty, nothing about audio/visual cues of more dangerous Specials, etc). Doesn't help that the game doesn't tell you much about how different it is from most FPSes in certain situations and most info is left for everyone to figure out from datamining or from guides.

Some idea I have to ease the situation:

• Warning message ala 'Mutators activated by host on previously vanilla lobby' when trying to join a difficulty on Overkill and above under level 50 and below.

• Swapping the positions of the Crew Chief and Muscle in the Perk Decks screen. Too many newbies I've seen who figured out the perks thing has little idea you can level another perk without completing the perk before it.

• Rework the gameplay tutorials to inform more about the game's basic mechanics that were missing from the current tutorials. And offer to allow the game to take control for a while to show newbies around the menus in the options/when launching the game for the first time. Or if that's not viable, provide links to highly recommended serious community guides that replace the Gamehub option in the main menu nobody ever clicks on.

I know, the chances of devs reading this is really slim, but I really hope something amongst the lines of the first suggestion at least makes it through so there's less newbies hopping onto DW and unintentionally ruin the game for everyone.