Suggestions

It would make it easier and more fun to teach new people the game and it doesn't seem too difficult to implement.

The ghost hands are looking in to the training area. But a disc will push the player backwards. If you are training to do the move without the ghost, then 3 discs in a row pushes you out of the dirt onto metal/wood. At this point the moves stop working. As disc is an early move a new person doesn't know why their moves stop working and they think its a pose issue when its not being ground and on dirt issue. Solution: Rotate ghost hands 180 degrees so your back is towards the middle of the dirt. Or else redesign the area so that you can't go up and out unintentionally.

'brought up the idea of fist bumping after fighting Howard and it was suggested something that new players could be required to fist bump Howard to complete the tutorial, possibly gaining 5 gear coins and introducing that mechanic

I frequently see newer players commonly get tripped up on the starter-pose. And yes, it is a thing in the poses for structures, but the ghost for it moves to the next pose when you hit it. Having a static, solo starter-pose pose-ghost would help players become more aware of where the starter pose position is quicker.

A full person in front of you like a mirror guide that does the moves at a slow enough speed to follow so that you can see exactly how to do them. If the pose has MORE THAN ONE PART, like the structures, then there would be little moving arrows that move around the hands to EMPHASIZE the importance of the rotation! If the pose only has ONE PART, like the modifiers, then it would just be still without an animation. Putting small text descriptions beside the figure like "palm up, fingers forwards" would also be good for clarity!

I've noticed that new players only get exposed to comboing by watching content or from friendly opponents. Would be good if there was a short tutorial for comboing like there is for new white belts learning the initial moves (maybe when they learn uppercut?). Would also be nice if the ghost hands move tutor supported comboing, like if the hands transitions from uppercut>punch like they do for structure starting position to end position. Not sure the best way to implement this given Rumble's physical menu interaction, but even just another move tutor page with a few common combos to get new players thinking about them would help prepare new players.

Every single shift stone promotes some kind of bad habit Surge promotes disk follow up, Guard promotes not dodging, Vigor promotes disk spam, Adamant promotes not not hitting yourself, Stubborn promotes not realizing your taking damage, Charge promotes not learning proper combos, Volatile promotes explo cube spam, And flow promotes not learning better positioning New players are suffering from having these because they rely on their effects to avoid learning harder topics and completely stunting their improvement. There is already a shift stone tab, and a system to bp lock things, so not much would even need to be done to make this possible Personally i think locking them all to 1k bp makes the most sense, thats plenty of time to master the fundamentals without accidentally crutching on stones. Idealy you make some amount of progression to them. At 1k you get to chose 2 stones, but after you chose 2 all of the other stones require 100 more bp, afterwords each time you unlock a stone every other stone would go up in bp requirement by 100. This prevents the player from being overwhelmed by the options, and encourages them to make informed decisions on what to unlock. Overall i think making stones have to be unlocked in general, regardless of how it is done, would be very good for the health of the newer player base, as long as the unlocking process is moved a decent distance after reaching black belt Edit : Maybe 1k is much but i want to preface that im NOT saying that it HAS to be done the way im saying it could be. I dont want to just suggest "Bp lock the stones" without giving an in depth explanation as to why, and giving my thoughts on how i would go about it. The main points to this post are to bp lock the stones, and have them past black belt

There are players that join the game, try to look for the settings right away, and immediately notice how slow they move. The first thing I do in any new game usually is checking the settings. If you don't move the settings, perhaps move the player to the settings after doing the T-pose, until a toggle is changed to spawn at the circle on next load. I worry we're losing some people as soon as they start because of this. It's not explained until they ask in the discord or on steam. If nothing else, a nice big arrow that says "SETTINGS" on/above it to guide them might be enough for now. (once again would be toggled off (likely the same as the "tool tips" toggle))

The pose machine thing that lets you learn moves could let you add poses to a list and then after you do the first pose it goes to the next pose in the list, it'd make learning combos easier

Any kind of body position feedback would be amazing for new users. At least put 3 lights in the training area, on a dummy or above my HUD health bar or wherever, that each light up on a green/yellow/red gradient every time I try to do a move. So if each body part is in absolutely perfect position, all three lights come up totally green. If my head is in suboptimal-but-acceptable position, the top light is yellower. If my left hand is rotated wrong, the bottom-left light is red. (Better yet, show the lights as little floating 3D body parts that follow my movement. And after I attempt a move, make all the colored body parts freeze in position against grey shadow-parts that show ideal positions. That way, I can look more carefully and see exactly what my form looks like)