Can't advance tutorial

[RasaNova]

Ok this is awkward. I just started Astroneer for the first time in many months, and can't even get past the opening tutorial. I'm at the point where I've printed the solid-fuel booster, and the prompt says to unpack it but there is no option for that...

In the past I would simply put a box on a platform/ground and hold F to unpack but there is no F prompt. Did this change, or am I missing something?

Possibly related: I have a back tooltip that won't go away, saying "backpack is full, remove unneeded resources to make space" this message remains even after emptying the backpack. Maybe something got stuck which is preventing me from unpacking the rocket booster?

[Eldwen]

Have you tried putting the rocket booster on the rocket and then un-packing it?

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by Eldwen:

Have you tried putting the rocket booster on the rocket and then un-packing it?

Yeah, that didn't work either.

[Eldwen]

Strange. Though something similar has happened with me and the cable extenders. Everyone says they can use them from their back pack. I have to put it on the ground, hold "F" 1-5 times to unpack however many I need, and then move them where I need them to be. Try making another one or start a new save if you aren't that far along.

[RasaNova]

I did end up scrapping that game and re-starting the tutorial, this time I managed to break it even sooner. I got to the point where I'm directed to print the rocket booster, which I do. But the prompt doesn't change, the game didn't recognize that I printed it. I think it might be because I didn't plug in the printer from the side the game wanted me to (I missed the tooltip on the power connector) so it never accepted that I actually completed that task.

I ended up quitting, as struggling through a glitchy beginner tutorial for an hour made me lose any incentive to keep going. And I consider myself a fairly advanced player in early access, so I am a bit concerned how new players will view this game if this is what they run in to... I would really hate to see this excellent game get blasted as an EA cash grab due to first impressions!

[Eldwen]

Hmmm. I played through the tutorial during EA and again after launch just to see if they added anything new to it and never had an issues.

If you can bear to start again, I'd suggest this time just going straight into the main game. So much more to do, and it's fairly straight forward on what needs done. Heck, you can spend a ton of time on the starting planet and get a decent base set up before even needing to get into rockets. At least until that first iron run. lol.

[Krazed_1]

There is an achievement for finishing the tutorial. Unpacking the rocket booster thing didn't register for me so I put the unpacked booster on and blasted off. Got the achievement.

[listless]

I had trouble with the thruster too.
It let me install it, but when I went to take off, I got a prompt stating, Need Thruster. No matter which way I turned it, or how many times I reinstalled it, I couldn't get it to work.

Maybe I missed something - going to try again tomorrow.