What am I missing? Tutorial doesn't seem good... at all?

[MrGowdy]

I pick "easy" starter planet.
1) Crash and loot pod
2) First mission is to go to a teleporter station nearby
3) Next mission is to run 1.5km to a crashed ship, ok...
4) Click on a few things at crashed ship, loot any boxes I can find
5) Next mission is to go BACK to teleporter station 1.5k walk/swim
6) Bunch of flying enemies with guns spawn

Literally no way to defend myself as I only have a "melee" laser beam thing...

Am I completely missing something here?

[seven]

Apparently you skipped the part of the tutorial where it told you to craft weapons, which comes many steps before you see any drones. It is a work in progress though, and some parts are not that clear.

[Evolvei]

Also the HV, before doing the mission mine some ore

[MrGowdy]

At no point in the mission did it tell me to craft anything. Unless it was in some flavor text? I did not get a task that had to be completed to progress. Obviously I progressed to point of spawning the drones without being instructed in how to craft anything, especially a weapon.

Sure, I can restart (because I can't leave the small building i'm hiding in).... But I'd say an easy world tutorial that spawns 2 flying drones like this before having a player build anything to defend themselves is pretty poor.

[MrGowdy]

Originally posted by Evolvei:

Also the HV, before doing the mission mine some ore

What is "HV" Hover Vehicle? Are you saying the the tutorial is supposed to have me craft a vehicle?

I seem to recall years ago the tutorial had you build a small motorcycle or something similar? Literally none of this happened at all!

[Evolvei]

Did you follow the initial tutorial? Doesn't sound like it.

[captainamaziiing]

The first mission is to fix the damaged hoverbike. That leads you to the crashed ship, which has a damaged SV and a mission to fix it, THEN go the teleport station to trigger the trap. If you have not yet fitted the SV with a gun, you just fly away until you can fight. You should have been in a vehicle long ago. Your early game priorities are - pick everything until you hit L3, then build a shotgun. Then get the HV running, to get to the SV. Then get it running. Use the Heidelberg as your base. Now you are ready for the mid-game. What you do from there is wide open.

[Evolvei]

When you land in the pod it gives you a choice.

You want to activate.

[MrGowdy]

Originally posted by Evolvei:

Did you follow the initial tutorial? Doesn't sound like it.

That was the initial / only tutorial I saw. I listed it in my original post what the game told me to do.

[seven]

On the missions page you should find a Tutorial tab, with the Robinson protocol which takes you through all the basics of crafting, vessel repair and base building. Some starters don't include the tutorial, but I would think an Easy Start should.

[Mr. S]

Originally posted by PerfectXtreme:

2) First mission is to go to a teleporter station nearby

Yes, it's the first mission. The first mission after the tutorial. Did you skip the tutorial, or did you start on ice Planet?

[Saglac]

happened to me too this morning

[MrGowdy]

Started on forest/easy planet. I didn't notice skipping anything.

Maybe the game allows you to skip/abort/cancel the tutorial without actually noticing? As in it pops up and if you click somewhere it instantly goes away? I did not see a pop-up that said "Would you like to do Tutorial?" and then hit "No" or anything along those lines.


I just restarted, didn't touch my keyboard/mouse, and this time I see a pop-up about activating and going through something more detailed.

Looks like it's possible to skip the tutorial even if you don't intend to?

[Midas]

Nope, you're missing nothing. Throwing drones at the player assuming that they've built weapons with nothing to prompt them to make weapons was a terrible idea. I had a shotgun and pistol by the time I did this the most recent time I played, and even that was awful because there's basically no cover at all. I ended up doing an emergency dig underground and had to fight them out of a network of foxholes. It was a really poorly-designed encounter, and not something I would throw at a new player unless you WANT them to fail and give up. They should at least give you an assault rifle before you go to fight them.

[Evolvei]

Agreed, there could be a rifle at the crashed vessel when you go to the console or there needs to be more before that mission starts. Or explaining to build a small constructor on the wreck with what else is needed to make a rifle and ammo.

[Midas]

Originally posted by Evolvei:

Agreed, there could be a rifle at the crashed vessel when you go to the console or there needs to be more before that mission starts. Or explaining to build a small constructor on the wreck with what else is needed to make a rifle and ammo.

The pelican wreck actually has a large constructor on it. If the tutorial used this as an opportunity to teach the player how to set up cores in a wreck and use the logistics system to link one of the stray containers to the constructor, they could also use the rifle as a chance to 'see how it works'. The user would then have the weapon ready for the upcoming challenge.

Overall, the pelican would be a perfect opportunity to go over some base stuff in the tutorial.