No Ship Building Tutorial and Lack of Ice
Started a campaign game as someone new to Space Engineers. Building my first ship (as per the contract) was a steep learning curve as I tried to start using a landing gear (as per my instinct) without realising you couldn't build on the existing NPC/neutral grids as the game simply tells you to build your own ship without explaining how or where to start from, or that you can't build on the existing grids.
Also, since ion thrusters are not unlocked for a while after you first go into space, you have to rely on Hydrogen thrusters a lot. The game does not give you indications on how many thrusters are needed for a ship, it doesn't tell you how powerful they are. I often ran out of hydrogen, with none of the early contracts helping to give you a source of ice to refuel them. If you run out of hydrogen on the planet, the sources are even more distant on top of mountains, and you have to essentially reload an earlier save if you don't want to spend hours just to refuel your ship.
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