I had a bug following this. The dropship (Cobra MK IV) landed, I boarded and we flew to some settlement. But the objective remained "Board the dropship" and I got stuck.
I just cancelled the tutorial mission. But it's definitely not a good first impression
When I did that tutorial the dropship you watch delivering the disposable red-shirts was a Viper, when I watched a streamer play it was a DBS. Looks like it's not just Vultures that are "drop ships" now.
I had exactly the same issue...put it down to server problems. Shut down the game, relaunched it and continued where I had left off......at which point the Dropship finally appeared
I had this issue and relogged for the drop ship to return and I could board. However after the dropship landed back at the station and I tried to disembark, it crashed to desktop. Presumably that was the end of the tutorial. Can we just keep playing the alpha?