would like to correct this. the 'unfriendly' player is not a pker or anything like that. he simply is not in your team, to team up there is a console command. once you team up you are then declared as friendly.

secondly the building at the start where you were looking at the factory was glitched because of the terrain gradient, they haveny smoothed that out completely yet

on death you drop alot of your stuff but you can collect it ALL assuming you were able to get back (update 3 just gave you a death marker)

combat is quite simple if you keep to lower teirs, tier 1-4 are ok to kill other than the tech hunters.

armoury doesnt upgrade just as lvl 1-2, you start seeing new things when you get the blueprints and also upgrade it to lvl 5 and beyond

element x can be gained from building a harvester after you get the blueprint (i got it in my first drop)

pve worlds are the best for learning the ropes

wanderbot did a great job of giving a great runthrough.

and this game is great!