So, I just made another character to play something else for a while and to my horror had to waste 10 minutes of my time doing the tutorial. Did they put the "skip tutorial" button somewhere else or did they remove it entirely? I looked everywhere, I even redid the character creation hoping to find the checkbox to not do a tutorial but nope.
I started a new VS character on Friday to take advantage of the double xp weekend and I couldn't find the skip button either. I think it's gone for the time being, probably will be back next time a patch or hotfix goes through. The tutorial can be ran through really quickly though. Just ignore papa vanu/ rebel bonus check lady/ sergeant major's instructions and blast through the first zone, then pull a flash at the vehicle terminal and drive it all the way to the continent selection terminal.
is there not a choice to start the tutorial when you make the new character? a small box that you have to check off once your in, i know the option is sometimes buggy but i think it's a good thing there is no drop out button so the new players have to do the tutorial before playing this game
my advice is the just go through it, if you ignore the tutorial and bypass the part where you change classes and instead overload the gen after taking a flash the tutorial script will stalk you outside of the tutorial area and when you swap classes you'll get the voiceovers anyway.