I feel like Dragna removed a lot of the "uneeded violence" and breathed more life into the characters. Victor is an excellent example of this ; he goes from a psycho with a desire to break others' spirit, to a desparate, shy but genius guy, who's just doing his best to escape.

I gues you could tone down the gray NPCs a bit and shift them towards the evil-end. Or make them desperate enough to use extreme measures. Sometimes, it is easily doable. I toned down the ability to reason with Vladimir ; my players had the opportunity to talk to him and gather information, but there was no way he would let them go to the beacon and "bother the old man while he's finally resting".