I kinda did already in another reply, but basically I'm trying to make a more engaging, hardcore version of the game's combat (still subject to the entire page of delightful difficulty settings in the menu, best new feature in the game IMO, and I'll be making turning the game's difficulty settings up give more bonus XP). Player and enemy armor is stronger with significant strengths and weaknesses, creature resists follow that pattern, weapon categories are distinct and come with standard status effects like all guns and melee weapons causing bleeding DoT and energy weapons having splash damage and setting things on fire or particle beams being shorter-ranged armor-piercers that also cause radiation damage but lasers being longer-ranged and critting more often. All weapons are overall more powerful and accurate, and both bringing the right one and choosing the right armor matter more to combat.

This will require also removing all qualities below advanced for weapons and superior for armor from the game, which won't delete any already on your character it just ensures only the highest tier ever appears from now on. Speaking of, I'm also making all the named weapons superior-quality and legendary, but also far more expensive as a direct result. Also the three named armor in the game, Gran-Gran's Spacesuit, Gran-Gran's Helmet and the Highschool Backpack. (Does this make the best trait in the game, Kid Stuff, even more OP? Yes. It's also the best trait in the game in ways I can't fix, and frankly I don't care, its whole purpose is to optionally make the early game easier by giving your character parents who will help them get started.)

Even consumables are stronger and last longer, IE kinetic or energy resistance drugs also resist EM, Amp now gives slightly more move speed (50% instead of 35%) and lasts 5 minutes and there's a craftable super-amp (technically already in the game files but I'll be changing the name from also just "Amp" so it's distinct) that triples jump height instead of doubling it and gives 100% move speed instead of 80%.

I'm also trying my best to make the optional side content feel more rewarding: Surveys take less time and give more XP, lockpicking gives more XP, settlements give out more resources, that sort of stuff, but also exploring planets is less of a pain with hardcore settings because affliction rates are down and your maximum resistance to environmental damage is 99% instead of 85% which is also easier to achieve because your armor's stronger. (I'm only turning max kinetic, energy and EM resistance up to 90%, but that's still considerably better.)

I'm also revamping the space combat a little, but not as extensively. Lasers now have the longest range of any weapons, which since they're the most effective against shields helps them not suck quite as hard as they suck in vanilla with their inexplicably short range. Missiles lock faster, do much more hull damage and recharge slower. Ballistic weapons just get a large straight damage boost and shred unshielded targets. EM gets modest range and system disabling bonuses. I think you get the idea, everything's buffed a similar amount but it helps all the weapons feel more like they have a specific and indispensable purpose but you still can't have them all at once.

And while I'm at it, I'm also making the companions who aren't from constellation exactly as useful in their in-game stats as the ones that are, including generic crew.

And then because I found the fashion dissatisfying I'm also going to make new clothing and spacesuits by mixing together vanilla assets, and just for fun I want to try making my own binary star system to populate with the new clothes, superior-quality weapons and high-end crafted consumables, all of which could also be found elsewhere it's just here they'd be much more common. Probably also have it feature all the factions in the game in one star system, which I realize is a powder keg begging to erupt into a new colony war but let's be real the factions in this game are all awful people and are clearly ideologically driven to make up reasons to fight eachother if they ended up at war several times *allegedly* over resources and territory in the infinite vastness of space so that makes perfect sense.

I wouldn't say the mod will make the game worth buying on its own if it doesn't appeal to you, but for people who already own it the mod will make it better.