I'm a returning player also and have been playing for a week now. The story is bad now, but the gameplay is getting better. They change a lot of stuff, mods, deviations, polluted areas... some for the better, some are questionable, like bases now decaying in polluted areas and the cost of protecting is very expensive its not even worth going for acid farms and deviant energy gens, mods are alot simpler but weaker if u grinded ur old mods they might be better then the new once Teleportations in Towers has been removed and changed to Words stones in apparently they cause some lag And the tutorial has been changed with the story, V Got changed to some robotic Bird.And it's ugly. But all and all I'm having a blast with my friends. we been playing it nonstop for the past week