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For ME they got better, got in to some world building, but also some interpersonal relationships and character bedding, backstory and building for MC and some other key figures. 

There is still a whole lot of exposition, but keep in mind, they are cramming, to front load all of the world building, all the dynamics, all the key factions, all the general sociology of the world they created....  from the get go. Games like this, normally have between ten, to twenty, chapters once fully complete. The more specific world particulars outside what our reality has, it has, the more the have to load that in ASAP.  

Info Dumping in the first ten minutes is POISON to these games... so what good devs will do, is introduce you to exposition, and text heavy establishment dialogue... with a mission like this games Bank heist. Get you comfortable with playing through it, get you used the story heavy elements, so they can then use that you're on that plane, in that mode, to then let a good chunk of the opening couple  of chapters be dedicated to explaining things. 

If there was no Sci-Fi, Apocalyptic, and fantasy elements, if there were no mythical races like Elves, if this game was set in like, 2020 USA... or Japan.. or England... anywhere really... with nothing supernatural, no mythological elements, no fantasy or scif-fi... you would KNOW how all the background elements of the world in which it was set work, right? 

But in games like THIS, they kind of HAVE to get in early, whilst striking a balance, as to not infodump you to helmet burn... to give you all the information, because the world is NOT like anything we KNOW, from races and beings, to technology, to the laws of physics even in a way. MY knowing that, and being an older game of some 40+ years gaming experience, means I took all that in my stride and it did not feel too bad or too much. 

I do not know it will for YOU, though. For me, it was good, and got much better and more interesting, with just right balance of pacing and exposition, to set me up to be keen as for this game to take off, and go right through to completion, because it will BE AWESOME if they actually fully realise it. That might not feel the same for you, so take my position with a grain of salt. 

BUT, I think, yeah, got better, and worth a play.