i just picked the game up so i figure i should give feedback now from the perspective of a new person, i played till day 4 on 8.2 then nabbed the new version right before it came out.
i suppose the most usefull feedback is the coordinate towers are just bad all around. im on day 14 now and ive gotten used to everything else, but all the time untill i could disable the coordinate towers was frustration. i wasnt engaging with the game in any productive way, i was just frustrated endlessly since they never stop going down and the only way to mitigate it temporarily feels bad to engage with.
the rest of the game is mostly busywork, but it can grow on you if its given the space to. i actually liked cleaning the base, gathering all the trash and scrubbing the walls. i probably should have started farming earlier, i didnt realize how good potatos and pumpkins were and theres no kitchen knife, so 50 points is a pretty big ask at the start. but the reason i was doing that as a primary thing was that i gave up on bothering with signals entirely since the coordinate towers were too frustrating to deal with. once i was able to disable the coordinate towers, the game finally opened up, i started finding signals and getting on top of transformers and servers, i actually started enjoying the game, investigating spooky things sometimes and more often running scared from them rather than just feeling like everything was an imposition on the endless grind of trying to get everything running long enough to get a single signal from detection to the drone.
coordinate towers aside, i think ive had a good experience with the rest of the new stuff, though the atv battery is kinda annoying and its baffling that you could get an atv without an alternator somehow, that feels like it needs another pass since if you dont have the money to get another battery or the battery charger your kinda screwed.
also the rake could do with having its price lowered and maybe a kitchen knife in the base somewhere, the big difference between it and the shovel is not making the game into a huge mess and its not obvious to a new player that you *need* to be farming. the food tiredness mechanic is really aggressive and you get tired of the mres super fast, but once you got some potatos you can make a go of it.
things like that are the big barrier to a new player, theres a ton of things you need to find out to make the game enjoyable and give you room to discover new things, but there isnt really a good ingame way to do that thanks to how much pressure is on you from day one. at least a shovel and a kitchen knife should be around the base