Darkhan: Urgh, almost all upgrades are gone from the suit, the ship and the tool.
They even defaced my ship with a cracked and pealing paint job and dirt.
I had managed to muster a little curiousity, but as usual Hello wants people to restart and re-grind.
Just not worth it.
From the patch notes it looks like they're making an honest effort to enable "thru players" to be able to recover much of their previous stuff. Units (cash) in particular, plus allowing changed tech to be credited towards the new stuff.
It is hard to see how they can simultaneously change the game to make it better (for some definition of "better") and at the same time allow earlier saves to be incorporated seamlessly.
I did start off with a new save and I gotta admit, the early parts of the game are uniquely fun. I still have an unoped save from 1.38 that has 4 billion units, thousands of nanites, a couple of farms, a freighter with six ships, and enough weapons and shielding that I fear no Sentinel nor pirate. I'll keep the zip file but I'll probably never use it.
New stuff to learn, new things to do. The journey
is the destination.