The update on the 20th did come out despite all the comments saying it didn't, it included expanded story with both pre and post cutscenes for the 3 current missions, several UI updates which make your character and equipment stats much clearer and easier to understand as well as the tactical mode which i spend around an hour with so far.

I think the Timeline portion of the cutscene before the first mission is a bit too long, some of the info in there could be moved into other portions of the story or have data logs to read whenever you choose. The White text can also be a little hard to read sometimes when the background clouds go by. I'm enjoying the character development that was added, it makes the story feel more important even if its the same 3 missions.

The Tactical mode is a little hard to understand when first messing around with it. Perhaps some indicators when you need a double click instead of a single click would go far. I was able to move around and attack using this mode, but hadn't quite figured out how to combine actions into a que yet. I will tinker with this some more in a few days.

I noticed several new weapon types have shown up on the weapon skills page I haven't gotten any new loot from random drops yet but will post if something interesting drops as a rare.

Overall I was a little disapointed that we didn't get new mission to play with, but I was generally impressed with the degree of polish that was added and half decent writing for the story elements.