From what I can see this update is really damn good, especially A-Life, from the closed beta testing it looked like it wasn't all that fine but maybe that was because I didn't test it that well back then, but looking at it further it appears like it genuinely does what it says on the tin, maybe even be called A-Life, if Im feeling happy on that day.
The modkit is what is disappointing about this updated, from talking to people who were in the modkit closed test, it's fucked sideways and raw, not only is three fourth's of the game uncompressed bundled with the SDK, it is also limited (which was expected from a beta phase 1 so no suprises there), but when it comes to the thing's they do support, its patchy or really really buggy, like how you can't have more than one blueprint mod or the game crashes, or how scripting is fucked because the game doesn't have enough hooks, or how localization isn't yet possible so, even if you do manage to put a new gun and new animations there it'll have the same name and description as the template you used to put it there.
As it stands from what I understand, you can do everything well as long as you copy paste it from something that already existed in the code, like, if you want to put a new armour in the game you copy paste an existing armour and modify the new armour to your specifications, but if you do something outside of that, you're going to have problems.
Having said that, appears like it's known problems, I may be a sucker but I'm starting to be positive.