Just to update my progress and opinion of the game, dare I say it's become easier as I advance? One of my biggest gripes is still the lack of resources in the beginning once you venture out on your own. I see it being enough to turn away players, but I'm just stubborn. Now that I've advanced tasks pay more, and more scavenging options are available that I can buy most anything I need. So that's a bit of a plus.
My other concern is that I seem to have stalled on my missions. There's a few I need to complete to advance, but I can't figure out how. Some of it is the English translations not being all that great, but also the task summaries are not always giving you enough info and not all active missions are shown. For example, I got a notice that I complete one (which happened to be needed to advance) that wasn't ever in my task list or mentioned by any of the characters. I don't know how much of this is by design, poor translations, or simply bugs. Right now I'm supposed to be finding evidence against Samurai, and I've found three things so far. It doesn't tell me how many I need to find, and I've gone over the entire wasteland in the area trying to find clues on what's next, but nothing has surfaced yet.