Seems the same as always to me. You'll likely be involved in combat no matter what mission you take. Not much different on payouts. Kind of miss being able to get a collection of courier missions and spending an hour or two as a hounded fed ex guy. It paid fair, but the place I had the faction with went all donatations on me, so I have had to move elsewhere and basically start over.
Broken
Missions are actually a lot better now, however there are some serious bugs at the moment which means most of the time you cannot hand missions in.
But the actual mission system itself is a lot better in every respect.
But the actual mission system itself is a lot better in every respect.
In my opinion they're better. Missions are tied somewhat to system state so if you want bounty style missions don't look around in high security boom state systems. Look for systems in turmoil, you can now check system state in the galaxy map. Other system states effect other mission types.
The gather X type missions are much better and actually work. You'll be sent to some remote system, once there either scan the nav beacon or use an advanced discovery scanner if you have one. You'll now how a orange'ish/brown marker in your system nav panel showing you which system to head to. Basically it leads you to where to go, you get what you came for and head back.
You can combine it with engineers by looking for a mission with a reward that you need, take that mission and any others headed to the same system. Do that set of missions and then repeat at the next system, basically bounce from system to system.
The gather X type missions are much better and actually work. You'll be sent to some remote system, once there either scan the nav beacon or use an advanced discovery scanner if you have one. You'll now how a orange'ish/brown marker in your system nav panel showing you which system to head to. Basically it leads you to where to go, you get what you came for and head back.
You can combine it with engineers by looking for a mission with a reward that you need, take that mission and any others headed to the same system. Do that set of missions and then repeat at the next system, basically bounce from system to system.
I done some " Buy and deliver commodity " missions ... And I have a problem with the update mission system !! It's OK for NPC targets ..I was announced that I have some enemies as secondary targets and they will attack .. and they are 
But after that the destination is changed, during the return fly, and some of them were at Outposts and I was in Cutter !!! I took those missions only for materials offered as reward and no reward if commodities are not delivered to the new locations !! I had to buy a Phyton to solve the problem, because of amount of my Cargo, but it is not fair and possible for all players !!! Is it a bug or some stupid improvement of missions, that the updates do not count the ship type ?
But after that the destination is changed, during the return fly, and some of them were at Outposts and I was in Cutter !!! I took those missions only for materials offered as reward and no reward if commodities are not delivered to the new locations !! I had to buy a Phyton to solve the problem, because of amount of my Cargo, but it is not fair and possible for all players !!! Is it a bug or some stupid improvement of missions, that the updates do not count the ship type ?