I'm a V1.0 Character with Legacy status, when I started in phase 4 I chose my old character and remodel it, then had to chose my MRD to start in :imsa, before starting to play the game asked me this "start the game with your new character?" or something close, my character is NOT new! So it is indeed a bug that was addressed, I started in the ship to port, nothing came up to me about being familiar and I found it strange, I even checked my journal for the V1.0 main quest line, I went way deep in the story, I think I had to finish 2/1 more quests to end the story.

Hopefully this is gonna be corrected by early access soon.