So Nexuiz comes out today (Arena First Person Shooter ~$8.99 on steam :O) – I bought the 4 pack (gave 2 away) and I’m going to play the hell out of that game lol.  The forums were down so I hopped on gamesurge (#nexuiz) and asked one of the developers I believe (Kedhrin) of any major changes that have changed since the beta and he said the following:

00:09 <G4MR> last question before i get out of here, what major things (if any) have you guys done since the may 1st patch?
00:12 <dr-thib> ;o
00:13 <Kedhrin> lots of crashes
00:14 <Kedhrin> mostly crash issues
00:14 <Kedhrin> put in direct x 9 render mode
00:14 <Kedhrin> the game runs a lot better there
00:14 <Kedhrin> biggest thing that held up patches was dedicated servers
00:14 <Kedhrin> as soon as it was starting to be implemented it shattered everything
00:14 <Kedhrin> so we had to wait til it was done
00:15 <Tre`>
00:20 <Kedhrin> the good news is, its awesome on dedicated servers
00:21 <Tre`> Can’t wait to play on them

Also:

00:31 <G4MR> Kedhrin will ranked matches use dedicated servers (match making) or just the custom im not sure how it’ll be (as long as it isn’t like recent cods, except blops lol)
00:42 <Kedhrin> not at launch but its on our immediate todo list after dedicateds are working properly
00:42 <Kedhrin> we’re going to be hosting our own cluster of dedicated ranked servers too
00:42 <Kedhrin> basically you can see them in the browser
00:42 <Kedhrin> but you can’t change any rules for them

Dedicated servers is a must, can’t wait (I’m actually not sure what I was playing on during the beta to be honest P2P? Didn’t really feel laggy lol.)  I did have a graphics card upgrade (had to re-buy my GTX 550 Ti after something crazy happened) and I was having some performance issues on low and on very high (some maps just gave me lower frames than I should have been getting with this card, especially on low), but hopefully I can try it out on direct x 9 render mode and see how it runs.  

I’m excited, it’s fun and you should buy it.  It’s only 8.99 right now, comes out tomorrow and it’s available on steam.