I plyaed several games last night with the patch. Our clan had no connection issues and no sync issues. Our Seleucid player did complain/whine about the elephant changes ;)

The memory leak seems to be minimized at least ... we're still trying to find the sweet spot for performance. We have decent machines (I have a 2.8) and we were getting lag on 3v3 battles once the missile fire started. It was like playing a slideshow at times at 4,000 men.