Ok, so the clock roles on for at least an hour after the specified release time and the update appears late. Ok, i can deal with that, patience is a virtue.
Downloading and installing it took about a minute tops. Just as it flicks onto the loading screen is when it all goes to . Freeze. I turn the ps3 on, off, on, off - constantly trying to deny the fact I know the update has corrupted my save data. Wonderful. After kissing my data goodbye I restart the game.

Oh goody, its working now.

I get online and decide to spectate a race. Spectate is urm, bearable. The ships jump about, doesn't turn properly and lags into walls. Anyone planning to observe a top player's lines would be better off being in the actual race.
Ok, maybe I'm being harsh.. I'm just expecting too much perhaps.

So the race finishes and now i'm in the lobby selecting my ship. Where's my 3rd AG-Sys skin.. oh yeah, silly me, forgot I don't have it anymore.

Now for the race itself. Action. Cue huge glitches. Every now and then the screen would glitch and I'd find people suddenly infront of me which is impossile because
1.) I never let go of x button and
2.) Thanks to the weapon hinter I knew nobody behind me had turbo at that time. . Is this glitching down to someone spectating and switching to you? Well whatever it is, it's annoying.

The controls feel less responsive and Barrel Rolls feel like pushing a door with pull written on it. I NEVER fail to do a barrel roll on the chenghou drop, so why does it now fail to do so for a majority of laps. (BR was enabled).

The badges were, to my suprise, glitch free and overall a nice addition. Seeing some top players awarded badges such as relying on autopilot brought a smile to my disappointed face.

The ranking system.. Hmm, feels like SL discovered they were losing players so put this in as a way to get old people playing again. Well im lazy and pissed off because I have, had rather, 250 hours of racing time. I don't want to have to do hordes of racing again just to get a rank I would have had 10 times over by now. But that's more my own problem then a problem with the update.

As Luxoflux has said, there are some ridiculous times on the leaderboard now. One chap managed to do AP Rev in 15 seconds, wow.

Harimau also feels incredily heavier then before. Icarus is easier to steer around sebenco then harimau and AG-S feels lighter then feisar.

However, some of the other options worked well and id love to see a race on Sebenco Climb with 20 laps, where everyone is in a triakis with no weapons and PA disabled. May the best tank driver win. Other additions such as showing what race is next whilst the game is loading or the tournament standing on the loading screen is a nice finishing touch to what could have been a very good update.

Fortunately, since I wrote this yesterday and had to save it because my internet refused to post it, I have my old save data back. But really SL, get your act together.