Bots, bots, bots - The most significant addition is that the bots are now activated. Server administrators will be able to populate their servers with computer-controlled bots to fill up empty player slots. id Software's John "Maleficus" Dean has been working on these for quite some time and we're very excited to be able to roll them out now for our beta testers to see them in action. There's actually a great interview with John on IGN talking in-depth about the bots, so check that out if you want to learn more about them.

Improved Prediction - One of the most talked about items on the beta forums is that aiming is quite difficult at times due to the way player and latency prediction are handled in this particular revision of the beta. You're seeing this because our antilag features haven't been added to the public beta yet, but our latency wonder twins Tristan "FeaRog" Williams and Gordon "digibob" Biggans have been working tirelessly on them in recent weeks and several improvements are forthcoming there. The first is going into this update and you should find it a bit easier to hit targets now. We continue to toil away on antilag and we'll have a bit more information on what's going on here in a future blog update.