» Sounds like rubbish to me

Yer seems weird mine updated and so did everyone else I know on my friends list and it runs fine, could be another silly rumor but who knows or cares they will sort it out if its true anyway.

 » my update worked fine

and it didnt install itself it does ask you if you want to install the update.

 » Yes and No

I can see the point here, but games do get patched for a number of reasons. Sometimes it is an issue of the game performance, but sometimes it had more to do with the game storyline/event sequence. In this case, I have not heard of any need for an update.... but sometimes games will have issues if you do things (or don't do things) in a certain order, and you end up stuck in some way that the game designers never really intended.

 » Same here

No problems with mine either.

Maybe this is simply a case of some guy installing the patch, then his game just decided to act funny for that one play session, so he immediately blamed the patch. The game does act odd at times, it did even before the patch, occasional freezing or lag for one or two seconds for no reason. Nothing to complain about, since it doesn't happen very often, but maybe it just never happened to this guy before and it did for the first time after he installed the patch, so he figured it was the reason.

 » Definite Issues Here

I have one friend that ran the patch, and hardly has any issues... except that now when he plays a diary sometimes, it then plays the previous diary right after the most recent one.

As for me, I have several of the issues mentioned in the article ever since the patch. The game ran smooth as butter before, maybe a slight hic every once in a great while.
Now, I get a second or two of lag fairly often, as if I was running a top of the line game on an old video card or with out enough RAM. And even worse then that, the game now crashes altogether now and then... very frustrating.

I will have to clear the cache and see what happens... not sure what will happen to my game saves, though. They might be useless if I remove the update ; in PC games they usually are. Here's hoping...

 » Now that you mention it...

The darkening of the screen definitely happened to me prior to the new patch. And I too, used the weapon swap trick to clear it up.

 » ...

Sounds like you're having a good day...

Dude, I bet "lmao" up there is writing that message from a Windows OS, lol. Guess who just sucked Bill Gates' nutZ. Ha.