I'm seeing some very nice improvements, but a ton of bugs...massive numbers of desert bandits (like if you attack one band, you find your self in a battle with 150 plus bandits because there were so many nearby bands that got drawn into the battle. Clan caravans make a ton of money now (for me anyways), but they don't show up on the map, and it seems the game is unaware I have any as it lets me create more than the supposed limit for my clan level, moving troop formations around in battle causes random and radical changes in their formations. Cursor isn't the correct cursor after a battle (shows a blocked symbol circle with a slash through it).
I'm thinking there needs to be a lot of hot patches coming out, or something went wrong with my download of the new beta.
This game has huge width (lots of places, maps, options), but not enough depth (character interactions, nobles that are heads of clans are too spread out). I miss the interactions of the original game, but I don't know if you can get that kind of feel with such a large scale map.