Originally posted by Cellar_Cat:

I feel like fps is a bit better than when I last played, but my graphics drivers are newer too, so it's hard to say on which end it changed.

I remember one of the changes they made was to how the map registered pickaxe hits. It now only records the final vertex hit in the 2d map instead of each hit. It makes terraforming much easier to do now. Theyve done a few things here and there.