NOW the retail version fully patched is greatly improved, play a game at 120ms it's completely playable. But look at the FAQ on the patches...it's main focus is to eliminate lag. I think that the netcode was definately flawed when the game first came out. They did a lot of work to fix it...and I am sure there is more work being done to improve it in the future. I imagine that since the main buying customer is in North America that they may even be behind on netcode support for European users to focus on a North American fix.

I'm not saying I am right...actually I am completely guessing (I could even be a FOO) but I must say that I had awful lag when i first started playing and it keeps getting better so far.

My observations are based on my system of a P4 384RAM 64MB Radeon 7500 VE with Cable connection on Game Spy.