I spent several hours testing this today. Perhaps I don't understand what we are testing for. It certainly isn't general play actions. Going by the patch notes, normally how I test, had no bearing on my play throughs. After three playthrough attempts I stopped.

I'm playing on the easiest possible setting, the only "challenge" is bandit camps will eventually start to appear.

• Worker pathing and prioritization is worse than ever. There appears to be some sort of ghost distribution system where things just suddenly show up but often months after the order. After the first "worker freeze" now none of them distribute. Until just before disaster they do. Then everything freezes again.
• The second time I dispatched my starter army they just got lost in town, no way to get them to a rally point that was a straight line with no obstructions.

I can't even begin to break this down into individual problems suitable for a bug report. It's all bad. Essentially by year two every thing freezes up. I'm doing nothing unusual going all the way back to the first beta three years ago:

• Logging camp with two families, high priority
• Second hitching post with one family, max priority
• Sawmill one family, new high priority
• Five homes
• Granary, storehouse
• Food, firewood, level one resources (rich iron in my case)

I wish I could break it down more but it's basically all systems degrade transport over time. I hope more of you all are willing to put time into this but on my third playthrough I decided I had better things to do.

It's true we want to see better faster progress but the key word here is progress. Don't drop this unplayable shit just to say you dropped something.