Definitely much better than 1.1. Now Rome is actually fun to play. Still there's one complaint I wish to make.
Colonization of civilized nations should be made slower and I'm somewhat dissapointed that this wasn't fixed. The pace Macedonia can colonize to Eastern Europe and Rome in Gaul and Germania is just stupid. I really hope that something will be done for this in the next patch. Otherwise I don't have any major complaints left.