I spoke to Alen Ladavac of croatian game developer Croteam about the patch status for SS:TSE. A quick fix for Voodoo2/3 loading problems was released last week. Read more... Here is Alen's answer: Beta1 of patch is in testing for some time now. Beta 2 should be this week. There were some changes in connection code, and we hope that will help lot of people that aren't able to connect at all. Still, since those changes were somewhat radical, we need to test it thoroughly and fix major problems before we release it. Wouldn't make much sense to make it even worse, right?
Anyway, I'd like to release the patch next week if possible, but if there are some problems, it will be delayed. Be sure to read our review of the game here