Yep yep yep !
I noticed that when I was testing my own map, and then I knew for sure that it was really something new when I hit Rivet City with like, everyone. heh!
This is extremely easy to reproduce (I already do) without the patch though.
Is there anything else in it worth having?
If we can get broken steel to work without it, then I won't be modding everything persistent, that would be insane really to do to someone's save game. Not to mention the navmesh being broken still further than it was in 1.4.