My gut reaction is that you're going to want the new GI renderer. You're also going to want the new smoothing option in the vertex modeler. There's also other little tids and tads here and there that are useful so eventually, you're going to get it. I'm not using 2.0 until the patch shows up. I've been disheartened with the loss of the particle generator and the botch ups with the soft shadows. Regardless, you're going to need it to learn the new stuff eventually and the patch will be free so I'd get it if I were you. -Kix

-Kix