I'm sorry to hear that man. I to do not like the new patch, but I am not striking out at all. My problem is the hit variety is terrible. Your problem would be fixable if you were playing offline with sliders, but unfortunately since you are online DD your kind of stuck.
The funny thing is they released this patch because of all of the complaints over at the show nation, and 90% of them are saying this patch has made the game exponentially worse. I guess you don't know what you got til it's gone.