They picked de_dust because it's one of the most popular stateside. Also, yes the CT's have a slight advantage, but whichever team rushs usally ends up winning. I've played a million games as T and are team rushed and we just dominated the map even though the CT's have a slight advantage.
Man, I remember playing the Planetside beta for hours and hours and hours. Loved the game. Now, they got all these special effects and new vehicals etc. I may just have to play it again.
I think it would be nice, but who knows what HL2's actual release date is. I still see count down timers for HL2 that are still counting down to Sep. 30, 2003! LOL!
Wait...they were using the leaked version from March 2002!? BTW, to all that don't know, the recent leak of the Stalker game is dated back from March 2002 or something, but still runs really good surprisingly.