Update on my monsterface issue: it only appears to affect players from Year One. In a Rising Stars game with the Y1 and Y2 players, none of the Y2 players had it, and most of the Y1 players did (except Tyrus Shelton, oddly).
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/615 ... BF19D46C8/
Note the left side of the bench. That Lucius Storey and Von Bell. Storey's distortion is what it normally looks like, Bell's currently not looking so terrible, but I think that's just cause of the animation he's in.