So I tried to log in to meet my guildmates last night and was immediately hit with the patch from 8/16. They've bumped the BR cap to 25, though you don't get another implant at 24. They also changed the implant BRs (6, 12, and 18) so that you don't get a cert point on those levels - but you get those three cert points at BR 1.

In other words, you start off with 3 extra points.

Since I'm still BR 17, that means I get an extra cert point. By the time I got in I hadn't seen anyone in my guild on, so I did the first training mission and logged. I'll probably log on tonight and do more of the training missions for the free XP they give.