I mainly play as a pilot these days. I have two characters, a BR 72 NC and BR 32 TR, both on Connery. It's the only game I've been playing on a regular basis (though not as much as lately) for the past 9-10 months. Since release I've put over 500 hours into PS2.
As far as performance goes, PS2 is a great reason to overclock your CPU. You want your i5/i7 clocked as high as it can go for this game. But check your WHEA error log and make sure you're fully stable, because PS2 will build up a lot of those and crash out if you're not.
If you play with a group it is easily the best shooter ever. Not so if you try to play it solo.
You seem to think the game requires you to like vehicle based combat? If you work in squads, your vehicle usage is basically riding in galaxies until you get to your drop point. You don't need to touch them otherwise. Infact you can make it your personal goal to become an AV/AA terminator. The less enemy armor around the better.
My perception at the time I last played, a couple of months ago, was that air was just owning infantry and armor
I'll just jump into a reaver and fly around or help with a push can cap a few points before logging off.
I do find myself getting owned by vehicles quite a bit, whether it's land or air.
I mainly play as a pilot these days.
I saw Amazon has some sort of packs 50% off - 2 for each faction.
Are any worth getting? Hard to know which faction to pick as a new (not yet) player.
If you guys haven't played since the first Performance Upgrade patch a couple weeks ago, you should. It has improved things dramatically. Still two more to go for Esamir and Amerish optimization passes.
This game would be cool but the lack of point makes it boring to me. Its pretty much just like every other shooter except on a persistent map. I was hoping for a lot more. I noticed they changed the website to not say "strategy on a massive scale" or whatever it used to say. Because the game really doesnt require strategy because there is no objective, its just a never ending game of team death match. I was hoping it would have an over all objective that the factions were fighting for but thats not the case. You basically just grind XP because XP is the currency used for everything.