Now that Soviets are added, it's solidly in the realm of an alternate history game.  Soviets are a 3rd faction that can fight against both Germany and USA.

Looking for buddies on the Allied side!

And look, you can now become Airborne/Fallschirmjaeger!

I was stalking your Sherman in my Panther on Bastogne.  Storm rolled through and I lost power for the rest of the night.  So I went to bed early with FH2 blueballs.

I also was a part of Gen. Henry's squad defending Luttich and Bastogne.  Twas a great time.

On such a large player population server, spawning on squad leaders shows to be very powerful if not overly so.   The enemy simply could not flush us out completely, due to our squad leader's skill at hiding and directing his large 14 player squad.  Despite never losing ground, we still lost the battle for Luttich, while having a sound victory in Bastogne.  Both maps were intense despite never moving off one flag the entire round.

Meh.
I dont think ill playing it until the mods come out. Counter to what the ranking system is meant to do, its has very much put me off playing the game.

Also waiting for mods.  The killer for me is the fact that everyone has cybernetic ultrazoom.  I can't believe they would do this to an RO sequel.  I hope mods fix this.

1.  Great idea and was much needed.  Super agile laser turrets needed to be brought down.
2.  Still great.
3.  Pros:  One of the best new features.  Cons:  M8 Greyhound is not very agile/now more clumsy compared to everything else.
4.  Pings don't seem to negatively effect my tanking experience.

The current state of RO2 makes me play and appreciate RO1/DH all the more.  It's terrible and a big step backwards toward Call of Duty.  The only nice new thing is first person cover system.

RO1 became much better over time, following new maps and mods.  RO2 also will get better in the same regard.  Tripwire says that they will be adding a ton of stuff that didn't make it into the release.  RO2 has only a fraction of guns and vehicles that RO1 has.

Most of the maps are small, close quarters.  When you aim down the sights, you get a very large zoom.  Combine this with a rifle in tight quarters and you get punishing tunnel vision.   Did I mention you get an extra zoom by pressing Shift anytime?  Haha!  Your MP40 can snap off headshots all day.

You cannot enter/exit tanks, but only respawn inside one.  Pretty huge ramifications.

MGs are straight out of vanilla BF2 with all the deviation and recoil.  To actually hit anything, you can single fire the MG34.  So you aren't firing an MG so much as a large capacity rifle.  If you enjoyed using MGs in RO1, your dreams are crushed!  It seems the only way I score kills with MGs in RO2 is by using its penetration to blindfire through obstacles.  Since most guns have 8X ACOG, you will get sniped if you try to use a MG like a MG.  You know, area denial, suppression, if not raw killing power.   The kill cam will guarantee if you setup somewhere and actually kill someone, they will just come back and snipe you.

And, spoiler alert: