The game has all the good elements it did in beta. Playing with Drem, Xender (#1 in BEP on the server atm -- Grats Mene!), Gain, and Sarcasm kicks ass.
I like the changes to hacking duration. It makes hackers far more necessary and valuable.
The lattice still forces large follow-the-herd zergfests, but perhaps I'm becoming desensitized to them now. I have a Screenshot from last night of a base we were capping that had four of our Galaxies, 3 harassers, two tanks, and a basilisk parked outside. ><
Cap exp is the way to go at the moment. They appear to have fixed things so you get Cap exp if you're near or far from the base. Not certain how this works at the moment, and frankly I wonder if they are. The new exp system sucks ass, but mostly it sucks that they changed it in what I consider to be a very unscrupulous manner.
At this point, I'd say go ahead and buy it, and enjoy the first free month. There are worse ways to spend $50. All the bad things we knew about are still there, and exp is a bit less. Still, the spirit of what was at one point a really good game struggles on beneath all that, and continues to show itself from time to time.
As an aside, be sure to send one of us a /tell if you get on (Tells are now case-sensitive for some stupid reason), so we can invite you into Wetworks.
