First impressions aside, what do you think of the mod?

I personally had a lot of fun with it. I think that the developers had servers like ours in mind when they were programming. The game is more team-oriented than vanilla is. Especially with things like the arty, AA missles for the 2nd seat in the chopper, etc.

I liked the way almost everything is implemented. There wasn't one thing that stuck out as a 'bad idea'. The blood effects were especially nice. The way the guns work seems to feel a lot more realistic now. I like how there is much more of an upward kick but less of an artificial spread. It's changes like this that add skill to a game. I also liked how they took out all forms of guidable rockets. I'm not sure why, but it just is more fun to have that special forces RPG all the time. They correctly balanced it's speed and fire and forget with less damage, so all is well.

My last comment is that they seem to have made damages higher on almost everything. There are some guns in the game that are especially deadly, but almost evertyhing feels beefed up in some way. The freaking support gun has a scope. I was having a field day with these new weapons.

I also thought it odd they removed the rear view camera from ground vehicles. It actually makes it much easier to sneak up on them now. Of course, the helos also have realistic rocket splash damages now that are insanely deadly. I was extremely effetively supporting my troops with the rocket pod on that transport helo.

The new system of chaff for the tanks is also interesting. I'll have to play more to decide how well it works.

Overall it seems they made everything more powerful, but balanced it by making everything else more powerful as well. I had a lot of fun tonight but we'll see if something is 'broken' as we get more play time.