I bought MAG in box form and downloaded the expansions. I've been playing it the last four or five days. I am currently Level 20. For some reason my stats havn't been updating for the last day or so but my kill-death ratio is somewhere around 0.75. It was really low when I started, but since starting to play as a Sniper it's been going up steadily.
I feel for everyone struggling to get into the game. I still try out the assault setup every now and again, but my bullets seem to do little damage while the enemy has no trouble picking me off with only a short burst of gunfire. I tend to be in the top three when playing Bad Company 2 on Ps3, so it's not like I suck at these type of games.
I'm playing for Raven, by the way. We lose 9 out of 10 matches. The game is unbalanced by design, there's no use complaining about it, that's just the type of game it is. But it would seem Raven is particularly lacking in active seasoned players who can lead an assault and show the rest how it's done. The starting guns also seem to be a bit on the crap side, but then again I have no experience of the other two factions with which to compare. (Idealogically Raven is the only one that appeals to me.)
Multiqueue is a great option for gaining XP boosts, but it tends to throw me into one of two Suppression maps, both of which are kind of crap and not at all fun to play. I own the two expansions, as noted, but havn't yet once played either mode.
Several posters in this thread have suggested taking on the Medic role so as to farm some XP. That only works when you're able to survive on the frontlines. And you see junior guys ending matches with 2 kills and 20 deaths, or something ridiculous like that. I do agree that having four or five guys on a squad equipped with Medic Kits is an absolute requirement. Sadly most don't bother though.
As a suggestion to Das-J and the rest of the team - I reckon killing a more experienced player should result in a greater reward. Maybe make it 2XP per five levels. So killing a level 10 player would deliver up 4XP, a level 50 player would deliver up 20XP, etc. This seems only fair, as the more experienced players are all decked out with far superior armour, weapons and skills.
With all of the above taken into account, the question remains whether I am having fun. I reckon most of the time I am. I enjoy these open multi-player first-person shooters. I don't enjoy dying all the time, but soon I'll be the veteran with the killer armour and massive gun picking off newbies.
I reckon that picture alone serves as a large part of the motivation to keep playing.
