This is exactly why I keep saying we need some more Continents: They tried to pack us together so there is constant action, but this just creates a constant, consistent GRIND for the same territories…
In the original game, the more territory a Faction took, the LARGER they made their Front, which meant more Bases that required defending.
So, you either needed a highly skilled, coordinated, and MOBILE force of players… or just have the highest global population in order to keep policing that much real estate.
On top of this, "Locked" Continents weren't actually inaccessible and you had NTU Drains in order to create a foothold on one, so even an Overpopped Faction had to have people constantly checking their "rear" in order to prevent any "stealth" capture that could lead to the loss of up to an entire continent.
In short, the original game had more options for players to "make their own" fun.
Have some old TACTICAL SMUG-PERI-LOLI-Y!
This is what made Emerald Vanu so cancerous; Waterson Vanu were chronically underpopped, so they relied heavily on Faction-wide cooperation and this kind of guerrilla infiltrator warfare in order to blitz Bases faster than a Zerg could respond to.
This wasn't so bad on Waterson, since the Vanu just didn't have the population for straight up fights, but then they got injected with masses of Mattershitter tryhards to throw into the grinder.
Noice, my favorite is the mask-less goggled version!
Indeed, it's a good, solid helmet that plays perfectly into the TRs Future Military ascetic.
The Valk really needs a speed boost to ESF tier… That and Wing Mounts…
Eh, overpop and tonk spam are two of the most basic "tactics" for all the factions, the Republics' biggest issue is a rather large lack of intra-faction cooperation for strategic coordination.
Most of the time it's like the NC, where the Outfits most capable of distributing manpower are the Zergfits, who more often than not just squander it in favor of either Over-popping or Tonk Spamming anyways…
It'd be fun to have an open voice channel, but it just lead to SOOO much legal bullshit…
Aw, I liked mask-less…
They are better for a marksman playstyle…