Just gave TR a try again in my continuing effort to "walk a mile in everyone's shoes."
Had fun, but I can't make a sound judgement. FPS was terrible and a lot of my kills and deaths were due to lag or luck. Am very happy with a dumbfire rocket scythe kill I got as well as sending a dumbfire care package to a sneaky sniper just as he was about to get the killing shot on my squad leader.
The more I play HA, the more I feel that it really is all about the rockets. Next thing you know I'll don an oversized helmet and start giving lessons about the Art of War and Animal Husbandry.
Did get into a good squad. I went into this thinking VS had pretty good team play, and it's not that they don't, but in both cases where I played NC and TR in a review mode I feel like I managed to get into fun squads pretty easily. Might have just been luck though. I hear a lot of complaining about the NC and TR both having a lot of lone wolf players. Also, wheras my NC squad had a bit of redneck in them (laughing, having fun jumping flashes over hills and cliffs, not necessarily a bad thing), I actually felt like I'd been dumped into a semi-professional military unit with the TR. I guess those stereotypes come from somewhere. My luck with the VS has been mostly a mixed bag. The squad leaders will usually be pretty good, but I'll end up having a good number of screaming, foul mouthed pre-teens on the mics at the same time. I still don't think I'll go with the NC as a full time thing in PS2, but I definitely have a healthier respect for them and their people. As such, TR I still need to give more time to, but if my experiences continue as they did today, (hopefully minus the fps drop from the patch) I might even switch back from purple to red.
Final note: My deepest apologies to those who I ran over today, including my wonderful squad leader, as whenever I got into a vehicle my fps dropped from a steady 10-20 down to 2.