beta thoughts, and a question

[Zetre]

so far, i've really been liking this game. I love MMOG's and i love action games, and this seems to be a nice hybrid of the two. There is nothing more satisfying than loggin on with people you know, and dukin it out with other people, that you usually don't know, and dingin'. And you don't have to run around for 20 minutes at a time like in other MMOG's and it's skill based, instead of based on how well you know the game. So far, i really like it, but i really think that things need to be worked around soon.
First off, the maxes are giving me fits. it takes wayyyyy too many shots to take them down. Yesterday, we easily took down a group of peeps 3 times the size of our squad, with 1 AA max, one AV max, 3 AI maxes, and one combat engineer/medic/hacker/infiltrator kinda guy. This is really dissapointing. They take way too many hits, and the AA and AV weapons work wayyyy too well against infantrymen. That needs to have some nerfing to the MAX, no pun intended.
The other thing that really dissapoints me is the special assult guns. An entire decimator just to take down a vanu max(vanu maxes are less armored than the other two empire maxes) and 3 clips of grenades from the thumper is WAYYYY too much. I also saw a dude get hit dirrectly with 3 or 4 rocklets, and tons of splash, and live to tell about it because of his trusty amp. It's getting kinda rediculous. All of these, plus the max weapons kinda being lame really are getting to me. I love the idea of the game, and the overall fun that it has to offer, but if things aren't changed soon, then i believe i might have to revert to DAoC, which doesn't offer half of the online fun and overall goofyness that PS has dished out.
Finaly, the almost forgotten question.
I mostly use the decimator, since it's the only gun i have found usefull to drive off the massive hords of maxes that are now found left and right in planetside. So what does the secondary fire do. It almost looks like it's a guidable rocket, but it's not. The only use i've found for it, is making kills look really really cool, which is good and all, but really isn't that usefull. So someone help this poor fool.