What side?

[Ducimus]

If you wanna be more casual, try certing in reinforced and Med assault. Then go HA later on. Starting out id loadout with a guass and a sweeper.

Or just cut to the chase, Cert in Med assault and HA and have fun racking up the kills with your "balanced" weapon. I did that with an alt on another server, i racked up 19 kills in 5 mins of defending a tower and died twice. so, whatever.

[ColdbringeR]

If you're a total n00b, go with Terran. No offense Terrans, but they require the least amount of skill and practice to be effective. New Conglomerate are a close second. Vanu, on the other hand, are quite difficult. Their vehicles and weapons require alot of practice and skill to use effectively. Do not pick Vanu unless you're looking for a challenge.

[Arakiel]

Empire breakdown, eh?

Vanu Sovereignty
1. Frustrating to play.
2. Looks neat.

Terran Republic
1. Too busy crying over supposed nerfs to actually kill anything as of late. The excessive crying accounts for the recurrence of the water in basements bug.
2. "Spray and Pray" philosophy means a irregular block of clay playing TR can kill a skilled VS player more often than not.
3. Every base capture they do can be attributed to strategy, or strategery if you prefer. Conversely, every base you lose is obviously a horrible zerg. TR never, ever zergs. Ever. It's all tactics. Really.

New Conglomerate
1. Remember when amazon.com patented one-click ordering? Playing NC will remind you of that, minus the part about books.
2. Empire peaks at BR3, when you can get Heavy Assault. You can pretty much stop getting XP after that, unless you're into wearing yellow.

[Ducimus]

Actually at this point, i think most of the unskilled newbies have left the TR for NC. Its very noticable we have less people alot of times, and NC with alot more people. The common theory amongst those i play with is that they went NC for the Jackhammer, or VS cause they got buffed.

The TR nerf wasnt really that bad, i dont know why people focus on that so much. As for the Spray and Pray comments, the have no basis. And honestly, i prefer the guass rifle over the cyler and loot one when i get the chance too. Nothings more satisfying then flanking behind a bunch of NC and taking out 4 of them on one clip of ammo with their own damn rifle.