I joined 3 other players and Ivory (thanks!) showed me the ropes. The mission was to destroy a downed UAV and there were 4 enemy squads patrolling the area and some armor. Much different play style from the vanilla servers, we broke off when engaged several times when we were in poor cover and/or too many squads were alerted. I don't think I fired my weapon for about the first 30 minutes while we maneuvered around.
Best part was when an enemy squad stumbled onto us around around 100M away and I had a full belt of machine gun ammo ready to go. Get some!
The helpfulness of the players on that server isn't overblown, everyone went out of their way to help this utter noob. There is a bit of a learning curve for TFAR and ACE, but it's not that bad.
All in all, I really like it. Like I said, the play style is different, much more careful, much more deliberate with actual teamwork going on. I also like the chaos of the vanilla servers, but if anyone is looking for a change of pace EU #3 is worth giving a go. Gauntlet will feel familiar to I&A, no huge surprises there and of course there's new gear to play with.
Ivory reacted to MoonFire in "Official Map"