Just joined recently. A few thoughts.
- When you're rating 0, I've found it takes a very long time to find matches on matchmaking
- For custom games, probably 50% of the games have a lag issue that causes the game to pause for 2m before you can kick someone. I feel like it should be pretty easy to determine that in the lobby with some type of ping test. Also on team games then the game is pretty much ruined. Super annoying.
- Maybe 10% of the games I play on large maps like dual gap (some of the funnest maps) straight up crash after 45m of play. Extremely annoying. (https://forum.faforever.com/topic/7335/game-keeps-crashing-on-dual-gap)
- I feel like a good number of people play with friends from word of mouth, but you can't usually be on the same team as them due to balance issues if they're new. Makes it way less fun.
- You spend a lot of time waiting in lobbies. A lot. Feels unusual for typical games.
Also I think it would be nice to have a simple optional walkthrough of changes with faf compared to the original game for new players