I recently came back to the game with some buddies -- I'm very much a newbie still. Getting back into the basics of properly managing mexes/power, muscle memory coming back quick though.
Where I'm struggling is how unforgiving some players can be. Joining a "noob" lobby and still having people plant messages all over, not with simple friendly advice but calling me an idiot and berating me for not playing a slot correctly, or not micro'ing my troops like a pro.
The only other item I'd like to call out that plagued me my first night back..... please, please, please make sure people are aware of the Nvidia driver bug. Every game I joined people kept accusing me of lagging hardcore and "dropping packets". I had no idea what any of this meant until I came across the Nvidia fix mod and manually downloaded it. My buddies were confused since the mod is enabled and it should have downloaded when I joined those games -- but long story short, it didn.t My lag problems are fixed now, but holy hell that was annoying and I'm sorry to all who seemed to think I was "lagging" and kept begging my teammates to TK me.