*In a short term,*

Game is not pay to win.

Real life money can be only spent in cosmetics or make a quicker way to buy a weapon.

At the start of the game you are almost fitted with a best weapon, weapons cannot be upgraded, only slightly changed with addons to give them different traits and excel in different situations.

You can unlock plenty full other weapons, but mostly each one of those are made for a different situations and playstyle.

You gonna die alot, you might say that his weapon is overpower and it is paytowin, just remember there is no matchmaking you are fighting veterans or newbies like you.

I die alot because i keep using medic, i like helping others but it is not much into combat, playing as a heavy with additional shield is way much more better, and i really recommend if you are a new player using this class.

There is no matchmaking, just 4 huge maps that you can join, some of them might be already won and locked by one of those sides and only few might be unlocked at the moment...

The number of open maps is usually based on how many players are active at the moment, so at morning times you might find only one map unlocked.

You are a soldier, you get money by doing anything, repairing, healing, killing, even if you have people on a truck you move them to a base they capture it you get exp... 250exp is equal to 1 cert which is in game money.

Also there are plenty of achievements that can give you certs, like leveling up.

All this can stack into alot of certs if you find your play style of getting alot of exp, i recommend fighting on maps that have alert on, alert is a time for how long the map will take before it will be locked, win will go to a faction that holds the most bases... that alert pops up time to time on maps, and when it ends you will gain many in game currency based on how much stuff you did on that map before it was won by any of the factions.

If you feel like you are dying alot in some part of a map and you get nothing back, i recommend switching to something else, deploy to a different part of a map, try using a different class or a vehicle. I am a new player but i am skilled in fps shooting games, all i basically do is trying to counter what is happening in the battlefield, and i am also trying to unlock weapons for that kind of situation.

your character is locked to one faction, i could probably say they stay pretty equal, some weapons are unlocked for every faction some are not, but through out the time i see every faction win a map.

You might also wonder what if one faction has too many players?
Yes that can happen if that happens you might lose your bases but you will get a bonus exp for fighting outnumbered, it is shown under a minimap.

Sometimes it is an absolute mayhem but that is what this game excels at 500v500v500 on huge as map, aircrafts, tanks, soldiers... you don't need to worry about dying like in other games, you don't need to wait for your friends to die and start a new match, this is a fastpaced shooter but if you are looking for some strategy there is actually alot and if you have a squad or a corporation that is talking in voice chat following orders, it is suddenly much easier game.. you gotta remember though, enemies might do the same.

I do really like the game, there is plenty of stuff i did not touched yet, and this game can keep you for ages trying to unlock all the the weapons or upgrades for vehicles.

Just please, be patient, all i bought for this game were cosmetics, because i like to be different.
You will die alot at start, but once you find the basics you can easily farm the in game money and buy some stuff :)
I am still a new player to this game i am lvl 33 now and i do recommend this game if you do not like to spend real money into the game.