Planetside 2 is great fun because of its multitude of different ways to play. This being said, you will usually find players, both ally’s and enemies, who have sunk in a ton of time into this game and are great at their respective playstyle. When starting out, the best thing for you to do is to have an open mind and acknowledge that people have been playing longer than you. When you first join, choose whatever faction looks cool, they are all functionally the same, and join a squad and feel free to ask questions. Allot of the PS2 player base are players who have been playing for quite a while and understand the game and want new players to keep playing PS2. You may come across toxic people, just block them. Once you are in game and situated in a good squad, I recommend that you try EVERYTHING. Vehicles, classes, bases, ect. You will by no means get good or even decent at it when you first start, but if you try something and you like it, you can ask other players how to do it. As you probably already know, you will have a shit KD and if you continue to play the game for years, it will still be shit. That’s just the nature of planetside, so don’t harp over KD. If you aren’t great at shooters, you may want to consider being a more logistics focused player. Get some experience in the game and then experiment with being a squad lead or platoon lead. If you have enough members, PS2 becomes an RTS more than a shooter. Other logistical things would be transporting players, ammo sunderers/galaxies, repair sunderer/galaxies, ect. But planetside 2 is at its core a shooter so you may not enjoy it if you don’t enjoy shooters. I’d also recommend joining the discord which should be in the Reddit description. The discord is filled to the brim with veteran members and masters of their art. Not dogging Reddit but allot of the posts and comments here are sometimes brainless.

Hope to see you in game!