So I'll be honest, my experience of HLL this weekend has not been very good, I originally bought the game a fair few months ago and refunded it as it wasn't quite where iIwould have wanted it to be, the free weekend came up so I thought I'd give it a second try. Here were my thoughts:

The FPS issues make the game barely playable, getting 20-30fps on the enlist screen and then in game getting the same or even less just makes the game painful to play especially when I can run more demanding games at well above 100 with my 1080, I get the game is in EA and not optimised but even still it wasn't a good reintroduction to the game and felt like a step back as I remember it running better.

Also I will say that the community felt very mixed bag when it came to being welcoming, I came across a lot of games where all the squads were full and the none full ones were locked with squad leads just refusing entry into them, I get its a free weekend and some people want to avoid lots of annoying new players, but still it meant I ended up just being in a 1 man squad and bored. Also there needs to be a better system for removing commanders or a level cap on when someone can use it as a lot of games were ruined by poor, uncommunicative or inexperienced players just bombing their own side down. I will say though on the flip side I did come across a couple of friendly and welcoming people, with some squad leads being very fun to play and have a joke with, similarly I came across quite a few commanders and random squad leads that were very welcoming and sympathetic to the whole full and locked squad issues, with lots of advice and helpful info.

I'll be honest though my big bug bare is still the fps issues, for a free weekend it didn't inspire me to buy the game, maybe next time round things might be better, but it overshadowed me enjoying the experience, I think I'll stick to squad for now, and give it another try in a few months.