Op, the game is alright, servers had and still have some problems during this week. Both here and some stated in wt too.
Game is slow to progress if you are average by xp counts per min. If you are a good fps player with litle knowledge the game progresses faster. So you really need to put effort and do lots of actions, kills, and be on point and or play vehicles and shred inf to level up faster. If you come and play the game on a slow pace, grind will be hard.
My advice is to compleatly disregard your deaths and press w. Be agreesive and disregard the times you die or the number of squads you use. The more actions you do, the more xp you get, the more squads you use, the faster they progress.
There are some vehicles exclusive to premium packs. Most are skinned versions with added armor, diferent cammo or compleatly unique vehicles with better stats on some parts and worst on others.
You don’t need them to progress now, now what you need is a good feel of the game, if you trully like it or not first. Disregard the grind for now, avoid spending much silver and bronze orders upgrading everything you see. You will need them for better items latter on.
If you trully get to a point that you will consider playing this more and more, premium time is a must, and or, Atleast batlepass once, (it pays back the investment to buy it season after season).
I also did play hng since alpha for Alot of years daily. I had hundreds of ats, generals and Prety much everything, and I still consider this faster to progress. As long and you remember you have a w key on your keybord.
For the most part, game is almost historical accurate, (there are some squads vehicles or weapons that aren’t, but one could argue that they are here to fill the game with more content or to make the faction more interesting to be played or balance it for future content to counter), and it’s arcade enough to feel fun and not a boring running simulator that you need to ask permition to make a move like hell let loose, and it’s realistic enough to have a feel you are in a ww2 batle. So yeah, a good game on my books.
Hope Atleast you have fun and give it a proper try. You won’t regret it.
Countless guides, videos and content was made by the community over the time, some of it is outdated since the game is updated at a faster rate, and some community made wikipedias aren’t updated or used that much, so anything you need, ask. Even if it’s trivial for us now, there’s Alot of info for a new player, and you could avoid mistakes or save some silver and bronze orders by taking some of our advice.
Anything, ask. And have fun.