im also interested but im wondering what the european servers are like

I played alot of NS1, but its been so long i barely even remember how its mechanics worked vs NS2.
Ive put about 180 hours into NS2 so far, and cant get enough. Play it most nights, its the most fun multiplayer game i've played in awhile.

might give this another crack tonight

I bought it recently and just cant get into it. The engine feels old and clunky and the marine weapons seem very hollow. They don't have a good feel about them I think due to poor feedback. I really dislike how you cant use iron sights.
As for the aliens, the melee combat seems super duper basic and also lacks feedback, most of the time I can't tell if I'm even hitting a marine.

Unfortunately I'm a big chivalry fan and the FPS melee combat in that game is absolutely beautiful, so NS2's melee compared to that is totally balls. Also Chivalry has excellent sounds, sounds for everything. Very defining, that feedback I'm talking about is partly because NS2 doesn't have the same quality and kill of use with their audio.

Yeah I think it's great. Iron sights in a game like this would just piss me off...what will people want next, iron sights in quake? O_o