I played PS1 and loved it until they brought out the gamebreaking titan mechs. It was still a cool game with a lot to do and a cool concept. I'm going to be playing PS2.
Biffers were not gamebreaking, the constant hacks were. You have no idea how easy it was to hack that game. No Cone of Fire was a single value to 0. I recall a friend MCG-sniping, and this was before they buffed it again back when the lasher had the slow aoe balls of doom.
Mechs are overpowered. Lags are horrible. Droppod frequently takes you beyond the textures and then you fall to death into nothing. Fliers are stupid and can't be controlled with mouse. Stupid donation system is almost there. Weapon upgrades suck and are too slow. We are all going to die.