I wholeheartedly suggest that you should wait and see how things go.
There was sharp drop in player base, both new comers and ro series vets alike.
This alone gives anyone a significant warning as for game's current condition.
If you don't have uber rig with quad core +3.5?Ghz, 8G ram, recent gfx card, you might encounter so many bugs that will turn you right off.
memory leaking, sound bug still around, and unless you're ok with rather arcadic rail gun shoot out, you might not like ro2 than ro1.
Someone up there stated forum complaints are only small fraction of whole user base, while this can't be proven right or wrong as I never saw statistics on this issue.
Then what about ppl who had technical issue but just tired to even try to fix it or complain it on forum and abandon the game?
I for one, have lots of fps games COD MW2, GRAW2, BFBC2, Crysis wars, Crysis 2, RO1, ARMA2, ARMA2 OA, GTA4, red faction guerrila, red faction armaggeddon.
Most are very cpu taxing, gfx heavy games and yes, most have nicer graphic than ro2.
I like fps and action games, and have i5 760 2.8GHz, gtx 460 1G, 4G ram, cheap dedi sound card, yet all the games above run fine without much issue.
RO2? It's hell of issues after issues, memory leaking, sound crackling, micro stuttering, dipping fps, broken 3D sound system can't figure out sound direction.
RO2 is the worst error fillled fps game I've ever bought to date. < no matter who says otherwise, this is very truth about my experience with ro2.
buggiest game I ever bought to date.