That reminds me, I do have cross play enabled on PC. I am actively trying to get two friends of mine to buy the game on PS5.
These guys normally don't play games as much other than single player titles, but they randomly started playing fortnight. They tried to get me on it but there's no way I'm playing that.
I suppose the barrier to entry here would be the cost. Last night I had a decent set of matches without any issues for once.
I'm really hoping for a better primary weapon. I've been using the machine gun you get from the beginning because I didn't like anything else.
This is my take, but the weapons you unlock from the war bonds other than a few exceptions aren't a direct upgrade, you just get to do different things better. Same goes for unlocking stratagems. You can specialize in what you want to do/accomplish in a drop. You'll easily unlock all the stratagems quickly-ish so no huge choices on what to get when. But the starting machine is good because it punches through medium armor, which a lot of non-trash (very very base bots, and the scavengers, hunters, stalkers have light armor) has. Most primaries only punch through light armor unless they state medium armor piercing. So you'll find yourself spending a lot of bullets doing little to no damage on these guys (you'll see the shield icon with a deflecting bullet on it while hitting such targets). Examples are hive guards, brood lords/commanders, most other bots other than the little guys.
Trash clearing is definitely needed on harder bug missions, think difficulty 5-6 and up. So everyone bringing autocannons and such isn't ideal.
I will say for primary weapons, right now I feel the best are the incendiary shotgun (if you are host, since burning/dot damage doesn't work unless you are the host, they know about this and are trying to fix it per today's patch notes), dominator and the scorcher. The sickle in the CE warbond is good, basically unlimited ammo rifle, but sucks vs. anything not light armor. Until I can see how Thursday's warbond feels, the steeled veterans warbond I think is better value than cutting edge due to the dominator and the incendiary being great. Scorcher is free, but on the last page so it is a grind.