its going to take a lot more skill than it did in BFBC2. A later patch made the flying more like BC1 and my buddy loved it...took his chopper game to a whole other level.
And I think they are going to allow bigger party groups in BF3, but in BC2, you need to just join the server they are on and hope you get on their team...my squad use to roll 6 deep, two team of three. And we never lost conquest with this setup...never.
Never played a battlefield game on the PC, but I have fallen in love with the level of skill required to play compared to games like CoD and Gaylo. Battlefield is on its own level when it comes to FPS games.