Well, 2.5 came to highlight the potential of the CA product. As someone said in this forum, it gives you the feeling of being in a place. It sounds weird at first but I understood as soon as I tried some fast ME setups.
I've allways used CA in two ways: mainly as a ME tool, with heavy use of community made addons. ( Morkva's AT_infantery, Grime's vehicules, Lilkiki's light AAA, Ranger Pack, etc).
Fewer times for a quik high intensity battle with lot of air defence management.
Last three days I've been developing a mission from the FastBattlePlanner in the ME to test 2.5 features. Not wasting any time, as I was also adjusting Video Settings.
What I found is that new visuals opens a clear path for something like DCS M1A2, but right now I feel is as far from Mech. Warfare sim as it was on 1.2.8. Personally I find it hard to command a vehicle from gunner position, useless to lead a platoon with such a simple comms. menu and here I stop.
Maybe it is not the most optimistic post but don't take me wrong, I know what CA was when I purchased it years ago, have seen the evolution of the product and I know the latest anouncements regarding what to expect about it in the future.