No, signups are done within a matter of seconds and all the better for it. You can choose between a standard game where you loiter around in the lobbies and choose a game from their where everyone must say they're ready before the game begins or, a rather ingenious has been included. Drop-in games are excellent for instant action games with no waiting around in the lobbies and they can also be used to create ongoing campaigns, albeit very basic campaigns. Drop-in mode lets you join a game straight away by dropping you right into the battlefield and letting you deploy your dropships, after that its just fight your way to victory on your own or with your team mates, when the game finishes a new map is loaded up and the fighting resumes. In multi-player mode you can use pretty much any unit from Ground Control you want.
Games are always an awesome spectacle to behold with team games being even more impressive.
The difference between victory and defeat is talking to your teammates and deciding where you are going to set up each of your armies. When you play multi player Ground Control you will have at least one game where everyone rushes to the middle to get to the scoring zone while a few aerodynes and artillery terradynes fire their nukes into the middle of everyone resulting in total wipeout, you can't help but chuckle. There is a good selection of day and night missions, which are not used to look pretty either. Day and night in Ground Control is used throughout the missions and included in mission briefings. One particular mission sees you with two squads of aerodynes plus a few light tanks and Jaeger Snipers.