Hardcore seemed to go down well with the public last night. Is this something we should stick with for a while? We need your input here guys.... Give us your opinion.

The only thing I don't like is the reduced health. It seems to balls up the gun dynamics. Take the sniper rifles for example. The single shot rifles are one shot kill, and the semi autos 2 shots. However, in hardcore mode, all the rifles are one shot, so you may as well have a semi auto. Also the G3 Assault is also a single shot, so you may as well forget the snipers altogether.

Appart from that, the other changes don't bother me, although not being able to tell where the nades are can be a little annoying. However, thankfully spam nading is not something we suffer with too much on or server (except ORCA obviously )

Personally I love the Hardcore setting as it makes players sneak around abit more and play more tactically, and although I see your point about the sniper rifles there's nothing worse than lining up a perfect sniper shot on non hardcore, shooting someone just to have them carrying on running as if nothing had happened!

A comparable unrealistic trait of non hardcore snipers is pretty much every other non hardcore gun take the RPD Heavy Machine Gun for instance, I try using this in non hardcore and have to use the 'Deep Impact' perk just to make it as powerful as for example the P-90 (which players fly around spraying everything with in non hardcore)and in close quarters I still lose 9/10 1 on 1's with it against supposedly much less powerful weapons.

As for knowing where the nades are it does kind of defeat the object of having them if peeps know which way to run to avoid them