How is it broken? because you actually die when you get shot?
Its broken because the weapon stats have been tediously balanced to give each class and even each weapon tangible strengths and weaknesses based on the fact that players have 100 health. All HC does is drop player health to 60 which leads to several OP and UP weapons.
The most obvious break is the fact that the game was clearly designed for 3D spotting to be part of the game as it deters camping snipers and promotes the Recon class to actually play some
recon with their sensor balls and spotting scopes instead of playing selfishly like the vast majority of snipers in all other games do.
Its not hate, its the implication or attitude that its what "real men" play, or that its harder, when its just a different game mode the devs quickly tacked in
to me it's boring when you have to shoot someone quite a bit to kill them, and you can also run around and get shot quite a few times and be on your merry way.
and to me its a lot more fun
Actually only being able to survive one shot, maybe two depending on location on impact? Awesome. You might not have to hit someone multiple times (this ups the challenge, I guess? for some people that's their idea of challenge), but it's also easier because you can get shot multiple times. In HC, the challenge is in surviving, and not giving away your position by shooting a lot at one enemy - you want to fire at them as minimal as possible if trying to keep a low profile.
It's a lot more challenging camping outside in a tent rather than in a computer game, and is, at least IMO, a lot more fun.
In my eyes, HC slows the game down a bit. Which I prefer that in an FPS, crazy fast action and low damage feels like the game has no weight.
And I prefer games that are not camp fests and fights that actually feel like a fight and not whoever landed the first punch.
Any noob can point and click, but can they retain their aim on a tough/moving target and maintain the steady bursts of fire required to finish the kill while under heavy pressure? IME, no they cannot, just like in real life (heck, burst rifles were invented because of the average soldier's tendency to hold the trigger down and not properly burst or semi auto on their own).
If a player has excellent aim and reaction times but cannot sustain that skill over a period of time that's fine, there's always HC mode.
there are these things called iron sights, you right click, line them up and shoot at en enemy. pretty simple.... people actually die when you shoot them on hardcore, on regular you hve to unload like 15 rounds into them. no to mention you are way more accurate aimingdown the sights. although, vietnam has had a weapon damage upgrade which feels a lot more like hardcore but you get all the nubfriendly features.
yup, nub friendly, just like the ability to kill targets faster instead of having to maintain aim discipline, that argument can go both ways
lol that's taking away cheats to bring it into more of a challenge.
Come on now, you do realize that everyone has equal access to this "cheat", right? Not being able to sit in one spot and having to move to keep from retaliation kills I could easily argue as being much tougher.
You'd have to take out the regular map as well, because a clever player can easily figure out a way to toggle the map to get the same effect
you don't get to aim unless you are actually aiming
First I want to verify whether or not you understand that hip firing drastically reduces a weapons accuracy, especially the LMGs
Second, dry erase markers are an easy fix for no crosshair for a determined enough gamer.
Third, you can still "aim" even without iron/scope sights. At any rate its not like the gaping wide and movement/recoil dynamic crosshairs really give a player that much of an advantage, just an absolute basic frame of refernce that discourages the idea of drawing on your monitor.
And no crosshairs just means you actually have to aim. lol come on, you think there is no aiming available without scope?
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say here with this sentence, but you still have to aim if you're firing from the hip, and its a helluva lot less accurate.
You know what iron-sight means, yes? All weapons have them, iirc.
The shotguns don't, and in HC mode they're one shot kill lasers - at any distance regardless of headshot with magnum - with that dreaded crosshair of yours.
At any rate it is ridiculous to claim HC is harder than normal,
its just different, if not
easier for players new to the Battlefield experience.
And don't try and convince me otherwise because all I'm hearing is how normal is
too hard to kill people... the irony kills me every time (even with the extra hit points)