I heard they upped the sniper damage.

I've been playing hardcore recently so I didn't notice much of a change, but I've been hearing lots of complaints.

Play softcore, hardcore is just for snipers and campers.

Softcore isn't ruined at all. The only unbalanced thing is the MASS with darts; there's a bug that causes them to fire with rifle accuracy and range.

The real problem with the game is the goddamned players. Holy goddamned fuck those mouthbreathing daytime TV watching long haired slackjawed neckbearded dope smoking unskilled uneducated unemployable couch stains are fucking useless. I think the game would be more fun if I had no teammates at all than I had those useless liabilities running around teasing me with the allure of teamwork and then pulling the rug out from under me as I suddenly realize their unwavering focus on losing every fucking endeavour they might ever be challenged to apply themselves toward.

The motherfuckers.

Diablo 3 is Tuesday.

I only play on Strike at Karkand map servers and this is what I noticed that's different:

No more mav riding.
They stretched out the map borders so now the snipers like to camp out in the hills between the suburbs and the train station, hiding out behind the rocks and whatnot.

I think they fixed fall damage for the most part so there's a lot less of that nonsensical suicides.

Not quite sure what else. I used to only get to play maybe every other weekend or so but school's just about done so I'm spending more time playing again.

Interesting. Did the other assault rifles get upgraded? Or was it just the M16A3? My preferred currently is the AEK-971, but if it got nerfed then I'll switch back.

So what did they do to the M16A3? Increase the range? I did notice yesterday that I would get killed from what I thought was a sniper only to have the player's info show an 'A3 with EOTech, VFG, and HB.

I used to almost exclusively use the M4A1. But you have to put half a mag in someone with it now. My other go to, the 249, is about the same as it was pre-patch, but the 240 is now impossible to control unless prone with a bipod.

Awesome Mini-Rant.

Other than the mass and suppression, I'm not experiencing any of that.
As someone that has invested hours into support since launch, I've noticed that every gun has significantly less recoil than they did on launch day. I actually didn't like the PKP at launch because of it's recoil impulse. Now the amount of recoil it has is laughable. I do believe they didn't intend for the RPK-74 to have 199 rounds with extended mags, but that's not even really a game breaker, considering there are plenty of other good LMGs anyway.

10/10 Sometimes I get sucked in to fucking off with them, but then I back out of all squads and just go lone wolf.

It's my way of firing back at people who rant about hardcore :).

Non-hardcore sucks ass. 3D Spotting and kill cam ruin it, and having to shoot someone 50 million times to kill them is retarded.

If you're getting OHK by a "sniper" you shouldn't be runnin around so much =P. You get OHK from "snipers" in non-hardcore as well. Minimap is in both HC and non HC. Constant camping?

Here's the deal. Find a GOOD ranked HC server, and play on it. If you're on PC, populate the ARFCOMM server, if you're on consoles, I believe there is at least a 360 server run by someone in arfcom.

I just find the game much more enjoyable in HC, than being sniped in spawn by a noob with a sniper rifle on the other end of the map due to 3D spotting, or tanks/jets doing the same thing. Not having to put a million bullets into someone or something to kill it. And by not making the game easier. HC is not easier than non-HC. 3D spotting, Kill-cam, and the shear number of bullets or rockets to take down an enemy is stupid in non-hc. You have to actually be careful in HC, that is, if you wan't to have a good score lol.

To each his own. But don't bash on my HC =P, or I bash on your softcore!

To be quite honest, people who play softcore won't notice it as much as hardcore players. Softcore takes a ton of damage to kill someone, giving you a LOT of leeway to get out of the suppression and take fire back at the assailant. In hardcore, it only takes a couple bullets to kill you, giving you no time to get out of suppression, into cover, and then to return accurate fire back at the person shooting you.

Why does that matter? The way it currently works, you could literally shoot to the right of someone 20ft away, with a single bullet, and suppression will start to take on the person. The second bullet completely puts them into suppression unless they have the squad cover perk (I think thats the one that helps with suppression). When you are under full suppression, you have a near 0% accuracy. The person could be 5-10 ft in front of you, and you wouldn't hit them no matter how many bullets you shoot.

As HC takes only a couple bullets, 2-3 max with most weapons, let's say 3 shots fully suppresses you, you are walking somewhere to flank or look for enemy and someone happens to fire in your direction, not necessarily the enemy in front of you or near you, you start getting suppressed. Turn that corner and someone is there, they start firing, missing you at first but since they got the shots off first, you're suppressed and cannot take that person down. Three shots and you're dead.

Combat in HC is extremely fast. It isn't like softcore where you exchange fire for 30~ seconds or however long it is. You engage an enemy and one of you are dead within a moment. It doesn't take long at all. Me personally, if you come into my line of view, you're dead within 1.5 seconds, I get on target extremely fast and tap fire 4~ shots. I don't run around and run-n-gun, I usually run around looking to flank the enemy, and have my sights up when moving around corners or long hallways I know enemy could potentially be. I have quick reflexes that allow me to pop to targets pretty fast. Sometimes my lil 4~ shot taps gets me killed though lol, I think they're dead (because they usually are) but unknown to me I happened to have a little suppression so 1 or 2 of those shots actually didn't hit or they lagged and it didnt register.

Just saying, HC is an extremely fast paced mode, combat, between two people, lasts no longer than 3 seconds, if that. You're usually dead, or the other person is dead, within 1.5 seconds of seeing each other.

Softcore, being that you actually have to take some damage before dying, having health regen, you get engaged, you take cover. You regen, you go back into the firefight. Rinse and repeat until someone dies. It's much slower than HC. HC doesn't have health regen, only way of getting health back is having med packs at your feet.

That is what I personally think is why some of you don't notice the suppression. If you want to see suppression first hand, just jump onto a HC metro server. You'll see what we mean by the whole suppression thing. Someone fires in your general area, and you can't hit shit.

Always, always, always have squad cover in your squad. Makes survival rate skyrocket in HC (for now). Instead of 2 bullets, takes 3 to suppress you. Giving you a "little" leeway, which doesn't entirely kill you accuracy allowing you to suppress the other person back enough to take cover.

Since no one has posted it yet, here is a complete list:

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/news/view/2832654780279541805/

That is sig line material.