Battlefield Tri-hard

[Warsaw]

Apparently Hardcore Mode in BF3 is just regular mode with no crosshairs. You still have your minimap, you still have regenerating health, vehicles still heal themselves.

What the fuck, DICE? Major turn-off.

[Higuy]

So I was going on this super nice killing streak. Probably the best I ever had, and the game freezes. WTF???
Anyone else getting these random freezes/crashes?
My rig specs are more then capable of playing the game. This happens only every once in awhile. :|
This is making me really mad....

I have it for xbox, and this does happen sometimes even on that... The game will randomly just freeze up, and I have to restart my xbox. It really only happens in the menu though.

[Pooky]

Apparently Hardcore Mode in BF3 is just regular mode with no crosshairs. You still have your minimap, you still have regenerating health, vehicles still heal themselves.

What the fuck, DICE? Major turn-off.

Is it at least 1 hit kills?

[Amit]

Is it at least 1 hit kills?

I've noticed that it is one hit kills using bolt action sniper rifles. You die quicker in hardcore too. I don't know if it's because we get less health or because the bullet damage increases. Could be a little bit of column A and a bit of column B. It's definitely not just regular BF3 with no crosshairs and weapon information. The mini-map isn't always there, either.

[Warsaw]

Must be server-side controls then, because all of the games I've seen (on Xbox 360, mind you) had mini-map, health regen, and vehicle self-repair. Yeah, you can kill and die a bit quicker, but that's not why I play Hardcore. I play Hardcore because I like it when we don't get all of our little aim and navigational assists, and I like it when you HAVE to have a medic to heal and you HAVE to have an Engineer to fix. The regenerating nonsense is a way to patch the lack of good teamwork in Battlefield. In Hardcore BC2 games, lack of teamwork is even more noticeable than it is in regular servers.

Ugh. Please tell me there are servers on PC with no mini-map or regenerating anything...

[Amit]

There are. There are these crazy hardcore servers that have only spawn on squad leader, team killing, no mini-map, no weapon info, no real world spotting, no nothing. You're basically playing ARMA without the realism. You can still see objective markers, though.

[Warsaw]

All I want is BC2-style Hardcore mode.

I saw something disturbing while reading this thread. Someone mentioned that tickets are not tied to flags in BF3. Is this true?

[seanthelawn]

I saw something disturbing while reading this thread. Someone mentioned that tickets are not tied to flags in BF3. Is this true?

I seriously doubt that's true, I have yet to see a team win without having the majority of the flags and all I've played is conquest so far. And I think I saw a loading tip or something that specifically said something along the lines of "If one team has a majority of the flags, the other team will bleed tickets."

Oh also, check who I knifed yesterday:

[Lateksi]

Is there demo playback for BF3?

[Nero]

I thought it was a glitch when I lost the crosshairs and mini map...
Thats just really stupid imo.
Edit; also, lucky you Sean.