now that I can snipe I can finally appreciate how truly bad hardcore mode is. Extra vehicle damage/vulnerability is one thing but as a sniper I was flanking people and then killing 3 people in a single shot, and doing quick scope body shots is a million times easier than headshots. Easy mode for so many things, mortar too. On the one hand I don't want to play easy mode but on the other getting mortar mastery atm requires 1500 kills which is insane. I have just over 300.
EDIT: Lol. They just made a ton of stuff easier today actually. Including medals i'm still working on. I guess those do take the longest. Mortar, claymores, laser assists got dropped to 150. So mastery is down to 750 which is still too much but i'm about halfway on that I think.
Sensor assists and knives came down, PDWs, MVPs, nemesis. Vehicle warfares, Stationary emplacements. Maintenance, service time requirements. None of those were difficult to achieve so that seems pointless. Especially pointless is they dropped the requirement for mcom attacker medal to 10 ribbons but left defender at 50??? Noone had problems getting the attack medal defender is the hard one, seems like that change is backwards.
Also squad mode medals dropped to winning 20 times which is probably the only medal change i'm actually grateful for as squad modes suck and i've nearly done those medals now.
Typically they didn't recalculate your medals and points correctly. So i'm now missing a bunch of medals and points, and also the claymore medal dogtag, sigh.
EDIT2: bonus content this time is wallpapers LOOOL.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/news/view/2832654788363679263/ They could have at least done the soundtrack, that would have been mildly ok.