It absolutely needs a lot of love to be good. Right now, I only play hardcore when the "Closed weapons All-out Warfare" mode is away. I'd always play HC if it wasn't for the combination of these problems with Hardcore itself and any server browser modes:
- Missing crosshair in vehicles and stationary guns. Should be well known and I refuse to believe this is intentional, but there seems to be no will to fix it.
- A permanent queue solution in the main menu.
- Sniper and dmr are too powerful. With the current gameplay and tools available to deal with snipers, they are not very well balanced for hardcore. Reintroducing suppression and adding the airburst launcher from 4 would help alot.
- Spawn on leader only I actually kind of like, but I'm pretty sure it's a server setting. A lot around this would be solved if you could request orders and take leadership from players that don't set orders, position themselves well etc.
- Changes in loadout are never saved when playing via server browser.