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Seasoned Novice

3 months ago

Hardcore mode issues

Im currently having 3 issues with hardcore mode that are making me want to refund the game.

No vehicle optic crosshair. If you are driving a tank you only get a crosshair in the gun sight if you zoom in. If you are gunning you have no crosshair in the vehicle sight at all. Same goes for the Helicopter pilot and gunner seat except when you zoom with these vehicle optics you still get no recticle. Its impossible to know where you are aiming and I imagine this is a bug and not intentional.

2.Squad Spawn type is incorrect.

When using the default hardcore portal settings that 99% of the servers are running the squad spawn type is set to Squadmates on leader, Leader None instead of Squadmates on leader, Leader All. This means if you join with a friend and they are in a tank that has an open gunner seat or a heli with an open gunner seat this is no way to spawn on them if you are SL. It keeps putting me in a squad of 2 with my one friend and there is no way for me to spawn in on him. BF3 and BF4 had Squadmates spawning on leader only and the leader could spawn on any of them. Im not sure why they made this change but it ruins the teamplay function for me. I imagine they made this change to force the assualt to act like a squad leader with the spawn beacon similar to hell let loose and rising storm 2. It should be changed back to how it was in BF3 and BF4.

3. Not able to quickly mark objectives for the squad by pressing q. You have to hold Q and use the commo rose to select it from a list, can no longer aim down the sights at the flag and just tap Q. Works fine in normal mode so I imagine its some setting in portal but I have no idea what one it is or why they did that.

13 Replies

BlackTalon40
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago
I've been encountering this same issue. When you make a server that has most the hardcore settings but a few tweaks, then you loose the hardcore tag, so it doesn't fill up as often.
Overall, it is hard to play the team game in hardcore with this new squad spawn limitation. It eliminates the need for the last squad member to stay alive, despite it still giving the warning that you're the last member of the squad alive. Seems half baked or developed by someone who hasn't played hardcore back in the BF3/BF4 days. Really hoping this gets corrected soon.
BlackBird7190
Rising Novice
3 months ago
The problem is that the vehicle reticles are tied to the hip fire crosshair, which is disabled by the hardcore mode. I set up a custom portal server with just that one setting left on and it fixed the hud. IMO the best solution here is to have vehicle and infantry crosshair as separate things, maybe somene can figure out how to do that with the SDK.
gotuass
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago
I agree with all of the points from OP, and I have to add one more to the list.
The HUD keeps disappearing on official hardcore mode, which is especially annoying in vehicles where you then have to reload or switch weapons to check if your on the primary or secondary weapon or how long until your countermeasures are back or which countermeasures you have.
Another thing that’s bugging me but is not limited to hardcore is that the squad leader role is being passed around from match to match. But that’s for another post.

Hope the fixes for the hardcore issues are coming very soon!