Ok, whenever I play Vanilla it renders some of the guns completely useless... I'll have to give it a go again. I like the fact that in Hardcore when you get hit you're dead, bit more realistic for me. But seeing how quick you were going down there (ahem) it looks like that can be achieved in Vanilla too. Can you still take out a tank (without reactive armour) with one hit from a Javelin though? I could see the vehicles being overpowered otherwise... Sounds weird I know, but I literally have never played BF3 on anything but Hardcore so I have no idea how it plays...
The reason you go down in Hardcore faster is only due to the fact that you play with 60% of the normal health as you do in Vanilla BF. That is the only real difference between the two and as you can see by the video, you can be dropped just as quickly in Vanilla by someone who knows how to shoot.
Any tank driver not running reactive shouldn't be in a tank. Tanks were nerfed into oblivion several patches ago and it's become one of the most useless vehicles in the game when the other team controls the air. A tank can now be single strafed by any air vehicle and taken down with some well timed infantry anti-tank weaponry.
The way I understand it, a laser designated Tank can be one shot disabled provided the tank is hit on the top or the turret area (if the Tank is in Sprint). The turret area of the Tank is the equivalent of a head shot but again, it only does max damage if the Tank is in sprint and hit from the front which actually takes out the rear reactive.
Doing max damage to a Tank from the ground is a matter of hitting it at a 90 degree angle especially when up against reactive. Hitting the Tank at an angle does a much lesser degree of damage as the shells essentially bounce off the armor.
An interesting fact is that IFV's ignore reactive so that's why they always seem to kill Tanks so easily now. They beat the Tank in almost every category now so if you really like armor, get in an IFV, you're survivability will go through the roof.
Tanks are my favorite part of the game so I hate what Dice/EA have done to them. Personally, if our air is holding it's own then I have no problems getting into a Tank. If our air is completely ineffective, I won't go near a Tank and will opt for an IFV.
Nice video Dukie. And now the world knows why I like to use the A-91
Ya I didn't know that bullpups were that effective in close quarters so now I know. It makes sense given your play style is to run in shooting.
For me I don't run in shooting as much as I used to so I require a regular assault rifle that does decent range damage and can give me a chance of surviving in close quarters.
