It aint me

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Here's my
HARDCORE(capitalized for Zeus benefit) review.
Hardcore is good for objectives based gameplay and it sucks for FFA and TDM. The competition wasn't any harder than regular mode- people just went down faster.
Hardcore FFA and TDM = campfest suckage. I could see why you like the S&D though because if you don't force people to move, they don't.
I think I like regular TDM better as far as a leveling up sort of gamestyle. It moves faster.