Did you ever play your own game on normal or easy mode? I bet you haven’t. Just insane how “extreme” maps can get. Compared to hardcore mode there is no difficulty at all.
The game has a dozen bugged (useless) abilities and items (all New Jerico heavy weapons except the machinegun and any combat vehicle in the game), save/load exploits and a steep difficulty curve and they use the time to nerf/rebalance player abilities … WTF?!
If previously I would recommend this game (and I was a backer), now I would say hold on to your money until they are done messing with it …