Do you guys play hardcore or normal?
Personally I enjoy hardcore much more than normal. Normal just seems way too easy. You need to think carefully when crossing for example a road on Hardcore, where I just feel I take 10 bullets in normal before I die. Same with the 3d-spotting, kill-cam, auto-repair and HUD. Simply makes the game way too easy.
I've heard a few complain that hackers have it way too easy on Hardcore because nobody can see what they are doing etc. But TBH, I rarely have had problems with hackers, and if I've seen any they have mostly been banned by an admin or Punkbuster. Never think I've seen so few hackers in any FPS-game.
@GoldenEagle: Yeah know the feeling. BFBC2 just had a way different gamestyle. More slow and teambased I think. BF3 is quite fast-paced on almost every map(every firefight, even on distance, is often decided on a few seconds) so quite different to BFBC2 in my opinion.