Seriously? I see a thousand threads saying this or that is too hard, or that such and such needs a nerf. Are people really having that hard of a time with this game?

Singleplayer campaign, yes, at high levels. At low levels, no. Multiplayer is not hard, so much as it is bugged. The weapons seem well balanced to me, as do the factions. In Multiplayer the problem is bugs, in Singleplayer it is ridiculous A.I.

in single player yes its extremely hard. I think i would stand a better chance goin up against a human than the AI (specially the AI thats using the light rifles, they get head shots all the time).

It would be a simple fix if they just made the team AI more useful and actually did the objectives other than goin after command post (seriously other than buffs i see no reason for them) or medics running suicid to revive others.

Its not really hard, I finished most of the campaign on hard(thinking I'd done it all, and when i realized I hadn't I finished it online). Online is certainly easier. The objective challenge is super hard without having gotten any gear from the others, but after unlocking all the gear, I sat down today and did all the three star challenges in one sitting, about an hour. Hard, yeah, but not too hard.

lol at any that thinks BRINK is hard.

I'll give them that 'be more objective' is hard but other than that...QQ moar

It starts out easy. It gets harder as you get higher in rank and level. Campaign mode at level 20 is not a joke. Try doing the security mission to stop a missle from launching at level 20 on normal difficulty. To say it is hard is an understatement.

Be more objective is one of the easier missions at level 20 actually. At least in my experience. In the last minute and 30 seconds or so the enemy A.I. stops being invincable and becomes easy to defeat. Other missions vary.

I've made my way through everything off-line multiple times at various levels (including a level 20) and just don't get what's so hard about the game. The team A.I. is weak, absolutely, but if they were any smarter the game would become quite easy.

Why then do people want things nerfed, or maps changed? Do people want the game to be easy? If that's the case why not just play on easy?

I did. It was difficult, but not too bad. Took me 3 tries.

The problem, as many people have stated, is not that it is challenging. Whether you win or lose is luck. You cannot control your NPC teammates or stop them from being idiots. You similarly cannot defeat the enemy team by yourself, regardless of how skilled you are. If I switch to a class I need to be to defend or assault a point, then the NPC's who are the appropriate class to interact with an object simply will not do so. If I attempt to fight NPC's, they will headshot me at ridiculous distances and kill me in the blink of an eye. Every enemy NPC focuses on me to a ridiculous extent. Allied NPC's do not do their job.

A Challenging game tests my skill. This game does not test my skill. I have played a long list of games- Atari 2600, NES, PSone, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, Xbox 360, Ps3, and of course PC. Most games I have played challenged my skill. Only a few forced me to win or lose based on factors beyond my control. This game is one of them.

I have played a long list of games. I have never encountered missions as unwinnable as those in the singleplayer of this game. It's possible that the difficulty of singleplayer increases the more you play singleplayer, rather than based on rank or level. If that is the case, then you might need to level a character from 1-20 in singleplayer, and then play a few singleplayer missions afterward, to see the whole effect.

And again, that doesn't call for weapon or map nerfs, that calls for an A.I. tweak, but even with the bots as they are now it's not that hard to win through player skill.

Learn how the bots play and learn to support them instead of thinking you're the main and they're your support. I've played through multiple games letting the bots do the objectives and just working to make sure they get to those objectives, and they do their job.

EDIT: And I'm on PS3, all I had for the first few days was singleplayer and have worked it htrough and through. It's not hard and it's definitely not impossible. Think outside the box, those bots are your teammates as much as you are their teammate, don't try to be the hero every time.

I try to support them, rather than being the hero. Part of the problem is that they are stupid. I play on Steam/ P.C. primarily. As an engineer, I try to take and upgrade command posts at first, and to make sure my team keeps them. My team tends to lose regularly anyways.

I think the generally bad prioritizing of your squad mate AI is the deciding factor in the difficulty. If they would hold with you and fight things would get done. Just today I was playing on my operative spec and I'm hacking the missile controls. Suddenly one of my AI team mates announces he is going for a command center, while I can clearly see enemies approaching. Of course they all leave except for one brave soldier who stood guard. I had to hold for almost two minutes solo before they returned and I could finish the hack. The enemy AI on the other hand seems to brutally camp on objectives. They will dig in and make you fight for every inch.