LOL!

Rainbow Six Rogue Spear by default was pretty much one hit, you die and that was pretty blood pumping to say the least! It is what got me into TCS games, then later we moved on to Ghost Recon which was a better game overall but the default settings weren't as jugular pumping real. When you die by one bullet it totally changes the way you play a game - however... they have to be realistic shots and I wouldn't expect every enemy bullet fired to automatically hit its mark. They were going for realism in this apparently, and while it fails to do that in some respects I'll have to see how the AI is with shot accuracy and whether it is plausible. "Hard" is ok with me, as long as it feels right at least... but so far that's up in the air. :)

And that´s what made the first "Operation Flashpoint" so good. It would make you become paranoid at times, checking your back, staying hidden as long as it would take to make the next move, thinking about every move. Surveying the area and thinking about the best approach. Figuring out when it was better, either picking a fight or evading.

There are games that end friendships. In teh tabletop world, Monopoly is infamous for it. There are undoubtedly videogame equivalents.

To e honest, people who would allow a game to destroy a friendship should not be playing (competitive) games in the first place.

I haven't played it, but I played ORION on day 1 and that was quite the buggy mess. Everyone on the dev team was pretty mad, but they pulled it together and fixed things while adding plenty of content. Hopefully the T:RS team can do the same. :) Depends on who that one is.

That sounds a lot like: "Don´t blame the player, blame the game" kind of thing :P