or does everything seem a bit ramped up lately? I took about a two month hiatus and came back to EA master server dumps that occur from my experience mostly when I'm squad leading.

I've played this game enough that certain things feel second nature. But little things don't work the same as before. One thing I've noticed is how quick the sentry guns seem to light me up and I know it wasn't like that before. I died three times in a round yesterday to the same sentry gun because I was the only one on a balcony trying to destroy it and it was in a far corner lighting me up as soon as I came up onto the balcony and it was a far shot. IMHO they shouldn't be that powerful.

The other thing I've noticed is this and it's a bit harder to explain. This could simply be a sound issue but it seems I'm not getting the usual sound associated with getting hit with a volley of shots but rather I get hit and it's almost like it was a sniper head shot. Happening a lot I noticed from VOSS users. Also, I've been getting eaten up by the ganz, which never happened previously. Now I find myself looking up at what killed me and having this feeling of shock when I see so-and-so killed Modkaman [Ganz].

Then there's the amazing invisible APM's....don't even get me started on the RDX. I could write some of these off too being rusty but I even got blown up by an APM facing away from me yesterday.

Any thoughts or am I just dreaming all of this up?