Why Uncharted 3 is so easy on Hard? Could it be the fixed EBOOT's fault?

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Well, I'm now in the 9th Chapter and the game on Hard has been easier than UC1/2 on Normal so far.

I think something's wrong, because I saw many people who finished UC1/2 on Crushing complained on various forums that the game was pretty hard even on Normal. Maybe I'm still too early in the game, but I already encountered rocket guys and shotgun guys and sniper guys, and Nate really can sustain pretty big damage before he dies, I think even direct hit of a rocket doesn't kill him right away (I maybe wrong here though). Shotgun shot from a relatively close distance definitely doesn't kill him right away, unlike UC1/2.

Seeing how the diary is kinda messed up in the fixed backup (partially different contents of the diary from the retail game, wrong order, captions are missed), I though that maybe the difficulty could be messed up too. I use DUPLEX release, it also could be that it's a beta/test version or something.

Please share how difficult your fixed backup was on Hard or Crushing compared to previous games or maybe it's only easy up to a certain point.

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UPD: I did some tests and yes, definitely something's wrong with difficulty At least with one difficulty setting -
on Easy Drake is totally invincible for bullets for some reason (fists/explosions still hurt him), so Very Easy is harder than Easy

Hard is the hardest from them all (except Crushing which I couldn't test), but feels like it should be Normal.