You spend few minutes or maybe few hours to make your character look bad ass with all the gear you earned, including the gear that expires over 30 min timer. And then you hit HARD CORE ONLY modes and to your surprise your character has no custom gear in the match it self? What gives? Well as a HARD CORE ONLY player I was pissed, I don't plat CORE as i hate the amount of camping trash around there. With that said I noticed my gear wasn't being show in the match, and I got pissed off along with other players. Not to mention ability to kill your own team mates in S&R HARD CORE? I had one of my friends tell me how a person on there team ended up killing everyone in the beginning of the game, and Activision allowed this idiocy? So one idiot decided to be an ass and goes around killing his own team in HARD CORE S&D allowing other team to get easy win, or killing a team mate to plant the bomb by them self's really?
Well back to the point, it seems there is a BUG/GLITCH that will not display your character look in the multilayer matches of any hardcore game modes, in core you will be able to see your cool looking masks, exo and other. But not in HARD CORE ONLY. Not for now, until they put a patch to fix this issue. My advice is if your a HC player spam Activision with support requests requesting this to be patched up, so you can look bad ass in HARD CORE ONLY. If your one of the people like me who never plays core.