Well its balance by difficult, if you play expert, you get faster a high counter, sometimes i have 1 - 2 shootgun shoots ban me (ok, i stand 1 meter away only and all bullets of the shoot hit) XD so sta away from stupid bots, they got the bad thing, to run and stop directly at front of you
try to help other team mates by cover, heal ect. So your counter goes slowly down.