Every Planetside 2 Continent Ranked from Worst to Best
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I had a dream
that they remade the old Planetside 1 bases...
Called it Decommissioned.
I was able to
show my buddy in game
how we used to use collapsing
maneuvers to hold
a hack against
enemy fast response units.
My favourite map is Koltyr. That map had huge potential for low pop gameplay. Yes, deleting is easier way than putting some work but I hope someday we will play Call of Duty in Planetside 2:)
I inovated "Canker Map Airlines" when I am stuck playing Oshur.
"Welcome to Canker Map Airlines. As we approach cruising altitude feel free to try out the refreshments. We at Canker Map Airlines are not liable for your untimely doom on delivery. We advise avoiding the water as that you weapons will not work. We will make one pass and return to pick up those who find themselves stranded. Thankyou for flying Canker Map Airlines."
Yep, when Oshur opens I usually play another game. It's so awful for someone who doesn't really fly. No one really uses Corsairs. You pull one and meet maybe 5 enemies during an alert. That's been my experience. More likely to see an ESF while running a Corsair than another Corsair. They released Oshur and expected the combined arms playerbase to want to fight for nothing-objectives on the open water. Also, needing to equip the underwater equipment to swim is just annoying. They made a water map, created an ability to fly underwater and walk underwater, added underwater weaponry...and then designed the map like Skyrim's sea. Empty of things to do underwater. They could have made a Gungan city. But no, they made it an air-only map.
It's just massive wasted potential. A water map without anything to actually do in the water. We could have had tunnels like in the big bases that have horizontal jump-pads to zoom us through tubes underwater. So disappointing.
The best analogy I can give is that Armor on Oshur feels like trying to cap a continent where every single objective on land is a bio-lab.
14:18 this point is very frustrating, lemme tell ya. I understand it's a "git gud just click heads moment", but it feels really bad to body shot a Heavy Assault and die seeing they have 5hp left or even worse seem to have taken 0 damage. It's just demoralizing. Not sure if it's their ability, hitreg/latency, or what, but Heavy Assaults feel like you're fighting Master Chief all the time. Basically, they get a free window where unless you hit all headshots it's best to just completely avoid the engagement or come back with Armor and blow them to hell for existing in the game. Compounding that they have 500 round drums and shit, so they just get to mow you down for free. I suck at Heavy Assault, so I know it does take skill because otherwise I would just be able to unga-bunga the engagement and pick them against everything. It still feels very cheap, though.
Thanks Zealous for using the PS2Alerts project for the underlying data! Really love seeing people use the data I provide to create analysis like this. Great stuff!
As a casual player when ever I log in I go to the continent with the Alert. Mostly this is Hossin or Indar. I very rarely ever get to see Amerish, even more rarely is Esamir so I was surprised to find out it was more popular than Amerish and very rarely Oshur. I totally agree with your comments on Oshur, as an Infantry Player their are not really any fun bases to fight on. I hope instead of messing with the most popular maps they are using these figures to revisit the less popular ones and making alterations to those.
People start saying that dying by heavy/light assault using shotguns is unbalanced, when in the same time we have a class, that literally can decloak on your face and kills you in less than 0.5s, not giving you the opportunity to react.
I dont thinks that devs will do anything about shootguns.
Players are whining for years about broken clock mechanic and devs instead of doing something to fix that, they give infitrator overpowered broken crossbow at first and then kills nanowave giving SMG infils even less time to kill their victims.
Esamir - I hate Indar/Amerish&Hossin to boil down for this one single Hex , that one base and these doors&tunnels you can count on one hand where everyone and his mother spams grenades and lashers. Don‘t deny it you‘ve all been there.
i only recently came back but the problem with oshur seems to be it relies on their being bases, and yet there is still not really a compelling reason to build them in the first place. you spend a bunch of time passively playing to build it, and it is totally ignored right up until the point 2 platoons drop on it and destroy it in a matter of minutes. other wise its simply too spread out with too few spawn options, and now with not being able to map pull its going to be even slower gameplay. on indar if you crash you could always jump in to a another fight, on oshur you end up stuck on teh bottom of the ocean and just have to redeploy.
realistically everyone should be able to swim like a light assault under water, at least then you could get back in to the vehicle you accidentally bailed from...
I choose the most populated continent 80% of the time, however Hossin is my all time favorite
The hate on sci-fi vietnam is unnecessary tbh.
@@H3adx This is the best name.
I had Synthwave Retro 'nam
my issue with oshur is that it is unplayable in non peak time, there r no spawns to defend a base so by the time u get there its been capped. druing prime time it can be fun .
PPl dont go to indar because they like it, they go to indar because they know everyone goes there and if they want to have any opposition they have to go there aswell. The "everyone goes to indar so I have to aswell" mentality is just how it is
I'm a construction player, the problem with building on oshur is the only way you have enough time to build a megabase to hold back a zerg is I'd you have the zerg on your side and it just moves away from your base. Honestly that's one thing ps4 does better: continents on pc get zerged too quickly and end too fast. Also 1 man should not be able to easily wipe a megabase like they do.
I honestly really like Oshur. The underwater fights are particularly fun when they're allowed to happen. Indar is definitely my favorite overall though.
Personally I don't think the devs actually did care about bringing new people into the game if they did they would start doing things that other games are doing that are popular and I really wish they would because we're all playing a game setup for much higher player counts than it has now. Also if they actually focused on bringing a load of people into the game and holding them the money flow would do something wonderful for this game. PlanetSide 2 is one of the most non greedy free-to-play games I've ever seen and its treated like it doesn't exist because people think it's dead and then when they do try it it feels dead, it feels like there's nothing to do and the only people that are left in the game are gods because even if you do know how to play an FPS you have absolutely no idea what cone of fire bloom is because it's been relegated out of video games over a decade.
My list would be: Indar >= Amerish > old Esamir > Hossin > New Esamir >>>>> Oshur
I love the Indar sandy setting but also the map design is very nice. Same with mediterran Amerish. I love the mountainous areas, with valleys and so on. It feels also balanced with infantry fights and vehicle fights in most places, or they are sometimes strictly separated from each other by base design. Hossin and new Esamir are so so, Hossin because i dont like the setting that much even tho the map design is not bad and i still enjoy it alot playing Infiltrator. Old esamir was also great. But new Esamir….. damn it sucks. I hate bases with no spawn especially in the top right corner, and i really dislike these underground bases. Where are most of my beloved old biolabs with jumppads and connected bases. It was amazing. But the underground base sucks… nice idea but just not good compared to the old Biolabs.
And well Oshur… i cant add much to the video besides i hate it and my FPS are horrible there for some reason. Also i hate excessive Air Inf farming. Which especially happens on Oshur and also New Esamir.
imo indar is a pretty boring continent since you usually always only figth at the same 5 bases over and over… usually there arent even any other fights than the tank camping „fight“ between crown and tialloys… for me, playing on indar usually means wasted time and vehicles have far too much influence on indar since you basically got no cover… even though i also dislike new esamirs current state with so many bases w/o hard spawns, i really enjoy those underground bases cause its something we dont get often to see and you dont need to worry about the HESH or a2g spam…
i remember on oshur i watched hundreds of pilots fight and we all ended up underwater staring at each other cause we got sick of walking and stuff even ppl with under water guns stop fighting we all just gave up and agreed we hate oshur it was sad all three factions were so annoyed plus didnt help people were spawn trolling and bugs spawned people in the water
I only play on PS4 and I'm super pissed that Esamir is permalocked. I loved fighting there. Oshur is decent enough. Just depends on how the bettles are going,but the bases are kinda lame.
Indar is easily the best. I could fight at The Crown,and surrounding bases,all day. Same for The Bastion on Amerish.
Hossin can die in a fire. I rarely play it now because it's just no fun for me. There was one really cool base I remember playing years ago,and never seen it again. Don't know if it was removed,but it it wasn't no one plays there anymore.
I wish they would permalock Hossin and reopen Esamir.
Oshur has so much potential. To me the map is hardly 50% complete.
koltyr always will be the best continent
i like all of them :p each map has good spots but older maps are better. Oshur Shoud be bigger, maybe with land around with less water
Indar = Hossin > Esamir >>> Amerish >>>>> Oshur
I don't understand why anyone would ever put Amerish above Esamir. For me, logging in and seeing Amerish is almost as bad as seeing Oshur. It makes me want to Alt + F4 and come back later. And I'm an infantry player.
Idk ever since I started playing Planetside 2 years ago before Hossin and Oshur were even a thing I've always loved the 3 continents more than the new ones.
I think Indar is still the best overall, I know the map, I know the layouts, it looks sick, it provides great gameplay.
Then comes Esamir, I just really love fighting on the snowy landscape with open areas that provide for sick engagements.
And Amerish is just a really solid continent which provides a bit of both, but I personally think "grassy hills" is a bit more bland than the other two.
I can't really decide between Hossin and Oshur, as I personally think both are just not very fun to play. I have never enjoyed jungle maps in any FPS game. And I think Oshur is just something I still need to get used to before I can really decide.
I miss old esamir so much
Didn't nanoweave apply to heavy overshield? So with nanoweave, heavy overshield would be 450 health plus the 20 percent damage reduction.
I was pretty impartial to Hossin at first but it quickly became my favorite. Indar and Amerish are sort of tied because they both have their farming spots and have some fun bases along most lattice lines. But if I had to go for one above the other it'd be Indar just based on how many more bases sit on unique feeling landscape. Esamir would be last if it wasn't for Oshur being terrible. So, Hossin - Indar - Amerish - Esamir - Oshur
If esamir or oshur are the only options, I choose logout.
Wrel -as a player - was a classic lone wolf kind of player, I think that 'map design' requires the criterias coming from players with a Platoon/Squad Leader perspectives ... Players that felt the War/Battle Flow ... not just stuck in personal K/D ratio as lone wolfs tends to be ...
As a lone wolf player, the design of the bases went exactly in the opposite side of helping lone wolf players. Since 2018, a lot of update made the solo farm less possible and less fun.
@@GeoBGO agreed. Most new based have terrible (and forced) chokepoints
@@GeoBGO To find that balance in map designs between Platoon/Team oriented game play + Lone wolf players + zerg oriented players is not an easy task ... I think that Indar tends to be the more balanced map for all sort of players ... Hossin ( excluding air/vehicle zerging and snippers ) tends to be adequate to lone wolf infantry ... some bases tends to produce zerg bottlenecks ... Maybe, to find some sort of counter strategy rule when where there are zerg bottlenecks ( like open bases not connected ) would bring opportunities for lone wolfs and small team players ( as it was in the past ) ... but again, it is not an easy task to satisfied all sort of players ...
Do you think the removal of the wasp was a large cause for construction decreasing on oshur?
note on your rant, the airhammer is affected by flak, unless there is a new bug i didnt know of, this sounded a lot like the VS infantry perspective only ;). its just that the airhammer has a lot stronger splash dmg than the banshee, before the banshee nerf a while ago they were on paar but now the airhammer is just a lot better. Test it out or do some math comparing them against each other if you want to confirm, ill just add 2 things similar to how scat cannons are oddly a lot more consistence than mercys or blueshifts do to scat cannons center of spread is extremly consistend in regards to this the airhammer is almost like a shockwave launcher without any bloom and always centered it gets less dmging over range ofcourse but its consistend af in its output and also the range at which it performs worse than the banshee is so far that you dont realy want to use the banshee either . And the other thing the banshees maximum splash dps is equal to 6,66 out of the 8 airhammer pellets hitting for max splash dmg
From what I’ve seen on Connery we only ever have 1 option for alerts and very rarely have 2. Once Oshur hits almost every platoon empties and people log off (myself included). I’m always happy to see Indar and Amerish, and will take Hossin because i can just turn my brain off and lob grenades down the T tunnel for an hour or so.
Also, Esamir? I barely know her!
I feel like one of the few people who actually like Oshur. I've been playing this game for a decade now and the new continent is very fresh and new. I think it breaks the meta up a bit by including water mechanics. I've been enjoying the Corsair gameplay quite a bit, though underwater combat is underwhelming and annoying. I had also invested heavily into base building because its a mechanic I also enjoy so there's a lot of opportunities for me there as well. The thematic bases on Oshur have a bit left to be desired, which I can understand. Every fight ends up spawn camping pretty quickly. Still, I really enjoy Oshur.
I fully agree. It pains me how bad the maps have become over the years. Which is kinda weird, usually it's the other way round.
I would say my personal rank would be, Indar, Amerish, prewarpgate Esamir, Oshur, Hossin, and current Esamir. I really do miss the older esamir, a lot of my favorite bases and areas to fight there were nuked, like the Mani, Northpoint, Aurora materials region. I actually like the slight changes they made to oshur shortly after it released. BUT. I pray to Vanu that they stop touching maps, *especially* indar. I've gotten used to the changes they've made over the years there, but I dont want current indar to get the shattered warpgate treatment
spot on
imo my rank is indar> amerish> esamir> oshur> hossin. i hated hossin since i started playing PS2 in middle school and I'm in college now and I still hate it. but at the same time, oshur gets boring quickly since its mainly water that challenges you when you travel. I also haven't played on esamir in a while because its locked, but i still fuck w/ it.
I remember for years thinking oshur was never going to come out, it was just an inside joke within the community. Part of me wishes i could go back to those days. Btw i also really hate what they did with esamir, it completely ruined the continent imo. it used to be one of my favourites but the bases are so bad now I'd even rather play hossin. Indar>Amerish>Hossin>Esamir>Oshur is my order
Indar>Hossin>Esamir>VR Training>Oshur>Amerish>Sanctuary
Using data like this to underscore your point makes it much more powerful. It's easy to dismiss your opinion, but difficult to dismiss facts. Keep it up Z.
Was also the prime (excuse the pun) reason I developed PS2Alerts, to get these facts out to the public :)
@@maelstromeous that is awesome. Thanks for doing that!
Why is this uploaded in potato quality 360i?
10:10 the construction map Oshur isn't all that great to build on either the battle lands move to fast for anyone other than an expert builder to throw together a base competent furthermore the construction system need a complete revamp which it's not going to get nor do I trust Wrel's team to do it correctly
Esamirs place in third in general overall is simple.
The shattered Warpgate. Ever since it was added it had ruined the map. The Lattice lines the warpgate locations and even the bases are all inferior then before.
However people will ay Esamir to adlvoid Hossin and Especially Oshur.
Keepin mind this for Connery. The placements in the Video may be Emerald based.
I think shatered warpgate wasgood idea, but poorly executed. Big portion of map with interesting terrain has been made useless. Fighting in forrests was Fun during event. I think they can still use už with great potencial. Mapy don't need to be perfectly balanced. Map rotation Is way how to ofer better position for everyone.
Old Esamir>Hossin>Amerish>New Esamir=Oshur>Indar. New Esamir Went down after applying new water mechanics wich made my strategy for building construction in shalow water useless And almost unbuildable.
I kind a understand your hate agains shotguns. But try understand they Are cqc only weapon. Trying use them anywhere else Is mostly wasting ammo.
Personally: i do not understand why oshur cops flak.
It's hand down the best continent for combined arms.
running a double platoon op where a boat platoon supports an infantry / armor platoon on land.
lobbing an entire platoon of dirfter light assaults from the boats to falnk an enemy armor column is one of the most satifying things one can do in command.
Hossin>Indar>Amerish>Esamir>Oshur as it stands right now, but I will say that fights in the water are extremely fun now with the propulsion devices and changes to weapon behaviour under water. If they can change (force) Oshur to be more about under water fights, I'd happily bump it above Esamir and Amerish, it's such a big change from regular gameplay which is highly needed after so many years of doing the same thing.
Hossin is best map oshur is the worst purely because how vehicle unfriendly it is
3:40 -_- I get Oshure has problems but man those open field fights with construction bases were great the bridge fights are cancer, the trigens were cancer, & the underwater bases are also cancer. Also Hossin is my favorite right Oshure behind it. My list from most like to least Hossin/Amerish/Oshur/Indar/Essamir
For me it's Indar>Amerish>Oshur=Hossin=Esamir
There are only minor differences between the last three in terms of my enjoyment and each has downsides and upsides, but if I had to choose I'd pick them in this order. Esamir is easily the most vehicle spammy one, it has the Containment sites I absolutely hate, but it also has a few fun smaller bases I like to play in. Hossin is the most CPU heavy so I can't enjoy it much since Planetside hates multiple cores and favors high clocks; lots of Infiltrators, plenty of AI air stuff, lots of rail-roaded pathways and terrain that is fun for LA and Infil but not so much other classes. My complaints about Oshur are similar to everybody else's, but I can still enjoy it as a gunner or while driving Skyguard around. I like underwater combat even though the base design is stupid, but that's the general issue with the map as well.
Indar is actually the only one I have the least complaints about. Bottom right part is pretty lame but overall it's fine. Funnily enough it used to be the most hated continent on Reddit.
You said that maybe they don't care about the balance because the players that complain about it are already invested into the game. I'm curious to know what is the ratio between invested/veteran players lets say 1-2+ years into the game, and the new players. I have a feeling that invested players make up more of the player base than the new players (because most don't stay enough in the game to actually discover the unbalance)
I love hossin by far the most, everything else is tied. Indar is a good map but its fights are suuuper repetitive. Amerish is mid but almost every base gets fought at so it feels fresh everytime i play it. Esamir is the all arounder. And oshur.... hopefully with new updates, like gsd allowing sundees to deploy under water, the continent will see major improvements...
I prefer infantry on indar actually
What weapon were you using?
bruh why do they still have the map people? cant they just hire new people for it instead???
do want to say the underwater fights are my favorite fights in all of planetside imo so i want more unique stuff like that even if people dont like it. gives alternative ways to play.
I mean, if I had to rate conts I would say indar>hossin=amerish>old esamir>oshur>>>>>new esamir ... ngl, I haven't played oshur enough to give it a fair review, but honestly its only saving grace as far as I'm concerned is it's not new esamir, frankly. that said, your point about logging off is dead on. usually when I can only pick esamir or oshur I will log off. only thing that stops me is if it's early in the night and my group is still mostly there. we only play once a week anymore so I try to give 2-3 hours to them, even if it's on esamir.
also the point about the empty bases on oshur, I am sure that was meant to encourage building bases around them, but in my experience base building hasn't been rewarding recently, especially if the alert is going to kick off the moment the full pop has gotten onto that continent. I am pretty sure this is the reason I haven't actually built a base in over a year. nevermind the changes that occurred recently that seem designed specifically to make base building less rewarding.
The bug around 4 minutes of your video on indar comm can be fixed by increasing the infantry map size .
Buff the hornet!
I play oshur to farm cortium lol
15:00 Yeah a couple weeks ago I decided to board one of the last life rafts and abandon ship. I've been retired from ps2 ever since. It's scary when the die hard vets are leaving and yes we could talk for probably a solid 2 days about all of the problems and lack of understanding but I did find 1 silver lining. When trying to design a good game just take a look at a bad game to see what they did and how it effected it's player base in this scenario PS2 is now the example piece sadly. Let's go make a better game
Esamir > Indar > Hossin > Oshur > Amerish
не знаю английский просто смотрю как он убивает всех
Indar--amerish--esamir--hossin. if its only oshur i log off. oshur is what happens when devs dont understand the community. Planetside Arena and oshur was a waste of our money we spent on the game.
I agree.
I gave the new content in the past 3 years a chance, but the game is in a worse state now. It's hard to see how adding bold ideas and new mechanics to 1 out of 4 maps makes sense.
hossin > amerish > esamir >>>>> indar >>>>>> oshur
imo indar is a pretty boring continent since you usually always only figth at the same 5 bases over and over… usually there arent even any other fights than the tank camping „fight“ between crown and tialloys… for me, playing on indar usually means wasted time and vehicles have far too much influence on indar since you basically got no cover…
hossin is the best continent for people, who dont really care about vehicle gameplay that much… i really love the diversity of the basedesignes (excluding construction sites) and the continentdesign overall… of course your IN/RV scope is your best friend on hossin, but still dont get why people hate this continent due to „spotting enemies is difficult here“, since imo this is nonsense. hossin is also the best continent for flanking and enjoyable fights due to all the cover, unlike indar f.e. where you always need to cross entire landscape with litterally 0 cover where you get spotted miles ago.
Hossin > Amerish > Indar > Osha > Esamir
1:55 this is just not true at all tbh. especially since you can only fit like 20 vehicles around the ascent (and 50% of them wont be doing anything because theres no room to move or shoot past other allied vehicles already infront of you) and its only on the road to Raven landing because potato minecraft players are building shitter villages on the road constantly.
Indar is the best? The hell?
I think Indar is the worst cause it's only 8 different bases where there are fights
Yeah it's not amazing but it's not awful either and that's kind of the point.
It's good for vehicle players and infantry players don't mind it.
1-Hossin 2-amerish 3-indar 4-esamir 5-oshur
Oshur = Osh!t
im sick of indar. & its not that its bad is that it that im a 20+ year vet
Oshur is by far the worst.
Salty vets takes on shotguns are the most cringe of the community. There good in cqc get over it.
oshur sucks and made hossin good, indar is always the best. amerish is original classic its just a mainstay its good and of course esamir was good. but now when u ad oshur im sliding hossin over it.. so for me its indar, hossin, esamir, amerish, and sad oshur is dead last for me man. i cant stand it