What specifically do you disagree with? Wrel certainly didn't keep people playing and i never asserted otherwise, however he was good at attracting new players. If you consider it important, also link your account and we can compare how much we both play the game.

I've also run more public and private discord platoons than 99.9% of players, founded and maintained a successful outfit, made a bunch of popular video & text guides and helped stop people complaining about the wrong things (hurrr vs op cuz wrel, etc). It evens out ^^

@@ZealousVidya I do think you know that the infantry farming aspect of the game drives people away. Alot of people aren't interested in dealing with tanks or aircraft, when often they just retreat, repair and are back in the fight. You're always at a disadvantage when dealing with these verhicles. People don't like it, they start ignoring these verhicles and then the problem becomes worse. Personally I don't mind. I think it's pretty satisfying to destroy them or deter them. But alot of people aren't interested in this type of gameplay. Atleast they have to do something about Harassers and Liberators because dear god they can absolutely muscle their way through everything the opposition has. You haven't suffered until you fight 3 Kobalt harassers on Oshur. They are so fucking tanky and hard to hit. They're more durable than actual tanks for pete's sake. Liberators can atleast be AA'd (usually..) but Dalton can just rip through ESF after ESF, tank after tank from the safety of high in the sky

OK I'm in

Infiltrator is broken due to how Clientside 2 works. A bolt action user can uncloak and click your head before you can physically react. Stalker infiltrators can wait years and then 2 tap you with a meta sidearm. Even SMG Infiltrators who are generally the least offensive can absolutely rip through squads, dipping into cover and concealment with cloak in the chaos of a fight. My biggest killstreaks are as Infiltrators and they're usually fairly effortless.

post fisu

These minor balance changes were not the reason the game is dying. The game is dying because it's old and niche, while containing many 'negative gameplay' elements like getting farmed by HESH, getting zerged etc. Consequences of the sandbox.

Yeah that's another issue which never got addressed - I made a similar reddit post about it before this youtube channel

Until you prove statistically that organized play is the majority of the playerbase, you're wrong. Casual players who just pop in to run around and shoot are the important one. They're always the silent majority in every game. They don't talk about the game, they don't interact with it, they just play it. And if PS2 cannot appeal to these players; the game will die. Outfits if anything squeeze out the fun of the game with redeployside, zerging, exploiting unfun mechanics etc. They choose to play like this and burn themselves out and then blame the game.

Totally agree casuals are the silent majority however there was a very large base of players which enjoyed 'winnning' via territory/alert gameplay.

i never crash. its your pc

@@ThexLastxUchiha Nah, Esamir definitely has some problems with the game crashing. It's not super common but it is frustrating to deal with, and certain players deal with it alot.

Was he not responsible for that +2k bump in early 2020?

@@ZealousVidya I'm not saying everything he did was bad, but he wasn't the decisive factor. Planetside is much bigger than Wrel, with all due respect.

@@chrisnewbury3793 Alot of people disagree with that, people LOVE blaming Wrel for everything. It's a massive cope. No single human being on the planet could've brought PS2 'back'. There's simply not enough interest amongst gamers. Balance, maps and content won't change that.

I have not deleted a single comment Probably youtube's auto moderation

Man doesn't even delete MY comments, the KZbin auto moderation is some ass

I think this is important too. How many players have been driven away because the game is stamped as 'dead' 'terrible developers' 'Wrel bad' 'game is ruined'..

This isn't doomsaying. This is pragmatic feedback. Player numbers are decreasing heavily. Almost all the organize ops based players have left, at least on cobalt. This video explained why. The game cannot get 'better' (e.g. server merges) if we don't address reality.

Squad is fun when there's competent leadership, squads that work together and some measure of tactics. But often it turns into TDM where you sprint for 5 minutes to get 1 kill or die.

@@famulanrevengeance3044 I havn''t built a hab in a month, i try to run IFV infantry on DoD or Potato 2 servers. Always the first to fight and first to leave to next point. a tactic i picked up from ps2. i just replace galaxies and beacons with IFV's and Rally Flags

I've played this game longer than ten years and can count on one hand how many times I've been killed "inside" the spawns.

@@chrisnewbury3793 So have I and I count more than 2 hands.

These games don't realy compare at all. PS2 ist "free" to play and doesnt need a high end PC to play. SC ist a space explorstion simulation first and a shoter second. And should you die in SC it takes way longer till you're back in the fight. Plus there are no big objectives to play huge battles in SC aside from events like JT or Xenothreat.

@@MR-ew8tx tell me you didn't play planetside 1 without telling me you didn't play planetside 1

@@sulferix7265 still nothing to do with planetside

Why would anyone play the decade-long scam that is star citizen?

Star Citizen is a whale game.

And Arena

They should have worked on connecting the existing continents via the water

I aways left when oshur open.

Also he gave me elite box of implants