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[@ZealousVidya]

upsetting as many groups as possible, any% speedrun (FIRST ATTEMPT) What are your hot takes?

[@nilaspl8715]

Medic is my favourite class

[@Timoruz]

I think Bastions should only be able to travel inside their friendly territory, and in bordering territory. It's frustrating when a Bastion just goes to the largest fight away from their faction so they can farm twice the pop. The Bastion should be used to support your faction, not just farm certs for the Outfit leaders.

[@Timoruz]

Steel Rain should be removed because it's existence really decreased the amount of large scale galaxy drops that were a spectacle to behold.

[@NK-qn6pq]

Facetanking a JGX12 shot should not be possible. At all.

[@KittenyKat]

The construction update absolutely fucked over builders and did the complete opposite of what they allegedly intended by making it even MORE punishing to try to build, especially solo. Removing pain fields and ai modules just lets Captain Trollface 1v1 solo your base and there isn't shit you can do about it anymore if he's better at shooting people than you. Not to mention it's damn near impossible to place most of the structures in most places because the map designers didn't have "Oh and we need to make sure there's PERFECTLY FLAT SPACES everywhere for the base building we have yet to add during this map design phase lol" in their minds at the time of creating them. 🔥🔥🔥

[@byronr4681]

My hot take: Shotguns don't belong on a vehicle that can go inside buildings and cloak.

[@Timoruz]

I've had the hot take for a while that flashes should just not have weapons at all.

[@byronr4681]

@@Timoruz agreed. Chunking off 50% of an MBT's health and cloaking away just aint right

[@clownymcclownerton1653]

Add a utility slot weapon mount to force people to choose between weapons and cloak

[@bighouse581]

most would argue cloak doesnt belong, that quad doesnt need weapons at all. i am not one of them but

[@KittenyKat]

Neither do SMGs on cloakers, fuck that shit.

[@MetaMaticGamer]

I want them to make Oshur better and actually finish it if we are going to be forced to have it, add ammo tower buoys for the Corsair to actually resupply ammo, and lower the terrain because no one can use the Corsair if they can't get an angle for 90% of the map.

[@anthragestormrider2493]

Here's my hot take - most PlanetSide 2 players and their complaints are absurd, they don't appreciate what they have, and probably won't until the game is gone. There is absolutely nothing else out there like it, and the negativity on the Forums, Reddit, Twitch, KZbin and in Discord probably hurts population growth more than any of the bad decisions or mistakes made by the devs. How's that for a hot take?

[@bumblebeeisfree]

Bro all im asking is that if console isnt getting any major updates. I just want esamir back atleast with no storm so we dont take a performance hit, buuuuttt im not the avg player. Anyway I avree with u.

[@anthragestormrider2493]

@@bumblebeeisfree I said most, not all, and the complaints like yours are absolutely legit. Part of the problem with all of the bogus complaints, is they drown out the real ones like yours.

[@yevheniishyshko7961]

Totally agree. I liked a lot of the content updates in the last few years, while I know players who think that they just make the game worse. I don’t really understand why.

[@crochetcocoking4275]

Completely agree with you lol, I know a lot of salty vets that just love to shit on the game as well as a lot of newcomers that just stopped playing with how annoying the vets were.

[@CigsInABlanket]

True, I've never experienced such bad hit reg.

[@Alpha1598753]

Hot take -Remove the instant heal medkit -Nerf C4 to be way more vulnerable to damage and affected by AOE such as flak shells just to counter suicide ESF/cloaked flash, if you wanna be able to oneshot be ready to be just as easy to be oneshoted when your C4 gets blown off -Remove Bishop attachement to remove the target penetration cap You'd be lucky to ever hit 2 players at once in the first place so what odds you manage to align 3 at once for it to become even usefull? Give it an increased bullet velocity attachement instead even if it lower mag size -Add back vehicle wrecks to be farmed by ANT, they added dynamic cover and a risk / reward ressource for base builders I know performances take a hit but just limit the amount of wrecks that can be present at once and give them a shorter despawn timer

[@botulinum721]

For the Bishop part, I have fully araxiumed the Bishop, mainly as an infil but also for the last hundred kills as a heavy and I legitimately recall at least on 2 occasions that if I used sabot ammo, I would have managed to get 3 or more people at once. So yeah, sabot ammo on the bishop takes the award of being the most useless attachment in the game (maybe aside from flashlights on sniper rifles)

[@falloutwizard1361]

I've been saying forever the devs need to market this game. No one in real life I have ever met has heard of this game until I show them and they get really interested. Even just the devs starting a KZbin channel and maybe buying some ad space would help.

[@CommissarIclaneKiev]

The lasher isnt op as its a weapon designed to do one situation and only one situation well.

[@bumblebeeisfree]

Anyone who cries about a lasher probably doesnt have a lot of game sense. Probably the same people that say chaingun is op.

[@exorias625]

while i might agree with you in a sense you clearly havent realized something in this game 1 man with a lasher isnt the issue here its when 50 of them are soaking the entrance to any fight with shots completely denying entry that makes it an issue which we can do nothing about. anything in this game done in numbers automatically makes it OP and its not done often thanks to coordination is a pain in the ass prime examples of this is theres a video of a squad or more VS engis taking out a colossus with slicers. are AMRS op? no but if you get shot by more than 10 at once then it is just look up striker valks and phoenix chimeras and ammo sundy gangs and even clown bus

[@slipspectrum9253]

If VS get a splash damage weapon for their heavies, the NC and TR should get one too. The problem people don’t understand is that even a tiny imbalance in force multipliers can and does have a huge effect on battle effectiveness. The lasher should have never happened along with a slew of other empire specific weapons. Anything with a standout advantage should have been offered as an NS weapon.

[@ikillstupidcomments]

Orbital Strikes should be outright removed because they trigger the sound bug.

[@bumblebeeisfree]

Orbital strikes dont make sense as well according to the lore. Unlike Dust 514 or Eve. All the fighting is being done on the ground in auraxis not on space. So where tf does orbital cannons come from.

[@exorias625]

@@bumblebeeisfree logic my guy. doesnt need explaining any civilization that is advanced enough to jump trough worm holes to other planets to the point of waging war is more than capable and is even encouraged to have a massive ship or 2 left in orbit at all times for a hand full of reasons. this is backed up but a few of the lager structures we fight in werent made on the planet but built in space and dropped down from orbit ( evidence being the legs on tech plant main buildings). assuming multiple ships are there TR owns 1 NC hijacks 1 meaning the only faction that shouldnt have one is the VS since they wanna use alien tech so bad

[@kahlernygard809]

I feel like wrel got off way to easy after destroying the game with shit like orbital strikes and constant nc max nerfs

[@ztmorris9738]

Thumbnail is so true.

[@tylerrichter4066]

I love this: also make all 3 factions op in their own unique ways

[@Flamester7TV]

The cinematic trailer for planetside 2 is so fucking cool and I swear if they created a tv show surrounding the 3 factions and 3 characters it would be so big that it would even create its own twitter cult following like game of thrones or attack on titans.

[@alexander_trowbridge]

1:02 R18: hold my beer

[@xecor3743]

New favourite Zealous video, I approve. 👍

[@Highlyskeptical]

Agree with more marketing. It's a head scratcher why a sandbox F2P FPSMMO w/ infantry/armor/air/boats isn't more popular. They should make Hossin a "Bugs" continent where wave after wave of bugs spread out from the middle brain bug queen down the 3 lattice lines towards warpgates as a break from the sweaty pvp, wouldn't require complex AI.

[@robertk3016]

That would be awesome.

[@ItsMoorbinTime]

Or play Deep Rock Galactic

[@LightLeo111]

Here is another one, revive Spam needs to go. Add some type of "dead-dead" if you're killed within a second or two after being revived so people can't just recklessly revive spam each other in the middle of a corridor. The "exp farming" gameplay is horrible. Imo, you want a healthy standoff between players, not total stagnation of people just clogged up in a hallway. Revive nades and all that isn't the issue, it's the fact that you can "accept a revive" get back up, run two feet, die and then do it again repeatedly. Now, for how you could do it, that's debatable. Like, maybe just have it so the animation between being on the ground and standing back up, you're vulnerable. So it's just a couple literal seconds. Something like that would be enough cull people out of a corridor and force them to respawn elsewhere to keep the game flowing.

[@ZealousVidya]

honestly I'm more for rez nades and grenades in general being way more expensive, like 50 nanites to rez 25 people is insane value

[@dbroemechain2675]

As a medic main, I painfully agree with needing to adjust revive&heal applicator/revive nades. I would simply increase the timer for revives period. If possible, I would also say make the timer dependent on health pool of the person being revived, for BOTH tool and nade. Got a rack of dead heavies; guess who's working overtime? That wasn't a question, you're working overtime. Nade slinging during mass grave necromancy should also be cumulative to this as well. Just rezzing 5 squad mates shouldn't take as much time as the much rarer 25 corpses in a single nade summon skeleton spell. As for the nades being more expensive, I would do that as a lazy way of trying to adjust the game, instead of actually trying to make the game more interesting, although it would limit the idiots who sling them things for just 2 guys in some dumb spot routine.

[@exorias625]

bandolier nerf or removal medics can only carry max 2

[@ascrassin]

I totally agree about the skill floor skill ceiling proposition (especialythe the hs mult one). for vehicles, bastion, (and construction) i think the problem is that the devs can't seems to think of a way to find a balance in the incentives to play them between "make the experiance of other terrible" or "sit around doing boring thing for an insignificant advantage". i also agree that outfit ordinance are way to spammable and think that a hex specific cooldown could help with that. (maybe also an in outfit cooldown) for the sniper thing. i think that at this point this oppinion is pretty popular. (i think that a out of cloak cooldown on sniper could be a solution to compensate the client side issue without killing the play-style). on the ressource management (at dev level) part of the video. I agree and disagree at the same time. it would have been risky mostly because of the risk or alienation of the comunity (people are generaly adverse to change) and could have resulted in a lesser return from investment. leading to a worst situation that what we have now. And just a last comment about the CAI. Most of the change that i personally didn't agree with where reverted soon after. So for me it was a net positive.

[@DoNotLookHerePlz]

"Engineer simps" is my favorite phrase now

[@kiro-fo9qg]

This Video is a certified hood classic!

[@TeRRm0s]

Time to kill is already extremely long. When I come back from Battlefield or similar games to PS2, it feels like it’s almost impossible to kill someone. Players in this game are like bullet sponges

[@steamcoalsteveaustin3506]

Any updates on graphic settings for grinders?

[@kassiepovinelli2881]

Honestly one major fix we'd notice pretty quickly is if NSO had outfits again. Having skilled teams during peak that even out pop instead of lone wolves would make an enormous difference

[@cyberdsrswitch4658]

My hot take: -remove cloaked flash

[@yourdemiseishere]

The thing with infil is, if you saw what they saw the uncloak time wouldn't even be that bad itd still be annoying but workable, but the netcode justifiably being so shit at best you see half the decloak anim... The only thing i can think of is clientsidedly speeding up the decloak anim based on current ping to make it on average working and not being shot by someone invisible, this ofc assumes you get the packet that says they went visible in the first place but still... Also that said the headshot mult is like how it is to keep shotguns and bolters having their minimalist checks, a 0 ttk versus 0.2 ttk on a really big non AR dps weapon, everything else would have to be adjusted but i like the direction.

[@Djrealfake]

This whole video is a vibe, I agree with all said. My hot take, new players leave because of boredom not skill. Oh and 96+ fights are dumb annnnnd Cone of Fire bloom is outdated and dumb.

[@qpqpqpqpqpqpqpqp]

tank cannons should be more deadly for infantry and respawn timers should kick in after getting your vehicle blown up. also there should be more very long range counters for vehicles

[@slipspectrum9253]

There used to be respawn timers for vehicles. But people whined that it was unfair for newbs not to be able to spam vehicles to match the vets who could keep a single vehicle up for hours. Nanites were supposed to answer for that, but they obviously don’t. To a game house, 1 million shitters playing their game is always more lucrative than 500 thousand great players.

[@CyclesMcHurtz]

Hot Take - reduce nanite spawn rates to 1/10th - limit total nanites per person to 250 - require multiple nanite inputs for large spawns (with escrow)

[@MrJML18]

Savage, but true. I like this video alot!

[@RumpleFoldSkin]

Ad prone, ad 5%xp in bastion active hex's. Cavern system. Underground battles. Offers shortcuts to enemy bases. Ground mesh work and butchery ofc.. gotta do it...ad jet ski's 2 man crew. Climbing spikes. Cosmetic varriance.. there is some.. but not very diff from eachother.. for some reason i want a glider i can use 1 time if i eject from my pilot seat etc.. there are small player animation things i notice..its accurate..but low fps animating..idk how many more frames can go in without slowing gameplay from where it is. There is plenty they can do but they dont have the team then i guess not..hmm..i thought the last thing they would do would be the mechs. I do believe oshur needs redesign..a lil less water..

[@OverkillGamingPC]

If you make shield, health etc regen slower, you'll disincetivise aggressive play. You'll end up with lots of cautious play and camping. Unintended consequences are always interesting.

[@Timoruz]

There should be separate nanites for infantry and vehicle costs. I wonder how much A2G would be a problem if the most active infantry players had the nanites to pull an A2A Esf. Also vehicle nanites would resupply significantly slower than infantry nanites. Also this could allow for infantry players to start new fights without needing to wait for their nanites to resupply.

[@warlocksnevereverdie]

Add more turrets and passenger capacity to all vehicles and add things like basebound anti air or anti armor shields instead of requiring somebody to drop them they should be hackable or build-able. Add diff types of alerts. The cap points in the middle of nowhere should have some base structures to begin with instead of just being open air deathcamps. Cloak shouldn't work with snipers instead they should get an option for thermal or something more wild.

[@zakadams762]

I actually agree with the bastion feedback

[@Timoruz]

I prefer restoration kits for my Heavy and Light assault. I prefer them on Heavy because partnered with Resist Shield they can give you more effective health in a fight. I like them on Light Assault for a similar reason, basically I can pop one just before I attack from a flank to give my self just a bit more survivability. I do want medkits to be changed. Honestly I think a good change would be to reduce the heal from 100% down to %50 or %75, This would mean restoration kits have the benefit over medkits of a full heal, making them more enticing, and makes medics more important.

[@exorias625]

actually like this the only issue i have with restoration is the time it takes though but a 75% out of a med kit is a nice way to nerf it

[@0sba]

Take bolt action rifles away from infils, add them to engies

[@amishshark3549]

Infiltrator should be able to disguise as an enemy play and have a French accent

[@pegasus6124]

thank god wrel had been getting rid of good players to make the game more fun and balanced before he quit

[@Timoruz]

Berserker was my first Exceptional on my NSO account... It's not really that good on Defector sadly.

[@HardlyGaming]

If you want to know the state of vehicle gameplay, count how many vehicle mains are left in the game. I'm gone, most of my armour dedicated outfit have also stopped.

[@clownymcclownerton1653]

Remove hesh, remove stalker cloak, buff dumbfire launchers,remove stealth options from heavies, add more asp perks

[@ElectricJoeski]

Construction is the way forward. It's flawed now but it's a major trend in new games and adds depth. Arcade shooter playstyle is great but the logistics side of Planetside 2 is what sets it apart. Alerts are too short. Emerald alerts were broken after the Wrel farewell event and it was actually fun getting warp gated only to push back out the next day. Felt more like a story/living world MMO game for the first time since 2013. Flail isn't OP, it just needs to telegraph the location of the base better on the death screen and where the person shot the dart from. Infiltrator cloaks aren't that bad, it's just the netcode. Just get good at networking scrubs.

[@lanemccall6787]

Additional hot take... I would like your videos more if you wouldn't insult the devs by calling them incompetent and pussies. You likely don't know them personally and these are real people who probably care a lot more about the game than you give them credit for. Also, they have families and are trying to do the best they can with their own life, just like the rest of us. Just stick to your thoughts on the game and leave the petty crap out of your videos. Make the world a better place. I believe in you. Thanks for the videos.

[@ZealousVidya]

yeah that's true, I mean this is a hot take video so I didn't mind as much. I shouldn't have called them incompetent though and rather just say their updates were incompetent. Sometimes I get carried away.

[@lanemccall6787]

@@ZealousVidya Appreciate your humility. Thanks for the videos. Been watching a bunch of them.

[@kevincuevas8877]

You get a like for the thumbnail

[@Timoruz]

Deployed Lodestar Galaxies should not show up on the Engagement Radar. I want to use the Lodestar but it's always easily found by an ESF due to it popping up on their hud. This really affects Oshur especially, since it's very easy to spot and kill underwater Lodestars.

[@magorostravsky5732]

Popcorn XD

[@Aaptronym]

No vehicle should be allowed to do damage to infantry outside of the range that infantry can damage vehicles. Every big battle eventually devolves into tanks headglitching over some rocks 300m away, sitting still and clicking M1 on a high traffic base or spawn door every 3 seconds and theres literally nothing you can do about it.

[@mikeetoo96]

I love Oshur and I know it has potential but needs to be improved!

[@PERSONAfan01]

I actually agree with your takes. I am a bolter and I did laugh at that part cause it’s kind of true. But it’s why I do it. It’s such an asshole way to play & I get a kick out of it. We probably need to be stopped but I’m going to abuse the crap out of it until I’m stopped.

[@YuriiTemnikov]

And what else to do for people who want Aurax weapons? And the eternal complaints about snipers who shoot from afar - there should be an amendment here. You need to complain about bad snipers. Why do you think in real life they spare no mortars, no artillery or anything else to get rid of one sniper? He must be a threat to the infantry. And if he does his job well, then the enemy infantry will be severely limited in maneuver, often exposing other allies in an attempt to avoid the sniper. When you keep a whole troop of soldiers from crossing the crest of a hill - because you've already zeroed in and have a good aim - you bring significant benefits to your comrades. Especially if you still remember to mark the enemy - if your allies are keeping track of the radar and he is in their reach - this is practically your gift to them.

[@Timoruz]

I wouldn't call Ops easy mode since it is intended gameplay. I'd rather call playing solo "hard mode". Ideally you'd have multiple outfits running Ops at the same time in an alert, but that rarely happens anymore due to low pop, outside of Vanu.

[@zakadams762]

Bring back the regular cortium bomb

[@davidritchie1678]

I don’t know. Last night I saw a bastion being hammered by a colossus while a lot of air battles were happening. The opposite of what you said.

[@davidritchie1678]

I agree that increasing up time for everyone would let people feel like they have a fighting chance.

[@dbroemechain2675]

How many times did you see that happen that day? Once, maybe twice? He's referencing from when it was actually used much more. Imagine the past forms of bastions during common play hours a few years back. Bastions on each faction doing that nonsense with the goofy 1k mauler at all hours, even when soloed. It was like a damn plague machine and people were commonly having to move fights entirely to avoid the things because they just were trolling ground troops a lot of the time. Air battles were often controlled by the air experts just farming the casuals that try to get them off the hex making them a bit overwhelming esp. during peak hours. Lose your bastion, log your other alts and spawn another one... I actually like the bastion / colossus currently as they are right now. They should just be trophies; not the actual game. If anything, I'd say buff ONLY colossus and bastion against each other. Install the mauler cannon back on but make it stupidly slow, so as to be basically used only against seriously static targets (oh hey, lockdown col), but not necessarily be a farm machine. At the same time, the col really needs to have some maneuverability/speed buff if it's going to have to avoid certain paths/bases entirely just to get to the front half the time, due to its size and base obstacles (since the bastion can just mosey anywhere because you know... it flies.) I can't remember how many times I've been stuck somewhere on some dumb edge or rock that clipped the colossus wrong and just caused me to have to do the jiggle dance for 5 minutes. Extending the range on the hardpoint detector would be nice as literally sitting under the bastion basically just kills you since everyone and their mother has tank mines and C4 already with infinite ESF spawns not only from the bastion but from every CC that's everywhere nowadays.... If you buff one, you gotta buff the other...

[@Infernus25]

Yea Ive never understood why Planetside never invested in the marketing side of it. There are so many unique experiences in this game that could so easily be shown and used as marketing material

[@jobs.1518]

In what world is berserker 60 quid? To get the 45k iso necessary you need to get 200 deluxe implant packs (225 iso each when recycled) which each cost 500 DBC or 100,000 DBC in total. That is $850 US.

[@ZealousVidya]

for the bundle which includes beserker

[@jobs.1518]

@@ZealousVidya which bundle is that? I’ve looked before and gotten some bundles with exceptionals but have never found one with berserker

[@ZealousVidya]

@@jobs.1518 I think it's only availible like a few times a year when they allow you to buy legacy bundles

[@cosmokramer9139]

Lancer was nerfed into the ground, and I hear on PC it's even worse. Burst weapons were nerfed extremely hard, I never see anybody use them, just single-shots. The NC shotgun top gun is still too good in comparison to the other faction's anti infantry weapons. Kobalt is still the best choice if you're not on NC. You're right about Planetside needing seasons, I understand frequent updates, but 2 per month is absurd for any game's resources. And console needs at least cosmetic updates unless they're trying to make the game die on purpose.

[@arandomtruckdriver7370]

There needs to be more faction based weapons instead of ns ones

[@magorostravsky5732]

I think main CBMC problem Is Ipdan and his ban substitute accounts. Otherwise sadly i agree with most you said.

[@ZealousVidya]

agreed, I'm just memeing ^^

[@Xombiiii]

Striker Valkyrie was perfectly balanced

[@paskcharron4542]

I want stronger AI turrets. TFC urge is coming up.

[@hckr_-gh7se]

hot take: remove invisibility

[@wrongplanetgaming]

Agree on removal of capturue the flag, but oshur infantry guns should be removed. bullet drop shoudln't be affected under water, if anything, it should be better. The bullets should just slow down quicker in water just for realism really. Vehicles shouldn't be able to fire into water. Yes, the bastion should be reverted back, not even sure what that Bastion lock down thing is on capture points, it's annoying and requires no skill. Outfit Orbital Strike needs to go, i'm fine with base OS. The flail needs a map indicator and shoudn't be able to get past skyshield. As for contruction, I would just completely remove that overload captule (or whatever it's called), or keep it to Infiltrator only. Sunderers shouldn't be able to get past construction gate shields. I shoudln't have to install repair modules in every construction object. Cortium vehicle spawn needs to go and be replace with a resource based terminal like the other ones in the game. There's just so much wrong with this game the list seems endless. I've been here since beta and the game seemed in a much better state back then, apart form the performance issues.

[@kungfury6410]

Give maxes 10% more health and roller skates..

[@soku890]

The entire game should just be reverted to the last SOE version

[@exorias625]

getting dinked by a cqc bolter is legit a skill issue if clientside wasnt a thing the only way they can nerf it without gutting the infil class as a whole is a more visible cloak if you have a sniper and/or a movement nerf then have visible lense glare at normal sniping distances that way everyone is happy since they can pretty much still run around cloaked and still ADS while cloaked and the enemies have a slight advantage...anything after that and ill have to say fps games arent for you the more painful thing the skill floor for that playstyle is so high most people dont even bother making them rare enough to not be an issue in the first place medics and engis would rather shit in their hands and clap than do their job so take away 1 medkit and its fine since you almost never get to use all 4 my unhinged hot take is A2G shouldnt be in the game . besides the missiles that pepper the ground for a few seconds with a moderately decent aoe ( its not even for infantry its for light armor) all infantry farming weapons should be removed from ESFS in defense of the spur though the liberator is built to be an all rounder in the air and thanks to its mobility if it got close enough to use the spur its within r*ping range of lock on so it can stay but need a small nerf maybe to rate of fire and it should be decent

[@Asenni]

Flying cof was the worst addition to infantry gameplay. Give light assaults all the movement and jump variants in the world for all I care, even ones that you can press spacebar to fix your terrible positioning with a shotgun, but don't give them accuracy as well.

[@bumblebeeisfree]

This is what I dont agree with. Combined arms update was generally good. When it comes to squad play. I want to say yes you are right, but I want to say no because I think there is a correlation there that simply causes that outcome. Generally from my personal experience players who want to do better and who are probably avg maybe even slightly higher than avg tend to lean towards squad play because the party system in PS2 is not bad tbh. So yeah I think is just players who are or want to do good at the game play with similarly skilled players ending in the same outfit and squads. Construction shouldnt have been add it. I dont see the point to it. I finally got to play ps2 on pc and Ive spent 4 days with a group of friends exploring Construction and is basically useless to the overall enjoyment of the game. Not to mention that it does nothing for the flow of battle as it was intended because of the no build zones are so big. If they were to take the time they spent on Construction on something else, updated as big as the bastion and so on. Id say the health of the game wouldve been on a better place much like the marketing issue. This game has potential, but its forver stuck in the shadow realm. No one knows about it. On console side. If we are not going to get an update any time soon. REMOVE THE F ING STORM AND GIVE US ESAMIR BACK ON ROTATION, but no not only do we lack in so many features in comparison to pc, we also got to deal with minus a beloved continent. (imo hossin is the best continent, but no one cares about the level design of hossin, the beautiful alien inspired terrain and the base variety and layout. Even after the update for indar hossin still has the best middle base of all continents. If they arent going to revise the state of harasser and the constituents of factors that add to that. Put rumble seat repair back on their see how it works out. This isnt a hot take, but NSO is still waiting for their MBT ability js.

[@RumpleFoldSkin]

Easy. 5% xp boost in a hex with a bastion . U want more int3nse bastion stuff..the. they need to create the focal.. which is a reason yo..5%xp gain is going to make it a hotter battle

[@Aaptronym]

ESF should not be able to dip in and out of cover like fucking infantry if they cant be killed as fast as infantry. There are way too many high mobility vehicles that are also hard to kill. An ESF or harasser driver should be afraid of big crowds of enemies instead of being afraid that they might forget to hit record before their 40 kill streak.

[@ShivayaLmao]

hot take: Remove cloak completely from infiltrators and rename them as "marksman" class. Give them some new ability like radar scrambler or RC drones. Let them use assault rifles or carbines through ASP

[@swedichboy1000]

1:03 How the hell is that even balanced when people can become invisible while reloading? Whats some poor sod gonna do about that?

[@PaDDy7389]

Playing on low graphics settings even though the PC is powerful enough for higher settings is cringeworthy.

[@LightLeo111]

Personally, I think certain things should not be able to be disabled anymore. Like figure out the lowest possible settings that are fair for everyone and force them. Some of the other more competitive, large scale FPS games have done this over time, like with grass/shadow rendering. People would always just set everything to the lowest and be able to see more so the devs end up clamping it to make it fair.

[@ZealousVidya]

ooft that's a strong hot take, love it

[@dustix1087]

OSs need to be nerfed a little bit not taken out lodestars need to be looked at Deliverer own vehicle WASP own vehicle rework oshur/CTF old esamir back Valk+harasser needs buffs router rework vehicle wreck back bastion rework

[@retteketette]

good vid, but dont like you started off with the most obvious takes first

[@SkedarX9]

I remember players like LandWhale and other B54 players farming or buying Berserker just to get MAX or Berserker nerfed. And while sure, it does get the point across that shits a bit OP but being toxic about it? Like you're abusing an actual broken implant. You had a organized squad of "The best" players. Of course you're going to hold the tunnels with one or two MAXes on Nasons. Lmao. Some players ego way too much on this game. You do something they dont like, you're a shitter. They do something you do and you point it out, you're a shitter. Medkits and Adrenaline kinda need reworks. Theres no reason for Medkits to heal 500 for the amount you get. Adrenaline shouldnt give you OS. It should be a speed increase at least.

[@adobo777]

People try too hard in this mediocre boomer game, 'Oh look Ma I have a 2.5 KD against these 45 year old salarymen.' kek.

[@zakadams762]

Totally meaningless I agree

[@junebug9267]

VKDZ is trash and you can crutch on a skill gap to a certain extent vs worse players even if they are organized, which VKDZ isn't. Didnt your team stop playing the first time you played an actual good team? Maybe its my bias from winning against better teams with PTSD while the entire team ran a 0,7 KD average. Oh and hot take: game ios dead, stop playing.

[@jimvonmoon]

Zealous dropping truth bombs, good stuff. Hot take: underwater fights on Oshur are the best new feature this game received in years. Also, remove Flail, pocket OS and all redeploy-side spawn options (instant action, steel rain, beacons, routers, all of it).

[@ssss-kg7wz]

Here's a hot take: you are a bad player inventing excuses for being bad.

[@juusojuuso9214]

game doesn't get good players unless the bad players want to play too

[@lanemccall6787]

Played this game for 10 years. 3500ish hours. Absolutely delete capture the flag. No one plays it. No one likes it. Also - if they deleted Oshur, I'd quietly celebrate on the inside... while also feeling like damn... so much wasted time. But honestly, I don't like playing there. I'd much rather be on any other continent.

[@Zertian]

This game really needs faction balancing... It's too political with these "ambitions" for each faction. It's clear that players who play with the brains and problem-solving are moving to Vanu (technology wins). It's also clear that players coming from Eastern countries, following their role models, prefer to go on Zergs (and therefore often lose even in Vanu special forces Clans, because they don't want to protect their vehicles or their Backup) and the pitiful rest of the freedom thinkers switch to NC, die a thousand deaths without much success for freedom, without even having the slightest chance. All for a tank that flips constantly, but has a fat gun that doesn't stand a chance against the 4-shot Prowler Players of this faction are generally not the most intelligent (Playstyle, Base defending, learning from other Factions) and therefore usually have little chance against Vanu players. I have played on both EU servers for many years and have been watching this drama for 10 years. In this game you only have fun, if you switch to Vanu, everything else is complete madness and will make you quit the game after a short time and write a bad review. Its no wonder, why so mutch Players switch to Vanu while Alerts. It would have been better if they had just kept the factions neutral, regardless of whether the "great mmorpg story" would have been boring then.

[@Bigl00z]

zerging a base to capture it with 2 full platoons then spam the chat with banter doesn't make you edgy or cool or lolz randomz XD , you're just wasting everybody's time.