How Skilled Players do so well in Planetside 2

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[@ZealousVidya]

Will re-release the 'server differences' video in the future, needs some editing, will put this one up for now instead ^^ Subscribe for more!

[@MUTALISKUS]

ow to return the old graphics? my eyes hurt from the new one and I have no desire to play!

[@user-if4zv5nj5m]

I find that playing in low pop sectors increases your skill drastically. You are usually forced into 1v1 engagements and quickly learn tricks other people are using, understand common routes and people's logic on most bases, thus, learning how to outmaneouver people. In mass battles you are really restricted to the frontline and don't feel your personal impact, thus, telling if you are doing everything right is more complicated

[@jayzenstyle]

honestly though, I find it more enjoyable having low pop fights than an all out zerg because of it. I slowly honed my asshole stalker playstyle because a chinese burning skull guy keeps on capturing a base I already taken care of. I did lose a lot, but I didn't really and actually admire his skill which inspired me to do better(and be a fucking troll especially with the knifing).

[@JohnFromAccounting]

In the big farm bases, it's not difficult to run into the enemies, get 2-3 kills, die, and repeat. You'll be on the top of the scoreboard.

[@MrBalrogos]

Biggest Problems: 1. Lack of Balance 2. Client Side Hit Detection 3. Which means if you using high RPM weapon and you have LOW FPS(Below 50-60fps) you hit detection is garbage, eveything is calculated at you PC your FPS is basicly a tickrate, and also you need tweek your network card to send small packets bur frequently insetad big packets less often, by tweaking network settings you can cut even 20ms ping(so for example if you have 80ms witout tweaks u can have 60 with tweaks.) for planetside for example if you still want use Interrupt Moderation you want set MAX IRQ per Second to maximum value, Receive Buffers and Transmit buffers set to max

[@bighouse581]

Also HATE how the roadkill mechanics where I have to aim my vehicle where they WILL be rather than just hit them on my screen. Such a stupid thing to need to learn

[@MrBalrogos]

@@bighouse581 yes senior i hate roadkilling :(

[@FlankerJackChannel]

My thoughts on the game are the same ones I've had since about 2015. It's too easy to respawn vehicles, and it's too easy to switch factions to join the dominant one so you can get easy victories. I've noticed this is still going on to this day.

[@magicalchicken5667]

Found this late, but framerate has no bearing on hit detection, that's not how that works (it'd be actual effort to make a game work as badly as that, it'd be pretty entertaining to see a game like that though) Stuff like hits are still sent from the client to the server for confirmation (*considering the projectile thing, there may not even be the client involved here), in addition to being lag compensated on the server when they're properly received (this is why you still have times of being shot behind a wall, just a necessary evil there) The stuff they do in this area is just standard multiplayer FPS handling, not sure where people get their info for otherwise (seems to be a common thing, not specifically you) Now that I think about it, I'd actually be very weirded out if they somehow got clientside hit detection from server projectiles.

[@MrBalrogos]

@@magicalchicken5667 this is how game works everything was calculated basically if u don't have 200fps Ur rpm on weapon go down so you deal less dmg enabling smoothing and editing minimum and maximum FPS values during smoothing helps.

[@FlankerJackChannel]

Ever since they added harassers and made liberators so unbelievably tough The game has switched from combined arms team play to one or two players in a vehicle being able to dominate the entire battlefield and being indestructible. Then these people got the developers to Nerf all the counters to their vehicles so they can decimate the other side at will for KZbin.

[@keldricharts]

People come into the game thinking that it's like any other fps game. The vets already have a good enough experience of the pace of the gameplay and understanding of equipment and fight flow. Especially choke points and strategic positions. In my opinion it's just the amount of dedication and effort that matters to the game flow. This isn't a game where you can just jump in and win.

[@MizMods]

As someone who's only made it to BR 59 but has about 900 hrs in the game... I can say it will just take time to learn the nuances of the maps and how combat really works. Learn light assault, and use the verticality of the game to your advantage. Having a good PC and internet will make a big difference in how you perform on any game, which is a sad truth(it costs money to be competitive). The second is abuse mechanics that's give you an advantage, like playing Heavy Assualt with decent implants. Being support instead of trying to be a pvp chad isn't a bad idea either. Load up your medic with the best assault rifle, revive grenade, shield capacitor, and grenade bandolier. Also just have fun, find the massive battle, rocket spam, chuck c4 and grenades like crazy, infiltrator with smg, join large platoons. Planetside doesn't have to be played like a sweaty competitive game. Just have fun and make friends. Y'all have a Happy New Year 🎉

[@gabrieldm1982]

For me aside of fps issues related to hardware, server and network latency matters more. The lag factor is a 2 bladed sword and usually it plays against the player.

[@kilersocke]

Yeah I totally feel that. With my highspeed line I've got a ping of 12, then getting shot through walls after a peak behind a corner. To kill someone I need 20 bullets, to get killed it's only 3 shot bursts. That's redicoulus.

[@l.ignasio7326]

as a Vet there is a tip for any new planetman who wanna avoid fighting against tryhards, avoid small fight which is below 12 players each side, u will face at least 2,3 try hards in that kind of fight cause it's less lag and the most of all alot of lowbie there for them to farm.

[@durakeno5575]

More noob tips: if you ever get killed by a shmuck with a directive score over 5000 in a low pop fight, just get out of there unless you got tryhards on your side as well.

[@hobog]

@@durakeno5575 that's the blue star number, right?

[@FlankerJackChannel]

Unfortunately you have to play unbelievably safe and unbelievably slow but the pussy VS infiltrators Will still get behind you and kill your entire squad at will

[@durakeno5575]

@@hobog yes

[@bigmango202]

im at nearly 900 hours into the game and the biggest tip i have for new players is prioritize headshots and run around like a madman and abuse clientside

[@gogudelagaze1585]

Another advantage that I don't see people talk too much about is camos. Choosing the right camo in the right circumstance can make enemies hesitate, or even have a very hard time distinguishing you from the background.

[@cualpoohsho]

Closet cheaters are huge in planetside, its the open in your face cheaters that are like maybe 1-3 per server. And I'm so glad its not more.

[@ItsMoorbinTime]

I think there are hardly any cheaters hiding cheats. Almost all of them are blatantly obvious about it. There almost certainly is a few that hide it, but its definitely not a huge issue.

[@dalentces2492]

@@ItsMoorbinTime The fact that people get away with openly using cheats specifically to highlight how nothing is done about them makes me strongly believe it's the opposite of what you think. Lag, connectivity issues, clientside - it's waaay harder to uncover soft aim users and near impossible to catch ESP users in a game like Planetside compared to other shooters. Some long standing cheaters were caught only because they recorded their games (like that guy who made Infil Bolt Action montages some years ago whose name I don't care enough to remember).

[@PoulpeViolet]

I still can't explain how a player can go from sprinting to aiming with 2 headshots in less than a second. Or other who can shoot you from 50m+ right in your face with x1 scope... For me, there are a lot of cheaters.

[@ItsMoorbinTime]

@@PoulpeViolet I can do all those things. The first one is likely due to Athlete and the second is mostly just luck but does happen every now and then.

[@Noah-rm5bu]

@@PoulpeViolet Sprinting to 2 headshots in under a second? It's called being good, sprint to ads time is around 300ms, good reaction time is 125ms, heads are bigger than in most games, and recoil is super easy to control with high fov. And 50m is not a very far engagement distance. 1x scope is the standard choice as other scopes make recoil worse and make it harder to be aware of surroundings and cqc. Tldr, git gud before you accuse people of cheating.

[@0sba]

as a casual player that would run about 1kpm with1.8-2 kd if I played like most players, and about 2-3kpm with 5-8 kd when I'm trying, I have some tips for people trying to get better at the game: 1: diversify. In order to do well in Planetside 2, you will need to look at the battle that you're participating at, and look for openings; which methods of attack could I use right now. Most of the time, I will be running with a wraith flash, a heavy flash, an ESF or as a max. I do not run membership, but I do have ASP discounts so people that run membership should be able to replicate my playstyle perfectly. 2: Don't try to fight battles that are unwinnable; is the sundy too far away from the capture point? Do not bother to try going for the point, instead you can try to kill stragglers with a wraith flash for example, or if the enemy is licking your spawnshield, a2g will often do wonders. 3: pick your battles; again, similar to point two but also very important, some bases are simply more suited to certain playstyles than others, and some playstyles will suit you better than others, depending on your qualities. For me personally, my skills are very well suited to running max and heavy flash (jockey 5, nanomesh generator with resist shield for that 1m15s resist shield and shield buff from jockey) in short range fights (I have a very good reactiontime, good battlesense but my motorics are not the greatest leading to me faceplanting when running heavy) while running wraith flash on the more long range, open field defends, while I like to run esf for attacking bases, and also try to get up on higher vantage points where I can shoot down on people with my lashing ammunition rifle on engineer (asp engi perk that allows you to have a pocket ppa pretty much). 4: do not overextend! when you are fighting, always look at the map and make deliberated choices on whether or not you want to clear a corner. With my heavy flash, for example, I'm always running radar and this allows me to see how many people are behind a corner or inside a building I might be looking to enter. When there are more than three people in the vicinity an I am on a heavy flash, I do not even attempt to breach, as it is suicide. When there are more than four people, I do not breach with my max, and when there are more than two people, I won't bother as a heavy or light assault. A caviat to this rule is smg and wraith flash infils, who should use their cloaking ability to get behind clusters of mobs and mow them down that way. You can get some insane killstreaks that way.

[@JarlenMcfly]

for me its not just a FPS games, its kinda have RPG elements. outfitts is what makes the game fun for me, like lone wolf an just shoot for 1-2 hr, but also like to play in outfitt that are somewhat tactic in there aproact to the game, but also just having fun an talking bull in DC, having drink ops if its a 18+outfitt.

[@fredrickheinecke3640]

The reality is this game pushes skill cap...over and over this skill cap requirement if far beyond what most can get to ... This skill cap is why most new players leave the game ....

[@calebhofer9421]

100%

[@Noah-rm5bu]

No, there is so much cheese, this game facilitates shitters. The skill gap has only been compressed over the years with removal of nanoweave. Absolutely not too high skill cap

[@kilersocke]

Well, if you face someone with high maxed implants and you wonder why they don't die, it's because their implants give them more resistance to bullets and heal them mid fight. So you are basically not able to kill this guy in a normal 1v1 situation.

[@khamalmatthews4622]

Howd you enlarge your icons like that

[@ZealousVidya]

I'll make a video on it in like 6-7 weeks(backlog)

[@JohnFromAccounting]

Exploiting movement desync should be a bannable offense. If they can't fix the engine, they need to make it clear that it's not acceptable gameplay. I've been playing since the start, almost always at the top of the scoreboard, and I hate the disparity between players that play the game normally, and those that bug abuse movement to avoid dying.

[@hobog]

5:00 what KZbin channels do you recommend for psyching before playing planetside? I feel although I'm bad at gonplay and my framerate's low, my vids match the format

[@ZealousVidya]

join a really good outfit will help a bunch any 2kpm heavy should be fine to check out on youtube doktorpsycho has a good series

[@rookie_Nimble]

Y is ur ui different than mine?

[@DanceSC2]

I close out of my game every hour and restart it, if I don't it bogs down for some reason and hit detection gets delayed. After an hour or so of playing and I will trade kills with people the majority of the time, and if I go beyond an hour and a half, there is almost no way I can kill anyone because the delay is so bad. Heat weapons will barely work, cloaking will have a half a second to full second delay (both decloaking and recloaking), jump jets will deplete immediately, not work at all, or keep flying longer than it should. If anyone has any idea how to fix this aside from restarting my game, would appreciate it.

[@Sango508]

how do you make the the skull with crossbones bigger and the healing image bigger on your screen?

[@ZealousVidya]

I'll try to make a video.on it soon, baically in useroptions INI u can make it biggwe

[@KnightRadiant-ip9qw]

I understand that lowering graphics increases FPS, but what is that render distance? (2:29) My goodness!

[@Gefardino]

how 2 fite sweats, click on head while sitting on right angle peek and spamming crouch with a pocket medic

[@GroundGame.]

🙃

[@dominik1023]

1:02 - what is "windows masks elevation"? I can't understand all the words you are saying, and have turned on the Closed Captioning option, but it's not helping.

[@ItsMoorbinTime]

"turning off windows mouse acceleration" Assuming you're on Windows 10: 1. Click Windows Icon, in bottom left 2. Settings, fourth option down in the bottom left 3. Devices, second option 4. Mouse, third tab on the right 5. Additional Mouse options, second line of text on the right 6. Pointer options, third tab at the top 7. Uncheck the 'Enhance Pointer Precision' box at the bottom of the Motion section

[@MajinStrach]

Mouse acceleration

[@ZealousVidya]

my bad

[@dominik1023]

@@ItsMoorbinTime I know how to do that, I just had no idea what the guy said.

[@Markfr0mCanada]

Regarding wall hack, if you're playing right you basically have this anyways because someome in your squad should be playing infil. If you're up on you SA, you know when someone's coming around the corner.

[@bruh_yourself5788]

They farm on you and they keep spamming "thanks" after they kill you...

[@lekebbles1392]

As a newer player, 99% of the game makes sense. It's simple layout and after HLL and squad it all is intuitive But, the animations for shooting and dying def feel...odd. even 3 months later it feels..like im fighting my character to do what i want them to do This isn't me saying this is exactly bad, or that in complaining, but in aircraft and ground vehicles it feels fluid and easy. As a grunt it feels....odd Just one guys thoughts.

[@kilersocke]

It's just old, and never was properly updated to have modern movement like a Battlefield or Hell let Loose has. The pace of the battle is often very fast, but the movement itself is clunky.

[@keksmlg]

Disproportionate advantage: Get nerfed, still be good.

[@Markfr0mCanada]

2:28 the dead guy thinks you're going to res him...

[@unbless3242]

These are the same ppl who endlessly demand even pop fights as well.... then they wonder why server pops dwindle.

[@jvond8921]

To fix this game it's all going to start by improving the CPU threading even by PlayStation 4 standards. They made it better several years ago but that wasn't done correctly.

[@MorrowPlays]

BY THE TIME I CAN ADS I ALREADY HAVE TEN ENEMY BULLETS LANDING ON MY FACE ITS INSANE./

[@SergeantBambionYoutube]

Can we mention unstable ammo?

[@Noah-rm5bu]

What about it? Unstable ammo is useless, it gets rid of 2x headshot multiplier

[@zakadams762]

There are people with packet loss but it's a very small part of the game. Coming from experts above me.

[@michaelleza3291]

I think you're underestimating the number of hackers in this game, but that's pretty normal for the gaming community. Everyone wants to believe the "skill" players are legit because they want to be them someday, and it's always heartbreaking when you find out they're using cheats to do stuff like highlight enemy players through walls or glitching their own hitbox so that they can't be shot. Once you learn what to look for it's obvious, and since it's well known that there is basically no enforcement of anti cheat in this game (remember when Recursion was caught by the anti cheat and the answer the developers came up with was to take anti cheat out of the game?) I can promise you right now that a very large chunk of the player base is running something. TR emerald is especially rancid.

[@cosmokramer9139]

If only this game wasn't stale on console...

[@Everythingdc1]

Omd fr

[@gaothegenet]

Now tell me how to improve if i have 200 ping :)

[@stuarthamilton5112]

The game is stacked in favor specific play styles. If you are not a player who plays in those ways, you will suffer. The nerf against knives is a classic example. Activatable knives used to oneshot all non-MAX classes at all times. It was a great way to hard counter the FPS try hard who has perfect aim. Cloak up, sneak up, knife him. Make him change HIS play style to counter you. We can’t have that though, can we? So they nerfed it. This is why player counts are dropping and people are losing interest. If you aren’t a specific type of player, this game isn’t for you anymore.

[@jayzenstyle]

honestly missed my knifing stalker playstyle. always laughed at the engineers that finally killed me then teabagged me for at least 30 seconds.

[@Noah-rm5bu]

Have to disagree and say that one shot knives were absolute cheese and should not have been allowed on invisible class. But also, I think it would have been fine to keep, as a bit of situational awareness makes knifers easy to spot and dispatch.

[@stuarthamilton5112]

@@Noah-rm5bu It was an excellent counter to a Zerg. Double stack full of heavies and medics? Send in a Stalker with a knife to disrupt it. You might only get two or three kills, but you are disrupting their coverage of doors and windows and causing them to have to stay extra frosty. God forbid we have a way to break that kind of point hold other than grenade spam and MAXes Ridiculous. It was only cheese because it was disruptive to the super sweaty eSports InfantrySide pro squad. If it was so cheesy it would’ve been a lot more common than it was. But yeah, we can’t have any play style that doesn’t focus on twitch skills and aim.

[@Noah-rm5bu]

@@stuarthamilton5112 Lmao didn't have to go off like that, I literally said I would've been fine if they didn't nerf the knives, chill out

[@stuarthamilton5112]

@@Noah-rm5bu Sorry. It was unwarranted. I’m just salty about it, along With the upcoming construction nerfs. I’m a thinking player. I don’t have the best aim, and despite years-decades-of FPS gameplay my aim is still average, especially factoring in lag and client side hit detection. It’s not bad, but not exceptional either. Nothing to write home about. I compensate by being more tactical, identifying weak points, attacking spawn solutions, and being generally disruptive. Many of these disruptive play styles are unconventional, like knife play and offensive base building. Every time I turn around it seems like the disruptive play styles-that are often balanced for solo or small squad play-are unceremoniously nerfed in favor of the zerg. That really pisses me off. I’m sorry I got mad.

[@ObakuZenCenter]

This didn't age well, given how many of the 'really good' players have been found to be cheating.

[@ZealousVidya]

Is there any examples besides hapro?

[@remipoujoulat7759]

Skilled players should be banned from playing any games, because their skills are wasted playing on useless games.

[@francisphillipeck4272]

I find playing anytime that isnt peak you are just getting farmed by the sweaty maxed out dudes. Like tonight was in a group of 8 maybe and we were getting squad wiped by a single maxed out heavy I mean we weren't the best but not the worst either and one person taking out a whole fucking squad? No thanks ive got better games to play.

[@jaybirdjohnstone5326]

Game sucks

[@hobog]

No u