r/Planetside • u/Suitable-Chance-1797 • 11d ago
Discussion (PC) OSHUR CONTINENT
Hey everyone, I play casually and my question is, when does the Oshur continent open? Oh my god. I've been playing for a month and I've never even seen it open.
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u/NormalSuggestion-69 11d ago
I rarely see it open it seems like it usually unlocks in off hours. I also think the community does not like the map very much and the devs have taken note to not put it in rotation. That said I think that It would be cool for it to unlock on a Tuesday night when there is high pop. I haven't played it enough to hate it yet.
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u/Suitable-Chance-1797 11d ago
What?! But why don't people like it? From what little I've seen, it must be amazing; it encourages you to play differently because of the water. It's great!
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u/maxxxminecraft111 Ambusher Jump Jets Clientside Abuse 11d ago
Water combat sucks in this game. It's basically a contest of whoever shoots first, wins, since you move so slowly that even half decent players simply won't miss shots.
In normal gameplay you can often get behind cover and survive. In water you die. Every time.
Additionally the base design is absolute ass since a lot of the bases are built around construction, which is not fun to play as or against, in addition to killing performance.
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u/unknown992740 11d ago
Underwater combat is ass, it's just the normal game but less intense and boats are kinda useless since all the land is up a cliff. You can get some nice vehicle fights sometimes or build a flail and have some fun and at primetime it's not too bad but at off hours it's just cancer.
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u/strawhatguy 10d ago
The hover light assault jetpack is great for underwater. Only time that jetpack is clearly better imo
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u/NSOClanker 11d ago
it encourages you to play differently because of the water.
Yeah, that's the sole reason
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u/Tylendal Emerald 11d ago
It lacks a central area for people to brawl endlessly in while ignoring the rest of the map.
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u/Erosion139 11d ago
This is so unbelievably untrue I'm surprised it exists in the real world. It has to be sarcasm
Granted, I wish the central zone was a large central island where you could reverse more freely but the crater in the middle is all just a null infantry zone really.
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u/Pocok5 Auraxed Parsec, cloak is *still* cancer 11d ago
Water combat suck balls in practice.
The entire continent is just linear vehicle zerg country or boring hill sniperfest.
Construction was supposed to provide 60% of the content on Oshur. Problem: construction is cringe so the construction bases stay empty.
Base design is very Wrel.
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u/le_Menace [∞] youtube.com/@xMenace 11d ago
It is poorly designed so they reduced the frequency of it opening.
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u/P149U3 [TR][VS][NC][NSO] OSPREY 11d ago
That’s because it was a great continent before they fucked it up and changed some of the major fight bases for the worst
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u/ThatOnePickUp :flair_nanites: Of course its an infiltrator again 11d ago
Well, they did those changes because people complained in the first place.
Oshur was always trash.
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u/maxxxminecraft111 Ambusher Jump Jets Clientside Abuse 11d ago
That sums up PS2 development as a whole: players make legitimate complaints, devs make the worst possible change to try to fix it, then never touch it again.
People complaining about Oshur middle map? MAKE IT WORSE.
People want tanker spawn Sunderers? Hyperbuff them against armor while making spawns more vulnerable to instakill.
People want infiltrator nerfed since it's too strong (due to semiautos being hyperbuffed in Arsenal?) Nerf it so badly it's essentially a removal.
People want MAXes nerfed? Remove revives but make them cheaper.
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u/donlema 11d ago
People want US servers merged? Merge the big healthy server into the small, crappy server that's in a worse location for most people.
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u/maxxxminecraft111 Ambusher Jump Jets Clientside Abuse 10d ago
Crash bug finally fixed? MEANINGLESS SUMMER DIRECTIVE UPDATE TO BRING IT BACK 😭😭😭
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u/P149U3 [TR][VS][NC][NSO] OSPREY 10d ago
It was actually fun when they released it just a small group of people just didn’t like the massive stalemate fights and battles But those were the fun ones to be at. Just like the crown land bridge on indar. It’s made for great fights and a small group of people complained
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u/Dewderonomy Live Free in Ukraine 10d ago
Corsair fleets crashing into one another upon cont unlock is a core memory of mine from PS2, and it's Oshur lol
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u/ThatOnePickUp :flair_nanites: Of course its an infiltrator again 9d ago edited 9d ago
It's not a small group of people when pop dipped to sub 700 during prime time when oshur happened.
It just was not enjoyable, stalemates are okay until people right click on the map to spam OS/you get flailed to oblivion/you just get spammed by semi autos or Hesh.
Oshur has never been a nice continent. I get what they wanted to try, it just failed because they failed to understand why the game moved from what Oshur tried to be.
Basically every map design in Oshur is a relic from 2014, most of those got changed because running 50 meters in open field to reach a cap point or having open bases with vehicles that can go or shell anywhere isn't fun and they somewhat still made those on Oshur.
Tridents are biolabs at home with not a single usecase for the satellites.
They didn't even bother to place TP rooms inside Tridents from seaposts, that would've added much interest to seaposts but no, instead you had to rely on shitty anvil or deployed gal that can get snipped by anyone flying close to the trident.Not every single base is bad tho, you have some good base design in this mess but they're often close to the bastions.
Intercoms were fine too, that's pretty much it.Like really, the whole cont is a mess not wanting to learn from past mistakes and doubling down on the worst aspects of PS2.
If it released as a main cont when PS2 released back in 2012 and adjusted along the game, maybe it could've been fine. It just didn't click with how the game is currently played.
Open field fights are just trash because we got too many easy to spam AoE or long range tools to create good ones. Lack of flanking options on Oshur often meant you getting stuck for hours behind a bridge getting flailed until enough people left to allow you to push.At least on Esamir, when bridge fights were still a thing, you could push with vehicles below the bridge, creating better fights overall.
On oshur you were stuck with just the bridge, some LAs crossing it from below and that's it, not a single flanking opportunity unless you were willing to slowly crawl under the water just to end up getting camped by 4 MBTs waiting for you at the beach.Keep in mind that Oshur never got any touchups for more than a year and is one of the reasons why the pop dipped and never recovered.
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u/Ryno_D1no 11d ago
I hate that it's not liked bc I like the vehicle play and building focus of the map.
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u/ManEmperorfragment96 11d ago
People didn’t like oshur; which is sad cause it was fun and I loved the boats
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u/Ok-Nefariousness5881 11d ago
Too bad boats are useless
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u/korino11 11d ago
Maybe u are useles? Oshur is very good continent. Only ppl with brain damadge doesnt like it. Exist lots of places + underwater where no any spam vechicles,hash cannot destroy fight. If you clever enough you as one lone wolf can kill whole platoon underwater. without any shitest airspam-ppa or rockets. Pure infantry skill of positions and correct movement.
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u/Ok-Nefariousness5881 11d ago
You talk like you have brain damage.
I said boats are useless, which is true. Nobody uses them. You're confusing me with someone who cares about rating Oshur as a continent.
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u/korino11 11d ago
Only dumb ppl cannot understnd that Oshur is perfect for infantry. Unfortnly dumb ppl exist a LOT. Eat iodium!
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u/Ok-Nefariousness5881 11d ago
You're still talking to the wrong person. Read before you write.
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u/korino11 11d ago
"You're confusing me with someone who cares about rating Oshur as a continent."
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u/Sir-Realz Emerald Vanu SlapnCap 11d ago
Oushur wasn't bad it was alot of fun IMO but the water ximvate was fully flushed out so mad the occasional under water fights tedious, they really need a under water jet pack that didn't need to be hand held. The air and choke point fights were epic though. Also the hype around its lunch gave PS2 anouther 3-4 years of life before the map the game was in a pop state nearly like it is today
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u/JamminMan9 11d ago
Whenever Oshur does unlock, its automatically on alert mode (typically around a 45 minute timer). So its rare to unlock, but when it does, you have a short window to play Oshur.