Cyssor - A tribute Continent. [Archive]

EVILPIG

2013-04-10, 11:39 AM

I would love to see Cyssor developed as a tribute continent to the old Cyssor. It seems it would not be hard to make it with the exact same landscape as the original, just with the new skin. Flight ceiling may even reach the top of Mount Cyssor. Hell, I say put a new base inside of it, but beyond that, make the continent the exact same as the old and make some of the bases old school as well.

Sonny

2013-04-10, 12:05 PM

Yes! Cyssor was by far my favourite continent in PS 1. I was so disappointed not to see that under consideration in the sequel. I would cry tears of joy if the devs considered making it again :p.

Deadeye

2013-04-10, 12:22 PM

Would love at least one old school continent and none would be better than Cyssor. The epic siege fights we had at Leza with Vanu and/or TR trying to storm the beaches of our island fortress; it was the site of some of the coolest, biggest fights in all of Planetside 1.

CToxin

2013-04-10, 12:25 PM

I have never played PS1, despite the claims SOE likes to make (veteran patch). Can someone enlighten me on this "Cyssor" continent and why it was so great?

LayZ

2013-04-10, 12:41 PM

I have never played PS1, despite the claims SOE likes to make (veteran patch). Can someone enlighten me on this "Cyssor" continent and why it was so great?

Epic bridge battles

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/5069/cyssorcontinentalmap.jpg

Sledgecrushr

2013-04-10, 12:51 PM

I didnt play ps1 for long. But when I did i played on Cyssor.

Shamrock

2013-04-10, 01:11 PM

Bridge battles + excellent battle flow + Bases on islands, we wont see its like again until forgelight gets a real handle on depicting water on a scale larger than streams.

Hmr85

2013-04-10, 01:17 PM

I would love to see this. Cyssor was easily one of my favorite continents.

Chaff

2013-04-10, 01:24 PM

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Thanks for that pic LayZ ....... I was having a hard time visualizing it accurately.

I support Piggy's asking (pleading/begging) for it to come back essentially the same
but with the new game skin. With so many changes from PS1 to PS2 I can't imagine
it being as fun.......

"Mem'ries,
Light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures,
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? Could we?
Mem'ries, may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it's the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember...
The way we were...
The way we were... "
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bpostal

2013-04-10, 01:28 PM

Cyssor was okay, except the Southwest corner. Fuck Leza.

PredatorFour

2013-04-10, 01:34 PM

Unfortunately the scale wouldnt fit on PS 2. The map would be smaller than that and wouldnt fit all the bases on... would be cool tho back to cyssorside:)

EVILPIG

2013-04-10, 01:35 PM

Unfortunately the scale wouldnt fit on PS 2. The map would be smaller than that and wouldnt fit all the bases on... would be cool tho back to cyssorside:)

Make a bigger map.

PredatorFour

2013-04-10, 01:39 PM

Maybe if they got rid of the red zones .....

Falcon_br

2013-04-10, 01:41 PM

Epic bridge battles

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/5069/cyssorcontinentalmap.jpg

I remember that continent too well!

When they introduced the liberator, the bridge battles was ruined, because every time your team started to take the bridge, one liberator did a strafing run to ruin your day.

Before we had liberators, it was very nice to cross those land waters with the deliverer and flank enemy positions!

Also, I lost the count of how many tank had my team destroyed laying ambuses on road to the south of Honsi bio lab.

Also, I think no one will ever forget Gunuku there was even an outfit called defenders of Gunuku! Dude, the Crown is nothing compared to Gunuku, the crown is on the top of a montain in the center of the map, Gunuku is in an island in the center of the map, with 4 towers and 4 bridges to defend! It was the ultimate bad ass base!

Of course we need some adjustments for planetside 2, but having that old continent back would be awesome!

Chaff

2013-04-10, 01:42 PM

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Much bigger Map ?. Absolutley.

And sure, Leza (or Gunuku) could become the "new Crown". whatever. I sure as heck would give a bigger map Redux of Cyssor plenty of time to grow on me. The devs would certainly look for ways to tweak flow to make it work well ..... I tend to be more "try it" vs. the naysayers who shoot almost every idea ('cept their own) down.
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hashish

2013-04-10, 01:54 PM

Yea cyssor was my fav cont too back in the days :D

I just hope we get some nice creative continents with different elements in the future like cyssor's big rivers.. Unfortunately so far, with the current engine, it just doesnt seem that they can make such characteristic conts :( I hope they can but so far doesnt seem that way :(

SturmovikDrakon

2013-04-10, 06:48 PM

Didn't T.Ray say in an interview with Hamma that Oshur would be the only continent that looked like the original?

I wouldn't mind getting Cyssor as well though

AThreatToYou

2013-04-10, 07:31 PM

Cyssorside, ARISE! Arise!

Dougnifico

2013-04-10, 07:40 PM

They should have done that will the others. The layouts from PS1 were fine. I know they wanted squares to optimize play area but once you have an intercontinental lattice, none of that matters. Eventually they should go back and add stuff to the current ones to "de-square" them.

Timealude

2013-04-11, 06:31 AM

As long as magriders can float over waters sure. :D

Canaris

2013-04-11, 07:44 AM

well let's just say if they don't make Cyssor now like the original it shall be dubbed Eyssor :D

A little nostalgia can do this game the world of good, I agree with EP of all the conts adding in Cyssor would make the most sense given it's strategic design, you can really add in some very nice features, make Gunuku dropship centre would make a great capital base again but I do like the devious idea of a Mount Cyssor base, maybe something akin to a big infantry battle zone inside the Mountain. (Not core combat style)

Pella

2013-04-11, 08:09 AM

Remember how long it took to get across cyssor. Even in a Mozzie.

Now it feels like 30 seconds on PS2 Maps.

bpostal

2013-04-11, 08:56 AM

Putting in Cyssor to me, is like having PS3 and asking them to put in Indar.

WSNeo

2013-04-11, 10:49 AM

Remember how long it took to get across cyssor. Even in a Mozzie.

Now it feels like 30 seconds on PS2 Maps.

THIS!!!

Though I absolutely love this game, this is one of the few things that bother me about right now. Despite the bigger battles that PS2 totes, the continents seem smaller than a lot of the maps in PS1. Then again in PS1 you had to travel from WG to WG to get to a particular continent if you didn't take the HART or have a connected broadcast WG.

But then again, that could be just me or just the size that they prefer to have the current continents as, maybe they'll expand over time.

Snipefrag

2013-04-11, 11:14 AM

Putting in Cyssor to me, is like having PS3 and asking them to put in Indar.

this.

zirakaji

2013-04-11, 01:01 PM

Though I absolutely love this game, this is one of the few things that bother me about right now. Despite the bigger battles that PS2 totes, the continents seem smaller than a lot of the maps in PS1...
THIS!!!

Also, i would be more than happy to see Cyssor as it was back then in PS1.

Someone, call Higby, and tell him what we want xD

Qwan

2013-04-11, 01:14 PM

I have never played PS1, despite the claims SOE likes to make (veteran patch). Can someone enlighten me on this "Cyssor" continent and why it was so great?

Right between Tore and Leza, there were some epic fights, vanu MBT could cross the water, but the NC and TR would rip us to chunks, from the other side, some times the best way to get across the water was a gal drop, EMP blast when you hit the roof of the tower, hack the top door, and fight your way down to the tower capture point. Man Those were the days. Cough... Cough... Yep those were some epic battles sonny, damn I feel old as hell when I think of the hours we spend fighting over those bridges. Dont get me wrong though there are some epic battles in PS2 as well :rolleyes:, I mean look at the crown, really epic.

Dougnifico

2013-04-11, 09:02 PM

To you guys saying it feels smaller. I'm pretty sure its the same size, I just think that the ESF's haul a lot more ass this time around. lol

Wahooo

2013-04-11, 11:10 PM

To you guys saying it feels smaller. I'm pretty sure its the same size, I just think that the ESF's haul a lot more ass this time around. lol

This came up last year when the Indar map was first leaked and the continent size with it. I don't recall numbers but it was a let down. Everything so far was bigger. Bigger bases, bigger pop numbers, bigger battles... we were expecting bigger continents. Then the sqkm size was announced and we were like... :huh: that is way smaller than almost all the PS1 continents. Cyssor is MUCH bigger than any PS2 continent it is not just flight speed.

On that note one of my first experiences in PS1 was stupid IA somehow dropped me onto cyssor that was nearly dead all the way down in Leza tower. We flipped it, then I notice a hack on Ekera appear. Being brand new all I had was a harasser and no way to communicate the issue. I drove all the way from Leza to Ekera... It took forver. The hack got cleared but the hotspots stayed right up until I got there and there was no one left at the base, no friendlies no enemies. I then got blown up by mines while I drove away from the base.

Cyssor of the past couple years definitely does not have the same happy nostalgia that it did prior BFR bridge battles were NOT glorious.

Brusi

2013-04-12, 01:17 AM

I'm not ready for Cyssor until they figure out how to implement large bodies of water correctly.

zirakaji

2013-04-12, 04:31 AM

I'm not ready for Cyssor until they figure out how to implement large bodies of water correctly.

Whats wrong with water?

Dougnifico

2013-04-12, 04:36 AM

Another thing, Gunuku better be GLORIOUS!

Qwan

2013-04-12, 07:19 AM

You know what im really curiouse about, its how they are going to do searhus, the continent with th enormouse volcano in the middle of it. Inside the craytor they had 3 bases in it umm I believe it was Oro, Ngura, and pele, I cant wait to see this continent. With the engine and stuff this should be a real pretty one. Im almost tempted to just log in and fly around and just reminisce. There were alot of big fights up the south side of that volcano.

capiqu

2013-04-13, 12:17 PM

Well It is kind of square so why not?

I would love to see a server with all 11 original planetside 1 conts or give each server 1 planetside 1 cont so ech server would be different. Hell put planetside 1 on forgelight I would love to see how it looks.

Vashyo

2013-04-13, 01:04 PM

I only want maps that aren't all square-ish :D

Hamma

2013-04-14, 10:18 PM

I know Higby said there was going to be a tribute cont of some sort wasn't it oshur?

capiqu

2013-04-14, 11:43 PM

SwiftRanger

2013-04-15, 07:07 AM

I know Higby said there was going to be a tribute cont of some sort wasn't it oshur?
In the most recent PC Gamer UK (May issue, came out last week) there was a PlanetSide 2 update with information (from Matt Higby) about Oshur: it would be some sort of copy to PS1 Oshur and it would come out after Hossin. The way they talked about it in the article it sounded like it would be released before Searhus...

Qwan

2013-04-15, 07:17 AM

I'm not ready for Cyssor until they figure out how to implement large bodies of water correctly.

I found a small stream on amerish, I actually parked my sundy got out and took a knee next to it and smoked a cig.

capiqu

2013-04-15, 07:40 AM

NO my loved Searhurs pushed back once again. I hope this means they are making Searhurs the bad ass of the baddest .

camycamera

2013-04-15, 08:35 AM

Whats wrong with water?

they haven't figured out how to implement water that you can swim in and doesn't kill you yet.

Hamma

2013-04-15, 09:34 AM

In the most recent PC Gamer UK (May issue, came out last week) there was a PlanetSide 2 update with information (from Matt Higby) about Oshur: it would be some sort of copy to PS1 Oshur and it would come out after Hossin. The way they talked about it in the article it sounded like it would be released before Searhus...

Ok cool - so I'm not crazy. Well, not for that reason anyway.. ;)

Goliith

2013-04-15, 11:38 AM

Oh my god, yes. I loved Cyssor so much. I would love to see it remade. Having Hossin and Cyssor...I would be set for life.

As far as the continents being much smaller than in PS1, it's tough for me to gauge as everything moved MUCH slower in PS1, MBTs did like 45 KPH, Galaxys maxed out at like 89KPH and Mossies topped at like 110-115KPH if I remember.

Now we've got everything flying around at 50 KPH at the slowest, 300+KPH at the fastest(With AB) Infantry that can sprint without the Surge implant 100% of the time and more, so things feel closer and smaller.

ringring

2013-04-15, 01:27 PM

Apparently Oshur is going to be the tribute continent.

Same as the original with the bases and road in the same places or as much as possible.

Sauce: PC Gamer

camycamera

2013-04-15, 11:20 PM