Well Higby likes his little teases now and again... - Page 2

AThreatToYou · 2013-05-31, 11:22 AM

Tore was definitely an easy one. It never took very long.
Ixtab was hard because it was a giant funnel. Unless you ignored it for last.

Figment · 2013-05-31, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by AThreatToYou

Tore was definitely an easy one. It never took very long.
Ixtab was hard because it was a giant funnel. Unless you ignored it for last.

Most players approached it without spec ops support. :/

AMS/Router to CC or gen + Ixtab is piss easy.

NewSith · 2013-05-31, 03:19 PM

For all the critics out there - it is intentionally rough.

AThreatToYou · 2013-05-31, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by Figment

Most players approached it without spec ops support. :/

AMS/Router to CC or gen + Ixtab is piss easy.

If you can get a router to the CC... and you have to get the LLU out of the base and to another base...

Oh, sure, I'm over-complicating things, but Ixtab provided me with the longest fights in PS1 i've ever had aside from Baal.

Fenrys · 2013-05-31, 08:25 PM

I hear it was built using the bodies of players who died in that SOI as the sole construction material.

Baneblade · 2013-05-31, 08:48 PM

Mekala sieges eclipsed Ixtab. But the hardest base in PS1 to take from a determined defense? Zotz.

Which was ironic, because Bio Labs were the easiest bases to assault in PS1.

GeoGnome · 2013-05-31, 09:22 PM

Look here, for someone who tried to make some close facsimile of Hossin.

AThreatToYou · 2013-05-31, 09:46 PM

I remember Mekala. The only thing is Mekala is a tech plant, thus allowing the defenders a better chance at actually pushing out. I'm not discrediting your claim: Mekala was a hard nut... that island base. If the attackers were determined, yes...

The thing about Ixtab is it's a giant funnel for both the defenders and attackers. Once you're in Ixtab, the owning faction, if they have continental domination in mind, might want to just abandon the base because it's so hard to get the zerg to leave. That's why I remark Ixtab as the nigh-impenetrable fortress of a week's long zerg battle, and many more single days of the same with a couple failed ops thrown in.

In short, I hope Ixtab's glory returns to PlanetSide 2. It'll be the new Crown.

oosik · 2013-05-31, 10:34 PM

Ixtab was as nothing compared to the capitol, Voltan, on the central island of Hossin. In the four months before Ps2 beta started, I played tr and was on a lot. 4 times while I was playing Voltan was the last tr base in the world and was never lost when that happened.

NewSith · 2013-06-01, 07:36 AM

You do realise that the most fun action was always happening between Kisin and Akan? Ixtab was just a typical place to zerg...

Baneblade · 2013-06-01, 08:59 AM

Well, Laka trumps both of those.

KodanBlack · 2013-06-01, 10:13 AM

Hossin teaser and the only thing shown is an AMP Station? LMAO! We see those every time we log on!

Climhazzard · 2013-06-01, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by CrimsonTemplar

Exactly why I posted it. Apart from the name, that's all there is. Nothing to see.

Well, there is the minimap...

Falcon_br · 2013-06-01, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Climhazzard

Well, there is the minimap...

Yeah, I think I was one of the few that notice that, looks live a river runs under that base!

Also, I will always remember Gunuku, that base was legendary! 4 towers to defends, a tactical nightmare on the center of the map!

Timealude · 2013-06-01, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by Lonehunter

Teasing what? He's inside

actually, if you look at the minimap theres water running right through the base.