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The frigid battle island of Nexus is marked by icy corridors and steep elevation changes.
Nexus is a battle island located on Auraxis. Initially intended to be the first playable battle island, and tested during late 2013, Nexus is the second battle island added to PlanetSide 2 after Desolation.
As opposed to the more open and flexible gameplay offerings of typical Aurxian continents, Nexus is designed to offer a more rigid, competitive, and balanced experience to players. The continent, uniquely, only accommodates for two factions, rather than the three of all other continents, making battles for the island a one-versus-one experience. Following on with this philosophy, Nexus features a notably symmetrical design, with each faction having nigh-on identical facilities on their halves of the map, and central facilities offering equal opportunities for attack from either direction.
Nexus is relatively varied in its terrain, ranging from alpine forests to towering glacial caves, through the island was fully themed as an arctic region.
Nexus was featured in season one of Nexus Outfit Wars, starting early in September 2022 and finishing mid-way through October. Each team started in possession of their warpgate's appropriate Nexus facility (Nexus Alpha or Omega), as well as the two facilities connected to them. Matches were fought over a 45-minute alert, with the victor being the team that held the most facilities come the end of the match.
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- A limited number of outfits were granted the privilege of fighting on Nexus in 2013, partaking in the one-versus-one format against eachother over the island's facilities with the final battles taking place late in October of that year. After 2013, however, development on Nexus and battle islands as a whole was shelved. Nexus was, for the majority of the game's lifespan afterwards, the only battle island to have seen live action, until Desolation was released and made playable in 2020 and 2021.
- Nexus' return to Auraxis was only announced in the 2022 Roadmap, which announced the revival of the battle island to be used in Outfit Wars in its original one-versus-one format.