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On December 03 2004 16:07 This-is-not-a-smurf wrote:
I hope these maps aren't like the blizz maps -.- they're terribly unbalanced, and the mineral placement looks like it was done by a drunk monkey. Maybe they're getting Rose.of.Dream to come in :O
those maps are frm 1999 ... made before anyone knew anything about balanced maps basically
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gay blizzard. 25 more minutes til close of normal workday. maybe they have bill slaving overtime to pump them out ;O
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coulee looks interesting, perhaps the bridges should be wider (use starforge and break the EULA  )
maybe it's a zerg map?
AT LAST
I think that hawk eye isnt terran friendly, but blocking the hill with expo may lead to vicory (but toss can drop), hmm.
astral eclipse my bets are: z>p, p>t, z=t
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My mouth is talented at many things, but not at keeping it shut about making maps for BLIZZARD.
It was very hard ! T_T
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The maps are very well done ( And here I was expecting blizzard employees to make them  ) Time to test out these maps in pubbies ^^;
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Netherlands13554 Posts
map by mora looks nice
the second one is most imbalanced map ever
P>>>>>>T Z>>>>>>P TvZ seems about balanced I guess
The third map looks ok, don't know about that one, I think p has an edge over t, and z over p.
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twisted, that means so much to me. thank you so much.
any favors
are yours
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<3
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Netherlands13554 Posts
<3 
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-Coulee: hard for zerg. Opponent can fast expand without being rushed, then take the corner gas expo and the min only pretty easily. same probably goes for pvt, have fun playing vs a 12cc build. i like the idea with the two geysirs in the middle tho.
-hawkeye: very cool map, lots of strategy, many expansions but all very vulnerable to drops and stuff. again terran-favoring i guess, they can like block the one choke top right or bottom left, expand twice and siege the opponents natural, so obviously we'll see a lot of dropping and air units on that map. I'm not sure about the sense of the middle area, if one player is able to expand their with such an open middle the game is pretty much over anyways. Also pvz seems impossible to win on that map, he can just double expand, secure the middle with tons of lurks and sunks and get 200 supply ultra/ling
-astral eclipse: i would've made that mineral wall a little more than only 16, a zerg can double expand easily. very similar to bladestorm gameplaywise imo, except that pvz will be even harder without the islands, tvz and pvt will be fine i think, except that terran will have to kill the protoss rather early because he will never get more than 2 expansions, slow push is probably impossible with such an open middle
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They honestly all look pretty cool.
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Coulee sucks pvt. All terran needs to do is 12cc then go fact & port and just push right through the middle of the map (straight up). Toss needs to fly to carriers, but terran can just get wraiths to counter that. Infinity covered this map.
Hawkeye - looks like another t map. terran has 2 free expansions vs zerg and toss.. and 2 expos = terran will win most of the time. pvz looks decent, as toss gets 2 free expands (as well as zerg). however, zerg can easily contain and mass expo like infinity said. 
astral eclipse - pvt and tvz will be fine, except it seems that t > p a little bit, as terran has 2 free bases and toss needs to be up 1 base to compete with terran. because of this, toss will need to expand to another main to spread out terran's army (but the main will be close to terran army...) should be cool pvt's and tvz though. pvz - infinity covered that as well.
oh well. at least it's not a lt tourney.
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awesome ^^ job.I like the Hawkeye ..
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I thought coulee looked good. I am really glad this wasn't a bunch of lt knock off's. I think Blizz did a good job picking the map makers... Does anyone know if they were chosen at random or did you guys submit and just hope you got picked?
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EPT![[image loading]](http://img110.exs.cx/img110/1166/23-2Coulee.th.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://img110.exs.cx/img110/9266/4f-2Hawkeye.th.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://img110.exs.cx/img110/9105/bc-4AstralEclipse.th.jpg)
