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doomed
Australia420 Posts
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Ribbon
United States5278 Posts
I doubt they'd want to remove one of their new maps right away. The april fool's patch notes made a joke like "3 new versions of Delta Quadrant added due to it's high popularity", so Blizz understands it's not a popular map. I'd be surprised to see it stay. But I predicted it'd be gone last season, too  Backwater Gulch is apparently a really popular map. Presumably among the more casual set? So's TA, though, and XNC is the definitive SC2 map. Shattered Sky is just a metal clone I'm very concerned about Metal. Shakuras keeps getting dicked in and out of the map pool, so Blizz it seems was never too thrilled with it. So I imagine the maps on the pull list are DQ, Scrap Metal Shakuras Possibly with one map being spared if one of the new four has a glaring problem. We'll see. | ||
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SDream
Brazil896 Posts
It's interesting that it actually already have the link to the PTR 1.3.5 blog entry, but there is a error message when we try to get there, it is probably ready, but have not been "release" to public. So it will probably come soon(tm), probably thursday or friday night. Edit: this also means that the PTR won't last that long and season 3 will indeed come sooner than 5 months of season 2  | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10383 Posts
oh well thanks for update! @Ribbon Well, at least, that Blue Poster felt DQ was not a popular map. We don't know about whoever manages the maps =O I mean, the blue posters may have let them know, but the people who pick the maps and pick them might keep them in because they think they're good despite unpopularity | ||
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hooberschmit
Canada101 Posts
On June 23 2011 13:46 Ribbon wrote: I doubt they'd want to remove one of their new maps right away. The april fool's patch notes made a joke like "3 new versions of Delta Quadrant added due to it's high popularity", so Blizz understands it's not a popular map. I'd be surprised to see it stay. But I predicted it'd be gone last season, too Backwater Gulch is apparently a really popular map. Presumably among the more casual set? So's TA, though, and XNC is the definitive SC2 map. Shattered Sky is just a metal clone I'm very concerned about Metal. Shakuras keeps getting dicked in and out of the map pool, so Blizz it seems was never too thrilled with it. So I imagine the maps on the pull list are DQ, Scrap Metal Shakuras Possibly with one map being spared if one of the new four has a glaring problem. We'll see. It would be really annoying if they were to pull metal as it is pretty much a main stay with the community. It and XNC are really the last original blizz maps left that are played on often. | ||
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EliteReplay
Dominican Republic913 Posts
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10383 Posts
The page you were looking for either doesn’t exist or some terrible, terrible error has occurred. terrible, terrible error rofl | ||
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doomed
Australia420 Posts
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darthcaesar
United States475 Posts
On June 23 2011 12:45 imareaver3 wrote: good news that these maps will be tested before they're allowed on the actual ladder! Slag Pits was on PTR before it was put on ladder. Everyone said it was terrible, and it still made it to ladder. So was backwater gulch. | ||
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DooMDash
United States1015 Posts
On June 23 2011 13:19 susySquark wrote: "Minor interface changes"? Can it be.... no more input limit?!?! One can only hope. | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10383 Posts
Slag Pits, I have no idea how they called that a macro map. Many times I have posted, it might have been a communication error, because it looks like Slag Pits might have been designed so that 2 base (and 1 base) play would be strong, since there is no "natural" 3rd other than the gold or another spawn point's natural or main, or if it was intended to be a macro map but the design failed (close positions were too close, but close air or cross positions allowed you to take the other spawn point's natural or main, which weren't very far, but made close positions imba cus of that). | ||
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Zrana
United Kingdom698 Posts
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nvs.
Canada3609 Posts
Oh well, I'm really excited for some new maps etc. | ||
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Kinetik_Inferno
United States1431 Posts
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Ribbon
United States5278 Posts
On June 23 2011 14:25 nvs. wrote: Ahhh I was expecting a few minor balance changes as well. -.- Well, the community WAS complaining that Blizz was making balance changes too often for the game to stabilize. Blizzard, for whatever else they've done wrong, have had a pretty good track record overall on balance changes, so I'm glad they're taking their time. | ||
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Tweleve
United States644 Posts
On June 23 2011 14:17 Yoshi Kirishima wrote: Although, they fixed Backwater Gulch a little, and tbh it isn't so horrible a map that you can't play on it, it's just not brilliant in any way. Slag Pits, I have no idea how they called that a macro map. Many times I have posted, it might have been a communication error, because it looks like Slag Pits might have been designed so that 2 base (and 1 base) play would be strong, since there is no "natural" 3rd other than the gold or another spawn point's natural or main, or if it was intended to be a macro map but the design failed (close positions were too close, but close air or cross positions allowed you to take the other spawn point's natural or main, which weren't very far, but made close positions imba cus of that). Wait what? People call Slag a macro map???????? | ||
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nvs.
Canada3609 Posts
Well, the community WAS complaining that Blizz was making balance changes too often for the game to stabilize. Ya, I can totally understand that. I just feel that there's some intangible element missing from the game that I'm hoping to find through the perfect balance tweak. (Since HOTS is still a ways away) Probably totally unreasonable, but a boy can dream. | ||
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epikAnglory
United States1120 Posts
As to the comment above, that is a good point, and though the patches are making it hard to find out the current MU metagames, the patches are helping to balance the game overall, not doing any harm at all. If slowing down the final discovery of the game is worth near optimal balance, so be it. | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10383 Posts
On June 23 2011 14:38 SentinelSC2 wrote: Wait what? People call Slag a macro map???????? Well, Blizzard described it as a macro map, referencing how they liked Metalopolis but wanted to create an even more macro-y map than Metal (lol wtf? has to be a communication error, or the people writing the descriptions isn't David Kim or aren't the people who made the maps, or the people who make the maps don't know enough about the game). | ||
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Ponyo
United States1231 Posts
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