Actually, it will be a protoss buff I think. If you think 4 gate is dumb, wait for 4 gate with proxy pylons on a huge map where the opponent needs to run miles to get to your base, while your warping in in his.

If worker distances are high enough, by the time korean 4-gate starts working zerg will probably have had enough time to mount a defense. 4-gate might also pass from being cheese to having a strong follow-up, since countering it won't mean instant GG in a counterattack.

TemplarCo.

Mexico2870 Posts

January 08 2011 19:54 GMT

#324

YES!! this is AWESOME!! this means that Blizzard is being pushed to make a move about the map pool in ladder games :D!!!
Very good move by GomTV

ethil

Italy58 Posts

January 08 2011 19:56 GMT

#325

When is blizzard going to release new ladder maps?
btw these maps are great ^^

AngryJackB

Congo83 Posts

January 08 2011 19:57 GMT

#326

I just hope whatever maps are used in the GSL are used in the ladder map pool, and other sc2 tournaments use the same pool.

I've played on crossfire quite a bit with my friends its pretty fun.

kuroshiro

United Kingdom378 Posts

January 08 2011 20:01 GMT

#327

This really begs the question of how close GOM are tied to Blizzard. I had thought up until now that GOM virtually *are* Blizzard for all intents and purposes (I blamed the change of policy on thumbs-downing GSL maps on this - reasoning that blizz must have wanted tournament stats on the un-used maps).

But I think this changes my perception a little bit... and it makes me doubt that Blizz will be making any of their own changes to their map pool map-size policy any time soon. If GOM had any assurances from Blizz about an improvement in the pool they would just sit back and wait instead of trialling their own maps. I haven't heard anything from blizzard about changes or initiatives to bring community maps in either so...

Well that's my latest 2c.

Butcherski

Poland446 Posts

January 08 2011 20:06 GMT

#328

On January 08 2011 23:04 MorroW wrote:
thats absolutely amazing news. idont even care if the new maps are just as garbage because this shows signs of gsl listening to the community and taking a new step in sc2 history

This x 10000. Its the first step that somebody had to take and im glad its the GSL. I also dont care if my race looses on all the maps. If the korean community starts balancing the game by using maps there's just no way sc2 will fail. Thats the biggest thing holding sc2 back IMO.

No_Roo

United States905 Posts

January 08 2011 20:06 GMT

#329

Good god these maps are beautiful :O

uNiGNoRe

Germany1115 Posts

January 08 2011 20:07 GMT

#330

I don't know why but the sentence "Hell, it's about time!" can be used to describe nearly every news regarding SC2.

Is Blizzard so slow or are we just too impatient?

Fdragon

United States96 Posts

January 08 2011 20:09 GMT

#331

Good work GSL unlike most of the community I knew that new maps would start at the tourney scene not the community QQing.

knyttym

United States5797 Posts

January 08 2011 20:13 GMT

#332

they actually look like playable maps! Yay I might actually start up sc2 again if these (or other large maps) get played in the community. 3 cheers for korea!

MK4512

Canada938 Posts

January 08 2011 20:15 GMT

#333

On January 09 2011 04:12 Archaic wrote:
Does Crossfire remind anyone of Peaks of Baekdu? And is it just me, or are these maps significantly bigger than ones before?

That's cause its a remake, and yes they're bigger maps.

Amui

Canada10567 Posts

January 08 2011 20:24 GMT

#334

These maps look soooo much better than some of the ones in ladder atm. Somehow I don't think bigger maps fix pvp very well though, only thing that might fix it is multiple tiers of small ramps so the defender can fall back if they miss a forcefield.

RESTRiCT

Canada123 Posts

January 08 2011 20:24 GMT

#335

WEHOOO I CANT WAIT TO PLAY EM!!!

Cyanocyst

2222 Posts

January 08 2011 20:27 GMT

#336

Hmm while i cant speak upon the functionality of these maps until i play on them my self, Im just glad someones trying to improve the map pool.

Tho it makes a lot of since, Gom is the only other big company that can help directly change the map pool.

Also if, Gom's maps become popular, given there relationship with blizzard, its possible that some of them could even be implemented on to the ladder.

SCC-Faust

United States3736 Posts

January 08 2011 20:28 GMT

#337

I uploaded them on USA server incase no one did yet.

Search "GSL".

Pavell

Switzerland1 Post

January 08 2011 20:28 GMT

#338

Oh nice map Biohazard it's so cool !

oursblanc

Canada1450 Posts

January 08 2011 20:34 GMT

#339

Fantastic!

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

January 08 2011 20:39 GMT

#340

like the first map and crossfire was fun to play. But I will miss steppes of war tvt. second one looks like zerg free win X.X on a first check, but looking closer i think it could be a nice tvz macro map. But the terran could probably defend the 2-3 gold expos that would be evil hehe.