these maps would be a massive improvement over what we have atm. glad that steppes of war, blistering sands and delta quadrant are porentially going. i personally hope jungle basin is the other map to go.

SpoR

United States1542 Posts

January 10 2011 03:00 GMT

#683

FINALLY YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

ship them into ladder map pool as well.

stiknork

United States128 Posts

January 10 2011 03:06 GMT

#684

Just played some on Tal'Darim altar -- reminds me of longinus a bit and seems pretty nasty for zerg. Seigeable nat, tight chokes on nat both between main base and between nat and 3rd so toss can cannon rush painfully and forge fe easily and terran can bunker your choke pretty painfully.

rift

1819 Posts

January 10 2011 03:10 GMT

#685

Uploaded some games here, if anyone knows a program to split .ogm files for free pm me (so I can add longer ones). Oh, and they're free so afaik Gom won't care, or they'll just take them down.

Mr.Pyro

Denmark959 Posts

January 10 2011 03:12 GMT

#686

Terminus Re on EU server is bugged - returning 10 minerals each trip when mining.

Edit: Same goes for Aiur Garden ... Is this only happening to me?
Edit2: Nvm seems i was playing the wrong ones, somone named "Tunneltraxx" are putting ones up that return 10 minerals per trip..

InvalidID

United States1050 Posts

January 10 2011 03:13 GMT

#687

I played on a few of these and here are my thoughts:

Auir garden seemed pretty cool, but I did not like some features on Tal'Darim altar. The ramp is too wide for a single forcefield, and even wider with the destructible rocks on the ramp destroyed. Stalkers can blink over the gap, if you were to double forcefield. You can build on the narrow point of the choke with the rocks, so you could pylon block it with two cannons and cannon contain.

Chronopolis

Canada1484 Posts

January 10 2011 03:14 GMT

#688

WOOO Plp behind GSL have a brain and are pushing for a dynamic fresh pro-scene, like in BW

goswser

United States3546 Posts

January 10 2011 03:28 GMT

#689

Wonder whats going to happen with this in the future. Will blizzard introduce maps gsl uses into the map pool? Will blizzard keep their map pool, thus rendering the rankings useless in time, because of imbalanced maps? Will another server like iccup develop so a ladder with gsl maps is used? If blizzard maps stay this bad, give it a few months and they will become far worse due to people improving and abusing them more, and ladder will be useless.

SecondSandwich

United States319 Posts

January 10 2011 03:33 GMT

#690

Certainly is about time, but get rid of Scrap Station! That map is too gimicky to be interesting.

kariido

Saudi Arabia179 Posts

January 10 2011 04:00 GMT

#691

Someone point them to the iCCup maps.

HocusPocus

Germany214 Posts

January 10 2011 04:04 GMT

#692

I hope they disband the idea of putting Tal'Darim Altar in the GSL.
With no ramp and a choke at the main that is not blockable by 1 forcefield i think 4 warpgate all ins will be unstoppable (at least in PvP).

Dugrok

Canada377 Posts

January 10 2011 04:06 GMT

#693

Given the fact that GSL and Blizzard generally speak to each other, I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard took their criticism in regards to the map pool into consideration. Hopefully that will result in some new maps coming out for the ladder as well.

Kurr

Canada2338 Posts

January 10 2011 04:07 GMT

#694

Blizzard should either implement these (and other good maps such as ICCUP maps) to their ladder pool OR make 2 different ladder map pools and have players choose which map pool they want to play on.

1. The normal one that will barely change like with any other Blizzard RTS.
2. The competitive one, which will change frequently and implement these type of custom maps.

This would allow pro players to practice on ladder and other random people to play good maps as well while still keeping the normal ladder pool for people who prefer it (IE nub friendly).

I'm aware it would split the community a little bit but I think it's safe to say 99% (or just 100%) of the competitive community would be playing the second map pool.

They would need to work out a system to choose which maps get rotated for new ones and how often but I don't think that would be too complicated.

Mr.Pyro

Denmark959 Posts

January 10 2011 04:12 GMT

#695

On January 10 2011 13:07 Kurr wrote:
Blizzard should either implement these (and other good maps such as ICCUP maps) to their ladder pool OR make 2 different ladder map pools and have players choose which map pool they want to play on.

1. The normal one that will barely change like with any other Blizzard RTS.
2. The competitive one, which will change frequently and implement these type of custom maps.

This would allow pro players to practice on ladder and other random people to play good maps as well while still keeping the normal ladder pool for people who prefer it (IE nub friendly).

I'm aware it would split the community a little bit but I think it's safe to say 99% (or just 100%) of the competitive community would be playing the second map pool.

They would need to work out a system to choose which maps get rotated for new ones and how often but I don't think that would be too complicated.

I think Blizzard should just give the people what they want and get rid of maps like DQ, Steppes, Blistering.

Keitzer

United States2509 Posts

January 10 2011 04:14 GMT

#696

HOLY SHIT FINALLY a major tournament decides to use non-ladder maps.... my god

GypsyBeast

Canada630 Posts

January 10 2011 04:17 GMT

#697

they all look kick ass exept for Aiur garden. The super safe in base seconds like that make for silly games, they almost always come down to 2 base timing pushes.

shoopuhpowah

7 Posts

January 10 2011 04:23 GMT

#698

Biohazard would be disgusting vs a Terran. Having walls enclosed around the expo AND a cliff would provide easy harassment from tanks. >.<

soulreaper55123

United States1 Post

January 10 2011 04:31 GMT

#699

i vote that tal darim alter does not go into pool i like the air garden alot it lets zerg surround protoss to use chokes and terran to use cliffs it will make fun games for sure