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[LP] A Movie, Maps, and Mutas
February 7th, 2011 00:37 GMT
Liquipedia Weekly #15
Movies, Maps and Mutas
Welcome welcome one and all! Time for your weekly fix of Liquipedia updates. We've got an slick new video by Sir Chobopeon, a sexy section on the new maps, and the sound of flapping wings (??). Read on!
If you've been on TeamLiquid for a while you've probably seen Chobopeon at one time or another. Famous for being perhaps TeamLiquid's unluckiest Altitude player you should recently have seen him work on StarCraft Center as well as the StarCraft Bible. Recently, he and itmeJP teamed up to revive SC Center, a daily newsshow that we heartily recommend.
On top of contributing such a lot by working on his own projects, Chobopeon has managed to find the time to join Liquipedia in the making of a superduperawesome tutorial video. In under nine minutes, he explains all you need to know and more to become a proper Liquipedian, illustrating how easy it is to contribute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ELRZSpWh4
As you're probably well aware, the SC2 community is, finally, being graced with a new batch of maps. And what a batch it is! GSTL introduces Crevasse, Crossfire, Terminus and Tal'Darim Altar and the testserver has likewise received an update that includes four more playable maps under the elusive names of Testmap1, Testmap2, Testmap3 and Testmap4.
As you can see from the first four links, we're already starting to keep track of the GSTL maps. However, the articles are still very empty. Once these maps hit the ladder people will be looking to Liquipedia for intel and you can help get these articles up to scratch by contributing. Think an overview of good tank spots, an analysis of ovie safehouses and maybe rush or cliffhop distances.
The PTR Testmaps don't even have pages yet. If you have access to the testserver and feel you want to let the world know what's coming please help us out by starting these pages.
Edit: I got a pm informing me that ICCup Testbug and ICCup Pawn are now part of ESL's February mappool. Since they're now part of the competitive scene Liquipedia is "officially" interested in these maps, so check them out and maybe add a thing or two if you can. Also congratulations to the iCCup mappers on this great achievement!
Finally though, take a look at this: Mutalisk Notice anything? Well yeah it's a pretty beefy article, but scroll down a bit. Hell yeah, it's moving friggin images. Resident brothers Grysly and Ustp buckled down for a night, rendered, uploaded, and added unit gifs to (almost) all of the unit pages! I only just found out about it but I think it's frigging fantastic. Adding a gallery bit to the Unit pages open so many possiblies (acid/fire death animations anyone?), proving once again that Liquipedia has the potential to be the ultimate StarCraft resource. Massive thumbs up to these guys, keep up the good work! 
Cya on the wiki,
- Liquipedia staff 
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Hyrule19035 Posts
"The second batch of fours link don't even have pages yet"
Not sure what that's supposed to mea.
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On February 07 2011 09:39 tofucake wrote: "The second batch of fours link don't even have pages yet"
Not sure what that's supposed to mea. It is referring to the 4 testmaps that were listed in the previous paragraph, but he edit fixed it to clarify.
Very nice LP vid, chobopeon! tyvm
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Hyrule19035 Posts
Yeah I got that, but it was just a little confusing to read. Also, there was a bit of a mix-up on my end.
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Love seeing new maps posted, good job to everyone contributing
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Can`t wait for the new maps
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very nice job ! thank you
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Just my weekly reminder that you guys are awesome! :D
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Wow love you TL for always providing cool articles like this to read and stuff.
Can't wait to see strategy on those maps on the Liquipedia like there was back in SC BW!
Also why didn't you include Testmap5? Did they say something about not using it or something?
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The mutalisk unit page looks great If i could suggest something, maybe add in a trivia or a fan gallery section? I remembered i saw a really funny description of what a mutalisk is and i think that should be added for some laughs.
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I'm not sure that picture of me accurately represents the Altitude situation as it was more me being an unreliable asshole and not following through rather than others not doing their duty.
But it is funny so it's all good
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Liquipedia represent :DD
Pholon did a great job, and is a boss
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I liked the GIFs of all the units being added, its a very nice touch to the already excellent pages
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tal'darim map is missing rocks, dunno bout the rest
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I'm amazed how things on tl can actually keep improving, thanks for the dedication from all involved in LP
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Nice work with the animation, but it would be even better with a lighter or transparent background.
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well looks like im off to the test server.
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Very cool that u posted this. I always wondered how to use it. Thank you very much chobo :D
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Israel2209 Posts
Tutorial video is a great idea! Keep up the great work LP guys
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Germany2896 Posts
I for one am afraid of mediawiki markup. Probably the worst markup language I've ever seen. Once you start combining tables, templates and conditionals the code becomes unreadable and unmaintainable.
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have i been the only one who read gracked instead of graced?
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Hyrule19035 Posts
On February 09 2011 03:49 MasterOfChaos wrote: I for one am afraid of mediawiki markup. Probably the worst markup language I've ever seen. Once you start combining tables, templates and conditionals the code becomes unreadable and unmaintainable. So...it's chaos? But you're a master of that!
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