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rebdomine
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
6040 Posts
December 08 2011 01:05 GMT
#161
These maps look sweet. Looking forward to seeing what kind of games can come out of these.
"Just because you are correct doesn't mean you are right!"
Node
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States2159 Posts
December 08 2011 01:51 GMT
#162
Every player that complained about the ladder map pool ever (read: almost all of them) should participate in this. :O I really hope this instigates some big changes.
whole lies with a half smile
Conquerer67
Profile Joined May 2011
United States605 Posts
December 08 2011 02:26 GMT
#163
I have always found it interesting that fans are easily capable of coming up with more balanced and interesting maps than Blizzard itself. My personal vote either goes to Sanctuary or Twilight Peaks.
I hate when people compare SC2 and rochambeu. One race isn't fucking supposed to counter another one. | Protoss isn't OP. Their units on the other hand....
Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11534 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-08 02:59:31
December 08 2011 02:54 GMT
#164
Oh hey. Expansions without those friggin rocks in the way! What a novel concept (Blizzard- take note.) Hopefully a couple of these maps will interest other tournaments.
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Spray
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States402 Posts
December 08 2011 04:17 GMT
#165
Wow these maps are superb >>!<<
HuK Fighting~~!
Count9
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China10928 Posts
December 08 2011 04:24 GMT
#166
These maps look amazing, especially cloud kingdom, so nice to look at.
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
December 08 2011 04:53 GMT
#167
Yeah, they are nice maps. I have been playing on them almost exclusively for the past few weeks. Haven's Lagoon, Ohana, and Cloud Kingdom are by far the most fun.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
Entropic
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada2837 Posts
December 08 2011 05:40 GMT
#168
Im a huuuuge fan of Cloud Kingdom since Ive seen so many amazing games on it on ESV TV
Bombadil819
Profile Joined November 2011
United States45 Posts
December 08 2011 06:07 GMT
#169
I wish I played at a high enough level to have a fighting chance in the first round, I've always thought a tournament would be a lot of fun. The maps look great though, congratulations to all of the mappers involved.
DanceSC
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States751 Posts
December 08 2011 06:25 GMT
#170
Wow those are very nice!
Dance.943 || "I think he's just going to lose. There's only so many ways you can lose. And he's going to make some kind of units. And I'm going to attack him, and then all his stuff is going to die. That's about the best prediction that I can make" - NonY
tertle
Profile Joined February 2010
Australia328 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-08 07:02:04
December 08 2011 07:01 GMT
#171
Glad to see Haven's Lagoon got done up a bit graphic wise. Still not the prettiest of maps but significantly better than it was and gameplay wise it's great.

Rest of them look nice as well.
Keyboard Warrior
Profile Joined December 2011
United States1178 Posts
December 08 2011 09:01 GMT
#172
This is sick! Im gonna win this thang
Not your regular Keyboard Warrior ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tommylew
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Wales2717 Posts
December 08 2011 09:49 GMT
#173
these maps look fantastic cannot wait to view the replays on these maps :D

So excited hoep some big name players will sign up

please TL come back to europe at least once :D
Live and Let Die!
Gesamtkunstwerk
Profile Joined December 2011
134 Posts
December 08 2011 11:26 GMT
#174
Those are beautiful looking maps!
Death is the means to travel to the stars!
Nizaris
Profile Joined May 2010
Belgium2230 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-08 12:53:46
December 08 2011 12:52 GMT
#175
Surprised ppl are so excited for heaven lagoon when it looks like a remake of crap station... sure the height thing looks interesting but still it looks very similar to me. Besides not having destructible rocks in the middle.

nevertheless cool tournament. will tune in. thx TLAF.
Ragoo
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany2773 Posts
December 08 2011 13:47 GMT
#176
On December 08 2011 08:13 Divinek wrote:
i miss island expansions



Don't worry I already have plans to convince all the mapmakers to use islands more often.

Right now nobody really thinks about islands and if they do they always think it's terran biased unfortunately...

+ Show Spoiler [on island balance] +

If islands aren't close to the main/nat they suck for terran TvZ and if they are not in blink range they suck even more for Protoss in PvZ at the moment. Mutas just have way too much air control both offensively and defensively and nydus makes it quite easy to stop the rest.
Additionally islands need to be blocked with low HP destructibles to hinder terran from randomly floating bases there early in the game.

If Blizzard really adds an anti muta air unit like Tempest for Protoss that would help islands PvZ and they wouldn't need to be in Blink range.


If you do it correctly they are balanced and add another dimension like they did in Brood War.

On December 08 2011 21:52 Nizaris wrote:
Surprised ppl are so excited for heaven lagoon when it looks like a remake of crap station... sure the height thing looks interesting but still it looks very similar to me. Besides not having destructible rocks in the middle.

nevertheless cool tournament. will tune in. thx TLAF.


The only similarity is that Crap Station and Haven's Lagoon are both 2p mirrored maps. That's it.
Member of TPW mapmaking team/// twitter.com/Ragoo_ /// "goody represents border between explainable reason and supernatural" Cloud
skipgamer
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Australia701 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-08 15:00:57
December 08 2011 14:32 GMT
#177
This is interesting, I'm really disappointed that Blizzard have not taken the initiative with something like this and put a larger prize-pool behind it so that pro-players are more interested to try the maps.

I mean, this is a good effort, but I really want to see something bigger that will have all the pro players. Without a prize-pool or an organisation like Kespa saying "play this tournament and give us feedback" is it really expected to be a successful event?

Either way I'll be watching intently, can't wait!!!

(and mad props to TL, TLAF and all map-makers involved for taking the initiative.)
nam nam
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden4672 Posts
December 08 2011 15:41 GMT
#178
I think $2k is enough to attract a decent amount of good players. These are the ones registred so far:

1 LuckyFool
2 Spades
3 RGNinori
4 coL.CatZ
5 Liquid`Jinro
6 Agh
7 avilo
8 Liquid`TLO
9 -Illusion-
10 desRow
11 Liquid`Zenio
12 Kyhol
13 GoSuNamhciR
14 viOLet
15 iNkA
16 goswser
17 Destiny


That's a decent starting point I'd say.
Deshkar
Profile Joined June 2011
Singapore1244 Posts
December 08 2011 17:19 GMT
#179
On December 09 2011 00:41 nam nam wrote:
I think $2k is enough to attract a decent amount of good players. These are the ones registred so far:

Show nested quote +
1 LuckyFool
2 Spades
3 RGNinori
4 coL.CatZ
5 Liquid`Jinro
6 Agh
7 avilo
8 Liquid`TLO
9 -Illusion-
10 desRow
11 Liquid`Zenio
12 Kyhol
13 GoSuNamhciR
14 viOLet
15 iNkA
16 goswser
17 Destiny


That's a decent starting point I'd say.


Just saw a bunch of oGs players registering: Top, Illusion, TheStC, Jookto, Berra
sVnteen
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany2238 Posts
December 08 2011 17:24 GMT
#180
On December 07 2011 14:52 DYEAlabaster wrote:
Could we just make this the new blizzard map pool? Please?


noooo pls not lol

those maps are decent and some of them are quite good but if you look at this lagoon map for example ....
well lets say this would be a bad thing to do since the maps we have in the current ladder pool are quite decent
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