Blistering Sands as my favourite those rocks where lovely, nicely placed xel'naga towers and so on.
Least favourite would have to be Kulas Ravine, just ugh

vengee

Canada52 Posts

July 21 2010 07:10 GMT

#103

Fav: Lost Temple, Reason being its "Lost Temple" =)
Worst: Desert Oasis, Reason being run distances are to long and map is to large to have island expos.

TymerA

Netherlands759 Posts

July 21 2010 09:06 GMT

#104

Metalopolis is my favourite map, especially because it is well-balanced and the gold expos are on intresting positions

tomc

United States84 Posts

July 21 2010 09:10 GMT

#105

I voted Kulas, because it's a huge fucking cockblock to everyone.

Where's my BGH when I need it!?

lovewithlea

168 Posts

July 21 2010 09:11 GMT

#106

desert oasis is a great map. maybe not in terms of balance or standardizism.. but those games which made it beyond the initial cheese your Terran or Protoss enemy throws at you have been crazy.

Lane

United States46 Posts

July 21 2010 09:24 GMT

#107

If they take out those rocks from Kulas Ravine, I think it would be ok for Zerg.

DooMDash

United States1015 Posts

July 21 2010 09:31 GMT

#108

Fav: Blistering Sands

Just love this map, back door, safe nat, good fun.

Least fav: Metalopolis

Metal is just too damn big for me.

Drunken.Jedi

Germany446 Posts

July 21 2010 09:45 GMT

#109

My favourite map is probably Desert Oasis. It's a very interesting map that allows for some unorthodox play and at least in terms of win chance it's reasonably well balanced (however, zerg is very vulnerable in early game and too strong in mid and late game).

The map I dislike most is Steppes of War, because it has such a short distance between bases and is a very straightforward map that doesn't allow for much creativity. It's also ridiculously hard to win on this map as zerg since it's so hard to get away with droning and it is far too easy to push once your opponent has the army of death (such as big mech army or Stalker Collossus).

Deleted User 39582

317 Posts

July 21 2010 11:24 GMT

#110

How come nobody likes scrap? Sure, it favors zerg a bit, but it's the only proper 1v1 macro map. Easily my favorite.

sikyon

Canada1045 Posts

July 21 2010 12:23 GMT

#111

I don't understand why all these zerg hate playing on oasis... I guess it might be the fast expand but really speedlings are so imba on oasis.

Gorguts

Canada254 Posts

July 21 2010 12:27 GMT

#112

Kulas Ravine is the worst definitely.... god I hate those stupid destructible rocks everywhere, way too many Xel'Naga towers, and the damn cliffs...

favorites Steppes and Metalopolis

dabom88

United States3483 Posts

July 21 2010 12:32 GMT

#113

On July 21 2010 21:23 sikyon wrote:
I don't understand why all these zerg hate playing on oasis... I guess it might be the fast expand but really speedlings are so imba on oasis.

EVERYONE hates playing on Oasis.

stet_tcl

Greece319 Posts

July 21 2010 12:33 GMT

#114

Worst map: definitely Desert Oasis with Scrap Station coming second.
DO should be pretty obvious, Scrap I don't know why, I just don't like the map

Favorite map: Kulas Ravine! I seriously don't understand all the hate, it's a great map imo. You just have to adapt your play so that you don't have to take that crappy nat as your first expo...

Tommylew

Wales2717 Posts

July 21 2010 12:36 GMT

#115

Fav: Lost Temple, Its the map that weve all grown with in sc1 and wc3

Worst: Desert Oasis, Big Open, big space from main to natural, So easy for zerg to harass with muta, really dont like it.

IPS.Mardow.

Germany713 Posts

July 21 2010 12:39 GMT

#116

Compared to the many great maps we had in BW:

Steppes of War is crap, Desert Oasis is crap, Kulas Ravin is crap, Scrap Station is weird, Blistering would be cool without the destructible rocks, LT is ok but could be better in some points, same with Metalopolis.
Tbh none of the maps is as good as BW Maps like Destination, Fighting Spirit etc.

I'm too lazy to give reasons for that though

weltraumMonster

Germany62 Posts

July 21 2010 12:43 GMT

#117

Best: Blistering Sands --> this map appears to me as the most balanced map, at least if i lose to someone on this map i never have the feeling that it is any other than my fault...

Worst: Desert oasis -->
- i am a zerg player and like to fast expand... which is really tough on this map
- terrans can fly their 2nd command center easily to the island...

towerranger

Austria134 Posts

July 21 2010 12:45 GMT

#118

i dont like most of the maps. only two i really like to play on are metalopolis and temple.
i really hope blizzard doesn´t handle the mappool like in wc3 where maps like twisted are still played since 6 years.

ReachTheSky

United States3294 Posts

July 21 2010 12:49 GMT

#119

I think the bigger variety of maps that promote different types of game play is the best. I don't wanna see passive boring macro games in sc2. Might as well play no rush 20 minutes ;P

GhoSt[shield]

Canada2131 Posts

July 21 2010 12:51 GMT

#120

The maps were the biggest issue with racial balance, and as new map architects come out and publish we should have fairly balanced maps coming out soon.
Kulas and Steppes were complete shit though