EPTSo I was wondering what everyone's favorite custom map is and if someone could please expalin to me what makes a good map and why hasn't blizz made one?
What's the best custom melee map?
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happyness
United States2400 Posts
So I was wondering what everyone's favorite custom map is and if someone could please expalin to me what makes a good map and why hasn't blizz made one? | ||
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brn4meplz
Canada98 Posts
Alot of the custom maps here look really well done. With Blizzard controlling most every aspect of SC2, I'm interested in how long it will take to get some real good community maps into the competitive scene instead of Blizzard created ones. | ||
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Kurumi
Poland6130 Posts
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Hinduuism
United States47 Posts
It's a lot larger than Blizzard maps and I think it feels a lot more Brood War-esque because of it. | ||
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bjornkavist
Canada1235 Posts
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Grebliv
Iceland800 Posts
nowadays BW map features: -easy/wallable natural expansions (even free thirds) -larger and or more open -less gimmicks at least in the way of easing early/all-inish aggression Blistering sands rocks being a prime example of how to discourage decent games unfortunately. BW map gimmicks are generally of the macro rewarding variety (triathlon) or at least a lot harder to abuse (medusa/destination etc), Having the Blistering Sands rocks so blatantly favor the attacker* kind lends itself to uninspired one base play. Just a small bit like this changes everything: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://a.imageshack.us/img844/9316/sands.png) giving the defender the advantage but opeing up some possible sneaky plays, not just saying "don't expand".*unless the defender is 1-basing which begs the question of what the attacker is even doing there in the first place. | ||
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happyness
United States2400 Posts
I will say I do think some of the maps are gimmicky. One thing I don't like that was mentioned in another topic is that there are too many cliffs, which gives obvious advantages to reapers and blink stalkers. I would like to more open maps with impassable terrain instead of cliffs. | ||
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k20a
Canada412 Posts
On August 23 2010 07:17 happyness wrote: Another question since I'm completly ignorant and don't have a BW backround: Were the good BW maps not even made by blizzard? I will say I do think some of the maps are gimmicky. One thing I don't like that was mentioned in another topic is that there are too many cliffs, which gives obvious advantages to reapers and blink stalkers. I would like to more open maps with impassable terrain instead of cliffs. The most recent "good" BW map made by Blizzard would probably be Lost Temple; all of the maps these days are made by 3rd parties. | ||
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