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Need I say more? 
use 13 stalkers and 5 sentries to combat ever increasing waves of roaches.
This is about as hard as marine split challenge. First few levels seem easy, but trust me, it gets hard.
PS. If enough people PM Dr. DeadMeat I will send him the map for EU
Christ you guys never cease to amaze me.
Highest Rankings (normal mode) so far:
superninja 18
azide 18
ubernick lvl 18
rasdasd lvl 15
validity lvl 15
excellent lvl 14
Highest Rankings (sling mode) so far:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/i3IhG.jpg)
Published under Blink Force Field Challenge, in NA!
EDIT: You will be included in the high scores list if:
1. Your score is in the top 5
2. You attach a screenshot/replay
Updated:
1. Added a small 2 second delay between attack
2. You can add persistent key bindings using "stalker #" and "sentry #' to bind stalkers and sentries to control group # respectively
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This looks really interesting! Once I get some time (and the girlfriend doesn't want me to watch Eurovision with her -_-) i'm going to log NA and give this a go.
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i really really want to play micro stuff like this - definitely will try it out and let you know what i think. thanks!
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Griffith` = consistently the most productive "melee mad" mapmaker on tl
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reuploaded - forgot to set it to public
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I was wondering why I couldn't find the map lol ><
stuck on level 8 =\
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sweet atlast a protoss micro map! :D
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This is awesome. Come so close to beating 7, but I can't. Such a baddie ;'xxxx
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is this published on eu? I can't find it altough i would gladly try it out !
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I finally got to level 8. So hard, but thanks so much for making this map. Now I have a way to practice force fields. Too bad it doesn't simulate lag(blink feels too easy) or have a pause button.
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yea would also like a EU version  looks like it could be alot of fun
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I got to level 8.
Can't get past though, best I've gotten was down to 2 roaches TT
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Great map griffith! It has helped me with my micro already and i hope to use it a bunch more so i can get it down perfect =D
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Challenge Accepted :D my main is toss, so i think i can do this pretty well!
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eu members continue to lobby Grittith'.. you'll only get your wish if he feels the 
gogogogogogogogo
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I don't think it actually is possible to beat lvl 13. Its so hard.... The only way for me to beat lvl 12, was to actually blink while the roach attack was in midair, thus dodging the attack. And i had to use ff to squeeze most of the roaches into a tiny ball while i killed the rest. But i got to level 13 :D
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Going on right now, hopefully get a high score.
Make another one for zerg =[, maybe fungals and burrow micro?
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On May 15 2011 08:53 Philipd122 wrote:
Going on right now, hopefully get a high score.
Make another one for zerg =[, maybe fungals and burrow micro?
I've been thinking of zerg scenarios - but its really hard. I hate to say this but zerg really doesn't require that much micro in most situations.
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On May 15 2011 09:44 Griffith` wrote:Show nested quote +On May 15 2011 08:53 Philipd122 wrote:
Going on right now, hopefully get a high score.
Make another one for zerg =[, maybe fungals and burrow micro? I've been thinking of zerg scenarios - but its really hard. I hate to say this but zerg really doesn't require that much micro in most situations.
banelings and ling vs marine splitting terran...
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On May 15 2011 09:44 Griffith` wrote:Show nested quote +On May 15 2011 08:53 Philipd122 wrote:
Going on right now, hopefully get a high score.
Make another one for zerg =[, maybe fungals and burrow micro? I've been thinking of zerg scenarios - but its really hard. I hate to say this but zerg really doesn't require that much micro in most situations.
Do ling/infestor vs. tank/marine. That would be cool.
[edit] Hmm.. That could be very hard to set up. Maybe do baneling/ling vs. tank/marine, and just keep adding more tanks and marines?
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On May 15 2011 09:44 Griffith` wrote:Show nested quote +On May 15 2011 08:53 Philipd122 wrote:
Going on right now, hopefully get a high score.
Make another one for zerg =[, maybe fungals and burrow micro? I've been thinking of zerg scenarios - but its really hard. I hate to say this but zerg really doesn't require that much micro in most situations.
Burrow roach micro? The toss has obs, but will target any unburrowed roach over a burrowed one.
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Hydralisks VS Speed banes on creep would be interesting to say the least lol.
Maybe quick roach walling VS banelings and zerglings?
Sigh.. I guess only zerg units can be microd against.
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PS. If enough people PM Dr. DeadMeat I will send him the EU map
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;( I got to level 6 and then I cried myself to sleep
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Nivel 10 completed.. Thanks a lot Griffith I needed a way to practice my FF and this UMS helped me a lot.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/UEohel.jpg)
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how are you guys ffing? i try to cut the army in half with 4-5 FF's, but it seems to help them get a better concave
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Pretty cool, Griffith. Keep up the good work.
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Any chance you can publish it on EU? if u want i can pub it. i really want to play this map xD
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To be honest, there's not many situations where roaches can get a full concave vs. Protoss. It's not like marine splitting challenge where the extra space is handy.
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On May 15 2011 16:13 Philipd122 wrote:
To be honest, there's not many situations where roaches can get a full concave vs. Protoss. It's not like marine splitting challenge where the extra space is handy.
It's not realistic, but it's still a fun challenge.
Level 6 on one try, need to work on the forcefielding a bit though, gonna try more after I finish my hw.
Does the setting in the custom game setup menu game speed actually change anything because unless there's a way to tell ingame, it's possible some people might set it to slowest to get high scores which defeats the purpose of this UMS.
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i personally think the ai of the map is limiting. Instead of the usual attack move, when you try and cave in roaches with FF, it will run into the stalker ball, and try and chase the stalker that blinked. This means that ff's are pratically useless once there are enough roaches on screen, and also defeats the purpose of the map - micro (seeing as you can't micro really)
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got to level 12
checked after and you can infact change the game speed, so you probably want to fix that.
Also you need to add something to wipe existing forcefields on the round reset.
I didn't use either of these but I'm sure i could probably get level 17+ with it.
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these maps are the best thing to happen to the UMS section
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I really like these micro training maps against the CPU... BW had a lot of them but SC2 does not.
Maybe in the future you could create some other versions with different types of units, or maybe make a big map where you can choose what type of fight(rine vs bling/ stalker vs roach/ etc.)
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On May 15 2011 16:29 hellsan631 wrote:
i personally think the ai of the map is limiting. Instead of the usual attack move, when you try and cave in roaches with FF, it will run into the stalker ball, and try and chase the stalker that blinked. This means that ff's are pratically useless once there are enough roaches on screen, and also defeats the purpose of the map - micro (seeing as you can't micro really)
I can "fix" this quite easily tbh, but I just thought that the current way would provide a bit more of a challenge
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Might want to consider having the roaches and lings stay in the corner for a half second before attacking. Right now I barely manage to get my control groups up before the slings have already surrounded my units
I'm still failing at lvl 5.
Got to lvl 10 with only roaches so far.
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Suggestion: way to skip first few waves
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On May 16 2011 00:48 cascades wrote:
Suggestion: way to skip first few waves
hm ok - should not be hard
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On May 16 2011 00:52 Griffith` wrote:hm ok - should not be hard
Is there any possiblity you can publish it on EU? or get someone to do it for you? i would really like to try this map :D
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Got to lvl 7 with slings on. Its so hard to FF them out, but I feel its really best to play with slings on because almost all zergs will get slings. I found this really useful for preparing for some sort of 2base roach speed ling all in vs a 3gate expand. Great custom game!!
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hey i really enjoyed this map...thanks a lot for making it!
how difficult would it be to make a ghost vs templar micro map...whether it be 2 player or 1?
any possibility of this in the future? thanks again
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For zerg challenge. Maybe roach vs mass speedling/baneling? Or roach and/or speedling vs zealot. Muta vs infestor? Muta vs thor?
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I'll try it since i liked marine bling pretty neat
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Updated:
1. Added a small 2 second delay between attack
2. You can add persistent key bindings using "stalker #" and "sentry #' to bind stalkers and sentries to control group # respectively
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can you add a function where you can just restart mid try? It is fairly obvious early on whether you are going to pass or fail a level. It would be handy to have a way to just restart a level instead of waiting for your units to die.
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type "k" as a kill switch
was an easy hotfix
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You should add some textures to it maybe?
Another idea would be to add some high ground with a ramp up to it, so the situation is a bit more realistic.
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yayy put me to highscore :D
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/B3u9R.jpg)
EDIT: ahaaa, got 11, ok I give up for now
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Edit: he uploaded it himself.
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level 14 ;D cool map
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still not published on eu tt
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After spending about 30mins got to lvl 12. This map is real helpful in improving my forcefields ^^.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/tBLPe.jpg)
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Thanks for giving me something to do during gsl breaks. Cool map!
edit: lvl 17. I was literally 2 roaches away from level 18 -.-
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On May 16 2011 15:57 Anomandaris wrote:still not published on eu tt
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I made it to level 11 this morning. Great map, Griffith!
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/MiSc7.jpg)
-dayslays
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Going to check out tonight. Ill update my post and give feedback. Hoping to get to the top 8)
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Sweet map.
I did this while catching up on the BS Report on ESPN.
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On May 17 2011 15:04 SuperNinja wrote:Sweet map. I did this while catching up on the BS Report on ESPN.
Can you give me some tips, im finding it impossible to pass lvl 13, do u have to save ur FF for keep moments?
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this still ain't on eu? tt
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EU please !! :D
great work!
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On May 17 2011 17:00 MasterReY wrote:
EU please !! :D
great work!
I am really confused as to why he has not uploaded the map somewhere so other regions can download and play it. Its like a 30 second job
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Please please upload to EU!
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Griffith!! There's a "bug" which allow you to "stack" FF, because you can kill your units with k and the ff's doesn't gone after your units are killed.. maybe that's why we have now "pro" force fielders
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Give it to europe please much appretiated!
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On May 17 2011 15:04 SuperNinja wrote:Sweet map. I did this while catching up on the BS Report on ESPN.
hacker
replay plz
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On May 17 2011 15:32 rasdasd wrote:Show nested quote +On May 17 2011 15:04 SuperNinja wrote:Sweet map. I did this while catching up on the BS Report on ESPN. Can you give me some tips, im finding it impossible to pass lvl 13, do u have to save ur FF for keep moments?
I don't think it's possible to survive in the middle past level 13-14. So I ran into the side of the map to cut off their concave. If they surround you it doesn't matter how good your blink micro is because there is nowhere safe to blink to.
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On May 17 2011 22:36 TiBe wrote:Griffith!! There's a "bug" which allow you to "stack" FF, because you can kill your units with k and the ff's doesn't gone after your units are killed.. maybe that's why we have now "pro" force fielders
Thanks - just patched it.
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fun map! thanks for the practice :D
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wtf lol how are you guys getting to lvl 18 - some one please post a rep
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Could you make the opposite scenario too? As a zerg player it would be useful to practise versus forcefields. Roaches with burrow movement vs stalkers/sentries
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doubt the AI is smartenough with force fields ?
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great map, helped me understand this relationship alot more, props
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On May 18 2011 00:59 Griffith` wrote:
wtf lol how are you guys getting to lvl 18 - some one please post a rep
This, please..
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Griffith, EU ♥ U! Can't wait to play this.
:-)
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I want to see kiwikaki do this map and get to level 30 :D
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On May 18 2011 03:50 ZealotKiller wrote:
I want to see kiwikaki do this map and get to level 30 :D
Or oGsMC and get to max level
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You guys are such fanboys lol.
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EGIncontrol is online in the screenshot. :O
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It looks interesting and useful to me. please upload the EU version.
Many thanks.
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Looks nice I wanna play it. PLS upload to EU
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Awesome :-)
You're so smart :D
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hmm, enjoyed this. What would be cool as well is a similar map, with a small group of protoss units vs a terran army. Same concept FF and blink but with a few zealots.
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i got to lvl 13, but its kind of a silly map, there's no terrain to utilize, and teh only way to get past like level 10-12 (that i could figure out) is by abusing the stupidness of the AI
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I refuse to believe anybody is making it past level 9 or 10 on the faster speed setting.
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What is this nonsense.... I'm #5, ok time to bring out the sc2 again :D
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Ok, got to level 15, I really don't see how its possible to get beyond that, Blink micro makes the roaches move forward, and ur concave is useless, cause the roaches 1 hit ur stalkers so easily. You MUST move to the corner to get beyond lvl 13, realized that this game.
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Still no EU upload...
All we need is someone to just upload the map somewhere so we can play it!
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I know this is kind of off-topic, but do you guys remember when there was a show (at least I think it was a show) where they pitted broodwar professionals against each other in a micro war with a fixed amount of units? The maps where also important, a big part of the game was abusing the terrain to your advantage.
I remember a game where Boxer got a dropship and some tanks plus vultures, but the protoss won since he managed to stutter step out the mines.
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why are all the sick custom maps never on eu :<<<<<<<<<<<
damn you griffith!
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On May 18 2011 10:48 TheRabidDeer wrote:
I refuse to believe anybody is making it past level 9 or 10 on the faster speed setting.
LOL even me that I'm so bad with FF can make it to LVL 11 without cornering me..
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Still waiting on trying on this awesome feature on the eu.
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I want try this aswell >.<!
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I searched for a way to practice my blink micro but there is no specific map on EU for it..
The best way to do it atm is to go into 'Unit Tester Online v0-94' and pick Terrain 'Field', pre-train blink by click on the Protoss button twice and then picking a good number of stalkers vs the unit composition of your choice. Much more flexible and more like you would need it in a real game (blinking back units one by one as they get damaged instead of relying on FFs to block out everythin)
edit: try keeping alive all of your 21 stalkers against 20 roaches and 10 lings (both slow) it's not that easy if you're relatively new to blink micro. I swtiched to protoss not too long ago and my mouse accuracy has already improved a lot just in the last 30 minutes. That, and it's a lot of fun
Oh yeah, to keep it blink practice move straigt at them while pressing "." (order them to attack)
it also allows you to respawn with "+" so you can mass practice without clicking through menus
it also shows nicely how insanely imporant concaves are for ZvP
tips:
always blink away as far as possible, you don't want your wounded stalkers anywhere near the frontline
position your window in such a way that you have space to the left, you don't want to click the menu buttons
despite what some people say, the best way to win a fight is to blink back each stalker as it reaches 1HP, if you want to do some damage and retreat, retaining hull HP is nice, but if you have to win, don't blick back those 80 HP stalkers
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Its finally up on EU. Looks like Morrow uploaded it for us
EDIT: getting errors tho. Can't see what level I am on for instance
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Would it be possible to publish this on SEA as well? Thanks
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I got to level 12. This isn't a very realistic situation to be facing, especially considering to do level 10 and beyond you gotta do stupid things a regular person wouldnt fall for.
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Really appreciate what you're doing here. I'm level 13 without "Tricks" per say, but the speed and execution of force fields guardian shields and blink under pressure is huge.
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this map is amaizing good
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I love you, now I can practice my blink/FF micro. Thanks!
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Sweet map, I only got to lvl 10...it gets frustrating after a long time. But will be sure to use this and practice my micro more.
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Pretty please can we have this on the EU :-)
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Really having a hard time with thing lol. Great map, any tips?
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can you do a reverse style map where you have roaches with burrow move and they have sentry stalker?
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On June 11 2011 05:56 SpoR wrote:
can you do a reverse style map where you have roaches with burrow move and they have sentry stalker?
i really don't think that needs practice
*burrow, move under opponent, unburrow*
OMFG HE JUST UNBURROWED UNDER ME
*burrow, wait*
*unburrow*
OMFG HE JUST UNBURROWED UNDER ME AGAIN I REALLY WISH I HAD AN OBSERVER BECAUSE WITHOUT IT HE CAN JUST BURROW AND REGEN ALL DAY
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On June 11 2011 20:21 voo05 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2011 05:56 SpoR wrote:
can you do a reverse style map where you have roaches with burrow move and they have sentry stalker? i really don't think that needs practice *burrow, move under opponent, unburrow* OMFG HE JUST UNBURROWED UNDER ME *burrow, wait* *unburrow* OMFG HE JUST UNBURROWED UNDER ME AGAIN I REALLY WISH I HAD AN OBSERVER BECAUSE WITHOUT IT HE CAN JUST BURROW AND REGEN ALL DAY
Except once you'd get far enough there would be a critical mass of enemy units (onehitting the roaches on unburrow), and then you'd just get rolled.
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On June 11 2011 00:12 DRAM wrote:
Pretty please can we have this on the EU :-)
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Level 6 is impossible for me
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Highest ive gone ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Fir6A.png)
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I think i speak for alot of people when i say: PLEASE publish that map on eu!
Just upload it somewhere or give it to someone in europe (i would do it >.<)
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cool beans.
A lot of people asking for a zerg based micro map, and in my opinion the obvious choice for that would be ling/bane vs ling/bane.
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Nice Map.
The Map is published in EU, you just get an error instad of the level announcement but it still works.
I would suggest to let the roaches always spawn in the same location. Sure it's nice in the lower levels to have to react to it, but if you are in the higher levels you just hope you're running in the right corner or have to restart the level.
Another tip:
You can dodge the missles of Roaches if you blink in the right moment.
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Thanks, got to level 11, which is okayish i guess
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My max was level 11. Damn it gets hard...
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On June 12 2011 07:22 msbm wrote:
Nice Map.
The Map is published in EU, you just get an error instad of the level announcement but it still works.
I would suggest to let the roaches always spawn in the same location. Sure it's nice in the lower levels to have to react to it, but if you are in the higher levels you just hope you're running in the right corner or have to restart the level.
Another tip:
You can dodge the missles of Roaches if you blink in the right moment.
published under what name? i can't find it.
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On June 12 2011 19:52 Ryuu2 wrote:
published under what name? i can't find it.
Blink Force Field Challenge; Author it says mouzMorroW.
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On June 12 2011 20:04 msbm wrote:Show nested quote +On June 12 2011 19:52 Ryuu2 wrote:
published under what name? i can't find it. Blink Force Field Challenge; Author it says mouzMorroW.
That map still doesn't do it. You don't know what level you are in so you don't know if you've moved forward or not...
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look at the last two digits for jumbled message.
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holy moly... i cant even beat level 9 (27 roaches). Currently, i have realized that I can't fight roaches cost effectively with blink stalker sentry on open ground with creep.
Is there any chance of getting a version of the map that has options to
a)remove creep
b)add upgrades
c)remove upgrades (i.e. blink / roach speed)
d) add in a choke point to get through or a ramp.
e) max out sentry energy
That would be extra awesome, if not... pretty awesome map anyway.
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Looks really cool. Gonna try it when it gets to EU for sure!
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can someone upload it to sc2mapster.com so we can get an offline version??
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Second terence's suggestions above...I like this map but if I were to use it to actually practice force fields, it just doesn't feel very realistic to me because a lot of the "challenge" seems kind of artificial. very rarely am I going to be out in open creep against speech roaches, without any weapons upgrades, vastly outnumbered, and with very little sentry energy. It definitely makes for an interesting map, but some of the limitations can get unrealistic.
I think the map has actually done more for my blink micro than for my forcefielding, because blink micro is fairly straightforward, whereas forcefields are more situational and in a real game you would want to abuse chokes, ramps, etc to get the most out of them and this map doesn't have those.
Also another suggestion I have would be to be able to set it so that the roaches always approach from a certain corner, random is fun but very rarely in a game am I not going to know what direction their army is approaching from
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I wish they had this map in the SEA server cause playing on NA with a 0.5 second delay is really difficult >.>
I got to level 9 but I don't think I can get beyond that.
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This is stupid. Get a good, working, version on the EU, it's been long now. How hard can it be?
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http://imgur.com/oBEkS
Paused the game over night so I could continue in the morning... Little did I know there would be a patch coming today
ieatpasta - Level 14!
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Can't get past level 8 >.< It's the random roach direction that gets me. I never can get the forcefields I need until they are already a little too close
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I sort of just restarted if they came from a direction I didn't like. I would usually move towards the bottom to use the sidewall, and waited for them to come from the left or the right.
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Wow, great map once again!
Too bad I haven't seen this one, only the terran ones o.o
Time to check your threads to see if there are any other good threads i missed xD
Thanks !
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Requesting EU map. Offline version possible? Thank you
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whew, I got to level 12 (30) and it just gets sooo hard, how did people get 18!?!?!
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