Work In Progress Melee Maps - Page 159

On February 25 2015 01:30 TheSkunk wrote:
Work in progress visual style for a new map, Treasure Island
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On February 25 2015 10:51 EatThePath wrote:
@sweden: I would put a very narrow choke on the highground path between the outside edge highground bases. This lets you evacuate workers if needed but puts the reliance on lowground control or preemptive positioning for defense. It'd be cool if you could put a narrow choke in the middle, too, for more interesting early game positioning, but the map is already quite splitty and this would just make it worse. It'd be nice if there were some other pathway besides the ramps in center but idk where it would go.

On February 25 2015 11:04 Antares777 wrote:


Split maps are not necessarily bad maps. If games are too splitty, then you end up with boring matches with less action. The layout is fundamentally split in the sense that the middle will be more narrow than anywhere else because of the ramp set up, and it is impossible to open up a path anywhere else to fix that (I can only think of a backdoor to the natural, and that would seriously break the map imo).

I want to address a few things you say here. Low ground control should not be something forced on this map. I would compare its middle to Echo's middle, in the sense that you want to control around the middle and not in the middle. Secondly, I think that a more narrow middle will make early timing attacks really difficult to defend. Sentries will be much more powerful, and late game the middle will be even less spacious, which is not something you want to risk with a map that may already have split map problems.

I am assuming that the opportunity for aggression on this map, specifically the rush distance, the proxy locations, the ramp right into the middle from the natural, and the super aggressive potential third will counteract a potential split map scenario in the late game. I made similar assumptions when planning Dark Matter, since it was small, could be split in half, and had a very fixed expansion pattern (unlike this WIP, though).

This is honestly a lot of speculation though.