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Uvantak
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Uruguay1381 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-08 22:33:04
May 25 2014 04:41 GMT
#1
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Hi guys, writing a description while half-sleep is not a useful skill to have! So here we go again, Foxtrot is the culmination of several years of mapmaking, where i have been making standard maps and moving from there pushing the boundaries ever so slowly. The map the map is riddled with several sweet spots where players can take advantage of the map, but this works both ways as always, allowing smart players to counter with his own little annoyance.
The complex layout of the map rewards the player that can recognize the terrain and take advantage of it, and the many spots where players can hide harassing units allows for heavy use of multi-pronged attacks.


Map is published in:
[AM],[EU],[KR],[SEA]


Map is also GameHeart ready


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Overview:


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♦ Version 1.0
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♦ Version 0.9
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Information/Analyser:

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Small info about the map:


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◙ 3-in-1 map with vertical spawns disabled.
◙ The center of the map allows for a wide variety of attack routes and diverse positional challenges.
◙ Central gold bases are extremely exposed but they give a good income for those players that adapt to the map and are able to defend them.
◙ No Xel'naga watch towers.


Changelog

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♦ Version 1.3
Changed lighting of the map given the feedback.

♦ Version 1.2
Minor aesthetic changes, added pipes to the overlord pods around the map.
Minor changes to the top right and bottom left natural bases to avoid a very very ugly cannon rush.

♦ Version 1.1
Expanded the unpathable area around the natural bases at NE and SW bases so siege tanks can't shell more than 1 mineral field and 1 Vespene geyser.
Added destructible plates behind the mineral lines at NE and SW natural bases to avoid cannon rushes.
Minor aesthetic updates.
Minor pathing bug fixes.

♦ Version 1.0
Map Submitted to the TLMC#4.

This version can still be found and played under the name KTV Foxtrot Labs
Not anymore, KTV Foxtrot Labs v1.0 was removed to avoid confusion, there is enough as it is with Blizz using a outdated version.

As always the newest and latest version can be found in the custom games section!
@Kantuva | Mapmaker | KTVMaps.wordpress.com | Check my profile to see my TL map threads, and you can search for KTV in the Custom Games section to play them.
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
May 25 2014 08:01 GMT
#2
Woah, finally one of nice looking dark maps with non-standard tileset

Epic work
dezi
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany1536 Posts
May 25 2014 10:11 GMT
#3
Freaking small changes - how is this worth a resubmit? Couldn't you just update your old thread? It's a good map - don't get me wrong about this - but the whole post shouts: look how good i'm or as the Twitch folk would say it: much love and kappa ...
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lefix
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany1082 Posts
May 25 2014 13:32 GMT
#4
Considering the map didn't have a thread before, I'm not sure what you're complaining about
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Samro225am
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany982 Posts
May 25 2014 16:23 GMT
#5
the map's layout was discussed in other threads. so i want to focus my criticism on stylistic decisions and arts/crafts.

for me the stones with glowing cracks below a sand texture do not work. visually the effect looks like a bad photoshop layering of different textures.

craft-wise it looks like an unelaborated idea to make stuff look different, but it does not make that much sense really. the cracked stone with the greenish glowing cracks has the appearance of a flat surface- the details are in the lower cracks, the cracks present the big structure within that texture. on the other hand the the sand has an overall high detail degree, it is grainy everywhere and has a dune like structure - both do not mix very well when used on a large surface. they would work much better with sand in one region, a third texture for blending and then the cracks.
Uvantak
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Uruguay1381 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-25 18:20:13
May 25 2014 18:18 GMT
#6
On May 25 2014 19:11 dezi wrote:
Freaking small changes - how is this worth a resubmit? Couldn't you just update your old thread? It's a good map - don't get me wrong about this - but the whole post shouts: look how good i'm or as the Twitch folk would say it: much love and kappa ...

I never made a thread for this or Kamala in the first place, glad you liked the map Kappa.


lel, No in all seriousness, i'm sorry if it came that way, i was really tired yesterday when i made the thread, actually as you can see i even forgot to add the KTV tag twice (in Chau Sara Highlands and this thread, i need to PM a mod now to add it now), so sorry about that u.u;

On May 26 2014 01:23 Samro225am wrote:
the map's layout was discussed in other threads. so i want to focus my criticism on stylistic decisions and arts/crafts.

for me the stones with glowing cracks below a sand texture do not work. visually the effect looks like a bad photoshop layering of different textures.

craft-wise it looks like an unelaborated idea to make stuff look different, but it does not make that much sense really. the cracked stone with the greenish glowing cracks has the appearance of a flat surface- the details are in the lower cracks, the cracks present the big structure within that texture. on the other hand the the sand has an overall high detail degree, it is grainy everywhere and has a dune like structure - both do not mix very well when used on a large surface. they would work much better with sand in one region, a third texture for blending and then the cracks.

I have talked to other plp about the texturing, and many did not liked either but there were others that did liked it, a lot, my original idea was to use a tileset similar to this one + Show Spoiler +
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and to use custom textures to get those cracks to show without the need to use extra textures, but the TLMC arrived and i had to choose fast between, use another one or to use it with some tweaks b/c no custom textures are allowed in the TLMC, at the end i chose the later, and after seeing all the reactions i'm not sure if i did the right one, but i'm happy with how it came out given that at the time i was really pressured about studying for the exam period that was getting closer.

Now after the starbow map contest ends i'll have the time to revisit the texturing of this map, and i will (unlike i did with Crimson Forest) so do not worry :b
@Kantuva | Mapmaker | KTVMaps.wordpress.com | Check my profile to see my TL map threads, and you can search for KTV in the Custom Games section to play them.
SidianTheBard
Profile Joined October 2010
United States2474 Posts
May 25 2014 18:33 GMT
#7
This map should have won TLMC. Hopefully it gets picked up and get some games played on it though, you definitely deserve it!

Only thing I somewhat dislike about it is the SW and NE naturals for Protoss. It seems you're pretty much forced to do a Ramp > Nexus walloff just because of how far forward the natural ramp is, plus having the double backdoor means walling off at the forward ramp would be even worse. At that point is it needed to have both of those ramps rocked off since you're already pretty much forced to wall in with your nexus? Maybe just having 1 rocked off? I guess it increases early game rush distance, but /shrug, just thinking out loud here.
Creator of Abyssal Reef, Ascension to Aiur, Battle on the Boardwalk, Habitation Station, Honorgrounds, IPL Darkness Falls, King's Cove, Korhal Carnage Knockout & Moonlight Madness.
IeZaeL
Profile Joined July 2012
Italy991 Posts
May 25 2014 18:48 GMT
#8
The funny thing is that if you had submitted only Foxtrot , instead of Kamala + Foxtrot , this map would have won TLMC with more than 50% votes imo.
Lazyness 1 - 0 hard work.

Can you try to export the zhakul'das texture ( the one with clowing cracks ) and modify the color from green to blue in photoshop ? Would be cool if you followed the color scheme of the pic you linked ^^.
Author of Coda and Eastwatch.
Uvantak
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Uruguay1381 Posts
May 25 2014 19:48 GMT
#9
@Sidian When i was working on the map my original idea was to make the NE-SW bases have these long diagonal set of rocks with much more HP than usual and LoS blockers below blocking the ramp to the third AND the path to the natural mostly b/c i have wanted to use these sets of rocks in a natural for a while now but a tester of the map made me enter in reason, so i changed the layout.
Regarding the space in the nat yeah it's awkward i must agree but that's because of blink stalkers, i must leave a good amount of space around the mains to avoid them, and that distorts the rest of the map, that's one of the reason why the mains are oversized, the second is that if a player decides to attack the rocks, the defensive player needs enough space so he can build a concave inside the nat to fend off the attack. Now as far as the rocks go, you can place a single photon cannon between them and you are able to fend off lings chipping away at them, so i don't see it being a very big problem.

@IeZ My idea for the custom textures was/is to mix the zhakuldas cracks with the tarsonis rubble and change the color as you said to a more bluish glow. Actually the reason why i added all the green around the map (iPistol billboards with omni lights+Green Neon tubes) is to be consistent with the zhakuldas textures, if i change these textures i must change all the rest :b

And yeah, lots of people have said to me exactly that, the reason why i didn't won the TLMC is because my two maps made it to the finalists -.-; (And! because none of you guys submitted more standardish maps!)
@Kantuva | Mapmaker | KTVMaps.wordpress.com | Check my profile to see my TL map threads, and you can search for KTV in the Custom Games section to play them.
Isarios
Profile Joined March 2014
United States153 Posts
May 25 2014 20:42 GMT
#10
I like the green cracks...

What i feel is out of place is the green iPistol ads. First, they're ads aren't they? Second, you already have a lot of green on this map. Maybe a dark yellow or a blue instead?
Blahhh
Uvantak
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Uruguay1381 Posts
May 25 2014 21:18 GMT
#11
Instead of the iPistol billboards at the start i was using cliff decals with high HDR multiplier and omni lights, but i changed in because i feel they fit better in the areas they are supposed to cover, but you're right about the amount of green tho, that's why the fog is of a dark greyish blue. Sadly i can't get the fog to show when taking overviews with the editor (some random bug)

IMO the green cracks don't look all that bad, that's why i settled for this tileset instead of using another one :b
@Kantuva | Mapmaker | KTVMaps.wordpress.com | Check my profile to see my TL map threads, and you can search for KTV in the Custom Games section to play them.
MuadDib752
Profile Joined April 2012
United States5 Posts
June 30 2014 20:44 GMT
#12
Why are the asymmetric horizontal spawns allowed? Doesn't this give a clear imbalance? Bottom left has a small natural ramp to defend and bottom right has a similar ramp but it can be completely bypassed and the defender then cannot use a highground advantage. I really like every aspect of this map except this spawning possibility. It seems silly and an objectively wrong decision.
FrostedMiniWheats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States30730 Posts
June 30 2014 21:00 GMT
#13
congrats
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Uvantak
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Uruguay1381 Posts
June 30 2014 21:06 GMT
#14
On July 01 2014 05:44 MuadDib752 wrote:Doesn't this give a clear imbalance?

Yes, the thing is that any rotational symmetric map is already imbalanced when spawning in horizontal or vertical positions, so if you have played in a 4p rotational symmetric map you have played in asymmetric map.

As long as the map is well designed there isn't a issue with playing in a rotational asymmetric map, and if the outcry is just too big because of this, blizzard always can disable the spawns easily and the map becomes a 2in1 instead of being a 4in1.

But i do agree with you, those spawns have been the focus of many players and discussions, at the end i decided to keep them because they are not particularly imbalanced or dull towards any race, but as i said i have no issues disabling them from the map, and as far as i know, blizzard is in the same train i'm.
@Kantuva | Mapmaker | KTVMaps.wordpress.com | Check my profile to see my TL map threads, and you can search for KTV in the Custom Games section to play them.
mogoh
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany109 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-01 02:33:07
July 01 2014 01:00 GMT
#15
Are there spawn restrictions on Foxtrot Labs?
mogoh
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany109 Posts
July 01 2014 02:33 GMT
#16
On July 01 2014 10:00 mogoh wrote:
Are there spawn restrictions on Foxtrot Labs?

nevermind
EatThePath
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3943 Posts
July 05 2014 23:26 GMT
#17
I didn't realize this became non-vertical instead of cross-only. I am having trouble with this... the push distance nat2nat is quite short in horizontal spawns, with only one set of rocks required to break. Imagine immortal sentry in pvz...

The 3rd base is also so much farther by ground in the NW/SE positions than the opposite corner. I know there are tradeoffs, but it just doesn't seem necessary to include this spawn position for competitive play when the 2in1 version is quite good already.
Comprehensive strategic intention: DNE
NewSunshine
Profile Joined July 2011
United States5938 Posts
July 05 2014 23:28 GMT
#18
On July 06 2014 08:26 EatThePath wrote:
I didn't realize this became non-vertical instead of cross-only. I am having trouble with this... the push distance nat2nat is quite short in horizontal spawns, with only one set of rocks required to break. Imagine immortal sentry in pvz...

The 3rd base is also so much farther by ground in the NW/SE positions than the opposite corner. I know there are tradeoffs, but it just doesn't seem necessary to include this spawn position for competitive play when the 2in1 version is quite good already.

It always had this spawn configuration.
"If you find yourself feeling lost, take pride in the accuracy of your feelings." - Night Vale
EatThePath
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3943 Posts
July 06 2014 00:19 GMT
#19
well wtf mate
Comprehensive strategic intention: DNE
Uvantak
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Uruguay1381 Posts
July 06 2014 17:43 GMT
#20
On July 06 2014 09:19 EatThePath wrote:
well wtf mate

Ahahaha yeah, i have gotten into some very interesting discussions about those spawns, the agreement is that even when the spawns are possibly broken, it is worth it just to see a meta develop from those spawns, i mean we as mapmakers are always trying new maps that are weird and/or funky so we can have more data and test new waters/new layouts.

The thing here is that those spawns by design are quite weird (by my standards) and possibly imbalanced, and the old version that is uploaded by blizzard atm does not help stabilizing those spawns at all...
@Kantuva | Mapmaker | KTVMaps.wordpress.com | Check my profile to see my TL map threads, and you can search for KTV in the Custom Games section to play them.
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