Map Design Thread - Page 20

This map is very small 128x128.
What i like about this map, is option of where to wall off, there is a really tight choke real close to you base but this restricts building space also larger choke but further out but is difficult to wall of but also provides support for expansion easily. with 2nd high ground expansion provides resource for longer games but if games go longer than this there is the extreme hard to defend middle expansions.

This map is huge was reduced from 256x256 to 192x256. (may make it into 2v2 map)
It is still fairly big map, I like this map because it is pretty good looking. The map provides lots of large chokes and long travel distance good chance of long game on this map.
Idea behind this map was to give a map a more broodwar feel.
OK I never played broodwar or only once on single player like 10 years ago but I have watched few matches on youtube and I get a feeling broodwar maps have lot larger feel to them with a lot of wider chokes this is where idea for this map was aimed at, to give map a more broodwar feel to it. Let me know what you think!

This map is 232x232. A small 4v4 map, well sized for 2v2 map. I have added spawn location support for 1v1 however I do think would be to big for a 1v1 really.
I was going to try have a choke covered in lava which would lightly dmg units passing through it however I wasn't able to do it on a melee classified map.

This map is 168x168. Based on top of skyscraper, this map featuring 4 spawns, 1 wide ramp ontop of your base with 2 tight chokes down below should make map easy to defend if you are able to scout where your enemy is quickly.

This map is 160x160. Based on Mars Sara, this map featuring 4 spawns, at spawns each player has 1 rich mineral node 7 normal mineral nodes fairly easy to defend with one ramp to main expansion more difficult with 3 routes of attack however optional island expansion however only features one gas and fewer minerals. Middle expansion features 4 gas and no minerals.

I made this remake of RoV because someone posted a version of the original map on Battlenet US that I don't really agree with, and I wanted to get in there before the map's name was taken up by versions that wouldn't be edited or taken care of. Right now, it's available on US servers under (2) Ride of Valkyries, but it's not at version 1 yet because I think it needs a little work before I set it to final. Concerns that I have are the number of resources in the mineral blocks, and the placement of the high-yield. I put two high-yields in the areas off the center map, instead of one on the top of the map. I also added Xel-Naga watchtowers, but if they break any matchups I'll remove them.

I made a few judgment calls on the water surrounding the map, some of the textures, and where to bend to how the SC2 editor works (the ramp size issues on the bottom ramp literally can't be fixed with the current version of the editor, but I really want to) If anyone has comments/suggestions that would help balance this or make it look better, I'd love to hear them. Specifically, mineral/gas placement or terrain balance issues.

The pathing has been checked so that there aren't any drop zones that were not available on the original map, so the gameplay should flow as close as possible to how it did on RoV back in SC1.