Blizzard takes out 2 godawful maps, puts one godawful map back in and one that looks decent. They're making progress I guess, but I still recall certain issues with Steppes and Scrap station that need to be fixed.

arnold(soTa)

Sweden352 Posts

October 07 2010 13:41 GMT

#564

pretty obvious that blizzard has no clue how to design maps, they dont take racial differences into consideration at all, just try and make a pretty and symetrical map.. pure terran/toss garbage maps these are...like the rest of the maps.

Kinky

United States4126 Posts

October 07 2010 13:45 GMT

#565

Wtf, they turned an old 2v2 map into a 1v1 map?
That map was already horrible in 2v2, what made them think it would be better on ladder? I had some really retarded games on it just because of the destructible rocks shared when you're on horizontal positions.

way_too_good

Germany11 Posts

October 07 2010 13:48 GMT

#566

Imo you always spawn cross position on Shakuras and so i think its actually a pretty nice map.

MuteZephyr

Lithuania448 Posts

October 07 2010 14:14 GMT

#567

Noooo, the fact that everyone hated Desert Oasis made me love it even more. You'd always get some major crazy looking games on that map. Oh well. I'm rather disappointed with the new additions though.

Shakuras Plateau is a fricken 2v2 map, and the other looks just like Steppes at first inspection.

EDIT: Ok, fine, not too much like Steppes except the tileset. I'll save my judgments until I play it :D

arnold(soTa)

Sweden352 Posts

October 07 2010 14:16 GMT

#568

On October 07 2010 22:48 way_too_good wrote:
Imo you always spawn cross position on Shakuras and so i think its actually a pretty nice map.

you dont always spawn cross positions.

GhostReveries

United States17 Posts

October 07 2010 14:28 GMT

#569

On October 07 2010 22:34 Gescom wrote:
Should have removed steppes. X_X

i actually like Steppes

sylverfyre

United States8298 Posts

October 07 2010 15:01 GMT

#570

Desert Oasis wasn't that bad once they added rocks in the back, making the rush distance even longer, and the natural actaully defensible.

Natural DEFENSIBLE, not siegable from the opponent's natural

LF more people that want to play on iccup maps. Time to head to #tlpickup i guess.

w-t-f?????????

Jantix

United States48 Posts

October 07 2010 15:10 GMT

#571

The amount of whine in this thread is dumb.. They took out the two maps that everybody complained about, replaced them with 2 that might be better..

awesomoecalypse

United States2235 Posts

October 07 2010 15:12 GMT

#572

They made it so you can't spawn vertically in Shakuras Plateau, which actually makes it a very decent map IMO. The games on gisados stream on this map have so far all been really good.

DoomSpirit

France46 Posts

October 07 2010 15:20 GMT

#573

Jungle bassin, really?
This map is soooooooooooooo small

ANd I won't even talk about the other one :x

PangO

Chile1870 Posts

October 07 2010 15:32 GMT

#574

On October 07 2010 22:34 Gescom wrote:
Should have removed steppes. X_X

Agree, hate that map so bad.

Alaron

United States225 Posts

October 07 2010 15:34 GMT

#575

Jungle Basin > Kulas or just use Crossfire. This Shakuras map is pretty weird though imo.

whipple

United States13 Posts

October 07 2010 15:35 GMT

#576

On October 08 2010 00:32 PangO wrote:

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Agree, hate that map so bad.

I actually think that Steppes is one of the best maps design-wise and balance wise. I think a large version of it would go over very well with most players.

Nobu

Spain550 Posts

October 07 2010 15:37 GMT

#577

I think I need to try them, but i'm actually like jungle basin! I love maps with backdoors as zerg!
the other map is just too wierd to talk nothing about without actually playing it so! Anyways, ICCup maps FTW!

awesomoecalypse

United States2235 Posts

October 07 2010 15:40 GMT

#578

This Shakuras map is pretty weird though imo.

I'm watching Gisados stream, and its actually producing some really good games. With no possibility of spawning vertically, the horizontal and cross positions are both well-balanced and make for interesting, macro-oriented matchups. its definitely a little unorthodox, but I think its actually a very solid map and once people play it for a bit it will be one of the most popular in the map pool.

Reason.SC2

Canada1047 Posts

October 07 2010 15:57 GMT

#579

I am going to miss DO. Even though so many pros thumbs down DO I think it has more to do with it being so different thus hard to prepare for rather than sucking as a map. The tileset is sub-optimal but the layout promotes awesome macro games once you figure out how to not die to fast banshee/void ray/muta harass... it was just SO easy to FE with the destructable rocks.

I'm interested to see what maps GSL2 uses (are kulas and DO out now?), and if players will thumbs down these new ones over other popular thumbs down maps (BS, Steppes, Delta)

unkkz

Norway2196 Posts

October 07 2010 16:23 GMT

#580

Isn't even Peaks of Baekdu in the game, aka Blizzard made the map? But its not being used for ladderplay? It's a bit narrow the remake and to me it screams a terran map(I play P, only played vs Z on it) due to the siege possibilites, but i'd say its alot better then many maps in the current map pool.