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Zorgaz
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden2951 Posts
February 27 2011 17:30 GMT
#981
I like the new maps. Shattered Temple is so much better than Lost Temple!
Furthermore, I think the Collosi should be removed! (Zorgaz -Terran/AbrA-Random/Zorg-Dota2) Guineapigs <3
Essentia
Profile Joined July 2010
1150 Posts
February 27 2011 17:34 GMT
#982
Slag Pits has got to be the most non zerg favored map Blizz has ever created. The close rush distances make 2 rax extremely strong AND terran can break your backdoor and seige your expansion from a tiny choke point that you cannot get a surround on. So they just sit at your backdoor hitting your expansion............ thanks Blizz.
tralafiti
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany17 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-27 17:35:38
February 27 2011 17:35 GMT
#983
reading blizz's reasaning behind the changes in the mappool im more and more convinced that there map-guys are drunk.

There isn't a huge problem with this map, but we felt there aren't enough interesting features of this map.

wtf - you need at least 8 destructable rocks to make a good map or what O_o

Backwater Gulch has a familiar main to first expansion layout. Early game play on this map should feel familiar and there probably aren't too many early game threats or difficulties in terms of gimmicky strategies you need to worry about]

really? my natural exp has 2 rocks and a huge upwalk - how the hell am i going to defend that?

Metalopolis was one of two favorite maps across the different skill levels of players. We decided to introduce a very similar map, but slightly more macro heavy: Slag Pits

i'm out of spech - did they even look at the map before writing this?
Kinetik_Inferno
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1431 Posts
February 27 2011 17:42 GMT
#984
Backwater gulch seems like a damn good FFA and 1v1 map. Holy hell

If blizz decides to publish backwater gulch as FFA, then we actually have an ffa map guys!
confusedcrib
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1307 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-27 17:46:59
February 27 2011 17:46 GMT
#985
Why are new 2v2 maps so bad? your bases should always be close imo so there is less incentive to cheese Oh, and new maps make playing zerg feel so much better, just got one base all in'd by a terran and it was very nice to have so much room to work with.
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Hawkins
Profile Joined December 2010
19 Posts
February 27 2011 17:53 GMT
#986
LOL at ppl wondering what Blizzard are thinking. Blizzard WANT the maps to be 1base gimmicky "all ins". Why you ask? Well if a mouthbreather can beat a master a decent percentange of the time becuase of map+race imbalance the mouthbreather will be happy and buy the new epansions. And ppl who can't play and consider macro to be having 25 workers and queing 5 siege tanks in order to stay at 0 mins and gas are a lot more than the ppl who want to play a skilfull game.
confusedcrib
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1307 Posts
February 27 2011 17:55 GMT
#987
On February 28 2011 02:53 Hawkins wrote:
LOL at ppl wondering what Blizzard are thinking. Blizzard WANT the maps to be 1base gimmicky "all ins". Why you ask? Well if a mouthbreather can beat a master a decent percentange of the time becuase of map+race imbalance the mouthbreather will be happy and buy the new epansions. And ppl who can't play and consider macro to be having 25 workers and queing 5 siege tanks in order to stay at 0 mins and gas are a lot more than the ppl who want to play a skilfull game.


This so absolutely true you should get a quality poster star next to your name!
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Esper
Profile Joined May 2010
United States87 Posts
February 27 2011 18:12 GMT
#988
On February 28 2011 02:55 confusedcrib wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 28 2011 02:53 Hawkins wrote:
LOL at ppl wondering what Blizzard are thinking. Blizzard WANT the maps to be 1base gimmicky "all ins". Why you ask? Well if a mouthbreather can beat a master a decent percentange of the time becuase of map+race imbalance the mouthbreather will be happy and buy the new epansions. And ppl who can't play and consider macro to be having 25 workers and queing 5 siege tanks in order to stay at 0 mins and gas are a lot more than the ppl who want to play a skilfull game.


This so absolutely true you should get a quality poster star next to your name!


This is very true, they're appealing to the masses. But why can't they just have a separate map pool for masters+ or diamond+ so they have the smaller, shorter maps for the less experienced and larger macro maps w/o all of the abusive terrain (i typed terran the first time) features for those who are skilled enough to exploit the crap out of it?
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parn
Profile Joined December 2010
France296 Posts
February 27 2011 18:12 GMT
#989
On February 28 2011 02:55 confusedcrib wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 28 2011 02:53 Hawkins wrote:
LOL at ppl wondering what Blizzard are thinking. Blizzard WANT the maps to be 1base gimmicky "all ins". Why you ask? Well if a mouthbreather can beat a master a decent percentange of the time becuase of map+race imbalance the mouthbreather will be happy and buy the new epansions. And ppl who can't play and consider macro to be having 25 workers and queing 5 siege tanks in order to stay at 0 mins and gas are a lot more than the ppl who want to play a skilfull game.


This so absolutely true you should get a quality poster star next to your name!

That's now weeks and weeks i keep repeating the same obvious economic rule:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=7444674

Blizzard don't give a shit about TL Community, can you understand that? They care about the "most", and not the "best". Quantity > quality is the rule #1 in every aspect of this new century.

You really think Blizzard staff is like: "Hi honey, was a hard day today, we spent so much energy making the game balance so Idra and his fans are happy, but we did it! How are the kids?".
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10366 Posts
February 27 2011 18:17 GMT
#990
Quantity > quality is the rule #1 in every aspect of this new century.


Yep but Blizzard still remains, at least relatively, Quality over Quantity. Anyways, I don't think that's what what you mean to say; you're comparing the more numerous casual players with the higher quality better players? That doesn't quite make sense. You look at the game as a whole; if the majority of the people think the game is bad, the game is bad in the majority's eyes. So to improve quality in that sense, they have to make sure the majority of the players are satisfied.
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Feb
Profile Joined December 2010
98 Posts
February 27 2011 18:19 GMT
#991
i'm pretty sure i'm vetoing slag pits. the natural is way too hard to defend. can't see it staying in the map pool long without some significant edits though.

and is it just me that thinks shakuraas is really out because typhon peaks is basically the same map minus the natural (but a considerably worse map, but mainly because there's only one ground route up the center, allowing for the map to be cut in half horizontally far too easy)?
Weasel-
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada1556 Posts
February 27 2011 18:21 GMT
#992
Slag Pits and Shattered Temple close spawn rush distances are ridiculous. Other than that, the new maps are generally an improvement over the old ones.
Blyadischa
Profile Joined April 2010
419 Posts
February 27 2011 18:22 GMT
#993
Blizzard needs to stop fucking making maps with "rotational symmetry" because I'm tired of super close positions, semi close positions, then cross positions. It should be far positions, and further positions.
parn
Profile Joined December 2010
France296 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-27 18:52:57
February 27 2011 18:34 GMT
#994
On February 28 2011 03:17 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
You look at the game as a whole; if the majority of the people think the game is bad, the game is bad in the majority's eyes. So to improve quality in that sense, they have to make sure the majority of the players are satisfied.

That's a total failed troll action.

You just prove how right i am, and how Blizzard did an ace commercial job: who says pleasing the majority is always good?

If any newb player was able to beat the #1 world SC2 player 1/5 of the games, then the majority of the players would be satisfied, because the majority of the players are 15-18 yo kids who wants to show mom how strong they are copy/pasting a 4 gates build.

The most > The best.

Blizzard will always prefer to sell 10 games to 10 newbies rather than 1 game to a pro/good player, and good/newbie players do not have "fun" the same way, at all.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Trentelshark
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada385 Posts
February 27 2011 18:45 GMT
#995
Apparently Blizzard has added GSL Taldarim Altar to their BNet servers for download (not ladder), because I just loaded a replay, didn't have it on my PC and it pulled it down. Perhaps this is the GSL map Blizzard is intending to add to the ladder?
branflakes14
Profile Joined July 2010
2082 Posts
February 27 2011 18:52 GMT
#996
I hope to god Blizzard don't add Taldarim Altar. Can't stand that map.
oni_link
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany165 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-27 18:53:33
February 27 2011 18:53 GMT
#997
I think the gsl maps are too big for average ladder play, but seriously they could have added crossfire since it's made(or copied) by them
?:O
uSnAmplified
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1029 Posts
February 27 2011 18:57 GMT
#998
On February 28 2011 03:52 branflakes14 wrote:
I hope to god Blizzard don't add Taldarim Altar. Can't stand that map.
God forbid they add a map that doesn't have retarded close positions and crappy natural placement.
~
magha
Profile Joined March 2010
Netherlands427 Posts
February 27 2011 19:00 GMT
#999
On February 28 2011 03:45 Trentelshark wrote:
Apparently Blizzard has added GSL Taldarim Altar to their BNet servers for download (not ladder), because I just loaded a replay, didn't have it on my PC and it pulled it down. Perhaps this is the GSL map Blizzard is intending to add to the ladder?


It just works that way, not related to Blizzard uploading maps.
Ftrunkz
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia2474 Posts
February 27 2011 19:13 GMT
#1000
to be fair, backwater gulch is better than blistering,

steppes and jungle were both far worse than typhon and slag pits

and the temple revamp actually isn't too horrible....

Yeah the maps aren't fantastic by any means (especially the nat design on literally every single one of them...), but atleast its a small small improvement.

However taking out shakurus over delta and not just using GSL maps is seriously bizzare to me, absolutely unfathomable how they came up with those choices :\.
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