I don't like mindless bashing, but the distance between bases seems VERY short. No way can you go into longer game with down+down or up+up positions in first three maps and even with cross positions spawn only it will be hard.. well let's hope I'm wrong

pycho

Paraguay372 Posts

June 20 2011 16:19 GMT

#23

i want to kill the person who thought of adding Destructible rocks to starcraft.

map1 : looks like testbug to me, the bush infront of natural gonna be so annoying , rocks at third sucks too

map2 : i think the rush distance on this map is like steppes of war, gonna veto it no doubt about it

map3 : ugh another map thats gonna be like "OH I HOPE WE DONT GET CLOSE POSITIONS"

map4 : i dont even know what to think, looks like if u spawn top right u gonna be able to shoot someones main in top left corner

i wish blizzard would make bigger maps sc1 style, atm all the maps are like closeair, close, cross, both closeair and close often produce bad games

ronpaul012

United States769 Posts

June 20 2011 16:19 GMT

#24

Well, 1 macro, 1 rush, and 2 normal, not bad i guess. Wish it would have been 2 macro, 2 normal but whatever, I'll just veto the rush. I think the biggest change will be what maps they take out though. Thats what i'm really interested to see.

I did just read it all, and saw no mention of when season 3 will be starting? Any rumors/confirmation on a date?

Tegin

United States840 Posts

June 20 2011 16:20 GMT

#25

Hmm..not sure what I think yet. Guess I'll know once we've all played em. Glad they're changing it up a little.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

June 20 2011 16:20 GMT

#26

Why didnt they just add in some maps from tournament play -_- jesus why they make things so hard and retarded.

iamho

United States3347 Posts

June 20 2011 16:20 GMT

#27

Close rush distances and hard to take third bases. why the hell is blizzard so obsessed with rushing???

edit: crap wasted 2000th post

Drazerk

United Kingdom31255 Posts

June 20 2011 16:20 GMT

#28

As long as they block close spawns I will be happy

The maps look cool but I don't like the first one at all

ENM_Alexb

United States129 Posts

June 20 2011 16:21 GMT

#29

4 and 2 look alright, they all seem to have potential but they also all kinda look the same to me

probablywrong

Philippines209 Posts

June 20 2011 16:21 GMT

#30

Wonder which maps they choose to eliminate. Scrap, Slag Pits, and/or DQ?

Two_DoWn

United States13684 Posts

June 20 2011 16:21 GMT

#31

Looks like blizzard still doenst get it.

tuestresfat

2555 Posts

June 20 2011 16:21 GMT

#32

On June 21 2011 01:21 probablywrong wrote:
Wonder which maps they choose to eliminate. Scrap, Slag Pits, and/or DQ?

omg O.O please. all 3 can gtfo

Pudge_172

United States1378 Posts

June 20 2011 16:22 GMT

#33

On June 21 2011 01:21 probablywrong wrote:
Wonder which maps they choose to eliminate. Scrap, Slag Pits, and/or DQ?

This is almost as important as what they are adding.

I'm guessing July 1st is Season 3 as that would be a 3-month long season 2. Also would make season 4 Oct/Nov/Dec.

-Kyo-

Japan1926 Posts

June 20 2011 16:23 GMT

#34

On June 21 2011 01:19 Zaros wrote:
Why does every blizzard map have a super hard to take 3rd base >.>

And those bases are also containable in bad positions PvT or ZvT by tanks on the high ground and your 3rd on the low ground. That literally blows my mind, what are they thinking...

That aside, the Macro map looks very very nice and I look forward to playing on that :D

dezi

Germany1536 Posts

June 20 2011 16:23 GMT

#35

Some pretty BAD 1v1 maps. Is Blizz really that blind? There are so much good maps out there (beside those already used in f.e. the GSL) and they still make such dumb maps? So much rocks ... Dustin Browder award anyone?

monkxly

Canada241 Posts

June 20 2011 16:24 GMT

#36

all the 1v1 maps except the last macro one seems to favor terran early game in tvz.

The distance of the natural from the ramp is far, and the spine crawler wont be able to protect both the natural and the ramp until a creep tumor has spawned. Gas first reactored hellions and 2 rax seems stronger since the first spine wont do much

neobowman

Canada3324 Posts

June 20 2011 16:24 GMT

#37

Notice how new Blizzard maps aren't being used in GSL? I think tournaments should stop using ladder maps.

robih

Austria1086 Posts

June 20 2011 16:24 GMT

#38

srsly they all look sorta stupid to me

SilverJohnny

United States885 Posts

June 20 2011 16:24 GMT

#39

2 and 4 look ok, I think. I wish they would just get rid of rooooooooooocks and make a solid wall on map 2 (for the nat, at least), then we'd have a good map I think.

I wonder if GSL will use any of these maps. Or if the supremely awesome GSL mapmakers will give us some new maps.

Anomandaris

Afghanistan440 Posts

June 20 2011 16:24 GMT

#40

1 st map: bad map. It is a plain map without an interesting map layout.
2nd map: er weird map. Why so many rocks blizzard?
3th map: Seems a good map for counterattacks, I like it! But the center is a little cramped tough
4th map: average map.

Why doesn't blizzard adds GSL Crevasse and GSL dual sight for example? The community wants this maps in the ladder pool. Half of the current ladder maps arent even used in tournaments and they won't change that by adding other crap maps.