OK... this comments about Tel'darim and Metal being Zerg favored "at the highest levels of play" can only mean they don't look at MLG,GSL... stats but at Master Leaguers. Which is bullshit because I am in Master League and the niveau is like... not even kindergarden compared to prolevel, which simply means Masterleague stats (and even GM stats!) don't have anything to do with balancing, but with players simply being horrible...

And once again... Most of those new maps suck already. I wish they would put in some better maps, but zergs and protoss will once again have only one playstyle in vT: turtle and overcompensate.
Counterattacking? Hell no we don't want that!
Mindgames? No no no!
Macro games? Are you out of your mind?

"We are aiming for a balancing in which siegetanks that attack are able to defend your main mineralline too!"

OptimusYale

Korea (South)1005 Posts

July 26 2011 06:21 GMT

#624

Metal gone...shit

thats like the worst decision ever....just remove close spawns :'( I am a sad panda now

Dakk

Sweden572 Posts

July 26 2011 06:22 GMT

#625

Sucks that metalopolis is out :/ Nver really liked scrapstation :D Overall some cool changes.

Bengui

Canada775 Posts

July 26 2011 06:22 GMT

#626

On July 26 2011 15:17 L3g3nd_ wrote:

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40% of players are in bronze, of course they gonna care more about them, just sucks for us better players

20% actually

Jayrod

1820 Posts

July 26 2011 06:23 GMT

#627

On July 26 2011 06:54 Zerker wrote:

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That's the most stupid logic i've ever heard in my life. Shattered temple shares the same problem as metalopolis what part of this do you not understand? Look i'm trying to be nice here, but it doesn't take a genius to understand this.

Pretty sure you're the guy i saw earlier in the thread saying that people were reading the blizzard quote incorrectly when you were exactly wrong about it. I wouldnt argue logic when you can barely read.

SoniStreet

Macedonia98 Posts

July 26 2011 06:23 GMT

#628

I wish they added Dual Sight and Testbug tbh

ZzZBored

Australia368 Posts

July 26 2011 06:28 GMT

#629

WTF no metalopolis TT...removed scrap station thankfully though

Garnet

Vietnam9056 Posts

July 26 2011 06:31 GMT

#630

You would think If they care more about Bronzers they would add colorful maps like Dual Sight.

adRo.

Australia243 Posts

July 26 2011 06:33 GMT

#631

Slag pits and delta were a good choice to remove. But metalopolis? That was a great map, atleast just edit it for no close spawns plawks

WeedRa

Germany815 Posts

July 26 2011 06:35 GMT

#632

no metalopolis is kinda wierd

well, but i am looking forward to playing 2 maps

Abyssal Caverns

Nerazim Crypt

Kaitlin

United States2958 Posts

July 26 2011 06:37 GMT

#633

I was kind of expecting Metalopolis to be removed because Abyssal Caverns seems to have a similar layout. The 4 bases with naturals are similar, the thirds in between each side are on low ground instead of high ground, and the golds in the middle are on low ground instead of high ground, as well as rotated 90 degrees. Other than that, it's similar, just with a different tileset.

Nightmare1795

United States222 Posts

July 26 2011 06:39 GMT

#634

Can someone please post when Season 3 starts and the new map pool is in? Not when it's scheduled but when it is actually up.

Kaz04

United States53 Posts

July 26 2011 06:43 GMT

#635

Am I the only person that is HAPPY that Meta is gone? And upset that XNC didnt go with it? Obviously we need some non-four player maps in the pool but XNC is SOOO overplayed just like Meta

ZombiesOMG

United States282 Posts

July 26 2011 06:44 GMT

#636

UGH! It's always carrot and stick with Blizzard and their map rotations... They're taking out Slag, DQ, which is great!

I'll really miss Scrap Station and Metalopolis.

( They've been with us for so long, though... maybe it's for the better in terms of evolving gameplay? Who knows. I don't, that's for sure.

Here's to something new!

MandoRelease

France374 Posts

July 26 2011 06:46 GMT

#637

Thank god they're taking out scrap station and metalopolis.
I never liked scrap station, and always vetoed metalopolis because of the close position.

Meta won't be missed at all as far as i'm concerned.

Neino

Norway295 Posts

July 26 2011 06:50 GMT

#638

You should play the new maps in custom games, hihi. So fun. The first map doesn't have a natural, it's easier to take the gold than anything else, but it's still hard as fuck. So the early game is VERY heavily favored towards Zerg, but if you actually somehow manage to split the map, zerg wont have a chance, because of the chokes and stuff in the middle. Most idiotic map ever used.

Two of the other maps can be good, but is too dependant on spawns, if it's "close" it's very imbalanced, where as cross is quite nice.

The last map is pretty good imo, looks cool as well. Has the same feel as alot of the gsl maps with easy 3 bases, but a bit more difficult forth

Joseph123

Bulgaria1144 Posts

July 26 2011 06:51 GMT

#639

On July 26 2011 15:43 Kaz04 wrote:
Am I the only person that is HAPPY that Meta is gone? And upset that XNC didnt go with it? Obviously we need some non-four player maps in the pool but XNC is SOOO overplayed just like Meta

well meta and xnc aren't the best maps in season 2 pool but compared to the other bs they are great

bEwArE

United Kingdom121 Posts

July 26 2011 06:51 GMT

#640

Happy they removed Slag, Delta and Scrap seeing as I had 2/3 of those vetoed anyway. Idk why they are removing Metalop though, I love that map even though I win 90% of close pos and lose 90 of cross (terran :p). Haven't even looked at the new maps so yeah will probably custom on them for a while

more fun than ladder anyway