On July 26 2011 17:09 vrok wrote:
While I'm not sad that Metal is gone, claiming it's zerg favored like they did is fucking bullshit though. Maybe it is on the ladder, where zerg players MMR is lower than it should be because of the other bullshit maps, and when playing on an actual balanced map the zerg players true skill is allowed to show.

TLPD, both Korean and International, which is based on an even higher level than whatever they think the highest levels are, says it's pretty damn balanced. And they usually play fixed versions that are even more 'zerg favored' which really means 'not extremely zerg punishing'.

Noob fuck in denial. Zerg dominating left and right. Zerg nerf incomming shortly when maps aren't fixing the trend.

PredY

Czech Republic1731 Posts

July 26 2011 09:58 GMT

#744

cross on metal was never imbalanced

sluggaslamoo

Australia4494 Posts

July 26 2011 09:58 GMT

#745

Maps being old should be a good enough reason to remove them.

We need fresh maps, really the entire map pool should be rotated every 2 seasons.

Could not imagine proleague if they didn't completely replace the map pool every season.

Cops

United Kingdom172 Posts

July 26 2011 10:00 GMT

#746

Does anybody know when exactly the changes come into place on the EU servers?

SoniStreet

Macedonia98 Posts

July 26 2011 10:00 GMT

#747

I would pay to have Dual Sight and Testbug on the Ladder

such awesome maps.

L3g3nd_

New Zealand10461 Posts

July 26 2011 10:00 GMT

#748

yeah meta one of my favs, sad it is gone =/ played 20games or so, the new maps are terrible, 3 of my veto's going to them

Asha

United Kingdom38257 Posts

July 26 2011 10:02 GMT

#749

I'll miss you meta, but change isn't a bad thing

Scrap Station (2)
Slag Pits (4)
Delta Quadrant (4)

all removed = blizzard listening <3

AmericanUmlaut

Germany2581 Posts

July 26 2011 10:04 GMT

#750

Between the close-spawn problems and Blizzard's obvious reluctance to put maps without rocks in the pool, I thought - hey! I can kill both birds, as it were, with one stone!

Tuk

United Kingdom223 Posts

July 26 2011 10:05 GMT

#751

and yet they keep taldarim maybe this hints towards some balance changes

Tuczniak

1561 Posts

July 26 2011 10:06 GMT

#752

Metalopolis was the oldest map so it was expected. Next season will be probably removed XNC, Shakuras Plateau + some of the new maps, because nobody would play them.

OptimusYale

Korea (South)1005 Posts

July 26 2011 10:07 GMT

#753

On July 26 2011 19:04 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
Between the close-spawn problems and Blizzard's obvious reluctance to put maps without rocks in the pool, I thought - hey! I can kill both birds, as it were, with one stone!

Novice Metal...remember thinking that was the most balanced map ever!

RealRook

Czech Republic54 Posts

July 26 2011 10:07 GMT

#754

metalopolis was by far the most zerg favored map there was, no other map has so safe 3rd base for Z..

Luppy1

Singapore177 Posts

July 26 2011 10:08 GMT

#755

A few were saying how cross positions are imbalanced, in favor of zerg. Care to explain?

DrowningSC2

United Kingdom21 Posts

July 26 2011 10:10 GMT

#756

Wow, sad to see Metalopolis removed although with the close spawn positions issue it's not really suprising (mainly because the majority, if not all tournament formats choose a version of Metalopolis that has close-spawns disabled and therefore not the official Blizzard version)

Would be nice if they released the new maps earlier so we can have some time to play on them, however im sure many of us with play some vs AI games before hand to get a feel for the season 3 additions :D

MenSol[ZerO]

Canada1134 Posts

July 26 2011 10:10 GMT

#757

On July 26 2011 18:58 PredY wrote:
cross on metal was never imbalanced

are you being sarcastic lol?

Luppy1

Singapore177 Posts

July 26 2011 10:12 GMT

#758

On July 26 2011 19:10 MenSol[ZerO] wrote:

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are you being sarcastic lol?

I don't know why it's imbalanced either. Can you explain it?

Msr

Korea (South)495 Posts

July 26 2011 10:13 GMT

#759

On July 26 2011 19:12 Luppy1 wrote:

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I don't know why it's imbalanced either. Can you explain it?

It isn't.

Tuczniak

1561 Posts

July 26 2011 10:17 GMT

#760

I don't know why people think it was imbalanced.
Terran has little advantage by taking gold which denied other gold and secured centre (compared to maps like Shakuras and other gold-less maps), but it's quite insignificant.