Some of these look bonkers, and not necessarily in a nice way, but hopefully some of them will end up playable; it'd be nice to see some fresh map ideas.

fire_brand

Canada1123 Posts

November 15 2012 22:37 GMT

#143

Interesting. I know kespa always liked switching their maps around as far as race favored, non balanced maps. Should be interesting.

Ripeace

34 Posts

November 15 2012 22:37 GMT

#144

Time to see new maps, I know we can counter on OSL and GSL for that.

Sadly foreigner tournaments are too scared to add new maps to their map pool.

ChosenBrad1322

United States562 Posts

November 15 2012 22:39 GMT

#145

I don't think Guillotine would work out in SC2 ^^ Some of them look pretty solid / cool though

Koshi

Belgium38797 Posts

November 15 2012 22:41 GMT

#146

All tournaments should switch maps in 2013. Fuck maps that have been around for 1.5 years.

Divine-Sneaker

Denmark1225 Posts

November 15 2012 22:41 GMT

#147

Arkanoid, o yes. Bifrost as well.

Long time, no fucking see.
Looking forward to this.

WArped

United Kingdom4845 Posts

November 15 2012 22:42 GMT

#148

Guillotine and BiFrost are the craziest looking maps here. O_O.

Very excited for the next proleague season.

Wafflelisk

Canada1061 Posts

November 15 2012 22:42 GMT

#149

Oh God, this is what SC2 NEEDED! Super pumped now!!

Spacekyod

United States818 Posts

November 15 2012 22:42 GMT

#150

Oh yes, oh yes, BITFROST!!!!!

Transistor looks pretty interesting. I can't wait to see games played on these maps.

ZeroSix

England54 Posts

November 15 2012 22:42 GMT

#151

oh hell yes

HeavenResign

United States702 Posts

November 15 2012 22:43 GMT

#152

Seriously, we needed this really bad. New maps are one of the things I'm most excited about kespa switching to SC2 for.

MCXD

Australia2738 Posts

November 15 2012 22:44 GMT

#153

Very, very INTERESTING, but I don't think it's very well thought out. Could be horrendously imbalanced.

bduddy

United States1326 Posts

November 15 2012 22:46 GMT

#154

On November 16 2012 07:35 MangoMountain wrote:

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How can you tell when nobody's tried?

Seriously, this. I have no idea how people can say that basically anything "won't work in SC2", considering that every map that tries to innovate even a little bit is shot down before it can even get near a weekly cup. I'm not a fan of KeSPA's business dealings, but big kudos for them for taking a risk and trying to shake things up.

NMHU.

Canada110 Posts

November 15 2012 22:46 GMT

#155

On November 16 2012 06:22 BigBossX wrote:
This is great news. IMO there's nothing worse as a spectator than watching 100s of games on the same shitty maps over and over.

Hundred of thousands of LoL fans would like to have a word with you I think...

mtn

729 Posts

November 15 2012 22:47 GMT

#156

On November 16 2012 07:46 NMHU. wrote:

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Hundred of thousands of LoL fans would like to have a word with you I think...

Moba is moba and RTS is RTS.

Noro

Canada991 Posts

November 15 2012 22:47 GMT

#157

Awesome, it will be interesting to see how the play translates across games.

CableSCES

United States367 Posts

November 15 2012 22:50 GMT

#158

This is SO dope. Can't wait to see these maps on competition circuits & leagues. Maybe a little balancing with some pro-test-play first, but I'm excited to see some fresh concepts in maps for SC2. Currently they're all so similar...

rift

1819 Posts

November 15 2012 22:52 GMT

#159

Arkanoid is bonkers huge in SC2. I hope these don't promote deathball play.

PhoenixLight

43 Posts

November 15 2012 22:52 GMT

#160

There's alot of xel'nagas missing from these maps. I think that's really a first for sc2 maps right...? I'm really interested to see if and how game play might evolve without the towers...