[KeSPA] Proleague R4 Test Maps - Page 9

On March 18 2013 23:58 algue wrote:


Reminder that when antiga shipyard and taldarim altar have been in the map pool for more than 1 year along with many other shitty and imbalanced map, worrying about the balance of a map is legit. In Sc2 the map pool rotation is slow as fuck and if a map suck you will have to live with it for at least 6 months :/

On March 18 2013 23:50 thenexusp wrote:

You can't have a symmetrical layout and a snug center base at the same time, unfortunately. This is because the width/height of SC2 maps are an even number of tiles (meaning any symmetrical center base will be an even number of tiles across) but the town halls are 5x5.

On March 19 2013 00:16 LaLuSh wrote:
This is interesting news. It means that on some level KeSPA has recognized 8m2g to be a hindrance towards variation.

It will be hugely interesting to see whether this promotes a more spread out and expand oriented game style.

Though, FRB has some flaws in itself which Barrin recognized (he has revised FRB). I hope 6 mineral patches don't lead to build orders conforming too quickly in the games. There needs to be some asymmetry so players won't be too afraid of deviating and expanding.

On March 19 2013 00:32 Arceus wrote:
apparently theres a dedicated article on KeSPA site which details every maps with better quality images. Hope someone can translate it

http://www.e-sports.or.kr/news/notice_view.kea?m_code=news_20&PageNo=1&seq=1869&where=&query=

On March 18 2013 22:50 DarkLordOlli wrote:
It's known that gold minerals give a big advantage to zerg and terran while not favoring protoss much? Give a map only gold minerals.
>_> seriously, most of these Kespa maps are beyond silly from a balance perspective. Like, you will never in a million years see a protoss get sent out on Fighting Spirit (to macro) or take a third on Sanctuary. Colosseum seems to be the only somewhat reasonable map.

But hey, standard play has never been what PL is about. Hence why I don't take PL results all that seriously right now.

On March 18 2013 23:26 andrewlt wrote:


Yup. That's what made the BW scene so interesting for so long. Many of the BW vets really didn't care too much about balance on new maps, knowing that the worst ones will be taken out in a few months. Disrupting the metagame often gives the game a breath of fresh air.

The SC2 scene, on the other hand, is just way too obsessed with balance. People take the pitchforks out and march against a 51-49 imbalance.

On March 19 2013 00:36 Zelniq wrote:

i'm really interested in FRB, but that thread is pretty insanely long to read, where is this revision?

btw these maps look interesting, actually the thing i've looked forward for the most with Kespa entering the sc2 scene, almost as much as the players themselves, are their maps