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Ladder S4 Locks Monday, S5 New Maps & Name Change - Page 2

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DeathDyingDoomKiller
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada91 Posts
August 15 2013 06:05 GMT
#21
I hope they change not getting demoted during a season. It's unbelievably bad that people in, say masters, that play at a low diamond level will stay there and hog spots. The people who are in Diam who are WAY better can't be put higher, or at least it's going to be way harder then it should be. Not being able to get demoted is probably the worst thing for the skill curve that Blizzard has ever done, (to my knowledge of SC2 which spans back to February of 2012). God I hope they take that shit out.
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BrassMonkey27
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada616 Posts
August 15 2013 06:25 GMT
#22
On August 15 2013 15:05 Krogan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2013 08:47 skatblast wrote:
they are getting rid of planet S? shame


I'd have to assume you play zerg then, personally that was the first thing I looked for in the new map pool and hopefully that abomination stays dead. It is so silly to have any maps where Protoss is pretty much forced to go 2 base all in on, imo.

Huh? The reason Protoss 2 base allin on that map is because it tends to work really well.
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moofang
Profile Joined June 2011
508 Posts
August 15 2013 06:31 GMT
#23
On August 15 2013 15:25 BrassMonkey27 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2013 15:05 Krogan wrote:
On August 15 2013 08:47 skatblast wrote:
they are getting rid of planet S? shame


I'd have to assume you play zerg then, personally that was the first thing I looked for in the new map pool and hopefully that abomination stays dead. It is so silly to have any maps where Protoss is pretty much forced to go 2 base all in on, imo.

Huh? The reason Protoss 2 base allin on that map is because it tends to work really well.


Both third bases also tend to be on the difficult side to hold PvZ, so there is basically both carrot and stick driving the PvZ allin-fest on that map. I'm personally happy to see the map go too.
rice_devOurer
Profile Joined July 2012
United States773 Posts
August 15 2013 06:48 GMT
#24
About the new map polar night, I'd like to quote myself:

On July 30 2013 12:06 rice_devOurer wrote:
for some reason, i think ive seen polar night before, just rotated 90 degrees.
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Wormi
Profile Joined December 2011
Germany181 Posts
August 15 2013 06:50 GMT
#25
arrr, my goal not reached yet. must play more!
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felisconcolori
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States6168 Posts
August 15 2013 06:56 GMT
#26
So... I should probably go play my placement match, then.
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FrostedMiniWheats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States30730 Posts
August 15 2013 07:01 GMT
#27
On August 15 2013 15:48 rice_devOurer wrote:
About the new map polar night, I'd like to quote myself:

Show nested quote +
On July 30 2013 12:06 rice_devOurer wrote:
for some reason, i think ive seen polar night before, just rotated 90 degrees.
+ Show Spoiler [Abyssal City] +
[image loading]

+ Show Spoiler [polar night] +
[image loading]



oh nooooo!

god I hated that map xD

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GumBa
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United Kingdom31935 Posts
August 15 2013 07:31 GMT
#28
Woohoo new name changes
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Greendotz
Profile Joined October 2011
United Kingdom2053 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-15 07:36:38
August 15 2013 07:35 GMT
#29
On August 15 2013 02:12 GTPGlitch wrote:
Well at least they're doing one free namechange per season, that's nice =D


If they did start doing that per season it would be cool, but at the same time I dread to think of all those Korean pros who try to reinvent their image by picking up an English dictionary/thesaurus (seriously, Billowy? They're literally just flicking through a dictionary and stopping their finger on a random page).

On August 15 2013 15:05 DeathDyingDoomKiller wrote:
I hope they change not getting demoted during a season. It's unbelievably bad that people in, say masters, that play at a low diamond level will stay there and hog spots. The people who are in Diam who are WAY better can't be put higher, or at least it's going to be way harder then it should be. Not being able to get demoted is probably the worst thing for the skill curve that Blizzard has ever done, (to my knowledge of SC2 which spans back to February of 2012). God I hope they take that shit out.


Aside from serving your ego and giving you that metalic aqua boarder around your name what difference does it make? MMR system hasn't changed, you're still getting matched against people who are of similar skill level.
Tactical
Profile Joined January 2011
United States77 Posts
August 15 2013 07:52 GMT
#30
I'm going to miss star station :/ I have a 75% win rate on that map haha. Meanwhile like 30% on akilon and belshir vestige. fml
CamoPillbox
Profile Joined April 2012
Czech Republic229 Posts
August 15 2013 09:27 GMT
#31
better if they do unique name only so pin code can die......
Czech Terran(Hots) player
JacobShock
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Denmark2485 Posts
August 15 2013 09:42 GMT
#32
On August 15 2013 15:05 Krogan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2013 08:47 skatblast wrote:
they are getting rid of planet S? shame


I'd have to assume you play zerg then, personally that was the first thing I looked for in the new map pool and hopefully that abomination stays dead. It is so silly to have any maps where Protoss is pretty much forced to go 2 base all in on, imo.


I think it's widely agreed upon that Neo Planet is a terran map.
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NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa7387 Posts
August 15 2013 09:56 GMT
#33
I desperately need to play out my bonus pool points accumulated over the past couple of weeks. Dota 2 became my favourite game, and led to me not paying any attention to StarCraft 2
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Bahajinbo
Profile Joined May 2012
Germany488 Posts
August 15 2013 09:57 GMT
#34
On August 15 2013 16:52 Tactical wrote:
I'm going to miss star station :/ I have a 75% win rate on that map haha. Meanwhile like 30% on akilon and belshir vestige. fml

I'm a protoss and also have 74% winrate on star station. I will also miss it a lot.
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Weavel
Profile Joined January 2010
Finland9223 Posts
August 15 2013 11:11 GMT
#35
I still remember times when we had to play same map pool for 6 month straight. I love that they keep updating it every season. <3
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rd
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2586 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-15 15:04:24
August 15 2013 11:20 GMT
#36
On August 15 2013 18:27 CamoPillbox wrote:
better if they do unique name only so pin code can die......


No thanks. I rather much enjoy not having several meaningless numbers attached to my name rather than hidden in the friend request screen.
DavoS
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
United States4605 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-15 12:05:45
August 15 2013 12:03 GMT
#37
Wait I thought you couldn't be demoted from your league anymore regardless of what point of the season it was. Is that just something they mention for grandmaster players?
Also: please get rid of Akilon. Nothing but speedling rushes, hellbat/marauder all ins, and cannon rushes
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Daeracon
Profile Joined March 2011
Sweden201 Posts
August 15 2013 13:55 GMT
#38
Very nice to have the same maps in ladder as in WCS. Consistency!
You can't use your breaks to get over a hill
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12249 Posts
August 15 2013 15:04 GMT
#39
On August 15 2013 15:05 DeathDyingDoomKiller wrote:
I hope they change not getting demoted during a season. It's unbelievably bad that people in, say masters, that play at a low diamond level will stay there and hog spots. The people who are in Diam who are WAY better can't be put higher, or at least it's going to be way harder then it should be. Not being able to get demoted is probably the worst thing for the skill curve that Blizzard has ever done, (to my knowledge of SC2 which spans back to February of 2012). God I hope they take that shit out.


There's no such thing as "taking up slots" in a league, except for GM which has specific ejection conditions.
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rd
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2586 Posts
August 15 2013 15:08 GMT
#40
On August 16 2013 00:04 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2013 15:05 DeathDyingDoomKiller wrote:
I hope they change not getting demoted during a season. It's unbelievably bad that people in, say masters, that play at a low diamond level will stay there and hog spots. The people who are in Diam who are WAY better can't be put higher, or at least it's going to be way harder then it should be. Not being able to get demoted is probably the worst thing for the skill curve that Blizzard has ever done, (to my knowledge of SC2 which spans back to February of 2012). God I hope they take that shit out.


There's no such thing as "taking up slots" in a league, except for GM which has specific ejection conditions.


What happens when a league has more % players than would normally be allocated to it? Does it continue to promote players into that league who exceed the necessary MMR threshold?
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