Pretty sure Catallena is a reference to Kpop girlsband Orange Caramel as Catallena (song) was released 3 months ago and includes a kind of trolling octopus in their music video.

ZeromuS

Canada13423 Posts

July 02 2014 13:24 GMT

#144

On July 01 2014 18:32 klup wrote:
The two maps DeadWing and Catalena are blinkable by the third with wide main giving plenty of space for blink allin and force to make lots of bunkers to cover all the area.

If you add King Sejong Station to this you have 3 maps where this bullshit can be pulled to a great efficiency.

But the good news about Catalena is that it seems to be possible to jump with a reaper from the third also so maybe better scouting available.

The biggest issue for blink isn't getting into the main. Its pressuring the main and the natural at the same time early before stim is done. Allowing for timewarp on the ramp.

Catallena its really not as easy as it was on yeonsu (with no ramp into the nat to boot).

On deadwing, there is a ramp leading to the nat and to get the more efficient blink all in positioning you need to kill the rocks into the natural delaying the blink all in slightly. This makes it easier to hold than in the old blink friendly maps.

This being said I still think deadwing is something terran should avoid vs p

followZeRoX

Serbia1451 Posts

July 02 2014 13:42 GMT

#145

Every maps are better then ones in current season. So, good!

AoSApocalypse

Italy10 Posts

July 03 2014 07:31 GMT

#146

On Deadwing we will see protoss ffe in third covering 3 base.

Meavis

Netherlands1300 Posts

July 03 2014 08:05 GMT

#147

On July 01 2014 08:09 EatThePath wrote:
For the love of god blizzard please stop using team maps that have cannon-cheesable main minerals. Seriously wtf, every fucking time.

Yeah I'm really fucking pissed at the team maps, they also seem completely oblivious to the mass phoenix with support meta in teams when they throw a map like old country in there.

PinoKotsBeer

Netherlands1387 Posts

July 04 2014 14:41 GMT

#148

Positive:
Community maps and they are looking awesome!

Negative:
-The return of endless blink, "skill" builds will prevail again.
-Toss quick 3 base expands and no way to punish.

Conclusion:
Why bother to play as Terran if it's going to be a toss party for another season

eusoc

Italy82 Posts

July 06 2014 15:51 GMT

#149

I don't know if anyone else already said that, but according to TLPD Merry Go Round has a 61% ZvP... and it's still in the map pool. It is actually hard to take a hird and the open space also makes 2 base allin not very effective.

(Still better than 64% TvZ on Alterzim)

[PkF] Wire

France24239 Posts

July 06 2014 23:59 GMT

#150

Is it just me or is Catallena LE mining rate very slow due to the configuration of the minerals ? Timings seems to be off by a good 5-10 seconds early game.

Edit : the maps are live on ladder on EU. Couldn't Blizzard see that they were putting descriptions like "completely devoid of any description whatsoever" or "sdsdds" for the new maps ? It's absolutely ridiculous and pretty unprofessionnal.

starslayer

United States696 Posts

July 07 2014 05:18 GMT

#151

not 100% percent sure yet but on the new map catallena the top right spawns left gas seems really far away compared to the other spawns still need to test it out but from the looks of it, its pretty far away. (same as merry go round)

Uvantak

Uruguay1381 Posts

July 07 2014 05:34 GMT

#152

On July 07 2014 14:18 starslayer wrote:
not 100% percent sure yet but on the new map catallena the top right spawns left gas seems really far away compared to the other spawns still need to test it out but from the looks of it, its pretty far away. (same as merry go round)

All the Vespene geysers in Catallena are efficient, just checked.

starslayer

United States696 Posts

July 07 2014 05:47 GMT

#153

On July 07 2014 14:34 Uvantak wrote:

Show nested quote +

All the Vespene geysers in Catallena are efficient, just checked.

jtype

England2167 Posts

July 07 2014 07:21 GMT

#154

The new maps are an absolute joke. They wont need to buff terran if they let ridiculous maps like this get chosen.

KotaOnCue

United States180 Posts

July 07 2014 15:33 GMT

#155

Anybody else experiencing major lag on the new maps? And it isn't me that's lagging but my opponents? Every game on a new map so far has had pretty bad lag spikes which kinda kills it for me.

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

July 07 2014 15:43 GMT

#156

On July 07 2014 16:21 jtype wrote:
The new maps are an absolute joke. They wont need to buff terran if they let ridiculous maps like this get chosen.

There are a few exploitable siege tank spots that aren't a bad consolation prize.

Blizzard has messed up executing this new map pool in that the names and descriptions in the veto menu are rather lacking, at least at the time of this post. There are a few placeholder names and descriptions that look very messy.

Stress

United States980 Posts

July 07 2014 17:32 GMT

#157

Foxtrot Labs kills my eyes with that haze/blur effect. Anyway to fix this (other than vetoing the map)?

Dreamer.T

United States3584 Posts

July 07 2014 17:39 GMT

#158

On July 08 2014 02:32 Stress wrote:
Foxtrot Labs kills my eyes with that haze/blur effect. Anyway to fix this (other than vetoing the map)?

Same here, I actually thought my glasses were dirty. Aside from that, that map produces some really fun TvT's. A lot of these maps seem very tank friendly, I kind of like it. Just watched Kas use tanks to great effect on Deadwing vs Zerg.

PinoKotsBeer

Netherlands1387 Posts

July 07 2014 20:39 GMT

#159

Only solution to get rid of it is set terrain to low quality :/

OMFG these maps are sooooooooo fcking bad, i wish i could veto them all. More ZPcraft for ANOTHER season. i'll skip this season. Cant be bothered to play the game much longer with all the nonsense going on. Hopefully i will find a different good game in the meanwhile.

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