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NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa7387 Posts
December 17 2014 05:14 GMT
#81
Oh thanks Blizz!
SuperNova - 2015 | SKT1 fan for years | Dear, FlaSh, PartinG, Soulkey, Naniwa
CakeSauc3
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1437 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-17 06:21:39
December 17 2014 06:15 GMT
#82
Well, there goes my reason to play SC2 again It was nice to have small action-packed maps again, now we'll be back to nr15 3-base yawn fests.

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. I'll be looking forward to economy changes in LotV, hopefully it'll improve the pacing of the game.

I was so excited to get my paws on this game again after finals week, too.
Zerg.Zilla
Profile Joined February 2012
Hungary5029 Posts
December 17 2014 06:24 GMT
#83
Hell,it's about time! Fucking shity maps,cheesefest all day long :/
(•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ~Keep calm and inject Larva~
PharaphobiaSC2
Profile Joined November 2014
Czech Republic85 Posts
December 17 2014 06:35 GMT
#84
On December 17 2014 12:59 Arceus wrote:
Blizzard fucked up pretty hard with this one. They shoulda prepared the new pool way way earlier so that important leagues like SSL, GSL, SPL would not be so confused in choosing between a fun but shitty dreampool and an utterly boring ss3

That results in we spectator having to watch the likes of Deadwing, Nimbus, Catallena for another freakin quarter. (This experimental pool wont even start until Jan 5 while Code begins in Jan 7). What are you even thinking Blizzard?


You better learn to read properly, before trying to while like a kiddo
My_Fake_Plastic_Luv
Profile Joined March 2010
United States257 Posts
December 17 2014 06:57 GMT
#85
They should have different map pools for different leagues... just saying
Its going to be a glorious day, I feel my luck could change
klup
Profile Joined May 2013
France612 Posts
December 17 2014 09:46 GMT
#86
Dreampool has been great in that sense we saw players actually think about what they were doing. We had those classic copy-paste build guys that will go reaper expand everytime because they know only one macro build. We had the cheeser that know how to abuse every map with very efficient cheese. And we had people thinking out of the box trying to adapt from old map with interesting openers more defensive or aggressive than usual.
I enjoyed a lot that diversity, good scouting and good adaptation to what your opponent was doing was heavily required. Re-learning to defend old cheese was fun, adapting to weird build was ton of fun as well. Now we go back to the good old "every map is standard and look the same." I'm kind of sad but hope that for the next round they will show some innovative maps.

Opening reaper expand for dummies
mCon.Hephaistas
Profile Joined May 2014
Netherlands891 Posts
December 17 2014 10:39 GMT
#87
So they wanted to fix TvZ with the new mappool but they keep 3 maps of the last mappool anyway?
Thanks for nothing
Thax
Profile Joined July 2014
Belgium1060 Posts
December 17 2014 11:02 GMT
#88
On December 17 2014 19:39 mCon.Hephaistas wrote:
So they wanted to fix TvZ with the new mappool but they keep 3 maps of the last mappool anyway?
Thanks for nothing


King Sejong, Overgrowth and Deadwing are perfectly fine (though King and overgrowth have been around for while now, so I don't mind seeing them go), Merry Go Round is actually Zerg favoured according to the winrate statistics and having 1 Terran-friendly map left on a pool of 7 is perfectly acceptable if they decide to leave one of those in, depending on how the others are balanced. Perfect balance on every individual map is boring. Depending on how the new maps are swapping out 4/7 is perfectly fine.
TheKhyira
Profile Joined May 2012
115 Posts
December 17 2014 11:07 GMT
#89
Never again.
klup
Profile Joined May 2013
France612 Posts
December 17 2014 13:01 GMT
#90
The ideas of different mappool for pros and non-pro and the idea of having a large mappool of like 12 maps with 6-7 bans with the mappool of the pros + fun old/new maps is an idea that will probably never see the light because of the policy of blizzard that want their game to be not overwhelming for newbies. Those are great ideas imo and I would really enjoy to see this.

If we follow the 9 deck slot polemic in hearthstone we can understand clearly that Blizzard don't want to have complicated stuff going on. The 7 mappool will stay unfortunately.

We should be glad they are letting us having the Archon mode :D.

fuglio
Profile Joined November 2014
9 Posts
December 17 2014 13:59 GMT
#91
RIP dream pool I loved you so
CountZero71
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany89 Posts
December 17 2014 14:06 GMT
#92
Well, the basic idea behind the dreampool wasn't that bad for the "offseason" we are having. Nevertheless it's good to see it replaced. Maybe it would be fun to have something like a casual ladder, running parallel to the regular one with some fan favored maps?
You cannot kill what doesn't die...
Striker.superfreunde
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany1120 Posts
December 17 2014 14:10 GMT
#93
It was fun as long as it lasted. Time to move on.. or back.. or both.
The few matches i played had a good nostalgia feeling, but i can understand that people who play more than 5 games a day got really sick of 'em.
'Your ak is pretty... uhm... dank!'
zalem95
Profile Joined January 2011
Peru189 Posts
December 17 2014 14:31 GMT
#94
No more Xelnaga
nothing special
madmegatron
Profile Joined February 2012
Canada6 Posts
December 17 2014 15:09 GMT
#95
Hoping for some new 2v2/3v3 maps too! :D
Instruments of destruction!
RHoudini
Profile Joined October 2009
Belgium3632 Posts
December 17 2014 15:19 GMT
#96
Ohana we will miss you!
Lee Jae Dong fighting!
plgElwood
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany518 Posts
December 17 2014 16:44 GMT
#97
According to the mighty destiny we will get:

maps bad for blink, with ez 4th for zerg and protoss friendly natural, in 4 Variations !

Thanks Blizzard
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
sCnInfinity
Profile Joined March 2013
Germany82 Posts
December 17 2014 17:02 GMT
#98
It's about damn time that ladder becomes enjoyable again ...
Long live the King Of Wings
SuperHofmann
Profile Joined September 2013
Italy1741 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-17 18:38:59
December 17 2014 18:38 GMT
#99


I don't know if we have to be happy or scared.
Vasacast always in my <3
NaboliC
Profile Joined February 2011
Sweden130 Posts
December 17 2014 19:39 GMT
#100
And then my mmr will suddenly get back to normal and I won't lose to noobs anymore. Thanks Blizzard.
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