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Bojas
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands2397 Posts
June 26 2015 08:54 GMT
#141
On June 26 2015 13:23 -NegativeZero- wrote:
why do so many people hate backdoors in general? just wondering.

Obnoxious allins. For example versus an immortal or roach allin, you'd need to bunker up 2 locations instead of 1 as Terran.
Ragoo
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany2773 Posts
June 26 2015 11:49 GMT
#142
Oh boy this is the first ever WCS/ladder map pool I can get 100% behind. No obvious shit map that I hate. Really good mix between standard and interesting maps. Good mix between 2p and 4p, even have a 2p mirrored that is great~ Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out. But overall it just looks super cool.

Also fuck this whiny community, I always hated you.
Member of TPW mapmaking team/// twitter.com/Ragoo_ /// "goody represents border between explainable reason and supernatural" Cloud
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24239 Posts
June 26 2015 12:23 GMT
#143
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Oh boy this is the first ever WCS/ladder map pool I can get 100% behind. No obvious shit map that I hate. Really good mix between standard and interesting maps. Good mix between 2p and 4p, even have a 2p mirrored that is great~ Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out. But overall it just looks super cool.

Also fuck this whiny community, I always hated you.

... I'm speechless. I guess there's no accounting for taste.
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Can't say much about balance mix

Doesn't it look like a Protoss' nightmare ?
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55593 Posts
June 26 2015 12:33 GMT
#144
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out

Those are literally the most important things for maps used in the WCS tournaments.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Ragoo
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany2773 Posts
June 26 2015 15:47 GMT
#145
On June 26 2015 21:33 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out

Those are literally the most important things for maps used in the WCS tournaments.


What is your point? I still can't say anything about the balance until I see them played.
Member of TPW mapmaking team/// twitter.com/Ragoo_ /// "goody represents border between explainable reason and supernatural" Cloud
OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
June 26 2015 15:54 GMT
#146
On June 27 2015 00:47 Ragoo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 26 2015 21:33 Elentos wrote:
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out

Those are literally the most important things for maps used in the WCS tournaments.


What is your point? I still can't say anything about the balance until I see them played.

Which is why we need some way to see maps extensively played by pros before they're put in the WCS/ladder map pool.
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Ragoo
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany2773 Posts
June 26 2015 17:12 GMT
#147
On June 27 2015 00:54 OtherWorld wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 27 2015 00:47 Ragoo wrote:
On June 26 2015 21:33 Elentos wrote:
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out

Those are literally the most important things for maps used in the WCS tournaments.


What is your point? I still can't say anything about the balance until I see them played.

Which is why we need some way to see maps extensively played by pros before they're put in the WCS/ladder map pool.


Just one little problem. This has never happened and will never happen. How do you give pros incentive to "extensively play" maps that are not in wcs/ladder so basically irrelevant for them.
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OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-06-26 18:41:04
June 26 2015 18:39 GMT
#148
On June 27 2015 02:12 Ragoo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 27 2015 00:54 OtherWorld wrote:
On June 27 2015 00:47 Ragoo wrote:
On June 26 2015 21:33 Elentos wrote:
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out

Those are literally the most important things for maps used in the WCS tournaments.


What is your point? I still can't say anything about the balance until I see them played.

Which is why we need some way to see maps extensively played by pros before they're put in the WCS/ladder map pool.


Just one little problem. This has never happened and will never happen. How do you give pros incentive to "extensively play" maps that are not in wcs/ladder so basically irrelevant for them.

I know, and thus it will always be an issue to put map with uncertain balance at the highest level of play, putting careers in danger. One of the ways would be to have a regular (monthly/bimonthly/weekly) tournament with decent prizepool and with a mappool made only of non-ladder maps. Another way, which would be way easier, would be to have non-WCS tournaments use one/two/three non-ladder map in their map pool. But a lot of tournament organizers are reluctant to do this, usually because it would upset the players. Guess what? O'Gaming already does that (they did in NationWars and still do in Underdogs - and I sure hope they'll do it should a new edition of NW or Iron Squid happen) and the world didn't explode, players didn't go on strike, everything went superfine and we got to see cool maps like Kamala Park in action.
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zerge
Profile Joined December 2012
Germany162 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-06-26 19:44:33
June 26 2015 19:28 GMT
#149
Played some games on Terraform and the map seems terrible for zerg versus terran. The 3rd baseis hard to connect with creep, chokes everywhere, the 'special' bases are of course bad if you are on mostly melee units against ranged units leaving you with no good option for a 5th base. And last but not least the obligatory reaper staircase to make sure the zerg can not do more than one opener.
But hey there are overlord spots around the map, so the mapmaker knows that zergs exists in sc2 or maybe it was just an accident.
I really don't get how anyone could objectivly look at this map and think it's balanced.
Meavis
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Netherlands1300 Posts
June 26 2015 19:38 GMT
#150
On June 26 2015 21:33 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out

Those are literally the most important things for maps used in the WCS tournaments.


Ragoo's standpoint is understandable from his perspective, they're interesting maps from a mapmaking point of view, but to play on and them being used in tournament is a whole different world, which is why I generaly disagree with Ragoo, and I really hope Blizzard splits the ladder from proffesional maps.

On June 27 2015 00:47 Ragoo wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On June 26 2015 21:33 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out

Those are literally the most important things for maps used in the WCS tournaments.


What is your point? I still can't say anything about the balance until I see them played.


it's very VERY possible to estimate the balance of a map when all its features have been used before, we know exactly how each of this individual features plays out in what scenarios, and with some effort it's realistic to make an educated gues on the balance of a map.

On June 27 2015 00:54 OtherWorld wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On June 27 2015 00:47 Ragoo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 26 2015 21:33 Elentos wrote:
On June 26 2015 20:49 Ragoo wrote:
Can't say much about balance mix and how aggressive vs passive maps work out

Those are literally the most important things for maps used in the WCS tournaments.


What is your point? I still can't say anything about the balance until I see them played.

Which is why we need some way to see maps extensively played by pros before they're put in the WCS/ladder map pool.

as Ragoo said, never happend and never will happen as long as ladder existants and it is the one and only form of practice/melee games in general.

On June 27 2015 04:28 zerge wrote:
Played some games on Terraform and the map seems terrible for zerg versus terran. The 3rd baseis hard to connect with creep, chokes everywhere, the 'special' bases are of course bad if you are on mostly melee units against ranged units leaving you with no good option for a 5th base. And last but not least the obligatory reaper staircase to make sure the zerg can not do more than one opener.
But hey there are overlord spots around the map, so the mapmacker knows that zergs exists in sc2 or maybe it was just an accident.
I really don't get how anyone could objectivly look at this map and think it's balanced.


these are exactly the things I was expecting, and to me another reinforcing point on my previous statement of estimating map balance.
"Not you."
duckk
Profile Joined March 2013
United States622 Posts
June 28 2015 20:39 GMT
#151
Korea ladder reset, but has the same mappool. This is not intended I assume?
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24239 Posts
June 28 2015 21:13 GMT
#152
On June 29 2015 05:39 duckk wrote:
Korea ladder reset, but has the same mappool. This is not intended I assume?

Relaunch. I had the same thing on EU earlier, and when I logged in again the ladder wasn't reset anymore.
HelpMeGetBetter
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
United States766 Posts
June 28 2015 21:18 GMT
#153
what times do the new season for each ladder region begin?
deth
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia1757 Posts
June 28 2015 23:45 GMT
#154
On June 29 2015 06:13 [PkF] Wire wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 29 2015 05:39 duckk wrote:
Korea ladder reset, but has the same mappool. This is not intended I assume?

Relaunch. I had the same thing on EU earlier, and when I logged in again the ladder wasn't reset anymore.


I relaunched Korea several times but the new season most certainly has been launched and the maps are not yet published to ladder.
Obamarauder
Profile Joined June 2015
697 Posts
June 28 2015 23:50 GMT
#155
season started on europe but still old maps wtf
HelpMeGetBetter
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
United States766 Posts
June 28 2015 23:56 GMT
#156
FOUND IT:
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/18193985319
deth
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia1757 Posts
June 29 2015 00:02 GMT
#157
lame...
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24239 Posts
June 29 2015 12:15 GMT
#158
Really really lame indeed.
jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1556 Posts
June 29 2015 12:45 GMT
#159
Oh man thsee maps are going to be pain..
I guess I will veto as much as possible or not play as much
EJK
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
United States1302 Posts
June 29 2015 14:12 GMT
#160
nice i like having no friends to play on the new maps with,
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