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- Verdict Day
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- Verdict Day
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iGrok
United States5142 Posts
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revalence123
United States102 Posts
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vult
United States9400 Posts
As I like all of these maps a lot. | ||
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Magnifico
1958 Posts
Mariner and Ida are my favorites. | ||
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monitor
United States2408 Posts
On September 16 2015 08:28 looknohands119 wrote: Oniric & Remnant look very reasonable but Mariner and Ida trigger my Blistering Sands PTSD. Why would anyone ever think that making a map with a backdoor into the main is acceptable? Please don't make me suffer through playing on those maps.  I'll give some of my thoughts on the backdoors on the SMA maps you mentioned and why I like them- I think the main issue with Blistering Sands' backdoor was that it shortened the attack distance significantly and was of no use to the defender. Plus it was harder to bounce between the backdoor and the nat entrance for the defender than the attacker. My hope is that the backdoor on Mariner will be more useful for the defender than attacker (especially with double rocks), but I could be wrong. On Ida, the backdoor is very experimental because it is relied on fully to expand around the edges of the map. It differs from Blistering Sands because the only way Ida's backdoor shortens the rush distance is by breaking 4 rocks- and even then, the defender has the advantage. I hope that the backdoors will be used more often for opening expansion routes instead of an additional path for aggressors, although I'm sure there will be some of both. | ||
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Adept
United States472 Posts
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looknohands119
United States815 Posts
On September 16 2015 10:38 monitor wrote: I'll give some of my thoughts on the backdoors on the SMA maps you mentioned and why I like them- I think the main issue with Blistering Sands' backdoor was that it shortened the attack distance significantly and was of no use to the defender. Plus it was harder to bounce between the backdoor and the nat entrance for the defender than the attacker. My hope is that the backdoor on Mariner will be more useful for the defender than attacker (especially with double rocks), but I could be wrong. On Ida, the backdoor is very experimental because it is relied on fully to expand around the edges of the map. It differs from Blistering Sands because the only way Ida's backdoor shortens the rush distance is by breaking 4 rocks- and even then, the defender has the advantage. I hope that the backdoors will be used more often for opening expansion routes instead of an additional path for aggressors, although I'm sure there will be some of both. I realize that the backdoor is different than on blistering sands. I just don't think there is such a thing as an acceptable way to put a backdoor in a main.  | ||
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Dumbledore
Sweden725 Posts
Not visually pleasing at all, also most of them look gimmicky. I hope we don't have to play this on ladder, with exception for Remnant. It looks like all other maps were designed by silver leaguers. | ||
lichter
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
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WigglingSquid
5194 Posts
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-NegativeZero-
United States2142 Posts
On September 16 2015 12:06 Dumbledore wrote: In my opinion the only nice map here is Remnant, the others look really annoying for the eye / obscure. Not visually pleasing at all, also most of them look gimmicky. I hope we don't have to play this on ladder, with exception for Remnant. It looks like all other maps were designed by silver leaguers. funny since i think i might be the lowest ranked one of all of these mapmakers... | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On September 16 2015 08:51 iGrok wrote: Map Name Power Rank
Personal Opinion Map Rank
:D As names go Nemesis > Mariner imo. Mariner just doesn't give the same feeling of conflict. Also what's with the name "Oniric Hopes". I first read it as "Oneiric" as in relating to dreams. Not sure what "Oniric" is meant to mean. | ||
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Ouija
United States129 Posts
Ida + Neo Porta Nuova + Mariner = Best 3 maps With blizzards announcement on their new stance towards the type of maps they want in their map pool, maybe my favorites will soon be on ladder  Still waiting for a map like  Jade with low ground main base. If blizzard is serious about the maps, lets get crazy!!!! | ||
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TelecoM
United States10686 Posts
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Dumbledore
Sweden725 Posts
On September 16 2015 13:04 -NegativeZero- wrote: funny since i think i might be the lowest ranked one of all of these mapmakers... I'm proud of you :') | ||
The_Templar
your Country52797 Posts
On September 16 2015 13:04 -NegativeZero- wrote: funny since i think i might be the lowest ranked one of all of these mapmakers... You have a map on ladder though, that's better than Meavis  | ||
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Uvantak
Uruguay1381 Posts
On September 16 2015 14:19 ZigguratOfUr wrote: As names go Nemesis > Mariner imo. Mariner just doesn't give the same feeling of conflict. Also what's with the name "Oniric Hopes". I first read it as "Oneiric" as in relating to dreams. Not sure what "Oniric" is meant to mean. Yeah, about that mean Igrok scolded me for it, since forever I have been very bad at naming my maps, specially on english. In my latest maps I have had issues with some people mispronouncing the name, and because of the slightly strange mix of "ei" on Oneiric I thought that it would be better to simply streamline the name to Oniric, which also gets closer to the latin/romance root of the word. But yeah, next time I'll be consulting again with the other mapmakers regarding names! | ||
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Ingvar
Russian Federation421 Posts
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fluidrone
France1478 Posts
On September 17 2015 03:31 Ingvar wrote: Wow, that's cool. Now you guys need to pull guys like Superouman and SidianTheBard into SMA to turn it into western all-star mapmaking community. I mean, TeamLiquid's Custom Maps is already an all-star mapmaking community but it would double the awesomeness or something. When you are ahead? Get more a head! | ||
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IceNineSantaMonica
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