Your 10 favorite maps - Page 5

Big J

Austria16289 Posts

February 23 2016 19:15 GMT

#81

1. Cloud Kingdom
- Perfect set up of expansions, pathways and chokepoints. The most strategical map ever created.

2. King Sejong Station
- Great base set up, cool balance between chokes and open areas. Produced some of the most diverse and fun games ever.

3. Metalopolis
- The first good map in SC2. Obviously not as great as many of the others, but the perfect map to start SC2. Kinda. Once they disabled close spawns.

4. Daybreak
- The Grandfather of standard maps. Interesting expansion choices. Almost still playable.

5. Overgrowth
- A map so good it was often seen as bad for the game. Allowed for a great diversity of styles in all matchups.

6. Habitation Station
- The revolution in matchmaking. Maybe it didn't produce only great games, but it opened many eyes to the possibilities within SC2.

7. Whirlwind
- The only 4 player rotational symmetric map on which spawn positions didn't feel like winning/losing the lottery.

8. Yeonsu
- The map that should have been what Overgrowth eventually became for HotS. Got blunk out of the mappool.

9. Antiga Shipyard
- A very straight forward map whose central watchtower platform with access to a goldbase 4th created very dynamic and positional games.

10. Frost
- Great map, with a few sympathic flaws. Finally a community made 4 player map that wasn't rotational imbalanced.

Probably forgetting a lot of great ones.

Ej_

47656 Posts

February 23 2016 19:40 GMT

#82

On February 23 2016 21:00 OtherWorld wrote:
4. Foxtrot Labs
Okay, let's get real on this one. It's just the second best map which ever graced the ladder mappool with its presence. Yet people hated on it because it was what cool kids did, and because it's so much easier to hate on the map than to accept that in a strategy game, terrain has an influence on strategy. But that map is just legendary, as well as being one the only map that was both well-made and annoying to the players, as some maps should be.

I don't think I can agree with this. This map was very hard in ZvT in top left/bot right because of a gold 3rd for Terran and considerably hard in PvZ in the other spawns because of how difficult it was for Protoss to defend their 3rd.
Foxtrot had its charm, but it also had some nasty flaws that weren't necessarily roach/bane or 8/8/8

NikaLogy

Denmark58 Posts

February 23 2016 20:21 GMT

#83

On February 24 2016 03:59 Cricketer12 wrote:

9. Ohana - really balanced and nice theme

For gods sake, come on man. That map ended up being one of the most unbalanced maps in the entire map pool (60-65% for PvZ). The soultrain was almost unstoppable on that map, even with zerg being overpowered during that time.

Cricketer12

United States13990 Posts

February 23 2016 22:36 GMT

#84

On February 24 2016 05:21 NikaLogy wrote:

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Does it help if i didnt partake i gross things like that?

IronManSC

United States2119 Posts

February 23 2016 22:38 GMT

#85

On February 24 2016 05:21 NikaLogy wrote:

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Thread asks what your favorite maps are personally, not what you think the greatest ones are in SC2 history balance-wise. Biased or not, let the man have his opinion.

For me, I'll go with Ohana because I made it and it has a lot of sentimental value to me. Otherwise it's Cloud Kingdom (although I hate the purple contrast personally), Daybreak, Lost Temple (the newer one), and Frost. I haven't played in a while so I know there's a few more on the list but I can't remember the names.