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This week’s balance update
Balance Testing
BlizzCon is coming up, so we want to push the Ultralisk and Cyclone changes to go into effect after the event. BlizzCon gives us the chance to watch the top players compete at the highest levels, which is another opportunity to make balance changes to fine tune the game. With the offseason coming up a few weeks after BlizzCon, we have a great opportunity to get more wide-spread testing, so we plan to apply the balance patch to the ladder at that point. Note that this doesn’t mean all of these changes are final—we will continue to work with all of you to iterate and improve on these changes to get them in a good state for season 1 next year.
Maps
After the BlizzCon finals, we’d like to change out the map pool during the offseason and replace them with familiar existing maps. That way we can focus on the final numbers tuning of the major patch changes during the last ladder season of this year. We’d also like to make sure that the map pool consists of a diverse set of maps so we can be confident we covered all our bases.
The map design team has come up with a rough, initial set of maps for your consideration, so let’s start talking about which of these maps need to be changed out before we finalize the map pool.
Daybreak
Dusk Towers
Echo
Habitation Station
Ulrena
Newkirk Precinct
Whirlwind
Keep in mind that we need to keep a diverse map pool, so if you remove a map of a certain type, please only suggest another map of the same type as its replacement. For example, if you want to remove Dusk Towers, please suggest another macro map
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lol dreampool again. I'm fine with that actually, their choices look solid, and anyway with the mapmaking community dying out as well better get prepared to recycle maps forever from now on.
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Elentos
55594 Posts
Oh god please
Newkirk? Ulrena? Dusk Towers? Fucking what?
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I'll go on detail about my ideas and what I think about the Map Pool on my little Blog.
I'm not cool with this, yet, I don't see this as a failure on the DevTeam's side of things.
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If I were to give my opinion I'd say get Ulrena out but they'll probably want a "strange" map and I dislike them because they're strange, so... This will just be my automatic veto, be it Ulrena, Dasan or Scrap Station.
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
Whyyyyyyyy...
I hope we won't get stuck with these maps for too long.
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Elentos
55594 Posts
I mean at least don't bring back maps that were in the pool for the majority of the year already. Take out Dusk Towers, Echo is a really similar map anyway, take another decent macro map instead. And for a rush map like Ulrena, I guess there aren't that many good options.
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DAYBREAK AND ECHO WHAT
thank god I have started making swarm hosts vs mech on the test map
e: literally all of these maps are awful. Newkirk is basically worse Gettysburg
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On October 29 2016 04:20 Elentos wrote:
I mean at least don't bring back maps that were in the pool for the majority of the year already. Take out Dusk Towers, Echo is a really similar map anyway, take another decent macro map instead. And for a rush map like Ulrena, I guess there aren't that many good options.
I'd rather have them get back Lerilak Crest, I guess that's a rush map ?
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Dreampool again ? Sure, I guess, but please take out Dusk Towers, we've been seeing it all freaking year long
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this is so cool I want to play on Daybreak so much 
but fuck ulrena...
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Elentos
55594 Posts
I'd replace Ulrena with Korhal Sky Island and Dusk Towers with something solid like Coda.
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On October 29 2016 04:23 Elentos wrote:
I'd replace Ulrena with Korhal Sky Island and Dusk Towers with something solid like Coda.
oh yeah I'd love to play Coda again. Bel'shir Vestige too.
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if they bring back old maps I'd prefer:
-Daybreak
-Cloud Kingdom
-Overgrowth
-Coda
-Akilon waste
-Merry go round
-Whirlwind
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'We really want to fine tune the numbers for balance changes so to not have to take maps in mind we will randomly add WoL and HotS maps that were not made for LotV'
solid logic, critics rate it a perfect 10/10
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United States97277 Posts
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please bring back Foxtrot Labs, that wonderful map was robbed of a season on ladder.
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Daybreak - yes
Dusk Towers - oh god please no
Echo - sure why not
Habitation Station - yes
Ulrena - fuck you blizz
Newkirk Precinct - meh, could be worse
Whirlwind - yes
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Elentos
55594 Posts
On October 29 2016 04:27 [PkF] Wire wrote:
please bring back Foxtrot Labs, that wonderful map was robbed of a season on ladder.
Oh yeah
Daybreak, Echo, Coda, Foxtrot, Habitation, Whirlwind, Newkirk
That's not so bad.
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