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Discover beautiful coral reefs, advanced space stations, or wholly unique battlegrounds featuring circular expansion patterns in 2017 Season 1! We're bringing a number of new maps to StarCraft II next season, so we've put together this blog to share details about next year's first set of upcoming maps. While this blog initially only includes next season's 1v1 maps, we'll soon be adding details about our new team maps as well so don't worry!
We're looking forward to sharing all the new maps as soon as possible, but for now, let's take a look at what's coming for 1v1. These 1v1 maps will be added to the Custom Games section in the upcoming Patch 3.9. As always, the main goal here was to have strong variety in map types so that ladder play can be more diverse and fun.
1v1 :
Abyssal Reef LE is unique in that there are many narrower paths to reach different parts of the map. This hasn't been a common trait on the StarCraft II ladder, and we're excited to see how this type of map plays out.
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Paladino Terminal was chosen because it was one of the most solid maps from the last map contest, and it felt like something that should truly see play both on the ladder, and in WCS competitions. We believe this map will play out in a straight-forward manner, and we definitely wanted a map of this type represented on the ladder.
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Proxima Station LE is a map characterized by its multiple strategic objectives. It features an interesting backdoor attack-path initially blocked by destructible debris, as well as a strategically located high-yield expansion near the third base. These two factors should work well with the map's solid overall design to produce entertaining games for ladder and professional players alike.
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For the last new map slot, we were looking for a 4-player map that players differently than what players have previously been exposed to, but isn’t so different as to come off as too crazy or uncomfortable. Honorgrounds LE seemed to strike an excellent middle-ground on this, in that the map certainly feels different than other 4-player maps we've had, but in many of the right ways. We hope you enjoy it!
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Team Maps :
Team maps for 2017 are still in production. Nevertheless, a number of new maps will be joining us for the first season of the year and we look forward to sharing more news about this in the future! Check back here soon!
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But does this mean 3 of the dream pool maps remain on ladder, or does it mean the other 3 maps aren't decided yet?
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Those seem pretty good, can't wait for something new!
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On December 02 2016 05:14 Elentos wrote:
But does this mean 3 of the dream pool maps remain on ladder, or does it mean the other 3 maps aren't decided yet?
Would make too much sense clarifying
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Italy3696 Posts
On December 02 2016 05:14 Elentos wrote:
But does this mean 3 of the dream pool maps remain on ladder, or does it mean the other 3 maps aren't decided yet?
...same question here...
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Honorgrounds for Honorable Macro Games because that looks real easy to take 4-5 bases on
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On December 02 2016 05:22 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Honorgrounds for Honorable Macro Games because that looks real easy to take 4-5 bases on
Honestly all the 4th and 5th base locations look really easy to siege as Terran. And if the Terran's opponent spawns on the first spawn clockwise from the Terran even holding a 3rd looks tough.
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I would really take a moment, and congratulate Namrufus on making it to ladder, I know that it kinda drives a bit of wind out of one's sails that Paladino didn't made it to ladder by its own weight and scoring highly on a TLMC, but even so, props Nam!
Oh yeah, and props to Sidian, but at this point is like "Two extra maps to ladder, heh wherever"
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Solid stuff! From what I remember, the author of Proxima station was a real powerhorse in bw maps. Hopefully his map will be as good as his other ones.
Oh, yea.. Sidian how many maps you got in the ladder already? 5? 6?
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The new maps look pretty good, but are we going to play KSS and Frost all over again ? Or are some maps of the dreampool going to be reconducted ?
The plot thickens.
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South Korea2106 Posts
Wish we could just stick to a couple maps for longer than 2 months at a time...
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United States97276 Posts
god I hope it's all new maps. I hate the current map pool
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I hate inbase naturals so much :/
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On December 02 2016 06:05 Nerchio wrote:
Paladino reapers wohoo
I thought the same thing. That looks like an auto-veto for Zerg in ZvT
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On December 02 2016 05:14 Elentos wrote:
But does this mean 3 of the dream pool maps remain on ladder, or does it mean the other 3 maps aren't decided yet?
#dreampool1.5
Cactus Hype
Dasan Station
Maze
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Wasn't this announced something like three weeks ago? I guess it wasn't finalized then.
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On December 02 2016 06:27 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Wasn't this announced something like three weeks ago? I guess it wasn't finalized then.
They mentionned those maps in a community feedback i believe, asking people what maps they wanted to see after dreampool
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My guess is we'll see these 4, two new blizz maps (it's been a while, guys), and then 1 from this pool. Maybe Overgrowth, Echo or Habitation (since there are no rectangular symmetrical maps in these 4).
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