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Update July 14th Hey everyone,
Hope you have been enjoying DreamHack Valencia! We had a quick update to share regarding maps. We've been reading the feedback regarding next season’s map pool and we have heard your concerns around the map pick Frost LE. We thought Frost LE would be a good addition because the map pool was lacking a four player map and we wanted more diversity to allow for a greater variety of strategies to be used next season. However, after reading over all the feedback, we agree that the map may have seen too much play recently and have decided to make a change to our plans for next season’s map pool. We will be switching out Frost LE and replacing it with Catallena LE. Catallena is a solid three player map and we think it would be a good addition for next season’s map pool.
With that substitution, next season’s map pool would look like this:Acolyte Interloper Mech Depot Abyssal Reef Ascension to Aiur Odyssey Catallena As always, your feedback is appreciated so please let us know what you think.
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Anxious to see how Mech Depot plays out
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Germany23576 Posts
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I find it hilarious that someone at Blizzard sat down and though real hard about it and said "you know what, we just haven't had enough games on Frost yet, we should bring it back"
On July 12 2017 06:37 Musicus wrote:
Wait, so what's map 7?
Excellent question, I have no idea. I think they mistakenly left one out.
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New Terraform looks kinda cool. Frost though..
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Hopefully map 7 is Abyssal Reef or something new (Abyssal because it's a good map and sees play in both Korean leagues). Interloper is classified as a rush map, but honestly it looks like you can play a decent standard game on it. You know, provided reapers don't end the game.
I'm not particularly thrilled about Acolyte but I guess we get an in-base natural every season now. Thanks Dusk Towers.
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Australia18228 Posts
On July 12 2017 06:37 Musicus wrote:
Wait, so what's map 7?
Must be Overgrowth
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Canada11355 Posts
On July 12 2017 06:48 Inflicted wrote:Must be Overgrowth
The dream
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well this is a surprise, looks like i have another ladder map lol
and yes, it is intentionally "new terraform"
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On July 12 2017 06:49 Fecalfeast wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2017 06:48 Inflicted wrote:On July 12 2017 06:37 Musicus wrote:
Wait, so what's map 7? Must be Overgrowth The dream
Overgrowth is Dream Pool Meme Pool stuff. The map is just not good in LotV.
Though I suppose that hasn't stopped Blizzard before.
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United States1916 Posts
On July 12 2017 06:48 Inflicted wrote:Must be Overgrowth
PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!!
Overall this is a really positive move. They kept the only good maps from last season (Ascension and Odyssey), added Frost which is perfectly acceptable and swapped out Proxima, Defender's and Blood Boil which were terrible, for three new maps that probably won't be as bad. This is definitely a step in the right direction.
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"We failed to add the 7th map into the paragraph, our apologies and this should now be fixed! The final map for 2017 Season 3 is Abyssal Reef."
From Blizzard Employee on the forums
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They actually kept Abyssal Reef, at least it says so on the source page.
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Abyssal Reef is the 7th map. Blizzard confirmed it in the blog.
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On July 12 2017 06:51 -NegativeZero- wrote:
well this is a surprise, looks like i have another ladder map lol
and yes, it is intentionally "new terraform"
So basically submitting it as a rush map was a way to get around the fact that TLMC had no category for medium sized maps right?
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Honestly I think all of the latest maps that are new have been pretty successful.
I'm just so over Overgrowth and even Frost I'm not gonna enjoy as much as I did prior. It's a shame that a good map will be remembered for worse, just because we played/watched it to death.
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Yes! Abyssal Reefs stays another season that's good.
Now replace Frost with Coda/Yeonsu/Merry Go Round and I'm happy.
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i know people say a lot of shit about maps from the overviews that doesn't end up being true, but first impression of acolyte is mech/carrier city
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