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On January 06 2023 01:56 Legan wrote: Sinistro commented in Reddit that people should be more reasonable with their expectations regarding when the maps are actually put to ladder. I feel like we've waited a reasonable amount of time. Players want the new maps out there a little before Katowice as was communicated to them, not last minute.
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On January 06 2023 08:45 CicadaSC wrote:Show nested quote +On January 06 2023 01:56 Legan wrote: Sinistro commented in Reddit that people should be more reasonable with their expectations regarding when the maps are actually put to ladder. I feel like we've waited a reasonable amount of time. Players want the new maps out there a little before Katowice as was communicated to them, not last minute.
I think the comment was made because people jumped on the maintenance date as if it was confirmed to have the patch and maps, and not as Blizzard should not be expected to be ready to push the changes at this point.
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Watching these maps being played on ESL Open Cup and man they're big. It's so Zerg and Protoss favoured. How can Terran win at the highest level?
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On January 05 2023 16:21 ZeroByte13 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 05 2023 16:05 Weavel wrote:Makes watching Katowice much more interesting imo. Even if it's ZvZ finals with 3 Z in semifinals?  It's the final tournament of the season. Wouldn't have it any other way
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On January 10 2023 13:02 geokilla wrote: Watching these maps being played on ESL Open Cup and man they're big. It's so Zerg and Protoss favoured. How can Terran win at the highest level? big maps are good for terran vs protoss with good dropship play. it only gets tricky if you want to play ghost liberator style
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On January 10 2023 13:02 geokilla wrote: Watching these maps being played on ESL Open Cup and man they're big. It's so Zerg and Protoss favoured. How can Terran win at the highest level? Maps were too small for a couple of years, just right for a couple of years, and have been too big for almost 10 years tbh.
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Can someone post the descriptions of the maps in-game? I don't have SC2 installed.
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Seems to be more and more likely a Zerg champion again? This is beginning to feel like 2019, where the maps were hugely Zerg favoured and Broodlord infestor meta. It's not as bad, but it does feel like there's an air on inevitability. I wonder how the players are feeling.
With the latest version of the patch, it doesn't feel as bad as the buffs are toned down. But I think the balance with the maps is something that most people have not talked about.
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Big maps are fine and good for SC2, the issue is that it favors Zerg. Remember Tal'Darim, sure the balance was off but it created such great games because you could expand to other corners, spread out your production, there were many areas to attack and many tactics. If maps are bigger and have more bases, it'll be more back and forth and have that more "spread out" feeling that LotV successfully pushed the game more into, to be more like BW. (Rather than games ending in 1 fight as much, because then on modern maps your 3-4 easy to take bases are easily choked off immediately once you lose a big fight). Ideally, maps can have more bases and be bigger, that becomes the norm, and Zerg is nerfed to adjust for that. (Bigger maps might actually balance out Zerg lategame a bit, since BL/Queen/Spore deathball immobility would be heavily abusable). Protoss and Terran could even have a lategame upgrade for static defense to help hold far away bases a little more cost efficiently. (Static defense is much weaker lategame in SC2 due to DPS density thanks to clumping and better pathing).
It's a complete farce if this balance patch goes through for Katowice though. It's literally the final event of the circuit, why the hell would you change things now? Especially because this patch is quite shit, at best it's controversial and highly experimental. They're still making random changes back and forth, showing that these aren't solutions they've already figured out and decided on, it's all trial and error. People's livelihoods are on the line, just keep it on the same patch and change things after...
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What exactly are we waiting for at this point ? Surely they will not switch the maps a week before katowice, right ?
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On January 14 2023 03:02 TequilaMockingbird wrote: What exactly are we waiting for at this point ? Surely they will not switch the maps a week before katowice, right ? The map has already been announced so thats confirmed. We are still waiting for the patch.
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Whats your experience wth the new maps so far?
I insta lost 1 pvz cause if you put thepylon the regular spot it blocks your nexus... But appart from that the maps seem to have pretty exposed 4rth bases
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Man, reading those map names is a trip. Between Echo and Prion Terraces, I don't recognise any of them. I have no explanation for this.
Also, I don't understand the order of the maps. It says "Old to new" but Frost is definitely older than Ulrena or Prion Terraces. Why is Daybreak between New Gettysburg and Habitation Station? Daybreak's one of the defining Wings of Liberty maps. Habitation Station is Heart of the Swarm, and New Gettysburg is Legacy of the Void.
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On January 27 2023 12:14 Fanatic-Templar wrote:Man, reading those map names is a trip. Between Echo and Prion Terraces, I don't recognise any of them. I have no explanation for this. Also, I don't understand the order of the maps. It says "Old to new" but Frost is definitely older than Ulrena or Prion Terraces. Why is Daybreak between New Gettysburg and Habitation Station? Daybreak's one of the defining Wings of Liberty maps. Habitation Station is Heart of the Swarm, and New Gettysburg is Legacy of the Void. It considers only LotV maps. Daybreak and Habitation Station were at one point in the LotV map pool. The order is correct
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On January 28 2023 01:50 Charoisaur wrote:Show nested quote +On January 27 2023 12:14 Fanatic-Templar wrote:Man, reading those map names is a trip. Between Echo and Prion Terraces, I don't recognise any of them. I have no explanation for this. Also, I don't understand the order of the maps. It says "Old to new" but Frost is definitely older than Ulrena or Prion Terraces. Why is Daybreak between New Gettysburg and Habitation Station? Daybreak's one of the defining Wings of Liberty maps. Habitation Station is Heart of the Swarm, and New Gettysburg is Legacy of the Void. It considers only LotV maps. Daybreak and Habitation Station were at one point in the LotV map pool. The order is correct
Correct for what? I still don't know what the order is based on.
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On January 28 2023 05:29 Fanatic-Templar wrote:Show nested quote +On January 28 2023 01:50 Charoisaur wrote:On January 27 2023 12:14 Fanatic-Templar wrote:Man, reading those map names is a trip. Between Echo and Prion Terraces, I don't recognise any of them. I have no explanation for this. Also, I don't understand the order of the maps. It says "Old to new" but Frost is definitely older than Ulrena or Prion Terraces. Why is Daybreak between New Gettysburg and Habitation Station? Daybreak's one of the defining Wings of Liberty maps. Habitation Station is Heart of the Swarm, and New Gettysburg is Legacy of the Void. It considers only LotV maps. Daybreak and Habitation Station were at one point in the LotV map pool. The order is correct Correct for what? I still don't know what the order is based on. chronological order when they were in the map pool
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On January 28 2023 17:34 Charoisaur wrote:Show nested quote +On January 28 2023 05:29 Fanatic-Templar wrote:On January 28 2023 01:50 Charoisaur wrote:On January 27 2023 12:14 Fanatic-Templar wrote:Man, reading those map names is a trip. Between Echo and Prion Terraces, I don't recognise any of them. I have no explanation for this. Also, I don't understand the order of the maps. It says "Old to new" but Frost is definitely older than Ulrena or Prion Terraces. Why is Daybreak between New Gettysburg and Habitation Station? Daybreak's one of the defining Wings of Liberty maps. Habitation Station is Heart of the Swarm, and New Gettysburg is Legacy of the Void. It considers only LotV maps. Daybreak and Habitation Station were at one point in the LotV map pool. The order is correct Correct for what? I still don't know what the order is based on. chronological order when they were in the map pool
Got it. Thanks.
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