[UMS] Turret Defense 2010 -Final-

Actually, guys, there is a program out now that does this for you.

I guess since ooni linked to the information that they first discovered for playing custom maps online, I can use it to segue into the actual process.

How to play custom maps with your friends in SC2:



http://www.sc2mapster.com/assets/sc2-custom-map-patcher/
(Please note that this program works completely fine for XP Vista and Windows 7 — I know this because me and my friends collectively use each of those platforms... me being XP because my computer is so old =( )

How it works:
The entire reason that you are not able to host Custom maps in SC2 right now is because the game is not programmed atm to recognize maps that are not the default ones... just like how SC2 is not programmed to recognize replay files that are not in the Replays/Multiplayer, Replays/Skirmish, Replays/Recent, etc. folders.

So how to do you do it? You host a room for a default map (the one the program maker chose was Lost Temple), make a backup file for LT, then move and rename the custom map file temporarily so that it has the name of the original file. This way, when the game is launched, it thinks that its loading Lost Temple.

Then when the map is finished, you restore the files to their original places and names.

That is 100% of what this program does for you.

So, you Alt-Tab, click the " . . . " button to load the map you want to play, then you make a Custom match of Lost Temple, then you click the Patch button after the lobby has loaded. Make sure all of the other people in the room with you have clicked Patch as well, then you launch!

Then, when the game is over, alt tab and click Restore so that everything is back to normal!

(Note that if you don't click restore after a match, the game will simply think you don't have Lost Temple and re-download it for you like when you first played the map in SC2)

(Also note that if at least one of the people does not load the correct map, if any map at all, with the program, then he or she will have their SC2 game crash like when you were trying to quit the game in the previous patch — the freezing and then the popup window saying "what were you trying to do?" kind of crash — while everybody else loads normally)



So... that is all that needs to happen for you to play Custom Maps online. Please note that it is nothing more than a file manager program — it is functionally less harmful than even PenguinPlug was for Brood War!

I have spent the past 24+ hours of my life without sleep whilst making the legendary map Turret Defense from scratch, and I am very happy to say that it is now 100% completed!

... And yes, it has that memorable Alert sound at the beginning of every round! (it was the very first thing I did =) )

I will add the map download link here tomorrow, though, after I wake up because I want to make sure that the Flying Drone (lol inside joke that nobody in sc2mapster's community understood when I asked about it because they're all a bunch of wc3 fags) actually works because me and my friends are having a hell of a time getting to that level! I'm putting off that fun test until tomorrow morning or whenever I regain consciousness.


(if you look close enough, you can see that I kept the names of what the Brood War units were for every level — I put a lot of effort into inducing Ghost[Yoon] nostalgia in this map!)

This was my #1 favorite UMS map in Brood War and I always felt that I could never be good enough to replicate it using SCMDraft2. Fortunately for me, though, I was lucky enough to find it within myself to do it in GalaxyEdit!

I really feel as though I have arrived right now. I sincerely hope that you guys appreciate what I've done here, because there are no fully-made custom maps (at least Turret/Tower Defense ones) currently "on the market" right now. I know because me and my friends have personally tried/played all of the ones currently in Release state on sc2mapster.com, which is the main place for Editor help (they helped me with some of the finer points in learning this Editor so that I could translate my SCMDraft knowledge to this one, although their community was pretty obnoxious with me for most of the time, tbh, even though only a handful of them have ever even heard of SCMDraft in the first place... much less played BW at any point in their lives) I dare say that this is the first one in the history of Starcraft 2 [that wasn't made for showing off at BlizzCon]!



I would like to emphasize that every stage of me making this map involved my friends playtesting it with me on Battle.net and is therefore 100% guaranteed to work completely for up to 4 players — because that's the current maximum number of players allowed in a single match. When I give you the map download link tomorrow I will explain how you can play this (or any custom map) with your friends over B.net, on the off-chance you don't want to play alone (which is completely fine if you do)!

(And please don't say its hacking because you will only look like an ignorant fool when I get around to actually talking about it. I'd explain right now, but I'm very tired atm and I just wanted to address that talking point before it comes up)


(yeah it works...)

See you tomorrow!

edit -- another map that I posted here a long time ago for BW... http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=71551