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A remake of the old Brood War map Katrina. Part of the iCCup Anniversery map pack, the map remains mostly the same as its previous incarnation, with some changes in order to make it suitable for Starcraft 2.
In the remake, the mains were resized significantly. In Brood War, the large mains were unusual, but not particularly bad. With the design of the map, it was necessary to compensate for the clunky unit pathing. In Starcraft 2 however, the size would detract from the gameplay significantly, so we decreased the size to compensate
Also, we moved the mains further from the rest of the map. In Brood War, the side cliffs of the main bases were right up against the lowground. However with positional and racial balance in mind, we moved them away to solve various issues in TvZ and mirror matchups
We added a destructible rock to the main ramp so its wallable with a standard set of buildings.
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Many thanks to monitor for doing the hours of deco work on this map, as well as gameplay suggestions. I couldn't have made the map nearly as good without him. Also thanks to the rest of the team for helping me out along the way as well as steelseries, our amazing sponsor for its support.
You can find the map on Bnet as iCCup Katrina AE Official
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Finally, I can go carriers on this map like a true protoss, and all will be right in the world.
This pretty much made my day right here.....loved this map sooooo much back in BW.
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Great looking map. Can't wait to play on it and I hope we all see it in upcoming ICCup events!
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Amazing rendition of Katrina.
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THANK YOU!!! now i can go on sc2 and play this map over and over and over again... <3. this is my favorite SCBW map of all time. Thanks for including it!
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w00000t my favorite sc:bw map ^_^
problem is: SC2 carriers are shit. xD but maybe this map can show their potential. 
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On July 28 2011 04:51 FlaShFTW wrote:
THANK YOU!!! now i can go on sc2 and play this map over and over and over again... <3. this is my favorite SCBW map of all time. Thanks for including it!
... I wonder why. 
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Cool conversion^^
Not really one of my favourite bw maps though
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awesome !!!!
we really need those kind of maps in SC2 to make it even more fun to watch and play !
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This map is soooooo seexy! Hopefully this map will be used in as many cups as possible.
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any detail shots or just overview?
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I like the map overall.
The water behind the thirds really bugs me, though. The way the cliff sinks down, it creates really weird angular edges on the water as it flows up and down. Doesn't look very aesthetically appealing in-game.
+ Show Spoiler +Screenshot doesn't really do it justice, it looks worse when animated. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/8Bx8n.jpg)
Other than that, a solid remake.
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So I don't know the history of the original BW map, but does the name "Katrina" have anything to do with the hurricane named Katrina that his New Orleans, LA in 2005? The shape of the overall map kind of looks like a hurricane, and the mains kind of look like they are protected by levies. Am I crazy?
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On July 28 2011 06:00 sevia wrote:I like the map overall. The water behind the thirds really bugs me, though. The way the cliff sinks down, it creates really weird angular edges on the water as it flows up and down. Doesn't look very aesthetically appealing in-game. + Show Spoiler +Screenshot doesn't really do it justice, it looks worse when animated. Other than that, a solid remake.
Yeah just saw this ingame. Very ugly, either you didn't smooth it correctly or it's just the fact that the water moves super fast^^
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On July 28 2011 08:36 Ragoo wrote:Show nested quote +On July 28 2011 06:00 sevia wrote:I like the map overall. The water behind the thirds really bugs me, though. The way the cliff sinks down, it creates really weird angular edges on the water as it flows up and down. Doesn't look very aesthetically appealing in-game. + Show Spoiler +Screenshot doesn't really do it justice, it looks worse when animated. Other than that, a solid remake. Yeah just saw this ingame. Very ugly, either you didn't smooth it correctly or it's just the fact that the water moves super fast^^
We're looking into it. But this is how it looks from my view:
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Edit: Found the problem on very high graphic settings the problem occurs.
Edit2: Specifically If terrain is on High or above. Seeing what can be done to fix it now. Going to try to change speed of the water.
Edit3: Found the fix, expect an updated one within 30 minutes.
Edit4: By 30 minutes I mean "soon".
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On July 28 2011 07:36 SolonTLG wrote:
So I don't know the history of the original BW map, but does the name "Katrina" have anything to do with the hurricane named Katrina that his New Orleans, LA in 2005? The shape of the overall map kind of looks like a hurricane, and the mains kind of look like they are protected by levies. Am I crazy?
No. It's just what it was named in BW in 2007, and Korean pro mapmakers named it so I HIGHLY doubt it.
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Holy snap this map looks so sick! It almost looks like it'll play like a super badass version of crossfire with 4 spawns! The aesthetics are also top-notch, only rivaled IMO by Bel' Shir Beach, Testbug, and MAYBE Ithaca (2/3 iccup... What a beastly team of mappers!) SOO hyped to play on this map with some friends! Great job on the sponsor, Keep it up always, I, at least really love everything you guys do (also try to get this on the Korean Weekly if possible)! ICCUP HWAITINGGGG
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nice
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