[M] (2) Ancient Outpost

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-NegativeZero-

United States2141 Posts

July 11 2012 14:54 GMT

Ancient Outpost
Author: -NegativeZero-
Published on NA
Map boundaries: 136x136

Angled Overview:
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Angled aesthetic shot:
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This is my first SC2 map (I have some slight experience with the BW editor), so it's a bit unpolished - for instance, most of the high ground is just 1 texture. However, I'd appreciate some feedback on the layout before I mess around a bit more with aesthetics.

The idea behind this map was to emphasize control over the center high ground areas, since they protect many of the expansions. I'm not sure whether having control over these areas might be too powerful, covering too many bases.

Edit:
Notable features:
-Close air distances
-High ground plateaus - control these for a very secure defensive position (counter-attacks still possible via the bottom lane)
-Reaper stairs into the main for short reaper rush distance
-Slightly narrower than normal natural choke (7 instead of 9, might change this) - this is mostly to help T with wall-ins vs counterattacks and stuff
-Low ground ledges next to 4ths for tank drops
-High ground ledge above gold for drops, which is initially blocked by rocks

Inspiration
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The map is an almost direct port of this earlier BW map of mine, which itself was based on the idea of a reflectionally symmetrical version of Match Point. In my opinion the layout makes a much better balanced SC2 map than BW map.
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Initial draft of SC2 version

IronManSC

United States2119 Posts

July 11 2012 15:00 GMT

O.o

Gfire

United States1699 Posts

July 11 2012 15:05 GMT

I wasn't going to draw a comparison to Afterglow. They really aren't very similar at all. Just similar coloring and both reflectional 2p maps, with the mains in the same corners(ish).

They are drastically different.

Solid map, though. I really like it.

Aunvilgod

2653 Posts

July 11 2012 15:30 GMT

Check your gold mineral line. Its not mirrored.

On July 12 2012 00:00 IronManSC wrote:
O.o

They are quite different, actually.
And I didn´t even read Gfire´s post. :D

It rather reminds me of Match Point. I think it would be cool to remove the path behind the LOSBs in the lower center.

wrl

United States209 Posts

July 11 2012 15:54 GMT

On July 12 2012 00:00 IronManSC wrote:
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O.o

I'd say it looks a lot more like Odin than Afterglow.

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That said, its different enough from both, so I don't see the problem.

-NegativeZero-

United States2141 Posts

July 11 2012 15:57 GMT

On July 12 2012 00:30 Aunvilgod wrote:
Check your gold mineral line. Its not mirrored.

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They are quite different, actually.
And I didn´t even read Gfire´s post. :D

It rather reminds me of Match Point. I think it would be cool to remove the path behind the LOSBs in the lower center.

That's actually correct, it's adapted from an old BW map I made which was based in the idea of a reflectionally symmetrical version of Match Point. I'll post a picture of it when I have access to a real computer.

Also, gold mineral line isn't symmetrical because the map is an even width and bases are an odd width (nexus/hatch/cc are 5x5 squares)

Edit: OP updated with picture of the BW map.

Also, I'm keeping the lower path because without it, both main attack routes are covered by the high-ground plateaus - I wanted to keep an additional counter-attack path open.

-NegativeZero-

United States2141 Posts

July 13 2012 00:06 GMT

Version 0.1 published on NA, publicly available for testing. Might enter this into MotM for the lulz (edit: and i did)

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