When there be games played to test them out like they did with last batch of map pool? If it's so, does anyone have idea about when it will be taking place?

Deleted User 31060

3788 Posts

March 14 2010 15:57 GMT

#162

these maps look awful, I hope they play out alright

MuffinDude

United States3837 Posts

March 14 2010 16:24 GMT

#163

Don't understand some of the maps. Seems interesting though.

Vestige

United States303 Posts

March 14 2010 17:21 GMT

#164

iunno..im looking forward to playing on checkmate. looks like a giant maze you have to learn to maneuver through, thus making up for the lack of terrain differences. makes scouting that much more important

bITt.mAN

Switzerland3689 Posts

March 14 2010 17:30 GMT

#165

Wow they look great (and quite interesting)

I'm really surprised that Grand Line's rush-distances are actually all the same (except diagonal ofc), that right there is an impressive bit of map-making

Does anyone know when the maps will be released to the public?? (want to play them want to play them)

IceCube

Croatia1403 Posts

March 14 2010 17:47 GMT

#166

On March 15 2010 00:57 Sunyveil wrote:
these maps look awful, I hope they play out alright

+1 I mean I though it was some kind of a joke when my browser loaded them

LunarDestiny

United States4177 Posts

March 14 2010 17:48 GMT

#167

Here comes Zero, Queen A4 to F4, checkmate...

arb

Noobville17919 Posts

March 14 2010 19:06 GMT

#168

does anyone else think that inferno will be tardedly for terran? i mena right outside the natural you can siege up a pretty short distance and have access to 2 more gas..

hifriend

China7935 Posts

March 14 2010 19:35 GMT

#169

um these all look pretty horrible imo ;S

edit: Actually Polaris Rhapsody looks pretty good and Ghost path might make for some interesting games. But really, Checkmate?? It looks like a sieged tank behind the natural could potentially reach natural and 3d gas expo mineral line, as well as main gas & buildings all at once. And Fortress must be some kind of bad joke. What were they thinking?

leejas

United States440 Posts

March 14 2010 19:45 GMT

#170

-_- protosses look like they're gonna get hammered...

Severedevil

United States4822 Posts

March 14 2010 20:18 GMT

#171

On March 15 2010 04:06 arb wrote:
does anyone else think that inferno will be tardedly for terran? i mena right outside the natural you can siege up a pretty short distance and have access to 2 more gas..

I don't see that at all. It looks perfectly fine for the Protoss in PvT to me, though it might depend on which parts of the map are buildable. Terran has to expand counterclockwise, while Protoss expands in whichever direction the Terran isn't. The center of the map is very open, so it's tricky for Terran to defend many expansions or slow push anything.

jalstar

United States8198 Posts

March 15 2010 05:23 GMT

#172

i think the distance is bigger than it looks, anyway you'd have to control 1/3 of the center to control 1/3 of the expansions, seems pretty fair

Mikilatov

United States3897 Posts

March 15 2010 05:32 GMT

#173

These maps a pretty freaking ballsy really, haha. Seem much more crazy than normal, but I suppose I'm interested. =)

mOnion

United States5651 Posts

March 15 2010 05:35 GMT

#174

uh

is every ramp on these maps too wide for one zealot? or is it just me?

On_Slaught

United States12190 Posts

March 15 2010 05:50 GMT

#175

This map pool has some really interesting maps and concepts.

I'm looking foward to it!

Two_DoWn

United States13684 Posts

March 15 2010 05:55 GMT

#176

I'll give the mapmakers credit for the effort in making these maps look unique, but just from looking at them it would seem they may have gone a bit too far in that regard. Who knows though, maybe they know something i dont.

meegrean

Thailand7699 Posts

March 15 2010 06:01 GMT

#177

new maps are always fun to see. wonder what the balance issues will be. i doubt if any of the maps will become a popular map on iccup though.

dasanivan

United States532 Posts

March 15 2010 06:06 GMT

#178

these maps look terribly terran favored. i love the look of checkmate but if i look more closely i can see a bunch of dying protoss

Djabanete

United States2786 Posts

March 15 2010 07:44 GMT

#179

I was so excited when I thought that ghost path was an island map

konadora

Singapore66064 Posts

March 15 2010 08:05 GMT

#180

On March 15 2010 00:52 haster27 wrote:
When there be games played to test them out like they did with last batch of map pool? If it's so, does anyone have idea about when it will be taking place?

Probably not. These maps are 'nominees' for the next round's map pool, that means there's a high possibility of not all the maps making it. And there's no time for tests, since after the WL finals, R4 should start soon. Not enough time for map testing + decision making + map balancing and stuff imo.