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Title: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 12:55:53 PM
Hey all...i managed to pool around 1000 custom maps from different players and put them in a zip file which iL and Mousey kindly uploaded onto the server website where they can be downloaded by everybody. Its in the download section as "Clan EviL Custom Maps". I did some indexing of them based on genre but your feedback is welcomed! Happy Gaming!

http://server.war2.ru/downloads/ (http://server.war2.ru/downloads/)

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: GaNzTheLegend on January 22, 2015, 01:12:59 PM
care factor: 0
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 01:15:45 PM
care factor: 0
What people said when i told them it was your birthday.

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: GaNzTheLegend on January 22, 2015, 01:29:02 PM
skill factor of maps: 0
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: GaNzTheLegend on January 22, 2015, 01:29:47 PM

obviously if you tell people that don't know me they won't care you oompa loompa
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 01:36:07 PM
skill factor of maps: 0


obviously if you tell people that don't know me they won't care you oompa loompa
Really needed two different posts for that? Lol more proof ur just a spammer and ur post count is a fraud.

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: GaNzTheLegend on January 22, 2015, 01:38:42 PM
(http://www.quickmeme.com/img/72/72416c5aa1c799d17a65f4bbb3c2222d89327fe7a24409387f1b927ab9b0092d.jpg)
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 01:45:19 PM
([url]http://www.quickmeme.com/img/72/72416c5aa1c799d17a65f4bbb3c2222d89327fe7a24409387f1b927ab9b0092d.jpg[/url])

Ganz now thats just sad. Now your stealing my comebacks and labeling them as your own? Man you are a fraud...I know you know I asked you that exact same question in a earlier post.
Here it is:

http://forum.war2.ru/index.php?topic=283.msg3301#msg3301

Time stamps dont lie.

Man Ganz get original bro...if you wanna be like me man just ask.

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: GaNzTheLegend on January 22, 2015, 01:58:28 PM
YEa your right, your the first person to ever call anyone jealous. I stole that from you. GW
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 02:00:24 PM
YEa your right, your the first person to ever call anyone jealous. I stole that from you. GW
Apology is always the first step to recovery. Congratulations! Your On your way from being a dick to a weiner.

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Winchester on January 22, 2015, 02:01:51 PM
YEa your right, your the first person to ever call anyone jealous. I stole that from you. GW

Congratulations! Your On your way from being a dick to a weiner.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzC2DRgEo4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzC2DRgEo4)
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 02:04:55 PM
YEa your right, your the first person to ever call anyone jealous. I stole that from you. GW

Congratulations! Your On your way from being a dick to a weiner.



[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzC2DRgEo4[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzC2DRgEo4[/url])

LMFAO.

Ganz I found your graduation ceremony Chorus!

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: SmurfKinG on January 22, 2015, 03:57:58 PM
is any of those 43 chop maps the 32x32 one ?
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 04:03:11 PM
Uhh i m not sure umm look with pud viewer or dl map editor?

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: SmurfKinG on January 22, 2015, 04:05:00 PM
one by one each of the 43 files? nahh... ill pass. 8)

Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 04:06:01 PM
[emoji8]

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Certified MENSA Genius Brain (smart) on January 22, 2015, 04:08:15 PM
Custom maps, huh?  Welp, see ya la ter.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 04:27:40 PM
Custom maps, huh?  Welp, see ya la ter.
Creepy little boy. Welp, I'll cya on The Shining.

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: I hate naggers on January 22, 2015, 05:07:12 PM
32x32 one was called chop fun mini
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: GaNzTheLegend on January 22, 2015, 05:27:14 PM
lol having the words chop and fun in the same sentence. okay this is my last post, could not resist.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: I hate naggers on January 22, 2015, 05:30:26 PM
3 versions of 32x32 chop and pretty unknown, yet interesting "{ CHOP } 3 peons". A huge downside to that map is that sometimes players get droped because peons 'stack' on top of each other.

http://speedy.sh/j5apd/Chop-3-Peons.pud (http://speedy.sh/j5apd/Chop-3-Peons.pud)
http://speedy.sh/bxTZE/Chop-fun-Mini.pud (http://speedy.sh/bxTZE/Chop-fun-Mini.pud)
http://speedy.sh/Gzs5M/Chop-fun-Mini-Mines.pud (http://speedy.sh/Gzs5M/Chop-fun-Mini-Mines.pud)
http://speedy.sh/RuJxH/Chop-fun-Mini2.pud (http://speedy.sh/RuJxH/Chop-fun-Mini2.pud)
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on January 22, 2015, 05:43:19 PM
lol having the words chop and fun in the same sentence. okay this is my last post, could not resist.
Sure it is EQ.

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: SmurfKinG on January 22, 2015, 06:58:00 PM
3 versions of 32x32 chop and pretty unknown, yet interesting "{ CHOP } 3 peons". A huge downside to that map is that sometimes players get droped because peons 'stack' on top of each other.

[url]http://speedy.sh/j5apd/Chop-3-Peons.pud[/url] ([url]http://speedy.sh/j5apd/Chop-3-Peons.pud[/url])
[url]http://speedy.sh/bxTZE/Chop-fun-Mini.pud[/url] ([url]http://speedy.sh/bxTZE/Chop-fun-Mini.pud[/url])
[url]http://speedy.sh/Gzs5M/Chop-fun-Mini-Mines.pud[/url] ([url]http://speedy.sh/Gzs5M/Chop-fun-Mini-Mines.pud[/url])
[url]http://speedy.sh/RuJxH/Chop-fun-Mini2.pud[/url] ([url]http://speedy.sh/RuJxH/Chop-fun-Mini2.pud[/url])


thx
all those 4 maps have 3 starting peons tho. if i recall correctly, you were supposed to start with 3 peons...
the chop 3 peons.pud file seems useless anyway. its just 3 peons, no hall and no room to build a mill or hall :P

Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: I hate naggers on January 22, 2015, 07:28:39 PM
Quote
all those 4 maps have 3 starting peons tho. if i recall correctly, you were supposed to start with 3 peons...
...what? you mean 1 peon? chop fun mini usually gets hosted with

as for chop 3 peons, host it on fixed order (UMS or tvp) and you'll see whats going on. peons dont need lumbermill to return wood :3
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on February 25, 2015, 05:28:29 PM
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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Delete mine too on February 26, 2015, 06:13:57 PM
We should host a map maker competition for a icon or something.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: I hate naggers on February 26, 2015, 06:59:34 PM
who would be the judge? that would be interesting, but we need something more fair than the amount of facebook likes, heh. And perhaps some criteria such as "land map for 5 players + given size" or smth. Oh, and obviously it needs to be new, filthy blid and his reel around the fountain spam!
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Certified MENSA Genius Brain (smart) on February 26, 2015, 07:00:42 PM
Reel is so epic that it's bundled with Combat.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: O4L on February 26, 2015, 07:11:12 PM
Hey I thought the last map making competition was pretty epic! A decent amount of maps actually got submitted , I was kind of surprised at just how crazy some of them were though.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: mousEtopher on February 26, 2015, 07:14:39 PM
We should host a map maker competition for a icon or something.

Yeah, that'd be sweet, like back in the kpud days. They had some guidelines on the site for creating & evaluating maps, mayhap we could go by that.

Pud creation guidelines (https://web.archive.org/web/20051221184602/http://members.nuvox.net/~on.billw/KPUD/guidelines.html)
Final pud checklist (https://web.archive.org/web/20051221180613/http://members.nuvox.net/~on.billw/KPUD/checklist.html)
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on February 26, 2015, 07:15:23 PM
Nice!

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: I hate naggers on February 26, 2015, 07:32:32 PM
naaaw, i say gieb us the general description (for example map size, player number, map type (land, water, mix), map type (ffa, 2v2, 1v1)) and it should b enough.
the last map competition was pretty kewl but only the amount of fb likes decided so perhaps we should try creating sum war2 map council n let'em decide.

reel around the fountain sucks LOL j/k
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on February 27, 2015, 10:36:57 AM
hi evil can i have 10m rs3 pls

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: GaNzTheLegend on February 27, 2015, 05:13:58 PM
fuck yea! downloading it right now
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Winchester on February 28, 2015, 11:34:07 AM
hi evil can i have 10m rs3 pls

ign: l3gendary

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I think someone should just give him 10m rs3, he did say pls afterall.

Doesn't seem to be a bot either since he said he's ganz number 1 fan in one of his posts.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on February 28, 2015, 12:08:31 PM
hi evil can i have 10m rs3 pls

ign: l3gendary

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I think someone should just give him 10m rs3, he did say pls afterall.

Doesn't seem to be a bot either since he said he's ganz number 1 fan in one of his posts.

Wtf is rs3?

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Winchester on February 28, 2015, 12:36:19 PM
Wtf is rs3?

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Runescape 3.

I used to play Runescape 2 years back haha. probably the #1 mmo when it comes to most pointless grinding ever.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on February 28, 2015, 12:39:45 PM
Wtf is rs3?

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Runescape 3.

I used to play Runescape 2 years back haha. probably the #1 mmo when it comes to most pointless grinding ever.
Ahhh then wtf is 10m? 10 million?

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Winchester on February 28, 2015, 12:49:35 PM
Yeah, 10Million gold, max is 2147M in Runescape 2, I dunno if that increased in 3 though. you can have a max of 2147M of each item too, but good luck with that lol.

1 mill gold in Runescape 2 is worth like $3.00 US last time I checked too. I should probably log in and sell all my shit on there.

We're completely off topic now talking about Runescape, thanks alot Jariet/Meowingtons guy :p
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on February 28, 2015, 12:52:02 PM
Yeah, 10Million gold, max is 2147M in Runescape 2, I dunno if that increased in 3 though. you can have a max of 2147M of each item too, but good luck with that lol.

1 mill gold in Runescape 2 is worth like $3.00 US last time I checked too. I should probably log in and sell all my shit on there.

We're completely off topic now talking about Runescape, thanks alot Jariet/Meowingtons guy [emoji14]
Forum should offer off topic insurance [emoji16]

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: shesycompany on March 01, 2015, 04:04:25 PM
wow!!! u got one of my maps thx thought i lost it forever play in default. Plethora II-Christian-.pud thx so much for saving this.
so many maps :o !!!
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on March 01, 2015, 06:50:56 PM
wow!!! u got one of my maps thx thought i lost it forever play in default. Plethora II-Christian-.pud thx so much for saving this.
so many maps :o !!!

NP :D
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on March 10, 2015, 12:30:34 PM
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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on March 30, 2015, 11:06:20 PM
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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on May 13, 2015, 11:42:47 PM
Bump.

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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on May 24, 2015, 03:55:01 PM
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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on June 14, 2015, 06:26:34 PM
bump.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Warchief Lightbringer- on June 15, 2015, 01:18:32 PM
Good work Ryu. Deleted some crap.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Delete mine too on June 15, 2015, 02:34:06 PM
GTFO you don't have my 255 upgrades...!! No flying ships??? Hmmm ;)
Title: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on June 25, 2015, 10:16:14 AM
GTFO you don't have my 255 upgrades...!! No flying ships??? Hmmm ;)

Lol, sure I do on my Starcraft map collection [emoji38]


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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: shesycompany on June 25, 2015, 01:27:30 PM
he has mine :P http://i58.tinypic.com/hs00zr.jpg (http://i58.tinypic.com/hs00zr.jpg)  found a bad tile in that other oil patch .. based on fastest map possible sc1
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: {Lance} on June 25, 2015, 02:12:29 PM
WTF kinda BS ss is that.  Ships mingling with footman on impassible terrain?  That's got to be the dumbest crap I've ever seen.  No wonder I loathe custom maps so much.  That stuff is stupid lol.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on June 25, 2015, 02:14:13 PM

WTF kinda BS ss is that.  Ships mingling with footman on impassible terrain?  That's got to be the dumbest crap I've ever seen.  No wonder I loathe custom maps so much.  That stuff is stupid lol.

[emoji19] typical garden of whore...


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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: {Lance} on June 25, 2015, 02:19:15 PM
If you're lookin for a REAL customs map.  Try playing all of the KPud maps and then report back in about 10yrs when you've played them all :D
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on June 25, 2015, 02:19:51 PM

If you're lookin for a REAL customs map.  Try playing all of the KPud maps and then report back in about 10yrs when you've played them all :D

How about you do that and I'll pretend to care [emoji5]️


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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: shesycompany on June 25, 2015, 02:25:51 PM
ships are flying smarty ... my maps are pretty good if i say so meself :)
i dont base my ego to playing a bunch of standard maps lol but orcs in space now thats an idea :P
dont walk up to my house with all your lusted orges cause bships gonna lay the smack down :o (still beta)
dont blame me dam orcs fiddling with magic evolving there reach into the galaxy. towers are dif to acccomadate the newer technology.

birds are remade into (sc1)gaurdian-like- cant attack air but longer range and lots of damage to ground structures.
Title: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on June 25, 2015, 03:01:36 PM
Not sure why they find Garden of Whores fun all the time...idk how they don't get bored. [emoji53]


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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: {Lance} on June 25, 2015, 03:13:06 PM
What do the kpuds have to do with Gow?  Kpuds are custom maps that adhere to an actual standard (which GoW nor GoW BNE conform to btw).  They are far different than Gow and resemble POS or FOC more than they do Gow.  So I'm puzzled how you equate them as all "Gow" lmao :)
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on June 25, 2015, 03:15:01 PM

What do the kpuds have to do with Gow?  Kpuds are custom maps that adhere to an actual standard (which GoW nor GoW BNE conform to btw).  They are far different than Gow and resemble POS or FOC more than they do Gow.  So I'm puzzled how you equate them as all "Gow" lmao :)

I wasn't, I just generalize your hatred towards custom maps as the norm of GoW players.


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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: shesycompany on June 25, 2015, 03:21:02 PM
gow is the only map that matters for mellee and for a good reason dam great map design.
they are 2 parts of the game land and sea the land is giving a faster rush thus addictive simpler straight foreward.
 sea is slowing stuff down and adding more strategy.

u take for example warhammer put him on gow  no way put him on a sea map he's gonna kick your ass.

i bet a bunch of noobs have never played a sea map. why cause they more than likely suffer from add but people get caught up in one thing when warcraft2 isnt that at all mearly one part :(.
and people that make customs is enjoying another part even if it was hacked into it ahhh just <3's all around :)

when they do the tourney maybe they should make all new maps mellee that would check players adjustments ie being on a battlefield instead of a footballfield.

not gonna happen but i am impressed at how good the gow players are so dam quick and u can tell they are playing hard its enertaining!
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: {Lance} on June 25, 2015, 03:51:47 PM
I wasn't, I just generalize your hatred towards custom maps as the norm of GoW players.
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This issue for me isnt really "custom" maps I guess.  The issue is the lack of a "standard".  The Custom maps that are played now (pball, free whatever, etc) do not conform to any sort of set standards at all and thus they lack uniformity.  When you lack structure, you lose all sense of competition because at that point, all you are doing is playing a "gimmick" map (xmarks comes to mind as a good example of a gimmick map,  just ask Ganz, he think's he's god because he was once good with Xmarks lmao).  I view the non-Kpud custom maps as more like Xmarks and very gimmicky that does not breed any competition/skill.  For customs of today, once you know the "gimmick",  you get a false sense of "skill" simply because you do better than others.  But thats the whole point of a gimmick map.  You dont need skill to do great with them,  you just need to know what the gimmick is and able to perform it.

If there were some standards that were adhered to, then I'd be more apt to view them as viable maps.  Until such time,  ya,  no they shouldnt be acknowledged ;)
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: shesycompany on June 25, 2015, 04:13:51 PM
yeah i get what your saying lance but pass me the popcorn i will be waching the trny just for gow any other maps nope.i was breed into it even though im just below average. play another map what do you mean to play another map!?!?! guilty gow lover i am.

and yeah i like quality customs over no brainers.

pball i think i played it once it was to fast for me but not knocking it if any map has any kind of following it should be allowed.

and somehow get war2 out there to the people that want to play it dam the over population of games :(
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: mousEtopher on June 25, 2015, 06:21:49 PM
If you're lookin for a REAL customs map.  Try playing all of the KPud maps and then report back in about 10yrs when you've played them all :D

THANK you. Kpuds are great!
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: GaNzTheLegend on June 25, 2015, 08:01:14 PM
I wasn't, I just generalize your hatred towards custom maps as the norm of GoW players.
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This issue for me isnt really "custom" maps I guess.  The issue is the lack of a "standard".  The Custom maps that are played now (pball, free whatever, etc) do not conform to any sort of set standards at all and thus they lack uniformity.  When you lack structure, you lose all sense of competition because at that point, all you are doing is playing a "gimmick" map (xmarks comes to mind as a good example of a gimmick map,  just ask Ganz, he think's he's god because he was once good with Xmarks lmao).  I view the non-Kpud custom maps as more like Xmarks and very gimmicky that does not breed any competition/skill.  For customs of today, once you know the "gimmick",  you get a false sense of "skill" simply because you do better than others.  But thats the whole point of a gimmick map.  You dont need skill to do great with them,  you just need to know what the gimmick is and able to perform it.

If there were some standards that were adhered to, then I'd be more apt to view them as viable maps.  Until such time,  ya,  no they shouldnt be acknowledged ;)


Whats up with you bashing me in every post the past week?
Title: Custom Maps Released
Post by: EviL~Ryu on June 25, 2015, 08:07:08 PM
I wasn't, I just generalize your hatred towards custom maps as the norm of GoW players.
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This issue for me isnt really "custom" maps I guess.  The issue is the lack of a "standard".  The Custom maps that are played now (pball, free whatever, etc) do not conform to any sort of set standards at all and thus they lack uniformity.  When you lack structure, you lose all sense of competition because at that point, all you are doing is playing a "gimmick" map (xmarks comes to mind as a good example of a gimmick map,  just ask Ganz, he think's he's god because he was once good with Xmarks lmao).  I view the non-Kpud custom maps as more like Xmarks and very gimmicky that does not breed any competition/skill.  For customs of today, once you know the "gimmick",  you get a false sense of "skill" simply because you do better than others.  But thats the whole point of a gimmick map.  You dont need skill to do great with them,  you just need to know what the gimmick is and able to perform it.

If there were some standards that were adhered to, then I'd be more apt to view them as viable maps.  Until such time,  ya,  no they shouldnt be acknowledged ;)


Whats up with you bashing me in every post the past week?

He's way of saying he like likes you...[emoji4]


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Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: {Lance} on June 25, 2015, 08:08:32 PM
It's like a duck waddling across my lawn.  Take pot shots at it just to see it look around stupidly and then wander off.  AKA it's fun lmao.
Title: Re: Custom Maps Released
Post by: Delete mine too on June 25, 2015, 08:54:08 PM
I wasn't, I just generalize your hatred towards custom maps as the norm of GoW players.
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This issue for me isnt really "custom" maps I guess.  The issue is the lack of a "standard".  The Custom maps that are played now (pball, free whatever, etc) do not conform to any sort of set standards at all and thus they lack uniformity.  When you lack structure, you lose all sense of competition because at that point, all you are doing is playing a "gimmick" map (xmarks comes to mind as a good example of a gimmick map,  just ask Ganz, he think's he's god because he was once good with Xmarks lmao).  I view the non-Kpud custom maps as more like Xmarks and very gimmicky that does not breed any competition/skill.  For customs of today, once you know the "gimmick",  you get a false sense of "skill" simply because you do better than others.  But thats the whole point of a gimmick map.  You dont need skill to do great with them,  you just need to know what the gimmick is and able to perform it.

If there were some standards that were adhered to, then I'd be more apt to view them as viable maps.  Until such time,  ya,  no they shouldnt be acknowledged ;)

Well that is not true there is so much to learn from free castles. Alot of manual work. Hope you are prepared for a 2 hour match and making 5000 units... yeah that's if you got all 4 pro players or more. Human a better than orc in this map. So many clever ways to into people's base. How to protect you're own.... so much pushing and blizzard killing hundreds of units in a couple minutes.... and so much more.