I was fairly disappointed to see no effort from the forgers in the stream last night (Blaze, Haunted, Xandrith) to ensure that Naded tested all maps listed. I completely understand that you wanted your map to see the most play time possible, but the lack of recognition given to any of the other maps was noted.

That said, War's map played exceptionally well on stream last night. It is still a tad over-scaled, but I can concede on that just based on the map's pure awesomeness. Eden played well too, and my feedback still stands from my analysis of the map on BE. Luckily Naded is planning to continue testing forge maps throughout the weekend, so those four maps he didn't test should see play time soon.

The OP should be updated to show Slayer as a game type on Venom, Orion and Temple as well. Map pics would be cool as well to make them look less like afterthoughts.

naded said he was going to try and play the other maps today and those maps are on the reserve list so they only get played if there is time for them which clearly naded didn't have last night.

i thought the point of this was to get feedback on the maps which is why i was there. nothing to do with recognition.

from what i saw last night most of the maps played quite well.

The point was to expose high level players to the creativity of the forge community and for forgers to see their maps played at a high level. 4 out of 10 forgers did not get to see their maps played. This thread was executed quite poorly as there is no priority list.

4 out of 10 forgesrs? i count 8 forgers because he played all 6 of the pictured maps and 2 of them are co-forged. the order the maps were played in is the order they're presented in this topic.

and "reserve maps" doesn't make things clear at all?

There is no priority list, and this thread should have never been designed to imply such a list existed. Every map on that list, including the reserve maps, are equally in consideration for HCS: Season 2. Every map should have been given equal emphasis. I disagree with the way this testing was formatted, and hopefully future testing sessions are designed to focus on a single selection of maps.

But the maps on the list are the priority! They're just so much better than the rest! This is totally a fair format, you're just salty your map didn't make it.

(Kidding!)


Seriously though, the way this is structured is pretty damn stupid. Also, where did Regret go? It was on the HCS list, but isn't even a "reserve" map on this? Come on!

you guys do understand that this has nothing to do with HCS right?

Yeah I would love to see Regret bomb getting played as I think that the only other map that plays bomb well is Athelon which is still questionable with that speedboost imo.

I think we need to test more designs for bomb and Regret is one of those!

You do understand that not being part of the core HCS decision doesn't mean it has zero relation to it, right?

@WarlordWossman Regret isn't "original" enough anyhow. It's pretty much a Haven remake, but worse.

I'm salty that my map isn't listed...

Jk, I only got to see one game & it was oddball on Eden I think. I saw naded had Midsalotship loaded up before they started that game though. Lol.