UMS Maps

Do you think UMS maps and online play made Starcraft the game it is.
Or do you think it was all about the fast-paced melee action.

Now i got no idea how to start a poll on these forums so you'll just have to discuss.

Personally for me it was all about the UMS without them starcraft would mean nothing to me, and single player is boring on just about any game so Battle.Net played a major part in starcrafts success, well that's my opinion anyway.

 

Warcraft 3 definately dominates Custom maps, but that will all change in SC 2 hopefully XD. As for those koreans... keep em out of east and west servers, nothing gives me the "poos" (Don't think im allowed to swear" more than seeing â¿ÞôÜžàÈ spamming chat and game lists. They have their own server and if it's all full up make a second Asian server. The koreans nearlly killed SC for me, with more of the players moving to WoW it was rare to see a good map in the list amongst all the â¿ÞôÜžàÈ.

 

I also think that koreans flooding other server sucks, but most of the time the server is full of koreans is the time I dont play, and when I play they are all sleeping or at school.

 

I like UMS maps, they are awesome! and Daseti i also see those in my game list and chats as well

 

My favorite games are the UMS. There North-South games are less popular. The melee more. There are still players to play to melee, but less than UMS.

What was your favorite UMS game ? Mine was "the thing".

 

The thing was awsome, i also liked LotR helms deep, LotR Hero Wars pretty much every UMS. i wasn't a big fan of all the micro UMS maps tho.

 

I was going to post that my favorite was THE T H I N G.  I used to host that game all the time.  I knew every single featrue of it.  If I was THE T H I N G you lost.  I knew the location of all the important parts and I knew all the tricks to kill THE T H I N G so I could also avoid them.

If I wasn't THE T H I N G, I still won.  Even if I were alone with THE T H I N G.  That was because I knew where all the parts were and how best to place the spider mines. 

There are a couple games on WC3 that are almost as good.  I haven't played in a while so there may be one out now that is as good or better.  The game P A R A S I T E.  There was supposed to be a            P A R A S I T E 2 being developed which would have improvments so it might be as good as SC's THE T H I N G.  I'll have to play WC3 some time and find out.

 

I constantly switch back between ums and TvB, my current favorite ums maps are, Can you stop 1 unit? Helms deep defence maps, and just about every defence ums map in existence.

I spend around 60% of my time on battle.net on UMS maps and about 40% on TvB i rarely go for melee.

 

I also always preferred UMS maps over melee in fact i dont think i ever played melee enough to even enjoy it. My favorite UMS maps would have to be the lotr style maps, one of the minas tirths, and a few of the helms deep.

P.S. if anyone is looking for a certaian helms deep map there is a good chance i have atleast one version of it. I think the last time i counted i had over 38 helms deep maps in my map folder.

 

@ Quanta : There was another version of THE THING. The original one, without the resources and the dark Templar who were the Thing. I mean there is a version I know when we are 6 marines (red, blue, green, teal, orange, purple) and one of us is THE THING. And this person can morphe his marine into a zergling, and kill the other players. Of course the best way to kill everybody was to be alone with a normal marine, to morphe and kill him, and again REmorph into a marine, and tell to everybody "what happened ?".

I liked to say, when I was a purple THING, "hey ! I've seen RED killing Orange (when orange was dead). Let's kill red !" And we all killed Red. finally he was a human, and they all shot me.

;D

 

yeah, the thing... that was a great map

 

UMS maps definitely kept a decent amount of StarCraft players. The fact that map makers persisted and brought out new maps every so often gave people something "new" to look forward to. On the other hand, Melee also brought about the competitive nature of people and really spawned certain professional gaming leagues.

Currently, my favorite UMS maps are Team Micro Arena (No superman, No SW, No other stupid TMA variants), Random Micro Arena, Random Micro Challenge, and Random Unit Battle.

 

Diplomacy Gold 7.7 Official
World War II - Allied Final

Those were the best back in the day. Right now, there's several good war maps with maxed out triggers.

Is there a thread for current SC players...?

 

Use Map Settings is pretty much all I play now on USEast, almost every day.

 

i use to play MILES_LazerTag, just about 24 7, but then i sort of stopped... My favorite games are probably that, about any defence game, pretect the prez, or helms deep, and i like hero wars (both lotr and regular) I think the reason i still play SC is because of UMS, i never really got good at melee, but after watching those koreans play on youtube (savior) i really have started to play those alot. I just redid the campaign. But anyways, UMS for the win hehe. But melee is definitely up there.

O and i also wanted to say, what do u guys think about fastest??? imo it was great for a while, because it was fast. But it gets boring. Same landscape, and not much strategy, mostly countering, and more countering. While in regular maps its alot of land use, and expanding. If anyone wants to play me in anygame, just ask. i will do anything, UMS, or melee. Just tell me, btw i use US west, and i am almost always on channel lozer. C ya online!