Report, edit, etc...Posted by Dondivad on 2006-06-18 at 17:04:53
I have compiled a report of the greatest UMS maps ever created. Please don't yell at me if you disagree, or if I missed something, keep in mind, I assume I'm entitled to my opinion, and that I can only name maps that I've actually played. So without further ado, here it is:
- The Best Maps of SC and Categories -
RP's + DND
Ticondera v.Summer - A very well made RP, most people's favorite, with very good terrain and units that stay very true to DND.
Master D&D v1.5 - A very good, easy to use map, with no bugs, as opposed to Dragon's Land which sucks balls.
Arena
Room Wars - A very unique, original, and old map, considering this was made with regular Staredit and was made for original SC. You fight for rooms in a maze filled with constantly changing doors, and every room will get you better units, and control of different rooms such as the middle room will get you better units.
Desert Castles - A very complicated map where you work on a team, and everyone is in charge of a different role in your castle. This is very hard to learn how to play (especially wizard AKA king, which is my favorite), but once you get the hang of the game, it serves as a very competive and fun game.
Special Agent Training v2.3 - A very old map, is very simple, but well made and fun, with absolutely no bugs. You pretty much run around a large arena, picking up weapons and killing each other, first to 50 kills wins. Think Unreal Tournament, there are also some weapons such as the rocket launcher, which instead of something such as a minigun changing your character to a marine, gives you a defiler, and when you use dark swarm.... BOOM.
Aerial Combat 2.1 - In this, you just fly a shuttle around, and you have 8 units in the shuttle, unloading whichever one, will make you shoot interceptors, yes interceptors in that direction, say NE, and everytime you hit people with interceptors, which are missles, they take damage. Health is kept by the scoreboard. This is a very unique concept, and is actually very addictive, mad fun too.
Half Life Team Fortress - Plays like V-tec, which everyone should know. This is really well made and balanced though, unlike V-Tec.
Mario Kart Battle v2.1 - Mario Kart! Just like the Mario Kart 64 battle mode. Fun, fun, fun, fun. The triggers are VERY well made too.
Tactical Paths v1.1 - There are only two maps I worship for being absolutely amazing, this and Chess by GoldenUrg. This map, by Rantent, is a simple, arena map, with 4 modes to choose from:
Arena - A basic frag arena, first to 20 kills wins.
Capture the Flag - Bring the flag to your teams base, first to 5 wins
King of the Hill - Find and then defend the hill for 100 seconds to win.
Territories - Capture all the flags on the map to win.
This map really doesn't have good triggers, or good gameplay, but has the best terrain in any map, Rantent is a terrain god, just like how GoldenUrg is a trigger god. What you should do, is get this map, get a map hack, and go check out the terrain. The terrain has effects of layers and pops up and stuff, doesn't look 2d at all, there even is the simple, but nice waterfall effect at one spot on the map (The one with observers and stuff to make the water look like it's moving). Simply put, using something like SCM draft to put every terrain peice in, block by block, enabled him to create mountains, as high as four or five layers, as opposed to all other maps which have only 3 main layers on most tilesets, ground, high ground, and water/space, plus many, many, many awesome terrain features. You have to see it to believe it. http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=2522
RPG
Assassins RPG - A very, very hard map (but also very well made), where instead of most RPG's where you run in gungho, you have to sneak around and use your wits. Anyone rushing in, will die. This is supposed to be beatable with a single player, but I still haven't beaten it, and I was playing with 2 other seasoned veterans of this map.
Diablo 2 RPG v.True - This plays just like real Diablo, run in, smash things, run back, heal, run in, smash things... Personally, I think this is the best version of SC D2 to date, and serves it's fun when you want to play an RPG and are bored of the other ones.
Honourless - This map by PGconquerer is THE best RPG ever made. It is a one player RPG, with a very in depth storyline and gameplay. STORYLINE, something most SC RPG's don't have, a good storyline at that, with character personalities and all.
Dungeons and Dragons B.net - Another map by PGconquerer, one of his earlier ones. Still has a very good storyline, but gameplay and storyline are worse than Honourless, but that's because in this, there is multiplay capability.
Dune RPG v1.00 - DUNE! All fans must play this. It is actually a very well made RPG, based on a very good book. So simply put, it rocks.
June 6th 1944 - This is a D-day beach RPG, but is very well made, only 1 bug, which doesn't affect the game too much. This is simply very well done with many different ways to beat it, and amazing gameplay. Very fun, the gameplay is actually very close to Battlefield 1942.
Tactical Warfare
Jungle Accumilation - This, made by one of my friends, I don't remember his exact screenname right now, so I'm not going to put it down, is another unique idea, with very balanced gameplay, and is mad fun. You pretty much have to mine gas to win, but the only place there is gas is in the middle of the map. You play as terran, but this still isn't like melee, things have different hp, atk, cost, etc... Anyway, I actually keep beating him at his own game, which is pretty embarrassing for him, but then again, I just rock. =)
Diplomacy Gold 7.7 Official - Everyone knows this, it's the UMS map people actually make clans about. I'm not going to describe it, you must know it.
Movie Maps
The Battle.net Experience 1 and The Battle.net Experience 2 - These are the funniest movie maps I've seen, pretty much outlining a day in the life of a errm... Starcraft game. I can't describe it to you, just go watch them both.
Other
Chess - What can I say, it's chess, but it's so impressive because this must have been impossible to do. GoldenUrg, the guy who made this, did it, and guess what, without any bugs. People have been trying to check it for bugs, none have been found. So... count the triggers... 1 million, 2 million, 3 million... (sorry I took your comment Scotinator)http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=303
Driving Test - Very, very, fun and funny. It's a driving test, and you have an evil instructor. It has pretty well made triggers, but this map is mainly for comedic value.
GTA Classic v0.971 - This, made by DEAD, is a brilliant map, made exactly like GTA, including running people over with cars, which is the most fun part of this game, just like GTA. The only problem is, this game gets REALLY laggy, due to the sheer amount of sprites and units needed for this.
END- Gimme some feedback.
- The Best Maps of SC and Categories -
RP's + DND
Ticondera v.Summer - A very well made RP, most people's favorite, with very good terrain and units that stay very true to DND.
Master D&D v1.5 - A very good, easy to use map, with no bugs, as opposed to Dragon's Land which sucks balls.
Arena
Room Wars - A very unique, original, and old map, considering this was made with regular Staredit and was made for original SC. You fight for rooms in a maze filled with constantly changing doors, and every room will get you better units, and control of different rooms such as the middle room will get you better units.
Desert Castles - A very complicated map where you work on a team, and everyone is in charge of a different role in your castle. This is very hard to learn how to play (especially wizard AKA king, which is my favorite), but once you get the hang of the game, it serves as a very competive and fun game.
Special Agent Training v2.3 - A very old map, is very simple, but well made and fun, with absolutely no bugs. You pretty much run around a large arena, picking up weapons and killing each other, first to 50 kills wins. Think Unreal Tournament, there are also some weapons such as the rocket launcher, which instead of something such as a minigun changing your character to a marine, gives you a defiler, and when you use dark swarm.... BOOM.
Aerial Combat 2.1 - In this, you just fly a shuttle around, and you have 8 units in the shuttle, unloading whichever one, will make you shoot interceptors, yes interceptors in that direction, say NE, and everytime you hit people with interceptors, which are missles, they take damage. Health is kept by the scoreboard. This is a very unique concept, and is actually very addictive, mad fun too.
Half Life Team Fortress - Plays like V-tec, which everyone should know. This is really well made and balanced though, unlike V-Tec.
Mario Kart Battle v2.1 - Mario Kart! Just like the Mario Kart 64 battle mode. Fun, fun, fun, fun. The triggers are VERY well made too.
Tactical Paths v1.1 - There are only two maps I worship for being absolutely amazing, this and Chess by GoldenUrg. This map, by Rantent, is a simple, arena map, with 4 modes to choose from:
Arena - A basic frag arena, first to 20 kills wins.
Capture the Flag - Bring the flag to your teams base, first to 5 wins
King of the Hill - Find and then defend the hill for 100 seconds to win.
Territories - Capture all the flags on the map to win.
This map really doesn't have good triggers, or good gameplay, but has the best terrain in any map, Rantent is a terrain god, just like how GoldenUrg is a trigger god. What you should do, is get this map, get a map hack, and go check out the terrain. The terrain has effects of layers and pops up and stuff, doesn't look 2d at all, there even is the simple, but nice waterfall effect at one spot on the map (The one with observers and stuff to make the water look like it's moving). Simply put, using something like SCM draft to put every terrain peice in, block by block, enabled him to create mountains, as high as four or five layers, as opposed to all other maps which have only 3 main layers on most tilesets, ground, high ground, and water/space, plus many, many, many awesome terrain features. You have to see it to believe it. http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=2522
RPG
Assassins RPG - A very, very hard map (but also very well made), where instead of most RPG's where you run in gungho, you have to sneak around and use your wits. Anyone rushing in, will die. This is supposed to be beatable with a single player, but I still haven't beaten it, and I was playing with 2 other seasoned veterans of this map.
Diablo 2 RPG v.True - This plays just like real Diablo, run in, smash things, run back, heal, run in, smash things... Personally, I think this is the best version of SC D2 to date, and serves it's fun when you want to play an RPG and are bored of the other ones.
Honourless - This map by PGconquerer is THE best RPG ever made. It is a one player RPG, with a very in depth storyline and gameplay. STORYLINE, something most SC RPG's don't have, a good storyline at that, with character personalities and all.
Dungeons and Dragons B.net - Another map by PGconquerer, one of his earlier ones. Still has a very good storyline, but gameplay and storyline are worse than Honourless, but that's because in this, there is multiplay capability.
Dune RPG v1.00 - DUNE! All fans must play this. It is actually a very well made RPG, based on a very good book. So simply put, it rocks.
June 6th 1944 - This is a D-day beach RPG, but is very well made, only 1 bug, which doesn't affect the game too much. This is simply very well done with many different ways to beat it, and amazing gameplay. Very fun, the gameplay is actually very close to Battlefield 1942.
Tactical Warfare
Jungle Accumilation - This, made by one of my friends, I don't remember his exact screenname right now, so I'm not going to put it down, is another unique idea, with very balanced gameplay, and is mad fun. You pretty much have to mine gas to win, but the only place there is gas is in the middle of the map. You play as terran, but this still isn't like melee, things have different hp, atk, cost, etc... Anyway, I actually keep beating him at his own game, which is pretty embarrassing for him, but then again, I just rock. =)
Diplomacy Gold 7.7 Official - Everyone knows this, it's the UMS map people actually make clans about. I'm not going to describe it, you must know it.
Movie Maps
The Battle.net Experience 1 and The Battle.net Experience 2 - These are the funniest movie maps I've seen, pretty much outlining a day in the life of a errm... Starcraft game. I can't describe it to you, just go watch them both.
Other
Chess - What can I say, it's chess, but it's so impressive because this must have been impossible to do. GoldenUrg, the guy who made this, did it, and guess what, without any bugs. People have been trying to check it for bugs, none have been found. So... count the triggers... 1 million, 2 million, 3 million... (sorry I took your comment Scotinator)http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=303
Driving Test - Very, very, fun and funny. It's a driving test, and you have an evil instructor. It has pretty well made triggers, but this map is mainly for comedic value.
GTA Classic v0.971 - This, made by DEAD, is a brilliant map, made exactly like GTA, including running people over with cars, which is the most fun part of this game, just like GTA. The only problem is, this game gets REALLY laggy, due to the sheer amount of sprites and units needed for this.
END- Gimme some feedback.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-06-18 at 17:42:30
I disagree completely with your Diplomacy 7.7 and Tactical Warfare picks. I don't think Diplomacy even counts and a Tactical Warfare catagory.
Driving test wasn't very fun when I played it. I like asteroid race better for "other."
Arenas... I can name numerous sports games that should be added in there -.-
Driving test wasn't very fun when I played it. I like asteroid race better for "other."
Arenas... I can name numerous sports games that should be added in there -.-
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Dondivad on 2006-06-18 at 19:41:56
Asteroid Race? Never heard of it. Do you have a link where I can get it?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kp.ZpfW-PanzerIII on 2006-06-18 at 19:45:54
Is my comp broken or did you forget every map by Panzer_Kavalier? 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Dondivad on 2006-06-18 at 22:41:42
What did panzer_kavalier make? I remember a long time ago, there was one of his maps I played a lot, but I totally forget now. I liked it so much, that when we both happened to be in the same game (not his map), I took screenshots of it, lol. I've long deleted them though.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by MillenniumArmy on 2006-06-18 at 22:47:03
Technically this isn't a list of the "Greatest of SC." This is just a list of UMS maps
What truly are the "greatest maps" of SC are those melee maps that have shaped and revolutionized starcraft's melee game. Most of them are made by Koreans and their maps are about 1000x more famous AND popular than all the best UMS maps combined. Competitive Starcraft wouldn't be the game it is today without these maps.
But anyways, it cool that one of my maps, aerial combat, is mentioned in ur list
What truly are the "greatest maps" of SC are those melee maps that have shaped and revolutionized starcraft's melee game. Most of them are made by Koreans and their maps are about 1000x more famous AND popular than all the best UMS maps combined. Competitive Starcraft wouldn't be the game it is today without these maps.
But anyways, it cool that one of my maps, aerial combat, is mentioned in ur list
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp(U) on 2006-06-18 at 22:55:07
I'm absolutely stunned that you chose my Driving Test as a pick!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-06-18 at 22:56:11
QUOTE(MillenniumArmy @ Jun 18 2006, 09:46 PM)
Technically this isn't a list of the "Greatest of SC." This is just a list of UMS maps
What truly are the "greatest maps" of SC are those melee maps that have shaped and revolutionized starcraft's melee game. Most of them are made by Koreans and their maps are about 1000x more famous AND popular than all the best UMS maps combined. Competitive Starcraft wouldn't be the game it is today without these maps.
But anyways, it cool that one of my maps, aerial combat, is mentioned in ur list
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What truly are the "greatest maps" of SC are those melee maps that have shaped and revolutionized starcraft's melee game. Most of them are made by Koreans and their maps are about 1000x more famous AND popular than all the best UMS maps combined. Competitive Starcraft wouldn't be the game it is today without these maps.
But anyways, it cool that one of my maps, aerial combat, is mentioned in ur list
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Melee maps... I don't make them, but basically aren't they only just terrain? =\
Report, edit, etc...Posted by MillenniumArmy on 2006-06-18 at 23:03:39
QUOTE(Deathawk @ Jun 18 2006, 09:55 PM)
Melee maps... I don't make them, but basically aren't they only just terrain? =\
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It has to be the correctly designed terrain. Whereas with UMS, there's no criteria. There's no right or wrong way to do something. And when judging a UMS map, usually you judge based on fun factor, which is 100% based on opinion. Judging a melee map however, you have to make sure that it's balanced and contains no flaws for any race.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Cole on 2006-06-19 at 01:51:47
Melee maps are a bit more than just terrain. Also resource placement and such. That can create a major change on how the map itself is played.
The big thing with Terrain and Resource Placement is balancing everything out. That can take a lot of hard work.
The big thing with Terrain and Resource Placement is balancing everything out. That can take a lot of hard work.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Doodan on 2006-06-19 at 08:12:14
I agree that melee maps are an art form. An art form I'm no where near mastering.
I totally agree about The Honourless RPG. That's one of my all time favorites. I'm just surprised that The Saga of Doodan isn't up there in the best campaign ever section!!!!
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I totally agree about The Honourless RPG. That's one of my all time favorites. I'm just surprised that The Saga of Doodan isn't up there in the best campaign ever section!!!!
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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Voyager7456(MM) on 2006-06-19 at 08:27:55
On my personal list, I'd probably include Trigger Happy Defense (first map to use the Dark Swarm firing system, I think...), Metal Marines (so damn fun...) and Überena (best arena map I've played to date.)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2006-06-19 at 09:20:23
I do agree that Metal Marines is pretty well up there.
Could you host or PM Hourless RPG to me?
Could you host or PM Hourless RPG to me?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mini Moose 2707 on 2006-06-19 at 10:13:51
PGConqueror made some of THE greatest StarCraft maps ever, but they're so hard to find these days. Most of them were open-source... I can honestly say that I learned from this guy. There was one I loved that was called Protoss Glory... can't even find it these days. 
http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=3289 <--- Honourless
http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=5522 <--- I submitted another PGConqueror map... because the world needs more PGConqueror.
http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=3289 <--- Honourless
http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=5522 <--- I submitted another PGConqueror map... because the world needs more PGConqueror.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2006-06-19 at 11:28:02
I don't know why I didn't search the DLDB. Staying up FTW! 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-06-19 at 11:30:07
I liked MA's Areal Combat very much It's a great map, got me into it for about a week ! 
It's a great map, got me into it for about a week ! Report, edit, etc...Posted by Lyon on 2006-06-19 at 15:58:08
1: Should this be in Lite Discussion?
2: Don't listen to Deathawks first post, he doesn't know what hes talkin about =P
3: uh...yeah...did i mention this shouldnt belong in Lite Discussion?
2: Don't listen to Deathawks first post, he doesn't know what hes talkin about =P
3: uh...yeah...did i mention this shouldnt belong in Lite Discussion?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Gigins on 2006-06-19 at 17:15:30
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp)7-7 on 2006-06-19 at 17:29:34
Considering DEAD already said this I wont make a big deal of it but WHERE ARE THE DEFENSE MAPS? There the only good ones. When I play UMS I normally play defense!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-06-19 at 18:21:50
Well.. considering I was better than most soviets, and the creator of 7.7, GgG-Criminal, I think I know what I'm talking about -.-
But... I haven't played in so long, so I probably suck now. But in Diplomacy, there is no tactical warfare. It's just expanding. You don't need to flank, or anything like that. Just mass units, and expand. =\
But... I haven't played in so long, so I probably suck now. But in Diplomacy, there is no tactical warfare. It's just expanding. You don't need to flank, or anything like that. Just mass units, and expand. =\
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Dondivad on 2006-06-20 at 14:18:03
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Well, personally, I don't really like defence maps, not enough thrill or competition. Just sitting around killing things, making sure none get past your units, well, just doesn't appeal too much to me.
Well, personally, I don't really like defence maps, not enough thrill or competition. Just sitting around killing things, making sure none get past your units, well, just doesn't appeal too much to me.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Voyager7456(MM) on 2006-06-20 at 14:36:45
Trigger Happy Defense is completely different. It's more like a FPS than a defense.