StarCraft II Maps

[BoneBreaker]

Blizzard's Maps

Patch 1:

Two Player Maps

Blistering Sands
Blistering Sands Novice
Desert Oasis
Desert Oasis Novice
Scrap Station
Steppes of War
Steppes of War Novice

Four Player Maps

Kulas Ravine
Kulas Ravine Novice
Lost Temple
Metalopolis
Shakuras Plateau
Shakuras Plateau Novice
Twilight Fortress


Patch 9:

Two Player Maps

Incineration Zone
Scrap Station

Four Player Maps

Arid Wastes
Coalition
Decena
Novice Decena
Novice Scorched Haven
Novice Twilight Fortress
Scorched Haven

 

[Deolrin]

Heh... Not a lot. That's awesome, I'll keep those for the actual release, to compare them with the final ones.

 

[Alfagar]

Yeah, I will keep em' too

 

[Ralle]

Great with max player numbers so I can search in the files for those numbers

 

[SanKakU]

uhm...how can we edit the maps or look at them? we have no editor, right? ^ ^ i don't understand...

 

[Mooglefrooglian]

uhm...how can we edit the maps or look at them? we have no editor, right? ^ ^ i don't understand...

MPQ editors can look inside at the files. Sure, you can't edit them very easily, but you can extract .galaxy files and look at the scripts, and I'm sure theres an object data file in there which would be easy to identify.

 

[Tleno]

What are the differences between novice and ordinary maps?

 

[BoneBreaker]

What are the differences between novice and ordinary maps?

Novice maps have destructible's that block the main entrance to starting locations. This prevents rushing. Also, it seems that many "back-door" entries to start locations are also sealed off.

 

[Pyritie]

blah, for whatever reason I can't download the maps and these don't seem to work either

I put them in Pyritie/My Documents/StarCraft II Beta/Maps, is that right?

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

The current beta MPQ has lava terrain but they didnt make a map on it. It would be cool if they had/.

 

[Gleeful]

They mentioned recently they were going to have a patch which introduced some new maps. I'm thinking it'll be sometime this week.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Awesome news Gleeful, thanks for the info! Like in war3 a change of the maps in a map pool from time to time is a must. I hope they add a snow and lava map!

 

[BoneBreaker]

blah, for whatever reason I can't download the maps and these don't seem to work either

I put them in Pyritie/My Documents/StarCraft II Beta/Maps, is that right?

These maps do NOT have the original file-names, they were renamed for human readability and to follow the Blizzard map naming convention.

Maps are stored in Cache, ie. in C:\Users\Pyritie\appdata\Local\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.net\Cache

Therefore, you would need to get a friend with the BETA to send you a copy of their cache as to have working maps.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

I asked myself, why is this spreading of SC2 files all over your hdd? Say if you install on drive D: it saves cache in AppData that is on Windows Drive C: while also scattering replays files and map cache in User\Docmunets\Sc2beta\..

Why isn't it like War3, all in 1 folder+subfolders, I hope this changes.

 

[Pyritie]

meh, it seems to be working now anyway

 

[Hawkwing]

I asked myself, why is this spreading of SC2 files all over your hdd? Say if you install on drive D: it saves cache in AppData that is on Windows Drive C: while also scattering replays files and map cache in User\Docmunets\Sc2beta\..

Why isn't it like War3, all in 1 folder+subfolders, I hope this changes.

It better be. The drive where my OS is only has a few gigs left on it, it doesn't need to be filled anymore. The drive where my Beta client is installed has like 30 gigs or something.

 

[DungeonM]

It better be. The drive where my OS is only has a few gigs left on it, it doesn't need to be filled anymore. The drive where my Beta client is installed has like 30 gigs or something.

How will it matter where the files are stored if they all end up taking up the same amount of space? Hard drive space shouldn't be a problem anymore these days, stop living in the stone age.

 

[Hawkwing]

How will it matter where the files are stored if they all end up taking up the same amount of space? Hard drive space shouldn't be a problem anymore these days, stop living in the stone age.

The amount of space on each of the partitions is different.

 

[Pyritie]

Hard drive space shouldn't be a problem anymore these days, stop living in the stone age.

It can be if your main computer is a laptop

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

My laptop has 160GB HDD and since I dont keep movies on it, I have 80 GB free on one drive, 7GB free on another and around 15GB free on third. Just plenty for SC2. And that's cause I didnt pay to get 250GB HDD or 500GB. It rly isnt a problem for laptops.

 

[Pyritie]

Games take up a lot of space too these days

 

[Hero_Lief]

I asked myself, why is this spreading of SC2 files all over your hdd? Say if you install on drive D: it saves cache in AppData that is on Windows Drive C: while also scattering replays files and map cache in User\Docmunets\Sc2beta\..

Why isn't it like War3, all in 1 folder+subfolders, I hope this changes.

Because the C:\ drive contains your installation of Windows, along with your Application Data and My Documents folders. If you were to install Windows on your D:\ drive, then StarCraft II would save everything on the D:\ drive.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

But it has to be all in the same installation folder like every single other game....

 

[Hero_Lief]

It should be, but that's not how it is.

 

[SanKakU]

hmm...maybe there's a special reason for it? like if the maps were all in the same map folder, and the replays all in the same replay folder...maybe it's not a big deal...? maybe they're trying to turn sc2 into an operating system? lol, idk.

 

[BoneBreaker]

The thread is now updated: it includes the newly released maps and all maps are in SC2Map file-type, and therefore can be opened in the Galaxy Editor.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

It's so cool - you can fill the whole map with a single tileset without having to manually do it for the whole map. You can also copy+paste terrain from one map to another as if you're pasting units wow.

I dont know if you can copy the whole object data from 1 map to another, there is no export data option.

 

[Pyritie]

You can also copy+paste terrain from one map to another as if you're pasting units wow.

You could do that in wc3 too

 

[rubentje777]

Well i like the maps but i cant wait for 8 player maps or maybe even more players and i have a question how do you open the normal maps with the editor i cant find them!

 

[Hero_Lief]

They're in the cache folder.
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAMEHERE\Local Settings\Application Data\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.Net\Cache
Vista/7: C:\Users\YOURNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.Net\Cache

 

[rubentje777]

thx but im in the cache folder now but i cant find any maps really weird and i really wanna open them with galaxy editor so i can edit them

 

[Hero_Lief]

Just keep looking. They'll have the S2MA extension. In order for the map editor to read them, DO THE FOLLOWING.
1) MAKE A COPY AND PUT IT ON THE DESKTOP. NEVER WORK WITH THE ORIGINAL.
2) RENAME THE EXTENSION FROM ".s2ma" TO ".SC2MAP".
3) HIT THE "OPEN AN EXISTING MAP" BUTTON IN THE EDITOR AND POINT IT TO YOUR DESKTOP.
4) OPEN THE MAP.

 

[rubentje777]

Thx alot it works thank you so much its awesome +rep for you