ATN- Competitiveness and Custom Maps

Hello there I welcome you to my second ever ATN article and your second mind blow from me! Custom maps and competitiveness, do they mix or do they contradict? Is there an ingenious way to balance and create a map similar to the EU+ balance while adding your own imaginative touch? All that to come with more about competitiveness and custom map news for you to enjoy.

TRUE COMPETITON, DESTORIA, and DREAMWORLD. All names of maps that strive to maintain a EU+ map balance, while adding the creativity of each player's undoubtedly brilliant mind. I have all had some experience with them. I am going to analyze them one by one showing some good & bad points.

TRUE COMPETITION: Very straightforward, fight from all angles of the map, and shows where the income is. I had a problem with certain lines not passable glitching but I am sure Cthulhu fixed that. Creator: Cthulhu Check it out HERE.

DESTORIA: Good balance of water and land, east vs west scenarios are balanced, and various strategies can be played in it. Some names you might recognize! Creator: b0nker2 Check it out HERE.

DREAM WORLD: Has the EU+ balance while showing Chess's desire to include more water, while not making NC "OP". Tried it with different funds and it was as equally fun. Creator: Chess Check it out HERE.

No different unit stats were presented for any of the maps listed. The question you might want to ask yourself is: Are these maps viable replacements to EU+ or side plates compared to it? Opinions may differ on this but my answer isn't black and white, I think those "competitive custom maps" are good maps to walk with EU+ side by side, to add variety to your choice, to change while staying the same, to keep the good parts, and make it great! Wonderful isn't it.


This offspring of sudden competitive custom maps isn't by any chance a coincidence. It is all because of VRIL's competitive map contest where map makers try to achieve greatness, by making the most balanced to EU+ tier, fun to scenario tier, and brilliant to their minds tier map ever. Prize is loads, when I say loads I mean LOADS of protocoins. Check it out.

But really, is competitiveness the place for custom maps, or is it an attempt to just bring the community back together? Well, it seems it might as well be both. EU+ will always be the place for pure competitiveness, but these "competitive custom maps" are very fun with EU+ like balance. It seems, competitive custom maps are the "meet in the middle" area between Europe and Scenario players.



Two new clans have been created that kind of remind you of some older ones. Yes they are, Illyria and Perfectus Letum. All have elite players that you can smell their competitiveness a mile away. This has added more clan wars and competition to atWar! With the return of Thunderballs, came the return of .187. now knows as " TEH BUMS WILL LOSE", watch out for them too. Now the season is coming to an end and since Mortal Kombat's disbanding leaving clans with a benchmark of +850 Coalition Points to reach for first, till this very moment no clan has been able to pass that. With tee minus less than a month, can the Martians catch up to them? Or maybe even Syndicate grasping their hold on the convented first place position? We will see, soon.





This was short, but sweet.

Mega cheers and till next time hopefully!

-The Tactician

Your reaction now should be NOOOOOOOO

Enjoyed reading! Good job bro!

I vote for Dreamworld Not because it's made by Chess but I have played many times on it.
ps LB rush is so damn op in that map

Geschreven door Chess, 10.02.2014 at 16:42

Geschreven door Guest, 10.02.2014 at 15:33

ps LB rush is so damn op in that map

You have Lucky Bastard fetishism
It´s worse than Low Rep Syndrome.

Lolol.

Seriously, people think LB is worst strat. Too much dumbies LB has GC power, but its nerf is not too "nerfy". Cost is not a big deal as you can spam militias in ATs

>you will never be interviewed for ATNews ;_;

Omg how did hells GGG get up on this it has so much autism

Nice article Tact, hopefully some more maps will appear in the next few weeks.

Great article tact and i did fixed it btw. it was bug with aw

Very well done!

Well done, Tact.

I really should get myself to try those new maps out.

A nice and easy read. Going good there Tact.

Work on the formatting though. I understand you want stuff to stand out, but it's hard to make everything stand out.