Original Poker Defense
The large update has now been published!
Poker Defence is a map that was very popular in SC1. I have remade it for SC2!
The idea is you get a poker hand and the better the cards are, the better the units you get. To improve the odds of getting better hands, cards 2-6 are not created and you may also swap each card out if you choose. Race based upgrades are used to increase the strength of your army and should be used whenever possible. Buy damage upgrades and unit upgrades from minerals gained based off your hand. Buy range and speed upgrades with the vespane gas received after boss rounds.
There are 50 waves including armoured, shielded, fast, mass and boss waves.
Feel free to leave any comments bellow on features you would like to see or bugs you have found!
Spores
Unfortunately it doesnt work and no longer is maintained by owner. It was my favorite poker td =/. I would like to take over the project but dont know how.
Ok, I've played this game a lot, (won over 25 times). It's now my favorite custom map on sc2. I thought I'd share some of the bugs I've noticed.
1: If you have an upgraded straight flush ace bonus and the first boss (ultralisk) is in the slow aura and he dies, you do not get gas. I also used the upgraded straight flush yamato cannon on the ultralisk, so maybe this had something to do with it too.
2: If any of the bosses are repeatedly stunned consecutively with either the upgraded flush ace bonus or upgraded high card ace bonus, the boss AI will glitch. After 5-8 consecutive stuns, the boss will walk away from the platform for a bit, then continue along the normal path but out of the range of most units on the platform. After 6-14 consecutive stuns, the boss will walk off the platform into the groove between players' boards, then walk along that groove till it hits the wall in front of your hand. The boss will then stop moving until u kill it. Consecutive stuns are when you do not let the boss move at all before the next stun is applied.
3: 2 mutalisks have higher DPS at highest zerg upgrades (10) than the swarm guardian. Mutalkisk glaive worm was probably not taken into account when balancing this.
4: I do not know if this was intentional or not, but the ace can be either a 6 or an ace. You still get the ace bonus if you use it as a 6. For example, ace, 7, 8, 9, 10 counts as a straight and you get the ace bonus for it.
Thanks for the great game and I'm looking forward to an update.
how do we download?
Gold, you have ally units coloring on. Turn it off on the minimap.
Does anyone know how to tell what suit things are in the latest version of the map?
Now instead of four separate colored units, everything is yellow - and I'm only able to get a flush by random chance since I can't see the suits anymore.
50 waves is overkill and often results in people leaving mid-game because each match is far too long. The number of waves needs to be cut to at least by half.
I still can't find it. Not released in EU yet or something?
i love this map
I just re-read my last comment and it all seems really negative, so I just wanted to let you know that I really like your take on poker defense. Thanks for bringing over an awesome idea from SC1 to SC2. One more tiny suggestion that I'm sure has been brought up before also. Is there any chance of unit trading or a way to get a hero unit? Like trade in ten one pairs and get a hero unit instead. Maybe with limitations on how many hero units you can get. Thanks for your time man, hope I'm not wasting it with stupid suggestions :)
I'm sure someone has already asked for this, but I would really like a sell beacon. It can round out the bad luck you get when you get the underpowered hands like two pair. The ace high hand is better than the ace high two pair, that seems a bit out of wack but nonetheless a sell beacon would help this immensely. It would also bring a lot more strategy into the game as opposed to mostly luck and a bit upgrading here and there. Also, not being able to stun or slow the bosses seems pretty lame, I really hate having to reorganize all of my units every ten rounds. I mean come on, by the round forty I've got so many dang units i can't possibly get them back into position after that boss battle in the little time between one round and the next. But if I could stun or slow the boss, I wouldn't have to do that every ten rounds.
@Infuriated, it will sometimes be on the second or third page. At the bottom of the custom map list click show more, continue down until you find it. It is there though, hope you can find it :)
Thanks a bunch on the color change, ya totally hitting those flushes now :D
This is probably the most stupid question ever to be asked on the surface of this planet.
How do I download it? I asked a guy that was playing it on some live-stream and he told me to go in-game and check popularity. I couldn't find it there.
I see no download button ANYWHERE on this page. Please help me cause I'm dying to play this.
About to release an update to fix a big bug and i changed the colours to Blue, Green and Pink. Hope this helps. Also you can fly over to the other players bases again.
Oh YES Please oh poker god, please if it's possible put in a way to tell the colors :( sometimes the Queen is also lined up 90 degrees and you can't really see the colors, Or maybe make the colors a little more vibrant as i am color blind as well. Maybe light pink, blue, yellow and Brown. Thanks a bunch.
Hey I have a special request if you don't mind :) I have a friend whom I play with all the time and he is color blind and I always have to tell him when he has flushes etc :) is there anyway you could either change the colors? or make a color blind mode? red/green is really hard to differentiate if you are color blind. Something like red blue yellow etc would be so much easier. Colorblindness is fairly common in men, I am sure other users would appreciate it as well! thanks for taking it into consideration! XDSub
I figured you might have missed it, games like this are hard to balance vs the waves, its a very fine line I am sure. If you need any assistance feel free to ask. Thanks for working so diligently on it. I am sure it will be popular for a long time with the effort and attention you have given it. Happy Gaming.
I see... well then I just have to wait :) Will try to run campaign while I wait.... on Casual :P
Awesome Map!!! I love playing it, and look forward to seeing it grow :) Keep up the good work!
btw love the addition of the tauren marine!
Hmm this is actually something i overlooked slightly. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.