Icarus re-tiering??

[BAGHRB]

okay. first off, while that is a very popular route on Icarus, its not the only existing one. The map creator made 4 distinct routes which could be taken. the only reason that the specific route is so popular is because it was shown in a video and people don't want to look for other chests. Second, while it may need a re-tier in your eyes, other maps are more important for doing such (breeze 2 is literally all tier 1, even the corn, and avaricia is nearly tier 2less. not to mention breeze 1's cornucopia and general lack of tier 2s).Icarus is fine as is.

I love Breeze. My route has 4 tier 2s and 70% of the time I get all of them.
If Icarus is jacked with all tier 1s, though, like Avaricia, then I will either never play them, quit, or play on a different SG network. The nerfing makes me cri

Overall balancing was one thing that we tried to accomplish with that. Likewise, we updated the map to have a fourth exit, and a deathmatch arena.

I think the fourth exit was unnecessary. It made you move around more and created a better environment for chases (even if you're chasing them). There are less cut-off points so it makes the chases longer and creates an area for long-term points of cutting off. Hope that was clear. Anyway, I absolutely hate Avaricia now that it had most tier 2s taken out. I had 3 routes with tier 2s ranging from 5-8. Now it's 0-1.

I think there are only 4 tier 2s other than spawn, and only 2 are close to each other.

Actually there are six or seven. Two of which are on/off, tier 2/tier 1.

 

[HTrain]

I honestly think all maps should be Re-tiered. I think it would bring a fresh new style of play for a while.

 

[Tree_TheBigKind]

Actually, Icarus has 5 distinct routes on it that are pretty much all equal (I tiered it)

The reason that everyone likes to go the route you're talking about (the diamond one) is because everyone sees chest route videos on it. For example, the day it came out, I put up a chest route video on that route and it instantly somewhat blew up (for a chest route video). Then, a few days later, loads of chest route videos on the same route popped up (most likely derived from my video, or from someone's friend who stumbled across the same route as well).

I can actually prove there are other very good routes- I plan on doing about 4 more chest route videos (one for each more route). I tiered that map for about 3 hours straight to get what I think is the best possible and most equal routes. As a creator of the map as well, it helps me know what deserves to be tier one and what deserves to be tier two.

So, my view, leave it as it is.

 

[Nintendonuts]

I love Breeze. My route has 4 tier 2s and 70% of the time I get all of them.

I think there are only 4 tier 2s other than spawn, and only 2 are close to each other.

 

[Theoremz]

Maps that should be 're tiered:
Sg4 (now terrible for clan battles and scrims. Every route can suffice for solos and nothing but. Come on guys.)
Breeze (legit freaking fix it.)
Breeze 2 (more Tier2s pls)
Solar frost (two good routes. Nuff said.)
Teweran 2 (same as solar.)
Maps that have tiering I love:
Icarus (the routes are op but balanced. There are tons of them!)
Valleyside (plenty of great routes)
Holiday (same as icarus)
Moonbase (about four awesome routes. Great map with great tiers.)

 

[KorStonesword]

Valleyside (plenty of great routes)

Did they retier this map in the past few months? The last time I went route searching on the map I explored about an entire quarter of the map and found nothing but tier ones, and even playing the map now a lot of the buildings don't have tier twos even in places where it would be logical to have them. imo, it's one of the most poorly tiered maps on the servers from what I've seen.

 

[Theoremz]

Did they retier this map in the past few months? The last time I went route searching on the map I explored about an entire quarter of the map and found nothing but tier ones, and even playing the map now a lot of the buildings don't have tier twos even in places where it would be logical to have them. imo, it's one of the most poorly tiered maps on the servers from what I've seen.

Auditorium, football field, tree fountain, parking garage, A building, huahwi route. Nuff said. Kthxbai.

 

[KorStonesword]

Auditorium, football field, tree fountain, parking garage, A building, huahwi route. Nuff said. Kthxbai.

Those are almost all in the same side of the map. Any tier twos there are are unlogically clustered together and not spread out. There are entire buildings with tons of tier ones but not a single tier two even in logical places to hide them.

 

[Beardy]

I don't see what's wrong with it. I have 2 routes, and I've never gone on the diamond path. Either way, I know the map well enough which is all I need to win. A decent chest route and map knowledge. That way, I can still beat people who took diamond route.