My initial impressions of the new StarCraft 2 maps! These maps are now live on the ladder and will be used in SC2 tournaments moving forward. In this video I go over Goldenaura LE, Site Delta LE, Oceanborn LE, Hecate LE, Solaris LE, Hard Lead LE, Equilibrium LE, Alcyone LE and Radhuset Station LE. I also spent far too much time discussing how to pronounce the new map names.
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The reason no one can agree on the pronunciations of Alcyone and Hecate is because they're Greek in origin coming into English through Latin, but English tends to corrupt the pronunciation of Greek and Latin names to match English phonetics.
Alcyone is officially "al-SAI-uh-nee", but its pronunciation in Latin is approximately "al-KÜ-oh-nay" (that's a German "ü"), and many people use the pronunciation "al-SEE-uh-nee" to match the pronunciation of the related word "halcyon".
Hecate is officially either "HEK-it" or "HEK-kuh-tee", but its pronunciation in Latin is approximately "HEK-kuh-tay".
So you, Google Translate, and chat are all correct.
Goldenaura definitly is a special one too, because it uses vertical and horizontal ramps, which never makes it to the live game.
Alsy-One ^^
I believe Alcyone is pronounced "al-see-own".
It's the name of both a star and a few ships, one sailed by the Cousteau Society.
Imagine if one day there's a map with a schematic image of a uterus hidden in plain sight called Piece D'Art
ChatGPT has spoken: "The name "Alcyone" is typically pronounced as "al-SYE-uh-nee" with the emphasis on the second syllable. It's a name of Greek origin and is also the name of one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster in Greek mythology."
Yo Simon, Paradise Lost is in reference to a poem with the same name 😀 but Lost Paradise isn't a bad name either.
Cast a match
yo i play game at plat level and that shadow on hecate is SO annoying
We need to start a petition to have a map in SC2 called Mount Rushmore. Just for the memes 😉😂
Time to redownload the game and start playing again!!!
The AI generated map names at the end are actually very good, and also freaking hilarious. I would love to see a map with any of those names, especially if they had themes that actually went along with it. The american ones had me rolling
I would pronounce it "al-see-own"
20:52 he’s right, I haven’t played this game since before Legacy of the Void. Still like to watch pro games though.
Anyone else think maps should start coming with unique music? To give them more identity
They can better release starcraft 3 soon
Third map ia themed nicely, but does not fit in the startcraft vibe
google translate dont know how to pronounce shit because its american. Silent E is a thing in language. AL-C-ON . think AL-CY-ON is acceptable as well
im torn on hecate E being pronounced or not. heard the E pronounced so much in holywood media that its become normal but im leaning to silent E on that one as well. if the E is pronounced it's not a "ee" sound but more of a "te" imo
Wow! 🎉🎉
I also want more co-op maps!!! 😢
i haven`t got the update yet WTF?
Only I notice that there is no patch on the European server, while it's live on Americas ?
Have any of the map makers just YOLO'd and made a base with 8 gold mineral patches and 2 rich vespene geysers?
I'm loving them so far
I'm loving the art styles in these maps. Feels like everyone really amped up the quality of visual design. Oceanborn in particular is incredibly pretty.
Radhuset station looks like he'll for tvp. I think terran has to take the pocket as the natural.
4:17 Am I the only one seeing The Bob?
You read names of the maps like me in russian😂
Yea, the English language has a very complicated relationship between spelling and pronunciation
the metro station map inspired form 2v2 is missing minerals blocking the pocket 3rd base entrance in this one