The Star Strikers is a fun UMS that is gaining popularity. It is a lot like Super Mario Strikers (which is similar to soccer, or football, for non Americans). The objective, of course, is to score as many goals as possible on the other team.
Each player controls one unit (from one of the races), which has 2 special abilities, can kick the ball and push other units. Each half of the game is 10 minutes, with 2 minute overtimes in the event of a tie. Each player can sub out their unit for another twice every half.
Pushing a player away from the ball, or incapitating a player (by reducing the player's HP to 0) causes the player to lose control of the ball, allowing another player to pick it up. One can also walk in front of the player to steal the ball.
The game is very intuitive, it is quite easy to learn, yet is still heavily skill based. The game is 5v5 or smaller, and has pretty decent AI for when people leave, or just simply for practice. Teamwork is obviously important.
The game is still getting more features and still is getting balanced, but it is a load of fun. Drop by channel 'Strikers' and see if people are playing.
Currently on most regions. On EU it is known as 'Star Strikers Football' as the existing map of The Star Strikers is an older version that the creator lost contact with.
Just noticed there was a 6 month old thread about this map, but it has come a long way since then, so I hope this new thread is acceptable as opposed to bumping a 6 month old thread with a 2 paragraph OP.
EDIT: Delivering eye candy (more recent and less laggy video than the one in the bnet thread):
"Hopefully I'll have a gameplay video up by tomorrow." now you gotta deliver eye candy link in the blizz op It seems hilarious fun to play, once you know how... edit: content of vod is possibly really outdated
1) Devlin, you told me you didn't have an account here! Now I made this one for no reason. I'll now be doomed at lurking around yet another forum. :C 2) I didn't know I could replace a movie... and it makes sense not to let you replace movies. Just imagine an extremely popular movie getting replaced by a Rick Roll or shocking content. Anyways, what's done is done. Have fun wathcing the match. =)
Just played a few games of this on BNET, and it is by far my favorite UMS at the moment. If only the people i played with were competent enough to pass the ball when they are being pressured... so frustrating.
If you are ever looking for a game, join channel strikers, if there are over 20 people, theres almost guaranteed to be an ongoing game, 15ish people is likely, 10 is a maybe, less is a probably not.
Discovered this game on Select's stream last night. After trying it I have to say it is one of my favorite UMS so far! So much fun I hope more people start playing so it wont be such a pain to fill the lobby.
Hello, this is Chirus, maker of The Star Strikers. I am considering uploading it to EU for the next update and will be contacting people to do so. If you would like to be the one to do so, please contact me at chirushighwind@gmail.com.
Also please note that TSS has been uploaded to EU before, so there may be some complications we will have to deal with in that respect. Please make sure that you have the patience for such complications before emailing me.
If anyone has a trouble looking for games. Join the channel strikers in game and see if anyone wants to make a game. there are about 20 ppl in the channels at all time so...
For those who like this game, a date has been set for a 4v4 (with 2 subs if needed) team tournament with special models as prizes. The first tournament will be held on May 14th and 15th so start building some teams, you can sign up your team here : http://thestarstrikers.forumotion.com/t46-team-sign-ups-na
On May 11 2011 12:35 RuffRidah wrote: the latest version is up! it is called "Star Strikers Football" it is uploaded by me and continue be uploaded for the latest versions in the future!
What's different in the new version?
I love this game btw. It's hard finding games until later at night when people in the Strikers channel want to play.
On May 11 2011 23:27 DoomGuy wrote: When is this coming to EU?
On May 11 2011 12:35 RuffRidah wrote: the latest version is up! it is called "Star Strikers Football" it is uploaded by me and continue be uploaded for the latest versions in the future!
More people should play this - it's by far the most fun sc2 custom I've played. There's no excuse for most of the games in the top few pages to be awful, while this sits at least 5 pages back.
This game is so addicting I actually just stopped laddering to play star strikers as much as possible. If you guys haven't tried it out please do so as you might find it the best custom game you ever played. Just go in the channel "strikers" and you will find a lobby full of people wanting to play.
This map is amazingly fun. too bad battle.net 2.0 = nobody will ever see this map without having seen the streams last night.... yay for the new battle.net that makes 5-10 maps available toa ctuallty play at a time woo
Just had a blast playing this the last couple days. It's amazing how cool having a game where being unselfish (passing the ball) makes such a huge difference. I'm a decent poacher for goals, but the most fun I've had has been crazy assists and creative ways to stop defenders from getting to our ball carrier.
Watching some of the vets that I've played with play also blows me away at how much cool skill and strategy there is. Aardvarke's defense... D:
EDIT: Looking for team for the July tournament. Dunno if there's a TL oriented side, but worth a shot...
On October 24 2011 20:45 T0fuuu wrote: This needs a huge bump. ): its not even on the first 6 pages anymore. What channel do people hangout for games??
Brilliant way to promote a UMS map, hopefully stuff like this will encourage other map makers in how to get their UMS out there with some support this could only be the beginning