Could the Industrial ARAM map be temporarily removed from the ARAM Map pool?

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Because of the lack of replay files. The industrial ARAM is the only one of the 4 ARAMs that doesn’t save replay files.

It’s really a big bother, honestly, as someone who frequents ARAM. I’ve had many hilarious and wacky moments or comp setups or even just bugs that have disappeared into the void since there was no replay.

Just yesterday I had a hilarious ARAM:

Whitemane
Ana
Alexstrasza
Anduin
Deckard Cain

VS

ETC
Ana
Brightwing
Morales
Deckard Cain

I started recording halfway through, in case you wanted to see what kind of hilarious madness that was. Fair warning, it also recorded the music I was playing, so if you don’t like Disturbed, mute it and put on your own music or whatever.

(Also, just ignore the few times where I completely flop my ult ;p)

By the end of the game I had stacked Whitemane’s level 1 talent so high that I had a mana pool of 2250+.

I also feel that Industrial map is generally inferior to the other ARAMs. The middle area is too “wide” — making it hard for hanzos to scatter arrow and gives them less space for using their D, hard for lucio to do wall riding, hard for diablo to find oppurtunities to wall-smash and so on.

The merc is also put in a really awkward place that is easy to miss.

I’m not really sure what to make of the moving platforms, though. Sometimes they’re really useful for escape, sometimes they mess up my escape.

The biggest issue is just the missing replay files, at any rate.

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This is definitely the worst of all ARAM maps.

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Fix it, pls!

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Same here. Me and my crew all played that and we had 3 tyrandes and 2 tanks. Turns out, living forever and having meh damage is actually ok if spammed.

But none of us have that replay. We were all upset.

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I´d rather see it fixed instead of being removed.

Most of the really insane ARAM games were on that map and it´s sad it does not produce replays.

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Well I did say temporarily removed. Until they fix it. If they have a fix.

If they don’t have a fix at all and have no intentions to fix it, they should just remove it altogether, if you ask me.

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imagine watching an ARAM replay. good grief :expressionless:

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If you have nothing productive to say, just don’t say anything, Lyras.

Imagine looking down on other people for wanting there to be replays for an ARAM.

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Yeah.
Who would want to report a bug they experienced playing the map.

Where after reading Narha’s post I was going to check the replay to see what was buggy and report it…

Until the screenshot I took for a time stamp (which I do when playing to go back to the replay later) showed it was the industrial zone. ._.

But eh, not like bugs on heroes impact other game modes… err. Darn, they do.

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And adding onto this:

And not like fun things that might up on WTF moments happens in ARAM… err. Darn, they do.

And not like reviewing a match of intensive constant teambattles could be useful for self reflection as compared to regular matches where 70-80% of the match is running around, doing mercs and laning. Oh wait, that could be useful!

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Meh. Mercs are pretty useless in Aram anyway.

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True. But even if it’s useless, on the two other ARAM maps, there can be big fights over it. On the Silver City map, the one with the Khazra Spearthrowers, so have I experienced a lot of wacky, big fights over the merc.

Even though those mercs are really weak and the EXP isn’t that much that it’d be worth sacrificing for it.

But people seldomly fight over the merc on Industrial because it’s so out of place and so hard to notice if somebody is trying to take it. And when it does get noticed, people can’t get to it that easily / gets stuck on the moving platform. Especially if they don’t have movement abilities.

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I guess.

Though personally, when I see my team and the enemy team fighting over a merc camp. I go hit the enemy structures.

They didn’t adapt the mercs for a map that only has one lane. So they end up having no value.

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Ah man I was so afraid I lost a replay of me setting up a mega kill as Muradin, using a Haymaker to bowl someone through three of their teammates for four kills almost instantly.

Lost Caverns keeps them but which four do not keep replays? Or did I misread that?

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Just the industrial one (the one with the moving platforms.)

The other ones save replays normally.

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I do like the design of the map, as it feels completely different due to the layout and conveyor belts. Those belts have led to some serious oddball and funny interactions if you play displacement heroes regularly. They also lend themselves well to some pretty awesome escapes.

But I do agree, the lack of replay and MVP screen takes away a lot of the fun of the match. Even though the MVP screen is meaningless, doubly so in ARAM, it is always quite the pointless ego boost to see your name up there for Dominator with 49 takedowns.

As Stukov.

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I hate this map. The conveyor belts are just terrible. Gimmicky map, just like VF.

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Haha, yeah… that game… was gold. :smiley:

I also like the MVP screen as it gives a chance to give a little +1 to someone you thought did well or landed some nice ulties or cleanses or whatever.

And it gives a chance to say a few words before the game ends. Industrial map just ends so abruptly after teh core is destroyed.

It’s also nice to get the occasional 9 votes, too.

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I’m all for straight up removing the map. It’s just awkward map with the north-south layout, no vents and huge open space.

It’s the MVP screen why they never gave replay to the map. It was one of later brawls that came after all the hate MVP screen got so they stopped adding it to maps. The way they did that was removing replay file which gave the info for MVP screen. That is why some brawls had MVP while other didn’t even within similar style brawls.

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Not an excuse frankly. As long as the devs made a design decision to have MVP screens and save files, they should be in place for all official maps in all official modes. I’m not buying the idea that forum complaints are the reason they didn’t finish the job. ARAM is now an official mode. It should be properly supported on all of its maps.

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