(I previously posted this in Technical Support but the support FAQ said this was the correct place.)
I’m organizing some competitions using old Blizzard maps and several are missing from the Custom list tab. These might have been maps that were falsely reported by bots but not restored. They aren’t coming up when I select Blizzard Maps and if I search for them the Blizzard versions aren’t found.(For some, the TLMC or community versions come up but not the ones with the Blizzard logo.) Please see if you can restore them.
I previously made a list of the all the official Blizzard maps that I compared with the Blizzard Maps category and I noted the ones that are missing:
2 player maps
2000 Atmospheres LE
Ancient Cistern LE
Altitude LE
Babylon LE
Bamboozle LE
Becket Industries LE
Berlingrad LE
Blackburn LE
Cosmic Sapphire
Curious Minds LE
Data-C
Dragon Scales LE
Equilibrium LE
Ever Dream LE
Glittering Ashes LE
Golden Wall LE
Goldenaura LE
Gresvan LE
Hard Lead LE
Hardwire LE
Hecate LE
Ice and Chrome LE
Inside and Out
Moondance
NeoHumanity LE
Oceanborn LE
Pillars of Gold LE
Pride of Alteris LE
Purity and Industry LE
Radhuset Station LE
Royal Blood LE
Site Delta LE
Solaris LE
Stargazers
Submarine LE
Tropical Sacrifice
Waterfall
Yamatai LE
4 player maps
Arctic Dream LE
Nightscape LE
Polka LE
6 player maps
Descent LE
Flashback LE
Realities Simulation LE
I wanted to confirm this, but also clarify that it’s the search system / list browser in the game that doesn’t show up certain maps when requested. Even if it’s like 1:1 match. While showing others.
You can also confirm that by going to sc2aracde.com - it has a match history record, with many games recorded from various players in past month(s).
So possibly not everyone is affected.
Also it’s not limited to Blizzard maps, but many random arcades too.
PS. sorry by that spam message above, but there’s something annoying about your forum, it was preventing me from using “paste”. So got frustrated : )
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To workaround it grab a map link from the sc2aradec website and paste it into the chat in game / keep the maps bookmarked / navigate into map through other means - your own map history etc.
Yeah. Definitely a lot of community-made maps missing but I don’t have anything to offer there since all I have is a list of the Blizzard maps from over the years.
Maybe related but I can’t load Blizzard Maps in melee WoL or HoTS. It says there are no official Blizzard or ladder maps. They do successfully populate if I switch to LotV. I have cleared cache and reinstalled the game and tried it on a second pc with different account and problem persists. If I try to load a bookmark of a Blizzard map it fails to create a lobby and says map not found. These were working until a few weeks ago (last time we played). I can search and create lobbies of custom maps that show up in the Melee list.
Sand Canyon is missing too. My favorite. One day earlier it was missing from America server but still available on Asia server. Today it’s gone on both servers.
I looked again and now a whole lot more maps are missing. Out of what is left, I only saw two that weren’t on the ladder in 2024 or 2025! This also means that the Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm selections are completely empty.
All Blizzard melee maps for HoTS and WoL vanished with last update. Bookmarks to them fail to load as well. Nothing populates in fitlered list. If you browse the general melee list you’ll sometimes see some, but trying to select them produces error “map not found”
Hey Blizzard! Are we ever going to get these maps back? Is anyone from Blizzard listening? Does Blizzard have any support at all? Are they all on vacation?