Tarpit Defence 2

Introduction:
Around 6 months after attempting to spread the word about Tarpit Defence an attempt at recreating the title was made and to amazing success. This new reiteration featured a 7th player and more variety in units but Goliaths and Dragoons had been completely removed from purchase. The map was also dedicated to those of a small online clan by the name of _DT_ who for the most part helped test the map from the ground up, some showing up to test its first release and never leaving.

Gameplay:
Tarpit Defence 2 featured 7 lanes to defend, 4 solo lanes with 2 backup lanes and a single last line of defence player who was in some games one of the most important players. Monsters would spawn from location at the end of each of the 7 lanes and go past 3 players till they reached the city at the end of the track, if this occurred even once then the game was lost. Players had plenty of choices for units but the core units became Archon, Marine, Hydralisk or Ghosts, these units could be converted at later points in the game into Heroic units with much higher damage at the cost of numbers. All the players had to do was survive all waves of Monsters to win the game.

Reception:
The map was received well by the public and with so much positive response quickly within the space of a week it became the most played map available on the NAWEST server. Due to the incredibly quick success of the map several tweaks had to be made in order to make the game get harder the further you got as it had been dubbed a bit easy, these tweaks turned into almost 15 different versions circulating live.

Conclusion:
This version has for the most part been completely forgotten by most but in my eyes was the turning point of the name Tarpit Defence, it was but an idea to make the original release more streamlined and user friendly that began the maps conception and later became a better installment. As with all turning points Tarpit Defence 2 had created such an imbalance of maps circulating that a decision was made to discontinue tweaking the map and move onto the third release.


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