The Most Impressive CS:GO Mapping Contest of All Time
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- I was a guest judge for the $15,000 Mapcore Exotic Places Mapping Contest. This video is my experience judging, an exploration into the top 4 finalists, and my own thoughts on what these maps need in order to become new official CS:GO competitive maps.
To read about the winners, check out the Mapcore community: www.mapcore.org/topic/24083-c...
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2,5 years later:
Anubis in the professional map pool
and is a goated map
And the game died right after
cs will never die@@Kr33gola
"Most of the surfaces that appear wallbangable, are."
Proceeds to wallbang a stone wall.
*cough* "most"
Ghetto Peasant no, you don’t. he goes on to say *most* surfaces are bangable, but goes to bang one wall which doesn’t apply.
*because it's made in China*
Ghetto Peasant is joke is that even the stonewall is bangable?
@@ihavenoname5800 Golden comment.
Warowl: chlorine isnt competitive
Valve: how about it is
de_jingshen: *has most surfaces that are Wallbangable*
Me: *Buys Negev and Shoots Every Wall*
Just like good 'ol cs 1.6
@@flipsspillow yep, Walls were like Papers in that Game.
meta
warowl is one of the only people I know who says "cs:gee oh" instead of "cs:go"
bumpin
fr
I though he was saying cs-geo as in geographical map which has a lot of outdoor elements and geographical variety
he's old school :P
he also says "ay kay forty seven"
Isaac Lima you’re telling me you don’t say that?
as people are pointing out: de_abbey was also a map from the past mapping contest that became an official map, I just totally forgot!
Nice video keep up the great work
The problem with csgo maps is that there is a very small nb of hostage rescie maps
bring back cobble
stop promoting maps with middle east environment. Kill mirage and resurrect european cobblestone. And make m249 cheaper so it would be viable. :>
and zoo
“See Es Gee Oh”
Ya i got triggered
he says it because everytime he gets thousands of comments about it eg appealing more to the algorithm
@@amp4105 genius
"it isn't obvious where you should use utility"
silvers: wait, you are meant to use utility?
more like "are you supposed to save some utilities for mid or late-round and not just throw them all 5s in.....whaaaat????"
@@nm_scarecrow302 don't forget to throw all your utility away after you won the round, you will get a lot of money anyway.
utility? I thought CS:GO was made in unreal engine 4
Silver: Throw a utility from the angle enemy is defending towards Sibir, peek out 1second after the enemy noticed the throw. Hide back the corner after enemy awper missed a shot, repeek after the awper chambered another bullet. By repeek I mean casually crouch out.
Hey. As a silver i am offended. Even though it is true.
I want to explore the world
*Covid-19:* _not on my watch_
*Csgo mappers:* _I got your back_
*_Don't worry m8 it's gonna end soon_*
I want to explore the world
Covid-19: *not on my watch*
everyone: I want to explore the world
Covid-19: *I'm gonna stop you right there*
Are we making a story down here?
Haha jok funy
The term you're looking for is "grokable". To grok: "understand (something) intuitively or by empathy". It's commonly used it design to describe elements that don't need explaining or tutorials, they're immediately understandable.
Never heard of it, but I think you are right.
Funny cause the word grokable isn't very intuitive lol
Yagi grok was my caveman ancestor’s name, don’t you go around using it lightly
Is that. Stranger in a strange land? Or whatever its called?
@@benjaminkim2216 i read that book when i was 13, didnt understand it, but still remember the word grok
That Age of Mythology music in the background tho
got me wEt
holy shit age of mythology
Never thought I’d see Anubis in official pro play.
For map designers:
- Don't make a map with countless angles
- Don't overcomplicate it, make it simple.
Standards of designing a map for CSGO these days:
- Don't make it simple
- Don't make it complicated
Have fun figuring out what's left
@@iangulline Simplicated.
Exactly... Remember how basic dust 2 cache and mirage are...
@@iangulline complicated? or over cluttered with prop
also, don’t make long sightlines like 8:57
it works on maps like d2 because the angle is narrow, but when it’s open it’s just frustrating
"Alyx you a question" - WarOwl2020
"Like mixing Doom and Animal Crossing."
I see what you did there.
anubis went from warowl to cs pro map
We really need new competetive maps for Cs, its getting quite boring with no changes to map pool in 3 months.
add cobble back
@@cosmeticstm We can't, Warowl killed it.
they should just add cobblestone back.
@@cosmeticstm no fuck it
@@ryankennelly8582 no its shit
came here after the new patch, its great to see a community map being added into active duty map pool
So this was more of a visual first, gameplay second map building contest. The maps were made playable but not competitive
BryBr0 Nah their layouts were playtested a whole lot, I know since I played in them. The visuals are a positive thing, but you basically could've got to the Top 11 with a greybox map.
Not completely. Mocha had one of its sites completely overhauled, for example.
Who’s here after chlorine and Anubis got added?
everyone
Hold up. Chlorine got added too? I only noticed Anubis when checking the map selection in game.
Alfred Kruse yeah it’s not in the competitive map pool but you can play casual on it
no i’m here before they were added
@@alfredkruse144 1
THESE MAPS ARE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL MAAAAAN, I HOPE CS GETS THEM SOON BECAUSE IM SO BORED WITH STUDIO AT THIS POINT
FireAxe studio is dogshit. Play competitive, not scrimmage maps
@@zydaxe i dont have friends to play a custom mm map, and servers dont use many either
@@Rootzi yeah, i do but its still boring even if i dont play it, even more annoying when after 16 weeks thwt map has the "new" tag like yeah valve neeew its not boring or been in the game for long
Manby it is less boring if you play other maps. You dont need friends for mm. SoloQ is not that bad.
@@ANTSMR_Dango yea it is, i aam saying that the other maps like community made mm maps servers dont use them and i would have to get friends to play it, cause there isnt mm for that, i platy soloq 95% of the time for normal mm
Anubis got added to csgo recently
Fun Fact: Jingshen made up %25 of all wallbang kills during the mapcore faceit matches.
this is my favorite video you’ve made in a while i love the new content path you’ve chosen, your commentary and narrating and editing flows together so good!!
Thanks Ducky I appreciate it
I am from India . Where in lockdown we have to sit home and play csgo and watch yt or tv and i am bored watchin it again and again . But your old and new all videos are interesting so i am passing time watching ur videos . Pls make more
And facing ping issue for some reason . I played danger zone and my ping was 250 ms even in indian server !
8:38 My Eyes Cried 4 De_Cobble :/
What did he do to cobble?
@@newtmolina2198 he killed it
@@newtmolina2198 he killed the sweet prince
@@newtmolina2198 he killed it, in his old vid
What video?
I've never seen it
those maps looks like overwatch maps....
All the new maps do, they're too "glowey"
Only anubis one
The theme of the contest was exotic places.
And Blizzard usually also chooses pretty exotic places for their maps.
So it makes sense that these maps have the same look and feel as Overwatch maps.
@@mcslothalot no, aztec is exotic and it's nothing like overwatch. Newer maps since inferno have all looked like overwatch, because they're cartoonishly bright and colorful.
Good
So fun to see this video over a yaer later and that so many of these maps made it into the game. I have just played CS for 9 months and its so fun to see the maps that I started out playing (because I didnt know which map or which mode to play) are comunity made maps wich is so cool
4:29 you took me to my childhood with that Jak and Daxter music 😂 Very nice video, as always 👌
10:56 YEEESSSSSS!! I wish I had a VR :'(
it will be the last episode of soloQ i hope
@@AbdallahMehiz what do you mean? The next video is going to be about Half Life Alyx. Listen closely and you hear: Alyx you a question.
@@slyfox4547 I think it's a meme. Doubly so.
@@fakedeltatime no he's gonna play Half Life Alyx for sure.
@@infinitus16 wait, are you now memeing by saying that I'm implying that Warowls was memeing? Because I was referring to Abdallah.
Hoping one of these maps actually sticks.
It's unfortunate going "Ooh new map!"
*gets taken out a month later*
Or every second past that one month I hear nothing but everyone verbally downvoting every bit of the map they can.
Exponaut R-01 yeah Valve need to stick with a map and kinda force it through. Like they did with Vertigo
Valve should hold them for at least 3 months, 1 month is just now enough
I miss ruby a lot it was a good and fun map to play and I learned how to play it easily I don’t see why it was removed it’s easily better than vertigo imo
Ruby was fun to play
While it existed
Only if pro player, youtuber and streamer stick to it.
That Jak and Daxter music though at 4:28... Nice choice WarOwl
6:18 - age of mythology Egyptian theme again? Good choice.
Greek theme
@@tonraqkorr230 It's called de_anubis and has pyramids so I'm pretty sure it's Egyptian.
@@anrijsc1037 nah, he's talking about an awesome game and the music from it. I'm pretty sure it's the Greek theme from AoM playing. Kalos.
@@tonraqkorr230 Oh I'm sorry then. Fair enough.
YESSSSS, JUST YESSSSS!!!!!!!!
"It's like mixing animal crossing with DOOM"
Doomguy and Isabelle confirmed?
Didnt know you played CS:GO
8:17: What if that difficulty to position and viewing is the entire point? Maybe it feels like a natural location! I don't know if that's intentional, but what if it's about making it difficult for the awper and easier for the invaders? Besides, I miss with nuke-like and train-like layouts. Also, maybe more verticality?
I love the age of mythology music you put when you were talking about anubis
One of the best CS videos I’ve seen in a really long time. Thanks for such quality content.
*ALYX LET'S PLAY
LET'S GO WAROWL*
I'll watch
I have neither the game nor the vr setup :') but I want to watch you play it
"It's like mixing Animal Crossing with DOOM."
I see what you did there.
So they dont have great angles. Thats what the main praise of de_abbey was. The angles just felt right. The 'je ne sais quoi' of creating a map that makes it feel intuitive.
Abbey was actually one of my favourite maps while it was in the game. Really sad it is gone and we didn't get anything in return
6:22 unbelievable. WarOwl was right for once.
0:16 he forgot to mention Abbey 😱😱😱
Anubis, Chlorine and Mocha making into cs after 1 year....
Now Anubis is in the professional map pool 👍
I have played mutiny a few timed with my friends last week, its pretty cool. One issue, we got stuck in the planks over the river.
Anubis was actually put into csgo! Valve definitely watches these. Gj warowl.
“CSGO has a bright future!”
but TF2 doesn’t :(
Moredt
same with csgo but once you get prime it’s very rarely you see it
@@qxarts3896 Cheaters are popping up in prime recently
qxarts i had some good wingman games and got reported several times, my trust factor is gome because i queu with either noobs who report me or cheaters.
@@qxarts3896 I don't think so. I have only encountered with 1 cheater throughout my compe and casual matches, I am only Rank 20 so I can't say much, but yeah, I have only seen one.
@Mr BuzzKill Indeed. Not even sure what people want from Valve. Sure would be amazing to have regular updates and a thriving competitive scene, but what are the odds of that happening at this point. TF2 is amazing as is for what it is anyway.
Just listening to the Transistor soundtrack I wondered if I'd forgotten to pause it. Love that soundtrack. Love that is gets so much play time
If this doesn’t show the Warowl is a perfectionist and truly cares about his job I don’t know what else will. Love this guy.
Commenting for the algorithm and so that I remember to come back and watch it
You’re a boss war owl.Soon as this virus is manageable for everyone I’m gonna keep building my PC, and your content made me wanna do it.
8:44 You're a monster!
What did he mean? Killed cbble?
@@helloitsme3 Yes! I will not forget this monster, he murdered cbble cold blooded!
@@firewolf9493 link on video pls =)
Anubis is a beautiful map and your critique of it is why I am always so intrigued by map design and how much thought must go into it. I would imagine that to make a map competitively viable would require hundreds or thousands of hours to define every angle and make it clear to the person playing where they can expect enemy players to be. Things like marking doorways which would be invisible to the person peeking down a long hallway (think peeking down that weird sideways kind-of-but-not-really mid in office where you expect someone to be able to come out at the end of the hallway but on your first viewing you would miss that there's another closer door someone can peek from), making things just far enough apart to be passable by two or three people (so one person can't block everyone) but close enough that a single smoke can easily block it (I'm looking at you, CT to B Dust 2). It just seems like a ton of effort which is completely lost on the player as you don't even really notice it while playing.
As always, WarOwl, this is a 10/10 video once again. Great work!
warowl: says Anubis and chlorine should be in the first 2
valve: how bout they should be in the official map pool
There's something that these maps are missing, something that they need to become a popular map...
THE THING THEYRE MISSING IS NOT BEING NEW
Exactly. Yes the angles are nonintuitive and unexpected, but you can get used to them after playing it a bit. It's actually a good thing, that the map doesn't play like any other.
@@Janskill I don't know, the maps in this video in some areas have way too many spots to check before going forward, and what he said at 7:14 is right for every single map in the video, not just anubis.
They are not ready for competitive at all, but can be worked on
Oh my ... That Age of Mythology music during the presentation of Anubis is on point, loved it
4:28 That's jack and daxter music from the underwater city! :D
I love the idea of de_aztec remakes. Also the Chinese one looks baller.
let's go Warowl! You just picked the latest active map in CS:Go.
I feel like a lot of the maps that are in the competitive map pool right now share a lot of the same features.
- They have an unique theme (Desert town, italian/spanish village, nuclear reactor, skyscraper, etc).
- Before a bomb site there is always a chokepoint. So intuitively you already know you are going to get to the bomb site whenever you cross that chokepoint. (Think monster in Overpass, out of tunnels in Dust 2)
- CTs can hold these choke points from different angles (like 4-7 depending on which chokepoint), but most of these choke points can be cleared without exposing you to several NEW chokepoints at the same time, which creates fair (gun)fights for both parties, which enhances playability and fun factor.
- There is the ability for Ts to eliminate angles (with smokes, molotovs) to get through the chokepoint more easily
- There should be connectors from middle to bombsites that reward Ts taking risk early in the round and improve rotates from bomb sites
These new maps look really pretty but the developers have to keep in mind that every barrel, chest, bunch of stones near bomb sites creates new angles which can make it practically impossible (and not fun) for Ts to clear angles and take bomb sites.
you were right, the update just rolled out a couple minutes ago and anubis is now a scrimmage map!
me watching
*sees **9:05* "wait this looks a lot like Chalet from R6Siege"
warowl at 9:58:
me: "thats what im sayin"
I liked the swamp map, it didn't feel as cluttered as the other maps.
It’s cool to see this video years later to see some of the maps in today’s game compared to how they were judged back then
age of mythology soundtrack? my man! subscribed
This map got added to csgo :D
1:48
im scared...if jingshen gets added...china might ban CSGO or smth becuz u know...ur putting terrorists in china
i live in china (im not chinese) and im tired of all the banned things here, if Jingshen gets added in any capacity and the government takes it too seriously, my life if gone
They won't. Overwatch has Chinese-Japanese themed maps and it didn't get banned. Rainbow Six Siege's Amusement Park map is also Chinese and its also not banned.
@@underated_username7567 now overwatch and r6s dont have terrorist now do they?
@@underated_username7567 i can only hope. The only difference is the presense of...terrorists. Hopefully the player models wouldnt be too specific.
im also praying the chinese love for CSGO can keep it alive
agree with you bro
I loved it when you played AoM music when you showed de_anubis lol
Bruh, this was probably the 5th video I watched on this channel and the first with subtitles.
I always thought you say "I'm the war owl an I still have no clothes on." xD
3:00 Monkey Island music, respect.
Mr. D I was looking for this comment ❤️
You should make a video on you playing Half Life: Alyx! That would be very very fun and interesting to watch
Working on it!
@@TheWarOwl gg
@@TheWarOwl instantly works on a new video on half life alyx
soloq still sitting around unfinished for years, feelsbadman
@@Cookie-3 I JUST posted a SoloQ
@@TheWarOwl Hey warowl, I know you really care about quality and that's why you don't post soloq as often, but we really like the series and want to see a conclusion (as in, you finally reaching Global and smoking a victory cigar) so please keep it up! (also get that hl:alyx video out thx)
I played a ton of map core (the NA version) and it was some of the most fun countrr strike experiences I had because the mats were so mindblowing, and some of the maps I even hit some really nice shots on and theres so many different angles you can take, I'd also like to point out most maps have some INCREDIBLE boost spots that you can hold. (Me and my friend tried some random spots they worked and was one of my best experiences there) and if that's not good enough mapcore also has a discord where you can ay test some maps that are sometimes so new they dont have textures and you can give feedback on them, ok I'm dont writing a bible about how good mapcore is.
Love the throw back age of mythology music for Anubis. Gonna have to boot that up again
"One thing I really like about the map design is the sheer number of wallbangs possible."
That's because the walls are made in China quality.
uh yes
0:07 I love that music.
Does anyone know the name?
;w;
Love the age of mythology soundtrack fitting to the anubis theme
That Age of Mythology music during the de_anubis review.
I believe "Jingshen/精神" can also mean "awake" , or the feeling of being awake if I'm not mistaken
🤔
w o k e
It will be Wushan once it goes live.
Did anyone hear the Age of Mythology music when he was talking about de_anubis ?
Yup thought the same! :D Egyptian civ.
NICE I LOVE TO SEE AN ALYX GAMEPLAY VIDEO!!! XD
and yeah from all this video with those amazing maps from community alyx is what im excited about :P
Age of mythology music for the de_anubis map, that's a nice touch
"The abandoned theme park was the most unique..."
Rainbow Six Siege: "Am I a joke to you?"
Its a different game. So its not suitable to compare.
It's a completely different game bud.
LeChuck's theme! A man of culture, I see...
put a sudden unexpected smile on my face
1:45 i was not expecting that
Love the age of mythology soundtrack on the de_anubis map :)
"It's like mixing animal crossing with DOOM"
well ummm
Well if you killed Cobblestone, make a "fun" video talking about how the community wants it back as it was before they changed T spawn /Cheers
The background noise on A site on Anubis is actually the theme from Age of Mythology. little fun fact
4:59 I see someone is using the precursor legacy ost... and I appreciate it...
Never clicked on something faster
Not fast enough
They should every map so it can run on the best consumer pc from 2012
What?
GreenZapperZ so they dont loss half of the russian player base that play on potatoes (me included)
@@hughwillcox5472 "They should every map" they should *what* every map though?
@@GreenZapperZ Design a great map but make it so it can still run at a decent fps old an old pc
@@hughwillcox5472 Almost all the maps are designed like that. You can easily get 60+ FPS if you turn everything down to the lowest settings and only have CS:GO open when playing no matter how shit your PC is
i hope mutiny comes out it looks interesting. Im still waiting for them to rotate some more of the older maps into casual line up. Backalley, siege and vegas to name a few
I don't know if it's just me, but I felt extreme satisfaction when i saw cs_ivory and de_mustang, even tho' I didn't see much of them, the visuals and the possible paths from the few moments they were shown, looked absolutely great
"I am honored and humbled, to literally do valve's job for them
"It doesn't have a name"
*Me looking at the top-left corner where the name of the map is located*: What
*2 Seconds afterwards realizing what he means*: oh... OOOHHHHH
I still don’t get it
@@anonymoussecret5948 ye me neither could somebody explain pls
compliments on the music choices :)
I love how you use the egyptian Age of Mythology music in the backgroud at allmost every video
In my opinion,
De_Jingshen is a map that isn't really balanced in sense of timings and rotations because the sites are closer to the terrorists and they can get there in seconds, while to the CT's it can take much more, therefore the rounds would most likely take less time between start and bomb plant.
De_Mutiny is pretty nice as the theme and the design are really well thought, but one thing is that people will 100% get lost in it, so there isn't much of a balance difference.
De_Chlorine is a good map that mixes the creativeness, aztec design and also modern designs. The map layout is really interesting because it's one of those maps where close ranged fights will happen all the time, there's not a good spot to camp with AWP's or SSG's, making it a really nice gameplay for shotguns and SMG's. The wooden bridges and lower areas of them will make up for an amazing new type of gameplay that isn't really common.
De_Anubis is a mind-blowing map where the first thing you can notice is the overwatch aspects. The designs and lighting makes it a fair gameplay where you can see people hiding from you, but this gets balanced with the amount of spots where utility isn't enough. The amount of places to throw flashbangs over walls and also the pillars will make for an interesting amount of possible pop-flashes. The designing is really well done, an almost perfect transfer from the one in overwatch. The amount of obstacles and objects in the way make it annoying but as well make it a map where reaction time and having the least amount of shots to kill will be dominant in the experience.
De_Mustang, for the few seconds that I've seen of it, it seems to be a map where AWP's will provail and it's a good map for those who like to snipe.
8:30 yeah.... about that....
I wonder how something like a Quake 3 mind map would be like but instead of timed item and weapon spawning angles and enviorment change overtime
gosh i love your outro music