The Best Bad Map in Video Games - CSGO's Office
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2022
- CS_Office... A map that flips the boundaries of map design on its head, creating a beautiful medley of garbage. Office is a horrible map dont get me wrong, but it still holds a special place in my heart despite this. I think that every video game needs an office of sorts to be honest, and I think that CSGO would be much worse off without it.
This video is pretty tongue in cheek if you cant tell
If you read this, comment, "I think Office should be added to the professional map pool, I love watching people hold angles for an hour"
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Office is like so far on the based side it doesnt show up, right?
For the shrigma players
Only gods play office
zased people play cs_mansion in 1.6
office is the only map that makes the sawed off look like a good gun.
Milita too
*procedes to camps paper* quite fun tho
FAX
I always buy it on T-side inferno. Just wipes aps. Whether for a rush or a lurk.
@@arisaka233📠
Still crazy to see that office at some times has the second lowest queue times after mirage.
I swear if you queue for all the maps majority of the time it will find Office :D or at least it feels like that
@@gachigasm3210 I love gambling so I toggled every single map, I then proceeded to get office 3 times in a row. Don't know if I was lucky or unlucky
Cause office is fun and an extremely easy map to play.
@@latinaparfait lmao the map is just pure cancer
idk, office is my #1 favorite map and gamemode
Back in the beginning, CS was about simulating actual real-life terrorist situations. The oldest maps and modes were a testament to this. And irl, hostage situations ARE very one-sided. They are tense, often lethal affairs and maps like Office and Warehouse were my favorite for precisely that reason. I loved going CT on Office and actually winning the round, despite all odds, because I played smart and went hard. Honestly, I miss that aspect.
warehouse? do you mean cs_assault?
exactly, but everyone today is a zombie and games are either mmo, esport or single player story.
Strong agree. One sided maps are great. Balance comes in the meta; T's can always rush behind.
Literally the reason I love this map! Ever since 1.6 this is my favourite map
unbalanced maps are good if both teams have to swap at half time. otherwise we'd all be playing 2fort with awps every game
I miss the times when fun maps were allowed to exist. Before Vertigo remake, my pals and I would only queue for Militia, Italy, Vertigo, Dust, Assault and Aztec.
Same Bro better times back then
man, what I wouldn't give to play on Aztec or assault again. These maps were shit, but so fun when nobody knows smokes, prefires or most optimal ways to attack or defend
I aggre imagine if valve made a forest map with no buildings just trees bushes to hide behind
@@Guerrila_man this is literally my dream map. only mechanical skill. amazing.
Before everything had to be competitive
I disagree, VIP is the Forgotten CS Game Mode, Ct’s had to protect the VIP by escaping the map and the VIP only had a USP with 24 Bullets but 200 Armor. If The Vip dies, Cts lose.
oilrig ahhh nostalgic!!
VIP is just bad designed and so glad its not back
Hell, even gooseman brought back that gamemode on tactical intervention back on its day and nobody played it (when the game was still alive and not with less than 200 ppl playing), well, tbh his entire game was a failure as well
Let's not forget es_ escape maps. Both es_ and as_ maps came out in beta 6.
@@Ultra289 To be honest, VIP makes more competitive sense than hostage mode does. The hostage mode will always be super T-sided because the Ts get two chances to win the round: Once by defending the hostages and a second time by preventing the CTs from going back to their spawn. On VIP mode, you have to get the VIP to one of the exits with only 4 players with decent weapons. However, unlike the bomb defusal mode, finding one opening could be enough: Once the CTs manage to get the VIP to an exit, the Ts don't get another chance to win the round.
@@Yveldi VIP is even more T sided since you kill VIP = win, with hostage at least you have some chance if you did some mistake but on VIP not so much, you depend on one teammate to not die
And also ,more ez for griefers to ruin match... Get VIP, run with knife ,ez ruin match
Office truly is the last bastion of old CS. When half the servers in the browser weren't even playing a real game mode and were just running zombies or scouts & knives or some jank implementation of gun game, when most people playing the game didn't even know what 'balance' meant. Never leave us Office, we need you to remember who we were.
I think we need to try and get back to that honestly. Not necessarily as jankily but we need that community passion in CS again.
Office is the best map and will really help you develop skills as CT. If you struggle to retake sites, playing office will help you with that too, even though it is a hostage map because of how T sided it is then it's basically a hardcore retake map. The skills you develop as CT are enormous, you will learn to properly peek, clear angles, have good crosshair placement, game sense (anticipating where enemies will be, are moving around, hiding etc.) - things you won't develop as fast or as extreme in any other map. Office might be one sided, but with enough strats, tactics etc. you can win, even as CT. It requires a lot of team work and just killing to win won't often cut it, unless those kills are done in a very impactful and tactical manner. Rushing is often a death sentence in that map. I have thousands of hours playing office and it's the one my friends and I play the most.
Best and funniest map ever, that and Agency are my favorites!
@@nuoz3326 yes, agency is one of my favorite maps too! It shares a lot of attributes with office, I'd even go as far as to saying agency is a modern version of office.
Have to agree, I love Office, gotta be my favourite map
@@DjAmaratziOfficial Maybe they both hostage group map!
Rushing as CTs actually works but you must be spot on with utilities be very quick and precise and have teammates follow you without getting in straight line
The last time I played this map in competitive mode, one of my teammates was only there because he forgot to deselect the map in his queue. So he spent the first few rounds begging us to kick him, spent the next few rounds being mildly annoying, and then started team-killing. We still wouldn't kick him, and he eventually left. Ah, good times.
P.S. - I legitimately prefer the revolver, as I can't hit a damn thing with the deagle.
Revolver is better than deagle since it's nerf for real. Also 100$ save on the buy.
Revolver fanclub unite!
@@gave2haze the deagle is much better bruh. It does more damage. And also unlike the revolver. You don't need to hold down left click to shoot like one shot. Also theres only like 8 ammo. The revolver is like really bad I dont know why people like it. back then it was good but now its really bad
@@colaman8269 It literally 2 shots with sniper accuracy
@@colaman8269 the revolver literally does 90 in 1 what are you talking about?
I'm just imagining a world where no maps were removed for csgo, why couldn't all maps have the same fate as office
I miss Aztec and Assualt so much 😢
@@MeowDot actually Assault is in game for this day, but only in casual mode.
idk why they remove a map completly from the game.. not even casual or bots, its so sad
2:49 that is what makes office so great, when you options are limited you are forced to think of new startegy and exploit map knowledge to get ahead, specially on the CT side, there is a good reason why the map is still there
Also, the map is only only marginally T sided when everyone is a full time office player. "you just have to camp the hostage area" strategy is more correctly a "waiting to die" strategy against a good CT team most of the time. Office players got that shit. T's must claim the front office unless CT's are entering there in which case thats where the fight is. T's do a lot of camping but the hostage area is the last place they should do so.
Exactly what I thought. I have personally come up with a handful of very effective nades.
@@styleisaweaponwhy not ? You only need to hold two chokepoints one is from range and the other one can be guarded from multiple angles, if you go out you have multiple angles you have to guard instead
@frozby5973 because of utility. It depends on the hostage spawn of course but if you're all just camping t spawn CTs can just smoke elbow, 4v1 your paper player after softening them up with nades and extract the hostage.
Office is definitely my favourite map. The fact that's imbalance makes it fun to play, where you should stop playing competitive and just have fun. I would not say that winning on CT side is impossible, or that T side is easier. It all depends on your team and organization.
Nah CT is almost impossible to win
Unless the Ts are just some kiddos who have no idea what is going on or they start killing each other getting cooldowns
You only have some chance if Ts lose pistol round cuz they ll have to eco (again, if they are smart enough)
@@Ultra289 Nowadays, things have changed. I can speak from personal experience because I pretty much only play the hostage gamemode (mainly because I like the maps on overral and find the mode to be pretty fun). On the early days of CS GO, in any hostage maps both teams would suck (which is expected from a new game), but then naturally the Ts got better on the first few years. But we have reached a stage of the hostage mode where the majority of the players actually only (or mostly) play said mode, so they are reasonably good players on both sides on all maps. After thousands of casual matches I lost the count on how many matches I won in e.g. assault not (necessarily) due to the T's team lack of skill, but because my team was indeed better and knew how to wallbang, waited for the early round rush, bought kits, etc. The same for office, in the last 2 years I think I won 50/50 as a CT which is quite good. Tbf many of those wins as a CT were close games (e.g. 8-7) but it only added to the fun. In short, although I understand where you come from, to say that it is nearly Impossible to win as CT on office is simply wrong, with all due respect. Cheers, mate.
PS: Just out of curiosity, my favorite hostage maps were insertion I and II, damn they were fun as hell.
@@epiccamper
Why are you bringing up casual... Nothing to do the gameplay of casual with competitive
Doesnt matter your 1000 matches on casual, on competitive is different story....
Your 1000 matches in casual are just irrelevant
On competitive losses impact your economy way more than on casual where you dont even have to buy armor
Also that the video is more focused on why Office is still here on competitive.... Not casual
The only reason Office is still here is cuz of its high fps and low load times ,potato pc users are still very common so Office is a bless for them specially nowadays
@@Ultra289 Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant to include competitive mode as well. Except for trolls and people who forgot unselect Office, a good CT team will have good chances (ofc, it depends on the hostage positioning). Grenade usage on CT side is fairly simple as well, which helps a lot, there are some really useful flashes. My comment was more on the topic of the hostage mode as a whole, but I reckon that my explanation was lacking, I apologize. Also, I didnt mean to use my personal experience to sound arrogant, it was just to lay the context.
@@epiccamper
Well, there is not a lot of grenades you can do on Office which makes it worse for ct
Office is still being my favorite map to this day. It's the only map at the moment that rewards CTs for using shotguns and SMGs. If you play this map very competitively (say, 3-4 people rush through the paper and other 1-2 guys watch the flank) than T's will struggle a lot to defend themselfs. Office forces CTs to use their utility, it is nearly impossible to win without a flashbang and a smoke on a CT side.
Office smoked paper and mid P90 rush is OP as hell
Office was always my favorite. CT side is basically High-Risk, Low reward but there were always those rounds where you might actually get away with a hostage rescue
When I was little, the map Office is what I imagine I would grow up and probably work in. I now work a 9 to 5 office job, but the office is crowded and noisy. I like the childhood office better :(
people who complain about how "unplayable" csgo is should be punished by a office cure, meaning they can only play office for thee next 7 days, and i can tell you they'll realize how fucking great the game and maps are and in just a couple of hours they'll beg to play anything else, yes, even vertigo
Oh I did that punishment with naughty friends.
Well, when I played CS I played only Office with buds, not caring about ranks or anything. So not that bad of a punishment.
Oh, and Valorant is better xD
@@Piotresiek lmaoo enjoy the rootkit
Meanwhile us Office mains sitting there
@@qazaqwert yeah kinda the best map tho
Office is the only thing keeping from moving on from csgo. the experiences i had on this map are some of the best and worst i've experienced online. it's truly an amazing place and i've dedicated most of my csgo time to just messing around. it will be a sad day when/if it gets removed.
Don’t worry, office is going nowhere
Office holds a special place in my heart, i played this map alot in 1.6 when i was a kid. The chaos that came when playing 16v16 on this map was amazing
I've played this map extensively the last couple years. You really start to see a lot of the same names, so a sort of community has been built around it. It plays incredibly different from normal Counter-Strike maps, and it's a lot of fun. I wish Valve would give it the attention it deserves since office is one of those fan favorites since 1.6.
chaos of everyone not being tryhards was what made office fun
id like to consider myself a *pro* office player
around 2 years ago, me and my friends started to mostly only play office, and this lasted months
we played dozens of games in it, and every single game was the same, except when we had a hostage in papers (fairest position for ct):
13-2/14-1 as t side (maybe 10-5 with the papers hostage), then try to get a round or two because of a mistake by the other team as ct, and viceversa
i assure you it was the most fun i had playing cs, cause the magic of it is that you can both tryhard it, or relax and chill
and yeah, meta was camping with negev and smgs
Yeah, I feel like there should always be one hostage long or paper
I still really miss cobblestone, I played so much in 2015-16. They even made some changes like cutting t spawn if half and changing a site completely but it hasn't seen any action since. I hope they are going to add it back one day
A few years back I used to play on a 24/7 office server, after a while I got to be kinda cool with the regulars on there. This brought back those good memories of us all just chilling, playing and not really caring about the outcome of matches. They are some great gaming memories honestly!
Bro for 6k subs your videos are amazing , interesting themes and very well edited and written , i hope you keep going . As someone with around 5k hours on csgo i really appreciate your attention too small things in the game and analyzing
bro, just found your channel a week ago and saw a few videos now. Good stuff, thats exactly the content i needed, somewhat out of that esports box but still well produced. Keep that on, good shit!
I remember playing this in competitive a year or two ago. There was a t in spawn with an awp that had like 4 kills per round. Needless to say we lost like 16-5
9:24 i went to see a live viewing of The Room in my city with an appearance from tommy wiseau and it was as weird as you'd expect. the whole time he was selling wiseau underwear, he had like 4 belts on and he made people come up and lift weights, and during the movie everytime that one painting of a spoon is shown the entire audience threw plastic spoons
those areas aren't completely unused , it's just that they're only used in the hostage extraction portion of the round . there is a super-ideal way to play office that involves strange hairpin tactics by CTs supportinh each other from off-map areas and getting lost in the maze . still t-sided before extraction but not horribly so afterward .
You hit the nail on the head that CS was once a game built upon fun first and competition second. It's why I really love hostage maps and wish more were still in competitive matchmaking. The overwhelming majority of my matches in the first years I played CSGO with my first group of friends in the game were on Assault, Office, and if things were not going our way we would add in Train, Vertigo and Inferno depending on who was playing that night. This was back around 2015-2017 btw so we are talking about old versions of these maps anyway. Why did we play these niche maps? Because it was more fun than the moshpit of kids sweating over their rank in the core group. Hell wanting a fun map that is rather imbalanced is what made me fall IN LOVE with Cobblestone, because it felt so much less rigid and formulaic and more built upon finding ANYTHING that works.
Oh, So happy that u are back. I watched episode about de_fire 3 times and the last time I did it, I was thinking if you can come back, so happy once again :D
The atmosphere of your videos are so cozy. I feel so snug listening to this.
i love queueing office and agency. some of the most fun ive had was playing these maps with my friends, buying r8, sawed off, negev, and b hopping and no scoping
good times
Every so often you get an office game where everyone on both teams is actually trying their best and honestly that's why I still play it. The problem isnt so much that it is a joke but that so many people cant see it as anything but. The reality is that with some imagination and willingness to flex from traditional defuse strategy, it can be very competitive.
I was looking for a normal crack for a long time and stumbled upon you, thank you very much
I’m and office only player and I agree lmao also Your videos are underrated af keep up the good work
Office, Assault, Militia, Dust, Italy, Aztec and Vertigo. Me and my homies used to queue these every day. Things just haven't been the same since "the purge". Now we play like 1 game a month.
bro i felt u when u listed the other bad good maps.. man exactly the ones i miss so much :(
Bro'. The clips you pick and everything. You're a legend.
Playing CZ/1.6 in 2004/5 era, Office was on rotation a lot. The big maps then were Dust 2, Dust, Nuke, Cobble, Train, Office, Aztec, Stadium, Prodigy. And probably one or two others I forgot right now. Edit: Inferno was another one, of course.
Office is my guilty pleasure. It's just so fun running around with a negev or autoshotty. It's just so fun to play, like the map layout, chokepoints, and breakable props, it's just... special. There's a million hiding spots for saving, cool little details and corner spots to hold choke points, and more. I also like the fact that it's an enclosed building, making it extremely clausthophobic and unexploitable even for such an oooold map.
Been playing ESEA for about 6 years with a 4 year gap between the first 4 and the most recent 2 and in that gap i found my current friends and got back into CS by playing Office with them. i guess you could call us "Offic Tryhards" but we really play the map to fuck around but still win and we all found it really fun to find smoke and [op flash lineups, poor into a chokepoint trading for eachother and overtime this feeling led me to asking them if they wanted to try ESEA ( we still played Defuse maps so this isnt that crazy). I love office it was my favorite map as a kid playing 1.6 next to D2 and i feel i lost that after getting more into clan competitve 5v5s and im really happy that in my 20s i got back that love for a map i had over a decade ago. Great video man you got a sub
As a office main, no matter how T sided the map is, a well cordinated push with lots of utils always seems to do the trick, usually smoking paper and pushing elbow will be most viable since elbow separates paper and long hall, meaning if as a ct you gain control of elbow, from there, you will be able to push from behind enemy lines.
You will be huge soon bro ure fantastic to listen to and u have a sense of humor
There should be a tunnel from the unused office area to the projector room with another entrance to the projector office
Fantastic video, thanks! The only thing is it's difficult to watch on mobile when the example video becomes small 🙏
I'd like to add something. Rushing on T side is really high risk high reward on office. For example 1 or 2 Ts taking over window is usually a huge loss for CTs since mid wont be as safe anymore for them. People often say that you should camp near the hostages but that's a good way to get cornered by CTs.
7:26 thx dude for put soundtrack tekken 4 its really make me remember of old days
I liked to play on CT-side in casual match of the Office and the Assault because it is more challenging and I actually found a tactic to win on CT-side, but unfortunately one man on casual match can’t do much of a difference.
I owe this map one of my favorite videos I have ever made. It's stupid but it's hilarious because people know the "status" of this map and play accordingly, especially in casual.
Office is the only map where I'll hear a Negev in the distance more than 3 rounds into the game and I love it for it.
Edit: I can also run the same route as a CT to the snowman ladder entrance every time and either I run into someone and my round is interesting already or I hear full blown firefights while I toss a smoke and stroll down the hallway to be a few doorways from a flank.
Good stuff Penguin! Liked and Subscribed!
bruuuuuh your channel is growing quick, just last week you have, idk. 20k subs now its 25k sheeeeeesh this is awesome
Awesome vid bro, keep it up!
Office has made my most used load out be the sawed off shots I named taser backup the r8 revolver and the taser and I'm proud to call it my most played map
holy shit a video that finally understands me, i shit you not i only queue for office just because of how fun it is, i know its T sided but thats what i love. Its not that i queue hoping for tside first half its just that i like the yin and yang of the two sides. First half you try hard second half youve got it in the bag. I love it
I really want a new version of de_port.
Had some hilarious LAN parties in which we modified the gravity factor on de_port and flew around with AWPs.
I love that you use everhood songs in your videos! That game is such a banger.
highly underrated, great video was expecting more views and subs haha
Office really has always been THE map to play when you just want to have fun and fuck around. back in the day we never took Office seriously, most of us probably never analyzed the map enough to know why, we just felt in our hearts that the map was built different. very nice vid, takes me back. God i'm old.
My favorite maps are surf_ ski2go and greatriver_xre4m in competitive combatsurf mode with nospread plugin, so you can shoot while surfing (mid air) instead of camping, then it’s funny skill game, cause I can surf backwards and or sideways while creating headaches with awp. :)
yes, i love it when the video essay man brings something relatively obscure, yet relevant to my attention, and through this, teaches me a valuable life lesson.
I swear the day Valve removes Office may be the day I move on from CS. It’s a guilty pleasure, but I have so many fond memories on Office and most of my best clips were hit on it. The noscope potential, the ace potential, and the mind games you have to resort to are just fantastic. You can’t replicate Office matches on any other map.
More analysis of your teams demographics when solo queuing please. The subtle roasts were great.
I would like to see if CS would do something different with office.
Maybe switch the CT and T.
CT would be body guards protecting the VIPs and T would be the aggressors. Swapping the spawns and story of the map would add some balance but also keep the same fun
office is easily my favorite map. the amount of other old buggy source games i have played on the office map combined with the hundreds of hours i have spent holding long hall with the R8. Ahh really makes me love CS. if they dont end up having a office for CS2 i wont be playing it
I used to spend hours in high school playing nothing but this CSS 24/7 office server that was like maybe 15v15. We had a good group of regulars and it was some of my most fun gaming. Met one of my best friends to this day there that happened to live only a few miles from me. Really appreciate your coverage of this beautiful piece of garbage
I remember first playing CSGO and only playing casual office for the first 60 hours or so because I was too scared to try competitive.
As someone who only played cs KZ, Bhop, and Surf I too love those buttons and dropdown menus
3:08 the hostages never spawn like that
One of them always spawns at the bottom (5 possible positions) and another one always spawns at the top (4 possible positions). But it gets pretty hard to rescue them yeah
Hostage maps like Agency, Office, Assault, Italy and Militia, are perfect for casual, so much fun going for cheecky spots and wallbangs, and shotguns are viable more often than not, utility is also more important
And running with the hostage on your back trying to make it to the rescue zone without dying with the enemies following you it's intense
I havent played cs since source but man do i have a fondness for the hostage maps. Either as a big challenge as a ct or a bork around and improve your kdr as T. The only times they truly sucked (which admittedly was often enough) was when the best players stacked the T side. When the superior players picked CT, though, that was the best times I had playing CS. Felt legitimately tense and cool to be kicking down doors and trying to get those poor helpless souls to safety.
I love this map. It just feels like a normal realistic setting to me, and a great time to use shotguns. Somehow I find myself liking maps that feel like places I would normally be in the most interesting.
I used to love office only servers in earlier CS games too. It's the only time I get to hear that satisfying Cruuuunch Crunch Crunch sound of the M4 shotgun because why would I ever use the shotgun in CS normally.
And it was usually like 32 person servers so there were some pretty intense battles with all sorts of holdout spots. I can see how it'd be less fun with only 5v5 because there's no need to spread out and defend different areas. This is definitely a for fun map.
Also I really liked Aztec. Some of these maps are so close to me due to all the memories I had as a kid. Now that I think about it, Counterstrike is actually the game that helped me figure out WASD and mouse controls. I used to play Doom and Quake with keyboard only. Then I tried some games and remapped controls to arrow keys because I was like WTF are these random WASD controls. But then I was at this internet cafe where we played CS and the controls were set to this fuckin weird random WASD thing. And it clicked for me. Wait, WASD is literally the way the arrow keys are arranged only it makes more sense because my fingers can hit other keys easily. And I don't have to have my left hand awkwardly positioned right next to my right mouse hand.
So that's the story of how CS was a part of my early gaming life in the 2000s and why I love maps like office and aztec.
Thanks for making a video on Office. I started playing this map on my old shitty laptop because it gave me most fps and no other map excited me ever after that. I have like 5.5k hrs on it and play with a team who also have similar hrs. It's definitely not a solo queue map. With a team, it can be the best map.
I don't think imbalance necessarily means "bad". There's nothing more satisfying than winning a game after losing the first half 1 to 14 and winning 15 consecutive rounds while being under pressure to not make any mistakes (against other office pros obv). I don't think you can do that as easily in any other map. But it requires a full team working like a hivemind. If you solo queue though, it is annoying.
The teamwork hivemind is so true. You know how your teams plays and you have specific strategies and call outs. Almost like how a professional QB has a playbook and works with his team. I’ve never found that in any other map but I been playing office for several years and know pretty much all the office regulars and we have a group of about 15 - 20 other players that play regularly on our team. it doesn’t matter what group of 5 of the 20 people we play with we all know how to have that hivemind mentality.
I think a good way to balance office would be to give it a second floor where always 1 of the hostages is placed in.
I remember playing prop hunt in office and won the round hidden as a sofa at the T spawn
In CS:GO this map had lowest PC requirements. It was the only map I could play in GO in more than 30fps.
Now it's CS2, I have quite good PC and I'm still rushing paper on cs_office with my P90.
your channel is so underrated, good content! :))
frfr i hope penguin does a video on dangerzone mode next
@@chocolates182 that'd be cool
If every player in the server has a decent amount of knowledge for this map it actually becomes more balanced than you might think. I personally have invented a handful of creative flashes, smokes, and nades for this map that make it more ct sided. There is also one significant part you did not mention and that is that CTs have the opportunity to make a lot more money than defuse mode. As a CT you get $800 just for picking up a hostage and your team gets a $500 reward. So a rescue kit is very worth it. You also get $1000 if you rescue a hostage in addition to winning the round.
Also that hostage combination you pointed out at 3:09 is not possible.
Yeah, all the people trash talking office are always the ones who don't know the map well
Queing onto a 64 man (or even the hellscape that is 128 man) office server are some of the funnest memories I have of CS:Source. It's an awful map, but DAMN was that somehow fun.
It's fun to play with friends. You should have tried getting into a office only discord or something to get other players thoughts who play this map a lot. Had another UA-camr come up to me and my buddies who play office for fun and he made a pretty good video.
The beauty of office is that it’s actually a strat to use the joke weapon.
The Negev is great for denying certain corner as the shot gun and close space make it great for a CT to quick peak and wipe a sitting T
A comment outside of the video's idea:
I have a special heart about Agency, the outside of the building ( CT spawn ) is the most memorable part of the map for me, and why is a special place in my heart is beacause that the steam account I and my bigger brother playing CS:GO is an old CS:GO account, back then, our bigger brother used to play CSGO, the playtime and the screenshots of the game tells this, the screenshots of him falling down off the building while he's inspect the dragon lore AWP ( that is I think he's not owed on the inventory beacause we didn't find it when we entered his CSGO account ), yes, I've never played it beacause I'm playing in Casual only ( and I don't know if I gonna enter the competitive mode ), and it's hard to find full players on a hostage map ( also you can play Assault, Italy, Militia and Canals exclusive to Casual and Deathmatch, and I want Dust and Astec and any other popular map that isn't good for competitive to only add in Casual and Deathmatch), you can't feel what I feel but Agency is very memorable for me, and I am glad to see it as a permanent map.
I'm old enough to have played every iteration of Office to ever exist. I remember a version in the early CS beta that had closeable blast doors. i think once they closed they couldnt be opened again. ??? crazy map and crazier that it still exist in some form at all even in CS2. NUTS.
As someone who nowadays often plays cs maps on casual if not climbing or surfing, Office is a great map where you learn good playing habits, especially on CT side. Also, it has a whole different meta, which you only implicitly mentioned when you compared AK and M4: it is a map where playing with standard weapons exclusively is a bad choice! MGs, MPs and Shotguns can be used very efficiently, reducing eco rounds and enticing different strategys like pushing through smokes, prefiring, throwing nades very precisely as you want to be exposed as few as possible etc. Also, there are many sniper spots which sucks at first, but there is not a single one you can't bypass/push with some utility. When the hostage is placed outside the T Spawn on the long side, it's actually a very solid balance as you can reach the hostage and bring them out with bascially 2 players + full utility. T's have to cover hostage rescue zone from 2 sides so you have great battles in 1on1 or 2on2 with the hostage carrier the deciding factor. I think that's what some hostage maps are dearly missing (e.g. militia, italy): the T's having uncertainty about pathing when a hostage has been taken so you don't want to camp the hostage zone once a hostage has been taken. It shouldn't be a double disadvantage for CTs in both getting the hostage against camping Ts and then reacing the hostage zone against camping Ts again. Once the CTs reach the hostage and bring them out of the camping area, Ts are in deep trouble.
Btw a small list of good habits to practice on this map, even in casual against noobs:
-peeking, esp crosshair placement
-prefiring, esp crosshair placement
-AWP play (as T you can practice holding angles)
-counter AWP play (flashing/smoking/grenading, baiting shots, using missed shots/cover when reload to gain ground and get another angle on the AWPer, especially since the AWP clip only has 5 bullets)
-using utility (every single one can be the factor to win the round, even decoys)
-claim or defend space with said utility
-guarding angles and space
-learn about weapon up- and downsides in specific situations
-using space to your advantage (walking to be minimally exposed, when to run and when to walk etc.)
-teamwork, especially making very precise calls with clear instructions and duty splits if you queue with some friends
-experimental play (you can play this map fast or slow, you can push some rounds as T or claim important places like toilet or garage)
Used to be not uncommon that the only servers you could find with more than 4-6 players were 24/7 Dust II and Office servers. Oh, how times have changed.
Lol pubmasters video. I remember those, they were so fun to watch and made you want to try those whacky strats in scrims.
like literally, if i or my friend took office to queue it ALWAYS COMES. like literally all maps in and everytime office
Omg this hits so close to home. My clan is absolute trash (despite most having 1k+ hours of CSGO) and we literally only ever queue office xD
I play exclusively on office since my favorites were removed like Aztec, Assault, Italy, Cbble...
Valve should make office but make it a defuse mode.. but keep the hostage one too. i think that might give it some more play on unued areas. instead of stacking T side in only hostage rooms and CT rushing said rooms.. defuse on office could give them a reason to spread out to cover both sites and entry ways to said sites
office is my fav map shotgun stacks with my friend is so much fun, shooting into smoke and killer nade lineups
Holy crap, Penguin last video Inwarche dog yours, you only had 10,000 subs, you'veore than doubled that already! Yew! Good stuff sir
Office is a pretty popular map here in Australia. We got a pretty good community who plays it as well just to mess around and joke around on the mic.
Honestly I just wish that one room behind paper with the water thing you can headglitch on just had more use. They should push the hostages even further back and make it more T sided, would be badass
Well, yesterday I relised that I dont have the achievement "win 100 rounds on Office", so I played it for 4 hours and it was really fun to play there, despite the map is not ballanced.
I started playing source and learned my ropes by joining a highly competitive them. But I still really miss the times just trolling around on servers. This just went away with the modern matchmaking.
I think office should be added to the competitive map pool. I love watching people hold angles for hours.
Office honestly reminds me of how House, Favela and Hereford Base from Rainbow Six Siege before they were reworked into their new versions
Unbalanced maps that were insanely fun to play and have some of my best memories of the game on but sadly unlike Office they were all reworked into shells of their former selfs that'll never be as fun as they were
I miss militia so much, if you get the spawn by the vents you can buy an autosniper and wallbang the ct's as they walk out of spawn. i loved it when it worked and i got called a hacker lol
for some reason i have played hundreds of hours on office on gmod completely alone. feels like home