I have a fond memory on the NeonHeights Trade map. At the time (around 2015...?), the server admin was likely bored, then proposed a little game. He said that, the player that manages kill him, would get a random hat. Then he proceeded to give himself around 100000 hp and did nothing but throw spells at random intervals. While everyone in the server was going heavy and showering him with minigun bullets, I went with the Huntsman for some reason, but I got the kill! Earned an Level 100, appropriately named "The Lucky Shot" Soldier hat, which I started to use right away and since then. A couple years later (one or two I think), I met with the server admin again, he recognized me by my nickname and was happy to see that I kept the hat with me after so long.
@@tophonator The NeonHeights servers aren't really populated anymore, but I see at least a few full servers running trade_minecraft_neon if I'm playing when most players are on.
Neonheights was a cornerstone of TF2 for me for a whole lot of years. It's sad to see it so empty these days. I joined a couple months ago with my friend just to mess around and people slowly trickled into the server until we had about 12 or so people all reminicisng about the server. Good times.
@@kol5040 yeah, I know the map like the back of my hand. The dirt maze, the portal room, the Doomsday course, occasionally you'll even find a server that's running the version that has the 7 presents on it. I join nearly full servers running it from time to time and I always have a great time.
What a based youtuber, creating and editing a 2 hour video for a small audience and close to no financial incentive at all. I hope you get lucky and the algorithm boosts this to a million views.
Excellent narration. No tautology, no unfunny jokes, and it's well-informed. Hard to come up with any quibbles. Only wish it had more maps I don't recognize.
I'm surprised at how many of these i know, but i gotta say, as the tiers kept getting higher and i started seeing more and more maps i had never seen previously, the video just kept getting more interesting, great work
I’m astounded that 9.6.12 map is that obscure, yet I remember playing on it once or twice when I was server hopping. The middle tan building with the conveyer belt at the time I played on the server, had people walking over and using it for their strange farming. While looking down the windowless corridor I oddly remembered walking through and peek out the window or a sniper nesting there. I even remember that Zelda temple having the three items on the pedestal, sorry i don’t play Zelda but I know the relics are placed there. It’s crazy, it reminded me when I a like a few months into tf2, before I got into trading, before I met so may of my TF2 friends I’ve added, I literally played this map on a laptop, before I got a computer. It’s obscurity made me reminisce young teenager me just playing the game for fun, it’s quite unsettling but I’ll treat as a fond memory rather a saddening glimpse of my youth.
Very late because I just now saw this video, but a *lot* of the weird maps that are hard to track down their sources originated from TF2Maps annual April Fools day events. I hosted a contest for them for a few years, but they've been a tradition where mappers make the craziest stuff they can to amuse each other, often only being released in a single zip file as a pre-download for everyone, and then we would join our servers and experience them all together. I can also tell you that koth_yup originally replaced all noises with engineer lines, which likely broke since it was released and is why it's just silent now. I bet the console is spamming "file not found" errors for it. I play trainsawlaser and wubwubwub often on my home server wrapping up our weekly map tests :) Thanks for putting this together though. As someone who has played a LOT of these when they were new, and even made a few of them, it is a fun nostalgia trip.
Fun fact about maker of TF2Ware, Mecha The Slag. He went out and founded Gears for Breakfast and made his debut game The Hat in Time. He even used to own bunch of servers called SLAG gaming, that would pick random game modes with every map, dodgeball, fort building, prophunt, bomberman etc.
Unmentioned is the machine_attacks series of maps, basically a narrative-driven MVM campaign that used to be so much fun to play as you truly felt like you were in a journey with a team accross lands. I remembered spending my weekend hours in these maps at its height of popularity somewhere in the early-2010s. I never understood why map makers never explored the concept again. It really had a lot of potential to boost the game's PvE component.
Some servers are still alive. I have them bookmarked and play like every now and again when I want to play some custom MvM. Still has some regulars surprisingly. I pretty much have the hud on 24/7 lol.
This is literally a dream of mine came ture, an insightful and detailed video covering all the maps we as TF2 players been loving for years, thank you for doing God's work here!
I remember this old server that isn't around anymore for some reason (sadly) that I've barely been able to find any information about. It always had a map called cp_balloonrace, and the premise was that at the beginning of the match, two airships would slowly fill up with players and take off after a short intermission. The only way to win was to get your team's airship to the end. Every few minutes the airship would stop at a checkpoint where whichever team got the capture on that stop was able to leave, and then the other team had to get it once the other left. Eventually the race would end with one team getting to the finish line. It was the highlight of early 2010 TF2 for me, and brought me some amazing memories. It was one of very few community servers I regularly played on and I'll always fondly remember the loud music that always played at the start of each game. RIP to the GOAT of all community servers );
So many great maps that were left to rot. The ones suitable for the public eye and that can be found should be brought back for everyone to enjoy! Thanks for all of this, you madlad. Hope the video gets a ton of views in the future!
This has become one of my fav videos about TF2 of all time. The work and dedication that went into this is incredible, I really love the music choice throughout the whole video and being it about a deep dive into obscure community maps? love it! Absolute king may the algorithm bless this channel cuz man, you deserve it
I am genuinely surprised by the quality of this video. The amount of work in it must have been great. Really takes me back to the old times when there was a general spark in the community's heart for niche maps. Very well done!
You do realize how ignorant this comment is, right? He literally said in the video that it originally was made by Xenon, and that only three pieces of textures had to be replaced. So you're basically saying that Xenon sucks at making maps compared to Xenon. You sir, are a genius!
I'm the guy that made the DYNF ports for the original Jailbreak maps. Back in 2013-ish I was hosting a community called Dynamic Fortress and I made ports of most of the popular maps to fix some of their optimization issues, bugs and to open up the playable space a bit since my community at the time was complaining. I asked for permission from the original mapper Theodore and he said It's okay since I was porting the maps to use the TF2Jail plugin I made at the time.
I swore there would be at least one MLP map, oh man those memories. Anyway, really enjoyed the video, felt a lot nostalgic for those times. Keep up the good work!
This video is perfect and deserves far more attention. 2 whole hours of interesting content and absolutely amazing editing. Even the music is fantastic and makes the vibes impeccable. Its absolutely criminal the amounts of views this has. Keep up the fantastic work man this is incredible :)
Balloon race gang rise up. I loved playing demo on the third point when my ship was above the point and spamming stickies from above. Or playing phlog pyro and boarding the enemy ship at the start.
I remember I was one of the first few admins for Neonheight's servers. Seeing that title pop up again was a BLAST from the past! Neon's a good guy and it was awesome seeing the server really just come to life and being along for the entirety of the development of his maps. I still remember throwing a few ideas his way for what next to put into Trade_Minecraft and he would usually end up adding something even more creative than I'd have thought to the server (I remember when he added the breakaway floor to the obstacle course under the spawnroom blowing my mind.) but unfortunately I'd never get the spycrab room I asked for! There was one point that Neon was on a spree to get every single duel minigame he could on the server and because of that he's still ranked in the top 20 for most duel wins. Many a great memory was had on his servers and I even still have the "Permission for Obesity" Wedding ring he and I bought as a joke! It's amazing looking back now and seeing just how much those maps really stood the test of time and really shook up what other community devs were doing at the time and I'm happy to have been at least a small part of it! 😀
Having played since 2010 and mostly in community servers, this video brought back a lot of memories I had forgotten having played most of the maps, thank you for that. Amazing video keep up the production
I was obsessed with TF2 in 2010, and I was a regular on the official Halolz server back then -- man, remember Halolz? A lot of these maps were in the rotation on that server and it was good to see them again today :D This video is a gem, thanks for making it.
This was a great video! Lot of nostalgia here from someone who has played TF2 since launch. Some other cool obscure maps I can think of that might be worth a follow-up video: pl_redship - Really unique payload map themed around the BLU team doing some kind of 'boarding action' onto a RED spaceship. Really interesting hyrbid gamemode - half the time BLU is moving the payload deeper into the ship, but there are also parts where BLU has to blow up components of the ship to progress. The map itself is one giant spaceship that BLU attacks from their own, starting on the hull then going deeper inside. Very tight close quarters map with some neat side paths and flank routes and a cool aesthetic. cp_blackmesa - Really, really old 5cp map set in a TF2-ized Black Mesa facility. I don't remember a lot about it, but it had a pretty interesting layout. I remember it being pretty stalemate-y as well. ctf_mandrillmaze - Joke map based on an old graphics card test (?). Basically one long windy path from one spawn to the other, where all the wall textures are the same picture of a Mandrill. pl_strider - Payload map where BLU is the combine, and the payload is a Strider they have to escort and protect from RED team. pl_cranetop - Super fun, super well made 3-stage payload map that nails the TF2 spytech aesthetic. Played it exactly once in a full server, have never heard a peep about it since. pl_downward - Upward, but it's upside down. Total mindfuck. You need the grappling hook to get around.
Great video. Random comment, but I doubt there was a group called 4chan Party Van that Xenon was part of. It was a common running joke on 4chan back in the day, with the Party Van being a swat team or the FBI. Thanks a ton for covering some of these maps, it's really awesome to see people talking about and hopefully archiving a lot of source-era material, especially as we get closer to source 2 being the norm.
neonheights' trade map was my favorite when i used to play it a lot back then. i was a big fan of the layout plus the night time aesthetic. it always felt so exhilarating when you found someone in the skybox or someone who found certain secrets where you'd ask "how'd you do that?" i remember that one big portal area that had 4 portals, one to the skybox the other to the aether dj area but i don't exactly remember the others.
I am very glad you featured tc_meridian here. It's one of the most underrated maps in TF2's history given how good it is, both in detail and gameplay. I am surprised you haven't noticed that the map maker went the extra mile of creating a proper Intro Movie for it, along with the many little details around it.
This is one of the best tf2 chanels. Extremely informative essays, that make time pass by like a supercar. I don't understand why this guy only has 5k subscribers
Quite a few of these are in rotation on The Lazy Pub on Silly Sundays, where the usual more comp leaning rotation is replaced with goofy stuff like this
Didn't have much of an idea about TF2 before watching this, but you sir have peaked my interest. Thank you for an extremely well put together and interesting video.
this video was really nice, the music choices and style of narration are really relaxing, and the content covered was interesting to the last entry! I can definitely see myself coming back to it as a comfort video.
Oh look it's me! Some fun facts about 2fooooooooooooooooort: - It was made after turrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbine (which I also made) became popular and everyone wanted a 2fort version - It's pretty much at the limit of how long a map can be - I made it when I was still at univeristy between semesters, it took about 2 weeks of trial and error to make a map that ran fine without crashes (source does NOT like big open areas) - I got a bit of a reputation in some TF2 mapping circles for a few years for being "that guy" who started the silly map edit trend which resulted in the workshop being flooded with low effort meme maps which drowned out actual maps with effort :u havn't finished watching yet but good map choices so far!
@@tophonator All good, a very well researched video with excellent map choices! It's always good to see Xenon credited, I believe they deserved more attention for what they contributed to the community. I'm surprised achievement_idle didn't make the list but to be fair there's almost nothing available to find about that map (I've tried!)
this is a really well made video! I really love it a lot, so so much content. at 12:08 i wanted to say some stuff about mge, mge_training_v8_beta4b isn't the mge map with the most content, but it is the mge map thats been around the longest and has the most popularity. Also the map creator's name is pronounced layng, not lanje
2:00:45 I knew the creator of this map. He was a guy named Negr0 Alexandvich Ramius (Yes, that was his username; although, Idk who he goes by nowadays), and he was the admin along with a dude named McFool who owned a strain of servers called Negr0server. It was around from like 2008 (I believe) to 2017, although its playerbase died out around 2015. I used to play on this server way back in 2014. I got introduced to this server by this classic video, ( ruclips.net/video/JwrRTixjhuQ/видео.html ). In 2016, me and a couple of used-to-be friends actually had an index given to us by the creator of the map. He had multiple different versions, and one of them that we played on was 9_6_12. It's so utterly bizarre, because I have nostalgic memories of playing on this map with my friends after school. As for the index itself, it's been lost within time. It's been 5 (going on 6) years that I've played on that server (they've pulled the plug on it around 2017, I believe). So glad to see it featured on this list. As for other entries I would've liked to see, probably the one Laser Cat map or vsh_2fortdesk. Dr_trollrun was a fun map too. I prefer the older Deathruns map over the new ones. I haven't played TF2 in awhile outside of a few times that my buddy's gotten me into doing some casual matches. Great video! :)
This really took me back to the good old days of this game. I used to see a lot of these maps on FacePunch back in the day. You’ve brought back a lot of great memories with this video.
That’s interesting that you remember a different Surf_10x map the most. While I saw and played on several other variants of surf_10x I would always go to surf_10x_reload and as far as I can remember that was the most popular version. Definitely a very nostalgic map and I remember very fondly the genuine attempts at team coordination to gain “control” over the jail area. Like actual strategising in a surf combat server lmao
Hearing mecha being talked about really hit hard, such great person. Slag gaming was my main server id play on and some of my best memories. Will forever be missed rip slag gaming (and GoR which had the best 2fort)
Back in the day when i was just a kid playing tf2 on an old laptop I had over 30gb of pure maps, I lost them all when my laptoo died but this video reminded me of a lot of great maps that i played countless hours in. We really need a new update to reinvigorate the game
Amazing video, really appreciate all of the nostalgia, missed balloon_race, I unfortunately only started playing that map when it was slowly dwindling but it was so fun! Ngl cp_toy_fort looks like Sid's house layout from Toy Story, idk if that's just me though. Remember when Neon Heights slowly crept up as being the go to trade server, really nice server to play on, there was a whole contest on controlling the room in the end when it got popped in where you would just have the most insane sentry nests. Loved dr_office too, god tier deathrun map for sure
I've been playing TF2 since August of 2013. The vast majority of the maps on this iceberg I've at the very least heard of, Pacman was the first I'd never seen or played. Very good video, you hit a lot of maps I expected to see and showed me some bizarre oddities near the bottom all strung together with better-than-average editing. However, I can name a couple maps that I think deserved a mention. dm_duel is a Tier 1 or Tier 2 level map. An enclosed deathmatch space with two towers of four floors placed opposite each other bridged by a large, flat and open centre area and wooden plank bridge at the very top giving players the opportunity to invade the enemy's tower. This map has been edited and remade a lot over the years, the ones I see most often today are dm_duel_v2 which gives both teams two towers each to fight over and variations of dm_duel_18, a prettier version of the map with a couple new routes and a slight jungle theme which leads me to believe the "18" indicates the map being made in 2018 rather than being some eighteenth version. surf_air_arena_v4 is a Tier 2 level map. Another map created by Panzer, if combat surf servers aren't running Utopia or some variant of 10x, they're running this. Air Arena is a large open-air map in the sky full of surf ramps, large discs of water and a central area with booster ramps and more water. Panzer also created another map similar to this one called surf_snow_arena_v3. oot3d_hyrule and trade_clocktown are Tier 3 level maps I'd say. Both are replicas of Hyrule from Ocarina of Time 3D and Clocktown from Majora's Mask respectively. I've no idea who created them but both are staples of silly servers and have been for many years. Hyrule is notable for its completeness and massive size. ctf_mandrillmaze could be Tier 4. It's a winding, linear and horribly chokey joke map based off an old Amiga tech demo of the same name. I have no idea who created it but maps of that theme became a running joke of sorts on RedSun's custom servers with many mandrillmaze maps being created for its various modes like Glass Attack, Super Zombie Fortress and Dodgeball.
Came to the comments just to see if someone would mention the Hyrule and Clock Town maps, those were always SO fun to play aswell as being super cool to see how much of the game maps could be emulated
Man this iceberg was a nostalgia trip and a half! Ironically I would say this video scratches the tip of the community map iceberg lol. If you were to make a sequel, I’d recommend Daimconne’s maps like trade_houseofchaos2 and trade_abstract2
What an interesting video, dude. Some of these maps I still play today. That’s some huuuuge work you’ve gone through. My sincere respect, you did good!!!
I am happy to have gotten this in my recommended videos. While I may not have been in the tf2 community for that long (only for over a year and a half at this time) I still thinks it's fun to see all sorts of maps people have created.
I'm currently 25 years old and have been playing TF2 for almost 12 years now (since march 12th 2011 according to my mercenary medal) so some of these maps are quite literally childhood memories for me, especially mario kart and balloon race. It's a shame the latter is almost impossible to find with players nowadays, I remember going to a friend before purchasing the game myself and playing with him on the map (yes, actually taking turns playing the game at my friend's house who invited me to play, I know that's crazy). Thanks for the video, you definitely poured tons of effort into it and it shows! Edit : oh yeah and the viking ship one too, I remember wanting the cool alien hat that some dude had and that's how I got into trading
I miss balloon_race so much. Me and my middle school friends used to populate servers back in the day, we'd be the first three to join and then watch 8 or more people tag along, it was great
Oh my god, I have been looking for Cyberpunk for SO long. I have old memories of it but completely forgot the name and gamemode. Thank you so much for this video.
I know some obscure tf2 community maps that I'd like to bring up, and they are dr_adventure, trade_plaza_sg_v5 and achievement_draconic. I remember playing on those maps way back in the day and I tried searching for them now but haven't found any public download links. Another thing is I found a post on r/tf2 with a much bigger community maps iceberg so you should take a look at that if you're gonna make a sequel to this because the video was very interesting.
I still haven't finished this, but this has probably been one of my favorite videos on this platform as I have so many memories with friends on community servers and maps that I honestly have forgotten about. It's nice to remember those times :) Gonna edit this message if I see a {SuN} server mentioned. I was big into that and played it until it shutdown and then a small revival into dying again (Might have yet another revival in the coming years from Bolt) lmao
Damn dude, nice work! 2 Hours of some really interesting stuff I never knew that much about! Also, those transitions between each tier were amazing, love the vibes.
the server I used to frequent in 2011-12 (ponyville if anyone else played there) had people vote for whale_race, toy_fort, or koth_megaman probably around 60% of the time and people actually HATED them, mostly for how overplayed they were but also I remember complaints about toy_fort being too chokey, there was a lot of negativity around them and it's sort of sweet to hear about them again some 10 years after I last played them and finally see some positivity
Fun Fact: Muselk made a video years and years ago and Dml_Whoaaaa was one of the maps he played. He and the entitre rest of the server were unable to play it due to being unable to move and falling out of the spot then respawning.
This appeared in my recommends and I'm glad I clicked on it. What an absolutely fantastic video this is. It's a deep dive into both popular and obscure community maps of the glory days of TF2 and seeing a lot of these maps gave me a massive blast of nostalgia. But what surprised me the most was seeing one of MY old maps in here. It warms my heart knowing how impactful my maps were on people, even after all these years.
ach_villain_city, actually quite often runs on the Brazillian server i play, there are normally more than 10 people playing at a time and it basically becomes a deathmatch or hangout server
44:32 I think this is a pretty common occurrence for websites that don't pay for their domain any longer. I'm not sure what exactly causes it since they usually end up going to an entire different domain, but its pretty standard to try going back to some old website and having it redirect to weird ad-riddled websites of questionable legalities. On an unrelated note; seeing so many community maps (I'm more of a Halo player myself but we have a lot of those too) its always fascinated me how the community can take an otherwise pretty standardised genre formula like FPS or RTS and make entirely new ideas out of it. Surfing, Death-runs, Halo's fatkid mode, even something like the MOBA genre being spawned out of custom maps from Warcraft 3... as an upstarting game developer, I feel the most important thing to a game's longevity is enabling the players to create their own source of fun within the game, even if it goes against your initial ideas for what the game could or should do.
Really great video! So many of these entries bring back nostalgia from simpler times. The music used in this video creates a really great atmosphere. Do you have a playlist or list of what you used?
I have to say, why is plr_highertower not in tier 1? Everyone knows highertower, it is one the most common maps on the community listings it appears in many many videos and I’d argue is more well known and popular than mge.
What a great video! I commend the thorough commentary and the effort you put in! I've always had a deep appreciation and love for community-made TF2 maps, and this video brought me back to some of those places I used to/still do spend time on (as well as introducing me to new maps!). Was thoroughly engaged the whole time! Well done! I discovered TF2 and Touhou around the same time in 2011, so I'm really glad you covered dm_sdm which is one of my all-time favorite and nostalgic maps! There's another secret on that map by the way that triggers when you grab the scroll at the very top of the library. For fun, here's a list of community maps not featured in this video that I had fun playing on or had a particular impact on me over the years: trade_abstract2 - Wacky trade map with abstract imagery and abruptly clashing areas trade_alley_pro (or any version of trade_alley) - A classy and dimly-lit series of city back alleys at night. lots of buildings to go into and a really chill place. koth_variousartists_rc4 - A really cool map with heavy vaporwave aesthetics. trade_museum_final koth_sandvich_b1 - A classic map where everything is sandviches! achievement_idle - Good ol' achievement_idle and it's hundreds of variations! achievement_apg_r16c - The newest version of this spacious achievement map infamous for it's boatload of in-depth easter eggs and hidden areas. bbg_trade_plaza_day (or older versions like trade_plaza_bbg_beta) - A nostalgia pick for me. The flagship trade server of Big Bang Gamers which was basically a heavily modified version of trade_plaza. Great memories! idle_c4yg - I remember this map having a LOT of cool variations for different seasons and just for the hell of it. Each variation always has cool places to explore! idle_c4yg_parkz was a favorite of mine because of the little theme park area. Spent a lot of time there in my earlier days of TF2! trade_icerink_b1 - Cozy trade map with an icerink around a bar or hangout area in the middle. Had a music room and other stuff too. trade_clocktown - Always had a great time on this faithful Majora's Mask map! trade_minecraft_realms_v2 - A fun and expansive minecraft trade map that I always found fun! Has full servers to this day. trade_ngs_day or trade_rawr_club_day_v3 trade_slider_shore - Cozy map set on a tropical beach with a tiki bar and stores across the street, with the horizon at perpetual sunset. walmart_bettememe_v12 - A wacky walmart parking lot map with a lot of different buildings! trade_rawr - A variant of trade_plaza that I'm particularly nostalgic for. vsh_palanquin_ship & vsh_hakurei_shrine_v3 (and other variations like the winter one) - These are both VSH Touhou maps created by Deity Link, the same guy who did dm_sdm. Love them both! cp_supermeatboy_c6 - Really neat super meat boy inspired map also made by Deity Link trade_unusual_mct_a30 - An old unusual trade map used on PiNK T☆CO's trade server. Remember playing on it back in the day! event_freddyhill_v1b - A cool map that Freddy210Hill uses for events and streams. I joined it randomly off the server browser one day and it turned out he was streaming! Got to participate in some fun events there. We did scout 3v3s on stream and our team was unstoppable! gm_lifecenter - A Gmod map that I first experienced in TF2 ages ago. It's set in a shopping mall with all sorts of popular media on store shelves and on posters on windows from that era. A cool time capsule!
Holy shit my dude, you did top tier editing and an extensive 2 hour video FOR YOUR 3300 SUBSCRIBERS? you deserve a lot more man, i hope you make it to 100k
There’s a little map that’s really good that most people don’t know. It definitely deserves more love and is way too obscure. The map is called 2fort(weird name I know I know).
God, cp_orange makes me so nostalgic for Day of Defeat. I remember playing seeing it in TF2 years ago and it was the thing that made me start playing DoD again. It makes me so happy that it’s still popular after all these years.
9_6_12 is a map back in cs 1.6. Some school kid wanted to create a map so he could play it together with his friends. As friends played, more became more aware of it and so it became a little bit popular then. Yes, the tf2 map has newer things, such as the forest and majora's mask moon, but the main area seems to be the old map.
Hey guys, Tophonator used to be a really close friend of mine but has unfortunately passed away due to unforeseen consequences. Please pay your respects.
@@titanxx9looks like my comment from before didn’t go through. But I am the one hosting his stuff now. We’re close friends and he trusted me with them. I’m still deeply heartbroken about the loss.
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I have a fond memory on the NeonHeights Trade map.
At the time (around 2015...?), the server admin was likely bored, then proposed a little game. He said that, the player that manages kill him, would get a random hat. Then he proceeded to give himself around 100000 hp and did nothing but throw spells at random intervals. While everyone in the server was going heavy and showering him with minigun bullets, I went with the Huntsman for some reason, but I got the kill! Earned an Level 100, appropriately named "The Lucky Shot" Soldier hat, which I started to use right away and since then.
A couple years later (one or two I think), I met with the server admin again, he recognized me by my nickname and was happy to see that I kept the hat with me after so long.
Really interesting story, its a shame NeonHeights servers arent that popular any more
@@tophonator The NeonHeights servers aren't really populated anymore, but I see at least a few full servers running trade_minecraft_neon if I'm playing when most players are on.
What was the hat?
Neonheights was a cornerstone of TF2 for me for a whole lot of years. It's sad to see it so empty these days. I joined a couple months ago with my friend just to mess around and people slowly trickled into the server until we had about 12 or so people all reminicisng about the server. Good times.
@@kol5040 yeah, I know the map like the back of my hand. The dirt maze, the portal room, the Doomsday course, occasionally you'll even find a server that's running the version that has the 7 presents on it. I join nearly full servers running it from time to time and I always have a great time.
What a based youtuber, creating and editing a 2 hour video for a small audience and close to no financial incentive at all. I hope you get lucky and the algorithm boosts this to a million views.
he didnt lmao 💀
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What do you mean. I meant he hasn't gotten that algorithm boost
@@lavamakerno need to be a killjoy
@lavamaker we get it he’s wishing good luck don’t be a dick
Excellent narration. No tautology, no unfunny jokes, and it's well-informed. Hard to come up with any quibbles. Only wish it had more maps I don't recognize.
Appreciate the feedback my bro 👑
This guy gets it
I'm surprised at how many of these i know, but i gotta say, as the tiers kept getting higher and i started seeing more and more maps i had never seen previously, the video just kept getting more interesting, great work
Im glad you learned something new!! 🤝
I’m astounded that 9.6.12 map is that obscure, yet I remember playing on it once or twice when I was server hopping. The middle tan building with the conveyer belt at the time I played on the server, had people walking over and using it for their strange farming. While looking down the windowless corridor I oddly remembered walking through and peek out the window or a sniper nesting there.
I even remember that Zelda temple having the three items on the pedestal, sorry i don’t play Zelda but I know the relics are placed there.
It’s crazy, it reminded me when I a like a few months into tf2, before I got into trading, before I met so may of my TF2 friends I’ve added, I literally played this map on a laptop, before I got a computer.
It’s obscurity made me reminisce young teenager me just playing the game for fun, it’s quite unsettling but I’ll treat as a fond memory rather a saddening glimpse of my youth.
Very late because I just now saw this video, but a *lot* of the weird maps that are hard to track down their sources originated from TF2Maps annual April Fools day events. I hosted a contest for them for a few years, but they've been a tradition where mappers make the craziest stuff they can to amuse each other, often only being released in a single zip file as a pre-download for everyone, and then we would join our servers and experience them all together.
I can also tell you that koth_yup originally replaced all noises with engineer lines, which likely broke since it was released and is why it's just silent now. I bet the console is spamming "file not found" errors for it.
I play trainsawlaser and wubwubwub often on my home server wrapping up our weekly map tests :)
Thanks for putting this together though. As someone who has played a LOT of these when they were new, and even made a few of them, it is a fun nostalgia trip.
Fun fact about maker of TF2Ware, Mecha The Slag. He went out and founded Gears for Breakfast and made his debut game The Hat in Time. He even used to own bunch of servers called SLAG gaming, that would pick random game modes with every map, dodgeball, fort building, prophunt, bomberman etc.
So the creator of one of my most beloved games is the owner of tf2ware is what I’m hearing
@@ThePikminCaptaini think so... to believe the same guy who made the most enjoyable map also made an absolute gem of a game
Unmentioned is the machine_attacks series of maps, basically a narrative-driven MVM campaign that used to be so much fun to play as you truly felt like you were in a journey with a team accross lands. I remembered spending my weekend hours in these maps at its height of popularity somewhere in the early-2010s.
I never understood why map makers never explored the concept again. It really had a lot of potential to boost the game's PvE component.
Some servers are still alive. I have them bookmarked and play like every now and again when I want to play some custom MvM. Still has some regulars surprisingly. I pretty much have the hud on 24/7 lol.
This is literally a dream of mine came ture, an insightful and detailed video covering all the maps we as TF2 players been loving for years, thank you for doing God's work here!
I remember this old server that isn't around anymore for some reason (sadly) that I've barely been able to find any information about. It always had a map called cp_balloonrace, and the premise was that at the beginning of the match, two airships would slowly fill up with players and take off after a short intermission. The only way to win was to get your team's airship to the end. Every few minutes the airship would stop at a checkpoint where whichever team got the capture on that stop was able to leave, and then the other team had to get it once the other left. Eventually the race would end with one team getting to the finish line. It was the highlight of early 2010 TF2 for me, and brought me some amazing memories. It was one of very few community servers I regularly played on and I'll always fondly remember the loud music that always played at the start of each game. RIP to the GOAT of all community servers );
This is in the video my friend !!
@@tophonator Lol I commented it at the start of the video before I started watching😂
So many great maps that were left to rot. The ones suitable for the public eye and that can be found should be brought back for everyone to enjoy!
Thanks for all of this, you madlad.
Hope the video gets a ton of views in the future!
Dude I was wondering where were you and now you come with a 2 hour long video? Absolute king
Thankyou my man🙏
This has become one of my fav videos about TF2 of all time. The work and dedication that went into this is incredible, I really love the music choice throughout the whole video and being it about a deep dive into obscure community maps? love it!
Absolute king
may the algorithm bless this channel
cuz man, you deserve it
Big ups to you man thankyou :)
I am genuinely surprised by the quality of this video. The amount of work in it must have been great. Really takes me back to the old times when there was a general spark in the community's heart for niche maps. Very well done!
very well thought out and executed video, glad to have experienced it early.
🤝🤝🤝
idle_4chan feels like the most soulless attempt at recreating the unique charm of Xenon's 2000s style I've ever seen.
You do realize how ignorant this comment is, right?
He literally said in the video that it originally was made by Xenon, and that only three pieces of textures had to be replaced. So you're basically saying that Xenon sucks at making maps compared to Xenon.
You sir, are a genius!
@@casperryborg4869 meow
I'm the guy that made the DYNF ports for the original Jailbreak maps. Back in 2013-ish I was hosting a community called Dynamic Fortress and I made ports of most of the popular maps to fix some of their optimization issues, bugs and to open up the playable space a bit since my community at the time was complaining. I asked for permission from the original mapper Theodore and he said It's okay since I was porting the maps to use the TF2Jail plugin I made at the time.
I swore there would be at least one MLP map, oh man those memories. Anyway, really enjoyed the video, felt a lot nostalgic for those times. Keep up the good work!
the club one with the mirrors, the dj booth, a million horse .pngs standing around, and the little secret that takes u to the skybox? iconic
amen - the giblet @@ckorp666
Someone needs to make a server for all of these maps to run on so everyone can experience this history. I would love to try some of these
I started playing in 2009, and I have personally played on about 90% of the maps you've shown. It was nostalgic to see into the past like this.
Was psyched to see balloon race on the list! A lot of fun revisiting old favourites and learning about some new ones too. Awesome vid.
Balloon race is the GOAT of community maps
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Criminally underrated video, thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing. Thanks for making it!
This video is perfect and deserves far more attention. 2 whole hours of interesting content and absolutely amazing editing. Even the music is fantastic and makes the vibes impeccable. Its absolutely criminal the amounts of views this has. Keep up the fantastic work man this is incredible :)
Thankyou so much my friend ❤
I wish balloon race would become more popular me and my friends have been playing it for years and would like to again.
Same, I would love to see really active servers playing it, can get the best out of the gamemode that way.
Balloon race gang rise up. I loved playing demo on the third point when my ship was above the point and spamming stickies from above. Or playing phlog pyro and boarding the enemy ship at the start.
@@itchylol742 I remember doing that as demo as well, also I knew someone who could rocket jump from spawn to third point using the cliffs it was nuts.
@@tophonator Redsun have it running quite often,so there is that
delfys fun server hosts this map frequently. it's an rtd class warfare server though so I'd understand if you'd want a clean experience
I remember I was one of the first few admins for Neonheight's servers. Seeing that title pop up again was a BLAST from the past! Neon's a good guy and it was awesome seeing the server really just come to life and being along for the entirety of the development of his maps. I still remember throwing a few ideas his way for what next to put into Trade_Minecraft and he would usually end up adding something even more creative than I'd have thought to the server (I remember when he added the breakaway floor to the obstacle course under the spawnroom blowing my mind.) but unfortunately I'd never get the spycrab room I asked for! There was one point that Neon was on a spree to get every single duel minigame he could on the server and because of that he's still ranked in the top 20 for most duel wins. Many a great memory was had on his servers and I even still have the "Permission for Obesity" Wedding ring he and I bought as a joke! It's amazing looking back now and seeing just how much those maps really stood the test of time and really shook up what other community devs were doing at the time and I'm happy to have been at least a small part of it! 😀
Having played since 2010 and mostly in community servers, this video brought back a lot of memories I had forgotten having played most of the maps, thank you for that. Amazing video keep up the production
I was obsessed with TF2 in 2010, and I was a regular on the official Halolz server back then -- man, remember Halolz? A lot of these maps were in the rotation on that server and it was good to see them again today :D
This video is a gem, thanks for making it.
cant remember the last time i read "halolz", hit me like a brick. simpler times :,)
This is a great stroll down memory lane. Thanks for sticking with this project! Keep up the good work, wishing your channel luck and prosperity
How are all of your videos such bangers?
Keep it up man!
Appreciate it!! :)
This was a great video! Lot of nostalgia here from someone who has played TF2 since launch. Some other cool obscure maps I can think of that might be worth a follow-up video:
pl_redship - Really unique payload map themed around the BLU team doing some kind of 'boarding action' onto a RED spaceship. Really interesting hyrbid gamemode - half the time BLU is moving the payload deeper into the ship, but there are also parts where BLU has to blow up components of the ship to progress. The map itself is one giant spaceship that BLU attacks from their own, starting on the hull then going deeper inside. Very tight close quarters map with some neat side paths and flank routes and a cool aesthetic.
cp_blackmesa - Really, really old 5cp map set in a TF2-ized Black Mesa facility. I don't remember a lot about it, but it had a pretty interesting layout. I remember it being pretty stalemate-y as well.
ctf_mandrillmaze - Joke map based on an old graphics card test (?). Basically one long windy path from one spawn to the other, where all the wall textures are the same picture of a Mandrill.
pl_strider - Payload map where BLU is the combine, and the payload is a Strider they have to escort and protect from RED team.
pl_cranetop - Super fun, super well made 3-stage payload map that nails the TF2 spytech aesthetic. Played it exactly once in a full server, have never heard a peep about it since.
pl_downward - Upward, but it's upside down. Total mindfuck. You need the grappling hook to get around.
Great video. Random comment, but I doubt there was a group called 4chan Party Van that Xenon was part of. It was a common running joke on 4chan back in the day, with the Party Van being a swat team or the FBI. Thanks a ton for covering some of these maps, it's really awesome to see people talking about and hopefully archiving a lot of source-era material, especially as we get closer to source 2 being the norm.
neonheights' trade map was my favorite when i used to play it a lot back then. i was a big fan of the layout plus the night time aesthetic. it always felt so exhilarating when you found someone in the skybox or someone who found certain secrets where you'd ask "how'd you do that?" i remember that one big portal area that had 4 portals, one to the skybox the other to the aether dj area but i don't exactly remember the others.
I am very glad you featured tc_meridian here. It's one of the most underrated maps in TF2's history given how good it is, both in detail and gameplay.
I am surprised you haven't noticed that the map maker went the extra mile of creating a proper Intro Movie for it, along with the many little details around it.
This is one of the best tf2 chanels. Extremely informative essays, that make time pass by like a supercar. I don't understand why this guy only has 5k subscribers
Quite a few of these are in rotation on The Lazy Pub on Silly Sundays, where the usual more comp leaning rotation is replaced with goofy stuff like this
Really love the production you put into this. From one small creator to another, congrats on the success!
Didn't have much of an idea about TF2 before watching this, but you sir have peaked my interest. Thank you for an extremely well put together and interesting video.
this video was really nice, the music choices and style of narration are really relaxing, and the content covered was interesting to the last entry! I can definitely see myself coming back to it as a comfort video.
oh my god, a 2 HOUR iceberg video for tf2? looks like i know what im doing with my free time next.
Oh look it's me!
Some fun facts about 2fooooooooooooooooort:
- It was made after turrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbine (which I also made) became popular and everyone wanted a 2fort version
- It's pretty much at the limit of how long a map can be
- I made it when I was still at univeristy between semesters, it took about 2 weeks of trial and error to make a map that ran fine without crashes (source does NOT like big open areas)
- I got a bit of a reputation in some TF2 mapping circles for a few years for being "that guy" who started the silly map edit trend which resulted in the workshop being flooded with low effort meme maps which drowned out actual maps with effort :u
havn't finished watching yet but good map choices so far!
YO!!! Whats up man!! I love your content :D thankyou so much for commenting
@@tophonator All good, a very well researched video with excellent map choices!
It's always good to see Xenon credited, I believe they deserved more attention for what they contributed to the community.
I'm surprised achievement_idle didn't make the list but to be fair there's almost nothing available to find about that map (I've tried!)
this is a really well made video! I really love it a lot, so so much content. at 12:08 i wanted to say some stuff about mge, mge_training_v8_beta4b isn't the mge map with the most content, but it is the mge map thats been around the longest and has the most popularity. Also the map creator's name is pronounced layng, not lanje
2:00:45 I knew the creator of this map.
He was a guy named Negr0 Alexandvich Ramius (Yes, that was his username; although, Idk who he goes by nowadays), and he was the admin along with a dude named McFool who owned a strain of servers called Negr0server. It was around from like 2008 (I believe) to 2017, although its playerbase died out around 2015. I used to play on this server way back in 2014. I got introduced to this server by this classic video, ( ruclips.net/video/JwrRTixjhuQ/видео.html ). In 2016, me and a couple of used-to-be friends actually had an index given to us by the creator of the map. He had multiple different versions, and one of them that we played on was 9_6_12. It's so utterly bizarre, because I have nostalgic memories of playing on this map with my friends after school. As for the index itself, it's been lost within time. It's been 5 (going on 6) years that I've played on that server (they've pulled the plug on it around 2017, I believe). So glad to see it featured on this list.
As for other entries I would've liked to see, probably the one Laser Cat map or vsh_2fortdesk. Dr_trollrun was a fun map too. I prefer the older Deathruns map over the new ones. I haven't played TF2 in awhile outside of a few times that my buddy's gotten me into doing some casual matches. Great video! :)
This really took me back to the good old days of this game. I used to see a lot of these maps on FacePunch back in the day. You’ve brought back a lot of great memories with this video.
That’s interesting that you remember a different Surf_10x map the most. While I saw and played on several other variants of surf_10x I would always go to surf_10x_reload and as far as I can remember that was the most popular version.
Definitely a very nostalgic map and I remember very fondly the genuine attempts at team coordination to gain “control” over the jail area. Like actual strategising in a surf combat server lmao
Hearing mecha being talked about really
hit hard, such great person. Slag gaming was my main server id play on and some of my best memories. Will forever be missed rip slag gaming (and GoR which had the best 2fort)
Back in the day when i was just a kid playing tf2 on an old laptop I had over 30gb of pure maps, I lost them all when my laptoo died but this video reminded me of a lot of great maps that i played countless hours in.
We really need a new update to reinvigorate the game
Amazing video, really appreciate all of the nostalgia, missed balloon_race, I unfortunately only started playing that map when it was slowly dwindling but it was so fun! Ngl cp_toy_fort looks like Sid's house layout from Toy Story, idk if that's just me though. Remember when Neon Heights slowly crept up as being the go to trade server, really nice server to play on, there was a whole contest on controlling the room in the end when it got popped in where you would just have the most insane sentry nests. Loved dr_office too, god tier deathrun map for sure
It's insane how many of these maps I've played over my 10 years in TF2. Memories and so much more here
I've been playing TF2 since August of 2013. The vast majority of the maps on this iceberg I've at the very least heard of, Pacman was the first I'd never seen or played. Very good video, you hit a lot of maps I expected to see and showed me some bizarre oddities near the bottom all strung together with better-than-average editing. However, I can name a couple maps that I think deserved a mention.
dm_duel is a Tier 1 or Tier 2 level map. An enclosed deathmatch space with two towers of four floors placed opposite each other bridged by a large, flat and open centre area and wooden plank bridge at the very top giving players the opportunity to invade the enemy's tower. This map has been edited and remade a lot over the years, the ones I see most often today are dm_duel_v2 which gives both teams two towers each to fight over and variations of dm_duel_18, a prettier version of the map with a couple new routes and a slight jungle theme which leads me to believe the "18" indicates the map being made in 2018 rather than being some eighteenth version.
surf_air_arena_v4 is a Tier 2 level map. Another map created by Panzer, if combat surf servers aren't running Utopia or some variant of 10x, they're running this. Air Arena is a large open-air map in the sky full of surf ramps, large discs of water and a central area with booster ramps and more water. Panzer also created another map similar to this one called surf_snow_arena_v3.
oot3d_hyrule and trade_clocktown are Tier 3 level maps I'd say. Both are replicas of Hyrule from Ocarina of Time 3D and Clocktown from Majora's Mask respectively. I've no idea who created them but both are staples of silly servers and have been for many years. Hyrule is notable for its completeness and massive size.
ctf_mandrillmaze could be Tier 4. It's a winding, linear and horribly chokey joke map based off an old Amiga tech demo of the same name. I have no idea who created it but maps of that theme became a running joke of sorts on RedSun's custom servers with many mandrillmaze maps being created for its various modes like Glass Attack, Super Zombie Fortress and Dodgeball.
Came to the comments just to see if someone would mention the Hyrule and Clock Town maps, those were always SO fun to play aswell as being super cool to see how much of the game maps could be emulated
Man this iceberg was a nostalgia trip and a half! Ironically I would say this video scratches the tip of the community map iceberg lol. If you were to make a sequel, I’d recommend Daimconne’s maps like trade_houseofchaos2 and trade_abstract2
What an interesting video, dude. Some of these maps I still play today. That’s some huuuuge work you’ve gone through. My sincere respect, you did good!!!
That was an outstanding project! Loved the video!
Many thanks friend!!🙌
I am happy to have gotten this in my recommended videos. While I may not have been in the tf2 community for that long (only for over a year and a half at this time) I still thinks it's fun to see all sorts of maps people have created.
So, best guess on 2:03:42 is that it's a game of connect 4, fits with 9_6_12 being a mini game filled trade map prototype
I'm currently 25 years old and have been playing TF2 for almost 12 years now (since march 12th 2011 according to my mercenary medal) so some of these maps are quite literally childhood memories for me, especially mario kart and balloon race. It's a shame the latter is almost impossible to find with players nowadays, I remember going to a friend before purchasing the game myself and playing with him on the map (yes, actually taking turns playing the game at my friend's house who invited me to play, I know that's crazy). Thanks for the video, you definitely poured tons of effort into it and it shows!
Edit : oh yeah and the viking ship one too, I remember wanting the cool alien hat that some dude had and that's how I got into trading
Thankyou so much my friend ! Im happy to have reached you this way :D
I miss balloon_race so much. Me and my middle school friends used to populate servers back in the day, we'd be the first three to join and then watch 8 or more people tag along, it was great
Oh my god, I have been looking for Cyberpunk for SO long. I have old memories of it but completely forgot the name and gamemode. Thank you so much for this video.
i watched this entire video not realizing this was a small creator, you deserve WAY more attention
Didnt even know you existed, im so glad i got recommended this, your editing is very good!
I know some obscure tf2 community maps that I'd like to bring up, and they are dr_adventure, trade_plaza_sg_v5 and achievement_draconic. I remember playing on those maps way back in the day and I tried searching for them now but haven't found any public download links.
Another thing is I found a post on r/tf2 with a much bigger community maps iceberg so you should take a look at that if you're gonna make a sequel to this because the video was very interesting.
I still haven't finished this, but this has probably been one of my favorite videos on this platform as I have so many memories with friends on community servers and maps that I honestly have forgotten about. It's nice to remember those times :)
Gonna edit this message if I see a {SuN} server mentioned. I was big into that and played it until it shutdown and then a small revival into dying again (Might have yet another revival in the coming years from Bolt) lmao
This is an incredibly well done video. Keep up the great work!
I've played Xenon's Cyberpunk map in non source games.
Damn dude, nice work! 2 Hours of some really interesting stuff I never knew that much about! Also, those transitions between each tier were amazing, love the vibes.
Bro I can not for the life of me remember what the transitions were from. Would you enlighten me so I can sleep at night?
the server I used to frequent in 2011-12 (ponyville if anyone else played there) had people vote for whale_race, toy_fort, or koth_megaman probably around 60% of the time and people actually HATED them, mostly for how overplayed they were but also I remember complaints about toy_fort being too chokey, there was a lot of negativity around them and it's sort of sweet to hear about them again some 10 years after I last played them and finally see some positivity
Love the video, entries and how you give a quick history behind the maps along with showcasing them. Awesome iceberg 🔥🔥
Fun Fact: Muselk made a video years and years ago and Dml_Whoaaaa was one of the maps he played. He and the entitre rest of the server were unable to play it due to being unable to move and falling out of the spot then respawning.
This appeared in my recommends and I'm glad I clicked on it. What an absolutely fantastic video this is.
It's a deep dive into both popular and obscure community maps of the glory days of TF2 and seeing a lot of these maps gave me a massive blast of nostalgia.
But what surprised me the most was seeing one of MY old maps in here. It warms my heart knowing how impactful my maps were on people, even after all these years.
I would’ve imagine a TF2 Map where you could enter Non-Openable Doors and Enter some rooms with Machine Stuffs and Explore outside the map.
Actually an amazing video. I am glad to have played a lot of these maps through out the years. You deserve a lot more attention.
ach_villain_city, actually quite often runs on the Brazillian server i play, there are normally more than 10 people playing at a time and it basically becomes a deathmatch or hangout server
Just revisited this video… it’s so fucking good. Genuinely, man.
The editing, the music choice, the iceberg itself- all so good.
Nice work, dude.
Honestly really surprised there's no slender fortress maps on here considering how popular that game mode is. Zombie escape too.
man thanks for this video it brought me so much memories , also i forgot the name of that 2 ships map (ctf_viking) thankfully i came here and saw it!!
I absolutely adore weird obscure maps
insanely high production quality subbed now glad to learn abt ur channel
The fact that I know almost all of these is very telling for me.
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I think this is a pretty common occurrence for websites that don't pay for their domain any longer. I'm not sure what exactly causes it since they usually end up going to an entire different domain, but its pretty standard to try going back to some old website and having it redirect to weird ad-riddled websites of questionable legalities.
On an unrelated note; seeing so many community maps (I'm more of a Halo player myself but we have a lot of those too) its always fascinated me how the community can take an otherwise pretty standardised genre formula like FPS or RTS and make entirely new ideas out of it. Surfing, Death-runs, Halo's fatkid mode, even something like the MOBA genre being spawned out of custom maps from Warcraft 3... as an upstarting game developer, I feel the most important thing to a game's longevity is enabling the players to create their own source of fun within the game, even if it goes against your initial ideas for what the game could or should do.
Could you release the download for the map 9_6_12_?
Really great video! So many of these entries bring back nostalgia from simpler times. The music used in this video creates a really great atmosphere. Do you have a playlist or list of what you used?
If you want to do a follow up iceberg, one formerly well known map you missed is cp_bestinclass_v2
This video is amazing.
Hope it's success will get you in contact with many of the map's creators, I'd love to hear more from them.
I have to say, why is plr_highertower not in tier 1? Everyone knows highertower, it is one the most common maps on the community listings it appears in many many videos and I’d argue is more well known and popular than mge.
What a great video! I commend the thorough commentary and the effort you put in! I've always had a deep appreciation and love for community-made TF2 maps, and this video brought me back to some of those places I used to/still do spend time on (as well as introducing me to new maps!). Was thoroughly engaged the whole time! Well done! I discovered TF2 and Touhou around the same time in 2011, so I'm really glad you covered dm_sdm which is one of my all-time favorite and nostalgic maps! There's another secret on that map by the way that triggers when you grab the scroll at the very top of the library.
For fun, here's a list of community maps not featured in this video that I had fun playing on or had a particular impact on me over the years:
trade_abstract2 - Wacky trade map with abstract imagery and abruptly clashing areas
trade_alley_pro (or any version of trade_alley) - A classy and dimly-lit series of city back alleys at night. lots of buildings to go into and a really chill place.
koth_variousartists_rc4 - A really cool map with heavy vaporwave aesthetics.
trade_museum_final
koth_sandvich_b1 - A classic map where everything is sandviches!
achievement_idle - Good ol' achievement_idle and it's hundreds of variations!
achievement_apg_r16c - The newest version of this spacious achievement map infamous for it's boatload of in-depth easter eggs and hidden areas.
bbg_trade_plaza_day (or older versions like trade_plaza_bbg_beta) - A nostalgia pick for me. The flagship trade server of Big Bang Gamers which was basically a heavily modified version of trade_plaza. Great memories!
idle_c4yg - I remember this map having a LOT of cool variations for different seasons and just for the hell of it. Each variation always has cool places to explore! idle_c4yg_parkz was a favorite of mine because of the little theme park area. Spent a lot of time there in my earlier days of TF2!
trade_icerink_b1 - Cozy trade map with an icerink around a bar or hangout area in the middle. Had a music room and other stuff too.
trade_clocktown - Always had a great time on this faithful Majora's Mask map!
trade_minecraft_realms_v2 - A fun and expansive minecraft trade map that I always found fun! Has full servers to this day.
trade_ngs_day or trade_rawr_club_day_v3
trade_slider_shore - Cozy map set on a tropical beach with a tiki bar and stores across the street, with the horizon at perpetual sunset.
walmart_bettememe_v12 - A wacky walmart parking lot map with a lot of different buildings!
trade_rawr - A variant of trade_plaza that I'm particularly nostalgic for.
vsh_palanquin_ship & vsh_hakurei_shrine_v3 (and other variations like the winter one) - These are both VSH Touhou maps created by Deity Link, the same guy who did dm_sdm. Love them both!
cp_supermeatboy_c6 - Really neat super meat boy inspired map also made by Deity Link
trade_unusual_mct_a30 - An old unusual trade map used on PiNK T☆CO's trade server. Remember playing on it back in the day!
event_freddyhill_v1b - A cool map that Freddy210Hill uses for events and streams. I joined it randomly off the server browser one day and it turned out he was streaming! Got to participate in some fun events there. We did scout 3v3s on stream and our team was unstoppable!
gm_lifecenter - A Gmod map that I first experienced in TF2 ages ago. It's set in a shopping mall with all sorts of popular media on store shelves and on posters on windows from that era. A cool time capsule!
Holy shit my dude, you did top tier editing and an extensive 2 hour video FOR YOUR 3300 SUBSCRIBERS? you deserve a lot more man, i hope you make it to 100k
There’s a little map that’s really good that most people don’t know. It definitely deserves more love and is way too obscure. The map is called 2fort(weird name I know I know).
God, cp_orange makes me so nostalgic for Day of Defeat. I remember playing seeing it in TF2 years ago and it was the thing that made me start playing DoD again. It makes me so happy that it’s still popular after all these years.
One of my classmates sent me a message at 1 in the morning asking what I was doing in your video at 6:49.
loved the video such as the quality of edition and music select and narrative do they really complement each other so well!!
nike you did not just edit a 2 hour video. i refuse to believe it. great vid tho.
Appreciate you sas
9_6_12 is a map back in cs 1.6. Some school kid wanted to create a map so he could play it together with his friends. As friends played, more became more aware of it and so it became a little bit popular then. Yes, the tf2 map has newer things, such as the forest and majora's mask moon, but the main area seems to be the old map.
The fligu gigu thing is a 4chan meme on the /gif/ board
The joke is that it's spammed in you laugh you lose threads
Definitely would explain it
@@tophonator the 4chan party van wasnt a group, it was a 4chan meme thst referred to fbi vans
Video turned out great!! was a blast playing some of these on IFM during recording
hey 9_6_12 can be 2009, june, 12 or september 6, 2012 or june 6 2012.
insane to see skating rink again, i never played it in tf2 but its the only map i ever played in TFC. so nostalgic
Hey guys, Tophonator used to be a really close friend of mine but has unfortunately passed away due to unforeseen consequences. Please pay your respects.
Are you for real?
@@David_276 Yes
Did someone take his twitter account? Cause they’re still posting. And steam account is online
@@titanxx9 I have access to it.
@@titanxx9looks like my comment from before didn’t go through. But I am the one hosting his stuff now. We’re close friends and he trusted me with them. I’m still deeply heartbroken about the loss.
Can't thank you enough, no doubt, one of the rare few gems i hoped would arrive on youtube.
Really, thank you man
No problem man, glad you enjoyed
Watched up until the anime, disliked, commented, now im gonna close the video.
This was a very enjoyable and well made video! It also gave me a hit of nostalgia too. Keep up the good work!
You have a cute voice
Shut up
Shooter gotta shoot
Why is this the top comment
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Is this rizz