CS:GO actually has a story (and its messed up) | TDM_Heyzeus 

Why do I fight for Valeria for 15 rounds and then suddenly change my mind to fight for Krueger for the next 15

One of announcer voice lines for the ct's is "remove any doubts in your heads, it's us or them" Suggesting that the operatives have mixed feelings about what they're doing

So cobble and train were ACTUALLY removed because of hidden csgo lore and not because valve decided "screw these 2 maps in particular". Now we just need to find out what happened to cache 🤣

Honestly i thought the lore was "terrorists are attacking and bombing many parts of the world and those countries getting attacked are sending their best people for this one counter terrorism task force" and that probably was the story.....For CS 1.6 and CSS

I always liked csgos lore and I appreciate that you made a full on video of it.

Counter-Strike has been around for so long that at one point I thought "counter-terrorists" were simply soldiers who employed terrorism against other terrorists.

This was extremely interesting, wouldn't mind seeing more of this type of content!

Something really interesting to note is that the lore for many of the Agents of the T-side do suggest that their interests (if not neutral) can easily overlap with the "greater themes" of the T and CT sides; the leader of the Elite Crew, Mr. Muhlik, is a rich heir in a monarchy, but is looking to overthrow local political powers for his own interests. the Guerilla Warfare group dislikes western influences, especially tourism, and is willing to take hostages and engage lethal force. Phoenix is obvious. The other factions, like the Separatists (name makes interest obvious), Professionals (hired mercs), and Sabre (gangsters and criminals), all can easily integrate with Valeria's primary goals.

Valve: “did you really think we would make a shooter game without lore?”

Plot twist: The "V" in "V Shipping Corporation" stands for Valve.

I started playing cs after it became free in December of 2019. Playing the shattered web and broken fang co-op missions was one of the best experiences I've ever had with the game. It really impressed me what valve were able to do and I was extremely disappointed that there was no missions or addition to the lore in riptide. I feel valve just pulled a copy paste and added new skin collections instead of putting effort into these new operations like with shattered web. I hope these yearly operations don't turn out to be a continuous let down and just a way to make extra money for valve. Here's to hoping for good operations!

T : Deep lore, cooperations , soviet union Ct : bad guy needs to go bang

I feel like valve intentionally made the lore murky since this is after all one of the most played esports in the world and it is kind of hard to market a game that would be about just terrorists and special forces killing each other so if it’s more of like mercs instead it might be easier to get sponsors outside of the gaming industry

bro i can see the effort in this one. props to you and the editor

This video was actually very very good even though heyzeus doesn't usually do these types of stuff the "what are you fighting for" line just makes it very good.

Wow, I guess i took a lot of time to do this video. A lot of research! 😮 Good job!

Can't wait for the 10 year anniversary ... I hope they surprise us with a new operation and collection, not only the capsule ..

Yeah but in certain maps the CT's are SAS and german special forces which arent exactly mercanaries

CS has gain a great potential in narrative. It's quite wonderful and unexpected, I love it. I do think it would be interesting that they would release a condition zero style of game once again, but with CS:GO lore. What was missing in CS:CZ deleted scenes was a good plot and a connection between the levels, and now we have that plot and lore. Maybe one day?

I’ve always loved game lores. What makes cs lore interesting is how open it is, and all the information we’re lacking about it, I mean after watching this i don’t even know who’s good or bad, and what purpose each have… it’s very confusing Great explanation man, hoping for an update when we get one!

When you've been playing the game for 8 years and just find out that there is an actual story, not just a 5v5 T vs CT game O.O. Awesome vid!

Finally a proper video on the lore (small and hidden, albeit) of CS:GO. It's honestly quite an interesting world that the lore revolves around CTs, Ts, and the ones in between both and the interactions they have with each other.

I'm not so sure about Nuke. The CT force is clearly a detachment from the FBI (pretty sure the FBI would not be responsible for that in real-life). And, as far as I'm aware, Overpass is secured by German special forces. Not sure about other maps, but clearly V. Shipping Cooperation is important enough to be defended by state owned forces.

4:34 that skin really takes off much of the seriousness in this story😭

This is the best lore compilation I've seen for CS:GO. I was not aware of any of it but I'm really interested in it now. It's crazy how the devs managed to sneak by all these bits and pieces across the game for 10 years now while being so subtle about it so it doesn't disrupt the flow of the game I wonder if the CS:GO trailer has any connection to the story since it's also the phoenix in there but V shipping wasn't a thing yet as far as i know..

Loved all the stories in the old operations. Rather sad that Valve doesn’t do these campaigns anymore.

the lore is so great and i wished valve would add more coop strike levels to the operations. what i like about the lore is how behind thew curtains it is. as the player you don't know the bigger picture. you are just another operative doing a mission

>is not a psychopath >idealist, a revolutionary have you ever heard of tomayto tomahto

Fantastic video heyzeus! I’ve been wanting to watch a video about csgo’s lore for a long time now but haven’t found a single one yet, until now! Thank you

Valve has a thing for neutral arms dealers

As long as someone understands the lore, they can release the next operation

I found it interesting that operation hydra had nothing to contribute to the story at least you didn’t mention it. I think once the story concludes they should sum uptrend story and make it a single player campaign for csgo be it like condition zero deleted scenes or in like a more traditional story mode way but I’d love to replay and reexperience the beginning of the story and all. Because it’s already been a few years since the story in GO started. And overall I’d like valve to bring back the possibility to view/experience old stuff like in an archival way or even playable. But things like this won’t ever happen because CS has 5 devs and valve literally doesn’t care about the game/community at all( but we also don’t know because they aren’t communicating with the fans). And pls give me the option to experience the pre panorama ui I’d kill for that just to feel the memories. Great Vid.

I'm definitely dumb but how are national armed forces being allowed to fight for a private company as mercs? They have ST6, SAS, GIGN, GSG9 equipment and likely training. Wouldn't they at least need contracts with the teams respective governments or at the very least condoning governments?

cant wait to see more hidden messages in the skins, for the next operation, shits gonna be wild

Glock Franklin has my favorite lore message "Money doesn't talk... it kills"

Ive always been intressted in the csgo lore and i am very thankful for this video good job!

This really felt like a game theory episode, loved it!

Thank you for the video zeus. In a era where respawn is releasing background of every legend. riot is releasing background of every agent. It helps us to connect with the characters. valve will never do this. so thanks to you for doing this.

This was great to watch, nice work! Would love to see more stuff like this.

It really sucks that operations don’t have this lore stuff anymore. I was especially disappointed that riptide didn’t even have co op mission

Syrians vs CIA Lore solved

Finally a proper lore explanation! I've been trying to find out about all these things but can't get a grab of things

so basically the CTs are a mercenary while Ts are the justice heroes

Came for the lore, stayed for the runescape music

Now this is the video I’ve been waiting for, I’ve been trying to find an explanation for all the bits of story from the coop levels.

Critical support to comrade valeria

I'd be so into CSGO if it had more of those co-op missions or even a full length campaign or something

we needed this from years man

I have already saw this story like 5 years ago from Gabe Follewer, but you did a great job anyways. Ty for the vid

idk why but this video made me wanna replay all the missions on GTA V for some reason...

Keen to hear more lore heyzeus, keep up the awesome content :)

I appreciate your hard work dude , you probably would've worked day and night to produce this masterpiece

So Valeria is basically The Administrator from TF2.

Finally! Been waiting for a vid on CSGO lore

WOW! Finally someone who explains the backstory behind Counter-Strike! Please keep it up! I'm digging on this.

I just made myself breakfast and he pulls up with a banger video. Honestly i got really curious now as to what is the whole goal of the fighting conflicts that happen in csgo between the ts and the cts

I just now realised that CT really stands for Coalition Taskforce

Flexing that five-seven

Will they change the CT's voice line "for queen and country men" to King instead?

Hey!... I miss your old intro. Short and to the point. Screw that dude who said something about your intro. I'm still going to watch, but can't wait for s video to start of the old way again, maybe just do it as a throw back It always made me feel happy and your voice was on point!

What i find Ironic is that Counter Strike Source's de_inferno Bombsites are all food (For example A is just oranges, B is Wheat)

Great video man thanks for making this, more people should be aware

Super interesting video! Love this style of content

Heyzeus that was a totally bloody awsome breakdown of the story line of csgo, I wonder what operation broken fang and riptide gave to the story line?

Good video! Also love the OSRS music in the background. 😝

so I'm not the only human being who thought about how weird some of the lines the operator says in the game, i even asked people, googled it, but the fact that u put all of this information into this video, wants me to dig even more into this.

now this is content. Never even think about the lore when playing

I was thinking that someone should point these out for years! Glad that someone finally did it.

That OSRS music in the background with the mystic vibes lov it

love your videos man!

I was thinking about doing a lore video too a while ago… never started because too much effort. But 1 thing I had in mind, maybe you can find more information in the weapon skin descriptions, I can’t recall it anymore but I think there are some with some info. But tbh I don’t think it will be too much anyway Nice vid 👍🏻

Something I would love to hear you go over is something that I have noticed still happening a lot in cs. Boostin lobbies and services. All I know about this is I have randomly come across lobbies where we have 5 enemies most often in premier and once the game starts the whole enemy team starts leaving and joining making the rouns go by in seconds. Another version of this is boosting groups fixing matches so they only face each other and no-one else. I've had this happen multiple times where either 5 of the enemies do not accept and this goes on and on as long as we que to that map. Alternatively we rarely get paired with 5 bots with similiar random names and exact same ping and they all just afk the game.

I was always wondering if the maps had lore behind them so thanks for explaining it all

It would be so cool to see a film with the csgo plot

I rarely comment but like great video. I would watch these daily they’re fun and compact anything csgo related or otherwise you have the voice for any game

I really miss the Arctic Acvenger

Gotta love the RuneScape music in the background

TBH some of the maps, the CTS has pretty good reasons to defend with, such as dust2 with the IDF on the CT side (I think CTS on dust 2 are Israelites because they are wearing the iconic Mitznefet :) ) just like Zeus said defending humanitarian supplies or Bank since it's basically cop vs robbers and SAS could be seen most of the maps because they are military SF so the present of them are still reasonable. But I have to admit some locations are weird such as cache with the location take place in Chernobyl Power Plant and Ancient as well which take place in central America, but the GIGN (the French Swat basically) are defending it. Maybe Valve is just too lazy to add more CT models? Or there is something 🐟y going on ?

putting dialogue and unseen character names in item descriptions to tell the games lore is exactly how dark souls did it, great storytelling and it makes whoeevers interested dig for any amount of info

This truly adds another layer to TTT

Why Valve didnt change CT and T to become Coalition vs Phoenix? Seems better for game publication.

He is out here giving material to make a historical skin for the next case

Why is this guy sounding like he's gonna show me the top 10 best Fortnite Emotes or smth

finally, csgo lore

Dope breakdown bro

"Valeria is NOT a psychopath" Clearly you never heard her say Imogen's name in that creepy manner during the mission like I have back in the day (specifically when your in the APC)

I like how you used Runescape music in the background. A true legend!

please do more of these lore videos

Thank god, someone finally did this

I need this whole thing drawn out with v shipping, all those people, the coalition, the maps all that stuff

i was looking for film like that for a long time

what an amazing video! Didn't even know csgo had lore - i love it!

Watching this felt like an hour

My man out here doing his own VNN

Missed out on all the operations, wish I joined earlier.

One of the best csgo experiences was all the Phoenix missions like the compound with a friend and like 3 of the enemy’s are super heavy and you need to AWP headshot like 3 times to kill or empty a whole AK mag , ammo is limited so your swapping half way through and praying your teammates lives through the map and you don’t have to restart

Love the Runescape music in the background 😂

Thanks for the CSGO lore!

inb4 phoenix skin starts going up in price

Also good to know that the "Coalition" skin is from the Train case 5:49