CS2's New Office Analysed 

they cant hostage mode was literally the first og cs gamemode

I hope they rework agency, it has so much potential to be a competitively viable hostage map

@@lightning8031honestly I think agency is the most fundamentally flawed hostage map there is. I’d much rather see a reworked Italy (which they apparently did)

@un1d agency definitely is the most unbalanced map (close with office) but I think it would be cool to have it made better. I would also love to see Italy too tho.

why would it ditch the best map in cs

Ever since I first played 1.6 as a kid, I always thought the CS games took place in the early 2000’s in an alternate universe to half-life where things never went to shit.

@@astralplaneshittalker Yep

This wood paneling of CSS Officer for me looks like wood paneling in 90s cars.

@@user-it7mf5us8z 90s cars? wood paneling was the 70s dude XD

@@user-it7mf5us8z its very aesthethically pleasing

100% agree. The 6pm-ish downcast dusk blues contrasts so well with the warm indoor colors. It's indescribably comfy and the only thing missing is a little bit of snow and a louder soundscape.

I would agree but it's really disappointing to me the way they are handling some reworks. While new Inferno and Overpass leaks looked astonishingly good and modernized, other maps like Office or Mirage just get lighting and really small changes. Ofc this is subjective but I'd even add that some aspects of this maps are even better on older versions. Office on CS Source, for instance and as showned on this video, ha a really different color palette which made it look so much better. It's unrealistic to call it a proper rework because they are still using 20 year old assets, and it looks lazy and unfinished. It's just my opinion though. I hope they update all maps in due time like they showed with Overpass.

I completely agree, this is the kind of lighting i love to see out of winter/snow maps

@@Malxer I'm sure they will remake other maps later. I can't imagine them leaving nearly 10 year old maps untouched in a new game.

@@mythicalgod We can only hope. With Valve, who knows.

"de_fenestration" is so fucking funny

@@jamess.7811 oh my god i only just now got the joke

Especially given how much more awesome Hammer is in Source 2, I think it would be a fun idea!

also perhaps 3kliks coming back to making short tutorials about hammer would be cool too

Just go play on some Servers in the Browser with strange maps on them right now, theres so much to explore.

i just want more night time maps like de_castle from Operation Breakout

Office was and is the shiiiiiii. Loved how there was always a small, very regular community playing it on CSGO for the years I played it. Got very competitive and addicting, forming those rivalries and becoming so cracked at playing it to the point where people always accused you of wallhacks

I used to be on a 64-player server playing cs_office every goddamn day; the CS:S version of the map is truly goated.

When i played office for the first time i really enjoyed the tight and long corridors and how the windows would shatter.

The year is 2006, its 3am, no school tomorrow because its summer, you've been playing on a 40 player office server since yesterday afternoon talking shit to noobs and accomplishing absolutely nothing with your life.

yeee boi.. I played about 500 hours of office on 2 community css servers.. one was called SiX and the other was called BoSS

my guy office was the first map I ever played when I was introduced to counter strike and that was uhhh 1.5

ive played so much on this map on murder in gmod

Gmod prop hunt is way younger than this map XD

@@dereks6742 well duh, otherwise you wouldn't be able to have used the map in the mode...

​@@sunhammer420little man humble yourself no2 ppl asked.

Weird, I'd feel like just beveling the corner would be better no? Since you'd technically have one less edge to work with and less geometry. That'd be n+1 per corner if it had two loop cuts near the edge.

@@DarkSwordsman It'd be the same amount of geometry actually, since you'd still want 3 edges. Source 2 uses edge smoothing rather than polygonal smoothing, so an edge gets marked as smooth rather than the whole polygon. With just 2 edges that'd mean to have smooth normals the whole length of the wall would have it's normals averaged out around the corner and it'd shade weird. It *would* be more ideal to just use a bevel, but in the case of porting the old maps to the new engine, this is much easier because the ported geometry is less than ideal and would need a lot of tedious clean up. And doing it this way looks identical from a shading point, which matters more than having that subtle geometry offset. Besides, in the grand scheme of things, this additional geometry doesn't matter in the slightest in terms of performance. Poly-count pretty much doesn't matter, especially with how low fidelity most of the models are anyway.

Well, now I have to test whether you can put two sides of a 90-degree corner in the same smoothing group in Source 1 and what it'll do if you do. I feel like you could get... _something_ interesting to happen, but you'd need to turn the lightmap scale way up (or down, depending on your definition) to make it look nice. That's the other big change here: dynamic luxel scaling. Those beveled corners in the parking garage looked terrible because, in Source 1, you can only smooth edges if all of the faces involved have luxels that are smaller than the narrowest face. And that would be a huge waste of memory so they didn't do that. But Source 2, I think, can seamlessly blend between lightmap scales, make luxels that are rectangular rather than square, and possibly even bend them around smooth corners. I dunno, we'll have to see if there's still a mat_luxels equivalent and see what it reveals.

What's the difference between geometry loop and beveling?

They forgot what fun is 😢

I'm so old that I remember when bullet holes on walls was a big deal, circa 1995

I bet it'll never get added back in because of "competitive viability" or some stupid shit like that

@@scarlettNET It's Office. The real reason it won't get added back in is because Valve won't touch Office.

I remember when I thought back in the day that adding high poly props will make the graphics much better. So I did and couldn't understand why it didn't work. After some time I realized that it's indeed mostly in the lighting

Some games with RTX Remix look improved in every way despite their models and textures being unchanged

source engine models were always designed to mimic the real world well, EVERY piece of technology from CSS and L4D2 is based off real computers, the beefy pc is an optiplex, the printer is a HP laserjet it works so well because its simplistic, as a kid and even teenager i was hard pressed to notice the source models low textures

Philip is da goat

Do you have to do stuff like shooting through a couple of windows with one bullet or is it "one big vertical rectangle - one small round"?

THAT'S the power of office

My first ever map in CSS was Inferno (vs bots) also in late 2009. But I launched Office slightly later and I instantly fell in love with the map. It´s still my favourite hostage map

I scrolled down only to see if somone noticed it ! It's son funny

I still remember how much fun CP was!

Me too!

Making office a defuse map defeats the entire design of the map, tell me you dont play office without telling me you dont play office

@@rocktheboat56 You're aware that the Office community has a defuse version of the map already right? It's possible to recontextualize a map, especially if you're making a sequel to that map. Quit being an asshole and just use your fucking imagination.

Shut your mouth your comments are generic and annoying

early 90s/late 80s interior designers making a incredibly aesthetically pleasing space just for some doctors office

I mean thats becuase the other games look SIGNIFICANTLY better than cs2...

@@Ultra289 i dont think so