Just yesterday I thought "Why has WarOwl abandoned his map and never updated/textured it?" Oh boy

sorry for the lack of videos recently, I've had a rough 2 weeks, but I am back to making videos now and feel motivated again

alternative title: "warowl is slowly making mirage"

"Every map is Dust2, and Dust2 is every map." Needs to be put on a t-shirt lmao

10:35 He looks so happy about his "your-weapon-gone" hole, it's heartwarming

Next year: valve made my map official.

To counter the overpowered smokes, you can add chimneys that block them!

“Last year” LAST YEAR?

I really, really like this series. I find map design fascinating and I don’t think there is a ton of it on KZfaq that is edited and explained this well from what I can find. I would love to see more.

me: gets excited by a new series focusing on map design also me: remembers soloQ to Global

13:20 there are lot's of fountains on the haciendas, (wall fountain perhaps) that you could put in there. Or it could be like an altar/shrine, Old Haciendas always have something religious on it just so it's not just boxes everyweere

My man really hit the nostalgia with that age of mythology music

Thanks for playing my cbble remake! oh and if warowl reads this, you got the first half of my name right

His intro is getting more and more creative without changing the intro...

9:37 this is why I like overpass so much. Overpass and Subzero are great when it comes to showing players easy smokes and flashes imo.

5 months later: Will there be a next episode on this project or has it been scrapped?

the “OW!” at the beginning hit me hard

You mentioned getting rid of the second “patio” and putting the apc as a big form of cover. But I thought that area looked kind of like a stage for a band or a wedding. Could make those boxes into speakers and maybe have some stuff fitting that theme as cover.

i thought that you were gonna say "what if i removed recoil" 11:15

Does anyone else really love the textureless orange/gray-box design. It has a nice clean minimalist aesthetic to it. It also makes me feel like im in a battle arena that was created in the videogame's universe purely as a place to fight.

Warowl: every map is dust 2. And dust 2 is every map English teachers: give this man a medal.

For making the smoke mid less powerful: -Remove that chunk of the wall on A so CTs can watch B entrance -Severely raise the entrance to B site. I am not saying raise Cat, but like a thin T apartments entrance looking thing -Add a box towards the back of the balcony/window area that the CT can solo boost on to. This will leave them more exposed to shots from mid, but they will be able to see over the smoke

10:22 the subtle "yee" got me

9:02 Age of Mythology soundtrack for some reason. Nice memories.

de_whitesands. Whitesands is a Army test site in New Mexico. New Mexico Mexico AMIGO.

Hearing that perfect voice say "Ow"

3:32 Ah yes, the classic hotdog roof. Love that addition.

I feel like adding cover and an incentive for the CTs to drop down from the mid window to hold mid would allow CTs to hold, or move the entrance to B site from mid be pushed up so A connector can hold it, and there is no one smoke to block off all angles

That "amigo" voice clip still makes me chuckle, that video was so fun.

0:16 don't shoot me OWL

This map design is very, very good, however a lot of the struggles you find seem to be with the cover. when I think of Dust2 or Mirage, most of the cover is in the shape of the walls, however most of your cover is made with objects, which are much more arbitrary than walls in context. The walls of the map should be guidelines, not only to mark where you can and cannot be, but also to show where you should hide if you've just taken a site, or what angles you can hold while defending a site. Enclosed spaces also make for boring combat, because there's less space for cover; most of Cobblestone is made up of enclosed space, only really opening up in the sites and T spawn, which are CT sided, and so the T's get pushed to their spawn, where they have to watch three angles, while the CT's know their positions, because they can only hide in the same few spaces, behind objects and in enclosed spaces. TL;DR Use objects only if you absolutely must, walls are much stronger sources of cover than objects. Small rooms also enforce boring combat.

this is like sitting back and him carrying you in a group project while you watch him come up with ideas

So regarding your ideas: The first suggestion would almost make a direct crossfire between 2 AWPs the mandatory strat, by having one AWP in the interior at B, and an AWP at the box on A. The other 3 players solely focus on making sure their 2 awps can stay in position to essentially lock out the map. The second suggestion isn't that bad, although this might cause the B site to become to difficult to take by having such quick rotate times.

WarOwl's third law of Counter-Strike: if a game supports custom maps, there *is* a Dust 2. wait wha-

imagine a man on the internet being the person you hear the words "give yourself permission to fail" from, instead of your own parents

Someone needs to do a Baroque Paris architecture theme, that would look just amazing

Gaben: write that down! Write that down! Valvle: *furious note taking*

10:37, The idea of a spot to drop weapons so that enemies cannot pick them up is interesting, however what if you could use an HE grenade to shoot the gun out of the hole? Just a quick idea I thought might've been fun to add

12:38 put an entrance from “jungle” to B main (from mid) and not directly to B site To give like a Terrorist strategy someone be covering the entrance from mid (behind mid box for example) I also think your idea would be a little op because is easier to CTs to rotate faster (Edit): And not to change the CTs corridor from ct to jungle and do not quit the windows ( well the windows idk what to say but it’s the best thing in my opinion xd)

I love those maps with the orange boxes. I used to play gun game heaps in source where there were mostly maps with just those orange textures, so much nostalgia.

11:20 I would recommend if you're going to remove that chunk of the wall then you should make it to where the person on A site would have to stand on top of the boxes to see to mid B doors to add risk to holding that angle. Being able to cover an entrance for both sites while standing in cover on site A seems too strong. As for the Balcony on A I would recommend giving it a little more line of site into mid A corridor. It would give the cubby in it more purpose.

You know what would be cool? Custom T and CT player models. Here's an idea, how about Terrorists have a look similar to the Zapatistas in Mexico. Zapatistas are an armed revolutionary group present in the southern areas of the country. They use an iconic uniform that (imo) fits CSGO quite well. Try searching "zapatista" on google for an idea on what I'm talking about. Meanwhile, CT's can use a uniform similar to Mexican SpecOps. Again, try searching on google "Mexican Special Forces" to see what I mean. Source, am Mexican.

I really like the way mid balcony idea, and the easy one way rotate from there! I can't wait to see the next map update!! 🦉

9:16 that's an Age of Mythology sounds!!! Nostalgia kicked me right in the nuts, man

I really enjoyed the Age of mythology OST

Age of Mythology Soundtrack: Nostalgia kicks in.

What I learned from this video: "Every map is dust_2, and dust_2 is every map."

In terms of the colors and theme of the map, regarding that wall chunk at mid u wanted to remove, u can make the wall below the chunk flat and the upper part can be turn into a balcony so i doesn't look like u just removed a rectangle out of the wall and it would still look fitting and totally not odd! Good luck on the map, seems like its gonna take some work but i reckon both you and us will be proud of it!

I love how excited WarOwl gets while talking about his map creation, it’s so fun to watch haha. Best of luck with the map, can’t wait to see how it turns out!

12:00 the starcraft II soundtrack really hit in the feels

3:20 love to see he imitates someone's accent you know who it is😂😂

the idea with middle balcony was so good. i was thinking about that when you adressed middles problems. good that you saw that too :)

"Don't shoot me..." *BAM!* "Ow."

TheWarOwl: give yourself permission to fail me who's on my last semester of high school: bruh

11:57 and afterwards StarCraft 2 music, so many memories

as someone who plays cs non competitively i love the whole thing youre doing about helping the players with smokes and stuff

Me has hours of mapping experience and still makes a terrible map Warowl makes a beautiful map with great textures and really awsome lighting all of this on his first time

I love you! You showed me the beautiful world of CS and I've learned how horrible I am at it

4:40 love the DKC2 underwater music ^^

Years ago, I made a map called cs_hacienda, I believe its still in the workshop. I spent so many hours with friends on that map, this was a real throwback. Upon reflection, I barely made it look like a hacienda. But this reminded me of my love of making maps, so thank you.

9:24 Age of Mythology Soundtrack. I love it. So many memories and villager rushes haha

I love the "Age of Mythology" Music in the background 9:05

Im really excited for this map to be finished, it looks promising and seeing the warowl be enthusiastic is really fun to watch

12:03 the starcraft music kicks in, such a nostalgic feeling

"Hello officer, yes this is the man who murdered Cobblestone in cold blood"

dude so happy to hear the amigo kid. he was such a great mate and I cried when he died.

You should add a vent for the CT side access to mid kinda like mirage. The sound cue and small choke point adds two nice game play features that would work well with your map :) I love the balcony idea instead of the window. Keep up the good work!

11:17 is a good idea, would also make the angle for holding mid you described earlier more comfortable. Looking forward to seeing your progress :)

I would recommend using TAR to get a panorama style radar when you compile the map. Instead of doing it manually

Damn i love that age of mythology music. Damn nostalgia

Been waiting for 5 months for this Video. Really hope you make more videos on the map!

Ideas for the map. (I'll give you multiple ones so you can choose or come up with a better one) B site: 1. The passage towards T Spawn can be elevated like Aps 2. Give the passage really angular stairs so that it is more expensive to take and it becomes less likely to be rushed. 3. Adjust the length of the passage so Terrorists can't exploit timings. Mid: 1. Instead of creating B side aps, you can make mirage style A site stairs for going towards B. (that would also help with elevating B site as a whole) but make sure you make the platform towards the entrance long to make it more risky. A site: No matter how much you say the B site is broken, A sucks and is worse than B. it's super CT sided. 1. bring it slightly closer to T side. 2. reduce the amount of cover. 3. tilt the mid entrance to A so that the jungle player(like mirage) has a direct angle towards cat. this would work because B site entrance is elevated

8:47 ohmygod WarOwl there's an arch tool! You don't have to do that!

I really enjoy this map, Amigo.

The window from A to mid is a cool idea. It could be nice to integrate something interesting visually into the map.

Man this looks awsome can't wait for trying out this pls update the textures. And i have a suggestion all those walls up to the ceiling makes the map a little bit claustrophobic pls fix that add some semi walls like in mirage or wired walls like in nuke to make it more fresh and appeiling

"Give yourself permission to fail": ah, I see you're a man of a culture as well

I feel like this will eventually become a competitive map we"ll see in the professional scene.

11:58 Nice starcraft music, I love starcraft!

i love how you put the lineups on the map

i bet there is a csgo employee watching this being like: "Good idea..." ; "proceed to take notes"

I want this to eventually become a map in the rotation. That’d be cool.

Haaaa I remember that kid from the time you were playing Danger Zone solo. I mean, you address anyone with their name in-game but he was just keep calling you AMIGO. With that out of the way, your map is shaping well so far. Hope you get it done.

4:02 "you want that natural lighting as much as possible" I would never imagine any gamer could say that to another one while being serious. :D

Black person: Hey officer Officer: "Gets scared" Black person: 0:16

1) Why not putting some more of these "whoops your gun in gone" spots somewhere on the map, gives it some more character to eliminate guns from a round and the enemy not being able to safe them. It even makes smokes somehow more difficult if you would make them very slim under some of those half round gates in the wall (don't know how to call them properly :D ) 2) The idea of a better rotation for the mid player should always be combined with a drop so that you can' t rotate the whole time around instead you need to get boosted up again by a mate. This would make fake plays by the Ts way more efficient and improve the trys. 3) Something like a fountain or the statue from cobble b spot always turn out nice in order go give some cover and possibilites to play with.

Love the idea to have subtle hints for nade throughs!

that patio on B should be overlooking a pool in the middle of the site. It would fit with the theme, and maybe add a head shot for the CTs to help them hold against that banana push. Trade off would be if Ts push through mid they have an easy site line on you

I would love to see this map played by pros and listen to their thoughts and opinions

10:15 made me laugh a little

I propose that the entrance into the top area of mid that you were talking about is either entered via a door like the doors in Inferno, or a vent like in Mirage. Just to let Ts know that someone may be up there or has been there.

I really enjoy watching you create this map, so keep on going!

11:12 - dont remove it, just make window which will be less overpowered... i dont think its good idea to remove whole wall...

I'm actually really invested in this map making series kinda deal, i don't know why.

A lot of people mention the age of mythology music. But the Grim fandango song made me get goosebumps. Such a banger.

I think the chuck you thought of removing to make it so you can see from A to mid is a very good idea and the design of the chunk should definitely be a nice balcony. There should also be some little details blocking the players' vision from A to mid.

"don't shoot me. Ow" you're so cute wtf

It’s already a 10/10 map cause he has the Age of mythology music in the background

I like the idea of removing that big chunk so that we can see mid, not about balcony to B as that is sure fast. What you can do is take inspiration from Mirage Mid to B as person takes 4-5 sec to go through vent and reach kitchen window. Add a vent of windows instead of easy big door. ✌🏼

the first idea he had for our opinion i think you can make that section like a balcony design which allows people to peep through like you said. it seems like a good idea to have access to mid for ct to see mid on sight