imagine playing cs one day and all of a sudden every single map is in the style of nuke, i’d have an existential crisis

Can't wait for him to then make 'Naztec'

henge in 2018: dust1 remake henge in 2021: aztec remake a miracle maker this man is

This looks like a really good update

Would really love to see this remake as an official map

omg i wanna play the mirage "nuke version"

Mirage with Nuke assets make me uncomfortable

he is the perfect representation of modders. Spending 90% of their time tweaking and changing a game and only spending 10% of the time actually playing the game

It's really missing the rain That map maker deserves a nobal prize

I feel like the rain is missing.

This is when a Community used their 100% of their brain

i would love to play a map where they spliced together like nuke, dust2, mirage, inferno, and train all into one map. I remember they did something like that in 1.6 and you would go through a door or something and it would be a totally different map. It was soooo cool.

wasn't expecting an interview, but i love it. getting insights into creative minds is always nice.

0:51 Franz would love these maps

valve better hire this guy for real

I'm glad to get a chance to play it, and I'm interested in what Henge has to say! I'm not the biggest fan of CS:GO, but I played Aztec quite a bit in Source when I was younger (that and Crackhouse, but I think it will be a while until we get that remake)

That mirage in nuke style looks so good

This lad is a legend. Valve should hire dedicated people like him. Somehow this restored my hopes, that some of the old maps will have a comeback.

Pls bring back super helpful in-depth tutorial. Those brought a wide smile on our faces

Your videos are always so fresh and nerdy! i love it!

I LOVE these videos where you highlight creators, their personalities and their contributions, and also save a bit of the history of the game, old and new.

Psychiatrist: Nuke Mirage isn't real, it can't hurt you Nuke Mirage:

I love this new style of switching from old to new, and then a second time but faster. gj philip.

Congrats on hitting 1 million subscribers Philip!

Philip describing this guy sounded like he was talking about me for a moment, i almost always go for games with editors, its so fun.

Thanks for the interview Philip. Great video!

Incredible one of my favorite maps ever. Thanks for the video always on point

quarantine really puts you in the level design mood

Really great work and nice on the edits for showing the old and new it really shows the polish and care put in to these long loved maps .this is honestly why I’m in this community.to see these beautiful works of arts

seeing cache and mirage with nuke assets is such a trippy experience!

nirage actually seems amazing! I alway thought the original one had a dull color scheme. This is bright and beautiful!

those were some good questions. i dont know what ive asked a mapper, but after hearing the questions i realise how fitting they are. which also shows your own competence in mapping. thank you for hosting the map :D

The red room's lighting looks wrong

a blast from the past! Spent more than 500hrs on the original 1.5 map... da feelz....

this guy's voice is enough for me to watch his videos 24/7.

Those maps look so good, I’ve always had a lot of fun in the original dust, it’s great to see it getting some

Well thank you for interviewing him, it was very interesting!

I love aztec. And hearing that someone remade it made me both happy and surprised. The main thing I love about it, is that it's less graphicly demanding for lower end pcs than maps like new dust 2, newke, new train etc.

This is great. My friends and I'll definitely check it out in one of our private games. This will be a surprise for them

Mr Bone's Wild Ride... Bless you for that reference.

Great video as always, those Nuke-ified versions of other maps look sleek as hell, I honestly love vids where you just showcase community stuff like this

My favorite map since I started playing CS 1.6 almost 12 or 13 years ago when I was 5 or smh. Always had a place in my heart.

I like the alternating old/new (1...2...1.2.). It helps to better appreciate the changes between versions. Good format change. :)

Aztec looks fantastic! I used to play this map a lot in Condition Zero.

I greatly appreciate the editing here!

The new version is missing rain.

Henge if you read this youre a legend, those nuke maps blew my mind

Definitely a fantastic start, some areas are a bit rough but other than that it's great!!

I've always looked for a combination map like dust 2 in inferno style or mirage in aztec style n such. But now that I saw maps like nirage and noffice, I can officially say, PERFECTION.

that Mirage+nuke looked amazing

Gotta love the interview vids. 10/10 recommending to a friend.

I love how he recreated Mirage with Nuke textures but honestly I'd start hating Mirage if that's how it would always look. I like the natural and "old" look.

Oh my god, I just calculated: Given the information that he mapped approx. 11000 hours since approx. 2014, that means he spent about 4,78 hours EVERY DAY only on mapping. Insane. Not even to mention the >2k hours in the game itself... That is indeed a man of passion!

I'd like to take a moment to thank Henge for his efforts. Thank you m8, you are a legend!

I couldn't stop thinking how cool it would be of an April Fools joke to have all the maps change styles, kinda similar to how they used 1.6 de_dust2 last year.

Yo honestly his remake of aztec is super faithful and great looking

Could've done a little better with the lighting in certain rooms. Some appear much too bright and unnatural but I guess it's for the sake of visibility. Some other small aesthetic improvements could probably be done too but I can tell he put a lot of work into this remake and I commend him for it. It gives me some inspiration to try something like this someday, but I'm not sure when or what with. Those questions will be answered another day

his remake makes the og aztec look so damn ugly, its impressive

Congrats on one million subs

I played on the server for a few games, nice to see you hosting servers again so that I can play something other than Mirage all day long! I definitely enjoy Aztec more than Ancient (which is just a bunch of corridors and box rooms, feels like a Valorant map), but I still really hate Aztec. It's just a typical aim map, where all the fights are long range and every corner you walk around presents you with a million angles an enemy could be holding. I really don't understand why the CS:GO community loves aim maps like Mirage and Dust II so much, they make half the guns irrelevant since you can't close the distance to use a close range weapon effectively, so every time you lose a round, your best strategy is often to throw the next round and just use pistols in order to buy rifles on the following round. At least on maps like Inferno and Austria you have appartments/mid respectively, where shotgun or SMG rushing can work to take control of part of the map, on Aztec my options are incredibly limited and even if I want to retreat as a T and push from a different choke point, it takes so long to navigate the huge map that my enemy often suspects something. Out of all the 'Aztec' themed maps, I think the community map de_Maya handles things best, with a varied and unique layout (one bombsite is in a dug out archeological dig site, for example), and the fights around the map feel very different from one another. It's still a pretty bad map, but far more interesting than boring Ancient, and it avoids the problems of huge distance fights that Aztec has.

Yessss this is sick!! I would love to see a rebalanced aztec too.

I love these interview type videos! So interesting! Love/felix

Awesome!!! Will try it in a bit, can't wait

Reimagine a map with a new art style / assets is a personal aesthetic of mine. I'm currently working on a L4D2 map that recreates the first levels of Afraid of monsters (to a varying degree of "success") and everything described here fits to a T. Since L4D2 maps where made around 2008, the mapping style and assets is more traditional to HL2 than current CS:GO standard. This puts me in a place where I don't think I'm doing good enough for today's standard, to "it's good enough for L4D2". Of course you want it to look at best as possible to both be a good looking map and to honor the original material. It's fun to think how a Goldsrc map could look in Source but also having in mind that the map is first and foremost a L4D2 map gameplay wise. But I feel like my personal limitations make it fall short on "what it really could look like", and also working on 5 maps at once can be really tiring.

It looks wonderful. I wish Aztec got more attention because it is such a fun map. It's too bad the community doesn't think the defuse map is worthwhile 😔

I love that the community is keeping the classic map pool alive, I just wish valve would give more recognition to the lesser played maps and let us have our reserves pool back :(. I miss late night militia and vertigo with the boys, spamming kids through walls on assault, it's a great time!

the nuke themed mirage and cache look cool

Bless this guy and his work for the community

Looking at Nirage, it felt so familiar yet it was so wrong. Very cool!

Would be nice to see the new aztec get the right changes so it has a chance to be in scrimmage for proper testing to perhaps be in normal competitive afterwards.

He should add rain to the new version. That's what gave old aztec such a cosy atmosphere.

Wow, Nirage fits the map better than the original theme, I mean all the boxes now actually make sense.

Aztec was my favorite map. I would be so happy if this version was available to play in competitive, even if not in active duty. Will be checking out the server

Saw his map "noffice" few years ago. Perfection.

I love the map re-skins he made. Would love to be able to choose them before a competitive game althought i get that it could even change gameplay

Artistically.. I honestly enjoy seeing the old Aztec more. But to be fair the old one was made by mappers and dedicated artists with seasoned input. He should be proud, regardless.

Cool. Now we need Italy remade using the assets from New Inferno and Canals.

I applaud this vigerously!

My brain was unease watching a ''Nuke Mirage'' and ''Nuke Cache'' hahahh Seems like an amazing work both the 'nuke' versions and the aztec remake!

i don't even play counter strike but i watch all these guides and updates on the game for some reason

congratulations on 1 mil

I would love to see someone so good at texturing and remastering maps work with Warowl and his map that he made to see what they could produce.

In 1.6 Aztec was one of the most populated maps hands down.

Mirage with nuke style was dope

Honestly, I think the old one looks better because of artystyle. It is much moodier. But much respect to the mapper. It's honourable how much work this takes. It's texturrs, models and everything are objectively better. But somehow I still like the old style more and find it more beutiful....

Like a lost comment said: Valve has to make a "Nostalgic" group map for the game, an unranked game mode like scrimmage where every map from CS:1.6 and CS:S are there. Right now, there exist some of classic maps reworked like Siege, Backalley, Prodigy, Tuscan, etc... Add to this group the reworked version of Aztec and Dust and u have almost a complete gamemode. The cool thing is Valve don't have to move any finger, all classic maps can be reworked by the community. This maps don't have to be balancing or something like that, just need to be in game with a modern style and that's it for now...

Excellent video update. Thanks.

Kudos to his dedication!

Now valve needs to put this as a new map. Give him the credit and the dinero. And lets get back on some Aztec!

I really like how mirage looks with nukes face...Alot actually

the mist haze effect taken from Left 4 Dead 2 doesn't look good applied to Aztec in its original CSGO iteration, but the murky puddles and rainfall (the rainfall volume through the open ceilings around CT side is wonderful) absolutely does. between the near-fullbright interior lighting without any suitable light sources, and the total lack of weather and environment effects, henge's aztec feels very lacking, but the scene-building is on point. hopefully he'll look more into the after-effects of the map, and not just the assembly.

one thing that this remake doesnt capture at all is the amazing ambience that the old one had. the rain plus the overgrown textures of moss and grass plus the dreamy skybox is something that I really really love about the original version, this remake kinda falls flat on its face compared to the og

henge making a rebalanced aztec based on data and feedback would be really sick imo

The Counter-Strike journalist we need.

Well done :-) I love it.

The map's really good! Just joined the server :) Saw you for just a bit

thats a good april fool's idea for valve, swapping the props for maps but keeping the layouts

If there was rain and thunder, it would have been just like the old Aztec from CS Beta. With that aside, we all know Aztec is not balanced but seeing that map brings back the old days of CSGO, when it wasn't free and Valve delivered high quality operations.

valve needs to hire this guy

Nice video as always!