the CSGO artstyle dead thing is most likely a reference to "TF2's artstyle is dead" which is a meme in the TF2 community. It basically comes from the fact that Valve was originally very strict with what kind of cosmetics they would release in TF2 to not break the artstyle. But ever since about 2010 they have cared less and less about the artstyle. It got to the point where many started to point out how out of place and goofy things nowadays are compared to how they used to be 10 years ago. The same can be seen in CSGO to some extent, with the devs being way more conservative with the finishes they rolled out initially, but now we have things like the nightwish and disco tech being released.

Skadoodle did not initially reject the skins. The individual placing the bets told him he would have to wait a little before he could make the payment of items. Skadoodle began to notice the allegation, and quickly refused the skins when prompted later on.

Well hey, Dust 2's story is that the CTs are defending local historical artifacts that are either going to be shipped out, or contain high grades weapons of dubious purpose. Wouldn't surprise me if the T's are there to destroy those WMD's or to destroy the stolen artifacts so they don't find their way into a British museum.

Every time the forsaken story gets retold or referenced I just have to chuckle. The photo of the screen with the file names just does me in every time.

The "CS being canon to Goat Simulator" thing, specifically the Payday 2 theory is in fact a part of a big theory surrounding the game. Basically, the theory says that everything that is in Payday 2 is canon to that universe (obviously), but by extension, everything that contains for example John Wick (he's in Payday 2) is also automatically canon to Payday. This "canon by association" theory extends infinitely covering absolutely every piece of media.

5:55 artstyle being dead is the same as TF2 artstyle being dead argument. It referrs to the fact that due to the introduction of skins the original artstyle was gradually lost over time. With more and more stranger and less military looking skins. I mean look at the original Alpha collection vs the dreams and nightmare one

Layer 5, T-side pre-mades It is logical based on one of the ways game coordinator could work. As if you have a list of parties to join a game, you will split them to 2 teams with the bigger party going first (as you try to fit as few parties into the same team). As you have those 2 teams, you just assign them into the game and Ts can be the first team. But I would think that they would have a "coin flip" to select which team is which and the effect of pre-mades (or just bigger parties) being on T-side is just an error in the "coin flip generator" (=random number generator) as some implementations have either higher or lower chance of 0 than any other number.

Back in csgo lounge days there were multiple match fixes going on in the lowest tier of play that still got featured on lounge. I remember some low tier CIS matches being thrown that were 91 to 9% in favour of the other team and my GOD the way some of those teams threw made ibuypowers throw match look like professional players. And most of these cases never got featured in any major way. I actually won some skins on a few of these because I basically chucked some leftovers for the underdog teams every now and then, it was glorious. But people who were in the know about these absolutely printed money back in the days

I have a unsolved mystery: Why doesnt valve give a shit about the game, cheaters, servers from 1999 etc?

I wish we could get some more csgo lore, I love actual story in multiplayer games

this is definitely one of the most interesting videos ive watched in the past few years. great storytelling and well researched, good job heyzeus

i never understood why the ct's had to buy weapons but the fact they maybe are mercenaries makes alot of sense! (yes i know its to balance gameplay)

The story telling is unreal... love these type of videos!!! keep killing it !!

As per the V. shipping corporation topic: Hey, look! This is the lore of Escape from Tarkov, (sort of) but from the opposite perspective! In Tarkov, the BEAR faction are the good guys, eradicating the bio-weapons testing labs from their homeland, while fighting the USEC private military faction that are defending the Terragroup faction that runs the labs. Very cool!

I literally played against a 5 stack today and they started CT side when my team wasn't a 5 stack, so that rumor is definitely not true. It may have been true at one point or maybe it's true that you're more likely to get T side as a 5 stack but it's definitely not a 100% chance.

just so you know, many coaches did report the coaching bug and valve just didnt do anything. Many of the ones who did report it were also issued bans by esic.

you're like the National Geographic of CSGO

I love your longer videos mate, keep them coming.

TaZ getting the Mercedes will always get me sad, team had like a year or two left in the gas tank :(

Valve is doing just enough to keep people coming back. They would never prioritize growth when players just swallow up the sh*tty skins they decide to push into the game and the money still comes in fast pace. Why would they pull out the big guns, when old tricks still work and will work?

good video as always Heyzeus. Very informative as always, I went down nostalgia lane with a lot of these. Seeing Swag again WAS CRAZY. Talk about a blast from the past.

I remember being joined by a bunch of bots back in the day and it was impossible to kick them fast enough to queue. I think chiken was among them.

Banger video. Looking forward to your next degeneracy stream too!

i love the effort u put into ur research and i love u qt

great vid dude, really enjoyed it!

V Shipping Corporation probably a meta insert of Valve since they literally have set in motion the events of CS:GO (making them an actual shadow corporation). Also, payday the heist (the first payday game) has a heist set in Mercy Hospital from L4D where you have to extract samples from a patient. I don't know if it was ever stated that it was Canon, but it just gives more credibility to CSGO, payday 2 and goat simulator being in the same universe.

the payday 2 thing would go deeper than that, john wick is in payday 2, as well as h3h3, left4dead, scarface, and others. you could probably go on forever because left4dead is mixed with tf2, and tf2 has pretty much had a crossover with every game under the sun at this point.

About Matchfixing. There's a hilarious story about some dude wanting an estonian Team (OnlineBOTS) to throw a game around 2014. The estonians accepted, took their bribe, immediately told the admins about it, completely crushed their opponents, and finally revealed the attempted bribery a few days later, stating that imagining the astonished face of the person thinking of easy Skins via CSGOLounge (the cancer of early CSGO) motivated them even more to win the game. EDIT: found some old articles and corrected some statements

20:00 the bug - at least to my knowledge - was fixed shortly after the Tournament where chiken joined a NiP Lobby. We (people at 99Damage, german CSGO site) were able to replicate the phenomenon of joining foreign lobbies, whether they were public or private, though we don't know if the raids were done the same way. It was used by doing an auto-join to a lobby via the game start options. You needed the Lobby ID which you could read off of Friends List, via Steam ID or I think if the person streamed and showed the console while in Lobby. Ironically, I once had a lobby raid by chiken (I'm a quite random guy for that). When I asked some of the ppl I worked with about that if they were trolling me, they all denied. So maybe there's some other method or just another random guy wanted to have fun and did the work to get my Lobby ID. After a short while the join lobby-command was discarded or it was checked if the account was allowed to join the lobby (i.e. friends check with the lobby members), I can't remember. Quick search should give the answer. But yes, they fixed the issue.

About the goatsim one, Payday 2s map wasn't just "based off the csgo one" it was mutual, they were both based off each other. You can find 4 of the PD2 heisters masks around the csgo map, PD2 is canon in CSGO, and goat Sim is canon in pd2

Hey Heyzeus. You once made a video where the community ranked each knife. Can you make the same kind of video just with cases. A video where the community ranks each case from best to worst.

Great video! Love the effort and research put into this video! Great work👍🏼

20:16 I HAVE SCREENSHOTS OF THIS HAPPENING TO ME! We couldn't play for a WHILE. How crazy that it's brought up years later lol

Update 2023, there actually is a cs:go reference in the new goat simulator. if you head to a beach and collect 5 buckets of sand to build a castle with it, when you enter it, you can see the old version of dust with several enemies aproaching you when you finished building it.

We definetly need a csgo trading Iceberg, on that side more focusing on what the community has reached in deeply, it could be such a tragic Iceberg

you read me like a book on the last part of the video, i was only worried abt my skins lmao

As an old CS Player from Brazil i know for experience that "de_rocinha" or "rio" were peoples's favourite maps in Brazil.

Imagine knifing someone in a CSGO match and then getting knife IRL by the person you knifed in a video game 3 weeks ago💀

Why its called TAZ BMW when he got a mercedez?

Love your videos and the RuneScape music

watching your videos have become a morning routine now.

taz got a mercedes not bmw :D

The logo from train and nuke is also all over new season that valve released btw...

About overwatch - in early 2016 my smurf got overwatch banned, even though I never ever cheated in my life, I just used insanely high DPI in a few matches and hit some nasty shots with A LOT of luck involved... but I'm not a pro player, so obviously my messages to steam support have been ignored :) sad story

the thing about the VP story is that the "onwer" want to gift the car to Neo but he refused it so Taz took it and everything went south after that

18:50 I don't think that's the only reason running 5man on agency went so well for me...

How flusha keeps evading these types of videos is beyond me.

In reference to the cloud9 adderall thing, while I don’t condone people using basically a light ped in a competitive setting, adderall is not the magical drug people think it is. While it helps people with attention deficiency ascertain a more normal level of focus, it can cause people without adhd to develop acute hyper focus for a short amount of time. For example, I once scrolled through instagram on my phone for almost 2 hours straight because I was so focused off of an adderall xr. So my personal opinion is that it really doesn’t offer that much of an advantage, because it either gives people with attention deficiency a normal level of focus or gives people without attention deficiency either no significant effects or hyper focus that would be a detriment to gaming

They did add the ghost knife, but you need to wait for Halloween.

Taz's BMW was first meaningful crack which leaded to collapse of Polish Virtus pro...In one of the interviews pasha said that Neo felt really upset about it. In 2017 he was a team leader and he was doing his best to lead his team. He was great at it, and he counted on a distinction. Unfortunatelly he wasn't admired. He lost motivation to leading and since then Virtus pro was slowly sinking :/.

This is actually a pretty cool and well thought out video. Nice work man!

Nice vid man

12:13 oh my god, heyzeus mentioned payday 2! its my favorite game omg. also theyre called heists and the footage was heavily modded gameplay lol.

love your videos man :>

I am not sure about how the valve's server works , but its technically possible to delete skins from a server through RCE there can be counter measures to prevent that but it can be done and that is what RCE is, meaning if you know the back-end of the server you can execute any code that can perform any thing on the server side

What about the rumors that there would be a way to trade skins on banned accounts if u pay enough like u need ab expenssive inventory to get that help??

Taz BMW: proceeds to talk about a Mercedes 😂😂😂

a year late to the comments while catching up on TDM content but V shipping seems like its just the csgo equivalent of the umbrella corparation in resident evil, damn honestly wish they would get the lore fully sorted out already for cs storyline, it would be amazing to be honest and imo would make a great movie.

In Goat Sim 3 there is a small map based on de_dust2 called de_sand2

For the Skadoodle story, it wasn't that Ska didn't think $200 was worth his csgo career. It was more of the fact that the brookie didn't have enough skins to pay him out as he was paying everyone out. By the time the guy had enough money to give ska, the story broke out so ska decided to decline the skins

Taz bmw but he got mercedes benz?

Well said!

This is the best vid you’ve ever made

Leaving the station Holo sticker is the same as V shipping corporation logo. Must be reference to CS GO "leaving the station".

adderall and LAN events-name a more iconic combo lmao

I think V logo is on the tablet not because they run the games, but they are the ones who made drones and tablets, as a delivery company it makes sense

Would love a refresh vid of this now that cs 2 dropped

Four topics, NOVA and maybe sliver rank situation in OCE compared to the rest of the world (even look at shroud getting nova 4 in NA too, there’s some chart online about the rank distribution across each region. Harder to climb ranks nowadays I feel ) Also the server dosing saga from ages ago. Wingman didn’t have Anticheat in the Beginning so it was just HvH. Lastly, skin dupes, either exploit or Value giving back scammed items, believe they did it in TF2. Not entirely sure. Good video overall though

I'm pretty sure the lobby raiding bug is gone, basically you just went on their steam profile and pressed the green join game button. It was a fun bug for annoying random players and was a way to talk to enemy premade teams directly after a game by quickly joining their lobby no invites/friend requests needed ;:>

why is the oldschool RuneScape track "Deep wilderness" playing? Knew I knew u from rs days

i like to get a ground starer banned through overwatch, atleast once a day

cs is so popular they could make so many limited and new modes to try out in this game. maybe cs2 will let us see the new modes appearing again like scoutsman and demo and gun game and shit

Bank, has the payday 2 masks hidden around the map. Which is why the connection extends into CSGO.

Love your vids

Gotta love iceberg videos that just gloss over stuff because “it’s pretty well known”. No mfer. I’m watching an iceberg video to learn about it.

I lost my first and only esports bet on that Bug Clan game :)

i think the outline of the shipping logo is on the printstream

I never saw that covered on KZfaq but there is actually a ghost in cs that got removed in 2017

Just putting this out here as a long time player of payday 2, it has wayy more games and stuff/refrences in its canon than just cs and goat sim. It even has h3h3 podcast in it (dont think anybody liked this though...)

Nice Video!

I'm far from Dan M, but Byali is the only player I was ever fully convinced was cheating. His clips make Flusha's look tame.

Other copyright stickers are, "Harp of War (holo)" and the defuser and the king on the field. The Harp is obviously the best of them.

if you're making a iceberg video you should still do a short summary of what it is even if it's already explained in another video or if apparently everyone knows it (talking about the 3 u skipped in layer 1), some people don't know!!!

23:05 well, through some advanced rce shenanigans, could probably use it to steal skins

VP's Polish lineup was kept together for very long, compared to other teams, sooner or later every team is doomed to make some changes

Great video

Sooo, are we talking about Taz Mercedes or a BMW, cause these are 2 different car companies, make up your mind Heyzeus :D

next time add those massive inventories and stuff as well like that 10 million dollar inventory and all if yo u want ofc

7:00 Great video idea

So I definitely agree that valve puts you on certain teams as a 5 stack. I have played more than 100 games on agency and of my teams ranks are higher we will always start ct. for those who don’t know this is because it is heavy t sided (like all hostage maps)

I dunno about Ska not accepting the skins, i thought it was cause they ran out and said he'd get the skins later, but then ofc everyone got found out for throwing and cause ska technically never got the skins, he wasn't liable for the throwing.

C9 was 1000% on Adderall on those comms that match. It's not a drug that magically makes you better at video games, it's a bit like micro-dosing LSD to get that competitive edge. If you take 60mg of extended release salts you're not going to perform well in a match of CS you're just going to be hyperactive the whole time. If I had to guess I'd say their coach or a "friend" happened to bring it up and let them try it and they liked the effects and essentially over-dosed for gaining an edge in CS.

God, imagine a Payday 2 or 3 collab in CS2 with a cloaker CT skin and Dallas T skin.

Very great video.

I mean yes it may look like the admins are not enforcing the rules that strictly. But I rather bellieve that the reason why the admin was so chill is, that he knew that he couldn't load anything from the phone. It's likely that the admins have deisabled the majority of the usb ports in the BIOS so there can't be any data connection, just power to charge the phone.

Overwatch did false ban people, my twin got banned back in 2015 from overwatch and didnt get a vac ban, it permanently says overwatch banned on the main page

Good song choice

Lets gooo keep this up

Best explanation 👌 💟

crazy consiparacies the iceburg is crazy