What If Steel Had No Invisible Walls? - TF2 Maps Without Boundaries

[@karlbischof2807]

After playing the game for so many years i never realized how immersive the maps can be if you had freedom to explore them

[@virtual2288]

Same

[@alephcake]

I only realized now that the 3 caps at dustbowl are 1 map and you actually play on the whole map, and the control points indicate that BLU are really taking over RED base, because they are starting from old RED respawn points

[@EmeraldCrowz]

Imagine this repurposed into like some GMOD map, with working doors and properly optimized areas so all the doors that lead to nowhere now go places and connect to other dead end/out of bounds rooms until it's a fully functioning facility.

[@bbittercoffee]

@@alephcake Bruh You can literally see the last captured point when a new round starts. It's just fenced off.

[@alephcake]

Yeah. For the longest time I thought that it was just another remote room with a backdrop looking like the base. But when I saw all the weapons lying around and all the blood spilled on the floor, I realized, that it's actually one löng map.

[@BenevolentBratwurst]

cp_vanguard would be a really different map without boundaries. There is a lot of interesting geometry outside of the map: parking lots with a few vehicles, bridges under construction, empty barns, etc. There's also some cool easter eggs with bird cutouts, signs, and general whatnot around the map.

[@UEAKCrash]

Steel has always been one of my favorite maps, very underrated

[@ARandomSpace]

Yeah, I really like how it plays around with the gamemode it's in. Very, very interesting. I'd like to see how Steel's concept (permanently cappable final point, optional other points making things easier) would translate into Payload or Mediaval Mode, or if there are other great ways to mess with the format of TF2's core gamemodes. Maybe 5CP and CTF would finally stop having those damn stalemates. Maybe KotH would stop being a pseudo A/D with rapidly-changing roles.

[@eclecticspaghetti]

Am I the only sick individual who really wants to see an actual game played on here?

[@virtual2288]

No... But you are deranged.

[@bruschetta7711]

This would just be a map where blu tries to cap E, honestly only E it's possible to cap, this would turn out to be an interesting KOTH map, if only E was left

[@crusadr_4966]

I mean you do have an Akechi pfp

[@tf2keller398]

I suggest doing cp_dustbowl next, since there is an unused place in the first area that’s above the second point that connects to the tunnels, which would likely be unbalanced as hell but interesting to see. It would need lighting added to it, though. And probably stairs.

[@kyokonull]

finally a new video where GB deletes every clip brush in existence

[@Gnome_Tank]

It's like the thanose snap all over again

[@MMMercia]

@@Gnome_Tank a double snap perhaps- oh wait that would just be 75%

[@ThatBeePerson]

YOU

[@ashtongiertz8728]

You know, there are maps in the workshop that already do this. Just search for the phrases "free" and "open" in the workshop and you'll find a bunch of maps like this. Although the "free" maps tend to have additional content to them, for instance "free mercenary park" made the monorail thing ridable.

[@Dommy1218]

You should definitely do Powerhouse. It seemed to be intented to have so much more space.

[@Spanishdog17]

Steel is one of my favorite maps because it's so big that it feels like a mission in singleplayer campaign. This makes it even cooler!

[@ashtongiertz8728]

6:23 simple; have an engineer sentry jump up to a a rooftop and place a teleporter exit there.

[@MauriSahara]

It's really cool to see you making this kinda stuff, and seeing you progress over the years, and even though i dont play tf2 anymore, its still fun to watch your vids, i will always cherish the fun moments we had on Orange Surf

[@TealTactics]

I'd be really curious to see what would come of cp_junction, might even make it slightly more playable? Surely it'd open up some real estate... right?

[@whitebag865]

There’s a video on junction uploaded now

[@gododoof]

Love this series.

[@zachb982]

If you gave all the classes increased vertical mobility, I could see playing on this being fun. Various weapons give different abilities, maybe like medic gets grappling hook, sniper can climb like in ctf2w, and engineer can throw buildings.

[@Loch_Ness_Lachster]

19:36 “capture the intelligence I guess”

[@festiveobeliskus]

15:50 It's nice that you found an easter egg and that its your favorite but are you really not gonna say the *actual name* of the map creator? cmon man. For those interested, its Jamie "Fishbus" Manson.

[@festiveobeliskus]

Especially since it's a video literally exploring how maps are made, I feel like the devs should be at least mentioned.

[@npc_blob1609]

Definitely agree, mapmaking is a tough hobby to rise to heights with and I feel like the community forgets how many maps in the game were made by fans.

[@TheRealFishyB]

It's ok, I'm used to it now. It's part of the territory - JM

[@Iteration456-8_codename_goblin]

I feel like blue is using this map review thing as an excuse to get the soldier base jumper achievement

[@walter1383]

PVZ cover for new outro music is awesome.

[@dsrocks6905]

An engi could sentry jump and place a tele on top of a building to let anyone get on that roof. Perfect place for snipers and sentry guns

[@staryoshi06]

It's honestly pretty fun to see someone else who is as interested in the background areas of tf2 maps. Sometimes I launch them in gmod or in spectator mode just to look around. I think hydro is honestly one of the best, a lot of the areas in hydro *feel* like background areas, but aren't.

[@staryoshi06]

Also adding initials or references to other maps is actually pretty common.

[@bluven508blaze3]

Ah now I remember, there was one engineer on the blue team, that somehow was able to build a tele up on that roof area, and he literally placed a lvl 3 sentry up there, now this was on casual btw, so I was still wondering....how did he get up there, because you mentioned that there were two doors blocking that pathway, probably did an exploit and used it to their Advantage, and let me tell ye, it was no fun at all, to have a sentry have an aerial view of the last point

[@TheRealFishyB]

Fun fact, a lot of these little doors that connect areas together were actually old connections between points that were blocked or changed after testing. Good observation at the first red spawn, that metal grate on the floor that goes to that underground path used to exist but I thought it was fun to patch it over instead of removing it completely as little nods to these old expired ideas and gives the map little baked in stories. -JM

[@Aelfraed26]

14:23 you can actually get up there by jumping from the box in the capture point

[@slamsun6969]

yay this is a series now!

[@derpcade]

That turbo dismount music hits hard

[@ssssssssssssssssss50]

5:05 “if you’re really good at rocket jumping which i’m not, you can go up here like i just did”😅

[@DinoBoiRex]

my man out here putting turbo dismount ost as his bg music good taste

[@MaestroAlvis]

This kinda makes you wonder about the map making process. Maybe they start building out the environment and then decide what the map actually looks like

[@npc_blob1609]

They do, they make everything out of grid textures so the focus is on gameplay, and after it's been playtested a lot they can start deciding how areas should make sense in the world. You can find tutorials on TF2 mapping on UEAKcrash's KZbin channel or TF2maps.net

[@ziqrsx]

10:20 “this would have collisions so you couldnt just hide in the models” cp_gorge’s no collision terminals in spawn: we do a little trolling

[@Dante901]

New location has been opened S E N T R Y

[@SeanRobertMason]

If this cp_steel_open map gets made, new players might need a mini map as steel is already confusing. Lots of new players would get lost. Poor schmucks.

[@drucy.]

10:43 That would make an excellent sniper/sentry perch for the defending team ! Please Valve, update the map to add that !

[@drucy.]

14:24 Also, you CAN jump there as any class in the regular game by crouch jumping to it from the wood boxes on the point behind you.

[@drucy.]

Finally, fun fact about 22:52 : there's a nav mesh bug in the regular game that actually connects this room to the point, as if the window didn't exist. So if you play cp_steel with bots, the BLU bots will actually all gather in the room and against the glass trying to get to E, but will remain stuck endlessly jumping against the glass.

[@ChoomOfDoom]

8:00 Honestly, that looks like a place you would spawn if Tf2 had a singleplayer campaign. Like, a chopper would drop you off and that looks like an entrance

[@krunal_466]

btw i can see that you set the timer to a massive number, but instead of that type mp_tournament 1 into the console before the waiting for players countdown ticks down so no need to worry about the time limit

[@letthatsinkin8569]

4 me dat command dosent work. u know how to put the timer to a massive value?

[@samm_2564]

yes

[@thorrinzellmer8770]

I cant help but feel that this would be a lot of fun to play on with Zombies mode, If the zombies have a way to get everywhere.

[@RayanfhoulaBR]

Finally,map download

[@Matzu-Music]

To be honest, an expanded version of steel sounds like a great idea! I think I'll call it steel_dx.

[@mayochup]

13:59 op sentry spot (if buildable there)

[@RandomStuff-uy4fl]

I love the new logo

[@starleye218]

the turbo dismount soundtrack fits to anything

[@radekmilewicz6192]

That's what I was waiting for

[@duckmcduckerson1957]

This map (if ever played) is a very momentum based map. If you can push through [A] red will have been scrambled and if you still have a push [B] would be considerably easier to cap. [C] is pretty balanced and If you're still riding the high of [B] you could reasonably expect to cap it (fastest cap problaby). [D] is ugly. That's really tough to get past. [E], I think, is attack biased. It gives blu so many ways to attack unseen, unbothered, or otherwise. Pretty good.

[@duckmcduckerson1957]

The classes you want to play on this map is the god forsaken ssssssquad. Soldier and scout to be able to navigate and move throughout the map easily. Sniper because there are alot more sniper perches and spots than before. And spy, because of the excessive amount of small hidey-holes for you to make an escape or prepare for an attack.

[@xeron_7433]

With these projects of removing barriers from maps, I wonder how well stitching together maps with similar aesthetics could work purely as a community-type map with no objectives.

[@achmodinivswe9500]

You could put the blue spawn door to B after the door to blue spawn, then if someone spawns under spawn you can go outside from the lower level

[@Owenbot3000]

This would be a good zombie survival tf2 map

[@AshnSilvercorp]

Glad this is happening with Steel. It's a wonderful map. Except B. B sucks.

[@Aaokke0]

i love this series

[@MikkyIGuess]

oh boy, time to do this again

[@jumpinghunter9152]

This is probably the easiest way to make TF2 gameplay super immersive and interesting. Can you please make a video of playing on this maps with your friends or on samwiz1 server, if you unable on your? It would be cool to see how it works in real gameplay, not in exploration

[@Wams66]

Next map you make, host it on a server to play on

[@PineappleDealer37]

Hey, can you do it with badwater?

[@alephcake]

He did it

[@binbows2258]

VERY good video

[@humanharddrive1]

would be perfect for 100 players, but i don't like how you opened up whatever grates were in the floors that lead you to brazil. the floor is sacred. i don't know why but the way you said you can capture the intelligence was really funny

[@linusdickens4767]

Do dustbowl or doublecross next

[@unused7629]

dustbowl would be kinda cool, since you can see the capped points after a victory cap from the fences

[@linusdickens4767]

Doublecross also has a lot of cool areas

[@appyr]

He has turned TF2 into TF2. (Team Fortress 2, Titanfall 2)

[@mm3shadowman982]

E stands for Extreme Engineer Encampments

[@shaldurprime7154]

17:30 is that turbo dismount music i hear in the background? its so faint

[@sharcc2511]

you sound like hiccup from how to train your dragon Also E just feels like a mini version of nucleus

[@COMoment]

Name Idea for this map (I also gave possible names for the other maps you've done, check out that comment too!) CP_Platinum. Exmpahsises the bigger nature of the map

[@sveisik]

Sick

[@sn0ipe333]

Okay now do what if turbine wasn’t a completely symmetrical choke point

[@breadiztasty]

Now we shall do it in hydro

[@eliana68]

Haven't watched the video fully yet so I'll edit this comment when I do: Fun fact: there is a secret room that I don't think you can find easily in game, I forgot where it is (who knows it might actually be in a different map) but it's a big dark room with doors leading to I think 2 big rooms with doors blocking the entrances to them at the time of writing he hasn't found it Edit: he didn't find it, I'll decompile the map when I fix my PC and put a link here to a screenshot

[@ziqrsx]

your computer fixed yet

[@eliana68]

@@ziqrsx I have and completely forgot about this comment I'll do it tomorrow as I'm going to sleep

[@marioforever230]

@@eliana68 Did you forgot again?

[@eliana68]

@@marioforever230 yes

[@cthulhuplays6097]

Time to go cap the intel on steel

[@benandgabrielgamerbros6039]

Do dustbowl, badlands, badwater, lakeside, and gravel pit

[@chexo3]

Now you have to remake this video.

[@Mikeera]

am i crazy, or is the music in this from turbo dismount-

[@c-h-a-d]

Pog

[@r0niii_]

Did you remove areaportals, occluders and hints again? They are optimalization things and when you remove them then the game works worser. Removing boundries shouldn't break anything

[@dolsimon]

PET THE COW

[@DL-SUFF]

I watched this video to fall asleep but now I'm intigued and lost the desire to ZZZZZZ, Can't believe how much stuff we don't get to see in these maps

[@shadowman_44]

Has the creator of Steel seen this?

[@TheRealFishyB]

yes

[@AmyGoo22]

but can you build on every roof?

[@faesommers]

is “going to brazil” a euphemism for dying?

[@jackiegergits5935]

imagine playing hide n seek in this map

[@DrillEntertainmentNetwork]

i love steel

[@W74_Pizza]

is that fucking turbo dismount music in the background

[@aizazelshenanigans4147]

do hide and seek on the map in this state

[@ontiveros4arroyos]

The Subtitles💀💀💀

[@MiruTheBest]

Maybe you play the map with bots?

[@peteplayss7426]

Cool

[@VoidJakie]

What map is that 0:03

[@neosketch27]

Jamie Manson

[@theextremeanimator4721]

I sped this up to 2x

[@landlockedcroat1554]

remove random crits

[@averagenecoarcfan]

tf2 but a tactical shooter

[@gabe_gaming9107]

Injiana dones

[@alisonbrownrigg77]

Tf2

[@marioifherealin2013]

Tf2

[@randomm8242]

Tf2

[@speedykenzo7536]

WHAT THE HELL IS THE SUBTITLES AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@blacephalussy]

O

[@krunal_466]

Omg third comment