I Changed TF2 Maps So You Can Go Anywhere

[@JonathanThe501st]

I'd love to see people continue your work and turn these maps into fully fleshed out and open areas to explore. Even if TF2 can't run it it would still be cool if you could explore them in GMOD. Maybe remove the excess props and turn them into sandbox maps. I know a lot of Gmod animators would appreciate that.

[@evdestroy4121]

TF2 could run it

[@doctorsam9200]

Check out "Free Mercenary Park" on the workshop, it's actually insane how many details they put into usually inaccessible areas. It even comes with a functional tram!

[@unr34L-]

I love how you say tf2 cant run it then instantly say gmod would LOL

[@monkeyboy3729]

How about a TF2 map with a full interior in the bases, for instance, the Mann Co. building on Bigrock would be even cooler if you could access some of the rooms and enter it completely, or 2fort, being able to fully walk around the facility and access the mess hall or sleeping quarters then walk down the hallway and get to the main control room like in “destructible 2fort” but with more!

[@theasexualidiot4803]

I can imagine an open world survival map with TF2

[@TARINunit9]

TF2 maps are such an interesting study. When you're actually playing them, all you think of is "mid point, flanking route, chokepoint, enemy spawn." But when you go and explore them, there are lots of little worldbuilding considerations to make them actually look like a company's warehouse. Like how many people would have noticed there were missile launchers in the Landfall spawn rooms?

[@TheSkypetube]

Someone with soul

[@BenevolentBratwurst]

I'm a big fan of the TF2 setting and had actually considered starting my own video series about obscure/unofficial TF2 lore that can be gleaned from map details. I've explored about 90% of all of the maps added to the game (including ones not in common rotation like cactus canyon, arena maps, seasonal/event maps, etc.) and the thing I'm typically looking for is strategic military, intelligence, or general logistic importance. I've been quite shocked at what I've found. There are 7 intelligence briefcases that are used as decorative elements in non ctf gamemodes, and there are more rockets & missiles in this game than I think anyone really realizes. Powerhouse is a massive rocket transport/storage/launch facility, and steel seems to be a major manufacturing or other logistics center in addition to storing a full ICBM above the center point. Don't get me started on junction. Vanguard, powerhouse, steel, and a few others have missile counts as high as in the 20's & 30's. Gravelpit has the sci-fi death laser thing on point C, and there's all manor of weird details hidden all over. Coldfront has a full ICBM silo off to the left side leaving first spawn, and the first/last points are elevators to presumably take personnel up to the surface. Many maps have strange areas, some with potentially mysterious significance, hidden directly beneath control points, like gorge, sawmiill, and snakewater, that use the same elevator hardware as coldfront. The most interesting things I ever found were some hidden short range missiles in sheds on viaduct (check behind some chicken wire in the buildings leading from spawn areas to the point) and the presumable strategic objective of highpass which is oddly asymmetric. Usually koth (& 5cp, plr, ctf) maps are symmetrical, either rotationally (2fort) or along a mirror plane (powerhouse, nucleus). This is mostly the case for highpass, except the Blu side is completely missing a small detail. Next time you're on highpass, when you're around the middle point, take a look at the red spawn building for some yellow and black shapes that don't belong on such architecture, and notice it is completely missing on Blu's spawn building. A few maps don't seem to have clear military objectives though. Metalworks and pipeline are just a bunch of refineries as far as I can tell, and some payload race maps have both teams trying to destroy the same exact target, which is just confusing. In banana bay, the train will hit one bomb or the other, what difference does it make? Does Reliable Excavation & Demolition or Builder's League United want to take control of a banana republic or something? Why are the mossrock and brazil radio towers important? What even are the nucleus and mountain lab devices? What are the mercs doing in Egyptian archeological sites? How the hell does asteroid play into this, if at all? These are the questions that keep me up at night, for better or for worse.

[@TARINunit9]

@@BenevolentBratwurst I can actually answer one of these: >In banana bay, the train will hit one bomb or the other, what difference does it make? Remember that RED and BLU are just money-sinks for Helen the Announcer to divert resources (and thus attention) away from something. This happened in SD_Doomsday, she was planning on using the mercs and Poopy Joe's rocket crash as a cover story while she made off with the Australium. She's banking on the mercs to not care enough to notice both sides are trying to blow up the same targets (and frankly she's bang on the money, the mercs DON'T care)

[@griffinbastion]

I take them for granted but i notice them

[@DJL3G3ND]

@@BenevolentBratwurst lol I noticed that for banana bay too, it makes no sense

[@MrSadisticLlama]

Imagine some fucking Thanos sized project of taking every TF2 map and somehow fusing it into a "TF2 World" where people can teleport from Dustbowl, into 2Fort, then walk into Gravel to defend one of the thirty of so points, all while keeping watch of the other 10 intels and spawn points.

[@KindaStupid.]

We would need bigger teams

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

@@KindaStupid. true!

[@theextremeanimator4721]

You'd need a RDR2-sized map in order to achieve such feat.

[@realPurpleOrb]

Although you'd need a big map for all of them, splicing maps with similar settings would be nice. Edit: I believe tf2 has 146 maps including arena mode but not any other unused maps, so splicing all of then together in a believable way is insanely hard, if not impossible Edit 2: Don't want to imagine mannpower + mvm

[@noonehere6994]

I feel like this will be an average battlefield 1 experience

[@Cow-Moth-With-A-CRT-Head]

*shows off rocks perfect for hiding ninja teleporters in* "Eh, I don't see why you'd want to be there." *shows rafters perfect for ambushing from* "I don't know know why you'd want to go up there but you can." I'd love to see how he plays on these expanded maps in an actual game and how fast he adapts to the shenanigans.

[@kevinthiago413]

Snipers would ruin it very quickly

[@kaiseremotion854]

@@kevinthiago413 ban snipers :>

[@veganlife1710]

@@kevinthiago413 more proof on why sniper should be removed

[@unspokentech5882]

Good vid, also about Mercenary Park, someone actually already did a fully explorable with no barriers version of Mercenary Park, with the exception they added a lot of new areas that fit within the balance of the map!

[@AviatorBean]

Is saw.big Joey in it

[@bunnytuber1697]

@@AviatorBean me too

[@user-qc1mc2ly8j]

workshop link?

[@peakwoop]

This series is so underrated. One of the most interesting and creative ideas I've seen but it gets barely any views :(

[@anonymoususer6912]

it was just 2 hrs ago

[@Pllid]

Sad

[@micefort]

Well there were many maps on workshop like that before the series so not so original i say

[@nottoofast]

Bro it's got 20k views 😩

[@ryanhernandez8324]

Go see Octo's stuff if you like things like this

[@virtual2288]

I don't know why but a lot of the maps look great for ninjaneering. If these maps would run on a server. Ninjaneer wouldn't be a bad option cause like there's so many just weird spots that do nothing so people won't really check.

[@sakura368]

the ninjaneer is ninjathere

[@goodgenes0]

ninjawhere is the nigganeer

[@juliewinchester1488]

@@goodgenes0 what

[@AaronMk91]

"I don't know why there's a wall around the air conditioning. Afraid people are going to steal it?" It's actually a building/OSHA regulation thing. It's wind protection to keep any workers from being blown off the roof when they are up there to service the AC units. It's not for their protection, they're far too heavy to be blown off normally or carried away, you need a crane for that.

[@Fayewylde]

Because as we all know, Mann Co. is FAMOUSLY the type of company that cares very much about being OSHA-compliant!

[@Vooman]

@@Fayewylde knowing Mann Co. subsidiary companies, they probably really do put them up to prevent other subsidiaries from stealing them, and it's just serendipity that it happens to be OSHA compliant.

[@silentdrew7636]

@@Fayewylde OSHA didn't even exist yet when this takes place.

[@zelculothesquid8201]

This is the TF2 universe we’re talking about though, so it’s probably actually there to protect maintenance workers from gunfire

[@ericyida8723]

The map compilation style is better than just one map per video, imo! Also I would love to see an open server using these moded maps, just to watch the chaos unfold lmao

[@bruschetta7711]

Agreed, it's also probably less stressful for him

[@duhdiamondz3493]

You're gonna blow up one day. Amazing content, no bullcrap intro of 2 minutes to subscribe, straight to the point, doesn't have any rubbish filler- this easily gets my approval.

[@Adrian-mq7sj]

I think he already blew up, TF2 only channels hardly get 40k subs

[@duhdiamondz3493]

@@Adrian-mq7sj fair

[@cheesepop7175]

oh god

[@Vooman]

9:47 it's an AC unit in the TF2 verse. BLU and RED probably steal each other's AC units constantly.

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

9:33 Weirdest part about that hole is the fact that it isnt modded, and is just there. I sometimes play the map just to hide there until someone finds me

[@ffwast]

I just built an engineer nest down there when I played it, great spot for that

[@monkeyboy3729]

I want 2fort to have a full interior, like you’re able to go to the main control room through a doorway, just like have the entire facility be open for exploration

[@thewatcher7818]

it's crazy how pier actually connects itself on almost every path way and little room are all accessible via pretty realistic path

[@ksfallenangel5770]

this favors engineers cuz you can hide teleports in more spots and, as an engineer main i love this idea.

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

Me too, and i am also an engineer main!

[@DarealCarlAqtf2002]

I am also a engineer main

[@BoogieBoy_]

imagine asking your demo friend is and he says “here” and you see three pixels moving in the distance

[@taskeshou2567]

This is nice. Also, something that'd make me happy would be if someone opened up the MVM maps.

[@cinnamoncat8950]

Thanks for the video, i had a panic attack and i quickly opened youtube to find a video to put my attention on instead of my panic attack, and yours was the first one in my recommendations, so thanks for helping me calm down

[@mastergame1311]

Dude, that side route on Pier with all these additional buildings feels so cozy.

[@Dwexy]

For Mercenary Park, there's a map on the workshop called "Free Mercenary Park" that does what you did but also adds places that isn't in the original map. Probably not the first one to mention this though.

[@bobross4576]

I wish there was a commun map with these kind of maps in the rotation, I just finished the video and heard you had a plan to do that, excited to hear if it's a thing : )

[@Magnum_Dong]

The one map I really need to see opened up is Upward. I remember as a new player, looking up and wondering what chaos would ensue if you could go to all of those buildings. Not to mention the fact that the map is one big circle, so it would be infinite flank hell.

[@aperson4287]

This just makes me think Merc Park would be a great Mannpower map if you made the boundaries a little wider.

[@theiris1002]

I feel like this kind of stuff would be cool for the new 100 person lobbys

[@jerr4rd-4lways-d4-b3st]

Man this series if how I found you, and even then I still love this. Also if you ever make a server of your own, adding all of these and calling the server "TF2 released" would be a good idea.

[@OddCanuck420]

This episode has a distinct lack of small walkways between two closed doors but that has been replaced with the hilarity of electrical outlets plugged into other electrical outlets

[@grimendstone]

There’s a map called free_mercenary park and it’s like open merc park but it has working pods, a fly able helicopter, and a giant elevator at the last point.

[@time_keeper643]

18:00 in ancient times, engineers used this room to trap their team using teleporters

[@peanut8146]

I love how pier is so connected, but I feel like red team would have a difficult time there with the open areas

[@LordVader1094]

So I misunderstood the title as meaning "connecting all TF2 maps to each other" and I suddenly had a vision of basically what would be an open world of the entirety of the Gravel Wars territory that the Mann Brothers are fighting over

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

There should be a map with a naturally accessible skybox. Maybe with a giant sizing ray or something such.

[@zombiecoco]

there is a map that i know where you can get in the skybox and its called ctf_free2fort i think

[@alien31ita]

@@zombiecoco yes and that's mine, also this youtuber is apparently disrespecting me, by removing my comments.

[@cheesybeard]

@@alien31ita what youtuber?

[@alien31ita]

@@cheesybeard the author of the video, i posted the link to my map, since i am the creator, but he removed my comment... kinda shamefull ngl...

[@cheesybeard]

@@alien31ita whos the author? you just say author, and not the channel name.

[@tropicalbreeze1164]

For a game that highly encourages movement and physics usage, the maps are kinda restrictive aren't they?

[@bruschetta7711]

I mean it would suck fir a heavy to go around the map tho

[@Dementia_Springtrap]

@@bruschetta7711 “Lap one, START!”

[@shitanotosaurus]

@@bruschetta7711 this is true, but this is ALSO why teleporters are so good now. imagine how good it would be when a heavy takes 5 years to get to the fight!

[@Kyrieru]

From working on game areas, I can say that making the background is actually one of the most fun parts, because you get to "paint" a background with 3d objects while knowing the player will never get close enough to scrutinize them. It feels like free quality for way less effort than most things take.

[@ambi_cc8464]

Pier is my favorite map, glad to explore it more in depth out of bounds outside of gmod, and see what new spots could potentially be opened up from removing the playerclips

[@emmajaubert6249]

16:25 lol he's where i spent most my life

[@randomprimary]

Imagine being able to use hammer, you freaking wizard

[@somerandomguyintheinternet]

Imagine an official map like this. Eh, who am i kidding, valve wont do that, or would they

[@eblom366]

there are grappling hook maps but the gamemode is boring

[@staryoshi06]

Hydro

[@GuerreiroAventureiro]

i hope someone do the dustbowl where you can go everywhere without that fences which separate in 3 parts

[@1goatwithagun]

Someone did it already

[@somerandomgamer8504]

Ayyy, love this series! Was just watching the last one!

[@penguinimptheinsane774]

On the plugging electrical sockets into each other thing, plugs aren't even made pronged on both ends because of how dangerous that is

[@thebarrel1051]

I think you should *probably* edit some map, like put some stairs in other places so that you aren't forced to pick soldier,demo, or scout for height management

[@gugalaxy7772]

This puts "THEY'RE IN THE TREES" into another perspective.

[@soundrogue4472]

You don't realize but the behind area spy now has an advantage on and can use as a run away method; even assuming spy gets himself cornered, dead ringer and even then dragging the enemy away from the intel.

[@tophatter7700]

I quit tf2 and quit watching tf2 stuff cause i got all my items scammed. Which were worth up to 1000 dollars. But i saw this video and i decided to watch it. Cool

[@tsamuki9044]

Might be a dumb question, but are your metal textures shinier than usual? Idk, just seemed different, is it like a mod or something?

[@nameless......................]

i would love to trimp on lots of these

[@hardlyanydiggity3953]

27:07 don't worry you pronounced it right

[@chor7998]

i can't wait to play Team Fortress: Oddysey

[@zlaggaming68]

This just makes me want sniper having a grappling hook like the pirate in pvzbfnv

[@RRanun]

34:12 I thought that trash was a ded medic.

[@vincent7584]

18:40 u can walk on these normally in version with boundries

[@dapperfield595]

Funny how many people don't know about that secret river room in Pier, it's a great tele spot as long as the enemy team doesn't have smart spies.

[@awerelia]

I can't wait to eventually play these with people, and hopefully the server won't fill up immediately, true chaos will be so fun.

[@PrismaticAngel]

Seeing this video reminded me of when I played around with the first person mode glitch in Ratchet and Clank 2 to wallclimb into areas which were normally inaccessible

[@galegopaulista4564]

I'm so happy to see Mercenary Park and Pier in this series! They're some of the most interesting maps to explore. Now I'm just wondering what it'd be like if Hydro was opened as well...

[@r0llinguphill483]

They really need to do this officially. Engies need more places to hide fun sentries, spies to hide their lying evil asses, and pyros to drop out of from nowhere leaving us all terrified for hours.

[@CHILLIN2540]

There's a lot of maps like this, usually referred to as "free" maps, you should check them out.

[@user-de3lr7zx3i]

Some people are creating maps like this with even doorways to these places you can’t normally got to and health and ammo packs too

[@shaldurprime7154]

Big Joey and the gang explored a similarly modded mercenary park, but the map is all unified and it has a working tram circuit added

[@mrziiz6893]

In the park you (or more specifically whoever wants to like make it) should place the kill boxes on the crocodiles themselves and on the train for lols

[@mysterythekitsune2988]

Thenkast two maps are among my favorite open up these you want to play with as many players as possible like 32 and above.

[@isenokami7810]

So, quick question: would you consider running other maps you’ve covered on your server, besides these expanded existing maps? I mainly ask because of the Chao Garden map you looked at ages ago: I always felt like the racetrack area would be great for deathmatching. I’ll admit there’s little point in having the rest of the map in TF2, though, I honestly just want deathmatching in the Chao Race area.

[@CoolPlayersVic]

Ayy we back I never realized just how beautiful Mercenary Park is!

[@genethebean7597]

You should check out the party room in the back vent of Blu spawn, if you were not already aware of it.

[@sobot_]

Underrated but make it more short and concise. Love it though.

[@jocosesonata]

I'm waiting for the one madlad who will take all the official maps and stitch them all together. Making one Megamap.

[@indigomer]

Someone draw the “Boat sniper.” I wanna see it.

[@barneytrouble4447]

i imagine upward would be an interesting map to open up, there wouldnt be much to see, but the gameplay will be... interesting

[@theextremeanimator4721]

I've always wanted a sequel to "What if TF2 maps had no boundaries"... ...i forgot that i got my wish a months ago.

[@j.a.m.m]

The spot at 9:33 is actually already accessible on the normal map.

[@MaxiSniper]

Damn i had that idea in my head for 2 years but didnt really knew how to do it so its cool to see someone finnaly did it

[@algernon7272]

I don’t care if snipers would be incredibly over powered and not fun to fight, I’d 100% play on a sever hosting these fully accessible maps. It allows so much opportunity for players to do whatever, not just combat oriented, there are multiple spots I was like “dude I’d love to have a friendly party there.”

[@amp120voltage]

Any Cp map with this level of openness would be amazing

[@iambumbo7534]

mercenary park: *has colour and details* blue: w a t e r

[@KimFareseed]

27:43 Good thing engies can't normaly build in that water. Would be even more annoying to deal with their forward base.

[@KameronEX]

from the title I thought you linked up the most known maps all together so you travel between them as one big map

[@lisaridener7514]

I feel like if you made the map bigger and then added some boundary so you don’t go like out of bounds or into an area that would ruin the look or “immersion” but you wouldn’t have to add a lot more stuff to the first one and I don’t know about the other one since I haven’t watched all of it yet but I still think if people decide to do that it would be a really fun map

[@lisaridener7514]

TLDR if you added more stuff to the areas that you would usually not be able to go to and stop people from falling out of the map or seeing behind the map it’d be really fun to play I think

[@BogoLiver]

"Tf2 maps have always been a strange case to me."

[@Dutch_vanderlinde17]

This map is broken for me the the sky doesn't appear and there are few missing textures and broken textures

[@helix2331]

If you ever do this again, banana bay is a fun one for this! the train keeps going and it just drops you off in the void!

[@storygloade5811]

i think the cables on pier are just cables being routed or something and they go to operating stuff idk

[@biinerfiiner]

Yeah. I think a Halo-esque BTB mode would be real fun

[@dougthedonkey1805]

Welcome back to “this would be a super fun map of sniper didn’t exist”

[@mortimersteele]

Quick fix medic + sticky jumper demo on this landfall would be mad

[@TimkenBearing1111]

Fun Fact: Big Joey and his friends played on a version of Mercenary Park that was fully explorable with some extra stuff to really make the map shine. You should check it out!

[@Hzdya]

These are my favorite series lol

[@wooflakes]

Rounds with these maps will surely get chaotic!

[@Narinjas]

as primary allow only the Sydney Sleeper or the Huntsman and sniper is fixed for these maps

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

This is great series if you can call this so

[@frostfrozen6221]

Trimping would be crazy given all the slanted surfaces

[@stickbound]

23:39 that's an beautiful view

[@kimgkomg]

Can't wait to play on the server

[@joeltablettitili9648]

New idea for a mod +opened up maps (like in this video) +new features like Easter eggs new ammo and health boxes and flank routes. +Arena.;)

[@boxfan2009]

Great blue: You will probably need a beefy computer to run most of these maps. Me: fu*k

[@arensemini2801]

i feel like great blue should do this again but with smissmas versions of maps or just smissmas maps

[@outspade]

Came here to learn who the director from club penguin was, left without that knowledge but still not disappointed

[@thetashe4474]

Awesome! If you need help with maintenence, let me know!

[@ARC-XXVI]

At 6:14 the first thing I thought of would be combine snipers.

[@mistermiles3271]

I think you should invite a bunch of people to actually play the edited maps with Soldier or Demo to see the game play changes in action

[@striderwhiston9897]

58th tf2 youtuber to open up all maps such a unique idea

[@staryoshi06]

Changing the skybox shouldn't break areaportals. You just need to make sure that areaportals completely separate two different areas.