The Rise and Fall of nobkz - A Kreedz Documentary Video | nobkz.de - 2009-2020

[@fr4gility]

great job! feels strange to see a video about your own servers, but very nice! brings back a lot of nostalgia :)

[@POLARTTYRTM]

_"The end of nob KZ reminds us that nothing is forever, but the legacy things leave behind far outlives those who created them."_ Such an important line at the end of the video, you created your legacy and laid the ground to form today's greatest players.

[@Nico1080]

thx for making theses nobkz server, it were i started to play and learn kz, it will stay my favorite server forever !

[@ilijastankovic8495]

Very good! THIS is the type of content 1.6 kz needs. Very good job to all involved. And thank you for sharing THIS with us gbc!

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thank you. I always say 1.6 deserves more than what it is given, more than videos of people just surfing or jumping, THIS is the type of preservation 1.6 needs, not just random videos, as videos like this have a much bigger change of reaching a wider audience even outside 1.6 or kz and make them appreciate the game or just some story about something, and it works, look at the channels covering things like this and how successful they are. I want to try this with 1.6.

[@untitledplayerMediks]

it's such a great feeling watching a documentary about anything related to cs 1.6, thank you

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thank you, my friend. I'm speechless with how well-received this video has been so far.

[@keNNzooo21]

Thanks for your efford and for this amazing video gorbachev ♥ It was a pleasure to be a part of nobkz

[@POLARTTYRTM]

My pleasure to bring a video like this to people to relive things and fondly remember good times.

[@Nico1080]

nice video i feel so nostalgic to see this and thx for mention me on it, hope to see you more doing these type of video!

[@POLARTTYRTM]

If I get access to more information, I definitely will be making more of these. This type of video is too important NOT to make.

[@mohammadhossein8089]

What an amazing trip down the memory lane this was. While I personally never really spent too much time on any online servers (apart from my brief active period on kz-endo at the beginning of my kz journey,) this video still manages to make me feel nostalgic. I'm glad to be a small part of this community, and I'm glad to see you making content again, gbc. You seem to be doing a lot better, and that makes me happy. - JmPix^

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thank you for the kind words, my friend. Unfortunately, I'm going through the worst time of my entire life now. It would take me weeks to tell you and explain you everything but I have to try my best to put everything aside to spend the 3 days it took to make this video.

[@mohammadhossein8089]

I'm sorry that you're going thru a though time then, buddy. I'm sure you'll figure a way out of it, gotta let u know that you deserve the best, and I'm sure you'll get there.

[@exro]

i have no connection to 1.6 kz or movement gamemodes but i could tell how beloved of a gamemode and community this was. i too feel the same about certain communities i was once apart of, and even though i didnt share the same experiences and nostalgia as your during this video, i think you set the mood perfectly and made me feel nostalgic even though i wasn't there! what a beautiful work of art this was.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Reading this comment single-handedly proves everything I've ever said right. No one is gonna watch a video of someone jumping a map and redoing the same movement in the same jump hundreds of times in a video that only people inside this super duper niche inside CS would understand as it can be quite complex to understand what is going on. A documentary and storytelling are far more engaging as they reach people and captivate them as they see history, stories, etc, instead of diving headfirst into one of the most complex and difficult game modes to ever exist inside a game where almost no one knows what is going on and being done, sometimes even the people that play it sometimes have a hard time understanding what is going on in a certain video. Reading this is the proof I needed that this reaches far wider audiences even completely outside the game and because of the storytelling they are able to stay in focus and engaged with the content because it is nothing technical and tells you stories. Just look how many game documentaries are successful even for people who have never heard of the game in videos documenting this type of thing, I have so many examples... thank you for this comment. I didn't believe I could pull this off with just 3 days to make the vídeo, and this level of editing and atmosphere, so this comment just shows that everything I've ever said is more than right about making this type of vídeo instead of regular KZ content. The problem with making this type of video is gathering information, demos, videos, and screenshots, which in most cases are lost to time, and information is always better when you can actually see it. Also, that's the reason this type of vídeo didn't happens years ago, lack of information. I still have my old projects though, but the lack of information makes creating a video on the topics I chose pretty much unviable as they would just be a book missing the bottom half of all its pages. Thanks a lot for the compliments about adding a whole atmosphere to it, I really tried my best and I am impressed with myself for being able to make this in just 3 days and making it look actually pretty good and sound good too with the atmosphere I was able to create, especially because I don't consider myself a video editor, all I've made to date a very simple videos anyone can make in less than 5 minutes, I've never done something like this before and never though I could.

[@gsera1]

great job gorbachev, you are very right, this type of video attracts a wider audience not just from 1.6

[@POLARTTYRTM]

This is what we need, enough of videos of people jumping blocks, shaking camera and gochecking 5000 times.

[@amseager]

Fine job! And it's actually a pleasure to see your own nickname in such a documentary even though you're just among the ones who "weren't able to even get close to throttle" :)

[@POLARTTYRTM]

You know how far ahead throttle was back in the day, dude just like betty_k 10 was 10 years ahead of people in hard maps until nike and Johnny showed up. Throttle was just an all-in-one player, he was, and still is, just the most advanced player we have ever seen in kz to this day 10 years later since he was active, one of the few to ever exist in KZ, the only one he can be compared to is g-Lp, throttle recorded everything that can be recorded in kz, just like g-Lp, except g-Lp didn't venture himself into axn, but throttle took the challenge, and while he didn't take on surf, g-Lp did, and still does.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

throttle will always, ALWAYS be a reference and an immense inspiration to me. It's incredible how versatile he was and ahead of time he was compared to everyone. He was acing technique maps years before the rise of nike and okazys or shooting-star. What he did cannot be understated, especially for recording every single type of map kz has to offer.

[@fenikzzc3614]

Great documentary with a bunch of interesting info. I'm not really part of nobkz community, but I really appreciate any info from those days. Big credit to you and everyone who has involved. Kreedz deserves content like this.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thanks for reinforcing my words.

[@runaway7319]

This brought so much nostalgia.. i can remember the times in Ankh when someone was playing and 10 people were spectating just chatting and talking for hours and hours. Amazing times. Amazing video!

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Many of these videos on Ankh with tons of specs watching someone doing a record on a hard map are on my channel. As always, hard maps are being played.

[@MattiCore]

I started CS "1.5" with my 6 years older brother in 2002. I remember, later in CS 1.6 when he told me during our school holidays kz is cool but 250lj at aa10 is very very very hard! Almost at the end of holidays after 6 weeks I did it and he bought me my own copy of CS and created a steam account for me

[@POLARTTYRTM]

That's a pretty cool story. My brother and I have been playing CS since around 2002 too, but I could never get him into surf/kz/bhop.

[@arc-sd8sk]

amazing vid man thank you 🙏 I run a lonely lil kz server to keep the dream alive :) over 1000 players have come and gone over the years!

[@CyberSZ]

watched the entire video, what an awesome work you did here dude.. i hope this video blows up

[@POLARTTYRTM]

May Goddess Raluca give a blessing to my channel now and make it blow up with views.

[@CyberSZ]

@@POLARTTYRTM 🥰🤑😍😜🤪🙄😇👿🥳

[@laoslyxid]

very nice documentary mate! i´ve felt sad but also happy watching it and reminisce about the past. Thx for this!

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Sometimes the sadness you feel from watching something like this means something good, because you know you were part of something good and helped create and keep it, so in your case, you were part of it, your sadness means you are fond of all the story and what you took part in which is now part of 1.6 history and laid the foundations to today's players. Thanks for being part of nobkz.

[@laoslyxid]

@@POLARTTYRTM yes you are right, it was such a good time. Thx for reminding me/us of it and honoring it with your documentary!

[@fanzhen0019]

finally youve made this step, still remember the dialogue on steam in which we've discussed that 1.6kz needs such contents so much. crazy that your voice was born for this

[@POLARTTYRTM]

It is a very expensive AI I paid for with a money I didn't have (aka I absolutely couldn't spend), but had to so I could make something for the community.

[@fanzhen0019]

@@POLARTTYRTM LOL then it's super effective

[@POLARTTYRTM]

@@fanzhen0019 my voice would never make it, it's just... let's say, not pleasant to listen to, and weird.

[@CyniuThunder]

I wish to comeback to this video at some point in the future and hopefully see how algorithm pushed it to broader audience because that would be well deserved.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

It has to get recommended by the algorithm someday... youtube has been suppressing my videos for 8 years now, I barely get any views, so a lot of work in a video like this and never get it in the algorithm, especially being a game documentary would be really upsetting because it costs money to do it and I can't spend and can't keep doing it if it pays off by being recommended like other people's videos exactly like this one.

[@PoGdAb]

Im not that deep into Kz nowadays, since im a deathrun player but wow. I loved this from start to end. It was legit like a documantery proffesionally done. Amazing work and very different and unique from most of the Jumping scene videos. Its like a history teaching and also other info included that some people may remember or new to find about it, Great job gorba you did your thing with this one right here👌❤️

[@POLARTTYRTM]

I tried to make this kind of video years ago but no info was available which made making the videos impossible, but lrs made this possible about nobkz. I sometimes think about making the other older projects I had anyway, even with most of the information missing.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

I'm impressed, I didn't think I could pull such kind of video off with so much research that lasted until the last minute of making the video, up until minutes before rendering because I had to gather so much material to show on the screen because I didn't want to just say information, I wanted to SHOW them.

[@PoGdAb]

@@POLARTTYRTM Yea nah, it was definetly worth the watch. and surely would love to know more stories and similar stuff to that documentery. without exagerrating or anything, this video was a masterpiece to say the least. Never seen any cs 1.6 video like that. a whole new topic and idea. loved it!

[@POLARTTYRTM]

@@PoGdAb I planned a video about the trajectory of script, from a bullied player everywhere to one of the most respected players of today.

[@PoGdAb]

@@POLARTTYRTM Oh That would be a rlly interesting doc right there too. nice idea. And i hope u do more documantaries and stay consistent with it by dropping one here and there when u can. ( i know it may take u a lot of time, but these right here help build the game a lot and they're just like a movie. nobody else does this, so keep it up bro great job)

[@majmik9704]

what a great video, thank you so much! wish you all the best

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thank you, brother. Wishing you also the best.

[@zollnerderjens5684]

Amazing documentary through and through! Got a question, since you've mentioned Wirtual's videos, have you considered picking a map and show how the record improved over the years due to players getting better, finding sc, new tech was discovered, etc?

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Yes, my first video in this style was actually about this exact idea, but due to the lack of information, making the video was impossible because so much things would be missing. I intended to make this video on a map that would cover 2 players about 2-3 years ago, but as I said, the lack of info was so much and no one wanted to help with the info as they were exclusive for the players that recorded the map, that I gave up. This type of documentary should have been happening for years now from me but only last week I had a breakthrough that made this particular video possible. Now let's see if I can make more videos like this.

[@memkowaty]

thank you for putting so much work into it! great old times

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thanks, the amount of work that went into this was really, really big, I still can't believe I edited this in 3 days and had so much material to show on the screen for 25 minutes! I'm still amazed that I could make this type of video because I could make so much research and show the info.

[@BornInArona]

Started kz again, but it's tough tho! Still fun AF!

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Much tougher today than before, mappers and developers came up with absolutely crazy unbelievable stuff to make maps crazy difficult and innovative.

[@BornInArona]

@@POLARTTYRTM on certain maps, it seems my mouse + keyboard skills aren't good enough in terms of speed and so on XD

[@nukkable]

thoroughly enjoyed the vid, thank you. hoping to see more of these :)

[@tomiproyectx]

Ruperto here from Argentina. What a great video! I remember when I played many hours per day on the Ankh server. Not under my current nickname😂, surely a totally different and fanciful one as I used to create them when I was a teenager (I can't remember it).

[@POLARTTYRTM]

el ruperto, me debes demos, tenes demasiados buenos tiempos en los mapas hard como topo. >:(

[@sebmilani8657]

Thank you Gorba for this deep and beautiful video. KZ community deserves this kind of content. It's been a long time since I've last enter a KZ server and I don't even play CS 1.6 anymore, altough everyday I enter to watch your videos (and Nico's). Unfortunately, due to study reasons and work reasons I stopped playing KZ 6/7 years ago. This game and particularly this mode gave me a lot of friends, who fortunately I still meet in person from time to time. I hope you get better and manage to overcome these problems you are facing. You have no idea how meaningful this content is for this community. Please keep up doing this kind of work. Thanks.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Ha! I recognize that profile picture! You're kakfaen. I still remember when I was playing with you and I was just ruining the mood discussing a bunch of sad stuff and you and someone else got into a very deep conversation that I still remember to this day, it was on endo and we were playing slide_svn_complex. Thank you for supporting me, I've always said this is the kind of content KZ misses and needs but no one does, I tried to make this for years and gave up because players refused to give interviews or just write down their history saying they didn't want "fame" or something like that, it's not fame, it's preserving history, it's storytelling. Too bad that in the future if I find a way to make another video like this, I'll need some funding to pay for the AI and other tools that I unfortunately don't have the money for because I'm legally disabled and can't work, and despite having all the papers, diagnosis, tests, everything, I still don't have a right to my disability benefits because they only give them in special occasions, this country really does not help anyone even if they are disabled and can't work, why I would so much like to just get tf out of here but I can't. I don't know how it will go in the future with more projects like this, if like 10 people gather and help me fund it, it would be great because for European and north American currencies the price I would have to pay is pretty much pocket change, but what it cost me to do this was a ton of money I didn't have and couldn't spend because our currency here is as worth as wiping paper after using the bathroom so it ends up being VERY VERY expensive as we earn basically nothing too. Good to see you around man, I don't know why you removed me from Steam, you seemed like such an extremely nice person from the kind I've never seen in the game before. No hard feelings towards that, maybe you forgot who I was, who knows. :P But it's SO SO SO good to get a comment from you. Thank you, my friend. I still envy you for living in the land of dreams... Norway. My personal paradise.

[@sebmilani8657]

@@POLARTTYRTM Hello again. I don't know how to say this because I don't like giving bad news, but since a video like this brings such real sensations, it seems to me that it's not okay to generate false illusions either. I am not kafkaen and I'm not from Norway (It'd be cool), but from Argentina. I played with a lot of people you probably know (buh, Huevo, CaBeZa, z0r, ​​Cupe, and a big etcetera). Even so, what you say is extremely valuable. As has happened to you with kafkaen, or other people, of which you have no news, it has happened to me with many players of whom I have no idea what happened, and with whom I had extremely deep conversations that I remember to this day. Fortunately, as I said, I still meet some of them in places that have nothing to do with a CS 1.6 server. I've travelled to different cities in Argentina to meet with them. I guess that's what the video, and life itself, is about. Although we have stopped playing, or we no longer frequent a certain place or activity, we still take away very beautiful people and priceless memories. I don't remember meeting you on servers, but I did suffer a lot with your gbc_script_x back in the day haha. Although I am not the one you are referring to, I am extremelly happy to be able to talk about this with you. Thanks, for real. I hope Brazil or Argentina (or Latin America in general) take health issues more seriously and from a scientific point of view. I don't have a strong currency, you surely know, but if people can donate a few bucks you should drop a link somewhere. Thanks again Gorba :)

[@POLARTTYRTM]

@@sebmilani8657 ah, you both have extremely similar profile picture. Yes, I should have put a link for people to donate and help fund projects like this in the future because dayum, what a price to pay for an AI. I cannot pay that money every time I want to make a video. :(

[@raheelscar5886]

great job! enjoyed watching from start to end

[@spartamuzic]

Great video my G. nobkz community and players = Top fun and good times. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Its legacy lives in us still playing and watching videos. I have so many friends I made on nobkz whom I am very fond of, not just the ones I mention in the video, but many others too. Too many friendships started there to even keep track of, friendships and memories to fondly remember in the future as being part of something good.

[@awes0me_]

amazing work bro !

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thank you, I put a lot of effort into this, really a lot.

[@fotohcbeta3924]

I am very sorry that I refused the offer of one of the players in 2011 to play on the nobkz project. I missed so much in my time, but I only became acquainted with the kz community in 2020, playing on the kz rush servers. Your video really touched me as I am very interested in the whole kreedz story. How did it all start? How did it develop? There is not much information about this, although all the screenshots and demos from those years may have already been lost.

[@danila1337bhop]

I'm still playing nobkz's maps in half-life kreedz

[@POLARTTYRTM]

We still play them on Rush.

[@princesshamburglar9659]

i had to pause this yesterday cause the nostalgia is just unbearable and i couldnt sleep lol. even if this is not my homemod (im a surfer) this just gets in my feels lol. awesome work on this video, btw wtf happened with your voice? nice narration

[@nathaniel5151]

We need more of this kind of content

[@POLARTTYRTM]

I've been saying this for far too long, but finally, after 2-3 years, I've had a breakthrough that made this type of video possible. I've been wanting to make videos like this for years but so much information was lacking and not available that the videos would be a complete mess and just a book missing half of its pages. I still have the screenshots and footage I planned to use as my first documentary 2-3 years ago, but the information is so scarce that making a video on it is not viable, not just this video but the others I wanted to make. Enough of videos of people jumping blocks and shaking camera and gochecking 5000 times, people outside the game have no idea what is going on, so I'll try my best to preserve the history of the game and player in a digestible way with storytelling instead of random videos of them playing maps that only us, the people that play the game would understand. Videos like this reach worldwide audience as they are not technical, they are storytelling.

[@nathaniel5151]

@@POLARTTYRTM yeah there is such a cool history to tell. A lot of the people who laid the groundwork’s in the early days no longer play and probably have kids and god knows what else real life adult shit caught up. Meanwhile the current top tier players are just in a league of their own when compared to the gods of the very early days

[@leucotomeless]

the one of its kind video, absolutely legendary!!! Also the view/like and view/comment ratio is insane, people love this and so do i!!!

[@POLARTTYRTM]

No flashy visual, vfx, cgi, cinema studio level of editing, just information and storytelling... you were right, information is what matters, and getting to SEE the information.

[@leucotomeless]

@@POLARTTYRTM the experience is just otherworldy. I am used to watching this documentary type of videos about mario speedruns, whatever speedruns, games, etc, and there i am now watching it ABOUT KZ??? LIKE HOLY SHIT, couldn't be better. Truly one-of-a-kind video! The only similar one i can think of is "The History of Kreedz" by Phinx. Although i do have to say that i got stunned with visuals of the video nonetheless, it's all just so classy and exquisite and stylish, i am in love with this...

[@leucotomeless]

the beauty in simplicity ;)

[@POLARTTYRTM]

@@leucotomeless the simplicity and the change in tone in the background music without a change in the tone of the voice is what sets the atmosphere apart. Each part has its own mood and atmosphere.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

@@leucotomeless "the beauty in simplicity" really applies to this video. It's good because it's just simple and effective. Also epic run by llazar. Surprised that you would quote the name of a video as an argument, haha, and it really does apply. I'll always use this formula, maybe keeping things simple is just the best thing to do.

[@ICE-AXE98]

Was surprised to see my nickname on 1:05 . I used to play aaaa lottt. Even did some moviemaking during the time. Amazing game and mod that will alwats stay in our hearts. Krater

[@MrGithar]

WTF strange to see, we founded No.B. just as a WC3 Clan and it was just my name Idea when i was 14. Good to know, people had fun from this

[@fr4gility]

Hallo Lars! ;)

[@POLARTTYRTM]

omg

[@tjornalist]

What a great video. Lets fucking go.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thank you, brother.

[@vkid_og]

nobkz and ankh kz will forever be the greatest kz servers. period

[@POLARTTYRTM]

I miss Ankh, it was crazy crowded when gbc_script_x got released.

[@MisterTobiii]

Good times on nobkz :)

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Your slide recs were epic.

[@DoubleUppp]

Great video!

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thank you, I put a lot into this, a lot.

[@rawe1337]

Nice video, Gorba.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thanks el rawerino.

[@Strikey2G]

Nice video! such a shame i never really played nobkz i was a phoogies/kz-endo boi

[@POLARTTYRTM]

I just played everywhere lol.

[@teneluxxbrissdiswisfismis]

Can u upscale the wallpapers from pls

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Sure! Where can I contact you to give you the upscaled wallpapers?

[@user-rh9xr8gg1x]

patchouli is the guy who got caught with cheats, right?

[@POLARTTYRTM]

nope. But I don't understand your question. A quadrillion players have been banned everywhere for cheating.

[@user-sv4fs2bd3j]

gbc is love ❤

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thanks, my friend.

[@kipod6898]

great video 🥲

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Thank you my friend, I hope my effort pays off in the future with more videos like this, but they are so hard to make...

[@multilakiks]

Nice to see my name in video 2016 , deam so long :(

[@just__khang]

Huh i thought nobkz is no bkz for the lpngest time

[@jakub_skoupy]

servers against Bulgaria XD

[@POLARTTYRTM]

If that was the real name it would actually be quite funny because of how strong Bulgaria always was in the kz scene, especially because of players like mgd, deedftw, shnz, ivansky, and so many others. Bulgaria is literally the second Sweden/Russia, home of the best players to touch KZ. Bulgaria was just too op in KZ back in the day.

[@CyniuThunder]

lol, I thought the same :D

[@kekw2661]

Bro you’re living in the past, can you just move on?

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Can't tell stories and preserve history anymore? Everything has to be about the latest events, maps, players...? I'm trying to preserve history and make something different that the community badly needs for years now.

[@Joytokey1231]

in 8:09 you mention a player called asdf which "no one knows" :D this guy is likely an israeli player called asdf(but with that type of name might be someone else) which is an extremely well known Israeli player, every israeli hns/kz/bhop player since basically the dawn of cs knows that guy. Infact he's likely the most well known israeli player within israeli 1.6 community. He almost never plays in international servers anymore which is why you don't know him.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Is it really him? His steam ID is visible and he has a finnish flag in the map ranks. Also asdf is the most common "random name" you can find in a game.

[@Joytokey1231]

@@POLARTTYRTM Yeah the name being so common does mean it might not be him, if I see him I'll ask him for u :D

[@POLARTTYRTM]

@@Joytokey1231 just take his profile and check his steam ID with the one shown in the video. :D Way more simple.

[@kimgjoma]

cheater dog

[@POLARTTYRTM]

cat

[@POLARTTYRTM]

my cat was hidden in my room yesterday for like 20 hours without me realise it thinking she was just outside. She finally spent time with me because she's always with my mom.

[@solimar596]

Fui procurar o servidor Ankh para jogar, e simplesmente não encontrei o ip... O servidores atualmente com 0 players Saudade da época do Kz