What Are Counter Strike's Most Popular Community Maps ?

This is a list of all the most popular CS community maps which is not definitive, I am not a judge here to say what is and what isn't.
Music:
JetSet Radio - Humming The Bassline
Bubsy 2- Egypt 1
Bubsy 2- Egypt 4-1
Aladdin (Genesis) - Camel Jazz
A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol- Area 1 ~ Area 9
Monster in My Pocket - Big Trouble in the Kitchen
Sunset Riders- The Magnificent Four (Title Demo BGM)
G-Police 2 - Weapons of Justice - Track 11
Command and Conquer Red Alert- Floating
Monster in My Pocket- Staff Roll
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0:00 intro
1:16 - de_dust4ever
2:27 - de_dust2002
3:27 - de_dust2_2006
4:58 - de_cpl_mill & de_cpl_strike
6:20 - de_rats
8:13 - de_westwood
9:26 - cs_italy2
10:21 - cs_assault_1337
11:22 - de_barcelona
12:23 - de_kabul
13:31 - de_abaddon
14:33 - de_alexandra
15:37 - honorable mentions & outro

[@dezolance]

Correction. Kabul has only one bombsite it even says it in the description. I completely missed that. I swear I have false memories of the bomb being planted on the top part with the crates

[@nickolaszuerg8015]

Maybe there are different versions. On server i play there are second bombsite in small indoor area near ct spawn

[@itdobelikedattho8112]

Remake this video

[@monsterlucky4610]

I sweare there were two bombsites. Guess its just a mandela effect

[@owl5052]

Is the music you used in the de_rats section from Monsters in my Pocket?

[@BigDragon15]

Wasn't it possible do drop the bomb down like on A on dust 2?

[@tgnm9615]

OMG, Its been years since I saw de_rats map!! So much memories on those big maps!

[@moltenSky2d]

Truee, when I saw the thumbnail, I immediately noticed rats and memories I had in my early days of cs on this map. Been years since I stepped my ‘digital’ foot on it. Nostalgia is strong ;(

[@Imitationist]

The only modes rats are useful for are zombie mods

[@AshwinNarasimhan]

Same - there were even variations of it. The default rats in the kitchen, a rats map in a bathroom setting, one in a bedroom and one more in a library kind of area with bookshelves, etc. I miss these maps the most in CSGO.

[@weirdautumn]

I've played on so many cool variations of that map! I remember there was a version with a PC that could be turned on to electrocute players inside the system unit!

[@icew0lf98]

westwood layout is genious, it somehow plays with a full server, isolates you into fights where you don't fight too many people unless you ask for it, if you manage to win those fights, you get a reward of flanking the enemy team, you also get to choose if you want long or short range fights, it's just magical compared to other maps. Same could be said about de_emir I guess

[@virus4721]

YES you exactly right on that i always loved all that i remember finishing school and playing 5+hours on that map and not getting bored AT ALL

[@matkaboskaosra-bramska3993]

What about Eldorado

[@cykablyat1466]

yeah it is a timeless classic that makes it work one way or another. Nipper (the maps creator) is honestly a forgotten legend for this map among many others he created that still gets played in the game to this day.

[@uxbystefan]

@@matkaboskaosra-bramska3993 Eldorado is so much better than Westwood

[@luanfonseca5179]

i was hoping you would mention CS_Rio. it's still a big community map at least here in brazil. so popular it was pretty much the sole reason counter strike was banned in brazil for some years

[@blackjacka.5097]

Banned?

[@luanfonseca5179]

@@blackjacka.5097 banned. but in brazil most copies were acquired through piracy and nobody did anything for a long time. when CSGO came around they unbanned the game

[@blackjacka.5097]

@@luanfonseca5179 I assume they didn't like people going around putting bombs in virtual Rio?

[@luanfonseca5179]

@@blackjacka.5097 they didnt like people playing as criminals who kidnapped UN officials.

[@xGMV]

@@luanfonseca5179 CSGO released in 2012, the ban was lifted in 2009.

[@mro9466]

I miss the golden days of 1.6, jumping from one crazy map to another

[@amigobatata9014]

These maps had such a feel... I really wanted that for CS:GO Valve added night vision goggles to the Hostage mode to let the community come up with off-pattern maps for that gamemode, a run off from the well known competitive rules

[@MarcadetFPS]

Your content is always so interesting and well documented! The 2 community maps I miss the most from 1.6 are de_sunny and de_blue, both French-made maps which were very popular on French servers back in the day. They were made by mapper Coucouoeuf from team aAa (yes, that team from the old Nightwish fragmovie thing). De_blue was part of the official ESL map roster for a while.

[@AlpacaEmperor]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane homie. NIPPER was one of my favorite map makers because they were always so creative and often had vehicles and such. The pickle bit at the end made me laugh pretty good lol, subbed

[@kingofmetro7057]

12:14 OMG it's in Serbian, that's actually Serbian forum. I'm so proud to be an old school CS player from Serbia like these guys that made this forum! 🤩🇷🇸

[@lazarblagojevic9953]

daaaa

[@XanderNiles]

I personally enjoy the maps with the Dusty textures, those are my favorite ones but what I like about the maps that were covered in this video is that almost all of them were remade for CS Condition Zero and CS Source. Once again Dez, you are doing amazing covering CS1.6 stuff. Community game modes could be an interesting concept for another video.

[@Mecho420]

80-90% of the maps in this video are what made me into a gamer when i was a little and i played either on Lan in an internet cafe or at home in community servers, most of these maps either disabled snipers so its more balanced and fair or i played warcraft 3 mode and it made them way more fun. God the nostalgia hits hard watching this video. Good job. Back in the day these maps weren't balanced, we could play it with 10-32 people and still have fun. Now CS GO is so competitive focused and aimed at balance that all the fun has been sucked from it.... Or maybe the player base just changed from casual 1.6 plebs to sweaty tryhards in GO.

[@ernyzas7654]

movie animination is shit on csgo and cs2... cs 1.6 have best moving

[@EmeraldLordTR]

nice video G

[@vefamusayeva7769]

Naber abi neden vidio cekmiyiorsun

[@redmarine2717]

@@vefamusayeva7769 Speak english you dust man

[@dtrkamranyalcn3592]

Abi sa

[@biskveeet8877]

Your videos are giving me so much nostalgia, love it man

[@IGLArocknroll]

Boy oh boy, you bring back good memories, from times when life was much, much more simpler. I still know half of the good spots on the aforementioned maps by heart, despite not being an active player in the last 10 years. The maplist makes my eyes water with joy, but: why the hell haven't you said anything about the almighty cs_sauna, or any of it's offshoots?!

[@albertlovrinovic5651]

I love your energy in these videos. Keep up the good work man!

[@lufetm]

Dude, the maps that you mentioned in the intro... The nostalgia in (almost) every one of them

[@weirdautumn]

I remember there was a tiny map called discounter. It was one of the most popular maps and had many variations of it as well! Absolutely loved it, hah

[@ostbullen]

de_mjolby is one of the community maps not in this video that I remember being pretty popular. Great video! Love me some 1.6 goodness!

[@Skusty]

Mjölby might have been mostly played in Sweden tho

[@BigBoy-ql5rn]

@@Skusty It was played a lot on Romanian servers as well. I remember there being a few versions of the map.

[@TheMrkalkbrenner]

Thanks for this video, I did indeed get an intense nostalgic flashback look at pretty much all of those maps...good to have been part of those 1.6 years. De_rats in all its variations hits me in the feels and the cs_1337_assault or the hotel version were als my favorites back in the days. Side note after seeing Hns_floppytown again: Someone has to bring the oldschool Hide'n'Seek back for real, as a custom mode for CS or as a standalone game, had so much fun back in the days...

[@doliniplanini2260]

love ur channel keep going n keep 1.6 lore alive

[@Kaes.R]

My childhood is definitely playing this game but unfortunately no access to internet so these maps are somewhat nostalgic since im playing cs extreme back then

[@inqmusician2]

de_dust2x2 is more used if there's no players for a full map. Some servers, instead of changing to 2x2 version, simply put walls, until there's enough players to take full advantage of the map.

[@malekshakarnah]

Nicely made video..keep up the good work 👌

[@djol00]

De_Dust2_2x2 ia not played enough?! Bro, that was map that admis use to attrack players! On the other note for me one of favorite maps is de_verso. Its somthing like De_Anubis in CSGO today but it had some wierd spots where you break wooden barrier on mid and crawl around to the site but you need somone to boost you over the fence to get in site.

[@parablevision6016]

5:55 "door stuck!! door stuck!!"

[@OceanShark384]

Great video! Thank you so much!

[@ZackSBruh]

Ahhh, I remember playing those maps, not all of them, you give me too nostalgic feeling on the first 7 like minutes, I played de_rat but it was on another CS game.

[@_marlene]

you make really good videos dude. I loved the dusty CD segue.

[@_marlene]

btw you definitely CAN shred your hand in my garbage disposal......ive never seen a safe one before

[@p_roduct9211]

There was another one I cant remember the suffix but cs_747 and gg_simpsons. I loved cs_assault but i was such a batty little camper. Tons of hours in knife and surf maps just chattering with strangers online. Thanks so much for this video!

[@ripnephils148]

This was a great video. Very entertaining.

[@paradise4213]

A lot of these maps worked really well in 16v16 CTF Modded servers

[@janoprivracki1992]

Your channel is excellent, thank you! Although I'm bothered by the fact that they were recommended to me right after getting back into CS without searching for it on KZbin... Must've been the Google searches

[@aminehares7253]

Love the videos. By the way u played the cowboy character so good

[@GuNyPlays]

Lithuania mentioned, liked and subscribed

[@clownboyyyy]

im REALLY late to this but the reason Westwood doesn't play well is that on Nathaniel Miller's original server(rock's hideout 4) it was weapon restricted to pistols only and was meant to be played like that. same goes for a lot of his maps unfortunately. once they left the community that knowledge kind of got forgotten.

[@Dial8Transmition]

Your videos are very interesting, and I haven't played counter strike in probably 15 years now

[@andoss]

Can you cover surf maps in a future video please, I love cs 1.6 and this type of content that you make. Keep going my guy.

[@cookiecs1801]

I love your videos man keep it up

[@sereganeonoviy]

De_alexandra was ported on source, and i think it more ballanced, atleast tunnels is more worthy to push! Nice video!

[@Luke_4044]

YOOOO insane cs 1.6 content bringing back the nostalgia

[@oswaldomesino8915]

so nostalgic seing the majority of those maps, I played then for so many hours :) I would say Awp_india, Aim_akcolt and that's it for now I played so many popular custom maps that I already forget the names...

[@aruan7sp]

The italy2 I've played back in the day had a night setting and was mostly played on rooftops.

[@hellomine2849]

The instant phrase in my head when i hear de_cpl_mill : door stuck!? I'm surprised you didn't mention it. Great video though.

[@bojanrozgic675]

Still enjoy all of these maps even though they are flawed by modern standards. Could have mentioned de_scud, fy_snow and few more. Great video still

[@drunkslav]

de_westwood and de_alexandra were great for the TTT gamemode, had lots of fun playing with my friends back in 2010-2012, man i wish i could go back.

[@TherapeuticDriving]

thanks for the vid!

[@stamovalchev2712]

In Bulgaria back in the day we used to play a lot of cs in internet cafes and the most popular map was de_snipe_it5 it was all you could play if you wanted to play with the other people in the cafe . The video was great gave me a lot of nostalgia about the 1.6 days.

[@raidbenachoure1330]

Superb content!!!

[@spyro1201]

I remember a hostage map called cs_houses i think? Was pretty popular here

[@GadgetMaNameJeff]

Massive W on the music choice

[@trysha2340]

Excellent clip!

[@happinson]

10:45 that assault edit came out a lot earlier than 2007 it definitely predates css

[@armandokola9496]

I remember i used to play a CS Assault snow version ! That map was unique and had many peaks for both sides !

[@krenzzie7290]

I think I recognize the song in the background of the de_rats section as one of the background songs from the videogame Monsters In My Pocket for the original 8-bit NES. Nice little detail.

[@dezolance]

Shit I thought nobody would ever notice XD

[@Proditae]

Oh man, i've played de_kabul for the first time in a zombie mode, being human on that map was a nightmare. I instantly recognized it due to the fruit carts hahaha; ¡good video!

[@mixermaster10]

God the memories, also i can def see differences between regions i'd say, back in the days de_sauna was very very popular here in estonia as well as de_rats_2 was way more popular then the og one if memory serves correctly, doe rats maps were basically exclusively played on paintball servers for some reason xD also fy_pool_day was massive

[@ukigaminghd1393]

beautiful man

[@sumpurnis]

This channel is just so underrated. Not a big fan of CS1.6 but thanks to you I have installed it only to get butthurt on any server I get in. Keep up the great content! Nostalgic stuff combined with awesome comments makes it perfect to spend some time watching you!

[@reefy0000]

I haven't heard that Aladin Sega game music in so long, nostalgic

[@Comrade.Archer]

you forgot a few more interesting maps, however, they were popular for a very long time: 1. cs_highsociety 2. nbnoobgame4 3. cs_assault2k 4. awp_city 5. de_cpl_tdm 6. cs_mansion_secret_final

[@Mihael_Keehl31]

I played cs 1.6 between 2008-2013 and i remember almost all of the maps, apart from italy2 and barcelona (which i`ve seen now for the first time). I remember playing kabul, alexandra, abaddon,dust4ever, westwood and inferno2se were 2 of my favorites, there were a lot more maps that are not mentioned here which i`m sure u do remember like de_energy, de_dust_castle, de_mjolby6 and many more. I`m from Romania, and the servers i was playing on were full of this maps, I remember dusty_aztec too, which was basically the same aztec with dust graphics...People back then didn`t even play the classic maps like nuke or train, very rare...dust2 and inferno were kind of popular, but apart from those, only spin offs, I remember de_nuke_2006 or something like that, a variant of nuke a little bit better. Daaamn, what a nostalgia....

[@Nada-fj8ij]

7:25 it's funny you mention drain disposals as a U.S. thing since I've lived here for twenty three years and never seen one outside of television

[@dezolance]

Last I checked, 50% of US households have one, some might not prefer them due to the maintenance, others don't find them useful, it depends.

[@Prince_Slomo]

Best videos 🙏🏽

[@Grizzlywer]

great list

[@xadek821]

Anybody remember "cs_alpin" and "cs_wiocha"? Great video, please consider making part 2 🙏

[@Flopca]

I know it'd belong to the fun modes... but I think that Fy_Buzzkill and Fy_Iceworld, should've been there next to PoolDay and Snow at least mentioned. Surf_Green also got REALLY Popular in CsGo at one point, but originally came from 1.6 Fun Modes with Fy maps or Fun Modes in general was what made CS 1.6 an undying classic in my eyes. as whenever I got tired of playing casual games, I hopped on these modes and vibed tf out, so they could literally make a similiar video of their own Dust4Ever got popular alot because of Great playability at old Zombie servers, Furien/Avatar mods. On the same note, Dust _2002 and Dust4Ever also have the kind of gave birth to a Dust_castle map, which was also great pick for a Furien/ZM as well as Classic modes. De_Blue was a "late to the party" great map that I've picked up alot later in the 1.6's life. CS_747 was one of the maps... I enjoyed a lot weirdly enough. I just discovered you sir. Thanks for bringing me down this nostalgia trip.

[@jahongirhusenov8892]

Nice video end map

[@kamileq11a]

ive wait for this

[@MarioKL]

cs_italy2 is much older than 2007. I remember playing it even before 2004.

[@aceberlin7]

Yeah. This is my first map. Played it around 2002, i think.

[@martinvasilev9809]

My boy, you did it right 👍👍

[@TheMrkalkbrenner]

yooo and I just thought of the pokemon servers that existed...that was wild as well.

[@lucassaueressig1411]

Subbed

[@hands9776]

you literally recreated my whole childhood

[@user-hk5nm5nw3e]

Will you do the same, but with zm maps? I'm really starting to forget these legendary maps, like zm_ice_attack etc., when you had to light everything with smoke grenades else you won't be able to see zombies in the darkness.

[@kalindimitrov6937]

Damn.. Back in 2010 when i was like 9 or 10 my cousin installed some cracked version of 1.6 with all of these maps and even more with bots. I played it like 24/7 especially the rats map.

[@SeazonHDx]

the 1.6/css mapping community is just godlike thanks to all these people that made CS the legendary license it is now.

[@Eeternah]

Westwood is so nostalgic omggg days of zombie darkness😩

[@claudespeed3295]

Jesus i Remember all of this maps i downloaded a cracked version from the internet and it came with those maps.ah the nostalgia

[@Dummythxc]

De_dust2002 is one of my favorite maps of cs1.6 idk why I just loved it so much.

[@cappucci_n0]

Ah yes, de_rats. One of my favourite fan-made maps. Also, I've seen some different variations of it (for example, one in a bathroom or another one, but in a bedroom). By the way, I think de_westwood as Half-Life deathmatch map. Some HL servers have them in a map pool

[@Enso9__]

Good video. You can do a video where you play counter stike. Play server or with bots.

[@sherrifdeputyfordaboys]

BubkeZ's Mirage is so popular than the CPL's Strike ones,they even make the remakes of BubkeZ ones instead of a CPL ones due to the big popularities

[@Tirishhai]

I played alot on a server were de_westwood was played with pistol only and that was was kinda good :D

[@RobiePAX]

Ty for nostalgia trip

[@SUN_Game]

How to Make a Popular Map: 1. make a desert-like map 2. Add de_dust to the map name 3. Put the year that you made at the end of the name or 4. Create a map that will remembered in CS history

[@csgoyuri6413]

i distinctly remember a map that's set in a jungly island that has both bombsites and hostages... i remember playing it on 16v16 servers back then

[@Zmeeed01]

That might be csde_tropic

[@csgoyuri6413]

@@Zmeeed01 holy fucking shit it is thank you

[@vix2642]

the nostalgia be hitting so hard rn

[@Iscandaer]

in computer club here in Russia, there was a popular map called 123kill. It was very fun map.

[@benismann]

oh de_rats, that's a nostalgia hit if u ever had one

[@user-th3nx6zj2f]

8:48 the best description of Mirage.

[@ArmanOssiLoko]

"It can get tiring rotating the same few maps every time..." CSGO players: **pressing X to doubt like no tomorrow**

[@dimitrijespasic473]

Thanks for reminding me of cs_italy2 and de_alexandra. I totally forgot about them! I used to play a gamemode where terrorists were super fast with knives only that can one shot ct's and are invisible when stationary while ct's hunt them. Btw Lozo Maps (the creator of de_barcelona and de_avangard) did talk what he was thinking while creating his maps on a Serbian cs channel. Also I think you forgot about de_forge.

[@XanderNiles]

Barcelona and Avangard are pretty lit maps. As for Forge, it was a competitive version of Cobblestone. It was quite popular in tournaments and Lan competitions back in the day.

[@dimitrijespasic473]

@@XanderNiles I'm currently collecting all maps that were cut in development of Condition Zero. Check out the guy that restores them. ESCalation is his channel. Also I want to learn someday how to make cs 1.6 maps that would be competitive and balanced.

[@XanderNiles]

@@dimitrijespasic473 I've been following Escalation since 2016. I'm fully aware of his work.

[@dimitrijespasic473]

@@XanderNiles that's great. Always glad to see the community is still alive and well after so many years.

[@shadowspringtrap3122]

You mean furien mode? That's the only mode where Ts are furien and are invisible if not moving.

[@FirstnameLastname-py3bc]

Other Rats maps are greats and should have been mentioned, and should have been mentioned the Mansion maps

[@elliot9634]

you mentioning storing content packs on CD-RWs threw me back. did your family pass that on to you too?

[@KaTiToYs_81]

The last map u showed was de dust 2020 right? Its big... but its very laggy in my PC when using bots

[@timseidl8705]

Anyone every play or remember cs_neighborhood? I can still hear CKYs 96 Quite Bitter Beings playing as you walk by the house.

[@miweneia]

Man… de_snipeit5 was a banger, easily my fav map as a kid

[@diggerszhang]

Dude I think you made the BEST CS 1.6 channel, I loved all your videos, I gotta run I gotta run I gotta run Ohhhh I would like to have an apple pie with that!

[@evolvedHE]

keep the good work, 1.6 will always be the GOAT

[@rafsccp]

Actually when 1.6 came nobody wanted to play it some people stopped playing was a big fuss

[@miyujishibakoya1939]

A very good CS content make that doesn’t make a video about opening case or skins

[@Akuretaki_Nikolay]

6:24 yes sir, that was like 15 years ago