F@*k Vertigo: Why CS:GO's Worst Map Is Its Most Important
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Nearly every map in Counter-Strike is a tried-and-tested, two-decade old masterpiece that, despite being a little stale, is revered and untouchable.
With one exception: Vertigo.
Shoddy, unfinished and forced onto a community who never wanted it to begin with, Vertigo stands as the one map in the game that nearly all competitors seem to despise.
But does CS:GO actually NEED its worst map?
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Watching pros play vertigo is probably one of the funniest things ever
Silvers is even better
Yeah everytime we see CT spam shit tons of bullet in smoke at ramp
Its so annoyed to die from that shit
True
Yeah it used to be a troll map
@AutoSemiMatic i was referring to people jumping and falling off the map
it looks like someone was arguing about their favourite map with dimitri again
lol, dmitri is so shitty in every game, its not even funny anymore
I always wanted a Grove street map in CSGO...Only if Sweet allows Valve to make it !! 🙏
Dust 2, best map ever, yes?
@peldik vmark 4000 the player models though 😂
Ayy kliksphilip getting some earned recoqnition always makes me happy. That man is a treasure
He's already known tf you on about.
Are you sped hes already more than known homie has 1m subs
Patch notes king 👑
That dude literally gets recognised by Valve itself
@@SB-od9sl nah the times he was in patch notes was in comunity map updates, notes of which arent made by valve
nah csgo doesn't need it's worst map it needs an anticheat
True
@@saintlaurent6109 faceit anti cheat suck to
@@saintlaurent6109 so we just admit that CS matchmaking is broken and accept we have to use a 3rd party matchmaker..?
XD
@@saintlaurent6109 Not everyone wants to play against basement dwelling sweaters.
when flom said "taking mid is not rewarding" i instantly thought of most valorant maps
and then tenz came on screen and said he liked the map lmao
*takes mid on ascent
“now what”
@@stube. and what's more hilarious about this? TenZ hated Breeze, a map a lot of Diamond to Pro level players like HAHAHAHA
Valorant yeah, that knock-off copy
@@sh6z too true. I really want valorant to be better cuz I really enjoy playing it but run and gun and the absurd amount of rng that goes into this “tac” shooter makes learning the game unrewarding and demotivating
*Astralis picked Vertigo against Liquid* - Gooood times
Astralis had dev1ce - Great times :')
I preferred the time they played it in ESL pro league season 9
NotLikeThis
Magisk said m gonna prove it that it was a wrong move?? KEKW
repent to God
“Vertigo is the worst map of cs:go“
Office: am I a joke to you?
Office is literally the best map.
@@piotrkowracist9094 said no one ever
@@piotrkowracist9094 expected from Łódź hater
Office is an amazing map. Very fun to play on.
@@RK-cj4oc Playing against spinbots, shotguns and negevs is very enjoyable spend of time
There are many things going through CS and it's E-Sport last 2 years so.... This doesn't surprises me anymore!
wym about last 2 years
I love playing vertigo, I love watching pros play vertigo, vertigo is love, vertigo is life.
Same. I know each and every smoke on the map, even the one ways
Vertigang
Live
Love
Vertigo
@@wibs0n68 Hell yeah!
yeah vertigo is so fun mann its freaking underrated
I’m loyal to Vertigo because it was one of the maps I played on 1.5 back in the day. It is now the only map i play on mm, it’s current iteration is very good. It suffers from the stigma of previous versions.
I used to love it back in the 1.5 and 1.6 days. There were so many ways to trick people and screw around.
@@inthefade Yeah it was great, especially the site layouts, unrecognisable today!
Yeah same here. Vertigo and Overpass are the only maps I like to play. Others just feel boring.
Same. I've been CS since pretty much the beginning. We first played CS on the Half Life mod and Vertigo was the first map my bro and played on.
I've never played Vertigo competitive until this current version we see today. I don't like it because it's way too small and you have to walk all the time. I don't think I have a stigma, the map genuinely is just cursed by its unchangeable flaws. I also miss the old color correction the first version of CSGO Vertigo.
I really like vertigo, because the small size of the map makes it easier to fake executes, or go behind enemies if they aren't watching their backs. It is refreashing.
I'd say its also harder because you can hear everything.
Ain't no way you said it's easy to fake. If you throw smokes from ramp area into A and run towards B, your rotation will be heard throughout the whole map. Throwing A ramp smokes from t spawn are your biggest fakes in the whole map, not mentioning B site
Ofc ppl w/ 6-ish faceit lvls love it, cuz on fucking 6 - 8 lvl's its easy to do litteraly anything. U can rush b with no smokes and molly's and still win the round, cuz its fucking 6 lvl's
I mean yeah you can just run and gun on level 10 against bots who dont know how to play the map
But easy to fake? First of all, its not easy to fake on any map if youre not against bots. And on vertigo you can hear the enemies basically around the entire map lmfao
@@aok9153 make one player run through to bridge that's it, works in lvl 10 all the time lmao
Vertigo is actually good people just got so used to playing on the same maps that as soon as they had to learn and adapt to a new thing everyone was like "omg worst ever" bur in reality they're just getting outplayed
I really like new maps, but i still hate this map, cause b isnt really viable and a is so dependent on smoke spams
@@gregorneier2592 true, ancient may even be better than vertigo
@@xilef_ow well, the map was pretty trash when it came out. But now I'd personally play it over a lot of maps, like Aincent, overpass and Inferno. I am not a good player, but vertigo just plays better for me
wierd how the pros who play it the most hate it too
@@xilef_ow I dont see why when it came out matters. What matters now is how it plays NOW, and for me and my squad, it plays very well, even when i soloq
I’m perfectly fine with Vertigo and Ancient if it weren’t for the fact that I get blatant “global elite” players whenever I’ve played those maps on matchmaking. Meanwhile it always gets banned for in my Faceit games, and nobody queues it on 5EArena.
I mean, you bassically show why the problem is there.
You don't like it, you don't play it. Other non global dont want to play.
Global play it.
@@meferswift I like Ancient, I really do. The layout and the potential of the map really appeals to me. But I can never get it on 3rd party servers here in SEA (level 4-6 Faceit, 5EArena, Sostronk, etc), and whenever I play it on matchmaking(DMG-LEM is my current range of ranks) I've had bad experiences in terms of match quality(imbalanced teams, 5-man vs 5 solos, cheaters). More neutral towards Vertigo but in this region, it becomes a Chinese spinbot fest real quick
Bro same! Ancient is probably my favorite rn. I really get excited every time it gets queued in 5E or faceit lol
u are a noob if u hate ancient
Can we get cobblestone back? That was one of my favourite maps back in the till they butchered it in 2018.
Cobblestone is a underrated masterpiece of a map
@@mizfiz9425 now the a site is 🤮
cobble sucks and people only like it for nostalgia.
if cobble wasnt an og map and just came out as one of those community maps, everybody would hate it and not play it. it sucks.
@@nowherenearby9461 your opinion is terrible and you shouldn’t have a voice
I miss cobble honestly
Every theScore video:
"the map feels puggy"
I don't even know what that means but apparently every map is it
"puggy" refers to a pug, or a pick-up game, which means utility wise, and strat wise it has a low skill ceiling, and instead requires on good aimers running around gunning everyone down.
Why don’t I ever see anyone talking about how nice it is to literally be able to only play the maps you like? Loading into Breeze for the 4th time in a row is absolutely miserable, but I can play Cache and Mirage all fucking day and never play anything else. I absolutely love it
I remember when I first time played CSGO i played it on vertigo and I played so bad I got kicked out of the game
I actually don't mind playing the same 5 maps in cs, I never feel like I'm sick of either of them and need a new map like asap. There are maps I simply dont play, like vertigo or ancient, but overall its not as bad as it could have been. At least in cs, you can always feel the difference if you're playing inferno, mirage , nuke etc. I remember from Overwatch days every single map felt exactly the same for some reason
Idk, but when i play in the game that has no map pool and only randomly selected maps, i don't feel like i want any of them. Maybe its an inner feeling about me having no choice, or its just situations similar to what i experienced today in valorant - i had 3 heavens in a ROW, i hate this map, hate it, but i have no choice but to play it. But in cs... Man i played 25 mirages in a row because i wanted to, and i wasn't sick of it, give me choice goddamn it, i want to play 25 ice boxes in a row!
because in overwatch since the main focus is the teamfights u dont really play the map much, especially in ranked, its generally entire team pushing/fighting one big open area and maybe a dps or two on off angles/flanking
@@nerrvous1 I do agree with you, and overwatch is nothing like cs, it simply felt the same on any location Ive played, so it kinda got boring real fast. If I play 3 games on Inferno in a row, and then find a match on Nuke, it feels like Im playing a whole new game if that makes sense. Each map has its own pace, tactics and overall mood in a way, even Vertigo. I will play vertigo if it pops up every now and then on faceit and will still enjoy the game, but it has a sort off feel for me personally.
@@TheMostEpicThing yeah i totally agree, overwatch's gameplay style didnt allow for enough gameplay variation between the maps like valorant/cs do
Except that people never vote for anything other than Mirage, and sometimes Inferno and Nuke. They never ever switch it up and play overpass or train or anything
de_dust really needs a comeback. The original dusty map with some modern tweaks could be fun to play on.
yeah
Part 8 of asking for: The Story of WarOwl
Vouch. We must demand this.
Congratz
Great vid. I want anti vertigo for a year or so now I love it, spices things up once every dozen games or so.
Vertigo is amazing. Just don't play it in low tier MM because no one knows how to play it.
try faceit vertigo
The main talk here is, how Vertigo gets stale at top tier pro matchmaking, Not about MM or Faceit or whatever.
Lvl 10 faceit does not know it either 😂
People barely plays vertigo lol
Thats the most fun a little bit of map knowledge on vertigo allows you literally curb stomp novas
Can we get a video on all the old school custom maps like de_rats, poolparty, scoutknivez etc. De_rats on 1.6 was the BEST.
I would love a scoutzknivez history video
de_rats was so fun to play, especially with all the props around the map
seeing the menu screen in 3:00 and seeing the same exact maps that we have in the pool right now depresses me, ancient came out, but its not the map that i wanted to be added, feels weird when playing it, maybe cause its still really new, but the players base also just doesnt want to learn new maps
It sounds like they are describing valorant maps when describing vertigo LOL
I desperately want cobble back, my all time favorite map, train is awesome as well, cache has always been a okay map for me, at least the old cash and not the new one. Same with inferno, loved the old one and hate the new one. Even though it’s mostly the same, it doesn’t feel the same
You can play cache in mm and faceit, pretty sure they reverted most of what they did to cache, with a few minor exceptions in T spawn, around A site and something else. They even brought back simple's graffiti.
@@TheSantifive you cant play Cache on faceit since the past months (they replaced Cache with Ancient)
Also Cs Mapmakers deserve more respect for all the classic maps they gave us.
Rarely a game has so many great maps.
Yea but half the casual gamers that play cs can't get 100 fps on acheint.
Give It Some Time, That was the whole point of this topic man
Vertigo is not even near being a bad map. The only ones that claim it sucks are Mirage and De Dust 2 Andies that refuse to adapt and learn new maps because they keep playing the same old maps over, and over, and over again. Vertigo offers a different pace, a different style and it is different, but not worse.
I agree with you. Same here in Brazil, the people only thinks in Dust 2 and Mirage.
The problem is that Valve stopped updating Vertigo. Also it was moved to active pool too fast it should have been in reserve pool longer.
What in vertigo should be changed?
@@brownbreadinc127 IMO T should have better spawn for ramp and mid (B meeting point is perfect). Elevator should be shortened so A site and short would be larger. Boxes at A site should be moved around to make the site less awkward (to reduce smoke spams). B stairs should be wider (maybe remove that box and make both ends of stairs wider). Ramp should be shortened. Only my opinion and I haven't tested then so I cant be 100% sure how they would turn out. Idea is to reduce spamming smokes at A and make ramp control easier for T so they don't have to fight for it every round. Also mid and B would be slightly easier for T further to endorse favour them. A should be easier to hold and retake for CT to balance the buffs T get here.
They shot cache for vertigo, couldn't they have removed office from the competitive pool?
vertigo: *exists*
my brain: in the void we go
LMAO
I miss map cobblestone,cache and train 😭
Me too, but less Train, I hate that map.
Vertigo is probably the real life scenario where a swat happens to fight terrorist
I dunno man, I think Vertigo is one of the best maps for some fun CQC gameplay.
Vertigo is my favorite too
I've prefer Vertigo from CS 1.6
Dust 2 just got a “slight visibility tweak”
Changes Like this are necessary to keep it interesting. And Vertigo is in a good state rn.
I hope they will Bring Back season at some point
I know I’m late with this but I think the best thing to make vertigo better would be add an early B route from top stairs. One right to go to mid then left to a window that is over the B stairs. It would make going B easier. Instead of having one angle to hold with something, you now have to hold two
For me, I enjoy the maps that have been in the competitive play for a while so they are battle tested. When one feels too “solved” or the gameplay feels repetitive, instead of removing it, I like them changing lanes, rotation options, etc. make the flow feel completely different.
Vertigo is the most hated map
New Cache : good evening
Valve has a lot planned for CSGO... They hired new teams for fall to work on maps. Shits gonna get crazy! They poached ppl from Valorant like Phrisk
Wow epic. We definitely need new maps. Wow. Big Pog. Fuck off valve give us a slightly better anticheat at least. So obvious now.
@@themechanic6151 yeah pretty sick and pretty sure they aren't bringing these new people to redesign or "upgrade" old maps but who knows. We'll see hopefully this winter or spring next year
@@themechanic6151 Why would they release new map? They just released Ancient few months ago
theScore: Nearly every map in Counter-Strike is a tried-and-tested, two-decade old masterpiece that, despite being a little stale, is revered and untouchable.
Valve: "Slight visibility tweak from T spawn through mid"
i love vertigo it’s so fun to play and the boosts just makes everything so much better
Ya it’s a great map, it never gets old
bro vertigo is beast🌟🌟🌟
also be ause most peoppe know jackshit about it if ypu habe 4 pepple who know the basics of the map you can absolutely crush your opon2nents in most matches
I love all the tricks you can do easily most fun map
@@coobk slow down on your typing
Vertigo: Hitting B or mid isn’t rewarding at all
Icebox: are you challenging me?
Anyone notice TenZ in shroud’s match when he was spamming nagev through the wall
what about it? hes in loads of matches with pros those days
na cs has been a pretty tight-knit community for a while now
Astralis picking vertigo is one of csgo’s most iconic moment.
I abused the old Vertigo to get Global for the first time. It will always have a special place in my heart
Ye olde vertiglobal
dude 1 guy literally made ferno, aztec AND vertigo, like that man is singlehandedly responsible for the creation of the 3 most hated maps of all time thats actually crazy. I bet that guy also had a hand the creation of the utter abomination that is office
CSGO’s worst map > All of Valorant’s maps
There just always has to be that one person doesnt it
@@demondoge1715 truth hurts. val maps suck and i even play the game. waiting for the day volcano and his team release a good map.
@@edmontonoilers4096 can you elaborate as to why the maps are bad or is it just like "theyre just bad man"
@@demondoge1715 sure thing
Haven isn’t a terrible map but the three bomb sites are a mess. In higher gameplay b is hardly used as a site but I think it should just be removed and made into mid.
Bind isn’t a terrible map either, I like it but I know many people who don’t because there is no mid presence at all in that many. Mid is just not existent.
Split is just awful there is nothing really to say there. Back when I used to play the game a lot it was our best map but I just hate it.
Icebox i actually don’t mind either, a lot of people don’t like it but the more you play it it gets better. Reminds me of dust II, the map can get annoying if certain lineups are ran but if you’re winning it’s fun. Just the design of the map is wacky.
Breeze is just on the same category as split. It’s like they tried to take cobblestone and make into a Valorant map. There are way too many angles, especially to clear and a viper is a must need on that map.
Ascent is actually the best map in Valorant, typically plays really well. Not much to say there besides the annoying wallbangable spams people do with the Odin.
The problem with majority of the Valorant maps is that it just seems like it’s hallways connecting into hallways. No real rotations pathways to sites.
@@edmontonoilers4096 i disagree on some of these, but i respect the fact that you actually substantiated your argument
"Others got a little angrier about it" shows a clip of the least "angry" angry clip ever.
I almost forgot those boxes were blue before xD
Vertigo starts being a lot of fun in high elo games. I've always enjoyed vertigo when I am in a team around 3k elo.
Vertigo>Ancient>Dust 2
-Nuke
-Vert
-Ancient
+Cobble
+Cache
+Train
THIS IS FAX
I personally really really hate playing vertigo, but I can understand Valve's decision to put it in the map pool, and why it should stay there. And, it is cool seeing a different style of the game being played.
Yeah, I agree. But my problem is, that it is Vertigo! Over the past years there were so many good and promising maps added to the game and all Valve does is force Vertigo down everyones throat!
1:01 straight clean lock boys
ok but where is the olofboost?
Now at CS2, Vertigo is one of the best balanced maps in my opinion. It has various types of positions, routes and multiple choices for rotation. I like it, but my favourite is Inferno.
Vertigo isn't that bad. It's a funny map
How can the map be strategic when mid has no value and B has no value lol
Map needs another rework to mid or B while we're at it. It's already Cache or Cobblestone-level stale because the map doesn't have much to offer when it's A Ramp Simulator every game.
Boring and annoying to play and watch.
Ancient is fun though! Am I right?
My favorite map today
Vertigo doesn't need "stresstesting" imho because it's simply fundamentally broken
A bad map will stay a bad map regardless of how many tweaks you do to it
The next Valorant map will have Vertigo vibes with the "falling off the map" gimmick.
LMAO
I just want cache to come back soon, I don’t necessarily dislike Vertigo, but I loved Cache.
Furia are the proof that this map is good its just a different style of playing, I've always loved this map
Been my favorite map since 2014, I miss the old version. On my CZcams i got a trickshot i hit on it
I really feel vertigo is underrated as f
It's not underrated, it's not like people don't know it exists, they've played it and realized it's shit and stopped playing. That's just a shit map
@@SevenZeroEleven That is true for pros but not for normal players
@@fica1137 well yeah, people in pub matches like it, it's the ranked matches where it's annoying
@@SevenZeroEleven Pro matches are called officials
@@fica1137 you get the point
"Vertigo the oldest map on CS"
Me: DeDust is literally the only map I have ever played on CS since I was a kid. PS: I'm old.
Virgin vertigo haters always bring up the same things.
“Oh, this map is unbalanced.”
“Oh, you are only a gold nova you nerd.”
*Correct. I simply ignore it.* 😎
CSGO: Vertigo is shittiest map
VALORANT: ALL Maps are f*cking shit
the game needs better anticheat and matchmaking more than it needs vertigo at a non-pro level. CSGO is bleeding NA players to Valorant because of the better MM and anticheat, yet Valorant has an inferior map pool. Players would rather play a more balanced cheater free game on worse maps, than a cheater/smurf infested game on a gold standard map.
bro the NA scene for pug and pro has been nonexistant for years. Better matchmaking and anticheat wont magically make it reappear.
Play faceit free is very good and you have 128ticks servers and a very good anticheat
@@romeodrid6049 I mean theres no cheaters
But faceit is complete cancer. 99% of the time you have toxic, griefing or non speaking teammates. And thats even on 2150-3000 elo
@@aok9153 Level 10s with no microphone? Doubt
@@aok9153 its the same with matchmaking
Me when I started CSGO: Fuck Vertigo
Me coming back in 2021: Fuck Vertigo
vertigo is literally the best map in the pool, anyone who says otherwise is just d0g
+
Yes vertigo is awesome
I guess I must be d0g then.
@@icehall4247 same
Vertigo is my favourite because there are just so many ways to play and that makes it the perfect map to play with the squad
I tell you why does it CS need Vertigo.... Either, it has many limited corners and limited peeking ability (or you fall to your death) or it has infinite angles and unlimited execute possibilities (such as that huge strafe jump Astralis invented) So.... It's all about better map understanding and control! Let me know what you think!
They did it they didn't put olofboost and s1mple falling AWP in a csgo video now I can finally die peacefully
As a silver I found vertigo enjoyable. Jumping out of the building, running and gunning with the m249, being like a total bot, it feels like a nice change compared to the other more serious map.
i love being silver
the only map that is keeping CS2 fresh to me rn
Love this map. Unusual, barely played and strikingly interesting. I get to learn some new smokes/flashes after literally every new video I watch
Am I the only one who really like vertigo?
I love vertigo
It slaps
Vertigo is actually my favorite map.... please don't kill me
Same here, but I've prefer Vertigo from 1.6
Bruh vertigo is such a good map it’s the map I know the most I love it wtf
You can love it all you want. No one’s gonna take that away from you. Still a bad map though.
@@jthirdy fair enough ppl have their opinions ig
@@jthirdy Vertigo from 1.6 is good.
I like Vertigo, tbh. Ancient is so much worse, due to how difficult it is for T side to push and smokes can easily ward off A T side.
honestly, the clips you used at the beginning simply sounded like all of the complaints of the map are the inexperience with it rather than legitimate criticisms against it
it's like when people complained about how bad cs:go was when it first came out.
It's the Counter-Strike community special -- complaining about new things for 20 years running! Without scrub quotes, we would be nothing.
CS:GO has changed a lot for the better over the years since its release, not just the maps. The controls were slippery and recoil favored spamming.
@@Murukku47 I totally agree - it's much more polished and focused now since release, but imo it was a better experience than source even at release
The real kicker for me is just the fact they took out cache for it. Nowadays we need d2 to be removed for cache
Bro dust 2 has been out of the competitive map pool for a hot minute now
vertigo is one of the freshest maps ever, I love playing it but in pugs it's just cancer
As a guy who literally only ever plays Inferno… map pool has never been an issue for me.
I find Vertigo and Ancient both underrated tbh
12:50 so why didn’t they just do to cobble what they did to vertigo and make changes instead of wasting time on making a shit show of a map like ancient and replacing train with it.
How dare you call Vertigo shitty?! >:O
I'm proud to be one of the three players in the world who rates Vertigo as their most liked map.
make that 8 players my friends love it there too xD
@@rzeecs Sweet! I'm already getting emotional seeing your reply... :')
it's my second to office
i had no idea people hated vertigo, literally my favourite map, but fuck mirage
i think its just that people refuse to even learn the bare minimum and are then suprised when the lose
surprised pikachu
just running around on vertigo in dm is a decent start
hop in a game with some bots
you already know more than most players now go crush them
10-15 smokes is enough for FPL-C (on the 0.1% something other than Mirage Inferno Dust is played)
Also learn prefire on yprac map, you will pwn enemies holding headshot angles which the map is full of them
ill be honest
mirage and inferno are so overplayed they arent really fun...
As an ohne pixel fan i see this as an absolute win
I love vertigo, one of my favourite maps . Ive been playing cs for 19 years, new maps feel very refreshing ancient 😉
when they brought up overpass, I was clenching my fists waiting for the olof boost again
Its my favorite map to watch in comp. I love it.
What does “watch in comp” mean? Do you mean tier 1? Or matchmaking spectator lmfao
@@izimon1 Ofc tier 1
They really hate Vertigo because they don't want to get creative and because they want to do the funny jump from CT spawn to B.
first??!!
6 secs baby
Beat me to it. I was 8.
@@DKtrek21 i was eight once too
@@freetanuki Good times
VERTIGO IS LOVE! VERTIGO IS LIFE!
day 3 of asking for story of warowl :)