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Thanks for this vid I thought Italy was in Budapest

Lebanese dude here! There is also a sign on de_dust2 that says "صيدلية المغرب" and "Pharmacie du Maroc", which is literally "The pharmacy of Morocco" in both Arabic and French respectively!

CSGO old inferno was obviously Spain which is why they had the seperatist playermodel, which was based on the Basque nationalists.

About Inferno, The winery in library and the shop in top banana, opposite to car, have signs which roughly translate to "The Drunken Monk: The Great Wines of Tuscany" so yeah that might be an indication the map is in Tuscany not Sardinia.

the Memphis joke caught me off guard :D the most "not valve-like" thing you do is telling us at the end what you got going on, appreciate it man

mountain dew isnt banned in europe liek the brand, we just have more regulations on the ingredients so the make up of the drink is different here the toxic sludge also changed a bit in america after the controversy if i remember right

4:50 Favela

No, Bixio was one of the patriots who fought in Italy Indipendence wars, he fought along Garibaldi and while it's not as common as via Garibaldi I guess there are hundreds of via Bixio in Italy. Judging by the looks of the buildings and the relative flatness of the roofs and considering that is a huge mountain (still not as big as the alps) I'd say those are the Appennini, so Umbria or Abruzzo, but I'd say Umbria for the general feeling

I never knew where Overpass was set until the day I got home from Berlin, booted up CS, and immediately noticed the TV tower for the first time ever.

Happy to have Phrisk on the team to help me with Dharma. Thanks for featuring yet again!

Inferno is in Tuscany, it says so twice in T spawn, above library and twice on sandbags on top of Banana

Mirage is located in Morocco, Marrakesh, 2:59 "Agnaou Gate". Aswell Dust 2, which is located in Casablanca, Morocco. Thanks for the video!

Mountain Dew is not banned in the european union. Atleast I can buy them in stores and Im from Austria and we are a part of europe and the european union. But I have only seen cans, not bottles. Its very expensive and most of the time gas stations sell it for around 3$ per small can. I also have seen a video about the Map Italy. The creator just took some stereotypical things from Italy and he actually has never visited Italy. So the creator had no real region in his mind but with the mountains your guess is still accurate. The only real Map which has a real place is probably Canals and the Wingman Map Rialto which are both located in Venezia in Italy. Rialto is the actual name of the bridge in Venezia. I have visited Venezia multiple times, especially the bridge looks very accurate.

for Nuke, the wikipedia has it listed as being part of the "Rust Belt" I always assumed it was Michigan, didn't realize Tennessee was part of it because of the states long coal mining / industrial history

in Dust 2 there's a pharmacy sign that says "Pharmacy of Morocco" so it's obvious even if Cliff didn't say it

Especially old inferno was modeled after the San Juan Capistrano mission - ppl. even went there irl and showed off the huge similarities. There must be some reddit threads left if you wanna check it out.

For Mirage and Dust 2 some of the old operation mission names were "Trouble in the Maghreb".

Actually Inferno changed locations too kind of, it has pretty weird history that I wish you had covered more. Most of the architecture on the CS:GO version was actually from a Spanish region of California, quite confusingly, also the music they play is all Spanish and the architecture in certain areas of the CS:GO version look quite Spanish as well, however, in CS2 they made it very clear they were now changing to be fully in Italy, with the architecture mostly changing to be Italian like you had pointed out, and of course the dozen of Italian flags.

2:11 Fun fact about old overpass: Although the map was based in Berlin the tower model was from a tower in Nurenberg

There used to be a map called cs_favela in old Counter-Strike, which is said to be in Brazil. The game got pulled from store shelves in 2008 because of it. The ban was lifted the following year, thankfully, but it's possible this event is preventing Valve from exploring the region in their official maps. Then again, their competitor (the one in Unreal Engine) hasn't been there either, opting for a Portugal map. There's a lot more to Brazil than favelas, but I don't oppose the use of the setting. They could play with the vertical aspects, sight lines, corridors... etc to make a pretty unique map, even if it doesn't make it into Competitive.

Canals at the end was so nice of you ❤

This is cool to see! Thanks for putting this together. The lore of the maps is always something I like to know about

Nice video! I love seeing different people taking on this challenge. I think somewhere the Veneto region is a better candidate for Inferno, though - the landscape matches up a little better. I made an early video series with the same general idea as yours here & that's where I landed. That _was_ with the CS:GO map, though.

1:58 Inferno is located in Lucca in Italy. You can guess that by flag (Lucca's flag is on the mailboxes) and that tower with a bell.

A small addition to Dust 2, it was originally somewhere in the middle east, perhaps Palestine, as the CT faction was the IDF. This was obviously controversial and due to rising tensions in the region, its remake shifted the location to Morocco. The CTs were still the IDF throughout CSGO though.

the nuke version located in harz, germany will always be in my heart since i grew up in the harz mountains, germany

ahh yes new york for vertigo, god bless those mountains in the background...

2:14 Overpass background used to be Prague in CSGO.

"I bought a bottle of mountain dew and now it's a bussiness expense" 😂

2:41 there is a crate on Catwalk on top of a building saying Morc like that

cs_climb was in Brazil and is getting a massive revamp for CS2 (I hear the mapmaker is very handsome)

de_inferno at least in counter-strike: source (and probably 1.6) is based on the real life mission san juan capistrano in california. I imagine cs_office in counter-strike: source is probably somewhere in vancouver, canada. judging by the snow and the fact a lot of the skybox building textures are in fact sourced from vancouver. they originate from marlin studios texture packs.

3:40 we have mountain dew, its just a very different recipe

6:51 "the battle's won and lost" witch in Macbeth

Overpass is Located in Berlin Neu Köln you can see the Autobahn Streetsign from CT Spawn

Mountain dew isn't banned in the EU, they just can't use deadly shit like brominated vegetable oil. I'm in the UK and had mtn dew before brexit. Good vid btw

thanks for the vid i thought rialto was in france

Sentimental ending man ❤

Jess Cliffe stated in a Reddit post in 2016 that the new Nuke would be moved from Germany to the Rust Belt. Tennessee is not located in the Rust Belt, so I'm going to guess northern Ohio because it reminds me a lot of that area, where the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station just so happens to be located too. On a lesser note, I remember hearing several times that Office is located in Colorado and Assault is located in Chicago. The Assault one I'm confident on, but I can't find any information on Office's location, so idk where I got that from.

Inferno is based on a real location in California iirc and was originally set in Spain, which is why the T's used to be modeled after the Basque ETA terrorists

I am also waiting for dharma map, and hope it turns out good.

Office is in Alaska. anchorage i believe. im pretty sure Valve has put out a description before saying so

The only thing that sucks about Penguin videos, is that there aren’t enough of them. Keep ‘em coming 👍🏽

iirc Half Life is set in New Mexico, USA, meaning the version of Nuke using the HL assets could also be considered for that area

We need more Cold, Icy, Snowy maps, like the old map De_Survivor. Or darker maps like De_Storm. I also remember having fun in De_Vegas 20 years ago. I'm sure they will bring back train and cache. I wonder if they will add De_Thera.

instant like for getting straight to the point 🎉

My bid is for a new map set in 6:37 Kowloon Walled City. Also for this video I think Canals from csgo deserves a shoutout for being maybe the only (?) map that largely accurately recreates an actual location. Piazza San Marco in Venice

I liked the "Sugarcane" theme in CS:GO.

Good vid! Happy to see you back

As a Brazilian, I freaked out a little when I noticed CS_Climb was located in Curitiba. Finally a videogame level in Brazil that isn't located in Rio.

For Inferno, I'd say it's in Tuscany. Someone here said Tuscany is even written in a sign on the map. As for architecture, I'd say it is quite similar across all of Italy (at least when it comes to those narrow streets in small towns and villages). The map's logo also gives a hint, it's a clear reference to the logos of Ferrari and Lamborghini. Both of these brands are based in the Emilia Romagna region. Not quite Tuscany, but it's right next to it, they're both at the heart of Italy. For Brazil, I say there's Favela, for India, there's Gwalior. They're both quite old, but Favela is clearly based on Brazilian favelas (who would have thought), while Gwalior is based on a real life Indian fort of the same name. I'd love it if you went back and did this with other maps that we had in CS:GO / we now have in CS2. Former competitive maps (Cache, Train, etc.), operation maps, or even demolition/arms race maps. Would be fun to see! Edit: I completely forgot about wingman maps!

Hey man, for future endeavors, Lebanon does not have dusty areas, like for example we don't have a desert. So it is unlikely to have dust themed maps based in Lebanon.

I don't think that cs_italy is in northern Italy: -Parts of that region speaks German -The Dolomites have different mountain shapes -The general architecture is more like middle Italy

2:17 I laughed so loud when you said Memphis hahaha

3:42 bru what i remember buying some like 4 years ago

Such a banger video, really simple concept but your unique style of commentary and sarcasm over the high quality clips just make it a masterpiece, keep up the good work dude! Your content never ceases to amaze me!

New Penguin video, today is a good day

3:16 wait, on official CS:GO trailer Nuke is located in Harz, Germany... or i missed something?

Dust2 was also moved from Jerusalem to Morocco

4:53 hey nice to see akiba in this video. anyways I know Squidski and Coachi are working on porting cs_climb to CS2, so at some point in the future you'll get that Brazil map you want :)

The real location truly is the friends we made along the way

While its clearly intended to look like Italy or Spain, Inferno was actually inspired by the architecture of San Juan Capistrano, a city in southern California.

Via Nino Bixio, It is one of the most common street names in Italy

It's crazy that three counter-strike maps are located in Tennessee! The biodiversity of the US is truly underrated.

I do not think the Italy map is next to the alps. I opened google earth went to street view on a small town in central Italy (Vico nel Lazio) and the mountain right next to it just so happens to look eerily similar to the one in the CS skybox, I guess I got pretty lucky haha. So I think the map is located near the Abruzzo mountains. But this is just based on the mountains alone so, just an observation ;)

Pretty’s sure office is in Denver/Colorado. Older incarnations has it in the mountains.

These are great ways to tell who's been playing since "1.6" and who didn't really start til CS2 The idea that Dust2 took place in Morocco would've been laughable 20 years ago. It's always been a very distinctly Middle East influenced map

Mirage has the same architecture as "Ouarzazate Castle" in morocco. So, it is in morocco. Also, Tunisia uses French and Arabic for their signs and it is next to Algeria

i’m not saying this rules out nuke being in tennessee. the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) is a real place in Oak Ridge. but that organization works all over the US. Oak Ridge is also historic for american history having been the location of the plants used to obtain u-235 for the manhattan project, so an organization based in a historic city for nuclear history giving an award to a nuclear power plant doesn’t really sell me on tennessee. but as stated previously, this doesn’t disprove your argument either. just fun trivia at the end of the day. 3:31

Inferno is originally set in Spain... The separatist faction is based on ETA, a Basque separatist group.

Inferno is southern Italy, not Sardinia. Italy has a very large north/south split, explaining the separatist faction (Though none actually exist irl, as far as I know).

I dont think Inferno was ever set in California but the first csgo variant was inspired by the Spanish mission in San Juan California.

I'm pretty sure that inferno also change location from somewhere more middle east like to Italy. Maybe i'm wrong idk

Nuke also changed places didn't it? Because in older versions of the map as well as in the trailer of CS:GO we were told that the map is located in Germany, to be precise in the Harz region.

I hope Mirage gets a Tunisia remake with shiny tiles and such. Apps needs world space reflection of light around the corners to spot enemies.

Cs_climb was in the map pool in csgo for a little while.. It's in Curitiba Brasil

Mountain Dew isn't banned in the EU, it just has a different recipe from the us version

Personally I just wanna say, killer intro. I wish people would do that more often

Inferno's T spawn in older iterations before CS2 was based in a real place in California. Also the people on the radio in Office don't have a distinct Boston accent so ima guess Chicago on that one.

In CSGO, the separatists in Inferno have Spanish accent and are clearly dressed as members of ETA. It was always confusing, since the map is clearly in Italy

The CS:GO separatist models were based on real Basque separatist group ETA.

Your videos always are something im super excited to watch. You always have very insightful content on the game. Great work!

For inferno, I feel like it’s closer to the French border, due to the lil Monaco sign

Mountain Dew isn't banned in the EU, it has a different recipe so it fits all the regulations

i really enjoyed the end part, nontheless like where is csgo's shoots or lake, cruise, zoo etc.?

Inferno has moved locations 4 times. ESCalation made a video on it.

Wasn't Dust 2 censored by a location change? Im preety sure the IDF was operating there.

What's with the random shot of Abbey (goated map btw) at 5:30?

Brazil mentioned 🎉

5:06 We also need a map 🗺️ based on Nepal

Dust2 is in kazablanka i know that from the buildings and car plates that have the letter ب and i think mirage is in Marrakech because the Moroccan style mosque in A site. and car plates د And Algeria have more Ottoman style mosque If i said something you think was wrong just tell me in the comments i love to hear 😁😁

Office is clearly in boulder, colorado

I could be wrong; but isn’t the original Inferno based on San Juan Capistrano in California?

As a Brazilian I wnt to see a remake of the map cs_rio, so popular around here in 1.6

found your password huh?

Mirage could also be Tunisia! The architecture could make sense

Mountain Dew is not banned in Sweden or Spain. But I guess they changed the ingredients

On inferno you have "polish flags" on trashbins. I think it may be the Lucca flag, a city in Tuscany?

other thing that made me identify overpass being in berlin is the oneup crew graffiti, they're from berlin