Before Valve dropped their strong TF2 support, it really felt like Cactus Canyon and Asteroid were being set up early to play the part of the Big Finale maps that tie in with the TF2 Comics - with Asteroid being tied into the rocket that escaped Earth with all the Australium. Part of me hopes that one day they might retool Asteroid to actually be that map.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

I never considered it this way… That actually makes a lot of sense

@robert9016

7 ай бұрын

I used to love Cactus Canyon stage 2, it’s where I had my first great Medic game :)

Seeing myself failing every garden in every shot is the greatest joy ever. Btw thanks for the shoutout for my art at the end ❤

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Always for the lagoop supporters

I encountered several people on an Uncletopia server once who had never even seen or heard of plr_nightfall before and didn't know that it was an official map, and they were acting all confused and perplexed by the map's existence. It made me feel old.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Plr was the most interesting forgotten gamemode imo

@twpsyn

7 ай бұрын

​@@Dynam_people still somewhat play banana bay, but that's the only plr map that gets players and isn't a dm fest meme like hightower

I love that you timestamp both the section you’re talking about as well as the music you’re using. It such a small thing but definitely appreciated

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

:D

@neppedhazama

7 ай бұрын

Sonic Rush takes me back

@TheDolphinTuna

7 ай бұрын

Yeah. A leszer KZreadr wouldn’t timestamp his stuff, but with timestamps I’m more willing to give a video my time since I know whether I’ll be interested in the topics discussed

I love Hydro to death honestly. Im mad it never caught on, because unbalanced to a point by design asymmetrical maps are awesome and really shake things up. That said, I understand why its so hard for people to get around on them, and unless you pay attention to the pre-game map to know which two zones are facing off its really hard to know whats going on. Alas lol.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

I would love to see a modern take on TC

HORSE POSTING in 2023 WILL SAVE TEAM FORTRESS 2 !

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

MO YOU FIEND!

@DaGonkman

7 ай бұрын

That is genuine hatred right there

@StygianSunder

7 ай бұрын

Hors

I just nominated Hydro on a London Uncletopia server and got enough people to actually vote for it. At first some people wanted to rtv once the map was on, but we actually played it to the end. It all looked like it will end it a stalement, but in the ende it ended with a win for my team. I had an absolute blast and was glad people didn't abandon the server when the map came on. Playing old and forgotten maps successfully really warms my heart.

Yukon is played enough on uncletopia london and frankfurt that I have grown to hate it Pipeline and Nightfall too

I was hoping you would talk about cp_junction and how it looks like a half life map that just fell into tf2 by accident and gives you claustrophobia.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Oh god I remember that map

I know this isn't exactly a competitive focused video, but I really like to see an up and coming Comp youtuber who doesn't just post Scout frag movie #296 or scrim POV with no editing.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Takes a lot of restraint

@Fofenho

7 ай бұрын

@@Dynam_ do it

The duality of my clips: Gaming, hitting flares, defending medics as pyro, or playing as medic just shredding the enemy team vs Haha, chicken fence goes brrrrrrrr

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Config based blunder

I'm cooking something in my oven right now and I don't need to set a timer because it needs 10 minutes and you just uploaded an exactly 10 minutes video, thanks!

I remember playing on maps like Hydro, Nightfall, Pipeline, Yukon and Cactus Canyon so many years ago. Also, Territorial Control is the best gamemode.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

It’s unique!

I haven't played this game since 2013 and I already knew Hydro was going to be listed 😂 It was pretty much dead even back then, I do remember Yukon being fairly popular back in the day though. Great video!

oh wow this is a great video! The little animatics bring out a lot of charm here!

7:11 As enjoyer of hydro. I am officially jealous

This game has so many damn maps that i still discover new ones when playing casual all the time

fkin love hydro, i have vivid core memories of playing tf2 for the first time in 2007 rushing the right side of reds attack flank with 5 battle medics all trying to learn how to use the syringe gun

Hydro is actually quite fun to play on if you're playing as Engineer. I know this because every time I've played a match on Hydro I've had to play as Engineer because no one else on my team picks Engineer and if you don't have an Engineer defending your point on Hydro you just instantly lose.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

A contest of who can stalemate harder

Ty lex for the sprites! It really elevates these videos from good to great.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

They’re my special guy!

great choice on the ost! love how the whole video uses sonic rush ost specifically

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

All my videos have one game for the background music, Been wanting to use rush for a while!

Another Dynam banger as expected

First played this game in 2014, and wow this video was like a trip down memory lane. I haven't played on any of these maps except Yukon and sort of Hydro if you count TF2C's 4 team variant in literally years, yet some of my earliest memories of the game take place on them. It even made me try to queue up for Pipeline and Nightfall, to no success since it took ages to find a single match that was almost completely dead. Oh well

I don’t have much to add to the discussion. I just wanted to say that your channel is a breathe of fresh air and I hope it becomes big.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I miss rd_asteroid, the beta era of rd_asteroid feels like a fever dream now. I distinctly remember one of the earlier variants of the map and it was so fun. Robot Destruction walked so that Player Destruction could run. tc_hydro is an interesting one... it's like a 5cp map with a built-in stalemate breaking mechanic that doesn't work... as theoretically you can keep swapping the middle 4 points back and forth between teams indefinitely, but each cap resets the map, making engineer a little bit harder to turtle

@cloudynguyen6527

7 ай бұрын

I felt like Hydro could work if player can vote for the team where to attack and it should be attack/defend to solve the stalemate and constant playing back and forth each section.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

I’d really love to see a modern take on the TC gamemode

I loved how you used Sonic Rush music. 😊

I miss both Cactus Canyon and Astroid. Loved them both and I loved watching them change and evolve over time

My tf2 experience started with RD_Asteroid. As a new player, it was satisfying to score points for my team without having to stand on a control point waiting to die. This was where I started playing engineer, because I realized pretty quickly that no sentry= no wins. And as a mostly pyro player (cuz aiming was hard) having all of the cliffs was fun.

@Introbulus

7 ай бұрын

It is absolutely wild to think that someone's introduction to TF2 was on RD_Asteroid, on a map that wasn't complete, in a game mode that was never finished.

Cactus Canyon, my beloved. How I miss you. 😔

I'm here for the Hydro commentary, Yknow, a map that came out WITH the game.

I love how the discord has embraced Mo’s horseposting enough to get it mentioned in a video

@rayrorobotpyro9631

7 ай бұрын

Mo is simply built different

@Secre_Tariat

7 ай бұрын

I’m just fucking crazy

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Mo is a creature

Yukon is my favorite map. Its fun to play since its never gonna be a stalemate or a roll like most 5cp maps. Seriously, it will always be a back and forth which is a great experience.

A slight cure for a burnt tongue: Drizzle honey or put dry white sugar on the burned area, leave it dangling out of your mouth for like 30 seconds-1 minute, this pulls the liquid from the burn and makes it feel a lot better. Just wash your tongue off when you're done. Swear to god works every time.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Noted

Cactus Canyon was funny as fuck because the cart would glitch out. I'm very fond of it because the cart glitching and detaching from it's "soul" making it impossible to push was funny.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Performing a resurrection on the cart

CP _ well is criminally underrated and underplayed. One of my favorite maps but never gets any attention

@walukirby

6 ай бұрын

Considering it was one of the original maps, I don't think it's that forgotten. Well, hydro is, but that's another matter.

good editing, earned yourself a subscriber. oh and you using default viewmodels really sets in the vintage 2014 vibe. nobody uses them anymore but i still do for the memories, and i salute you :)

I remember back before the jungle inferno update cactus caynon was very popular for a beta map in my country, asteroid was a 2nd option but underrated. There was a option you could choose beta maps in order to join a official server. The only reason why we played alot is because of the ping in my country you could play in no problem even if your internet suck. If i join any other official server map my ping would go over 150/200

Great vid man, keep it up you have a lot of potential

every time my friends and I queue up with someone new I always say "lets go to camber I love camber" in a sarcastic voice and they always ask without fail "Whats camber" its a silly time haha

yukon actually is one of my favorite maps 😭😭

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

I apologise

Fun fact, for a time Cactus Canyon had a SECOND map between the current first and final...and I have no idea why it was removed. It was added, then removed, over it's life time. So when Canyon was first added, there was 2 stages. Then there was 3...then it went back to 2.

Oh man, I used to play the shit out of Pipeline back in the day. I loved payload race when I was younger for some reason

imo ghoulpit is one of the most forgotten maps in tf2, it got added and then nobody ever talked about it

Solid music choice dude! Rush needs more love tbh.

loving your videos dude. keep it up you're great

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I firmly believe that pipeline and nightfall are good, fun maps. The only reason nobody plays on them is because 99% of players who are queuing into plr just want to play a free for all team deathmatch on Hightower and not actually play payload.

nice video as always

I liked that you included a clip of me falling off the map twice

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

It was funny :)

To be technical, cactus canyon had something like 14 updates, which are all archived. It had a second stage that was cut. Anyway I'm a hydro homie. I am the MASTER of territorial control.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

No updates since 2014 sadly 😭

Damn, I remember coming home after school and immedeatly going to Pipeline to unlock new weapons from Sniper vs Spy update that just dropped. Good times.

i'm so bitter about cactus canyon never being finished. Pipeline and Nightfall were my favorites too

This Summer I did a thing where I would play every single map available in TF2 casual. I would queue for all maps, play some time, then quit, and next time I would queue I would remove the maps I've already played. And now I remember the general layout of every single official TF2 map that is commonly available (although I'm not sure if that's much of a rare achievement for someone with ~700 hours of playtime). Every single map except for Nightfall. This map is so forgettable the only thing I remember is the name. My brain was confused for a second when you mentioned it alongside Pipeline (a map I vividly remember). My memory only came back after looking at the map's wiki, but even then I didn't recognize the 3rd stage. Maybe I should go replay it right now, after all I do enjoy the gamemode greatly. I suppose you left out the Arena mode exclusive maps for the next video. I hope you make a more in-depth video about those (plus Cactus Canyon and Asteroid) and discuss the layout since these maps are no longer accessible to the average player. Love your videos!

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Yeah the area game mode and passtime would be their own video with the amount. Funny you mention Nightfall and Pipeline because when I was looking into the maps for things to talk about, I had the Notes fully taken down for Nightfall only to realise after 30 minutes I was on Pipeline!

Yo as a massive guilty gear and tf2 fan, your videos bring me so much joy. Thank you❤️❤️❤️

haven't played tf2 in a while and it hurts to see my favorite maps, yukon, cactus canyon & hydro on this list :')

I play TF2C and community servers a lot and had no idea Yukon was hardly played anymore. That’s sad. Good Sonic Rush bgm btw

God I loved the sonic rush ost. Each one you chose was fitting to the map, nice job. Also Wowie I vividly remember playing on most of these maps back when I was 14 or 15. Hella wild for me to see no one play them much anymore due to many reasons such as not being fun or just not being on the map list (cactus canyon :[).

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

It's strange when you realise how old you were when you first play on a map

@Oretal

7 ай бұрын

@@Dynam_ for real yo, time do be scary. Playing newly added maps feel different BUT still give me that same old feeling of wonder and mystery I got when playing a new map back when I first started playing.

Dynam finna be one of the next tf2 greats calling it

I thought you were going to mention Arena maps. I haven't played on Offblast in years, but I have recently played on most of the maps in this video. At least more recently than Arena maps.

my memories of yukon consist of two funny little gremlin amby spies. nothing more.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

If you’re referencing what I think you are then you’ve successfully pulled at my nostalgia well done 🎉

Very good video glad a found your channel

truely forgotten maps would be like: PLR_snowplow and the invasion event maps. I still see uncletopia have pipeline and yukon from time to time.

Asteroid was one of my favorite maps back in a day. loved the rd and had a lot of fun in this mode. Imho it was huge upgrade comparing to normal ctf

if i had to describe it, tc_hydro feels like if dustbowl was a 5cp map. i enjoy it sometimes, it's not as confusing as people point it out to be but it's horrendously chokey and small. it has the same problem as asteroid where you have to defend your point, all while while your team is trying to push into the enemy point. if your team is clueless and nobody stays to defend, you'll encounter the infamous "empty hydro point" which will easily be capped before both teams even encounter each other. honestly, hydro would be a tad bit better if every section was opened as a standalone 5cp map. it's gorgeous and canonically, expiration date was set on that same map

Ah my beloved Hydro if only more people understood and loved the confusing hell you are that I might be able to play more than 1 game on you before the server cries and switches maps.

Shame the guy who made asteroid and cactus canyon left valve before they got finished. At least we got player destruction from the remnants of asteroid

i dont think you understand how hydro works the routes and doors are always the same, they just depend on which two points are fighting each other. there are no randomized doors

@KyleDavis328

7 ай бұрын

Hydro is broken in other ways though. Some of the props that spawn in one combination of points will be invisible in others (like they're supposed to) but still interact with projectiles, making certain corridors impossible to play consistently with demo or soldier

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

I think what I was trying to say is it ‘Feels’ random, probably should’ve re-recorded that part

I live for obscure and forgotten maps in TF2, they are an enigma for most players nowadays, but for me I dedicate time to admire them, learn how they work, explore every path and try to convince others to play them too, because even if they may be seen as weird or bad, they deserve to have a chance in the spotlight. Btw if there are any Hydro fans out there, please I must know, I am a big fan of the map too.

8:45 absolutely hated that fukin' point cuz right as we got in that place the whole of the red team materialized inside it and it was a damn slaughter

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

I’m glad it was over fast rayro

Cactus Canyon was my favorite map. Back then I didnt had a good computer to play TF2 on despite it being a very old game. So whenever I joined a server with full of players I would have a lot of performance issues but Cactus Canyon servers had a lot of half empty servers so I would join them instead

love the tf2 content really brings memories back to simpler times

i don't actually think hydro has random elements within the layouts. the way it's set up is that the different layouts aren't just individual map chunks separated by the void, but rather each territory is just a point in one contiguous map. so a blu point and a red point are chosen, the routes between them are opened up, and the routes to every other point is closed off. and i'm pretty sure that's the full extent of it, meaning the only random elements should be which points are used to make the round's layout. something like the vents being closed off isn't to shake things up, but to prevent you from wandering into the flank of the completely wrong point i think. i don't know how they managed to make "6cp but the next point keeps randomizing" so confusing, but they sure as hell did incidentally, though, this makes dismantling hydro into a cp_hydro a much simpler affair that it might first seem, to the point where you can easily google several different attempts to do so

Love it when videos comes out at 1 am

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Time zone moment

@Yousef241

7 ай бұрын

dude were two hours apart wdym @@Dynam_

I've tried to play plr_pipeline on casual for So long, I remember it being the second map I ever played on and I forgot about it entirely because I got zero games past a certain point, and only remembered its existence because of an old video I stumbled into

I actually really like Yukon purely just because of how cool it looks. (And totally not because I’m Canadian) Also RIP ur tongue

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

I will come back stronger

i really like your penguin mascot and all his cameos in the video

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

He has committed many crimes

@someuser4166

7 ай бұрын

@@Dynam_ fits right into tf2 then

Loving the Sonic Rush bg music

Hydro is best map since it has Roguelike/Roguelite stuff in it.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

True, valve should’ve cashed in when everyone was making roguelikes

My older cousin who got me into tf2 would only play on this one Japanese server that was hydro 24/7. Still makes me nostalgic when I play hydro

Twas a high quality video, the recommanded tab worked it's magic

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

:D

babe wake up, new dynam video

I love hydro. I play it on Valve official servers whenever i can which is surprisingly often.

Suggestions: the entirery of the mannpower gamemode

ive made at least 14 territorial control maps. i had to redesign the philosophy of the tf2 map design in order to make them more fun. really tiny but fun. it really is an example of "bad map good game mode".

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Is there a way to play them?

I have fond memories of playing on all of those maps (granted asteroid was less about the playing and more about the weirdness). Beats why all of these have faded while people still play junction…

Ok, I play tons of 100 player servers and Hydro is constantly in rotation so I’ve played that map a ton

most forgotten maps are arena maps because even dynam forgot about them

Sounds like someone played a lotta Sonic Rush during their childhood.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Hell yeah

Loving the Hideki Naganuma music!

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Sonic rush my beloved

I like hydro. When I played it there was also a sudden death element to it. I don’t know what it’s like anymore because as you pointed out, it’s a dead map.

My heart aches for Pipeline and Nightfall. I spent my early years of tf2 in 2013 playing Hightower, Pipeline, and Nightfall, with my favorite being Nightfall. With the quickplay system, payload race was considered just as respectable as any of the other gamemodes. I'd search for servers, and pick whichever one had the most players with the best ping running Pipeline. When matchmaking got released and payload race was relegated to sit with the likes of Hydro, Mann Power, and PASS time. Last time I tried searching for a pipeline game, it was swarmed with bots that I couldn't do anything about.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Quickplay servers that looked like they had players but it was just bots was the biggest betrayal of 2014

Pipeline used to be a favourite of mine, but I always got confused between Nightfall and Pipeline based on the names. Nightfall is the one during the day and had a main them to the final stage of a big pipe down the middle, while Pipeline is the one set at night time

Youkon is a goaded Roblox TF2 map

Yesterday I played tf2 for the first time in years, and Yukon was one of the maps I ended up on lol

i love the background music

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

Sonic rush ost my beloved

Holy shit, I've been playing on and off since like 2013 and the only one of these I actually recognize is Hydro. Game's got a lotta fuckin maps

Well now you're just taunting me by focusing in on the bridge on sunshine last, I've gotta know Dynam!

Funnily enough, Yukon used to be pretty commonly played in TF2 Classic, which was where I played the map. I personally do not like the map and can see why live TF2 ended up burying it as you pointed it out

I'll always remember Yukon as the map where Scout broke his fingers.

Oh my favorite map is Yukon i loved playing that when i was 1 year old

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

I have failed you

I have to watch these at 0.75 times speed for the voice over to be at a normal speed.

@Dynam_

7 ай бұрын

I have so many ideas in my head and I have to get them out 😭