How Counter-Strike and Left 4 Dead are connected

counter- strike left for dead Counter Strike left for dead this one time my buddy when most people think of one of these games they usually don't think of the other but I do and for a good reason the idea of these games being connected has been a decently discussed topic for years there's even a theory that the terrorist from Counterstrike actually created and spread the zombie virus and left her dead which is a very silly Theory but it actually kind of did start to make sense the more I looked into it not for reasons anybody had been pointing out prior but these games are definitely connected in more ways than one whether it is the conspiracy theories the luren references in each game or the rocket development of Left 4 Dead and how it relates to Counter-Strike I'll make sure to cover it all here and explain just why I think these games are connected but real quick I'd like to thank the sponsor for this video skins monkey skins monkey is a Counter-Strike trading site that allows you 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these survivors with just their knife which is the only weapon they can use on my way this protype was a bit buggy for me but it seemed that all the zombies would respawn at the 4minute Mark or the minute 30 Mark so no matter how many zombies you killed they would eventually just respawn the only way the survivors could actually win the game was after they planted the bomb and once they did all the zombies would respawn and only then could they kill all the zombies and win the game this bomb bomb didn't explode either when it was planted or at least it didn't for me and I waited like 3 minutes the cool thing here though is once you plant this bomb it plays a very familiar sound once it respawns all the [Applause] zombies oh Jesus this earlier build of Left 4 Dead was as basic as it came the only real modifications it made to Counter-Strike condition zero was the zombie sound effects which were a bit spooky at times zombies would also make a loud watery sound when walking presumably so they couldn't sneak up on you and there was a reloading voice line each time you reloaded reloading but as fun as it was for a little bit I am glad that they ended up changing the direction of the gameplay the cool thing here is that the same company that worked on Counter-Strike condition zero Turtle Rock Studios is the exact same company that made Left 4 Dead 1 so I think it's safe to assume that this build that we're looking at right here went on to influence the coming iterations of Left 4 Dead now let let's keep that in mind as we jump ahead a couple months to the release of Counter-Strike [Music] source using the developer commentary mode in Left 4 Dead 1 you can hear game designer at Turtle Rock Studios Mike Booth say this while we were developing Bots for Counterstrike Source we discovered that a few of us armed to the teeth with automatic Weaponry against 30 knife wielding enemy Bots was a lot of fun left for dead as the result of this evolutionary design process interestingly enough Mike Booth was also tasked with working on the AI for Counterstrike condition zero so we can also assume that he's talking about Terror strike here as well so what came with this Counter-Strike Source left for dead build well this is actually what turned into the very first Left 4 Dead that we have today it of course went through a ton of iterations some being so foreign you wouldn't even think it's Left 4 Dead in fact a lot of these earlier left for dead builds basically look the exact same as Counter-Strike source which you can really see just how many Counter-Strike Source assets they really use for this game in the alpha previews at Quake con 2007 thankfully a lot of these Counterstrike Source assets were replaced but you can actually still find a lot of them in the game we we have today the weapons from Counter-Strike Source were also released in Left 4 Dead 2 but those were in there for more complicated reasons like German censorship and all that other eventually they were just released for everyone once they got the core gameplay Loop done I assume that's when they went to work on the story and Campaign which of course follows the four lovable characters that go on to kill everybody around them Lewis one of the main characters will even remark oh man this is just like Counter Strike when picking up a weapon sometimes which of course coincides with the larger conspiracy theory that I will talk about later also I'd like to say that this RoR overtime video right here goes on to talk about this Left 4 Dead build a lot more in detail and was a huge inspiration for this video so I'd really recommend checking it out anyways once Left 4 Dead was done and got its praise Val quickly got on working on Left 4 Dead 2 after seeing how successful the first game was in fact Left 4 Dead 2 came out exactly one year after the first game came out which is a far cry from the development hell that Left 4 Dead 1 was in for so many years this was of course because valve took over for totor rock studios and put all their effort into this [Music] game 3 years after left for Dead's 2 release Val goes on to released their newest game Counter-Strike Global Offensive and what keenai players were very quick to realize was just how many reused assets and weapons from Left 4 Dead 2 were in Counterstrike Global Offensive the desert eagle from Left 4 Dead was the exact same model in Counterstrike but was thankfully Shrunk the Mac 10 in csgo was also the silent submachine gun but with the silencer taken off I mean just look at it the AK-47 was the exact same model the scar that was in the beta csgo was also the exact same model from the combat rifle and left for dead the Glock was also reused as well but not all weapons were reused but not only did players noticed the exact same weapon models but they also noticed the same locations the burger tank from Left 4 Dead looks eerily similar to deore Bank in CSO the swamp town from Left 4 Dead 2 looks eagly similar to St Mark in csgo same with sugarcane from csgo and hard rain from Left 4 Dead Lake from csgo and this lake house from Left For Dead also look very similar and with all these similarities people started to wonder if this was here for a reason other than just recycled assets sparking the now somewhat popular theory that Left 4 Dead and Counter-Strike are connected which I'll of course get into in a bit my reasoning for all these recycled assets is exactly that they are recycled assets see the development for CSO was not the smoothest if you didn't know it started off as basically a paid project from hdden path entertainment to Port over Counter-Strike source to consoles I won't get too into detail but the game sucked it lacked any real differences from other Counter-Strike titles other than just being a shittier version of it and on top of that all the unique ideas that they were going to add ended up getting scrapped anyways but valve thankfully pitched in and pushed the game in the right direction this is all speculation but since the development was so Rocky I assume that hidden path might have borrowed assets from Left 4 Dead or use the same locations as inspiration interestingly enough the only shared locations that made it from Left 4 Dead into CS:GO are in the demolition game mode in fact five of the seven maps in this game mode were the Left 4 Dead 2 inspired locations so I can only assume that valve or hidden path entertainment must have rushed this not so popular game mode by just using these Maps as inspiration this is of course the most reasonable explanation in the explanation most normal people will accept but for the not so reasonable this sparked a conspiracy theory FAA has been known for sharing universes in their games the most iconic of which being portal and halflife these connections are made through dialogue or other hints throughout the game black Mesa can eat my bankrupt sir the testing right or how about the ship named the Borealis that Aperture Science created that was revealed to be an entire plot point for a scrap version of halflife 3 the point I'm trying to make here is that people have a reason to speculate that Counterstrike and Left 4 Dead are connected especially considering how closely related they are during their development I didn't even talk about this earlier but even Left 4 Dead 3 has references in Counter-Strike not a ton but some references were leaked in the release of Counter-Strike too a very common theory is that the terrorist from Counter-Strike actually ended up blowing something up to spread the green flu that now infects the Left 4 Dead universe or maybe the reason that the csgo locations are more pristine than the Left 4 Dead two locations is because it takes place in the world after it's recovered from the zombie infection and left for dead all these theories coinciding with these shared weapons assets and locations yeah I hope your reaction was the same as mine when reading these theories it is an interesting thought exercise but it can't be correct right well let's dig past the surface level stuff and really look into things Left 4 Dead takes place in the year 2009 presumably the same year that the green flu was spread well what year does Counter-Strike take place in it's not exactly said but using your brain a little we can figure some stuff out looking at most of the weapons in each game it is a bit hard to tell some of them even being modern enough to be placed in today's world but cars and Technology are probably the biggest way to tell that Counter-Strike is definitely more modern than 2009 especially on maps and Counter-Strike 2 but the main thing that proved to me that Counter-Strike most definitely takes place after 2009 is the tablet and the drones from danger zone in Counterstrike Global Offensive other than that it is a bit ambiguous some maps seem to be stuck in the past like Maps like office but I think it is safe to assume that counter- strike's danger zone and Counter-Strike 2 definitely take place after 2009 as far as the shared locations in the game a lot of them don't even make sense the walls on sugarcane are completely different than the walls in Left 4 Dead and it takes place near a beach which Left 4 Deads definitely does not St Mark is obviously a completely different area than this swampy area right here and the bank in csgo is a bank when the one in Left 4 Dead is a burger tank the only map that is basically the same is the lake house and lake trust me if valve wanted to connect these worlds they would have made it a lot more obvious Counter-Strike is also referenced in left or dead like I mentioned earlier having one of the main characters Lewis say oh man this is just like Counter Strike so it may even be that Counterstrike is a playable video game in the Left 4 Dead Universe Lewis will also reference the main protagonist from halflife Gordon Freeman man I feel like I'm Gordon Freeman and box as a serial in the game also have Team Fortress 2 on it so all these games can't really be connected in the Left 4 Dead Universe other than them just being a pop culture reference like it is in our real world all the other stuff like the boat sharing the same name or the same textures are nothing other than recycled assets so I basically just prove to you guys that Counter-Strike and Left 4 Dead most definitely don't share the same universe and just wasted all your time just kidding I do have something [Music] extra the payday series created by Overkill Studios is for some reason completely connected to Left 4 Dead this is Overkill Software we're talking about here connected to valve I love pay as much as the next guy but that's crazy even for me now as for the universe is being connected I'll get to that in a bit but let's just focus on the surface level stuff for now Petty The Heist has the hunter Boomer smoker and I think this is supposed to be the tank as mass you can get these masks are obtained through the No Mercy Heist which just so happens to be a one toone copy of Mercy Hospital from Left 4 Dead at first this Mission wasn't considered to be Canon which you can see here by a lot of people trying to disprove this entire Theory with it but it actually was Rec canonized in Payday 2 so it is now an official real location in the payday Universe thus placing the Mercy Hospital from Left For Dead into the Paya Universe during this Heist the crew was tasked with retrieving a rare virus called the green flu which just so happens to be the exact same virus as the one from Left 4 Dead you can even run into bill from Left 4 Dead in the elevator when first starting the mission now what is all this have to do with Counter-Strike well in 2013 in Payday 2 they released a map called go Bank this map being identical as the map from csgo called theore Bank hence the name go in go Bank obviously being an homage to csgo and on that same map in csgo Dore Bank you can actually find hawkin's mask Dallas's mask and even Wolf's mask hidden around the map or at least you could have until these masks were for some reason removed as of May 2017 so now the only tie from Payday to csgo is go bang from Payday 2 unless you also want to count the Daryl agents in the Counter-Strike we have today as references to Payday which I would kind of like to believe that it's them versus the top crims in the business and I'd say they're pecking their DS of B now so did I waste your time again probably but if you want to continue to speculate since Left 4 Dead and PayDay are for some reason maybe connected and PayDay and csgo are for some reason maybe connected then maybe Left 4 Dead payday and Counterstrike all share the same universe but the most likely thing here is that maybe they were trying to connect payday and Counterstrike but the idea was reccon which is why the mask got removed from the CSO map as for the Left 4 Dead and PayDay connections I don't think it's anything other than just a giant Easter egg and a fun way to advertise the games together this no mercy mission is nothing but a giant Easter egg for Left 4 Dead and it's pretty obvious that it was meant to be nothing more than that I mean if this does take place in the Left 4 Dead Universe where all the zombies in Payday I guess that's an entirely different video got a feeling this job is going to come back from the dead to haunt us but if you want my conclusion I'd say Counter-Strike and Left 4 Dead are definitely connected especially in references to Left 4 Dead as well as the development for each game it is kind of crazy to me that no matter which Left 4 Dead you're talking about it'll always be connected to Counterstrike whether it's Terror strike and condition zero being the very first prototype for Left 4 Dead the first Left 4 Dead using Counter-Strike Source assets the shared assets from Left 4 Dead 2 in csgo or even the fact that Left 4 Dead 3 was referenced in Counter-Strike 2 but are the universes actually connected most likely not but if you want to continue to believe that delusion be my guest it is a fun bit of head Cannon to have I'd say the most likely Theory here is that Counter-Strike is just a playable video game in the Left 4 Dead universe as always please subscribe and like the video if you liked it and if you didn't like it go and leave a comment why and I'll try to do better next time

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Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 28 2024