Exploring TF2's Most Obscure Servers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- TF2 has hundreds of servers either empty or scarcely populated, with a handful having some creepy, lonely or bizarre personalities. Join me in exploring these hidden gems, and let's uncover some strange secrets.
Intro: 0:00
Desuroom Revival: 1:05
Dice's Fun Server: 8:29
LP Community RP: 14:39
Outro: 23:22
Server Info:
Desuroom Revival:
IP - 162.248.88.175:27015
Dice's Fun Room:
IP - 89.165.190.116:27015
(Additionally, there has been allegations around yellow dice (take it with a grain of salt) I of course do not support anything that is immoral or illegal to come out of the people in my videos. This video is purely for server exploration, and the personalities attributed to the servers. Let's keep the comment section controversy-free! Thanks!)
LP Community RP:
IP - 74.91.116.116:27015
Songs (In Order):
Autechre - Dropp
Earthbound (Mother 2) - Welcome to Your Sanctuary
Pokemon Snap - Professor Oak's Lab
Pokemon B/W - Route 1
Pokemon HG/SS - Goldenrod City
Pokemon R/S/E - Sootopolis City
Earthbound (Mother 2) - Happy Happy is Blue
Nils Frahm - Talisman
Half-Life 2 - Our Resurrected Teleport
Half-Life 2 - Probably Not a Problem
Half-Life 2 - Calabi-Yau Model
Half-Life 2 - Slow Light
Half-Life 2 - Lab Practicum
Earthbound (Mother 2) - Friendly Neighbors
Jet Set Radio - Recipe for the Perfect Afro
Insta: tophonator
Steam: toph / tophonator
Twitter: @tophonator_
✌️✌️ - เกม
Dice feels like some entity just waiting in his ethereal plain welcoming any visitor that somehow ends up there.
Not gonna lie, this sounds like a pretty interesting writing prompt for some fictional deity who has been forgotten and has gradually become isolated due to nobody interacting with it. Not angry or anything when people DO arrive, just sorta vibing in their own reality and then being surprised when anyone turns up.
he's quite the personality from what i've seen about him. from very experienced trader to banned from a server for extreme reasons. all this comes back to his fever dream of maps that he lives in
@PuzzlePuddles what happend?
Yeah
@@BlondeeBombshell what happened?
I don't know what it is, but source maps that are empty kinda like Gmod community maps feels so, weird, nostalgic and scary even, like you'd obviously know it's tons of fun when people are around but when you're alone in there it's just....surreal
It honestly does!! But weirdly, I actually find it sort of peaceful
@@tophonator same, liminal stuff like that has always been peaceful for me
@@tophonator Those feel like "quiet and nice places where to die"
I think it's kinda because your brain connects these source maps with fun,loud,chaotic experiences and when they are empty your brain feels like something is off.
Bruh weve already went over this like 2 years ago
3:14 for anyone wondering, that's based on "The enigma of Amigara fault", a short story by Junji Ito (the dude that made the scary spiral manga) and it's basically about a mountain that got "cut open" in two and those humanoid shapes appeared on the wall of it, and people who look at them feel the urge to get inside and get lost deep into the mountain's tight holes
To give more info, the holes were all in the shapes of different people, and when someone finds their hole, they come with an ever growing urge to fit inside in it, front first. Once in they would slowly get sucked inside and, in the complete dark, would lose all sense of space and time.
At the end of the story another cut would open in another mountain (shown in the video after that), where similar holes would be discovered, albeit not human shapen, but very twisted, and the last scene is something coming out of these new holes (presumably the ones who entered from the other side)
As a final context, it became popular in 4chan's /a/ because it became a meme. It showed one of the nerdier looking people entering a human hole in the mountain while screaming "This hole! It was made for me!" while underneath is captioned 4chan.
Because we know this place is a shithole, and it was made for us.
This was incredibly well done. Every time I see video's like this, I always look back to the old servers I used to practically live in, day in and out, as a teen on TF2, and every time I think that. Just imagine, all the people that would of once played on it, the RP server live and vibrant, a T-Pose heavy sliding around as a hitman, or a spy whose trying to sell you illegal baguette's. Anything like that. The servers that are kept up for the sake of it, and the people that still, to this day, will hold get togethers no matter how big or small, to just at least try to grab hold of those old days for even a few fleeting moments. We all have stories, and if only every server like those could just talk, only god knows what cool, funny, or downright TF2-ish shenanigans, it would tell. A single, vibing, server owner on their own, just playing some music and relaxing in dreamscapes, welcoming in anyone who would like to have a bit of fun for the hour or two, before they take off once more. Makes you think of all the things you've experienced over the years, and maybe the server or two that you used to love, now but a distant, but sweet, memory of maybe better years. And how, empty servers like that, are the same for goodness knows how many others. Their exactly like time capsules, unwilling to speak, but more than willing to let in just one more player if not for the day.
I love this stuff, I truly do. Makes me evermore proud to of played this game for so long, and happy to be part of the community.
Beautifully written, you perfectly said what most people feel watching or exploring these empty time capsules ❤️
Will never forget the server I used to live in, at least 6 hours a day back when I was a teen. All the friends, joke, disputes, drama and laughs. It feels so weird that those moments are gone forever, it feels like I can just go to the pc and join, but it has been 5 years since it closed.
Very nostalgic, I used to play on a trade server w a bunch of ppl where I went from taking an insta pic of my first strange enforcer I bought for 55 cents, to getting my first set of professional kill streaks, I would duel the annoying ppl on voice chat and trolls and would always win bc I played all the time as a teen, (tons of practice w noobs), and I had added all the regulars as friends and we’d get together to play mvm. I was like 15, and they were all probably my ages or slightly older but I’ll always remember it vividly and fondly. i probably got my personality from ppl there lol
shit you got me reminiscing, but yea. I had a really dingy laptop that I used Chris maxframes to play, so I got gud Lenny face (I even had this key bind 🤦♂️”
Dice is truely a god among men, I wish we could find his server again
I've honestly tried, but after recording it vanished from the server list, so if I find it again check the description for updates!!
Great Trial when?
Could be he got a lot of people joining him and got overwhelmed so he went local/offline for a bit. Or just took a break.
@@Kektus1 sounds like the server disappeared before the video went live on TH-cam though
@@f40ph88 previous history?
And the curious thing is there are countless more of them made over the last two decades or so. So many time capsules, internet archeologists are probably having a fun time with all these digital leftovers
Definitely, and there's a huge impact on the lonely feeling if its made to feel lonely, or if its actually forgotten (like the empty source map phenomena)
Things like this are so interesting.
Playing TF2 is the closest we have to a time machine.
no i think its activeworlds, dude look into it, its just a 1990s-2010s time capsule
Empty servers that resemble places of human congregation is what is known as a "liminal space". You can see them in real life such as recently abandoned malls or hospitals, anywhere that it is supposed to host people and _looks_ like it is clean enough to do, _but nobody is there._
The reason such a fear exists is IMO a double: For one, it heightens the senses as part of your mind keeps telling you to expect anyone to show up, while the other remind you that you're alone. The other one comes from that last realization, _feeling that you were left behind by everyone else and now you're alone forever._ It plays in our own fear of being abandoned by those we love and care about.
The fear only heightens with background music or worse, _random human sounds or footsteps._ Keeps messing with your sense of reality. That's why I think the last server is the scariest one, not only there isn't anyone there, _it is forgotten so nobody else is going to show up._ And the feeling is worse when you read that there used to be people there, those that cared enough to spend enough time to "buy" a place of residence there, furnish it, and then emblazon their names into them forever.
*Feel the pain.*
Amazing explanation my friend, 10/10 (Couldn't explain it better myself...!!)
Well, it's definitely gonna be remembered again, if anyone who used to play on it, watched this video. And it's possible that the server started having people play on it again, soon after this video went up.
So yeah, it was forgotten for a while. But I doubt it'll be forgotten again. Or at least not completely, since 15,000+ people were made aware of it's existence, when watching the video. Plus, people will occasionally return to this video every so often. So even if some people forgot about it again. They'd eventually be reminded of it again, after returning to this video at some point
This isn't a thing. You are just oversocialized
@@AB-bg7os "one took classes at a clinical school, and got a degree in medicine, one took a hammer and smashed it into a guy's nuts"
@@AB-bg7os It is very much "a thing"; otherwise, humans wouldn't go bananas when they experience sensory deprivation for extended periods of time.
Very glad TH-cam recommended this. Very good quality video that was definitely entertaining. Keep it up, man, and I can’t wait to see what you do in the future!
Thankyou!! I really appreciate it ❤
ye same
@@officiallefishe What?
@@TheRealLenin Engineer?
@@officiallefishe official
The trade_delirium map has many references to the cult classic movie "The Holy Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Really cool seeing this sort of stuff in a TF2 map!
I think I speak for everyone when I say that the only bad part of this video was that it ended. Awesome job man, you've earned a sub today.
Thankyou so much friend!!
This was so enjoyable to watch I wonder if more people have done this stuff of making a video about weird tf2 servers
Many thanks!! if you like this sorta content, maybe I can make it ongoing ;)
i've seen another video about abandoned tf2 servers but forgot which one
@@tophonator please do, this video was very entertaining, i would love another like this
Dice's Fun Room seemed so interesting, sorely saddened when I read the description.
Wonder what he would've said if his server had gotten populated by your viewers.
Edit: Description used to say the server disappeared so my comment became irrelevant and then relevant again by accident because of the new text lol
i cannot find what the controversy is, what was it if i can ask?
@@glizzygulper8948 the description used to say the server disappeared, i don't know anything about what they may have done
@@glizzygulper8948 I know what it is, as I am one who has seen what he has done. I will not say what it is, as it is very, very, bad.
@@furretx8384 it's good bad or bad bad?
@@furretx8384 what is it ; how bad is it ? what heppenee to tye server
I've been playing TF2 from 2010 until now, and it makes me really, really happy to see a video like this. Do more of this kind of stuff and keep improving on it, it's honestly humble youtubers like you that keep this game alive. Thank you.
No problem my friend, thankyou tons!!
I always love source map exploration videos. Something about them is always so calming yet at the same time unnerving. No matter what background music you put, no matter how often you talk it always seems so quiet.
Just, a great video all around, stumbled across this randomly and it was just so fun just to put on, sit back and just watch these obscure servers. I love how Desuroom still has a small community, despite small, it's somewhat active and I love that.
Nice video! Good quality, i love maps like these so much!
My god what a surprise!! Love you bro. Keep it up, also amazing stream yesterday :DDD (im so jealous)
Thank you so much!! im super honored!! and also ive made sure to subscribe and cant wait to see more videos!
Great stuff. Very impressed at the quality and originality so far, looking forward for more.
God I love the music you have been using in your videos... especially the big custom maps vid you did. Something about them both being somber/nostalgic, god it just hits different. Thank you for making this content, please keep it up. Love this side of tf2.
Very well constructed video lad. Love every part of this :D
Yoooo actual good TF2 TH-camr, with no overhyped personality, now thats something to subscribe to!
Thankyou!! ❤️
Overhyped personality?? What does that suppose to mean
*EAR GRAPE SCREAMING*
YOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
WHATS UP GUYS!!!!!
WELCOME BACK TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@costilla1212 I've never heard anyone close to that in TF2 youtube, oddly
really enjoyed this video i really like the long form style it’s very enjoyable and ur outro is so cool
Thank you for putting the songs in the description my man
Man, the first server really brings back some mid 2000s internet memories. Sad to see what it's become.
You should do more of these honestly. The concept of looking through obscure, forgotten and strange community stuff is very intriguing.
I'm very glad that the algorithm blessed me with your content, you definitely need more subscribers!
I just want the dodgeball servers back up, having swagged up pyros flexing their items and airblast skills was the only reason I kept playing for a long time
i like these kind of videos where people explore weird side of tf2 like maps weapons and servers
i like your way of exploring too, no screaming, calm voice and surprisingly knows well about internet cultures despite being really calm person
i hope my english isnt so bad to the point you cant understand what im trying to say, but i just wanna say i love this video
idk why youtube but the quality is good, it's not boring and the thing about empty maps makes me want to watch more and more of the video. nice video keep up the good work.
Much obliged!!
amazing video! i NEED more of this in the future bro keep it up
That 'game with round cat' is night in the woods, im seeing more referances to it these days, its really cool because its actually my favourite game ever basically.
I definitely need to play it at some point!!
@@tophonator please do it's a really good game
Isn't that one game where one of the devs caused a coworker to kill himself?
@@reinweissritter yes it is. Unfortunatly. I dont know the ins and outs of it but alec was genuinley passionate about the game and his legacy lives on through it. The games message is literally about moving on. Its a tradgety that it happend but it is still considered a very good game.
@@reinweissritter has the story really warped that badly? alec's suicide had nothing to do with the nitw development. that stemmed from a different project he was on. and that was because he was outted as a serial abuser.
The moment I finished the intro I subscribed. Now THAT'S quality!
Thankyou my friend!!
Really well made video, keep it up!
Thankyou so much!!
This is one way to experiencing existential Dread.
Good video, keep it up!
Thanks!! Glad I could fill you with existential dread ;)
sick vid man, you deserve more recognition for the insane quality that you provide in this vid :D
love to see another video like this it was very interesting to see what hides at the bottom of the server list
How glad I am that the recommendations threw me out here. Source maps always evoke a wild feeling of nostalgia. It was nice to look at the places where life once raged.
Thank you for the video 🤍
very good video. i've found trippy places like those servers in vrchat a few times and i havent seen many people cover them. one time i was showing my friend a bunch of weird worlds i had come across and bookmarked and while we were looking around a world called "Cirno's Universe," someone with the name "Zeke" joined our instance (with a cirno avatar that matched the strange looking cirno's seen around the world). they led us around what i did not expect to be a huge map with many different areas, which you would be taken to after interacting with secrets around each area. i was in vr and it was one of the trippiest things ive ever experienced.
great video man, exceptional editing and it all flowed together really well. earned a sub
Much appreciated!!
Outside of the fact that it was pretty weird seeing the maps with no players...
The quality of the video is very good, I liked it a lot, keep it up! :D
Epic new sub
Much appreciated friend!!
Video format indirectly reminds me of STAR_'s journey into community servers. Keep up the interesting videos.
There's something so creepy about empty game servers like tf2 or G-mod, I honestly don't know why.
Its a really big and creepy phenomenon, you aren't alone!!
12:05 Holy shiet that is really neat, this entire trippy section are basically set pieces of the movie ''The Holy Mountain'' by Andrew Jodorowsky, I recommend it to anyone but I warn you, its one hell of a trip, im amazed that someone made this in tf2 and kudos to the server host for being a man of culture.
Swag kid yellow dice gives off the vibe of some ancient sage the protagonist would have to find to obtain old knowledge of the universe
I've seen the first two (three) maps covered by Big Joey and Great Blue before, but it never gets old seeing someone else cover them as such maps are so bizarre that everyone reacts differently to them and will notice other details. Vibe of the second section is pretty cool but some of the stuff I've seen in it kills that and makes me worry about the map maker. Straight up source engine backrooms looking maps like the last are downright spooky.
If you know the name of the maps, please tell me. Love to visit those maps
This was a great videos. Stuff like this reminds you just how big the Internet is with millions upon millions of communities with their own history and culture. Some are lost to time-artifacts of an Internet long past but some are still around. Here’s hoping this video gives life to some old communities!
I just came across your channel and i love it, keep it up!!!
Dude this shit is so good, your content is only getting better
❤️
Hold on a second! 3:15 is a reference to "Enigma of Amigara Fault", by Junji Ito. Very good read.
Oh yes I was told this!! I'll have to check it out
Really nice, I noticed this too and its awesome
incredible video, given me a great new way to pass the time in tf2, im gonna start exploring empty servers.
This encouraged me to look through some empty and obscure servers aswell!
You could definitely make a series out of this
This is trippy, I came across Dice on his server the other day and now I get reccomended this video.
it's amazing seeing someone explore harbl hotel and not understanding any of the references lol. thanks for the memories. also dice has good taste, especially with ss13 textures.
that was great bro, keep making vids
just found you and dude, what an amazing video! +1 subscriber! (and wanting to see more weird servers 😅)
There used to be an abandoned server i constantly went on because it had a list of old creative custom maps.
Only once did a single person other than me join.
It's gone now. I miss that server, and the maps that it carried.
Great video, good editing you deserve More atention
that Desuroom map was such a throwback, I recognized so many references and jokes on there. Feels good man
I didn't recognize most of them feels bad man
This was really cool would be interested in a part 2 at some point
i like these videos that just go deep exploring theses obscure maps in tf2
the feling of being in these maps alone is something i really like doing at like 2 am and just open myself to whatever experience some random person as made in map form
great video man
I really enjoyed that, I'm pretty sure the vid you showed of harbl hotel was actually by the map creator Xenon, he also made mario_kart which you could probably tell from it's appearence.
7:35
Considering that the map there (harbl_hotel) was originally made for Counter-Strike (Don't remember if it was Source or 1.6) back in Mid-Late 2006, so it's not unreasonable to say that map is actually older than them.
Got this recommended to me, this was done so well, I have subscribed, only to see you have less than 1k subs, hope you grow big man!
Cheers brutha!!
9:26 that "Thank you" was cute as hell.
This reminds of me when I visited cs_italy servers alone in Counterstrike, with the same opera singing in the background, yet, it's so quiet, just gives me really unsettling chills at times.
This was really cool this reminds me of exploring a game called active worlds and walking around and finding worlds from 2000 - 2005, that game is another time capsule lost to time
One of the best videos i have evner seen on TH-cam. Instant favorite❤
Appreciate it so much, king
Only 200 subs? You are the most underrated youtuber out there
Honestly all of this support is blowing me away, thankyou so much my friend!!
@@tophonator :D
dude I just checked your subs there is no damn way! this content is too good man, you deserve way more subs, you've definitely earnt one from me.
Many many thanks!! I've got loads more coming soon!! ;)
@@tophonator great! looking foward to it, Ive been thirsting for some good content on youtube, but none of the other youtubers I watch seem to be uploading as consistently anymore, keep up the good work!
Keep it up bro the video was great
How do you only have 800 subs?? You deserve more
I diiiiid enjoy this kinda exploration of forgotten maps, its giving me a vibes from game called “Worlds”. Retro mmo, that so much content that was made by community for nearly decade, obscure , trippy and creapy realms made by strange people. I would like to see a sequel of that, cuz maps that u showed are actually good, they have some kind of atmosphere…
So yeah, plz make another video
Worlds.com? I absolutely love that game's atmosphere (and especially the videos made on it)
this vid brought many fond memories of when i used to hang out in one of those fun servers where the admins and vip's would go crazy with mods and spawn random stuff. we'd play on some really old and trippy maps and every time there was someone (myself included) micpsamming just the most random music and sounds ever. good times!
At this point I've gotten over the creep that can come with Source sometimes and I just absorb the charm. I hope Source 2 can capture the same feelings and freedoms that Source did.
Damn this was a trip id love to see more of this
You should make another video on this, amazing topic!
Thankyou for the feedback!!
Well, that was a nice video, now I want a part 2.
10:17 that pixaleted door is from a game called space station 13. Not very special but cool to see it randomly
agreed lol
Holy shit this was interesting as fuck to watch!
I’d love to see more content like this in the future!
P.S. love the Earthbound music in the background
Appreciate it!!! :D (and yes earthbound is 10/10)
I really love empty source maps, especially that mariokart map. Had a long livestream with friends in Garry's Mod a year ago on that map, lots of fun.
Mariokart is definitely the most nostalgic map from this game, so much legendary backstory
Check out the creator of trade_abstract’s other maps they’re really good.
I'm on the verge of tears, by the time I arrive at tophonator's latest upload, since I'm positive my servers won't be visible in the server browser list... but they are, and the relief washes over me in an awesome wave.
Watching this late at night is a strangely uneasy experience
Earned a sub! You really should make this a series! This is so comfy to watch
Looking at old internet stuff is fascinating, I can only imagine what people on the internet were into when I was too young or not even born! I hope those growing up now can also find an appreciation for old content enjoyed by people in my time or long before!
Dice's server seems like an absolute banger. I liked the fact that at first you couldn't tell if he was an NPC or a bot, or really just a guy who spends all his time there waiting for people to spook them, but is actually pretty chill.
Dice's is so strange yet relatable...
That second map in Dice's Fun Server section (I forgot it's name) is actually a recreation of the film 'The Holy Mountain' by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Very cool film, very trippy, very good watch.
this is some great content lol, I watched this at 1 am, I am crazy.
Very very underrated, cant wait to see more.
Thanks!! More definitely coming soon ;)
This is top quality man, great job
Also i’m so interested in Dice now, he gives off very friendly energy but at the same time i fear him in a way
I feel like I have seen him somewhere already. Like, he was someone that I know for years.
@@catmaksimus Right? He feels like that odd kid you meet when visiting your aunt in her remote village, become best friends for a day and never hear of them again.
He was super interesting, wherever I'd be he would just come and find me and play around, but I see what you mean! It is quite daunting just finding him alone there
crazy stuff , pretty intersting to see , i would like to see more
Good to see these getting preserved in at least some way. The amount of time and effort that went into these maps, only for them to be lost to time is very sad.
5:15 that's pumpkin hill theme from sonic adventures 2 on the gamecube. All of the tracks they made for the levels for knuckles were out of this world amazing.
11:25 Got to know that map thanks to "Wolves Den" server, they still run it from time to time.
To this date I still don't get what's up with the glaceons in it, but that is also a testament of the genius madness behind it's creation.
The Glaceons are there to represent the maps creator, DaimConne!
Dice listening to the Tunic OST in a server as mysterious as that is a vibe. I'd really like to play in that map
Great video idea🤝🏻
514 subs.. WHAT? You are SO underrared, please continue!
Thankyou!! More definitely on the way :)
Almost 2 years ago there was a server I played on. It was a 2fort server, and I can't remember the original name because it got remade and was renamed to Cabin5. There used to be a few people I consistently met on it, and we always argued but in a funny way. There was also a Discord server briefly but it got shut down. Then one day the server disappeared without a trace. I miss it but I still have some clips from it and I'll always remember it.