Steam Workshop::shortnamesalex's Greatest Hits

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https://i.imgur.com/aCKrR80.png Located downtown Ascot is a well known place called Alley Triste. No one knows who coined the term as origins as to where they came from have been disputed. Don't let its small size fool you, the place is infamous for being ...

Anvers Station

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"Situated several miles away from Anvers Island is its aptly named, Anvers Station. The station primarily focuses on monitoring weather and geographical changes, but also studies local wildlife and fauna in their spare time. Life here feels like home, yet ...

Base Taylor

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https://i.imgur.com/YynjBxe.png "I've heard of a Combine base, lying deep inside the mountainous ranges of America. It's apparently powered by lava. Now I was going to call it complete dog water but after evaluating that we have an alien species on our han...

BbiCOTKA Remastered

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https://i.imgur.com/1dgpvdF.png BbiCOTKA, or Visotka. Этот текст был переведен с английского на русский с помощью нескольких веб-приложений. Для некоторых это может выглядеть как настоящий русский. Для других он сломан во всех возможных смыслах. Как бы то ...

Black Mesa North

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Once a research station owned by Black Mesa, it is now occupied by the Resistance in their efforts to aid Gordon and Alyx in their search for the Borealis and further eliminate the remaining Combine forces on Earth. The air is fresh and the sights are pret...

Camp Kairo Training Facility

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https://i.imgur.com/5paAH6F.png Camp Kairo is a training facility based in Kairo, Arizona, far away from the city of Ascot. It offers your basic lessons on firearms handling and shooting, a gunsmith along with indoor and outdoor firing simulators. It was o...

Cinematic Air Exchange

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And if you see Dr. Breen, tell him I said, "Fu*** ****led"! I can explain. So I was watching Radiation Hazard (peak channel by the way) and I was reminiscing on Cinematic Mod. Coincidentally, I came across his videos on Cinematic Mod, specifically one abou...

Claustrophobia

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https://i.imgur.com/Olwtbcn.png MISSION: F.E.A.R. combat operatives will attach to responding Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (SFOD-D) troops to reconnoiter the area for the purpose of recommending military response. Teams should not engage the...

Construct North

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https://i.imgur.com/J1BGNss.png BEST PLAYED ON HDR A small edit of gm_construct, now set somewhere in the North near 6pm. This edit features different exterior lighting, new soundscapes, snowy textures and the Aurora Borealis. Elevate your sandbox experien...

Crisis Response

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I've never seen something like this ever. Not in the 10 years I've been living here. Some detectives tracked down a secret hideout in the alley behind where I live. Turns out it was the headquarters for some cult gang, dealing in all sorts of crimes and at...

Cyberpunk Apartments

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https://i.imgur.com/w4s7jxh.png "That familiar smell of trash and uncooked beef near where the homeless people slept. It's oddly comforting." This map has been remastered in April 2025. It features a more fleshed out cyberpunk aesthetic, new textures, new ...

Erie Canal

Created by shortnamesalex

Erie Canal resides in one of the industrialized districts of City 17. What used to be water is now replaced with toxic sludge, trash and gravel. Probably from one of the AirEx's nearby. People that have fled the urban sectors now sleep here, either in the ...

Ethos 2

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https://i.imgur.com/e5IOfQ5.png Ethos-2 is one of many secret hideouts lying within a section of City 17's canals, where the Consul ordered to nuked a part of the suburban area to quell the Resistance force. They simply presumed that everyone in that secti...

Flatgrass Fractured

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https://i.imgur.com/jFxvz4k.png BEST PLAYED ON HDR A light breeze, the snow falling, the sight of a thousand branches streaming across the skies. Each branch a power surge, each arm a fractal. The sound of chimes from somewhere, a distant memory. It felt s...

Fortaleza

Created by shortnamesalex

de_fortaleza is a demolition map created for Counter-Strike: Source, published back in 2016. This was the only project ever published by user Surreal25 on GameBanana until they suddenly vanished. I couldn't find their Steam account at all. They were also a...

gm_small_warehouse

Created by shortnamesalex

A small little warehouse. Surely nothing has happened here. Hopefully. INFO: Made in a week, took me a month to release this. This map originally started off as a concept map to see what a claustrophobic industrial looking area looked like with dim lights....

Grant Street

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Grant Street was once an infamous area, known for its rather horrible living conditions due to crime and the loud churning sounds of the factories nearby. Some have even theorized thats where The Hum came from. The Great Darkness however rendered the facto...

Grunt Hill

Created by shortnamesalex

Grunt Hill is a recreation of a Half-Life map created by fellow modder and otter, Fesiug . It was created over the course of a single day as I battled through yet more Hammer spaghetti. In a way, it is a spiritual successor to Weapon Depot, only with more ...

Helping Hand Shelter

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The Helping Hand Homeless Shelter is one of Ascot's newer homeless shelters, established around 2016. The shelter was praised for its excellent quality and facilities, particularly then as other shelters with bigger facilities didn't have the same or even ...

Ipari Transmit

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https://i.imgur.com/NknK9gH.png https://i.imgur.com/FSu6OaW.png An NMRiH styled map has long been on my mind but I couldn't quite nail down the launch pad for it. That was until I played nmo_anxiety, and figured that this map was perfect since I had alread...

Landmass Aurora

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https://files.catbox.moe/47bcw0.png I don't really have much to say here other than that this will be the last Landmass map for now since I honestly cannot keep up with making these huge maps. Wanted to end off these series of experiments with something ot...

Landmass Blackwall

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https://files.catbox.moe/9dzhzr.png https://files.catbox.moe/ur00ix.png The Blackwall is possibly one of my favorite fictional locations of all time. Mechanical horrors beyond our comprehension just teetering at the edge, threatening all of humanity who co...

Landmass Sunrise

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https://i.imgur.com/18l5TtM.png A large, mountainous area rife with nature and perfect for the largest of NPC battles and sniping hotpots. During the tail end of working on Patterson Sewer, I was experimenting with some big environments using DispGen Rebor...

M3 Facility

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Deep within the undergrounds of Zaton lies M3, a facility of unknown purpose. Some stalkers who ventured there theorize it could be for general maintenance or for more nefarious purposes. Either way, it recently became a popular spot for stalkers who want ...

Maximum Hideout + Arena Range

Created by shortnamesalex

The Hideout is initially found as an abandoned and cluttered bomb shelter without any means of sustaining life. The player can build and improve various modules to get access to extra features like crafting stations, additonal storage, a shooting range, a ...

Megapartment H6

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Megapartment H6 is one of many public housing apartments in Amara. Tall yet narrow, these apartments have made a name for themselves for its cramped living spaces, debauchery and illegal activities committed in the thousands. These places have been dubbed ...

Mono Market

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A map with an interesting story. Mono Market started out as an experiment to create a 3 lane map in Counter Strike 2. The map layout went through multiple different iterations before landing on the final one, which allowed for a (hopefully) good mix of clo...

Oakley Subway Station

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Headphones or big speakers are highly recommended for subway ambiance. Oakley was once the most popular subway station in Ascot, mainly because it was one of the few back then. However a combination of scandals from the company owning it and technological ...

Patterson Sewer

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https://i.imgur.com/lCLuohG.png https://i.imgur.com/Xz5mJDM.png uguguhfghkjgjkfdshjflkfaHI. It's been a month. Lots of things have happened, I'd rather not dwell on them frankly but it's more than enough time for me to reflect and just ponder. I'm back and...

Penny Street

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https://i.imgur.com/teGoPPo.png "Back on the breaking news, we've received confirmed reports of a new variant of measles breaking out in a local area within Lancaster. This variant has baffled scientists as they are trying to track down the cause and creat...

Port Klax

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Within the outskirts of City 17, lies a mysterious port. No one knows why its there, or what its purpose is. The Resistance and Combine maps don't even show this area. It was only recently discovered by the second group of Resistance members who were on th...

Port Trajan

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Port Trajan is one of several smaller ports in the city of Ascot, located in the Trajan District. This port is has been in operation since the 60's and primarily focuses on importing and rarely exporting fish along with other commodities. The only other th...

Protodel (Beta Inspired Map)

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"You might be the first person capable enough for the job, since anyone who has tried to enter the area never came back. I even organised a small group of experienced members to intercept it. They also never returned. But what I do know is this: During the...

Retro Offices

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A CQB-ish map set in the late 1980s within an office somewhere in America. The room whir's with the sound of computers and smells like coffee. It's going to be a long night. This is a side project I've been working on the last two days. Inspired by the off...

Salt Pan

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https://i.imgur.com/JTqgpiZ.png 2 weeks ago, I found that salt pan's are a thing. Just the sight of an endless sea of salt stretching out into the distance was mesmerizing enough for me to turn that into a map. Not much else to write here really, just a ne...

Section 9

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"Section 9 was once a bustling industrial sector, part of the larger Hedra industrial district in Amara. It also acted as a small neighborhood since the industrial sectors came with their own sleeping quarters. Many of the products and items that came from...

Skywatching

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https://i.imgur.com/dSRSePK.png https://i.imgur.com/jo7EAuj.png This started as a study on creating urban environments. I had always struggled with getting believable looking urban locations because of layouts and the general aesthetic. I have some urban A...

Strange Concretes

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You awaken on the cold sterile floor. Strange rectangular shapes adorn the room as your eyes slowly adjust to the bright light above you. There's snow coming from it. Hallways stretch to even more rooms with stranger layouts and shapes. Where am I? Where a...

Taganskaya Metro

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One of the more obscure parts of the Russian Metro since the apocalypse is Taganskaya. Part of the metro housed several maintenance areas used for a variety of purposes until the bomb hit. The explosion caused every tunnel connected to it to completely cav...

The Atlantic Swimming Pool

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You find a derelict swimming pool near your hometown. The smell of sewage and dry blood filled the air. You felt like you've been here before. This was once a very lively place, now it's just waiting for mother nature to take over. What happened here? INFO...

The Emil Residence

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Located somewhere in the edge of the suburb is the Emil's residence. A gorgeous two story, 5 bedroom house with a pool and a pool. It was one of the first modern houses to be constructed here and many houses onward would take inspiration from it. Also know...

The International Mall

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The International Mall was by all means ahead of its time when it was first unveiled back in 1965. A massive sprawling underground mall where people from all over the globe gather around to sing, dance, shop, create, and more. Nothing like it was done befo...

The Murmansk Shortcut

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https://i.imgur.com/SdcpVCY.png Between Lenin Avenue and Tortseva lies a once abandoned park, fittingly situated between two large apartments. The park, prior to its abandoning was rather popular for children and families alike, until the business that ope...

The Purple Dots Nightclub

Created by shortnamesalex

You find a small nightclub located near a defunct factory. The electricity is still on. You enter the nightclub and was greeted with the smell of beer, vomit and dry blood. It's eerily empty. Where is everyone? INFO: A slightly mid-sized map based on a dre...

Tokyo (MW3)

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https://i.imgur.com/hls6xjs.png "Gear up and ship out to Tokyo on this mid-sized Multiplayer map that drops Operators right into the city’s nightlife where flashing ads, entertainment, and late-night eateries line the main road and courtyard where the acti...

Tower Tez

Created by shortnamesalex

https://i.imgur.com/whjHwl5.png I won't bother writing a backstory for this one since it was really more of an experiment. I always wanted to create a map that took place on top of a building since it allows for some incredible looking visuals. The map its...

Unrecord Warehouse

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"Where the ---- is Oscar?!" - Last known message from Officer ----- before disappearance. Unable to reestablish contact in 12 hours. Sending dispatch Yes, someone has already beaten me to the punch with an Unrecord map. However, that map has several issues...

Vacant (MW19)

Created by shortnamesalex

A once-abandoned warehouse has been confiscated by Al-Qatala forces. Great asymmetrical map that mixes interior and exterior combat. I was playing around the idea of making a Call of Duty map for Garry's Mod for ages now, but I didn't quite know where to s...

Vertigo View

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"They call him the Consul now. It worked fine for him. He speaks for the Combine; he shares in their power. As for the rest of us..." This was fun to make. I wanted to make an original map based on the Half-Life 2 Leak for the longest time now, yet I haven...

Villa 118

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https://i.imgur.com/tcSGYqk.png https://i.imgur.com/13laCif.png 2 weeks ago I was on vacation in Hon Tam Resort, Nha Trang. Like any beach resort, it was fantastic and it got me inspired to work on a map again. During my time there, I was living in a bunga...

Warren Spector's Ravenholm

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This small unassuming map set in Ravenholm holds one of the most fascinating backstories in Half-Life I've ever read. It has been cleaned up, enhanced and opened up by yours truly to be preserved on the Garry's Mod workshop. The information here has been s...

Weapon Depot

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This addon now contains two versions of Weapon Depot. The original and the 2024 remastered version. The remaster contains better, more enhanced lighting, a revised artstyle and some new visual effects. Rumors say somewhere bordering the outskirts of Ascot,...

The Snow Per Unit

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https://i.imgur.com/y1NOaoW.png https://i.imgur.com/sKPtDgy.png To preface this, soundscapes do not work on this map for now. Some weird issue with directories I haven't figured out yet. This is basically the full remake of Purple Dots Nightclub. If I was ...