Dahshur City

Counter-Strike: Source map | de_dahshur3_pro | Released in May 2005

Dahshur City is a Bomb/Defuse scenario that focuses on quick rounds and fast-paced action. It uses the same art style and texture set as Dust and Dust2 but surpasses the visuals in those two maps through a painstaking attention to detail and carefully configured HDR and cubemaps.

This map has been thoroughly tried-and-tested in the wild and is a proven winner!

Dahshur City (or just "Dahshur", as it's more commonly known) has a long history. It started as a Counter-Strike 1.6 map, created by another South African gamer going by the nickname: "LAzor". The map was so well loved by the local South African gamers that the SAIX Games Service hosted a 24/7 server for it. Since then, Dashsur has become somewhat of a tradition amongst South African Counter-Strike players.

When Counter-Strike: Source was released, many gamers wanted to see their old favourite ported over to the new engine. Unfortunately, LAzor appeared to have declined the task and so it was up to the community to do something about it. Two other mappers made their attempts at recreating the classic but it was my version that was eventually chosen and it has enjoyed thousands of hours of usage on its 24/7 dedicated server since then.