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title: "Frostbite (dz_frostbite)"
description: "Frostbite (dz_frostbite), a Danger Zone map for CS:GO, shipped Dec 2020. Level design by Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer: layout, gameplay and art direction."
url: "https://wagenfuehrer.com/cs/frostbite"
author: "Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer"
---

# Frostbite (dz_frostbite)

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A winter resort, with ski slopes, a town and a bunker, built for Danger Zone and shipped in Operation Broken Fang for CS:GO.

- Game: CS:GO
- Mode: Danger Zone
- Shipped: Dec 2020
- In game until: Sep 2021
- Setting: A snowy alpine ski resort in Austria/Switzerland

## What I did

Frostbite was the first map I worked on that we were truly aiming to get added to the game. Danger Zone, the Counter-Strike battle royale mode, had just added its first community map in 2019, which is when we started working on it. A Danger Zone map is about sixteen times the size of a normal 5v5 competitive Counter-Strike map, so it took a lot of work and generally different techniques: the detail level is lower, but the level is huge, and optimization is a massive hurdle. It was also a ten-person team, the biggest I have ever worked on for a Counter-Strike map to this day, and the project took about a year. My role was mainly the initial layout and structure of the map, and later building designs, some environment art, a lot of the rock placement across the map, foliage, and everything else that needed doing, as well as some coordination of the overall project. But generally this was a massive team effort. For every one of us it was our first map to be added to the game, so none of us were all that experienced at that point, which makes it a very fun memory. It turned out to be a great map, and I think to this day a community favourite: when I speak to people it seems to be remembered very positively.

## Credits

- Simon Ole "T-R3x3r" Wagenfuehrer
- Quinton "Squidski" Swenski
- Joshua "Haaselh0ff" Haas
- [Kacper "Slimek" Śliwa](https://linktr.ee/Slimek)
- Seth "Seth" Quick
- [Alfie "Quoting" Bawden](https://www.quo.dev/)
- "SkratchPost"
- "Ch(i)ef"
- Dieter "Squink" Stassen

## Links

- [Workshop page](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2168101259)
- [Official announcement](https://www.counter-strike.net/brokenfang)
- [All my Counter-Strike levels](https://wagenfuehrer.com/cs)