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CS:GO is Hard as Fuck to Be "Decent" At
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legacyzero
Banned
To me, joining a multiplayer game too LTTP is just no fun.
No vip mode? Dont care. Plus I prefer the 1.6 variants of those maps.
littleworm
Member
200 hours in and I still wonder where my AK bullets go sometime. Best advice learn the spray patterns then just DM DM DM until you fell comfortable.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
I pumped probably two or three thousand hours into 1.6 and CSS over my childhood/teens, I rarely dominate a match but usually get positive KDR in CS:GO. Only played Go, itself, for tens of hours though.
Forerunner
Member
Just buy a P90 every chance you get.
phantomspiker
Member
Only 2 weeks?
Over 600 hours and I still suck.
Over 600 hours and I still suck.
trueOnly 2 weeks?
Over 600 hours and I still suck.
ShinMaruku
Member
I think it's explosive growth is more to it's something spectators love to watch. Not sure if the number of people is in the tens of millions but I find it the perfect example of finding your niche and being profitable.
Me personally I see that like Tekken I'd need a Master Thesis to get through so I said "Fuck it, may the people who love it have fun, but taking that amount of time to reach ground level is not worth my time."
bananafactory
Banned
I've been playing CS for 15 years and I still suck
It doesn't help that the community is ...the worst. I'd rather play League of Legends poorly and get screamed at for 20 mins than play CS again.
TheVampire
Banned
Those were the days.....
About to pass 900 hours in CS:GO with no previous CS experience. I am Global Elite (but getting GE now is easy as poop because of recent ban waves). I would say I am more Supreme level at most, on a good day.
If you are going to play DM, try the Fragshack servers. They are 128 tick and generally have a lot better players in them compared to regular valve DM.
If you are going to play DM, try the Fragshack servers. They are 128 tick and generally have a lot better players in them compared to regular valve DM.
There must've been some drama with a pro player and meth in the past few months since I've last checked into CS:GO, explain?
I'm always really curious to know how many people actually watch CS:GO. At those majors, which one recently hit 1 million concurrent viewers, how many people were actually watching?
I mean, I had three accounts watching to get drops. I had these accounts open for the entire tournament, but I only watched the semis and finals. One of my friends had seven accounts watching, but he wasn't actually watching. Pretty much everyone I know had two accounts watching, but most people didn't actually watch the games. They just did something else.
The growth definitely has more to do with skins and betting rather than the game itself IMO. I don't think anyone can really argue that GO is better than 1.6 or Source.
ShinMaruku
Member
Betting and skins are a large part and the world is a very populous place, it's probably a mix of skins betting and some people actually enjoying it. I think there is probably 200-400k people who just generally watch competitive gaming.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
I bought it day one. I've played around 400 hours in competative and I'm still stuck in silver. I'm having fun, but I just don't have the hand-eye coordination I did when I was younger.
The community can also be pretty rough. I like smack talk, but I'd imagine someone that doesn't wouldn't last long.
The community can also be pretty rough. I like smack talk, but I'd imagine someone that doesn't wouldn't last long.
I recently stopped playing Dota 2 as that shit was far too addicting lol. My mates and i moved over to cs go.
Calibrated at gold nova 2 and curently am ranked the 2 AK symbol. Probably have 50 matches under my belt.
I dont know, i feel like if you were decent at cod or bf (reaction time and aim), after learning the game sense of cs you should do pretty okay.
I sucked the first 15 games, but my friends carried me lol. It all clicked for me when i changed my mentality from "push push push ... Rush rush rush" to "patience, calculated moves".
But from a beginners POV, i think what helped me most was:
- playing with friends/team of 3-4 to learn the lingo
- getting to see friends POV when dying to mimic play style
- start using grenades lol
- communication and headphones
- master ONE map first
- dont spray if you dont know recoil pattern
- ask teammate if buying or saving
Honestly now that i think about it, half the game is aeriously mastering the map. Of the 50 games i played i am sure 45 have been on dust 2. I normally get 1-3 spot at end of game. But put me in a map i know idea of and i fucking feed and suck.
So my top recommendations are play with friends and master ONE map first.
Hit me up if you wanna party sometime with my friends and i i would not mind!
Calibrated at gold nova 2 and curently am ranked the 2 AK symbol. Probably have 50 matches under my belt.
I dont know, i feel like if you were decent at cod or bf (reaction time and aim), after learning the game sense of cs you should do pretty okay.
I sucked the first 15 games, but my friends carried me lol. It all clicked for me when i changed my mentality from "push push push ... Rush rush rush" to "patience, calculated moves".
But from a beginners POV, i think what helped me most was:
- playing with friends/team of 3-4 to learn the lingo
- getting to see friends POV when dying to mimic play style
- start using grenades lol
- communication and headphones
- master ONE map first
- dont spray if you dont know recoil pattern
- ask teammate if buying or saving
Honestly now that i think about it, half the game is aeriously mastering the map. Of the 50 games i played i am sure 45 have been on dust 2. I normally get 1-3 spot at end of game. But put me in a map i know idea of and i fucking feed and suck.
So my top recommendations are play with friends and master ONE map first.
Hit me up if you wanna party sometime with my friends and i i would not mind!
It's just one of those things where you're either goo or not. When I first played cs around 15 years ago, I wasn't the best but I wasn't bad either. Didn't take that long for me to get really good though, but back then I lived and breathed cs, soooo.... Just like everything else in life though, practice makes perfect
I think this is hyperbole. The more accurate statement is that modern FPSes have such a low skill floor (and a high propensity for variance due to huge bullet spreads and shit like killstreaks) that people aren't used to games that do even a half-decent job of representing player skill. I mean shit, CS used to be the low execution game.
FPSes take practice. Play with your brain, turn down your sensitivity (if you are using a high DPI mouse, it is probably a factor of ten too high), concentrate on aiming.
Or just play Quake for a few months. After that, CS'll be a breeze.
FPSes take practice. Play with your brain, turn down your sensitivity (if you are using a high DPI mouse, it is probably a factor of ten too high), concentrate on aiming.
Or just play Quake for a few months. After that, CS'll be a breeze.
Not so much you suck at it probably, its that you are playing against addicts that have hundreds of hours on it. Some of these games arent friendly at all to new players and so if your employed and dont have the time to live in the game its more fun to just play something else with those precious hours.
Zombegoast
Member
Once you start getting good, then you realize your team sucks. Then you'll be stuck in Silver 4 and can never get out making you the most MVP. Then I say fuck it and play something else.
My CSGO experience.
My CSGO experience.
paperspace
Member
I have 1700 hours and I'm awful.
I love it though!
I love it though!
Crimsonclaw111
Member
About going positive or negative: don't worry and forget it. Pros don't even go positive all the time. It's about how you work as a team and secure the win. If you can give calls and score a couple of kills, you'll naturally get better.
I'm at about 1500 hours I think and I've barely cracked Master Guardian Elite. I played for two years, and for half of that on a shitty laptop that ran the game at 30fps. Keep at it, you'll get better if you want to.
I'm at about 1500 hours I think and I've barely cracked Master Guardian Elite. I played for two years, and for half of that on a shitty laptop that ran the game at 30fps. Keep at it, you'll get better if you want to.
It's actually pretty easy compared to 1.6 due to the much lower skill ceiling
Though I can see it being tough if you came from CoD, BF, TF2, etc instead of CS
I mean a dude plays with no hands and he's DMG...
Though I can see it being tough if you came from CoD, BF, TF2, etc instead of CS
If you're stuck in silver I recommend some practice. No reason anyone who doesn't have a mental disability should be a silver rank.
I mean a dude plays with no hands and he's DMG...
Having a better monitor (120 or 144hz) will help you quite a bit. In addition to that a better mouse, and a mouse pad will increase your accuracy (monitor is the biggest upgrade though). After that, it's all about how much time you spend into improving yourself.
You could get better by playing the game, but that will take you a very long time. The alternative is to look up the basics on YouTube, and invest some time outside of the game to understand the depth of the game (crosshair placement, map layout, fine tuning your sensitivity, etc...).
Lion Heart
Banned
I'll never be "good" because I refuse to lower my sensitivity. I think if you do the math, I'm 11 times higher sens than recommended.
Its something I wish I corrected years ago but now I don't want to play moving the mouse 6+ inches every second.
Currently at GN2 but I was dragged down by friends for months and then other 50% of my playtime is randoming which is recipe for disaster.
Oh well, I still love it.
Its something I wish I corrected years ago but now I don't want to play moving the mouse 6+ inches every second.
Currently at GN2 but I was dragged down by friends for months and then other 50% of my playtime is randoming which is recipe for disaster.
Oh well, I still love it.
IMACOMPUTA
Member
I find Nova 4 - MG ranks to be the most troublesome. There's a hump there where your team varies so much. Just played 3 games in a row where i had some of the worst teammates I've ever seen. It's gonna be hard to rank up from here :/
Head.spawn
Junior Member
I've been playing on and off since the game (the original) came out and I'm still not anywhere close to being great.
You have to play a ton. Some of the pro's put in work shifts (8hrs) just for practice.
You have to play a ton. Some of the pro's put in work shifts (8hrs) just for practice.
Lion Heart
Banned
I was S4/SME for 400 hours, I finally got to GN and I was dominating the other Novas. Like 2:1 KD and sometimes 3:1 KD ratio. I advanced to GN2 after 2 games. I'm riding a high right now I hope continues, but with CS you never know.
Zombegoast
Member
Practice won't help when I end up in a team that doesn't understand the very basics of Counter Strike five times in a row. Using mics doesn't help because they don't understand any call outs other than learning where the enemies are. Like I said on my original post, I end up being top of my team in almost every game I played even doing better than the opposing side.
I'm currently at 300ish hours and just got Eagle solo-queing.
Honestly, if you watch enough videos, lower your sens, make sure you have a fairly adequate mouse/mousepad/keyboard, it's not that bad.
I still need to improve a shitload, but with enough practice and a good setup, you should easily be able to rank at least at AK/Double-AK.
Honestly, if you watch enough videos, lower your sens, make sure you have a fairly adequate mouse/mousepad/keyboard, it's not that bad.
I still need to improve a shitload, but with enough practice and a good setup, you should easily be able to rank at least at AK/Double-AK.
If you're constantly top fragging and playing well, it's not hard to get out of Silver. I've played by myself exclusively, and there were matches where I went 30-10 and pretty much forced our team to win.
What sensitivity are you using? How many hours?
ive played with you a couple times, once with gaf and once matched up through mm
*i remembered your username from the time we played
why not queue with some of us?
there wasnt, hes just acting like cs requires some sort of inhuman twitch skills (it doesnt)
Eh, I'm sure they're doing well without you. Counterstrike is one of the top played games. It can't be too alienating if it's one of the most played FPS in the world. I love the fact it doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator. Halo is a babies game now. I'm not even a pro player, a good player, but I hate how much handholding is in FPS games now. No blue shell mentality in FPS anymore please. That's what Call of Duty especially became.
Get a microphone and communicate with your team. When you die, tell your teammates where the enemy was.
CS is not really about twitch shooting or precision. Well it is, but map awareness and player position awareness are much more important! Once you learn the map you'll be able to predict the locations and times at which enemies are likely to pop out of. Pay attention to your minimap!
This is assuming you're playing ranked matchmaking.
Also, don't let griefers or trolls get you down. I find that the occasional bad game is always overshadowed by the amazing ones
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Well, mechanics do play a part too. It helps if you learn the spray patterns of the most popular guns. And practice flicking your screen away really quickly when a flashbang comes your way.
. Oh, and press the shift button to walk (when it's appropriate). Sound is a huge part of the game. Footsteps are loud in this game.
I haven't played with any GAF people in a while. I used to be terrible when I started, but I'm adequate now. Add me on Steam and inv me some time. Steam: Perfec7
kk done
Memorabilia
Member
After reading most of the posts so far CS:GO sounds like the opposite of fun. I've often considered jumping in. Then I read comments that make it sound like you have to dedicate your life to it like a full time job...just so u can hopefully not suck ass quite as badly against "pro" players who seemingly have the game jacked into their frontal cortex & temporal lobes 24/7.
Zombegoast
Member
230 hours. I have my sensitivity set to max and use the 4:3 widescreen to get a bigger view on who I'm shooting. I don't have any issue with aiming other than my Ping being in the 60s and really can't do anything about it other than switching ISP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwT5fXEloxg
try that out
high sensitivity may work out for you, but you might have it too high
just try and find something that works best
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