>>875776
>click "sell on marketplace" on lootcrate
>nothing happens
wtf

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>>875776
I got to supreme and quit (some years ago at this point)
It's a funny game but it's a huge time waste and the cheating is rampant and a big turn off. Not even talking about normal matches. I haven't encountered many cheaters playing ranked so I'm a bit suspicious of your claims about cheaters. In silver especially. A DMG player can almost destroy a silver team by himself since everyone is that bad. So I would bet it's smurfing although to be honest I don't know how ranked matches work nowadays with prime accounts and whatnot.

>point 1
There's tons on the internet. Your focus should be on fixing your setup first. Try to copy the pros setups with sensitivity and whatnot and see what works for you.
There are also maps and drills to practice aiming. Those are good too. I also remember those servers that were headshots only really helped me with my aim.
Also you don't need to have the best gaming mouse but this is one of those games that actually makes sense to have a "decent" mouse. Mechanical keyboards and whatnot I think it's a meme. But if you like it by all means buy it. I don't. Oh, headphones are important too (assuming you won't be cheating)
>point 2
It's the main reason I quit. I never encountered many cheaters. I don't even recall anyone that was "obvious". I'm sure some cheated but for me it was never spinbots or blatantly looking through the walls. For me the biggest problem is the pro scene. If the pros cheat (which they do, a lot) then this sends a message that's it's ok to cheat. Especially since some of them (flusha for example) get away with it for YEARS. This is a telltale sign that this is not a serious sport, or at least as serious as it could be. It was one of the reasons I quit. I still think Cs is pretty fun though. One of the best games ever.
>point 3
Lmao you don't play games by yourself. Find a team of people who you connect with and play games together. It's a team game, you improve as a TEAM. Solo queue is the biggest meme

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>>875822
One more thing I think I should mention
One of the biggest game changers later on is knowing how to properly throw 'nades. Knowing the most common throws and having at least one guy on your team knowing the obscure strats to properly smoke mirage (for example) will ensure you don't lose all rounds as a terrorist which is very important. Being aware of the games economy is also important. Buy rounds, force buy rounds, save rounds are decisions which greatly impact the whole game. And those can only be done with a solid team. Hence why I mentioned why you shouldn't be playing by yourself. It's not really "CS" to playing solo games like that.

Anyway anon once you figure out how much of a time waste the game is and then see this fat fuck absolutely mog you with his "aim locking" skills I'm sure you will share my sentiment towards the game. It's not really valve's fault. It's just too easy to cheat in most games.

just play 1.6 and css

>>875825

Thanks for the input mate, ill def be applying what you recommended.

As for how of a time waste it is, i don't intend on playing hardcore hours, just in the evening to chill. I played Rust before and it's like a full time job compared to CSGO so i don't really mind playing the game. I kind of got bored of spending 6 hours to farm, build a base, gather resources, craft items, just to have some turbo neckbeard fully decked out with AK 1 day post wipe patiently waiting for me to log off to raid me.

Plus a lot of my old skins gained a lot of value so i figured i'd rediscover the game before CS2 drops. I prefer CSGO mainly because Call of Duty is shit and filled with kids and warzone is for trannies and riddled with cheaters even worse so than CS lol.(When half the warzone streamers cheat and barely hide it you can bet your ass most players will attempt to cheat). Besides, voice chats in dust II is never boring and based

The skill ceiling in CS is much higher so i got a lot more learning to do but i still find most of my games are fine and without cheaters

>>875776
I'm 34 years old, started CSGO when I was 26 I think. It was also the first FPS I really played. It took me a bit but I reached max level on 2 accounts and also max level on faceit on 2 accounts. Just grind it out, train reflexes. In the end it's all about crosshair placement and the ability to react fast. My aim is still subpar but the braingame gets you pretty far if your aim is suboptimal.

Games are designed these days for you to win one or two before losing one or two. 50/50 win rates are practically enforced. You can change the odds by stacking a 5 man team before going into the game. But honestly all these games are fucking horrible. I played CS since you could move while planting the bomb. Since WON. It's not designed for fun anymore, it's designed for profit. Just stop. Go outside go for a walk. Anything but wasting your time playing with edgy kids that will make you lose on purpose for no other reason than their weird demented egos. Learn something constructive instead like welding, or farming. I'm not joking. Don't become the golem they want you to become.

>>877077
Lmao, rank?
>Farming/welding
Not things you do for fun and farming requires you to own land which anyone under 30 will never own
I understand where you are coming from and I would sort of agree but your argument is so retarded that I'd rather call you a retard. It's like telling kids playing football that they will never be pro and should just go inside and study 24/7
CS is fun with a solid team and if you have time. Otherwise yeah play something else.

I got invited into a group with several MG players in the game and i got absolutely wrecked

Felt like half the fuckers were using wallhacks and aimbots and knew exactly where i was, one even was coming out from behind the crate every time i would peak as if he knew exactly what i was doing lol. Im sure most of the team are just legit players but there were 1-2 players who clearly were sketchy af, one account with zero history, zero skins, low rank just casually raping everyone in my team lol.

MM in higher ranks seems like a massive clown show and half the faggots giving commendations have used cheats at some point but once i get a solid team together we can navigate through that.

I looked at my stats from a few years back and turns out 25% of the players i encountered since 2017 got VAC banned lol.

Is the VAC anti cheat this fucking bad that some neckbeards can get to top ranks with zero effort ? I really hope they overhaul the anticheat BS in CS2 even though i know they won't because 1/4 of the player base would get rekt including many in the "pro scene".

>>877077
you know there's more than just competitive right?

>>877366
You are just bad anon
Muh cheating witch hunt
I got to supreme without cheats ever. Stop being bad and get a decent team to play with

I used to be LEM and I play for the first time in like 4 years and got Gold 1 kek. Hopefully getting DMG by the end of the month

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>>875776
>point 1
There's like a million guides, videos, and workshop maps to help you work on shit like spray patterns, callouts, and movement. Of course, if extreme autism regarding the Source engine is more your thing, then unironically watch some of 3kliksphillip's bullshit.
>point 2
That's a trickier one. This game has a very dedicated group of autists that have learned this game in and out (refer to my previous point), and it has also had a fuckload of smurfs throughout its entire lifetime, which is now further exacerbated by the game going free-to-play. In short, it can be hard to differentiate between said autists and cheaters, especially if you're just starting out. That said, a lot of cheaters will only toggle on if they're losing and it will become increasingly obvious as the match progresses.
>point 3
Always play with a full stack of friends.

>>877351
>Lmao, rank?
why are counter-strike fags all like this?

>>875776
don't try to click single shots, hold the trigger down

>>875776
>guides for CSGO
Warowl has some good videos. That's the only specific YouTuber I have in my head. Generally, there is Workshop maps that are made for practicing aim, or grenade throws. Learning 'nades isn't hard, you just gotta memorize them.

>is cheating a problem
Yes, if you are not a "prime" player, and if you have a low trust factor. Basically, don't be a cheating, toxic shit-head, and have a public profile, so you'll have a good trust factor. Of course, you'll eventually run into a cheater, and some cheats, like no flash bang effect, can be hard to notice.

>how to climb
Basically, get a winning streak, the game will continually place you against higher skill groups, until you rank up, amd vice versa for lowering your rank. You can tell if your rank is gonna change based on your opponents' ranking. You don't have to win a game to rank up, though. I think it also checks your stats, like if you are getting kills, assists, grenade damage or flashbangs, and so on.

>I do well for 1-2 games
It's because the game is checking your skill, by placing you against higher skilled people. Also, do note, smurfs are not uncommon in silver, and low gold, nor is washed up (rank decayed) players.

If you want my two cents on CSGO plays, they are the biggest babies in any multiplayer game. They think the game revolves around them, and that they did nothing wrong, or act like cunts for the sake of it. Don't let yourself get upset, just mute them. In this regard, grouped up players are worse, because they're more bold, and circle jerk. I cannot overstate, your average CSGO player is absolutely retarded, and lacks social skills. Anime profile pics, or other "ironic" profiles, like purposely dumb, creepy, or otherwise, are good indicators of a shitty player to interact with. My advice is to turn off other player's profile pictures, and names, and, if you want, mute the enemy team automatically, or don't.

And remember, it's just a game, if you lose, that's fine.

>>877921
Its go fags and most modern game fags that knows only match making.
Any cs earlier has no official rank, every server is player-hosted or dedicated server, people had fun and can learn despite uneven skill level and had no problem playing with mixed crowd. and ranking was also managed by player groups that are interested in competitive play which are not the majority.

>>878169
we would call you a cal-o scrub back in the day

>>875776
cs go is a cheat fest, even if you go to third party servers with custom anti cheat it's just marginally better, don't bother

>>875776
Counter-Strike is all about adaptability. If your fundamentals and game sense are good, you will be able to adapt to different situations faster. Fundamentals you can practice grind on deathmatch and such, but you have to have the right mentality and will to get better and improve. If you just do the same shit that you've always been doing you won't get anywhere. Try to always think about what you can improve. As a new player, you probably want to focus on having correct crosshair placement and clearing angles and corners correctly. Many low ranked players don't preaim angles or properly clear around corners, as in they keep their crosshair unoptimal.
And for game sense, that you can only gain by experience. What do we mean by game sense? It's basically the internal instinct clock. You saw a player at a certain position, and then you know he can't be in another position within a certain time limit. It's about knowing map control and which regions are contested and which ones are cleared. Which engagements are the most favorable for you. When to back off and let the enemy team waste time or utility to retake map control.

Anyway, as long as you're having fun you can play whatever way you want. But there's only one way to get better and it's by practice with quality and understanding.

And add people that seem to be normal and enjoyable to play with, ignore toxic freaks. These kind of games are the best when you're playing with friends who communicate well.

This guy >>877056 also has good input

Guys for some reason whenever I move my mouse fast it either doesnt move or moves slowly, its driving me crazy does anybody know a fix?

>>879335
ur sensor is dead bro. dont think their is a fix for that

>>875776
Here is a good video that helped me.
https://youtu.be/Lx7jK23RbbQ

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Just do your best, don't be toxic and don't blame your team mates or the other team :)

>>879812
that's what you deserve for queueing mirage

>>877077
"forced" 50/50 is a meme
if you're stuck at your rank it means thats your rank tardo maybe you should try different tactics and strategies and try to improve
you can literally bottomfrag your way to LEM if you just rotate properly use flashes and set your team up for efficient trades

>>875776
radar is OP learn it
you can use it to see where the holes in the map are that your team isnt watching and a general idea of what the enemy team is doing if they get spotted etc
if you use radar properly you don't really need communication to play well

>>880175
>>879812

>>880193
yeah a screenshot of someone playing a LONG game at 1:30 AM on a WEDNESDAY when the playerbase is split between short and long games definitely means you're going to get a balanced mm experience
you're retard

>>880206
>if you're stuck at your rank it means thats your rank
>that doesnt count...because it just doesn't ok!

>>880306
yeah lets cherrypick 1 fucked up scenario to justify the current rank
lets see the match histories??
retard

>>880319
https://csgostats.gg/match/104092358
https://csgostats.gg/match/104092363
https://csgostats.gg/match/103464698
https://csgostats.gg/match/103464698

here's a few more gems in the log

>>880327
>oceania
everyone knows that ranks are monopoly money over there

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Mfw you get downgraded skill group despite having good individual stats because you play solo and every game you join is filled with either:

1. Retards with no mics
2. No one playing as a team and trying to go lonewolf call of duty mode
3. People who ragequit early on (I had games where 2-3 people did it and we ended up playing a 2v5 and got stomped)
4. Dudes who are here just to troll on the mic and TK their team before ragequitting
5. All of the above

Why is this game so full of fucking morons ? I keep racking up losses and carrying the team and because of i that i get downgraded. I thought call of duty was bad but this is next level idiocracy. Also why does the skill group system penalize me for having shit team mates ? What's the point of a skill group if my performance is measured by other people's fuck ups and monkey IQ ?

How can i find players to play with consistently ? None of my friends play this game. Is there anywhere i can go to find chill team mates that aren't complete faggots ?

>>875776
Depending on how much of a noob you are. But adreN has some good fundamental tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9mvXfnY8wU

>>880335
>you're rank is your rank
>OH NOT THAT REGION THOUGH

lol

>>880726
he's right tho... fucking low pop locations shouldnt even have ranks at all desu

>>880749
ranks worked fine for years in oceanic/US before they got broken

>>875776
I was never god tier at cs or anything but I do think theres a lot of aimbots / wallhacks. Back when I used to play more I was around gold 3,4, and mg1 briefly. Now like you I quit for years and am gold nova 1 (just higher than silver). Tons of people show up on fresh accounts and cheating in FPS games in general is the worst its been ever. So yes I think its rampant.
The solution is stop caring. Treat comp like casual.

The other day me and a random let ourselves get HS awped through smoke to sus out a cheater on the other team

>>880786
the average account age of vac bans in 2022 was 3.5 years, its not even just fresh accounts.

the reason theres so many more cheaters now is all the chinks in games, they are genetically predisposed to cheat because theyre soulless insects who dont play games for entertainment, it's just another form of work for them

>>875776
1. This is one of the best channels for learning how to play CS. https://youtu.be/ygyiM0Ctibo

2. Only if you have a low trust factor. If you *really* don't want to deal with cheaters, you can try faceit, assuming you're ok with installing anti-cheat with ring-0 access.

3. It seems like the more games you play in a day, the less they matter. Also, some maps are definitely easier to solo-queue in, like Mirage and Cache.

>>880786

The main issue i got with lower skill groups isn't even the rampant cheaters, most of them in silver groups are total retards and still manage to get fucked by half decent players.

The main concern in those groups, especially if you're in north america is that they make zero sense and once you're downgraded to silver for what ever fuck ups your team mates did because you queued solo, it's difficult to get out of it. My friend who plays with friends has worse stats than me and is gold nova 2 simply because he wins more often while i got much better stats than him and im in silver.

Literally every game im in as a solo is filled with retards and the other team is usually 2-3 guys from a clan so they communicate. Our team ? Zero mics, motherfuckers AFKing mid game opening cases and doing trades instead of helping the team, people not even listening and playing the game like its call of duty.

It's becoming tedious to the point where id rather just queue up with randoms in higher tier groups through the looking for team function where at least there will be some communication going on.

My stats are good but i just keep losing due to garbage teams and people leaving early because we lost a round.

If any bros wanna make a VM clan im in.

>>880772
i still think the ranks are fucked up and theres probably rank inflation going on
i play us east and during broken ranks my main was stuck at nova 2~4 playing against other novas who were faceit 8+ or actual literal novas and now im global again and like only 25% of players at this level are decent and an account i just fucked around on that never made it past dmg before ranks were broken and was nova 4 during broken ranks and now its ranked at smfc in just 3 games after recalibration

>>881097
I keep looking at cheaters match history and you see they havent played in 3 years and then their first game is unranked, second LEM

very strange

>>878169
You are a retard
Not only have I played 1.6 extensively, I would guess more than you. I've also managed dedicated servers for 1.6 and other valve games. Nobody cares and you abysmally ignorant internet shitter. Probably can't even compile his own shit. Retard.

>>878174
No shit.
>>881370
No shit.

>>875822
Holy shit faggot you cannot format a post to save your life.
Your entire post is absolute shit and it doesnt make sense what youre attempting to say.
The only guess I can make is that somehow, in your absurdly stupid brain, you seem to be insisting CSGO doesnt have a cheating issue.
If so, youre clearly a fucking idiot who probably got vaccinated and believed covid was real.
You are a fucking fool and you need to stop posting.

>>879812
>>880175
>forced 50/50 is a meme

>>875776
It'll get easier when you get to gold nova or so. Silver is a mess of smurfs and cheaters and much more difficult to play in. Cheaters fall off in upper ranks because they get banned before they can climb too far.
>>875822
Flusha didn't get away with it beyond 2014 when they stepped the anticheat up. Pro players don't do such amazing shit that you'd need cheats for any of it.

>>881674
>tfw trying to derank into silver from gn2
>end up getting carried or accidentally dropping 25 a game in a short match with scouts and novas
>end up at MG1
I have no idea how people get stuck in silver after the rank update

What does playing in aim/fy maps teach new players other than to get used to being demotivated?

>>888588

Now try the reverse and do it in silver without a group of friends.

- 10% of the people got mics, everyone else is a CS tourist who doesn't give a fuck about communication.

- Fags going AFK at the beginning of the game to open cases and telling you to go fuck yourself when you call them out on it.

- No one knows the maps well, or smoke spots, there is zero game intelligence.

- Smurf autists who can't complete in higher levels so they go hunt for noobs in a new account, i don't hate them honestly most are a good challenge and many actually give you tips when you ask them.

- Cheaters who don't even try to hide, accounts with zero history, no friends, no inventory casually running aimbots/wallhacks, always has some anime pfp and acts like a total sperg ingame

- Chink skin collectors who can't play the game for shit, nigga enters a game with 5000$ in skins but can barely keep up with his team, and doesn't have a mic.

Only way out of silver is with a group, especially in north america where ranks are even more retarded. Otherwise you're guaranteed to get raped by other groups and smurfs because your team as a solo is gonna be made up of the worst kind of retards.

>>888796
>nigga
go back

>>888796
>without a group of friends
Already doing it wrong

Play a lot of death match so you have a feeling for all the guns, then play casual for some time so you know what to expect.
30 hours of this and you might have a shot in ranked.

csgo has the worst cheating problem out of any fps game out there due to both source engine being too old and open and valve not caring much about addressing the problem.

there are levels to this:

brand new account without prime - expect more cheaters than regular players in your games. not kidding.

brand newish account with prime and low trust factor - expect a cheater in every game

hundreds of hours played with prime and maxed out trust factor - expect a cheater in about half your games.

faceit/esea - expect a cheater in maybe 25% of your games.

the shitters will tell you how this is me being butthurt because i am bad or whatever but they dont know anything. i've been playing this game since before 1.0. have thousands of hours in csgo alone, got to the 0.1 percentile in MM and FaceIT/ESEA. i've also read enough interviews with cheat makers and users and seen enough long term statistics of banned accounts on massive sample sizes to be 100% confident in saying this.

csgo is only a playable game nowadays if you are delusional enough to tell yourself "they are not cheating, they are not cheating, they are not cheating" before every game and then forcing yourself to smile as you fight a guy with silent aim or wallhack "that he only toggles when it's needed" almost every fucking game you play.

valorant on the other hand has a cheater in MAYBE 1 game out of 20 if i am being generous. why? because riot has an entire department dedicated to hunting these fags down, infiltrating discords and everything and also ring0 access. valve doesn't do any of that, they just fuck around with their voodoo magic """"AI"""" VAC system that can't detect anything by definition. and i am afraid CS2 is going to be the same way because valve will never dedicate the man power required to fight this problem as it's very uninteresting, drone work and they got rocket scientists working there who consider this below them.

let's hope the AI voodoo will start working one day.

faceit is 100x better than MM

- Cheating still happens but a lot less. User above said 25% of your games have cheaters but i'd say it's probably 10-15% and even there they use light cheats because they're scared of getting banned on faceit. So unless your whole team is shit, beating them is not that difficult.

- Problem with cheating in CS GO is because Valve was so focused on letting the community "build new things" with the source SDK that it basically allows any monkey to code basic cheats for the game. The Valve AC is also garbage and non-intrusive, it only catches obvious cheaters and bans are applied about half the time only because it lacks real evidence.

- A lot of autists/schizos who mastered the engine down to every detail and played CS since the early 2000s play on faceit so they are often mistaken as cheaters even though their game is basically flawless.

- Everyone game i run into people have mics and openly communicate which is a massive plus, but this comes at the risk of having egomaniacs and sociopaths being toxic as shit in your games. But that's competitive games and the higher your level the worse people get. Half the players on faceit lvl 10 are toxic schizos and half of the pro scene dudes who act like nice guys in tournaments are absolute monkeys in faceit games.

- The average skill ceiling even in bronze level is much higher than say MM silver groups, so no matter how shitty your performance is, you'll learn new things more often just by playing the game. While on MM no one has mics, people are stoned out of their minds and aren't focusing on the game, and overall just play like shit. Even in gold nova/MG probably 20-30% of the players "have the level" while everyone else are jerkoffs that got carried or cheated their way up.


>>888797

He's right faggot.

>>888920

This, queuing solo is the guarantee of getting fucked in every game, you're basically playing the lotto on whether your team is good enough to win or not.

>>890821
>csgo has the worst cheating problem out of any fps game out there
I don't believe any game is even close to taking this title from tarkov.

>>890821
>openly accepting intrusive DRM Anti-Cheat software that has kernel level access
FUCK THAT!

Valve gave the tools to the community so they can make the game their own. This is why we have community leagues like ESEA and FACEIT. Automated matchmaking was a fucking mistake. Automated anything was a fucking mistake! We need to bring back competitive ladders back where you manually handshake on a match with someone and doing anything in bad faith will have much more adverse affects on your reputation.

>>891237
>FUCK THAT!
i don't like it either but the game is simply not playable without it. and i bet you have far worse people/organizations than valve lurking in your ring0 right now.
>>890973
it's possible. can't judge as i only played it for a few hours with a friend who always talks me into it but i don't see the appeal at all for some reason.

>>891400
>and i bet you have far worse people/organizations than valve lurking in your ring0 right now
I don't think so as I only have games from Steam and GOG. Other misc software is Firefox and Foobar. Discord is on my phone because that is most likely compromised as fuck anyway since it's a carrier phone.

>>879697
This vid actually helped me a lot for Dino D-day, thanks.

When I fight an enemy he one taps me instantly, knows exactly where I am. After I die and spectate my teammates, the same enemy suddenly behaves like a bot. Misses all the shots, lack of any game sense.
So fucking weird and off putting desu

>>895247

Cheating is so common in MM that you have faggots who toggle their wall hacks/aimbots only when needed while pretending to be "legit".

Half the spergs on gold nova and above do just that.

It's so common that now you have youtubers dedicated to cheating on CS and they got 30-40k subscribers and they even stream CS GO games using cheats.

It's much much better on faceit but now you trade the cheating for the toxic retards who start yelling and insulting people left and right the moment the game doesn't go their way and act like they are part of Cloud9's roster with their shit stats.

>>895247
1. If you're always ahead of your team by yourself, you're playing too aggressively. Remember, footstep sounds are so precisely locateable that good players shuffle their timing after making them just to not get shot by someone who fires on audio cues.
2. A good deal of players panic/get too excited after one kill and don't know what to do right afterwards up to DMG or so.

Playing casual is otherwise bad idea, but dying a lot because 10v10 and watching the killcams lets you see just how stupid all your "crazy" pushes look like from the enemy perspective.

Skill groups in MM in North America are so retarded

> Have good KDR, ADR, HS, etc

> Cant rank up for shit

> Rank up skill group finally

> Run into retards for team mates, only get 2 wins then 3 losses in a row

> Immediately downgraded skill group after playing against the same smurfing faggots 2 times in a row and getting raped

> 1.2m players and i get the same try hard sweat fucks as opposing team twice in a row and lose a rank because of it

Meanwhile faggots get carried all the way to LEM +

Fuck playing solo or with a friend, you're always gonna have retarded team mates to bring you down.

Why does it take 4624626 good games and wins to rank up but only 2-3 losses to rank down ?

What's the point of having skill groups if you get fucked because of your team mates ?

Why do faggots brag about being in Global Elite when it doesn't mean jackshit about the individual's skill level in the end ?

I got put in silver 1 after a long layoff and i genuinely can't get out. Every single game I've had at least one teammate who is just straight throwing and has no interest in winning the game

>>890911
>He's right faggot
You're the same poster

Anybody else only plays casual, sucks at shooters, but like collecting pretty guns?

>>875776
Step 1: Download wall hack
Step 2: Download machine learning AI software
Step 3: actually be able to compete with the rest of the playerbase that are all using these

>>898987
Silver

When the fuck do they send cs2 invites

>>888796
i dunno about thaaat, i recently got back into the game and got placed in silver 1 and i'm slowly crawling up out of silver i'm 4 atm all solo mm

I'm completely new as well
I know most of the game is just playing a lot to build muscle memory and general game sense, but how the fuck do I improve my movement? I feel like a complete potato and I feel like a lot of my deaths are just because I'm shit at moving

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Anyone else feel like they are just genetically bad at this game?
I've been playing for nearly a decade and have over 3k hours across 2 different accounts but haven't got above silver elite on either of them
I only keep playing because I haven't found anything with better gunplay

>>900504
i have minor tremors in my hands so I literally am genetically bad at it
I just play for fun

>>900504

Playing silver is difficult with the amount of cheaters and smurfs you run into. It gets better in gold nova and above when teams actually try to win and aren't filled with micless retards and Valorant tourists not even trying to win the game.

Only way out of silver is to have team mates you consistently play with.

You can get lucky and solo your way to MG if you're an actually good player but it doesn't happen every day and at this point you'd be better off competing on faceit.

I haven't played this game since it came out, but I learned this week that it apparently had a campaign or story missions or something? I tried looking for a list of them online but I am confused because I see some people calling them gaurdian missions, some people calling them campaigns, and some people calling them co-op missions, and I am struggling to just find a list of them or how to play them. Are they even real and is there a list of them?

>>875776
this thread is a fucking car crash, i thought 4chan was gonna be full of faceit 10's and id look like a retard at MGE coming in but no, youre all just silvers complaining about muh hacks and smurfs. christ get a grip, actually learn the game and stop externalising blame to other factors. the one consistent factor in CSGO that you can control is your own performance, train aim, learn smokes and develop game awareness

>>900504
warmup on workshop maps, play 3 games on the same map every day and come back to me in a month. if youre not gold nova id be shocked

How does the man who is old remember how to be a child? Does he see, or does he be?

>>903510

OP here, got much better at the game, now in gold nova.

I have a consistent crew of people i play with now and went from silver 2 to gold nova in a day lol. One night playing i made it to silver elite master so it really is all about the wins.

Cheating isn't a concern considering most sketchy players i run against play like absolute shit and you can counter them assuming they're the only sketchy player in their team. You can easily tell when someone is walling/aim locking people vs someone who is just smurfing, it's just the consistency.

For example the guy knows your exact location 1-2 or even 3 times it's fine because many people know the maps well, but when he does every single time the entire game it gives you an idea that he might using wall hacks. Even there, countering is easy if you just adapt and communicate with your group because these players rely too much on walling and got shit aim and reaction skills.

As for smurfs they never really posed a problem, they're really good and if there's 1-2 in the other team, chances are there's at least 1 good player in our team that is also top tier, at least in gold nova + games lol. Just suck it up and learn type of approach.

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no real point in playing if ur new. literally everyone who plays has been playing for several years or more. ur just gonna get bodied and have no real room to improve.

>>903079
Years ago on the operations there was a vs mode against the computer so like tiny missions you had to complete for your medal but recently volvo got lazy and its just play on this map and do whatever to get xp now

>>880651
just outfrag evryone and climb.
if you can't, you're on your skill level.

i got put in silver 1 after a big few years layoff and im topscoring literally every game and still losing. i cant get out

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>>904910
like fuck me im trying my hardest here. i just want to get to silver 4-5 so I can play with my one CS friend who is low gold. i have lost 4 in a row

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>>904915
i give up

>>904924
lol practice more u gotta be dropping like 35-45 frags. that would be ez for a gold nova 1 in s1

>>904924

When in silver don't play like the average silver faggot, that means:

- Don't rush/push the other team like a retard.

- Position yourself properly and learn to cover angles.

- Learn to manage your cash efficiently and don't always go for the AK/M4.

- Communicate with your team even if no one has mics, if you assert yourself and give them hints on where to go as they'll most likely listen and not just throw the game. For example on Dust 2 tell your team you want 2 people at B, 2 people A, one guy mid or something depending on the situation but at least your team will know how to spread out and not just rush up like retards when they're supposed to defend.

- Don't queue Mirage unless you want sweats, smurfs, cheats, absolute mongoloids in every single game. In silver this means losing every game no matter how good you are. Don't know why this map attracts all the scum of CS in silver lobbies but this is crazy. When i was silver my win rate significantly improved when i stopped queuing that map.

If you do all of that you don't even need good aim/crosshair placement to get 30 kills + per game.

there's literally cheating specific youtubers with 5-6figure followings, several huge active cheating forums. i can google 50 different cheat solutions in 2 seconds. yet ... "nobody is cheating bro, it's a skill issue, l2p lil silver!"

>>905364
i shouldn't need to be playing 4x as good as everyone else in order to move from silver 1 to silver 2

>>905679
that's where you're wrong. their system expects you to play a thousand games, so if you want to move up quickly and consistently you need to massively outperform

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>>905691
Well damn. I did manage to move to silver 2 today so I guess you're right. I'm just expecting things to go too fast. Time to grind.

>>905585
thanks for the tips anon. im working on it

>>905822
I'm glad that my advice helped you. I don't even play CS anymore, I just saw your post on the way to go torture capkeks in /fgg/. Good luck out there.

>>905585
>- Don't queue Mirage unless you want sweats, smurfs, cheats, absolute mongoloids in every single game.

this is the best possible tip regardless of rank, fuck that map so hard

>>905877
what's fgg?

>>905672

Yes cheating is widespread but 99% of cheaters are turbo retards. Even with walls they still manage to get flanked/countered by half decent teams.

Aim locking/aimbots are less likely because they're obvious and cheaters don't want to climb ranks just to get banned after.

If you play faceit cheating is much less likely so take advantage of it.

If you play MM all the way to top ranks you're asking for problems.

>>903591
Gf went to silver elite in ~2 weeks. Never played cs before.

No one gets this, but:
TERRORIST MUST RUSH TO PLANT BOMB NOT STAY MID AND BOTTLENECK+DIE

CT=CAMPER TERRORIST=DONT PUSH WHY WOULD YOU DO IT

It's very hard to grasp, but you'll be global elite if you can manage to fathom this.

>teammate buys a deagle during pistol round
have never seen this end well ever

>>906191
It's "fighting game general" on /vg/. I was phoneposting and my browser opens by default to /vm/. If you ever begin to feel like FPS is full of cheaters and that you don't like having teammates, give them a try. Just don't go to that thread.

>>906518
Maybe one day you'll be ready to live a little

>>906518

If it's a smurf you're in for some pretty sick flick shots

If it's a silver 1 he's going to get fucked first

>>905585
>dont queue mirage
Based, i fucking hate that map and my friends love to play that shit they are really bad at the game

>>906518
I buy p250 or nades instead

>>900504
Literally came here to post this, I’ve made it to DMG, MGE and now I’ve deranked to MG1. I play every single day, train aim maps, win DM using p250 only, play 1v1 maps, learn smokes and util and have 2500 hours and I get absolutely shit on most games. Some games i top frag and do fine but 4/5 games i bottom frag. I fucking hate it so much I am the most inconsistent player to ever touch this fucking game

agency is a fucking horrendous map my god

Does somebody have a site, where you can pick who wins which match in the challenger and lists the following matches accordingly?

>>908231
nvm, found it myself
major.ieb.im/23paris

I accidentally body blocked a guy for 1 second at double doors and the guy TKd me and told me go play Minecraft.
I haven't played in years and haven't even won enough matches to get ranked. I expect to be very low silver. The best part of all of this is a have my 10 year vet badge displayed and im absolute trash lmao
Only advice I have is not to take it serious, but I'm probably the last person you should take advice from

decided to open a case out of curiosity and I paid £4 for a skin worth 20p

bros. is it worth going for 4:3 as a new player or should i stick to 16:9

>>908350
the knife is in the next one

>>908472
you'll look like a complete retard not being able to see things that 16:9 players can see

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>realize idgaf about csgo anymore, decide to go and put my inventory on the market
>all my skins/knifes are 3x the price that I bought them for
Lol

>>908472
start with 16:9 imo. most pros/amateurs play at 4:3 but the res wont matter until you develop an understanding of how to play the game. you'll realize and mess around with resolutions soon enough and figure what works best. btw, if you are play on a screen size bigger than 24", do not use 4:3 res

>>908523
I sold a knife yesterday for $900 that I bought for $150 like 5 years ago kek

>>908528
>>908523
>selling now and not few months after cs2 drops
dumbass retards

>>908609
this. skins are going to rocket AGAIN. especially shadow dagger knives since they're fixing the weird screen rumble that happens when you equip them with is the #1 reason they are so cheap

There are like 5 cool M4A4 skins and maybe 1 cool M4A1-s skin

>>905691
no the system expects you to play a certain way at a consistent time frame, if you surprise the system and play good you rank up, if you play worst than it expected you to you rank down.
if you play too many games you don't give the system time to expect anything so you'll have to win a lot more to rank up.
warowl explained how it works on a video go watch that.
I play 1-3 games a day, sometimes I go a couple days without playing and I rank up or down sometimes twice in the same day.

>>900504
go back to basics retard, you probably think you should be good without effort wince you spent enough time NOT putting in effort.
you're not gonna get good magically moron, "talent" doesn't exist, get in there and practice.
Go learn what you don't know.
I bet there's a lot of things you DON'T know that you constantly KNOW that you dont KNOW but you keep ignoring it instead of taking the time to get better.
I would know, I was like that too.
was hard stuck (whatever the 2 aks crossing is in english) for years and once I stopped maoing excuse and admitted I was trash and stuffed my ego up my ass I got good.

>>910849
how did just stopping making excuses and getting rid of ur ego make u get better? did u do anything else differently or just the mindset

>>910860
I started practicing and focusing on my mistakes, but not stuff like learning how to smoke window on mirage for the 200th time.
stuff like for example, I didn't know exactly how to see if maybe they would be in ECO after 2.5k hours or something.
that was one of those things that I would almost subconsciously go "nah I know that they should be eco here" and then get fucked because they weren't.
or simply going on yprac and practicing the ak recoil extensively until it was intuitive.
I always didn't get why people liked the ak and always had an ego about it but it was just me being shit and not knowing how to control the spray or my movement.
Movement is another one.
Professionals and most og players use the static crosshair because they already developed a feel of when to stop and the muscle memory for it or both.
For me, even though I had been playing since 1.6 I never actually stopped to practice the movement specifically but had this notion that I knew what I was doing.
2.5k hours, Im not silver and I've been playing since 1.6 right I should know hat I'm doing right?
Wrong, I had no idea how to counter strafe and had a bad habit of letting the character stop by himself lol which is something I found out frustrated me but that I didn't even realize I was doing because I was ignorant.
Anyway my point is, even if you've playing for long, fo not ignore the basics.
watch your replays, try to get in your own head "what was I thinking here, why did I make that decision, etc.." and get the thought of cheaters and smurfs out of your head, focus on YOU.
try to figure out what you need to learn still and what you're doing wrong because if you're hardstuck on silver you're definitely not playing like s1mple.

1.8 million players and I have never seen the server browser this fucked

CS2 is gonna kill it fully I bet

>>896002
>Why do faggots brag about being in Global Elite when it doesn't mean jackshit about the individual's skill level in the end ?
I definitely agree with this, I wish Global Elite was harder to get. It should be super hard to get like Radiant in Valorant.
t. GE player

>>911467
whats your rank? Only shitters care about the server browser

>>911275
ohhh ok so this is just basic stuff. crazy that u didnt know how to counter-strafe for so long thats the first thing i teach people when i show them cs

>>911467
wdym? the community server browser? itis fucked for me too wont load shit

>>911510
what do you do to find a good death match server? i see there are no tarik dm servers now just all those stupid shitty ones with the coins and all that mode switch bs

don't try to be good at csgo
you will only look back in regret at the wasted time, you will never have an esport career

>>911916
fl0m runs a good one, idk if it appears in the server browser tho
I think you have to go to his stream and use the !dm command

>>911915
yeah I got over gold 4 constantly with game sense and mostly using AWP and easier to control weapons like the silenced m4, aug, sg, mp9 and mac 10.
I would run away from an ak lol.
but once I got over that and actually put in the effort to improve my movement that's when I managed to hit global.
I'm still mostly a sniper but improving at the basics of movement increased my power level on everything.
KZ is op.

>>912030
you are not global lol
you talk like a retard DMG MAX with if only my teammates werent retarded mentality i would be global

>>912073
>you talk like a dmg
nigga what

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>>900504
I like CS but I'm only good at CSS. For some reason I suck at IDing and reacting fast enough to enemies in 1.6 and CSGO, even though I'm fine in other games.

At this point in my life I don't have the time or patience to invest 100s of hours into one game. I've accepted this and now play 1.6 with easy POD-bots and CSS with normal bots when I'm in the mood for Counter-Strike. Right now I prefer 1.6.

Just got back in and haven't played since 2014-15. How am I supposed to play this game if every fucking game is versus a 5 stack? I've fallen from LEM to dmg (played 20 games over the weekend won 3 tied 2 and lost 15) ALL LOSSES EXCEPT FOR 2 WERE VERSUS 5 MAN queue. What do I do? I played today and instantly went on a 3 game win streak without any 5 man enemy team and the first game I get versus a 5 stack we go 0-10 so I abandon, then get another 5 stack after 30 minutes and abandon that one too(will just abandon if I get them now). NO I will not queue with other people, only noobs do that. NO I will not queue faceit.

>>912609
you talk like a retard DMG MAX

>>912613
you'd know how a DMG talks

>>912609
a 5 stack is just a 5 stack and they can be pretty bad sometimes because the skill level is spread so widely and some people in the stack could be boosted
if you REALLY don't want to play against stacks then just queue at peak hours and don't queue high time maps like train and just play dust2 mirage inferno for the best odds

I got a message I've never seen before.
"Vac was unable to verify your game session"
tried to google and do all the simple fixes nothing works

>>913647
got that too, might be on volvo's side.

>>913647
i just restart my game whenever that happens usually works

Quick question, when you buy a sticker, is it a pack or 4 or just 1. Wanted to put some battle scarred holos on but theres no way its 11 per sticker

>>913647
Close steam and relaunch it. Verify your game files if that doessnt work.

>>913679
just 1

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>>875776
do you like my maximum battle scarred 0.799 safari mesh?? So many people have asked me to trade. I always ask them to say the guns name, they never do

>>914036
"A predator is a predator, no matter the environment"

>>913679
"but theres no way its 11c per sticker"
you should see the thousand dollar ones, you can find them wasted on shit skins for uber cheap

>>912073
ATTENTION EVERYONE. this anon is a retard who has time to waste

>>875776
CSGO is the only fucking game that ques you up against a massively ranked team, and then deranks you. All night, just LEMs and DMGs on the enemy team while we may have one gold ak at best, and a few silvers at worst. Seriously, wtf.

>>914036
why does volvo let you call it that

>>914056
its been called that for like 4 years

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is this crosshair retarded? it feels kinda nice but i dont see any similar ones been used by pros at all

>>914136
who cares if other people use it if you find it nice?

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>>903591
>no real point in living if ur new. literally everyone who is alive has been living for several years or more. ur just gonna get bodied and have no real room to improve.

beta retard with no dawg in him.

I want to get back into fps games and CS looks nice but the autism with which people play bothers me
like the whole 4:3 thing and staring at your screen at a 10cm distance
using insanely low sensitivity and moving your whole arm to do a 180
do I really need to do this shit to become good

>>915708

No unless you play FPL/Pro scene and every little detail besides cheating can help your performance. OP here, i went from total retard at this game to decently good gold nova 3 playing with DMG/LEM players regularly and faring decently well.

Just learn from your mistakes and get friends to play with.

>>914044
That’s kind of new, there used to be limits on rank disparity for match ups, as well as premades. Then valve just fucked it all up and let anyone verse anyone.

t. Dropped 30 against dmg/eagle as mg2 and deranked in a 16-12 loss.

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>silver MM
>join a game
>immediately someone screeches into the microphone
>if it's not that it's someone disconnecting and never coming back, forcing the game into 4vs5 to begin with
>if it's not that it's some dude talking in russian and refusing to communicate in a language that everyone understands
>if it's not that it's some duo which is hellbent on kicking out whoever seemed to wrong them for whatever reason
>the entire game devolves from its' usual objective to just hurling insults or shooting each other at the start of the round
>I manage to kill 3-4 people every single round regardless
>it's still not enough to actually win

any advice besides "lol just play with friends"?

>>918774
your trust score is shit nigga, unironically just play more and consistently perform.
you think if I put s1mple in your account he won't be able to get out of silver?
of course he will, stop complaining about >wahh le MM is le bad it puts me with bad players
yeah no shit retard but guess what, chances are the are the same amount of retards in the other team.
literally just get good.

I haven't played GO in years and just started again today. how in the FUCK do I disable music kits? some of these sound effects people have equipped are the most obnoxious things I've ever heard. only option I've found is disabling all music in the menu, but I like the default menu & end of round music so I don't want it all gone

there like a mod or something?

>>918774
Just force it. I got placed in silver 1 hell and I'm now silver 4 after solo queing for a week or two. If you're good enough you're good enough

>>919145

Yeah sure but you can't do it alone when every game there's some faggot throwing the game for the entire team one way or another.

You play alone you're basically up against groups, smurfs, cheats so the odds of winning are against you no matter how good you are and how much of an autist you can be. Simple wouldn't be doing this shit alone, he'd find proper team mates first and be out of silver within 1-2 days.

>>918774

Mute the retards singing/screeching on the mic.

Mute the russians/ukrainians if there's zero way you can understand each other.

When your team mates are insulting each other intervene and tell them to focus on the game, usually it's enough for them to cut it off and try to at least do something. Don't start insulting people.

GET FRIENDS or at least join a premade through the looking for group option even if it means playing with novas and people above your skill group. Before they queue ask if they got a mic and usually they reply. If no one replies then leave and join another group.

Learn the maps and learn positioning, if you do that you can get good stats regardless of aiming and you can guide your team mates better.

>>917313

It happens more commonly in NA games because the community is much smaller and MM is all fucked up. I had games as a silver against nova 2-3 players who basically steam rolled our team and i definitely can tell they were smurfs lol.

Also keep in mind they deactivated overwatch since CS2 beta came, meaning people can't review gameplay and vote to ban cheaters. Overwatch is behind 75% of the VAC bans in effect so if you noticed a rise in cheating this might be because of it. No one knows why Valve did that but its probably a marketing ploy before CS2 rolls out.

>>919172
MVP Volume in the audio settings

desu if you're decent you can get out of silver pretty fast in soloq. I got LEM in solo but in the end it's just a waiste of time. When you reach a high rank you have two options: you go semi autistic pro NO FUN ALLOWED in faceit or get fucked with with cheaters in normal MM, maybe if you like the game enough you can do some videos for youtube (some encounters are funny as shit in MM)
>1
just play the game, learn one map at time and learn to pre aim some common spots and to spray control the first 5-6 bullets of the ak47
>2
I don't really know if cheating in cs is still huge but again maybe you'll encounter few of them in faceit
>3
it depends, as I said before getting out of silver should be easy as fuck, but you'll lose some games because of smurfs
If you really wanna climb the ranks go find someone to play with in the main menu or join in a discord server, it's the only way

>>875776
Let me help you skip a 1000 hours of hassle:
Play faceit. No cheaters and when the rare cases where they occur they get find out relatively fast and your elo is restored. People care more in general and will actually talk/not be drunk. Overally a cleaner experience. Don't play mm until CS2 comes out and they've fixed most of this shit (hopefully). I don't even think a valve dev could tell you mm is playable with a straight face.

>try to play demolition
>1 full server during the day
>0-3 players at night
>try to play hostage
>a few full servers during the day
>half a server at night
is the steam population numbers literally 99% bots?

>>920805
>trying to play dead game modes
>game modes are dead
are you retarded?

I haven't played in around 5 years. What has changed that I should know about?

Or is it still mostly the same shit and I just have to re-learn the maps.

Used to be DMG.

>>921470
There are more retards playing now since you could get prime for free around 3 years ago by just playing the game.
also, be ready to struggle in silver if you were DMG before.
but not because the skill floor increased or any bullshit like that how people love to say but because there are literal thousands like you who used to be decent at the game and are now on silver coming back to the game.
Also, the game will re-calibrate your trust score so with all that you'll get a bunch of OGs that are good at the game, a bunch of cheaters and a bunch of retards.
Just push through it for a bit and once you get to gold you'll start to get real games.

>>921470
you're probably better than the current DMGs now desu
i feel like people these days aren't that good anymore in mm because the decent players would just play on client

>>921855

This plus no more overwatch since CS2 was announced means cheating is now even more rampant than ever on MM.

Even youtuber fags like NoHyper openly cheat on livestream and bragging about it without hiding their steam accounts and are not picking up VAC bans.

Cheaters are getting cocky now knowing Valve isn't doing shit, just today there was a guy in the other team which was top frag, knew everyone's location perfectly and was doing crazy flick shots at long range while spraying with an M4A4 lol. Everyone knew he was cheating but he gave no fucks.

But with that said ranking up from silver to gold nova master is relatively easy if you're a good player and got friends to play with.

what the fuck should I do with my 70 cases? sell them right away?

>>922768
send them to me
please I need to eat

>>922768
You can continue to sit on them they will only get more expensive as time goes on

>>914038
>wasted
Both me and my teammate have Crown stickers on the scopes of our AWP Safari Meshes

>>922363
im currently supreme and i have yet to encounter any blatant cheaters since the rank rework and ive played ~120 games and only in like a couple of them it was plausible that someone might be using a radar hack or aim assist
but i dunno i guess i have a pretty high trust factor because i havent seen anyone lock/snap/spin and shit
the people who are mostly getting cheated on are probably just people playing on new accounts anyways

Why can you even play Office in ranked. Has this map ever been in tournament?

>>923420
why not?

lol i havent played inforever i was like gold nova 2 or some shit... i just playead 1 game and im DMG now wtf

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The only guns I buy are the p250 and the scar. I refuse to play terrorist.

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I have 400 hours, am gn4 but peaked in mg1. I still don't know how to through good flashes. I have never thrown a flash as CT on last 30 games on nuke according to leetify.

>>925581
>most useful teammate
but no it's not your team that's bad anon :) just play better :):):)

>>925581
>I still don't know how to through good flashes
>I haven't thrown flashes at all in the last 30 games
there's your problem retard-kun.
start practicing that shit if you wanna get good at it moron.
there are literal thousands of hours worth of content out there for every scenario possible you can think for every map you want.
boot up a training map of the map you wanna learn flashes and search that shit on youtube.
jesus man.
30 games without throwing a single flash?
fuck.

>it's you and not your team
I can't hold off the whole enemy team executing my bombsite because the 4 retarded niggers in my team went to the other site. I can't make them not rush obvious places I can't make them gain brain cells which would allow them to throw a single good utility or give a single good call.

>just learn the maps
>just crosshair placement
who the fuck do you think I am? I post on 4channel I literally waste my life on the internet and you think I wouldn't know those things by playing or that I wouldn't look up videos on how to get better? I know the maps that I play I know how to counterstrafe I know crosshair placement I know utility I know timings and I have gamesense but none of that matters if I have four useless dogs in my team. I can't control four characters at once. There are games where I can't do more. I can't guess where the enemy is every round and kill them before my teammates die and playing in a duo doesn't help much and that's the most people I can get.

I'm good enough to rank up yet I can't because my teams are garbage and in the very rare circumstances where they aren't you bet your ass we'll be playing against a five stack and five randoms will almost never outdo that.

There is nothing more that I can do 99% percent of the time and yet you and every other dumbass on the internet will keep repeating the same bullshit points.

If I didn't have the basics down and I wasn't able to pinpoint where the problem is I wouldn't complain


and to this one retarded niggerfaggot that keeps posting
>well uh if I put one of the best players in the world in your account he would rank up
no shit you brainless cunt, he's good enough to get an ace in every round and win because of that and I'm not.
Come up with arguments that are better than those of a ten year old

>>925871
Every game with ranked multiplayer is the same. If you aren't hard-carrying, you're either in a coin toss or going to get shit on. I used to lose rocket league games in GC back when it was the highest rank where I would have 7 goals and 1200 points. All I needed my teammates to do was hit the fucking ball. Guess what? They couldn't. Either git gud and ace every round (in reality if you pull an average of 2 frags a round you will rank up easily), or accept that it is a game and just have fun.

>>877351
I understand where you are coming from but you should kill yourself NOW

>>925581
play more maps than nuke

>>923619
you know what that's true

>>914136
if it feels nice to you you'll probably do better with it

>>925581
you dont need to know how to throw good flashes and you dont need your flashes to be a god pop flash that blinds 2+ people all the time
you should really just throw them and get more experience
you can throw them around corners or whatever you want for yourself before you entry and even if you dont blind the enemy youre still causing a distraction or forcing them to turn around and making it a harder shot for them
even if youre not sure if an enemy is there you can choose to throw a flash to make it safer for you to clear an area
remember that using your utility and not getting much out of it is better than dying with utility and not using them
just try not to flash your teammates

How many hours should it take for someone to reach global. I see lot's of pros claim that if you are not global in your first 500-1000 hours you have no chance of becoming a pro

>>927474
a lot of those pros were playing cs for 10 years already before touching csgo, don't take their word for anything new player related.
personally though, unless you're disabled or something I don't see why there would be threshold of when you should hit x at y time, that is stupid.
you can always try to improve and push further.

Does anyone want to play together sometimes? NA East coast?

>>927481
idk man are u sure talent doesn't play a big factor? there are people with 5k hours and still are only faceit 7 or some shit

>>927474
depends on your current skill level and how retarded you currently are
theres is a mechanical skill floor that you need to be at in order to even think about going for global so hitting global could be literally impossible for you
i know people who have been playing since release and are still legitimately silver and some people who can't get past DMG
also the global grind isn't worth the time
im solo queuing and most of the current globals are pretty retarded and the games are a complete mismatch so you either get a mix of MGE~Global or you're facing a 1 mapping 5 stack supreme/global because there's not enough supremes/globals queueing
if you're trying to go pro you're better off going for LEM and then try to maintain a good winrate at that rank for a bit because thats when you can actually see how some of the game is supposed to be played and then switch to client

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My movement is so fucked it ruins my aim bros. No matter what I do I cant implement counterstrafing and shit.

I used to be against trolling, but some people in CS are so toxic over the smallest shit, they deserve it. It's okay to troll sometimes.

>I'm silver 5
>play in dmg match
>do better on leaderboard
>toxic fag still tells me he is better and wasn't trying
>clearly was
It's way too easy to tilt babies. Kek

>>927709
talent is bs

>>928145
...those people with 5k hours and still on low faceit level low MM rank just didn't put in the work the "talented" people did.
time =/= skill
you gotta put in the work properly.
most of the people in the pro cs scene right now had been playing semi pro pugs before 99% of csgo players were even born.
it's not talent, it's hard work.

>>928148
...and even on cases like Monesy it isn't fucking talent, the dude has 17k hours in one account.
How many people you know that have almost 20k hours in cs?
definitely not that faceit lvl7 friend.
point is, this dude spent 2 whole straight years of his 18 years in this earth just literally playing this game and that's just one account.
it's always hard work, talent is bullshit.

>>928155
no its talent and hardwork and thats the reality of life
the quality of monesy 17k hours is far different from a regular persons 17k hours
hardwork might let you catch up to someone with just talent but you will never be at the same level of someone with talent and hardwork

>>927709
you can be talented at aiming and touch faceit 8 and then hit a wall because you don't understand the game at a higher level which is probably what is happening to most people who can't break out of there

>>928402
there`s no talent, the "quality of the hours" is the hardwork.
monesy spending 17k to 20k hours focused and determined to be good at the game as he surely was is far more meaningful than that one guy who probably has been playing cs since it came out and accumulated 5k over the years and has decent aim out of muscle memory alone and thinks he's tough shit but is hardstuck faceit lvl.

>>928447
Person A putting in 10k hours learning high school level material is hard work
Person B putting in 10k hours learning high school university and graduate level material is also hard work
however Person A is skill capped so they are unable to grasp university level material
Person B is TALENTED and was able to condense Person A's 10k hours of high school learning into 500 hours and then started learning at a university level and then moving on to a graduate level
you're dumb if you don't think talent exists and talent lets someone skip steps that a normal person has to take
you will never catch up to someone who is talented and working as hard as you are in that specific field

>>875776
>I actually do well for 1-2 games then on my 3-4th games i get absolutely wrecked
welcome to skill based matchmaking

>>928502
>look at this hypothetical situation where talent does exist, this proves talent exists
based retard, unfortunately for you it seems you're not very talented in the brain department.

>>928525
good luck being hard stuck LE
praying for you

>>928502
>>928525
idk man the talent stuff def has some truth to it... there are people who get faceit lvl 10 in like 1k hours without watching demos or anything just playing the game

I'm bad at this game and hardstuck DMG

>>932411
see... if people are getting hardstuck how is there no such thing as talent?

>>932417
I believe in talent, I'm just a washed up old man. Somehow I felt I was better as a 12 year old in pub CSS servers than now.

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i wrote some notes on spray patterns that I've sat on my second monitor and now im topscoring every game

My hands get really warm playing now that's its summertime. Not exactly sweaty but it feels gross and is annoying. I'm always washing my hands and clean my mouse daily. How do I stop this bros I hate summer

>>932667
install HVAC, 3rd world nigger

>>932487
The AK is an upside question mark.

>>932487
AK is literally the opposite what are you smoking
>>933146
it's an upside down 7 actually

>>932487
ak is an upside down 7
galil is just just upside down 7 but it's also flipped
if you have to hold your spray with the other weapons you fucked up already.

Now if only there was a way to post images on an imageboard...

>>908302
Are you me lol. I also have my 10 year badge on display and I'm unranked. You're not alone fren

>>875825
>One of the biggest game changers later on is knowing how to properly throw 'nades
Only for getting to global elite. I remember a few years back when i actually played this game, that i didnt know a single smoke or nade or anything like that but i was still supreme. Pretty sure i would have won alot more matches if i knew how to smoke and stuff like that.

>>908472
i got to supreme using 16:9
I have heard that 4:3 gives you an advantage because it stretches your screen

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>>908472
stretched is retard snake oil. it's actually worse, not only it looks ugly as fuck, but it distorts the 3d projection - pause the video at various points and examine the shape of the box.
you can achieve "benefits" of stretching without the disadvantages by placing your display closer, or getting a bigger one, or getting magnifying glasses.
i play fullscreen. 4:3 with black bars is a legit preference but in my opinion disadvantages outweigh the advantages and it's mostly an oldfag thing.
it's fucking stupid though that top level lan players have to use eye-bleaching resolutions from 2002 to get more fps to get less input lag.

>>933411
>input lag
that's not snake oil too? what do you think is the difference between 4K and 800x600?

>>933637
hmm, on 60 fps you have 1/60s=17ms included in your total input lag, 8ms on 120 fps, 3ms on 300 fps, 2 ms on 500 fps... so yeah, difference shrinks quickly. with freesync disabled however you will see jitter if framerate isn't order of magnitude higher that the refresh rate. and i think freesync might add a few ms too.
i remember i think get_right was the only one using full hd.
low mouse dpi and polling rate aren't justified as far as i'm aware, they are only giving you a disadvantage. blurbusters.com says they are critical for smoothness and i have't heard about increased lag unless it's some fake cheap ass mouse.

>>933637
but you're right in that resolution has almost no effect on framerate unless it's gpu bottlenecked and it shouldn't in this game.

so resolution may have mattered 10 years ago. gpu power raises much faster compared to cpu.

>>933174

I played faceit for the first time with a 10 year badge, 5000$ in skins i had from years go that i bought for peanuts, including a case hardened AK, and i was trash on my first game.

Legit the whole team was fucking seething, like how the FUCK do you have a 10 year badge and a case hardened AK and suck this hard ? lol

I returned to the game a few days prior so faceit was definitely not the place to start back, i was there out of curiosity lmao

>>933174
>>908302
>>933715
10 year old badges silver shiters ww@

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>>933826
if you owned any cs for over 10 years and then started playing csgo now you can still get that coin so it doesnt really mean much
these are the real boomer coins

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I will tell you something right now.
Back when i played csgo i didnt have a mousepad. I had a shitty 10 dollar weird brand name mouse.
I never knew how to smoke,flash,nade etc.
I literally couldnt hear footsteps.
I made it to supreme. The second highest rank in the game.
All that matters is that you can shoot your enemies head before he shoots yours.
Nothing else matters.

>>933873
true, we have to understand though, that supreme 2015 is like silver 4 now

>>934057
nah dude the ranks are fixed now.. iw as gold nova 2 and now im LE. and thats after not touching the game for 2 years

>>934057
no. If anything the game is probably easier now.

>>933857
Why have you forsaken me...

>>933715
faceit is fucked. even level 2 will have LEMs in it, or level 10s smurfing with their friends. and then, sometimes, it is like walking into an aim trainer map and you can just fuck the other team. shit's weird.

>>908472
4:3 only exists because of legacy pros and newfags trying to look cool. Lots of new pros play on native. Use whatever feels better, but if you're new then nothing will feel good. Start stacking hours in dm, kz, and don't forget to play actual counterstrike from time to time.

>>923619
there are only 2 angles required to be held. if all the T's buy smokes and molotovs it's an absolute turtle fest

>update drivers
>verify game files
>uninstall and reinstall
>vac still can't verify my session
wtf is going on

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>>933411
none of that distortion bs matters, only the fov which is samaller in 4:3 and you'll literally not see shit on the corners of your screen.
people get used to the "distortion" and the fact it makes everything looks like it's going fast is exactly the reason pros and most people play in 4:3 stretched.
they want that feel and are used to it.
also that coupled with the fact that back in the day monitors would only go up in HZ WHEN you decreased the resolution, so people would get a double feel of things being "faster" with the big models actually moving faster on screen and the higher HZ.
all that is "feeling" tho, if you're a new playing for the love of god play on 16:9.

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CS2 will not gain any new players into the game if the hacker issue isn't addressed at all. Without prime tryst factor shit it's about a hacker every 3 games. With it there's about 1 every 10-15. Pretty embarrassing

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Help I keep tying games and ranking up despite bottom fragging with garbage scores. What the fuck is going on I'm tying half my games and almost never losing

>>935363
who the fuck knows how all of this works, I ranked up on one tie then deranked on other

after reinstalling my PC using Nvidia drivers I can't change my scaling mode to 4 by 3 aspect ratio without black bars anyone for same issue?

>>935319
get prime stoopid. free 2 play is for actual third worlders

>>935319
Based Borachinho.

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>>935319
your point is literally irrelevant considering the hacker problem is what it is right now and csgo is still growing like crazy.
despite you morons like to complain like idiots all day about the "hacker problem" it actually isn't that big of a problem.
it only affects those who are poor or who would be prone to hacking anyway.
if you buy the game(isn't poor) and isn't a troll retard with a low trust score(prone to hacking yourself) you'll get great games with non poor people who are not prone to trolling or hacking.
the system works.
cope about it poor niggas.

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>>935363
the current elo system its based off of if you win or lose so your individual performance doesn't matter and if you're constantly winning despite being a bottom frag you're probably contributing in some way that is helping your team win atleast
however you are quite low ranked so bottom fragging is pretty significant so you might be on a lucky streak or something
in higher ranks unless you're severely anchoring the team bottom fragging is okay because of the non measurable ways on the scoreboard you can contribute to your teams success like getting info/map control nade support and being being traded efficiently and making your top fraggers life as easy as possible so they can keep on fragging

>>935682
one of these options in the nvidia control panel in pic should solve your issue
dont know which one so you're going to have to fuck around and figure that out on your own

>>935319
i cheat on prime with a full 5 man cheater team.
there are lots and lots of people like me.
>With it there's about 1 every 10-15
lmao are you blind? its way more than that.

>>935860
>the current elo system its based off of if you win or lose so your individual performance doesn't matter
that's literally not true dumb ass

>>935933
yea i have a prime steam acc from 2004 wtih over 200 games and i played csgo for the first time to see what rank i would get with the new update... i had a cheater toggling on my team first game lol

>>875822
new honor system weeds out a lot of the cheaters
also NA ranks are legit now
i picked up csgo last fall after months of not playing and i've been enjoying it greatly. i mostly play with gentlemen, no toddlers, great team spirit

>>935936
oh no your team avg level vs opponent avg lvl is a BIG factor yo assess elo after a game

>>936023
you said individual performance doesn't matter when we know for a fact the points and mvps are what matters the most when it comes to you ranking up or not.
and that's also why people rank up even when they tie.
you're literally retarded.

>>936025
ties counts as wins thats why you get elo and can rank up
if you had to do well to rank up fast boosting and carrying wouldn't be a thing
you probably get an extra elo bump if you're doing well but winning the match is the biggest contributor to elo and winning as the underdog is going to get you the most elo

>>936071
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7p3I7DmX1M

>>935933
I'm only mg2 and it feels about 1 in 10 games but ig it's hard to tell. Sucks grinding to get all progress removed by a hacker 16-0ing you. I should stop solo queuing
>>935763
I have it retard I'm upper American

>>936071
csgo uses glicko2 which not only is heavily based on how good you do in a match but also how you play across multiple games and how often you play and a billion other things.
that's why there's a matchmaking cooldown when you're first doing competitive, the system has to calibrate to how you play.
the system is a lot more complex than you think and this >>936025 guy is right.
points are directly related to how much "elo" you get but it's not really elo since the system is glicko.
basically, just watch the warowl video.
>>936075

Don't talk like you understand cs ranking system if you can't understand this:
http://www.glicko.net/glicko/glicko2.pdf

>>875776
How do I get good? I see people running around with rifles and immediately killing me despite there being a huge penalty to accuracy when running. I don't get it

>>936116
they stop right before shooting and kill you then keep moving so to you it looks like they are running like maniacs.
That's called counter strafing
also they are probably pre aiming and shooting where you were which would make it look even crazier from your perspective.
learn counter strafing and common spots to pre aim.

>>935860
that's the issue those options aren't available on my Nvidia control panel after the reinstall anymore

>>936357
maybe theres like a show advanced options or something you're missing?

>>936701
Could be although I doubt it I've tried a lot of different things from googling the issue e.g some tool called CRU and reinstalling the drivers but to no avail

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With about a million concurrent players how is it possible that sometimes I can only get into casual matches that have bots filling team slots?

>>936899
Europe btw

I just want to execute all the selfish low iq faggots that play this game. Doesn't matter if it is faceit or not. They usually have shit opinions and only care about muh kdr when they are dogshit at the game and make tons of mistakes

>>936902
>2:37 AM CET
Because mostly everyone is asleep in eu?

>>936899
Probably not a lot of people play casual. You might have better luck using the community server browser

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ALWAYS Rush B
NEVER Stop

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>>933146

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>Deathmatching
>Running through prefire map guides
>Recoil and aim workshop maps
>Using good comms
>The more I play, the more I derank
I've dropped like 5 ranks since playing again. Is everyone a god or am I just retarded. This is the only fps game I don't perform well in. I'm about to uninstall because the more I play, the worse my rank gets with no progress in sight. Fuck this shit.

>>896002
People who complain about this are all aim and no brain.
Here's a test for you.

4v2, you're post plant.
Your team wants to set up good crossfires and contact plays but some idiot on your team got 2 kills earlier and is going for CT to get his 4k clip.
Based on the last known locations of the enemy, you're close enough to double up with him but close enough to safely set up the post.

What do you do?

>>935319
People with bad game sense can't detect walls.
It's more like 1 in 3 games there's a cheater on the enemy team. 1 in 2 if you're counting teammates.

Just try to play more off/rat angles and see how many times you get mollied off.

>>939136
>Just try to play more off/rat angles and see how many times you get mollied off.
I find this hilarious. Or when your team tries to walk out a site and the CTs start using all their util, smokes, mollies, nades, the whole gamut. Then in the next round, your team doesn't send a single player to that lane and you hear it's dead silent.

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>>938643
>overpass
>rushing B through monster
>IM THROWING A FLASHBANG
>flashbang is thrown into the exact same place we're going and blinds everyone on our team
>some faggot stops at the end of the tunnel, blocking the path
>enemy comes and kills half our team
>this happens every time in every game I'm in at least once

I'm so used to getting flashed by my team that it is genuinely shocking to me when I get flashed by an opponent

>>877056
34 too, And the Brain game is why I'm coming back.
Once you figure out the core gameplay mechanics, you realize it's much more of a chess match than anything else.

When we win I'm bottom fragging, when we lose I'm top fragging. It's always the same

>>939672
aslong as your reaction time is at or below 200ms and you have good hand eye coordination you should be able to physically play at a high level
i think getting "old" and having your reaction time decrease is a bit of a myth if you're not some sort of geriatric and aslong as you train it which you will just by playing cs you will be able to maintain your reaction time or maybe even improve it
i also think that a lot of new people having slow reaction time is just their brain being overloaded with information and as you play more you'll get more efficient at recognizing and processing information
but the game is very enjoyable once youre playing at the level where people understand the plays and the strategy matters because everyone can shoot well instead of muh k/d

>>939964
Reaction time is overrated anyway. People will score 180ms on human benchmark but if you actually look at their shots in game it can reach 300-500ms before they start moving their crosshair, because they were simply not mentally prepared when holding an angle.
Like you said, if they can focus all their brain power towards going for the shot, even a boomer can headshot faster than a zoomer on adderall. I know this because I am that boomer.

Good crosshair placement, positioning, peeking technique, they can all carry the slowest geriatric aimer so far.

>>875776
A lot of good players will seem like cheaters to the uninitiated. Any loud noise you make they are gonna know exactly where you are. Any area you rush to they will know the possible timings and what corner to pre aim early in matches.

They might even know cheeky awp wall bangs like vent to b bomb site nuke, some overpass wall bangs from b site-t spawn or vertigo elevators that seem straight up cheater shit but it's not.

They'll be able to trace exactly where you are if you unsupressed fire through smokes or are running through the smoke making noise.

It is kind of a meme but really most the time your opponent is just having a good day.

That being said if you really curious about who gets banned over time go to a site like csgostats to check your played with history, there is a filter for people that have been banned and it is depressing to look at. You will a handful of people you remember calling out for cheating there and be like i knew that little bastard wasn't actually good at the game.

>>877591
Every CSGO pro team cheats nowaday, the worst have been NAVI, ASTRALIS (up to 5 players activating during a major), Virtus pro, G2 tryed to do not cheat to much but in the end you have to. Zywoo went selected because he can cheat undetected not less.

You can't prevent cheatings on online games event if you put a game in a cloud server you still have a way to create an aimbot that read the screen clientside. If you wanna enjoy CSGO create your own dedicated server with friends and don't go further.

And cheating is good for esport because that create a GOOD SHOW it's like the WWE.

>>940216
le webm reposting anon has arrived
there's no point arguing with this person, he admitted on /v/ that he never played csgo

>>939141
bro juist close your eyes

>>940314
Le famous mouse stuck under the keyboard each time the crosshair stop nearby an enemy at always the same offset through the wall, has arrived.

at what ELO can you say a player is seriously good?

Why do I have wildly different stats on every different stat tracking site?

>>940713
i dunno what do you mean by seriously good because thats subjective
my metrics would be you start really playing the game at 2k and 3k you're "seriously good" and 4k+ is pro
anything below 2k is learning the basics honestly

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>>935363
Well after 2 weeks of never getting a positive score I finally ranked down

>>941174
it's not about your kills or deaths moron, it's your points.
the max "mmr" you can get caps at 25 points, even on that last game you're close to the max points.

>>941224
>the max "mmr" you can get caps at 25 points
I never heard this before, whered you get this information? It's pretty rare that anyone gets much below 25 points in a game

>>941247
go research how the ranking system works before posting these tired ass posts everyone is fed up with dumb ass.
>look I tied and ranked up
>i'm doing "bad" and don't rank down
do you want a cookie nigger, that's how the system works.
stop posting that shit, it's annoying.

>>941174
wait you mean when you were winning games you were ranking up and now you're losing games you ranked down?
amazing
listen nobody really knows how the elo is actually calculated but if you WIN you will never lose elo and if you LOSE you will never gain elo regardless of your performance and if you deranked on a win/tie its most likely a desync issue where your rank wasn't updated on time to your client and you were already deranked in your previous game or you were queuing with cheaters recently and they got banned and elo got reverted

>>940988
i have a friend who has 3900 ELO and always carries me in MM, but i didn't know how good that is in the grand scheme of things since i don't play FaceIT or know anything about high level CS. seems like he's really good then.

>>941308
its a little weird to try to quantify ELO in relation to pro players because professional play is a different animal compared to pugging but 3.9k is very good
good enough to play in tier 2 team

>>940988
>game at 2k and 3k you're "seriously good" and 4k+ is pro
>anything below 2k
Hours?
>>941308
>>941312
How do you find your ELO? Didn't know you could get an exact number behind the ranks.

>>941361
they are talking abou faceit, there it literally shows you your ELO.
MM doesn't have ELO because doesn't use the ELO system it's Glicko2.

>>941263
>go research how the ranking system works
I have and nothing ever mentioned whatever the fuck you're talking out your ass about

>>941361
ELO not hours
theres no real way to find out your matchmaking elo but from my experience the people in my MM games that are LEM are around faceit elo 1250~1700 and SMFC to globals are around faceit elo 1700~2200
however MM is horrible at the highest ranks and the quality of games are incredibly volatile
the gap from LEM to SMFC is also huge which I think is a result from the rank recalibration shoving alot of players into LEM so the average at LEM is more around the 1500 mark and the average of a "real" SMFC is more around 1800 mark
theres alot of "fake" smfc and globals that just 5 stack maps like office/train and farm elo off of novas/mgs

>>875776
play with friends. even if its just one or two. thats the only way to have fun in this game. i climbed from gold 1 to supreme with a friend just because we talked and gave info to each other, even though my aim is objectively dog shit. solo queue is garbage and filled with retards

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>>941263
Just for you, ranked up again

>>941735
my guys is hardstuck nova 1-2 and thinks this shit is interesting to post
lmao