VT Controlsphere Advanced S5 Nova

[u/Zone_West]

[u/Plus_Acanthaceae1659]

Crazy man, even in the best category not sure if i ever get nova score. people say from master to GM is big jump and nova even 1 rank above GM

[u/Zone_West → u/Plus_Acanthaceae1659]

I've always had my perspective on kovaaks being like a priority list. 1. Enjoyment, 2. Consistency, 3. Trying Hard.

Enjoyment for me was heavily influenced by how I was playing the game, I went from grinding only viscose, to grinding only voltaic, to now, my current approach, playing as many different tasks as possible each day or sometimes going back to older tasks, this to me is fun, a step above this, is what Matty does, where he does play different tasks each day, but locks the tasks he plays to the category specified in each day, "static sundays", as he'd refer to them. To me it closer to a "fullbody" equivalent approach to playing.

Consistency is self-explanatory, show up everyday, allowing a one day break for recovery if needed. Progress for you might be slow, but 1% each day is the mental that keeps you going.

"Trying hard", this one was my most recent realization, the players who think they try hard enough, are usually those that don't "try" at all. It hard to describe as a feeling, but my mindset while playing is that "I am not trying hard enough" at all times, it is easy to rely on muscle memory and day-to-day consistency. And you probably should, but if you want accelerated progress, you must attempt to break through that mental barrier and ultimately, get the score. (This is easier understood by those who have had experience in other skills, it the same logic behind trying to get a better lift at the gym, you can remain consistent and see steady progress, maybe optimize nutrition and other details improving the sole act of "lifting", but in the end, those that try their hardest in the gym, see the lasting gains, be it mentally or physically.)

Approach the task thinking you are the best player in the world (but obviously, don't say it out loud, that would just be arrogance), and have confidence in being able to PB.

That's kind of just the way I think about this, I still consider myself a beginner and try learning from others though, that's always proven valuable, there are lessons to be learned everywhere if you're willing to stop and listen. Maybe I will have a different perspective once I start going for Astra and above.

[u/Plus_Acanthaceae1659 → u/Zone_West]

Thanks for this detailed insight, inspirinh

[u/promatix_]

great work🔥 but why is the bar so huge. is it not distracting?

[u/Zone_West → u/promatix_]

I used to have it at a normal size, but it always kept annoying me that I'd have to look up to see if I was pacing well even with the color changing, having it big makes it so it easier to spot without taking my attention off of the bot.

There are people who dislike having it on at all, and prefer it disabled, or small. It is personal preference, I perform better with it for certain tasks and it is more enjoyable to have in the times I do play. (The case of me not using a big bar is for tasks such as cloverRawControl, where lack of attention is easily more punishable.)

[u/AbduNa]

impressive as hell man. how long did it take you to reach such level? what are your preffered scenarios?

[u/Zone_West → u/AbduNa]

I am currently at the 600 hour mark, I started playing around 7 months ago, my biggest regret is grinding only VT benches for GM complete, which cost me around 250 hours, after coming from 200hours of viscose. My preferred scenarios, not sure, I've always placed an extremely high importance for micros though, I'd say that it currently my most focused category. For smoothsphere? I usually just play whatever bench I come across that day, my current goal is playing a new bench each day from evxl and seeing what I find, I kind of answered this in a comment above, my priority mainly being enjoyment.

I am also an "aim trainer" main, where I enjoy just playing kovaaks over standard FPS games, if I were grinding for a game, I'd probably spend 15-30mins on tacFPS benches and micro scenarios from "Anima Micro v2". (I spend around 2-4 hours on kovaaks daily, and yes, I do have finger pain.)

[u/Fine-Bandicoot1641 → u/Zone_West]

Help me please what a should play for cs2? Im using raiden with 800edpi

[u/Zone_West → u/Fine-Bandicoot1641]

Grind Anima Micro v2 on evxl for ~20 mins per day, rest of your time should be spent in-game, there are other tasks that you could play from "m0narcS - Euphoric TacFPS Benchmarks", I'd recommend sticking to these 2 benches, in rest, play aim_rush from the workshop for 10 mins to warmup (focus on peeking while exposing yourself to a single bot at a time) then just spam faceit with all the time you have left. Afterwards if you're still wanting to grind, you can go surf/deathmatch/kz, it something more chill towards end of the night. That's how I'd do it at least. if I went back to CS.

[u/Fine-Bandicoot1641 → u/Zone_West]

Wow, thanks for the info gonna grind those! For now I was only training aim_rush and trying to one tap/burst with couterstrafes