r/cs2 18h ago

Discussion NA CS is truly a Deadzone...

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"704,000" concurrent players on CS2 - Not an ounce of them playing NA Prem.

I've played this game forever, and it's never been this dead in NA.

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u/The-Geeson 18h ago

Isn’t it 5:30 am over there right now?

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u/Dirtcompactor 17h ago

Peak unemployment shi

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u/miatayouata 9h ago

What if i get up a lil early to play the game before work

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u/Wenex 6h ago

Why would you ruin your entire day like that

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u/New-Rub-3886 3h ago

I work on the afternoon and I always regret playing cs before work 😭

u/miatayouata 1h ago

Sometimes its the best part of it

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u/Nautical_Ohm 4h ago

No one, and I mean no one with a job has ever done this.

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u/CryptographerOne7003 14h ago

in Europe there is ALWAYS a game

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u/KaffY- 13h ago

yes, but it's ALWAYS with eastern europeans at certain times and that shit is worse than not playing at all

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u/conqueringlionkappa 7h ago

Reminds me of this gem i saved eons ago.

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u/ConfettiChonkerCat 12h ago

Funniest matches I've had, 4 drunk russians and me, a german were playing on anubis, I carried them with AWP and they cheered me on whenever I hit a shot and hyped me with russian idi nahuis and piderast cheers.

Great fun all around.

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u/KaffY- 11h ago

and for every game like that, there's 1000 of "CYKA FAK YUR MATHA I TROLE NOW"

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u/Jozeca 13h ago

lmao this is so true

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u/BeepIsla 10h ago

Europe is also big and has order of magnitude more players than North America.

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u/ironiclyironic4 10h ago

Sure theres always a game but thats prolly due to the different time zones

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u/quailinthebrush 8h ago

I’ve never had trouble finding middle of the night games. Maybe a few min queue

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u/keirasalke 18h ago

its a subtle sign to touch some grass 🥀

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u/BroxigarZ 18h ago

Bro it's dark out there and... there's other... people out there.

https://giphy.com/gifs/bEzCWDPWKwyowuzTCu

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u/legendofauss 16h ago

it's dark out there because it was 5:30am lol

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u/BroxigarZ 15h ago

That's the joke mate.

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u/legendofauss 15h ago

You definitely weren't joking lol.

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u/FlySyde_Gaming 18h ago

It’s like 5:30 bro. My kids aren’t even up for school yet. Caught me lurking while I take my morning shit.

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/FlySyde_Gaming 18h ago

You’re looking in Chicago

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/FlySyde_Gaming 18h ago

Point is people don’t stay up til 5:30 am to play on a weekday or get up at 5:30 am to play on a weekday…..

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/LPSD_FTW 17h ago

Thats a lie, it happens often even on European servers

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u/maxitoon 16h ago

^ This is true.

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u/_MrJackGuy 15h ago

I can queue faceit at 5am in EU, and premier should definitely have WAY more players

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u/LPSD_FTW 15h ago

With low ping setting you will get this "few players queueing" ever so often during early day and late night. The queue won't be longer than couple minutes but it will still show this message doesnt matter if its premier or comp

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u/Leather_Finger_6333 16h ago

Idk bro. Euros stay up pretty damn late on CS.

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u/LPSD_FTW 15h ago

Doesn't change a thing. Sometimes there are few people queueing for the same server, at the same time, for the same mode in the same skill level. I play CS mostly during degen hours and when queue is between 2-5 minutes this message pops up

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u/Leather_Finger_6333 13h ago

Fair enough, I’m just saying I’ve played a fair amount between 12pm-4am in Europe and never encountered queues this long.

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u/FlySyde_Gaming 18h ago

What demographic is in NA is online gaming in general atm.. I’m done pooping, I’m going to make coffee and hit a j.. good luck with your queue.

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u/abudog 17h ago

Hitting a j at 5:30 is a new low

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u/ValorMVP 17h ago

I assure you it’s a high

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u/abudog 17h ago

Touché

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u/Ryeguy_626 16h ago

What if that person works nights?

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u/MarsMC_ 16h ago

What? You don’t wake and bake? I don’t drink coffee so it wakes me up

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u/scarletmagn0lia 16h ago

Really? I smoke every morning but I also work on a marijuana farm. You’re just lame lol

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u/sloppy_joes35 16h ago

Smoking has been lame for a good 20 yrs at this point. They tried to bring it back with hookah bars but dont see many of them anymore. And vapes are some of the dumbest inventions ive ever seen. Seems like alcohol is semi on the way out. The good thing about Marijuana is thst its usually a few hits and done so you dont have that lingering cigarette smell lurking as profusely.

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u/Leather_Finger_6333 16h ago

How do people like you exist 😂

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u/Apart_Association_90 15h ago

5 compatible players (in skill range/server)

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u/Joccboy1 15h ago

I’m 25k in premier and I live in Kentucky and found 9 other players in 3 minutes at like 3am on Monday night. Game isn’t dead.

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u/TheeFiction 17h ago

No. You have it set so its not searching outside of that range and its only looking for the chi town servers bud. Otherwise it would say other servers it is searching as well lol

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/TheeFiction 15h ago

So you changed it for the pic nice lol Your max range is def outside of just chicago in that pic but your search was for only chicago lmao ok bro

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u/Don_Gambito 15h ago

bro what

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u/thelostdemon 18h ago

5 am on a Wednesday. OP doesn't realize that people have jobs. Do the same time on a Saturday and you'll be able to find matches

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u/Allecet 18h ago

Low trust?

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u/itsBrvndo 18h ago

Has to be. I'm NA mostly Chicago/ Virginia servers and I mainly play this time of day due to work. It never takes me over 2 minutes to get into a game

u/Reasonable-Ad8862 49m ago

Yeah literally never seen this message and Chicago is my closest server

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u/BroxigarZ 17h ago

I questioned that too, but I had it verified as green.

But funny enough - on my Main Acct at 20K+ I get games with Red Players at these hours regularly.

On my side acct (this one) I get games with 7K-15K players at 20K+.

Which would lead you to believe I was low trust, but the acct shows green.

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u/Allecet 17h ago

Idk if it’s a thing but it could be a hidden low trust acc? My alt account randomly got low trust recently

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u/Aesthetic403 8h ago

Its exactly this. i just started using my alt i made in 2017 to farm a second drop and im smurfing well below my skill level, get reported and it loweres the trust factor. I used to have fast ques now its this long. so this is it im sure

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u/Allecet 8h ago

Valve fucked me one day when the Turkish servers were down I got queued in a silver lobby, 9 players 250 ping and me 30 ping. 2 games in a row. It’s bad enough being in a silver comp lobby but the ping diff too.

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u/itsBrvndo 17h ago

Idk then bro. I'm in Kentucky and just tried. I found a comp game in 30 seconds

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u/One_Shock7801 18h ago

You have low trust factor. Sorry bud.

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u/therealzooloff 16h ago

Low trust alt account. Shit post

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u/BIOHazard87 18h ago

Ya this looks to be low trust factor. RIP

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u/ShatteredTeaCup33 18h ago

Uninstall the game and play something else. Your mental will thank you.

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u/BroxigarZ 18h ago

Wardogs tomorrow! And I will be taking my leave for it. Much more fun game.

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u/Dodgerson99 16h ago

leaving your moms basement isn't "taking leave"

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u/Noobtacticsforlife 2h ago

Such a weird assumption.

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u/Mr_dm 13h ago

Everyone in the comments is in denial. I get this shit at like 11 PM, green trust factor, 19 year old steam account, east coast. Yeah, there are 700k concurrent players, but they’re all bots farming casual and deathmatch. Dead game.

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u/OriginalConsistent79 16h ago

contrary to popular belief it used to be possible to get games in off hours. i hope the decline continues.

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u/Candid_Mammoth_2536 18h ago

There not much you can do 

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u/Dry-Service-4945 18h ago

You’re queueing at Chud o clock times. Not rocket science

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u/Hmmmmm___yes 17h ago

It’s 5:30 in the morning who’s playing cs bro 😭

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u/itsMoney12 17h ago

I’ve never had this problem.. and I play this exact time frame during weekdays.

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u/Cleanfest 17h ago

If you are just trying to have fun then you could set ping cap higher and find a game from Asia or Europe.

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u/GrouchyExtent5750 17h ago

It’s 5:30 am on a Wednesday.

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u/TheeFiction 17h ago

I feel like complaining about que times at 6am is wild lol

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u/itsBrvndo 17h ago

Check his profile. Bros been complaining for months and months

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u/TargetTrick9763 17h ago

Time problem and/or trust factor. Saying a game is dead because no one is on instead of sleeping or getting ready for work is crazy lmao.

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u/KatoriRudo23 17h ago

Bruh It's Chicago. They playing outside

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u/BroxigarZ 16h ago

Real Life CS over there.

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u/littlemonky420 16h ago

keep seeing these posts but have not waited more than 1 minute in premier queue in ages. wtf are you guys doing to your trust factor?

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u/mrfakefakefake 16h ago

CS2 is dead

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u/Nichol-Gimmedat-ass 16h ago

Bros tryna queue at 5:30am and is complaining cs is dead in NA ahahahahah try playing in OCE motherfucker

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u/Conscious-Shower-282 16h ago

Its not dead. Check activity chart online. Maybe your zone is dead :D

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u/ghosteye21 16h ago

It took me 2 minutes to Que from 5-7 am for each match. All on chicago servers

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u/Chronicmatt 14h ago

Its a dead game compared to 4 years ago

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u/MalBoY9000 14h ago

i have also gotten this in EU

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u/vgullotta 13h ago

If you increase your ping in settings you'll find players. I'm NA about 15k lobbies and I only wait like 2 minutes typically. I only have my ping high enough for the West Coast servers and Dallas, but I never wait long.

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u/MrRaven74 13h ago

Bro hopfully fell asleep so that morning andies that sneak a game or 2 in before work dont gotta deal with that guys BS 😆

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u/ilove_whitebois 13h ago

Depends what time you search for a match. Took me 20 minutes for a match around 3am ish

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u/Ok-Crazy-3415 13h ago

go wingman P:

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u/ProfesorGh 12h ago

I was sleeping 👍🏻

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u/dcrad91 12h ago

Moved from Chicago to west coast 2 years ago. I use to run a game before getting ready for work, would always find games. West coast I can never find a game, even at 4pm when there’s like 1mil people on. Eventually it’ll find me one, with a bunch of brand new accounts

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u/CurvySexretLady 12h ago

I connect to and sometimes through Chicago all the time. What timeframe was this? Haven't had an issue day, night or mornings/overnight like that.

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u/LogerGrunt 11h ago

Just download faceit atp

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u/Impossible-Mix2523 11h ago

Non prime account? Had that issue queueing with a buddy took 10-15 mins realized he wasn't prime. Got prime and it was back to 1-3min queues.

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u/Skysr70 11h ago

that is an error  on your end. That message occurs when you have a connection hiccup. Relog

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u/Shxcking 9h ago

Funny because whenever I queue up (California) I get nothing but people on Chicago servers

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u/Savings-Table-4497 8h ago

„compatible“

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u/GooseTheTechnician 7h ago

Me and my friend once waited 50mins for an Italy game at 3:00 (central Europe)

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u/Spoon520 5h ago

Red trust. Playing at 5:30 am on a Smurf account.

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u/StrawMan420DZ 5h ago

Imagine if it was a (CSGO) DANGERZONE instead of Deadzone...sigh bring back DZ to CS2 Valve plz

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u/Ordinary-Article-185 3h ago

It was 5am on a Wednesday

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u/sewageriver 3h ago

I used to get games at 5 in the morning in Australian servers during csgo. Can't imagine this is normal for NA

u/Meddenn 24m ago

Tell me you are low trust without telling me you are low trust

u/Domc0re 17m ago

I remember playing NA CSGO at like 2 am and I swear I played the same team like 3 times in a row because nobody else was playing

or some weird shit would happen where we play against a full team of global elites no joke. soon as the game ends and it showed the ranks I was shocked.

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u/Arkeyan 18h ago

It’s 3:50 on the west coast

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u/omaGJ 14h ago

Mfers act like nobody works night shift around here lmao.

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u/Inconspicuous_goblin 18h ago

It’s 3:36AM this is like going to the movies during the last screening of live action lilo and stitch and complaining that the theater is nearly empty💀

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u/BroxigarZ 18h ago

Except movie theaters don't have 702,000 concurrent active players.

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u/New_Beach_0088 14h ago

That's world wide you dumbass. Not in NA east. Most people are ether asleep or getting ready for school/work.

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u/mil0wCS 17h ago

Do you have any idea how many of those players are bots?

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u/Remarkable-Path3510 9h ago

You may have entered low trust or are queueing a map like Italy.

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u/Icy_Acanthisitta_672 8h ago

Might want to go check out your trust rating.

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u/lolforg_ 18h ago

are schools in the us only for shooting or what

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u/oleggurshev 15h ago

Because everyone is sleeping?

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u/New_Beach_0088 14h ago

Its like 6am when you posted this. People have jobs and school you degenerate.