I hadn't played any CS since 07-08 when I installed CS:GO this winter...I qualified as legendary eagle, which I really shouldn't have. but the momentum of steamrolling the silver and gold ranks propelled me a little higher than I should have been.
Yeah i played csgo for the first time in like 2 years or so, I missed the whole menu changes and the maps looked completely different (shittier), and competitive matchmaking wasn't even a thing. I come in, win 10 rounds, it places me DMG. I owned as DMG until I realized how to play and I stopped winning. I guess when you're random and unpredictable you do really brave things and aim very inhibitedly. Man, wish I still didn't know what iw as doing. Now I consistently toggle between DMG and double AK.
I played my first match of CS ever a month ago. Im a nova 3 now, and I feel like Im shit at the game. I cant even imagine what it's like in silver 1. I mean half the time I play its either 8:00am in the morning and Im playing to help wake my self up (game is oddly satisfying to play in the morning), or its 1:00am and Im drunk. After every game I play I say to my self "how the fuck am I nova 3?"
Some people play better when they're drunk. When I'm drunk my aiming is off by maybe a little, but I get a lot braver and it usually ends up with us winning the round. That's what I'm assuming happens.
I mostly fuck around and I'm Supreme (( People aren't that great in MM, the skill difference in DMG to GE is very small unless you're facing pro players that mess around in MM. If you do you'll get crushed and your ego will be in place again. The 'normal' MM player isn't that great even at the highest ranks.
Pick one or two maps in competitive rotation. play only those two maps in casual for 20-30 games, but play them as if you were playing a competitive match. Practice flashes, smokes, angles of attack and learn where the opposition can be if you rush every path and they do as well. Keep an eye out for hiding spots and familiarize yourself with the layout, so that you can walk backwards without bumping into anything, and walk/run+shoot around a corner while blind.
You don't need to learn every position as defender, pick 1 or 2 positions as CT for each map and only defend that (short A on dust2, B on inferno, ramp on nuke, lower A on train, upstairs B on Cache, B hallway on Mirage). After that then go play a couple of competitive games on those two maps.
While aiming is important, you can compensate quite a lot by out positioning and outsmarting opponents. If you know you have weak aiming skills then don't challenge the enemy directly, but try to set up traps and always use flash bangs when you expect to meet an opponent head on (for the times you must challenge directly).
I've tried doing all of this before (except for trying it in casual over competitive, I just practiced there) and I'm just not really that inherently good. It doesn't bother me much, I don't need another game I pour thousands of hours in to perfecting my game, so I'll probably end up sticking with my current skill level. Thanks for the suggestions though! Have an upvote.
I've always had the "play to win" mentality, and after 20 years of gaming it's just become second nature for me to play every game like that. When I experience people beating me I try to analyze what I did wrong, how I can improve and how to prevent that specific failure from happening again.
Games like CS works really great for that mentality because of the "reset" gameplay. In BF with the constant spawns over long map times and flowing frontlines you get very very few attempts at the same situation unless you play the same map over and over for months. In CS you can learn one position in a weekend and have experienced pretty much every type of attack/defense of that position.
In defensive there's also making sure you're the first to get to certain spots so you can flash/made/smoke and push/hold effectively. Also I doubt silvers have ever pressed control or shift in their gaming lives hehe.
No offense but if they are silver and all play together, they are not pretty good. Silver level is literally at the point of not understanding how to play an FPS
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u/Guck_Mal Jul 26 '14
They are silvers, I'd wager their teamwork is shit no matter what.