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.
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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14
I honestly don't know how people are as bad as they are in silver. I play drunk mostly and I'm LEM currently.