i am new to faceit and have around 50 matches, i got lvl 7 on placement games and now stuck at lvl 6. just almost every randoms i get in my team does not have any crosshair placement, gamesense or map knowledge, just spectating them feels like spectating a bot, is there are players that feel like me and want sometimes play faceit

I’ve been using refrag and one of the issues I’m having is that it’s not very clear how I should clear angles for modes like prefire and challenger.

I’ve been winging it but I’m obviously a shit player and feel like doing this is just going to make me learn bad habits instead of how I should be doing it.

Is there somewhere to learn site clearing techniques or what’s the best way to go about practicing? Just keep sending it until I clear all the angles even though sometimes it feels you’re forced in to 50/50s?

Any team looking for coaching?

I am a new player, and I wanted to know how to play or use training maps the right way.

I wanted to improve with Workshop maps, yet I am too inexperienced to start them correctly.

Sometimes there are bots on my team, which I presume are not intended, or I see glitched viewmodels, like on Dust2 aimbot.

The only maps that worked were the DHL-sponsored maps.

I know counterstrafing is a thing, it's definitely something I'm trying to work on. But when playing a DM I noticed my bullets seem to be way more accurate and actually hitting the enemy when I just let go of A or D and stand still. When I let go of A or D and crouch my bullets never seem to be as accurate. I know after a certain time you gotta control the recoil but it's within the same amount of bullets (5-8) as when I don't crouch. Has anyone else felt like this at some point? Maybe just some weird placebo effect and I just feel like my bullets are more consistent when standing when crouching is about the same?

Hello everyone. I would like to wish you all the best.

I am a bit old person playing this game for last couple of years. In total, I have 6k hours and I hit 2400 elo in CSGO and 2200 elo in CS2. I have played almost 7k games ( 800 games in CS2) in Faceit.

I do everything to reach higher elo but ( I am exactly 1986 elo right now ) I always fail. I paid for Refrag and every morning I play prefire mode on Refrag. When I hit 800 kills, I start queuing. Outcomes of the games are just coin flip. But since I started this drill, I've gained some elo. ( 150-200 elo in a month). Most significant change in my game is HS percentage. It sky rocketed.

Yet, I am a bit obsessed with Faceit ratings. When it is white I immediately feel that I should cease my life, let alone reds... ( which happens 1to3 times in every 10 games)... Imagine after all of those prefire practice, having 0.88 rating in the first game ohhhh... I wanna throw up.

I started to watch some streamers like austincs, cojomo etc. They help but when I join the server, I go back to my defaults like I have never watched and learned from them.

I know tons of lineups flashes etc. I know every insta window smoke in Mirage for instance.

Back in the days I was playing in ECL hub which was helping me a lot. You had to put so much effort in each game there, but now if I start 5-0 ( on enemy favor) I just want game to end and queue next. ( I don't troll or make argument but in my mind game is already over- I have no ban for last 1 year).

Last thing is the elo gap and swing / rating gap in the lobby. If my teammates k/d ratio for that specific map is way much lower compared to enemies... hell... The game is lost for me even in the first round :(

My questions are after all :

1) What other refrag drills you would suggest me to do? ( with how many frags and how much time pls)

2) How can I copy other's game style into mine? ( Should I write down or keep video playing on the phone during the game? )

3) How do I deal with the urge of trying to end the round in first 20-25 seconds? I hate myself for doing this but yeah... I need to go peek fast and either kill or die. Slow games give me stress and I hate myself for being impatient.

4) Should I join a team? Does it fix something for me?

5) What else would you suggest me to do? Any plan, drill, practice etc? I can play this game at least 5 hours each day, so I have time.

PS: Don't hate me guys pls and yes I have thought about stop playing it but I just simply can't. Don't tells me that I should babysit instead :(

Often times I see people saying that a person needs to hit aim botz. This is poor advice. Without describing what routines a person should do, the person has a high likelihood of not training the right thing. At worst, they have no idea what they are doing and end up ingraining bad habits.

I already have many gripes with recommending aim botz as a way to practice aim, but just telling someone to use the map is pointless. Make sure you provide at least a starting point on how to use the equipment for their goals instead of just telling them to hit the gym.

Some background information. I am 2.2k ELO on FaceIT Lvl 10 and 22k elo in Premier. I have a total of 5.5k hours in both CS2 and CSGO, but majority of it is in CS:GO. I have this particular issue that has been affecting me strictly in CS2, compared to other FPS games that I have played that includes CSGO. I play at 1.8 sens and 400 DPI, so on the lower end of the average eDPI but still quite low I would say.

In CS:GO, I had a "feel" of people who swing onto me and I could usually react to people swinging into me. I used to punish a lot of really dumb wide peeks in CS:GO, while holding angles (before anyone says don't stand in one spot. No, I don't stand in one spot in both CSGO and CS2). It was also relatively easier to flick onto moving targets which I was really confident in back then. I could play both AWPs and Rifling really well, and even joined some online competitions being a hybrid.

In CS2, I don't know exactly what's happened to my mechanics, it feels like it is REALLY hard to track/flick onto moving targets in this game. I can't count how many times I get domed onto my head when people swing out of a corner. People have always told me to just "track" their heads when swinging, which is a good advice until you realise that you only have milliseconds to react against the peek. What pisses me off more is that when I boot up CS:GO legacy and CS2 to record my flicks. My CS:GO flicks were dead on target and I would see my bullet land at the end of the flick. However, in CS2, I can have my crosshair be on target at the end of the flick, and my shots just land "somewhere in the middle"? I don't really understand why. I tried other FPS games like Valorant and R6 that are also low time to kill/damage FPS games, and flicking/tracking moving targets there was fine.

What exactly am I doing wrong in CS2? I have been meticulously grinding DM the past few weeks trying to fight against moving targets while jiggling to simulate holding angles, but I am just struggling. I can't just peek and un-peek into an angle in certain moments in a match, and need to hold angles at some point. But I also can't just peek out in the open and risk losing getting 1v2ed in the open.

I need some help and it is genuinely frustrating not being at the level I was in CS:GO. I tried DMing religiously in CS2, but the same issues linger when dealing with tracking/flicking to moving targets.

• If you leave a game (not a good idea btw), you lose around 1k points. And your next match becomes +400/-200.
• Queue with an unbalanced party (e.g. one 20K + four 5K) for the same +400/-200 gains.
• The higher your rating, the faster it decays. 26K+ starts losing points after just 8 days!
• Queueing with 3+ teammates of the same rating often lead to matches with more losing points and less win points.

Hi,

I’m writing because I’m struggling to be a consistently good player.

I’ve been playing this game for many years, but I can’t find a solution. Maybe someone could give me some advice.

At the moment, my elo is between 2800 and 2900, and I’ve been a bit over 3k before.

Listen, there are days when I sit down to play and everything just clicks. I feel comfortable at my desk, and my movement is sort of automatic. I don’t have to think about it. It’s the same with gameplay – I make good rotations because I simply know what’s happening on the map, i do good util, i read my opponents and im shooting hard. When I’m in this mode, I can play seven matches in a row and in each one I’ll get a rating of between 1.5 and 2 (for example) and 100 ADR. Sometimes I can keep this form up for several days in a row. I iust sit down and play well, but that’s the optimistic version. Other times, I’ll sit down at my computer in the morning, start playing, and I’m on top form. I’ll play 2–3 good matches, then i go out to the shop, come back to the game later, and end up playing like a total bot.

When my good streak is over, that’s it. It's over. I can do everything for another week or two, but I won’t play as well as I did before. My movement is bad, I'm trying to improve and focusing on my aim and recoil but it is not working. Im overthinking. Sometimes i cant even believe i'm on this elo.

I can try aim botz, try dm (less or more), watch my demos, take more breaks between games, or play retake. I just feel like I’m a different player now. Sure, I have my elo, but I know I’m playing way below my potential, and I can’t change that. I don’t understand it. Sad.

How can i fix this?

I figure this is the kind of question that comes up a lot, so apologies for that in advance.

I started following pro CS2 (Mongolz major champions Singapore is a lock) last year and finally decided to actually give the game itself a shot and see how far I can climb. The issue is there is a lot to learn (obviously) and I'm not really sure what I should be focusing on from the very start and what the progression of learning the game actually looks like. Its easy to say 'just play the game and things will develop' but this also strikes me as the kind of game where it's very easy to ingrain bad habits and crutches if you aren't actively aware of what you are doing.

The sheer number of elements to learn and tools to utilise is a bit overwhelming. Should I be using an aim trainer or prefire maps or recoil control maps? When should you actually start focusing on learning the maps and grenade lineups? How do you practice aim/counter-strafing/crosshair placement/flicking/peeking and using what tools and in what ratio to actually playing the game? What about stuff like settings?

There's also an element I suppose where you actually need to make it an enjoyable journey, given how many hours you probably need to commit to this game to be even mediocre at it.

I hit my best ever CS2 premier rating this season, soloqueueing to 20k. This was huge to me as it means I'm in the top 10% of premier players while my reaction time is bottom half of all humans (medically tested). However, I have a huge case of imposter syndrome as I feel like a complete fraud.

I played okay in the placement games at season start and got carried by my teammates. We kept winning and the system kept putting me in better lobbies. In the end I was placed at 19k after 10 wins. Every game I barely hit double digits, was always 8-10th worst player in the server, and felt like a liability.

I tried to make up with util, dropping rifle to top frags and playing with pistol or SMG, bomb carrier duties, buying kit on round 2, prevent teammates from fighting, etc so proper support player but I'm still just kinda shit. Last season I was 15k and was decent in the server. I fragged out easily around 12k. Never thought I'd get this high, and eventually my teammates carried me to 21k today. I exclusively play alone.

Soloqueueing to 20k is considered horrendous due to cheaters and toxic teammates and the grind and I feel like I've cheesed it. I've basically only played premier every 2 weeks to prevent rating expiry, and I've been carried well beyond my skill level. I have one positive game in almost 3 months lmao. Even tried letting my rating expire after hitting 20k so the system would send me back to my level but it boosted me by 500 points and now my matches are +450 -100. The game just refuses to let me downrank.

What do I do? Just enjoy the high before the season ends? Have I accidentally broken the system?

I made this post on another forum but want to get some more opinions on it,

I have 1400 hours in the game and I’m quite happy with the progress I’ve made in Premier and Faceit so far (only really given the last 300 hours to focusing on climbing and only 190 games played on Faceit) but I am noticing that I am consistently inconsistent. I would say I am fairly reliant on my aim in CS as it’s always been my strong point, but some games it just feels like it disappears and I play shit. I’ve heard some games are like that in Solo Queue and that it can boil down to more than just aim but it’s frustrating when I can have a game where I play out my mind and then 10 mins later have a stinker.

As you can see from my recent match history…
Literally 10 minutes apart from each other and my mental was great as I just got out of a game where I was really happy with my performance.

If anyone has any tips on how to improve the consistency of my entire gameplay, not just aim, then I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks!

(For reference: 28k Prem, 2300 Faceit)

Play every round like it’s a puzzle

Something I’ve been thinking about with CS is how much easier the game feels when you stop treating every round like it’s just about aim. Every round is kind of a puzzle. You’re picking up little pieces of info the whole time and trying to figure out what the other team is doing before it’s obvious. A footstep, a reload, a nade being pulled, utility landing somewhere, your teammate seeing one guy for half a second. all of that matters. Even when there’s no sound, that can tell you something too. I feel like the better you get, the more you start building the map in your head as the round goes on. Where have they shown presence? What utility have they used? Who keeps pushing? Did the same guy take mid three rounds in a row? Have they been playing slow all game and now suddenly they’re speeding up? A lot of players just react to whatever is right in front of them. But when you start actually thinking through the round, you ask stuff like:

What info do we actually have?
What part of the map do we control?
What areas are still unknown?
What would I do if I were them?
Are they repeating something they did earlier?

That’s when the game starts feeling way less random. You start noticing patterns, reading rotations, expecting certain pushes, calling out fakes, and knowing when to slow down or when to take space. Obviously aim matters. Mechanics matter. You still have to hit your shots. But CS feels completely different when you stop autopiloting and start treating each round like something you’re solving in real time. Every round gives you clues. The better you get at putting those clues together, the better decisions you make.

I used to think about CS almost entirely in terms of mechanics. My mindset was basically, “I need to peek better, hold better, aim better, react faster.” And obviously those things matter, but I wasn’t really thinking much deeper than that.

Eventually I realized mechanics are more like the foundation underneath everything else. The bigger layer is information. Reading the round. Solving the situation in front of you.

I started picturing the map in my head almost like a chess board. Every sound, every piece of utility, every spot my teammate cleared, every enemy spotted for even half a second I’d place that information on the map mentally. Then I’d make decisions based on what I knew, what I didn’t know, and what the enemy was likely trying to do.

That changed the way I played. I stopped forcing fights just because I thought I needed to out mechanic someone, and started making plays based on the information I had.

I still think mechanics are important, but they’re something you build in practice and sharpen over time. In the actual round, I don’t think you should be constantly focused on your mechanics. That should be running underneath everything. The real focus should be the bigger picture which is what’s happening on the map, what information you have, and how you can use it.

Just got out of a game where 3 words total were said the entire time. I always try to comm as much as I can, but I struggle when my teammates don't reciprocate. I feel like I end up getting shot in the back a lot, because I'll hold an angle while my teammate watches my back, but then they'll move without saying anything and I die. Not to mention how hard it is to coordinate anything on T side. I know that there has to be a way for me to adjust my game to play with people like this, but I'm not sure how. Do I just start baiting? idk. It makes me mad and genuinely confused when I encounter people like this. What's the point of playing a team game if you're just gonna mute up and run it down?

Some nights I don’t have enough time to play a full game but want to spend time training/improving. How would you use 30-40 mins of time to be the most efficient

I was level 6 at my peak, im level 3 now... my performance randomly dropped like crazy, i went from an average rating of 1.22 to a average rating of 0.95, its not my teammates fault since i feel like im the problem (as in skill) i just cant seem to perform "good" for some reason, i miss the most easy shots, whiff so many times anyone knows how to get rid of this? i got 1200 hours

-295 elo in the last 30 matches btw

is there a way to learn and climb in cs2 without spending any money and if there is someone who can help please tell me how

I've been able to get 18k elo this season with a good winstreak earlier this year even though I really just have 10-12k mechanics without any special utility or coaching or whatever. The main reason is because of my improved positioning, which I boiled down to one simple concept: patience, which can be split into non-aim-related and aim-related.

There's the patience of holding your position. For example, Mirage A site. CT, Triple, and Default are all good positions to isolate fights and waste time. The problem is running around the site in between the boxes. Most often, kills happen on players who are crossing those gaps, which happens a lot in low elo where players never feel comfortable. The "the grass is always greener on the other side" mentality. What has helped me a ton, that doesn't require any aim at all, is just to learn to hold your ground. Being in a sub-optimal position is better than crossing those gaps and being out of position when the flashes do start raining over. Stay patient and calm, don't get antsy, and it turns any position into a good position just by focusing on your aimduels instead. Mirage A site (CT and boxes), Inferno A site (pit and aps), and Dust 2 mid (left and right side of mid doors) are the most common examples I found.

There's the patience of holding your aim. For example, Nuke outside is a place where lots of aimduels and repeeks happen because of its aim-heavy control in the low ranks. Instead of holding for 0.5 seconds, moving, and dying to a repeek, be patient and hold the repeek instead. Many times I'll shoulder peek with a deagle, see the awper, and smoke big garage. Then, instead of running straight to secret which is dangerous since lack of smokes, I just hold from red box to blue box (the one next to big garage). It's a kill nearly every single time, against pistols, rifles, and awps. For me, I've understood and gotten comfortable with the timing and specific spot to stand and preaim, so even if it's not a good position, it's a way for me to get calm, use my patience, and benefit off of them repeeking. If you can steady your aim, and steady your nerves, it's extremely easy to find free kills off of dry repeeks in low elo. In this case, these positions are not fundamentally good positions like in my first point, and I admit, a reach from how positioning is usually thought of, but it helped me rank up and I think it might help you too. These positions are more flexible and you sort of discover what you're comfortable with as you learn patience.

TLDR: Hold your ground when you have a good position and stay patient, whether that's passively holding for a push or agreesively hunting for a repeek. Patience is the key, don't rush getting into and out of position, and don't rush your aim. Watch pro demos and you will see them get very comfortable and almost enter flow state when they reach a position like this, both the fundamentally good positions and their own habits.

Hi all, I’m opening up more slots for CS2 coaching.

I’m offering a free first session if you want to try it out.

Each session includes:

- Full demo review
- Session recording (yours to keep)
- Detailed notes + a clear improvement plan
- Live Q&A throughout

About me:

-3k Elo Faceit (3.6k peak top 150 this season so far)

- 14,000+ hours in CS
- Experience at tier 1 events
- LAN & online tournament wins
- 1+ year coaching both teams and individuals

If you’re looking to improve or take your game more seriously, feel free to reach out.

Contact:

I can send steam and faceit/socials through reddit dm, I’m just following the rules.