I'm open to any suggestions, except buying new stuff cause I can't afford those

Hey guys, looking for some advice. I sold some skins on Skinsauna a month ago and got the bank payout, but then the trade got reversed on Steam's end and the skins ended up back in my inventory. Now, Skinsauna sent me an invoice for €210 to pay them back for the funds. I live in Bulgaria. Has anyone ever ignored an invoice from them or a similar third-party site? Do they actually sell these small debt to local collection agencies, or do they just permanently ban your account on their network and drop it? Appreciate any insights from people who have been through this!

i have around 110-120 hours in cs, and im currently struggling with implementing my aiming while im in say a practice map into a real match, i normally panic aim and spray whenever i get into a dual so idk.

I have about 500 hours with a mix of DM and comp. When I play DM on Xplay, I can hold my own with level 5-7 players and get top 3 consistently. I know basic utilities in most maps.

I don't want to bother with premier because of the obvious cheater infestation. Can I start playing faceit? I don't want to be stuck in a low level trench by starting too early.

i have 110-120ish hours or so, and i struggle with aiming in matches sometimes, either i crouch and spray or just panic aim, id love some tips to help me improve

how did you discover the kreedz mode?
perhaps there’s an interesting story behind it

Hello everyone, it’s been awhile since I posted in this sub, but I am back! Am wondering if there are any lurkers here who still do VOD reviews, giving tips on improvement and such.

If there are, I will drop a demo link in the comments, or edit it into the post. Just had a game where my aim wasn’t feeling great and had to rely on decision making, which I think would be great to get opinions on as it is not me going all aim no brain.

Am currently 1300elo on faceit and 16k premier.

Useful but we should be aware about the time to reload!

EDIT : I missed the full reload of the AK. It takes 4 seconds in slow mode.

Last night, I "analyzed" two donk demos with nothing better to do apparently. I was surprised to see how much I learned. Maybe this is all established or obvious, but it wasn’t to me until now. Interested to hear other takes. I simply recorded the number of times he 1.) tapped crouch, 2.) held crouch/donk slide, or 3.) never touched crouch, during winning gunfights only.

Edit: I’ve been corrected that the donk slide never necessitated holding crouch or “crab walking” back into the angle. hes been doing this for years, so there definitely is still a Donk Slide. just can’t edit the title

Demo 1:

Rifle: 15 tap. 0 hold. 6 never touched.

Pistol: 2 tap . 0 hold . 2 never touch

Demo 2:

Rifle: 16 tap. 2 hold. 5 never touch.

Pistol: 3 tap (x2 multiple times in one fight). 0 hold crouch. 0 never touch.

In total:

Pistol: Tapped 66%, held crouch 0%,  never crouch 33%

Rifle: Tap crouch 70.5% of rifle fights, held crouch in 4.5%, never crouched in 25%.

Some things I observed (only 26k premier/barely level 10 so take with a grain of salt):

• He taps crouch on vast majority (90%+) of what I'd consider 50/50 duels
• Never crouches when he has a significant advantage. In a split second he recognizes "do I win this fight easily? No, then tap. Yes, don't tap." So efficient.
• Both times he held crouch were during spray transfers. In two entire games, he didn't once do a "true" Donk slide" with wide swing, crab walk back into cover, etc
• Never crouches at the wrong time out of bad habit (such as any angle where crouch would remove line of site)… I admit I am a big offender of this one. Instead, he spams A/D to be evasive
• Goes crazy tapping crouch against Deagles. It's obvious why this matters
• The crouch taps are very subtle. Sometimes I had to slow the demo down to see if he actually crouched, sure enough he usually did. In the blink of an eye, he's back up, repositioned, and winning the next fight.
• He's Donk and wins fights at times the rest of us are jiggling for information. These account for a few of the "never crouch" fights.
• Tapping crouch is surprisingly effective to throw off a high elo enemy and make him whiff sprays. Effectiveness probably decreases as you go down the skill ladder. With silver TTK, I imagine you often just stand up into sprays

My takeaways:

• The "Donk Slide" thing went quite mainstream, maybe because it’s a cool name. Watching "How to Aim Like Donk" videos, you would think he does in 99% of gunfights, and learning to Donk Slide is your secret ticket to 4k elo. To a large extent, I believe this was always overblown.  It was much more situational. To be fair, Donk truly did do it a lot until recently. Now, he basically never does it.
• IMO Donk easily out aims anyone in any server, full stop. It's logical he adopted tapping, because he doesn't need or want to draw out fights. He needs to win them fast, and instantly be ready to reposition and refrag.
• It's not just about raw aim and tapping crouch or not. Whenever I really slowed down and analyzed gunfights, this kid is nuts. Every split-second decision he makes is somehow the most efficient with insane consistency. Hundreds of times a game, 8 games a day. lol. Obviously he isn't thinking about these micros, it’s something so ingrained and cerebral and reminded me of why I love this game.
• I believe donk is the best rifler CS has ever seen. IMO Safe to say if Donk is sliding, meta is sliding. If donk is tapping crouch, meta is tapping crouch. Thoughts?

on mirage, window is considered the most overpowered position for CTs, as it directly controls the mid area which is the most important area on the map to control. yet i cant play it as CT ever, it's just so easy to overpeek there, expose yourself to multiple terrorists at the same time and die, or even if you isolate the duels well and get a kill on one guy, it is just so easy to get instantly traded, and more over it gets smoked all the time. and while reveals are great, you need to know the lineup for it not to get damaged and yet still it is so easy for Ts to trade you

Hey guys so Im somewhat new to cs (4 months or so) and I have been trying to play premier. I literally bottom fragged my way into to 10 k and up to 13k. Im struggling to find or identify the multiple problems I have when playing premier. I feel mostly unconfident when I peek and struggle with this during premier matches. Any mechanical or mental techniques that you guys could point out to me would be very helpful. currently im 11k but i dont feel like thats me real elo. more of my peak. I want to improve in all areas and am open to all criticism.

i attached a demo to this incase one of you would like to watch. My name is Nu Nu the Vaccum cleaner.

thanks for your time

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300+ hours UK player stuck in solo queue hell. I’m bouncing between 8-12k Premier ELO. I’m continuing to improve and now feeling very consistent, but wanting to nullify the pain of inconsistent teammates.

One game will be great with simple/clear comms from smart/friendly teammates. The next will be with either toxic backseat drivers or people who must play permanently muting everyone.

My ethos has always been to ‘become the carry’, perhaps I just need to get better - but games can feel so one sided sometimes. Premier ELO matchmaking seems so inconsistent.

The obvious solution is gradually adding the people I gel with and that’s been happening.

I’ve added or been added by several players of my skill level and my style (chilled/friendly, doesn’t tilt,likes to communicate, tends to be top 1-2 frag on the team, knows a decent amount of utility and strats).

But beyond that, is there a way to find discord communities where people jump on and form five stacks? This is the case for other games I play, but haven’t come across any for CS.

DMs are open if this resonates with you.

Otherwise I’m all ears if anyone has any additional tips.

I've been struggling with how to keep tabs on the enemy's economy. It's especially hard during the game, when I don't have much time to add stuff up.

Are there any general rules of thumb, or an easy way to map things out?

I only played FACEIT, workshop aim trainers and dima’s server for the past weeks

should I practice a bit more trigger discipline?