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I play with a premade 4/5 and there isnt really anyone who "main awps" so the position is there

As a group we are 14-16k elo in premier

I was wondering if it be better for me to carry / climb / do better, focusing my time on practising awp'ing or Ak M4 in DM and prefire maps etc

As my potato aint capable of running CS2, I am playing CS:S full time. One thing I realise is that I'm not good at holding angles, and I tend to react very late to enemies.

Like AWPing mid on Dust2, I tend to miss those passing by Mid Doors and frequently die to them as well

I'm trying to learn the AK-47 and M4A1-S recoil pattern so that I have an idea of how to spray when taking those mid-range gunfights where it's better to spray than tap fire and also beneficial to have good recoil control.

But outside learning these 2 guns' recoil (and the M4A4 next) I'm not really sure, I haven't bought anything else besides the AWP and Desert Eagle. I don't really know when it is a good idea to buy a SG-553 or AUG. Are guns like the MAC-10, MP9, Galil or FAMAS good to learn? I don't know when it is a good time to purchase them. Maybe in force buys, but idk when it is a good time to force buy unless enemies are 1 around away from victory or we are on the last round in the half.

I have 800 hours of CSGO and CS2 combined, I only play comp/premiere and never tried faceit before. I used to have friends to play with (5 stack) back in CSGO but we only goof around and play casually stuck in gold nova, now my friends move to Valorant and I'm the only one that still play CS and wanted to improve.

I scroll a bit in this sub and see people giving tips and been following those tips for this past few weeks. I started at 5k premier rating and now I'm at 9k. From a lot of tips people give here there's this one that always confused me "watch your demo".

I tried to watch a demo of my mirage game last saturday and the only thing I notice is I keep missing my A ramp molly which have a gap that T could walk through, I'm flashing mid from A with intention to blind T running up top mid but failed and few rounds later where I try to challenge AKs in mid with mp9 from conn which doesn't end well. Other rounds from my perspective is just aim issue but I feel like there's more to it that I didn't notice. What am I suppose to watch from my gameplay? Do I need to watch the round when I die? Do I need to watch from the beginning of the round or just few seconds before I die?

As a level 7 player, I don't really understand the basics, such as tactics, crosshair placement, and peek angles. Is there a guide I can use? I used to watch Steel's tactics and AdreN's crosshair placement videos, which were really informative about how to play the game. However, nowadays, there are so many misleading and clickbait videos with overgeneralized topics that it's hard to understand the fundamentals of the game. Please feel free to DM

Our 5 stack decided to move from rainbow 6(we were at around plat-emerald level) to cs, which seemed to be similar games...God how wrong I was. The teamwork feels super different, a lot more fast paced and a lot more details are needed.

We have a friend that is higher rank than us(I believe he said 15k premier) and used to play national level pro teams since they were friends from uni and he kinda coaches us while playing for fun.

His advices are super useful, but it feels weird to follow it sometimes.

For example, let's say we're going to attack mirage with a short-aps push. In this case we're gonna smoke con, window, and market. The setup feels fairly easy to understand, but now what? Does the aps players wait for the short players to push in and then peek? Or do the aps player go in first? While going in at the same time feels like a good idea, there are a lot of isolated places that the aps player can die from and the short player can't do anything about it(for example if someone is bench/van the apps players can die fairly easy) and vice-versa(short players can die from under the apps window and the apps players can't do much.

Should we, as a team, play customs and do special strats? If yes, how many are needed for a map, and what exactly should we look for?

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A friend of mine is just trying to get into CS2 so we were trying to just mess around in a practice just I could show him some stuff and we could mess with bots.

Everytime we start a practice it just kicks him before he can even get into the game and private matchmaking just searches for a server forever. Any ideas?

I switched from 4:3 to 16:9 recently since I had a hard time seeing enemies in 4:3 using 1280x960. I’m not too familiar with what frame time is and how it affects the gameplay experience in a fast paced gunfire game like CS, but I noticed it jumped up to 11ms after switching to 16:9 at my native res of 2560x1440p. Does anyone have any insight they can share? I just want to make sure I’m not adding a huge handicap to my gameplay for when I inevitably go pro (silver 2 btw). Serious question though.

I am at 2170 Elo , i play ok from every point know a Little about everything how map should played (at least what maps i like to play ) but im not the guy who aim great most Times i use basic oppening utility and delay , maybe i get one and traded , most of the times die less than my teammates even when we losing but i Don t think i have big impact on rounds, like You know that guy who shut down 2 people and now You are in a 5 v 3 scenario 90% win chance of taking the round. I play solo all the time ,my friends are slightly Below my level(5 ,7,9 ) but everytime we play is shitshow no coordonatation so i avoid que with them beacuse i Don t want to face some enemy that have some preparation , i play all the Time from a internet cafe because i Don t own a PC so time is important i can t spend 3h DM

So i m asking what was your game changer from a low lvl 10 to a skilled player 2.5 ,2.7 2.9 k Elo ?

As the title goes, if you want to do an execute on B site Mirage, is there a way to trick the jump spotter to go towards site without him reading the execute or to somehow double/triple nade him to kill him?

What are your strats to deal with the jump spotter?

I have lost 400 elo in a week because every game I get the stupidest and most toxic teammates ever. Every game I get 18+ kills and get 4 idiots who don’t talk and just play solo. What should I do? My friends are at a lower skill level than me so I can’t play with them. I’m so tired of playing 1v9

Some context, at the time being I have a lot of free time to play. I do play faceit around 3-5 Hours a Day but sometimes I just cant be bothered to commit to a whole game/s.

I just want to play some dm/hsdm at times but hear people say that it can negatively impact their real games.

Whats your thoughts?

I'm an old csgo player, I never really cared about the game until recently though. I want to put in effort and actually become better, and improve at the game, but its very hard with my matchmaking options. (in europe)
I can either play premier, and play against 1 smurf or 1 cheater almost every game.
Or play FaceIT, and STILL get level 0 steam accounts on the enemy team, instantly headshotting me.
Where should I go? I literally can't have fun with the game unless playing with friends. Is there a way I could find fair matches, where I can play against people in my skill level?

I feel like I'm really struggling in premier and don't really know how to get better. Is ReFrag the best option or are there other free/better alternatives?

Hello everyone,

I recently got into contact with CS2 and a bit of my old passion for the game sparked up so I want to get back into it.

A bit of background: I started playing CS around version 1.3 and played an unhelathy amount back then, especially in 1.6. Later, when CS:GO was released I had a bit of a comeback and was playing again many, many hour with my friends. But eventually life got the better of me and I lost contact to the game again.

Now after at least 2 years pause (might evene be more) I want to get back into the game, after seeing some good changs that where made in CS2. I did play some games last weekend and as expected my aim is like, really bad. But that's not the worst part, what I realized I am missing even more is game sense. While back in the days, I knew naturally when to peek, when to walk, when to run or how to hold or take a spot, I now lack this "basic" knowledge.

Now I am wondering, what is the best, and most efficient, approach to get better in both areas: aim & game sense. I don't have the time anymore I had when I was a kid, I can't just sink in 1000 hours in 3 months and everything comes back naturally. I don't expect to get on the same skill level I once had, but I want to improve nevertheless. Especially for the seldom moments I get to play with my (a bit more active) friends, I don't want to be such a burden to them.

So here I am, hoping to get some advice of you wise folks on maybe some kind of routine or practices (maybe some resources to read/watch as a starting point?) that can help me get back in the game. In the end of the day, just playing the game will help improving, but I believe there is a more efficient way to improve the whole process.

Thank you very much in advance!

Kind regards,

Kingooi

My accuracy has gone down pretty hardly even though I’m playing the same bootcamps as before. Many of the other stats I’ve sort of lost (k/d, multikills, etc) I can attribute to gaining ELO, meaning my opponents are better now, but I feel like accuracy is more related to myself and less to teammates and enemies. I’ve been on a 4 day break now since my last game to try and get rid of bad habits (mostly crouching unconsciously) but I’d like some feedback on how to go back to form. Or if it could be related to my enemy’s skill level being better, meaning better movement and me whiffing shots.

Also for some reason I seem to have a hard time now shooting enemies that aren’t looking at me.

Asking because recoil master seems like the old reliable but this might be better for transfers.

Also, when spray transferring do you tend to aim for the head or just 4 body shots?

Hi, i'm a average player in CS2, i can play against Gold - AK despite being a silver elite. I can play against 10k-15k elo players despite having no elo yet. I can tap, i got good crosshair, i know how use nades/flashes/smokes to execute sites. Basically, i'm someone that knows how to play the game despite not being as good as my friends that are gold and AK.

BUT WHY THE F*** CAN'T I HIT ENEMIES THAT ARE RIGHT ON MY FACE - AT ARMS REACH - I CAN LITERALLY ONE TAP AWPERS WITH A DESERT EAGLE, BUT I SIMPLY CAN'T HIT A ENEMY CLOSE TO ME. . . any tips?

I play on 0.80 sense 3200 dpi

The rule of thumb I’ve always followed is never change it.

I’ve stuck with 1.45 400dpi, zowie ZA13, GSR2, 1024x768 stretched all these settings since 2018

I am 2100 faceit elo EU (this and above for reference).

Only thing is that something as I’m playing feels a bit too slow, my tracking and aim is decent with this sensitivity including awp. But it’s just a lot of the time it feels slightly slow idk how to explain it. I try not to overthink settings in CS on purpose because if you ask me how often I change my crosshair I’d tell you like once a game so I don’t change anything else. But it’s only because I’ve had the same sens for so long I don’t want to ruin my ‘muscle memory’ so to speak.

So the general question is here, do you think I should slightly increase it, keep it or idk go to 2 sensitivity.

Hey all. I'm Nari, I'm 23, and I've been playing CS since 2015 starting with comm servers, mostly surf, kz, or bhop until I started playing competitively in late 2016.

It feels like every time I come back to CS, I go through the mud, hoping things will change, I get warmed back up over the course of a couple weeks, get back into the swing of things, but I ALWAYS hit this REALLY weird plateau every time and it feels like after the 3000-4000 hour mark I reached my full potential, though I understand is likely unreasonable thinking. I'm 2200 elo on faceit, but the DISPARITY between me and a 2500 elo player is SO vast and I cannot fathom or understand why. WHAT is the tipping point? What separates a decent player like myself from a player like this that is so consistently capable of carrying games with 100+ adr.

I've done it all. I've fine tuned settings, setup, performance, peripherals, focused hard. I've DM'd probably hundreds if not thousands of hours, used workshop maps for minimum 30 minutes every session, I've done aim training in kovakks, aim labs. I've done movement training through KZ, workshop, prefire maps, refrag, you name it.

My aim is great. It's not my aim, and I ACTIVELY put myself into power positions where I have the advantage, but I literally cannot kill a player in a 1v1 despite having good raw aim. My crosshair placement is on point, but I feel like I'm ALWAYS losing fights. I've watched demos, and most of the deaths that I can still recall in vivid detail are the ones where I KNOW where the enemy is, I KNOW what they're going to do, and I STILL don't win the fights. There are countless times where this happens daily. It feels so devastating because I JUST want to get better, I don't care about elo, going pro isn't something on my bucket list, I just want to compete and play at the highest level.

I know with a situation like this there are WAY too many factors in question to give generic advice and I'm not looking for that, but if someone who has felt like this and successfully SURPASSED this sort of plateau could give me some guidance on what they did to make the difference, whether that's in their training or otherwise, I would seriously appreciate it.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, even if you don't have advice, this was a vent session and a call for help at the same time and I just want to emphasize that I'm here for the sole purpose of improvement and not for pity or an ego boost.

My faceit username is Nari for those that want to look deeper

Let's say on Mirage, you go Ramp towards A and want to clear Ramp. You preaim on the vase, swipe slightly right and preaim Sandwich, Stairs etc. Should I try to get in the habit to lift the mouse and bring it back in the middle of the mouse pad after every swipe/preaim or after 2 or 3 swipes when I have reached the end?

I wonder because the time the mouse is lifted, I wouldn't be able to micro adjust.

I have about 500 hours, in this time i’ve done aimlabs, aimbotz (and similar workshop maps), and a lot of DM. For me pracc servers have given me the most noticeable improvement in my performance, but I was wondering if there were advantages to improving isolated skills like raw aim, target selection, sprays, counter strafing, etc.

I want to optimize everything I can about my practice, so if you guys had input from your own experience or knew a few pointers to help me recognize a bad habit that’d be great, thanks.

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I play bots alot (No Cheaters) and like Canals with Bots on high difficulty. I'm pretty savvy on computers and can't for the life of me understand why only in Canals I am at 250 fps or so and drop down to 18 fps. Only in this map. None of the other maps. It makes it totally unplayable. Sometimes if I can wait 30 seconds it will clear out but most of the times I have to re-start the game.
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