/vm/ — Counter Strike 2

>>2503875
Yeah this is 100% a thing, when a few people report you you're immediately send into soft low trust factor hell.
It's almost like CoD, winning too much is being punished hard.

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>>2505728 (OP)
Valve steals money from peoples wallets, their servers should flare up and off itself lol stupid fucking lib kike rats
>im gonna make a tread about the skins instead of the gameplay
can you solve captchas?

Have any of you guys experimented with aftermarket mouse skates? What's the appeal? Are they better in some way?

>>2506346
It's a level of autism I try to stay away from lest I lose myself in it

>>2505747
I don't even think its reporting, its just the nature of winning consistently in these types of games.
If you're holding a solid win rate you're just going to play with people who also hold similar winrates, who are bored smurf accounts and other degenerates.
Only real solution is to sandbag a bit or push yourself stupid hard and try to play at higher/more organized level and get filtered.

>>2507309
I went from 10000 to 1000, and now I'm stuck to play with idiots

>>2505728 (OP)
game so dead that the only updates are the fucking market and skins LMAO, maybe they should add another shitty gimmick like the spare mag realismslop they did recently.

Valve needs to stop fucking with skins and shit because if they lose skin guys then the game dies, because CS at a gameplay level is a dogshit game with zero content

>>2508110
Valve seemingly is perfectly balancing killing the skins market for their own gain with just about not killing the skins market because then their entire game will die.

I will probably go postal if I wake up to a new update banning P2P trading, which will happen in the coming decade

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Posted it in the other thread >>2508499 already. Rate this craft for this major. Shame the stickers scrape poorly...

>>2508511
I rank it 6.5/10. Feel like it would go better on a purple skin but the stickers are nice

>>2508553
Like I specified in the other post, I'm not playing CS at the moment, just watching. So I'm not in the mood to spend money on a skin (MP7 Fade would have been the choice) and am just going to use the one Valve made me buy in oder to open cases.

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Russians are straight up ruining NA CS and are making me understand racism. These draft dodging fetal alcoholic retards join games to intentionally just argue and fight people. 3 games in a row I've had some slavic retard just starting shit from round 1 and being anti-social for no reason
>game 1 pregame russian dude comes in chewing on his mic, we tell him stop, he says 'you have problem with me?' then says 'ya know what, I dont want to playh with you' and threw the whole game
>game 2 russian guy says go ramp, but we already bought smokes for outside, calls us retards, runs ramp with bomb, then spends the whole game calling us trash and saying 'he's not even trying'
>game 3 russian kid afks pistol, comes back, gets mad we lose anti-eco where we save, calls us idiots and retards, then mutes and goes no-comm the whole game
3 faceit games at Level 8/9, I'm 1740 after these fucking 3 loses.
I'm so fucking tired of Russians. I've genuinely always thought racism was cringe outside of edgy humor but these fucking cowards who fled the war are ruining the fucking game. Russians and slavs were confined to EU where at least there was a large enough player base that they were a minority.
So many of these inbred sub-40 IQ troglodytes have infected America that they are a sizeable population of the player base now. I can't go a single game without usually 2, sometimes I'm the only American in the lobby. Fucking parasites. I wish they could all go back home and fucking die in some fucking field while I get to watch on /wsg/
I understand why the rest of EU fucking hates these vermin filth. They're fucking impossible to work with and functionally braindead from birth.

>>2510040
u gotta play premier to escape them... faceit NA is full of them

>>2510040
I still run into slavs in AU premier lol

Not sure if they're Russian or some other slavic lifeform but they're all fucking awful, screaming their heads off. Please go home.

>>2510040
Be grateful there are no turks

>>2510040
>>2510107
I don't play faceit because of this. Live in EU and every faceit game I've played so far was full of the most tilted foreigners imaginable. Not once have I seen them die without sperging out in voice comms over someone not trading their solo mis rush

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>>2506159
>CS:GO thread
>Le skins
LMAO this board

>>2507562
Good update would be to add +2 damage per hit to every weapon.

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>>2510040
Now You know how it is to play CS in Europe...
Normies will call You a psycho when You tell em this game should have RACIST rules - servers for your country only and cross-country play allowed only after having 8/10 trust levels.

But this is what General Patton of Your armies told the press. You replaced an intelligent race with asiatic animals. First communism rules Europe - then rusians aren't a novelty anymore - then 60 years later it's invention of the internet and these creatures have the same rights to play the game as a 4-stack of Danes that can carry you even if you have les than 10 kills per game.
Call me crazy but this is a chain reaction and intelligent men understand this.

>>2505728 (OP)
i need help with pick'em i want diamond coin what teams should i do? i only know GL will be good stage 1

>>2512547
Tdu as 0-3. FQ I have slightly more faith in as 1-3

>>2512547
You'll want to ask in the esports thread and consult this post >>2507417

>>2512547
Gaimin 0-3
BR 5-stack with a stand-in

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AAAAHHHH WHEN WILL THE MARKET STOP CRASHING
I BOUGHT GLOVES + BFK JUST LAST MONTH
€300 DOWN ALREADY

>>2514553
Idk anon, I bought a lower tier knife+glove combo and there still worth about the same :)

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>>2514571
Happy for u

>>2514553
I sold my gloves a few months ago for like $700 and I bought like 40 games instead.
CS is just not fun anymore, everyone is insufferable, retarded, clueless and grief when you attempt to even slightly micromanage them

>>2514676
Even though I agree with you there's something about winning a tight game which you won't get in any other game really.
I find other games really boring because of this.

>>2514553
When major starts or when summer is over

>>2514654
Poorfags stay winning

>>2506346
Bought artisan dot skates so I have easy access to the screws (so I can replace double clicking switches) and immediately noticed they 'dig' into the mousepad and get stuck when I push down. Replaced them with xraypad jade dots and these seem fine now.

Would I recommend dot skates? honestly no. I'm willing to bet out of all the players in the top 10 teams, nobody uses dots and are just on stock skates. They don't need it so why should you? Also as other guy said, you can really sperg out on this shit and end up like the guys on reddit who are buying like 20+ mice & pads looking for an "endgame".

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GIVE ME FUEL
GIVE ME FIRE
GIVE ME T SIDE
OR I RETIRE

>>2515600
Man I think my mouse came with extra skates and I just tossed them aside without thinking

>>2514782
more often than not "tight games" mean I end ct half with 140adr and then my entire team forgets how to play t side and we lose 10-13

>>2515600
I tried Jade dot skates and they were too fast but the Jade full skates were quite good on my superstrike. Like moderately faster stock skates.

>wired mice will always have cable drag, creating uneven directional resistance, ensuring your aim will never reach it's full potential
>wireless mice will always have wireless latency, causing your reaction speeds to go increase tenfold, ensuring your aim will never reach it's full potential
How to cope with this feeling?
Thinking magnetically suspended optic fibre cables are the future.

Anyone got tips on improving aim? Returned to game a few months ago after quitting at DMG back when the r8 revolver came out and alot of my gamesense came back but my aim is dogshit compared to then. Is the stuff like "kill 50 bots, DM warmup etc." daily actually useful?

>>2520163
I got better at aiming by having a daily routine of aim training and DMing on community servers. Roughly 40 minutes total of aim training and DM daily. Also Valve DM is full of shit players that won't help you improve so don't bother.

Repeat this for a few months to improve raw aim.

>>2519235
You might wanna check up on the wireless thing
Wireless might be *faster* these days

>>2520163
Prefire maps (5e is easy to find), actual aim training like kovaak's (cs+tracking drills), community DM
Yes with like 2 weeks of daily training (1h+) you will notice a difference

Coming back to this game after 10 years. The old csgog threads on /vg/ would have a bunch of links to good guides with smokes, aim training etc. I remember a lot of the videos were by Adren, is his stuff still relevant?
I used to have a map with aim training dots but can't remember what it was called. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
I've also noticed half my autoexec commands seem to no longer work. Is there a new autoexec meta?

>>2522473
Csnades.gg for line ups, there's plenty more websites like this.
Youtubers to learn from include austincs, biley, elmapuddy, fl0m, louiecs, mahone, Pol0, STYKO, Wa Tzu, WilsonCS. Mixed quality, some channels are former pros or are semi-pros, some are analysts, some are faceit demons, some are clickbait twitch streamers.
CS2 kitchen does good technical analysis of the game.
Cybershoke for good community DM, duels, retake etc servers
Leetify or cs2stats for your personal statistics (leetify also has a "focus area for improvement" function)
Refrag (paid service) for their prefire drills and warm-up routines. Very optional obviously.
Prosettings.net to see pro's gear
Aim_treeni_v3 has aim training dots but you'll probably be better off aim training in kovaaks or aimlab if that's what you're after
Csstats training map, aim_botz, recoil master are some popular warm-up maps
HLTV is still the home of CS2 esports and /magog/is where all the esports chatter belong. PHY CS YouTube channel does some nice storyline videos of CS2 esports, he's also a caster for tier 2 NA CS. The Cologne Valve Major Championship starts 2nd June btw.
Valve has tried very hard to move everything you'd do in console and autoexec to be doable in the in-game settings.

>NA faceit sub lvl 10 is literally 80% russian/european/brazillian

besides having to deal with these subhumans, I'm more curious how they are living in america/canada

Sorry if may be unrelated but
>binge CS YouTube for a bit
>Think to myself that it's been a while since I last played CS, might as well check out what's new
>Reinstall
>Hop into some Arms Race to warm up a little
>Keep getting insta headshotted in 0.15 seconds
>Uh, ok, maybe I'm just really bad
>Try some more Arms Race
>Same thing happens, a lot of players that just do insane 180s and insta headshots
>Cool
>Play some TDM
>Same thing, running headshots all the time
>Whatever, let's try some casual
>Literally everyone is Russian, has a name in Cyrillic and is speaking Russian
I then proceeded to get ass raped in Retakes before quitting out of boredom. Is the whole game like this? Just cheaters and Russians and Russian cheaters? Should I even bother trying comp at this point or has the ship left the port years ago?
Doesn't help that I've also switched my sens since I play other competitive games with lower sens

What are some good resources to actually learn how to play this game? I'm new, and I got placed in GN1 - GN3 in most maps I've played. The problem is I don't really actually know how to play the game. I know a decent amount of utilities, certain angles and positions to hold. But I don't have much game sense, I don't know how to manage economy, and I don't know any actual 'strats'. Are there any non-extremely annoying youtubers to watch? mahone is the best I've seen, but he uploads once every 4 months and only has a few videos.

>>2523431
a really slept on method of learning is by simply watching pro povs on youtube. while you might think "well I don't know WHY he did x like this", trust me that it's the best method. each round, you take a mental or physical note of what he did and maybe why he did it. this channel and playlist has pro povs that also shows keystrokes, utility cams, and their comms. just watch 1-2 each day and try to implement something you saw, e.g. an angle donk held on mirage or a strat he did. there's actually a saying in the cs community: a demo a day is the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaBOoZ_YQeU&list=PL0U4_MYvXNgPVmVFpvpLEoBCdYrhoZJsh

>>2523473
Thank you

>>2523765
also, I'll offer to play with you and give you tips or help you climb ranking. up to you. drop your steam or discord but no pressure. not tooting my own horn but I've been playing for awhile and know a thing or two

I entered some sort of command into my demo viewer and now I can no longer see names of teammates, does anyone know how to fix this without using xray?

>>2523784
are you EU or NA?

>>2523431
Most important I would say is just learning the base mechanics of the game really well ie strafing, recoil control, etc. For this I play mainly community DM through the website Cybershoke but there are other community server providers out there.
Do not try to improve on Valve DM servers - they are the absolute worst filled with bots.

How outlandish would it be if we share our steam here so those who wish can add each other?
mine is 59845024

>>2522512
Thanks Anon.
I've played a couple comp MM games now and I have a few questions.
Are free players able to play comp now? There were a bunch of mic-less default skin players in my games. It also seemed like at the end of matches most players had no ranks and the few who did were silver 2 or similar.
Are ranks now per map? It said 2 wins required and I thought that was to get a rank but it seems to be counting them separately per map.
F2P wasn't a thing last time I played so I'm somewhat confused.

Also, why do my teams keep losing hard (like 15-3). I'd expect matchmaking would be closer to 50:50 like I used to get.

>>2525285
Also so far I haven't seen a single rank for the enemy team. Do they stay hidden at the end of the match now?
Sorry for all these basic questions Google give me shitty results which are just people's comments from years ago without any actual official or reliable source.

>>2525285
you have to play premier. premier is the more accurate matchmaking experience that counts for all the maps. also you have to hit rank 10 or something to play premier. so competitive will have more new accounts

>>2525285
Make damn sure you buy Prime status, it's like 10 bucks or something. F2P CS is full of cheaters. Prime CS has a lot less, especially if you have an old steam account cause Valve trust factor accounts for a lot of things.

Also watch pro CS, you learn so much through osmosis

>>2525293
>>2525673
if ur on an old steam account and already bought CS u automatically have prime, but yea free CS and prime are seperate lobbies too, but it could well be just that ur playing in comp with other new accounts. Get to level 10 and try premier. If you're not on your OG csgo steam account make sure u buy prime again too