Talk about skin drama or actual gameplay
>>2031987Bro just use /cs2g/.
>>2032023Fuck esports
>>2032043I post skins when I feel like it. Just ignore the screeching uncs.
>>2031987>>2032043basedbeen getting lower FPS since that "CPU optimization" update few weeks ago, Valve are real pieces of work. and that was supposed to be the 2 year update since release, nothing new except the noobifying defuse mechanic.
I have no idea why Counter Strike on 4chan was always so esports focused. I recall seeing threads on /vg/ and its always >The games figured out AMERICAN let us talk about eslop!!!!CS2 is just hit or miss for me, its been nearly 2 years and it has little over GO at this point
>>2032106>lower FPSWhat lower fps are we talking about? I have an FX8350 and a GTX960 and I get stable ~120fps on low settings.
surf is pretty much dead in CS2 due to changes we on momentum mod then fellas?
>>2032121Not him but whenever I play my fps just gets worse and worse the longer I play
>>2032139Average fps or just the lows? Before switching to W10 LTSC I had similar average fps but had the issue that every couple of minutes the game would drop to single digit fps.
>>2032126As far as I know all the surf niggas play CS Source
>Even as the ship is sinking all people do is fight amongst each other just enforce the steam market fully holy fuck
>>2032192Valve doesn't pay out your market sales in cash so they'll never be as interesting as the alternatives.
>>2031987What have you anons crafted?
>>2032317I'm waiting for thursday in the hopes that the lifted trade restrictions drop the prices a bit further. I'm eyeing a Kukiri Blue Steel and Specialist Field Agent gloves.
>>2032317I’m hoping for cheapo combos like $60 combos, I doubt it but I’m eyeing a Tiger Bowie + overture gloves
>>2032357Holy moley
spawn immunity on DM is really fucking long for no good reason and it takes like one line of code to fix it to something normal
>>2032147Average fps would be a solid 100 and then it'd turn into a very choppy 80 that feels like 50
>>2032317I don't buy cases or any of that shit because it's kinda dumb to me so none
>>2032573Specs and settings?
>>2032317I have €330 in CSfloat funds (sold my knife the week before the update) and I'm 100% going to buy the most expensive thing within budget. Probably a karambit
>>203251990% of all DM happens on community servers Check out cyberchoke
>>2031987I have finally come to peace with the fact that if I am going to continue playing CS2 in the future, I need to upgrade my build which last had a CPU put in it (i7-9700k) but otherwise has a GeForce GTX 1080 in it and only one stick of 16 GB of RAM. Would upgrading to 32 GBs with two sticks be an immediate improvement?I just want to be able to stop playing this game with terrible framerates and borderline intolerable graphics. Playing ESEA last night made even playing de_inferno intolerable and my PC would go down to sub 60 frames in every aim duel. I partly blame the Faceit AC.
>>2032998A 9700k and 1080 should be easily able to handle CS2 on 1080p. Single stick ram isn't optimal, you'll definitely get a small boost if you run dual channel sticks. Are you overclocking? Also there's some settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel app you can fiddle around with that will get you a bit more fps.>borderline intolerable graphicsWhat does that mean? You don't want to play on low settings?>I partly blame the Faceit ACYeah. Make sure there's as few programs running in the background as possible. Disable launching on system start for all apps you don't need.
>>2033005>borderline intolerable graphicsEver since CS2 came out, low graphics genuinely look bad. There appears to be a weird film grain sort of effect applied, contrast is god awful, and the current res I play on (16:10 stretched) just seems overall worse in CS2. I can't explain it but if that's the was CS is, then I will just try to pump out as many frames as possible.>blame Faceit ACOh and Windows 11, fuck Windows 11. I should have installed TinyWin11 but I think a lot of it also has to do with that. Anyways will check overclocking settings because I am not overclocking at all currently. Also>NVIDIA control panel settingsGot a guide for optimal settings?
>>2033023Update to this: fucked around with my settings in the NVIDIA control panel, will be unable to check results until I have a moment to play a pick up game w/ the anti-cheat running when I get out of work for the day.
>>2033023>weird film grain sort of effect appliedThat sounds like the game is up-scaling. Check if picrel is set to disabled.>Got a guide for optimal settings?I followed this and got a couple fps more. https://tradeit.gg/blog/best-nvidia-settings-for-cs2/
>>2032120I played a lot with csgog in 2012-14~ and while we did talk about the big events it wasn't the main focus of the thread.
>>2033005>>2033040CS2 is stupidly demanding and even on low settings with "100+ fps" the game is really just running at 10 fps at moments when any action happens on screen. Literally the only way to play this game to a passable degree is by getting a Pajeetzen CPU with the x3d suffix. >>2033023The film grain is often the result of "high dynamic range" being turned off.
>>2032998This game is CPU heavy as fuck. You can't upgrade your PC without getting a new motherboard. I've gone through 2 CPU's already since the launch of CS2 just trying to get the game to feel nice and smooth. The solution for me was a Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Before that I had the normal 7600 and the game still ran like shit.
>>2033200>the game is really just running at 10 fps at moments when any action happens on screenMine doesn't. Seems like a skill issue on your end.
>>2031987i warned /biz/ so i'll warn you fags toothere's tens of thousand of knives ready to hit the community market over the course of 24 hours tomorrow.series one knives, gamma knives, riptide knives & more will all crash harder than a drunk asian on tet.based off community market data, 145,257 reds from the riptide and dreams & nightmares cases were sold in the 24 hours after the update released. Once crafted, that makes 29,032 new riptide series knives ready to hit the market over the course of one day once trade cooldowns expire. For context, 7,661,994 op riptide and D&N cases were opened last month. Since there's an average 1 in 390 chance of pulling a knife that means roughly 19,646 knives were unboxed over the last month from this collection.Long story short 1.477x the number of riptide knives unboxed last month are ready to hit the market over the course of ONE. DAY.Dawn of the final day.24 Hours Remain (until major cheapies).
>>2033954I was coping on good knives being cheap but will we see all the gutter tier knives hitting rock bottom lows for like $20?
>>2033961certain collections? absolutely. We're talking crate depression levels of market saturation here, i remember picking up unusuals that were normally like 15 keys for about 1 key and change on the community market a 0.10x is absolutlely possible during the initial panic. However, because of the quickly narrowing volume of sales beginning ~20h post update combined with the continuing red sales at ~$300 per tradeup these prices wont last.i'm gonna get me a nice phase 2 full pink doppler and call it "Argyle Pink Diamond" and a battle scarred rust coat navajo knive and call it "Anti-Boostrix" and i'm going to pay less than 100 australian dollarydoos for the pair.
>>2034012What about the expensive ones like butterfly? I’d like a ST MW Damascus Steel but I wouldn’t pay over 300€ since I already got a beautiful Damascus Paracord
>>2034083it's less about individual knife rarity and more about the pre-update abundance of red skins for a given knife's collection. For example, that damascus butterfly comes from the spectrum collection, the cheapest red from that collection was the p250 see ya later, and about 20k of those were sold 24h PU so you can expect a bit of a dip, meanwhile that paracord is a fever knife of which at least 30k reds were sold so the dip ratios will be comperable with a bigger discount on fever knives.
>>2034083>20k of those were sold 24hIs that just the Steam market or does that include trade sites?
I don't believe for a second prices aren't going to plummet much more than they already have. I'm waiting for a month or so. By that time people had enough time to sell reds, buy them, wait for tradelock, tradeup, wait for tradelock, then sell
lmao you cucked skincels still haven't killed yourselves?Get to it already.Chop chop chinkies.
It's starting to feel like GODlige can win this event
>>2034880Oh wait wrong thread
Is there any one making normal maps for CS2 or is it just a dead art?
>>2034892why would they make maps
>>2034989So randoms playing the game can complain about the newly made map not being Mirage or Dust2?
>skin investor panic sells>abuses the steams trade reversal to not lose money the next day>gets banned on csfloat, has to publicly apologize to salvage his channelhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7g3EX8PRMc&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
>>2034989I mean people used to make maps that weren’t jokes like 747 even crackhouse was originally a hostage map
>>2035261I hope this shit all utterly tanks tommarow to fuck everyone up the markets not healthy if people are too scared to sell digital items for actual not absurd prices
today ill remind everyone that talking about the game creates blogposting niggers, 1k elo retards posting their matches and trooncord and reddittroon infiltrationdont believe me? just the the filth that is /vg/hope the jannie nukes this shit or moves it where it belongs (/vg/)
>>2035329Esports is for fuckin losers
>>2035342Why do you play cs yet hate esports?
>chill out in casual>it's 5v2 (+3 bots)>enemy guy throws some weird grenades>spectate him>he's blatantly wallhacking>against BOTSthe absolute state
>>2035329>t. 1k elo retard
Bros..I don’t think nice combos will actually be cheap
>>2035261lol what a faggot
>>2035542I’m hoping for tiger tooth or black laminate Bowie to tank Tigers look good with overtake gloves which are cheap
>>2033005Thank you very much for recommending some stuff. I don't know if this was because we didn't play Inferno this evening or what, but my ESEA match tonight was infinitely more tolerable and we won with all of us above 12 RWS.
why do vanilla knife skins in CS have "float" if they're all the same?
Did it begin? I barely see any significant decreases yet.
>new to cs >try hard but hardstuck 5khow get gud when no fren?solo feels like a lottery
ngl I kinda like deadlock more fr
>>2032106The game will keep running worse with every update. The same happened in csgo, vanilla ran better than the final build (panorama update was the biggest factor, but not the only one). The only way to offset is to just get an x3d CPU, a decent GPU and play sub-native.
Bros??? The prices aren’t tanking
Yeah valve are gonna ban third party websites now this is not what they wanted the prices are going back up on buff
>>2036140post demo
What happens if you mix in glove collection reds with knife ones? Does it let you trade up just the same?
our flychads lost???
Skin talk morning: anyone have any particular collection they like in general? I have the entirety of the Office Collection and I really like it. I hope since Office has had a facelift sine then that they follow up on it, or when they release the cbble remake that they have more arctic themed collections.The most recently released collection they've released that I enjoy is the Ascent Collection and I have almost every skin in it Factory New except for the M4A1-S Stratosphere.>>2036345Works like any other tradeup where you have a chance to pull anything from any collection you put in, so you can mix it and potentially get gloves or a knife.
Post-Unlockening crash updatePrices of knives dropped to similar levels as right after the update for ~4h post unlock, reds dropped more dramatically, both have now leveled, will most likely be another dip once burgers wake up.These effects represent the first 2 hours of post update skin sales. Tomorrow the other ~19 hours of of crafted skins will hit the market at the same time, but far less people will be watching. People heard about another incoming crash, it "didn't happen", and now they're moving onto the next thing. This takes a lot of liquidity and awareness out of the equation which was the main limiting factor in price drop.Also the drop in price of reds is less likely to repeat since the prices rose mostly during the initial few hours. The prices leveled our after that point so it's more likely they will have been crafted into knives rather than held for resale
>>2032519Yeah that sucks, spawn positions too, someone kills me and then I spawn like three meters behind him wtf>>2032317Nothing, was waiting for a drop to buy a bowie tiger tooth or rust coat full wear but it didn't happen
>>2036361I sold my M4A4 Desert Strike that was just floating in my inventory that I never used to begin with, and I'm so happy that those had value now. As for buying the dips, unfortunately my wallet worth is tied up in a long-term Fracture and Recoil Case investment I made earlier this year, so if I wanted to get the two last things I really want for the time being (Classic Knife vanilla + M4A1-S Stratosphere FN) I'm going to have to wait for a while. I'm not going to be putting money onto my Steam Wallet and I haven't done so in years on account of good case yields in the past.Anyways good analysis, tyvm
almost done slurping gloves, just a couple more
>No ursus vanilla for 50 dollarrinosFuck this life bro
Yeah the crash is not happening or people are too slow to sell, all the trader scum are acting smug over their inflated inventories Unless valve do something again the shits gonna go back to where is used to be
damn these roaches fucking SUCK
Diamond hands win again
>>2036386Valves gonna nuke third party websites real soon
>>2036375how much did that superdoncutor and hedge maze cost you? also what are the wears cause backpack icons always fucking sucked
>>2036140death match and watch pro plays to learn better positioning, utility usage, etc. some of it won't be applicable due to the level of players you're playing against but you should be able to figure it out with trial and error
>>2036391
>>2036401had them for a while obviously, those are not new. the non sports are new as well as scarlets
>>2036401>have $1000 on steam>nobody ever sells anything coolI assume bots and buy orders snipe the doppler gems for good knives?
I traded up some reds and got theseWhat is a good knife to pair it with?The slaughters seem too pink and the crimson webs too dark
>>2036421Hear me out A Battle Scared crimson web Bowie knife I am not trolling
>>2036421Autotronic seems like a general lock with that specific coloring. As for knife choice, I'd like to see this combo w/ the Shadow Daggers if you can inspect these in-game and take a screenshot here. M9 Bayonet seems angular enough too to where it might also look good as well.Another good choice is Black Laminate but they of course lack color.
HOOXED
>o lost all my money on 1's and 0's
My nightwish ak stattrak actually went up in value about $30, it was nearly up $50 yesterday but dropped slightly
uhhhhhh where is the great reset I've been promised?
>>2036426Check out Well Worn Classic Knife Crimson Web
>>2036421A ruby knife of course :)
>>2036421Get classic vanilla and larp as 2019 dev1ce
Do I get 1 cheap black pearl knife or a knife/glove combo?
this rally make-a me hardthe coming crash was a perfect storm bar the fact everyone and their dog though it would happen creating far too much buyer's pressure, the fact only 2 hours of skins were released and the rest are on hold til ~6 hours from now means the current rally is people who were waiting for the crash panic buying because they now think it isn't going to happen.Bye-Bye excess liquidity.
>>2036645>>2036643>>2036642>>2036429>>2036426Here’s what I got after trading up all my FT/BS redsWas it worth it?
>>2037675The knives arent crazy but your Kimono Gloves saved everything and Omega Gloves are good too
>play casual>2 teammates have been afk for 2 rounds>try to votekick>nobody presses f1it's all so tiresome
>>2037973I hope the market shakeup cuts down on case farmers
Err… the dip? Where is it, guys? You told me there would be an invasion of knives & gloves.
>>2037675Float and pattern for the kimonos? Probably made you 90%+ of your money.
>>2038282They look a lot better than the float suggestsI guess I got a decent pattern, the only wear is a gray line around the knuckle
>>2038370oof
new godcombo just dropped..... ON YOUTUBE IN 4Khttps://youtu.be/bfQKk8fSUzA
>>2035261>This video is privateKWABOTY
Is CSfloat fucking dead? I’ve been trying to sell some shadow daggers at a crazy good price for 2-3 days and no one is interested. Am I shadowbanned or something?
So knives are a bit cheaper and more accessible and reds are now eye-wateringly expensive, shocking. People actually thought we'd have £20 knives or something
>>2037283>>2036361>>2033954You still here, little bro? Do you want to apologize to the thread? I'll take an equally elaborate "I was wrong, oh so wrong" post now.
So the "knifepocalypse" was actually a front for a bigger issue of trade reversals? Capitalization growing is just a sham because no one can buy shit
>>2035839Happy to hear it seems to helped a bit. May I asked what steps you took?
>>2040414based valve allowing greedy human nature to fix fix their 3rd party trading problem
Gaben I know you browse this place return dangerzone to csgo please everything else sucks so much
valve is buttfucking the third party skins market and they know exactly what they are doing
When are the Major stickers coming out???
>>2031987I just play competitive, why they don't add new maps?I'm just comeback after 5 years and I was expecting something more
>>2041930they add a few maps here and there, like currently you have palacio, golden and agency, but not much more> I was expecting something morewe all did m8, they didn't even add fucking factions to existing competitive maps
Mathematically this doesn't add up. Knife supply is skyrocketing yet prices are going upI unironically prepared a shopping list featuring Karambit Fade and BFK Lore. Instead I just bought a Bayonet for like 30% off
>>2041930>I was expecting something morelolwhat game do you think you're playing?
>>2041978>knife supply increased by 5% at best. why aren't knives 90% off?
What should I get first, bwos? Gamma doppler huntsman p1 huntsman or doppler p1 Bowie? I’ll get both eventually but I don’t know what to choose this month…Huntsman with finish line gloves and bowie with blood pressure!
>>2041930How long have you been playing, little bro? CS players are among the most conservative of any gaming crowd and abhor change.
>>2041930You actually missed Anubis being in active duty entirely, but you can still play it in the standard competitive mode (not premier). The game also gets a tri-yearly rotation of community maps, and this time around both Palacio and Golden are good. Italy got a rework since you last played which make it more balanced for CTs.That's 3 entirely new maps right there for you with an additional fourth if you care about hostage and count layout changes and reworks as new, go check those out or just stop complaining about active duty rarely changing, even before you stopped playing it was slow to change.
>>2034812Markets back already, now back to your food stamp line Cletus
>>2043178I dislike both those knives. Bowie looks cool and is cool irl but when I had my dream Bowie it bored me within a day.Draw animation is just so slow. Takes forever for the knife to appear on screen and makes you feel slow too.
You DID craft a good knife/glove combo before the red skins exploded in price right anon?You DID do it before the market rebounded right anon?
>>2045328I love those gloves. Easy top 3 in the game.
>>2045063Bowie seems heavy looking, so I think that the slowness kinda fits it. The prices for these jumped into the sky, especially for the Stattrak which I need. I’m so fucked, since my payday’s on the 10th… All I’d ever buy got hella expensive already. Well, outside of Finish line moto gloves. Those are still reasonable at least.
>>2046041Turtles always clear if you’re looking for green gloves
Do people still do many item-for-item trades anymore? I don't have any golds, but I have cases and some modestly-priced skins. I was hoping to trade up for a cool falchion and/or some driver gloves.>>2045328Sadly no. I was there when the update dropped, but I didn't possess the foresight to immediately buy the cheapest reds. Nice combo, anon.
Dripchads, I require your assistance! I’m just finishing my T-side drip since I got my dream knife. What’s the best agent to go with this?1 is Dragomir, whose been my agent for years. 2 is Rezan, 3 is Blackwolf.
>>2048736not a fan of any of these combinations anon, why did you choose these? They don't seem to match colorwise to my eyes.
>>2045328>craftI'm not a degenerate gambler, I just bought things half off.
>hear about skins market crash>sweet maybe I can afford a knife now>still $80big nothingburger lol. this only affects retards who think their karambit is worth $50000 or whatever
>>2048786I just love the gloves (which I got very cheap despite being 0.151 FT) so I went with it.
>>2048736Also, this is my planned combo for CT. I'll get these next week
Is this an okay trade offer to suggest for a FN falchion bright water? I'm trying to not make any particularly insulting trade offers, but I'd like to get a knife and/or some gloves by trading up my old cases. Otherwise, maybe anons here might be interested in trading some golds to a market noob for agreeable prices? I'm not fabulously wealthy, but it'd be nice to find some good deals on some fun play skins.
>>2048834seems like the math checks out, but isn't it more convenient to just sell the cases and buy the knife? what site are you using?
finally a white vs white match in my game of counter strike
>>2048848I'm just on Steam's forums right now. I tried looking through the community trade forum since someone recommended I try that for buyer to buyer stuff. Prices do seem a bit cheaper on sites like CSFloat as I'd think they should be, but I don't have the experience, and my cases are docked several dollars there, so I don't think it'd push me as far for my trades here. I'm trying to trade directly rather than buy balance to minimize fees/losses. Maybe I'm misguided, I don't know; I'm a complete amateur, but I sincerely just want to have a fun playskin knife.
>Comment on a Steam Community trading post about trading for some dude's knife>No response, but he sends me a friend request after some time for some reason>Accept, wait a bit.>Says nothing, I initiate a message>No response, no trade offer, nothing for over an hour>Decide to just send an offer and leave a second message before going to sleep>Seemingly declines it, still no response, no counteroffer>Still on my friends list>Still making duplicate posts every few hours for his two items for saleAre all traders this fucking insufferable, or is it just random asshats from Monaco? Holy shit, I have an actual autism diagnosis and I at least try to communicate.
Why would I play this over Deadlock?
>>2049868if you have to ask, your are probably better off on Deadcock
>>2049868realistic stylemore tacticalbetter win objective than tug of warlarge playerbasecompulsive gambling habit
>>2048786What is it with CS teens and thinking that things only match color-wise when they're the exact same color? How do you dress in real life?
>winning a game 7-2>second best in my team>lose a round>random dude start complaing>start to flood all chat that he is a pedo>he get mad and tk me 2 times>keep complaing that i am trolling>use a molotv>I stay on top>he get auto kicked for doing excess of team dmg>-1kKek. Nothing better than fucking around.
I can only play Pavlov Shack, or Pavlov VR. I can watch CS2 though.
>>2051500>he get mad and tk me 2 timesZero mental
I need money into my paypal and I have amassed thousands worth it skins playing since 2012. So those sites like csfloat use Stripe and I sell them there and then Stripe send to paypal?
>>2045328>uses term comboImagine being brainwashed by gaben and ohne to waste any money into this trash game
Less then two weeks until the major. Give me the stickers.
Should I mega splurge on ST FT M4A1 Printstream or stick to my ST MW Black Lotus? That price is inhuman but I just can’t get my mind off it…
>>2053362It's all preference. Personally, I think the Black Lotus mogs the fuck out of basic bitch printstreams. Marathon-ass bullshit imo. If you really want, you could just trade up to a FN one, or downgrade to a BS for extra redness. You could get such a nice knife/glove combo or stickers instead too.
>>2053650Trading up? Is it cheaper than just getting one from CS float? Can I guarantee it? I never used that mechanic.I already finished my knives/gloves setup here and it turned out better than expected:>>2048736>>2048807
>>2054003I meant selling your existing one and buying a lower float, not trade-up contracts for it.>I already finished my knives/gloves setup hereMy point is only strengthened. A low float Black Lotus would coordinate nicely with those skins. Wish I could find good deals on playskin golds too; where are yours from?
>>2054073I got everything from CSFloat. Even managed to bargain for some of them and get some pretty nice savings.I just got a ST FT 0.180 USP Printstream for 65€, not too bad either.
>>2054144Very nice, not a bad price for that float. If you don't mind, do you perhaps have any tips for someone who's newer to CSFloat? Mostly curious about bargaining etiquette and how to min-max sold inventory items (if you ever sell P2P). I saw that each listing seems to have a "minimum bargain" threshold for instance. Falchion knives, notably gamma dopplers have been eyeing me lately. May like some cheap gloves while I'm at it.
>>2054199I’m new to CSFloat myself. The big dip got me checking out markets outside of Steam and I ended up there since I didn’t have a passport to use on buff163.In my limited experience, people who have a set price just turn off the price negociation. I usually offer their minimal asking price and more than 50% accepted so far!
Why is the matchmaking so dogshit lately?I unironically lost 7 games in a row because I was always the designated carry The only way we'd win a round was if I had 3kd
>>2054372Crazy that you are getting full minimums like that. Do they ever counter? That's one thing I noticed that is missing on a lot of these trading sites; bargaining. It's interesting when some sellers with a higher listed price/lower float may have a lower bargaining minimum too. I was thinking of using Lis-Skins since they have a convenient instant sell and buy option, and have okay FT gloves, but maybe CSFloat could be the answer.
>>2057173I never used Lis skins since I could only deposit with crypto instead of card, so I have no experience with it.Yeah, people do counter bargain, often aiming for the middle ground. Yesterday I got a ST FT 0.201 AWP Printstream for 86€. I wanted to bring it just a little bit lower but it’s still okay I guess.
Any ideas on what skins the embroidered major stickers could look good on?
Wasn't there something about Valve being more strict about what signatures get approved this major? How tf did this get through???
>>2057378These niggers are still putting other guy's names on their stickers.
>>2057380What even is this?
>>2057381If the game didn't tell me I'd think this was susp's autograph.
>>2057378since they're banning the tryhard sigs they really should ban these shitty ones as well. just do it like a normal person for fucks sake.
>>2057381not usually a fan of these but i think this one is cool
>on a premier solo win streak>end up with 2 russians and 2 trolls who start by screaming nigger>the 2 russians babble>the 2 trolls keep spamming radio callsplease please please, valve. Just give us either regional lock (exclude russian ip's) or single stack match makingit's too fucking painful
>>2057885=D.
>>2057879>ban these shitty ones as wellIt's not even his name. I don't get if the thing in the middle is meant to be an e or an s but either way kek/ksk is not a kyousuke signature
>>2043205cs2 was an awful change but it seems to have been accepted
>>2058264Not him, but people constantly bitch about CS2's problems (especially networking/latency) online. People 'accept' it only in the way a heroin addict accepts drugs into his veins because he's accepted his life is over and is just waiting to die.
Hovering inbetween 25-30k premier right now, and the amount of people that think im cheating because I havent played faceit in 2 years(peaked lvl7) is pretty funny lolI blame Valorant for all the spergs that instantly lookup the stats of the entire lobby to see if they should just give up instantly
>>2058264It was forced on people despite huge complaints, and people are still complaining Btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/cs2/comments/1oquhiz/cs2_pros_were_asked_if_they_prefer_128_tick_or/In the end there is nothing we can do, Valve owns the game and we don't.
>>2031987Why is the esports thread so much larger than this actual game thread? russians addicted to online betting?
>>2061031>Why is the esports thread so much larger than this actual game thread? russians addicted to online betting?It's not just an esports thread. Some retard is convinced generals are forbidden on /vm/ and calling it an esports discussion thread is a genius workaround.
>>2061036newfag
Do they look at kill feed or map after every AWP shot, I would assume map to see if there are any enemy blips on it
>>2037973what region? whenever i play casual people get insta kicked if they fail to get a kill in one roundeveryone on casual plays like its the world finals
>>2061092What I never understand about Casual is the stupidly high amount of hyper expensive skins there. Like I've see maybe 1 dlore/howl in premier yet every casual match I boot into everyone has a knife and there's always 1 guy with a full trader inventory
This ban has been on my account for a month but I've never cheated in my life :(I tried opening a support ticket and emailing them. I just want to play CS.
>>2061377there's two esport threads, what's your problem?
>>2062560We've got the CS2 General (>>2057867), the CS2 Esports Discussion Thread (>>2057876) and this thread.
>>2062582>general thread>look inside>it's all esports discussion
>>2062765There's a grand final going on right now so makes sense. Having multiple different threads for the same game is nonsensical especially given how slow the thread moves when there's no big games running.
how much does it cost?
>>2066733I give you ten dollars for it
>>2035440Yes from cheat drivs, about half of the player base cheats + valve literally pays you money to smurf so it's in pretty much any skill bracket at this point.
>>2067783>half of the player base cheatsMeds.
>>2032043>>2031987I appreciate this, I hate the discussion of pro-neck beards as if I'm supposed to give a fuck about a third world nerd that I will never play with or against.
>>2032106>>2036167FPS has taken a hit for me too, I don't know why. I'm using an Nvidia RTX A6000.
My average MM Solo queue experience (my username is Boom! Headshot!)
>>2075410Also this one
>>2075410>>2075411You will low tab frag next game 100%.
i only play casual because i get really bad anxiety playing 5v5
>>2075517I used to do this too but casual has no skill based matchmaking so every game just boils down to whoever has the best player
>>2075464>You will low tab frag next game 100%."low tab frag"? what means
>>2075528It means if you click tab, you will be in the bottom of the scoreboard.
>>2075539Ah ok. In my day we used to call this “bottom fragging” but I guess your way sounds less gay
>>2075576Its the new zoomer way to say it and it does sound less homoerotic somehow...
What guys should I put in here? I really dont follow esports I am just here for the coin
>check csstats for bans in previous matches>all of them besides one were on my team>most of them were bottom fraggingwith two of them carrying it was obvious, but how do people cheat and still suck this hard?playing around 15k is hell, boosted shitters, faceit lvl 10s owning you, faceit lvl2s owning you, leavers, tryhard shitters whining after losing pistoli cant man, i dont know if this game is for me anymore
>>2075974Whose logo do you like?
>>2076042none, all of them stinks
>play dm>obvious aimbot gets votekicked>his buddy or bot owner or w/e starts to votekick everyone who voted to kick the botSo cheaters can see who voted against their bots and then kick those people?The absolute fucking state of this game
>Obvious cheater>Check profile a year later>Still not bannedgreat game guys
Asked this in the fighting game thread - gonna ask it here too. Has anybody experienced an adrenaline 'combat high' from playing at the highest skill level and winning against the best opponents in the game multiple times? I feel like a junkie and I am struggling to focus irl. Just looking for tips on how to manage this. Not sure where to even ask.
I have $180 of steam cash. should I buy a knife on the steam market? which one? help me out brehs, I want something fun
>>2075526how to fix it though :(
>>2078005>how to fix it though :(play either the premier, wingman, competitive game modes, or play face it (which is just another premier game mode).
I need some assistance. I currently have a pair of Slingshots FT that I'm rocking with a Slaughter Stiletto FN. Ever since I got into CS I have always longed for a BFK (yes, I know they can be overrated). I can either keep my Slaughter Stiletto ($400) or sell it and save up another extra $300 for a FT Crimson Web BFK around 0.27 float for $700. What would you do?
>>2077559Falchion has a lot of cool animations and it's under $200, i think they will even improve them with the new animation system soon since it's one of the knives that didn't get an animation update yet
>>2076882kek i wanted to do this too, but i figured i will just be disappointed and deleted the bookmarkthanks for indirectly confirming it
>>2075709it's not the zoomer way, it's a russian termEU and other players don't typically say that
>>2070373>It's impossible! You are crazy!If there is literally 0 consequence for cheating, why wouldn't you?
>>2075517I play competitive or premiere because the gamemode is just better with 5v5. And if you look at the players you meet, the idea of feeling any kind of shame or social anxiety for such "people" is laughable and completely ridiculous.
>>2075517competitive mode is basically casual but 5v5, you can buy meme weapons, rush, play badly and 95% players won't give a fuck for the most part, just don't totally ruin the game
>>2080819Nobody gives a fuck about this game in any game mode except faceit because literally 50% of players cheat.
>>2051259>How do you dress in real life?all black all the time so I always match
>>2048736Rezan clears
>>2080814>>2078556>>2080819thanks, i'll try competitive with that mindset later
Why the fuck can't I lock stage 2 and 3 picks on pickem? It always resets to 0 picks done when I leave the screen
>>2080768In EU they call it “submissive fragging”
Me and my buddy playing right now and most nights US East 8k~ and 13k~ premier. Add me up if you wanna join. Idc anyone's ratings just don't flame each other or our random teammates (you can bitch about them in the call)https://steamcommunity.com/id/quadpenteyes/
>>2087028Before i add you i have to ask: are you a transfolk supporter?
>>2087046No. We even have nigger sticker crafts on our guns. But I will say I don't want generally negative teammates who flame the whole game. We have a tranny teammate, whatever, they're trash and gay and retarded. Again I get that sometimes you have to vent about teammates in the call though when they're giga retarded. Just trying to avoid playing with people who flood the in-game comms and make everyone suck ass as a result.
>>2087052>a normal person on /vm/cslolsadly I'm in europe. Good luck with your games
>>2087070I figured it was unlikely to find any guys on US East at this hour. Hopefully can garner some interest over the next couple days and get 2-3 extra guys for games at night.
>>2087052Why does NA have so many trannies? On EU servers I’ve never run in to them.
>>2087427I've been playing since August and did maybe 200 games now and I've only seen one once. That said I'm judicious when muting my team. Unless you mean tranny as some catch-all pejorative for homos, in which case it confuses me too, I thought they'd be playing Valorant. But there is some weird phenotype of femboy that gets ultra competitive in videogames, perhaps their brain trying to find some kind of "manly" outlet. I don't know I'm just yammering. I'm still on for a while if anyone wants to add us and play some premiers.
>>2087486You're talking about the aim troons. There's an actual "aim community" on twitter and from what I've seen like 1/2 of them are trans.
csgokillyourselves
>>2089570From what I've seen while spectating, I really hope my teammates aren't part of some "aim" community. They may need to seek self improvement elsewhere.
valve says this is fair matchmaking, -400 +200 (soloq) game with the 8k shitter carrying 16k on his backinsane
>playoffs are three nights a week on nights that weren't standard during the main seasonESEA is extremely well developed in the "making a game I enjoy feel like a second job" field.
>>2097103Competitive games are already a second job
>>2098707I kind of wish that there was just an official 5v5 ladder in the game itself. I hate having to interact with this side of the community to play some real fucking CS. Online tournaments that you can play in one day are dead and open LANs are so few and far between in NA. I also don't think the current matchmaking system is prioritizing 5v5s because any time I play with my LAN teammates, we play cs_office and next to never get another full five to go against, making it an ELO nightmare.But in addition to ESEA thinking it's okay to bump up the amount of matches per week by one and on different days of the week when realistically you should be still at two on the same day and then you can use one night to practice if you want (my team didn't even scrim once this season) we also have to go against people that don't respect our time whatsoever. We had some dickheads last week trying to reschedule on Thanksgiving at 5:30 PM EST which is pretty much the unanimous time in the entire United States that day where you're not gonna get a response, AND THEN we 2-0'd them anyways. This isn't even considering the fact that these retards think that starting a best of three at 9 PM or later is somehow going to be good for the next morning. I have no idea why more league matches aren't played on weekend afternoons when there's nothing going on.Competitive games I can do just fine, but having to deal with players in any tier lower than ADV that think that they are going to somehow go pro is a bitch. All I can say is that I am glad that my team is correctly putting retards like this in their place. ALWAYS bully and knock out fake org teams with gay names, that's my mission.
Biggest difficulty in developing CSVR is the money. Who gets the money? The game is already developed by multiple companies, and exists in different name by those companies. Who gets the skin money? Who gets to just give to Valve, "employees"? By giving...can just be blessed by whatever is dropped onto the floor along the way?Subscriber pass money, and verified accounts increase the money given to customized gun camouflauged, and other skin camouflauge. Accounts are verified by live streaming gaming sessions, and possibly, "know your customer". The percentage of time, among all time, among all verified players, a gun customization camouflauge is equipped is the percentage of the total money earned from an interest earning bank account. The bank account is where all season pass subscriber money, and CS loot box key money, is deposited.Playing from picrel
>>2101843Kinda difficult to understand. Let me try some more.The artist account can be a steam workshop account. The gun camouflauge, or other cosmetic, is available through the steam workshop. Yes, custom gun camouflauges, and custom spraypaint decals, clothing uniforms, and gun charms can be equipped through the steam workshop. The amount of money the Steam workshop account receives is according to the percentage of time, among all time, from all verified players whom have the Steam workshop cosmetic customization equipped.For example, if one percent of all equipped 9mm Glock pistol customizations are the, "4chanlogo" skin then one percent of all the money from the interest of the interest earning bank account, are deposited to the Steam Workshop account uploading the, "4chanlogo" 9mm Glock skin.
I permanently removed this piece of shit game from my account
>>2107232why
>>2107232I only play it because Valve pays me about a dollar a week to play it. They've basically let this game run for years without a functioning anti-cheat driving away any kind of legit player and new players since cheaters like making new accounts. Premiere really is the worth matchmaking I have ever seen in any game, the majority of games are first time players vs cheaters.
Anyone notice matchmaking has been complete shit lately?I unironically lost 11 games in a row where I was the designated carry (8-9 of those games I was top of my team)What's going on?
>>2112811I cant play without getting mad about cheaters so i dont play.
>>2112811I refuse to play pick up games because you learn significantly less in them
>>2113074How can I get matchups where I learn better than pickup games?
>>2113249Get a team and play scrims
>>2115317>Get a teamNo team worth playing with takes people stuck in silver hell
>>2115500There are so many bad players out there that I would rather play with low official rating players that communicate as opposed to higher rated players that try to play for themselves and don't do shit.Basically, would rather take players that need aim training over blockheads and get two low impact kills and then get traded.
so many cheaters hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>solo queues with a good mic'd up team that immediately starts working together to win the gamethis is why I keep going back to CS.
+anubis-ancientThoughts on Active Duty map pool changes? This seems to be the most likely. Overpass just got added back and dust2 was the most played this major. I would shit a brick if they took out Mirage.
>>2031987ATTENTION ALL NORMIES THIS IS A CLANKER "VANITY DEVELOPMENT" THREAD, DO NOT INTERACT WITH AI PASSING OFF AESTHETICS BEFORE INTEGRAL FUNCTIONBURN THIS THREAD WITH FIRE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
>>2131173+anubis+vertigo+cobble+canals+seaside or breach-train-mirage (DO IT)-ancient-overpass-nuke
>>2132372You will never find a bigger Canals fan than me. I have the IRL pin for it and everything but I don't think there's a chance of it ever coming back. They tried to experiment with map layouts and this experiment failed.
>got a friend request from a cs2 bot
Anyone figure out how to get a server to rotate maps without a plugin? It seems really stupid that you can't set this up. Running a competitive rules server, but it doesn't follow my designated mapcycle. It only repeats the same map. I've tried voting, which is fine, but it only includes the 7 active duty maps, not the entire pool of the 14 active, reserve and hostage maps. I've got it running a random maps from the list on start up and I can manually force it to go to the next map as admin, but it doesn't automate (and voting to end a match is broken/unworking as well so you can't just vote to skip a map even.
>>2116256This.This game makes me understand how retarded are people.You can see idiots try to take down a sniper far away from him with a shotgun or gun.Almost nobody know how to cover and when throw a flash bang.Most of them I think, they can hear because they run everywhere and they don't hear enemies running behind them.Often when you engage in a place like corridors they follow you in line without leave space for move back , and off course they shot in your back
I fucking hate this game
Answer quicklyDo you use M4 or M4A1-S?
>>2139726both
>>2139726yes
>>2139726Both but m4a1s 80% of the time
>>2112227>Valve pays me about a dollar a week to play it.you get like 50 cents from weekly drop and you need to play 2-3 hours to level up. not even poorest people in the world would "work" for this shit
>>2139726P90
>>2139726m4a1-s unless the m4a4 has a really good skin
>carrying a bunch of barely english speaking arabs in premier>game crashes round 14>nothing works>can't verify files>have to re-install>get hit with -1000 elo and 20 minutes left of a cooldownthanks valve
>>2139726A1-S, even before the buff I've been using it. M4A4 just sucks, nobody likes it.
>>2131173+ Anubis+ Cache- Train- OverpassPerfection has just been achieved.
>>2142704Why take out Train? It's one of the few maps that has a more unique layout that still actually works.
>hop into a casual match>2 blatant cheaters in my team>1 suspicious bloke in the other teampopflash is the only way to play this fucking game anymore, even faceit has cheaters
>>2087028Gonna be playin a fair amount later tonight/throughout the week if anyone wants to play. I'm also gonna be in Sweden for 2 weeks starting next week so if any EU anons want to get some games in I'm totally down. My rating is 17.5k right now.
i turned on that thing that moves your crosshair with your recoil pattern but on the p2000 the reticle just goes straight up every shot despite the spray pattern being differentwhat the fuck is going on?
took me 140 games of solo queuing to hit 25k. i swear 75% of my games were against a premade team. jesus christ what a dogshit matchmaking system.>>2160058before i answer, how brown are you?
i really enjoy cs2 but i am probably the worst player in history
>>2165683hey teammate!
>>2145016It's a garbage map that should've stayed in CSGO nostalgia edits.
>>2165725It's a great map that follows a three-lane layout but with the added complexity of deep bombsites with pivotal long angles and an inner/outer site layout instead of a left site/right site connected with a middle area. It is not only welcomed in the map pool but is completely warranted and is one of the only few maps in the game that feels unique enough while still completely playable to justify the slot.I like Dust2 and Cache as much as the next guy but a map pool of>Anubis>Cache>Dust2>Ancient>Mirage>Nuke>Infernoleaves only Nuke and Inferno as any map that deviates from that formula and I would say that Inferno doesn't even do that that much in practice. The only way I could see that being justified is if they took out Ancient or Mirage and with no shred of irony put in either Italy or Agency so that there's something completely different in the map pool (which would likely be the most banned). Office isn't complex enough compared to Italy or Agency to warrant it being in the competitive map pool since the only CT counterplay to the Ts is to dick around with utility at the two chokepoints.
>>2165683I challenge your assertion, it is me.bonus meme: 150k inv
>>2169013started playing during shanghai major btw
Literally Every Single Lobby is cheaters.I guess enough people figured out vac 2.0 flat out does not work or do anything at all. As anyone downloading and using cheats will tell you.
>>2170308You cant cheat on VAC secured servers.
does reporting people for griefing do so you don't have to play with them again?muting clearly doesn't work
it's just playing vs cheaters non stop
Holy fuck they're taking out Train
>>2170308this game is cooked to the point you can straight ask claude or gemini to write a softlock aimbot and never get in trouble
>>2031987CS2 is just a dead version of CS:GOWhat more is there to say?I doubt valve will say "just a prank bro" and resurrect Counter Strike out of nowhere
>>2058360
>doomposters trying to thin the competition for this seasondon't listen to them anons. Go apeshit in premier, even if it's all russians, bots and cheaters. Don't let the fags win
>>2188867My typical LAN team is five stacking because we all want the season 4 pin. We are currently setting up annotated map guides this weekend that consist of the util we throw and have already picked our instabans.The competition is so fucked it's not even funny.
why do these external skin marketplaces exist why not use steam marketplace
>>2189786some people want to cash their skins out for real money
>>2031987>looks exactly the same as CS:GO>worse performance>no cachengmi
>>2189869>looks exactly the same as CS:GOIt looks worse, actually.
i broke my mouse because my aim is shit, i don't know if i should keep playing this game anymore.no matter what i try to do it seems like i can't improve at all, i'm sure there are people with legit hand disability with better aim than me. this game is frustrating as shit to play if you can't aim, i still top frag some games but it's purely based on playing ""smart"" and just getting bad opponents. but i know i'll never be good this way, i lose 80% of 50-50 duels.should i just quit or is there any hope to do something about it? have you managed to improve aim in CS?
>>2191053CS:GO>Valorant>CS2When CS:GO is not an alternative the closest you can get to it is Valorant. Quit CS2 and don't look back unless >>2187667>I doubt valve will say "just a prank bro" and resurrect Counter Strike out of nowherethis happens
is the cheating still a big issue? Looking for a new main game and to gamba from time to time in skins.
>>2191480>is the cheating still a big issue?yes lol
>>2191488Is Face It a solution or is the game unplayable?"
>>2191495If you make it far enough you are facing cheaters pretty much every game. If you are just a casual it may be okay, if you don't mind the overall lower FPS and FPS spikes. CS2 is not worth grinding. Valorant is the closest you can get to what CS:GO was when it was still around.
>>2191495It's not unplayable, it will probably take you many hours until you get to the level where it gets bad with cheaters, since they are at higher ranks.
>>2191517>If you make it far enough you are facing cheaters pretty much every game.In both FaceIt and the official ranking systems
>>2191053>i broke my mouse because my aim is shitYou broke your mouse because you have brain damage. Your ego is out of line with the reality that you simply aren't that good at a trivial game. The skill ceiling in CS for combat is pitifully low, S-tier pros get destroyed by randoms and women all the time. Skill in CS is purely about strategy and utility.
i always get 4 russians on my team this shit is unplayable
>>2192230Play in a premade with your friends then retard
>>2192125absolutely idiotic post, especially about women because all women pros suck and couldn't even play in tier 3 precisely because they have shit aim.
>>2192274I command you to queue up the excuses.
>>2192125>Skill in CS is purely about strategy and utility.lmaohalf of 3k elo players on faceit don't know any utility, not even instant window smokes on mirage, and there is no strategy in pugs with randoms, they are in that rank just because of great aim. most retarded opinion i've ever seen
>>2192303Your complete inability to name some advanced mechanics speaks volumes anon. Fact CS, individually, CS has a low skill ceilling.
Attention to everyone, it's the quake autist from /v/ that sits in every CS thread talking shithttps://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/QBPRseaunYm8JZRHc5QJNg/nobody pay further attention to the sperg for the sake of keeping the thread nice and cosy
>>2192340not an argument
>>2192340When someone enters a thread about a topic to shittalk the topic, you should never respond to them no matter what retarded other game they play.It's a good way to live.
>>2192375At no point have I discussed another game. I'm simply educated someone on the mechanics of CS
>>2192340lol
I want to do trade up or make a profit opening casesMy budget is $50Should I go with this?
>>2193824>opening cases>trade up>profitlol no
>>2193852Ok then let's call it gambling and my budget is $50
>>2193854You might as well just open the cases you want. Otherwise open Fracture Cases to decrease the supply so that my thousands of them go up in price, thx.
How the FUCK does this game have worse hitreg than TF fucking 2This has to be some sort of joke
>don't feel like warming up for faceit>premier is turned off>comp is too chill
>>2195486We need more people treating comp like actual competitive and not some side mode, please play it.t. someone who got told to play Faceit for taking Thera/Basalt seriously
>>2195574if a map isn't in the pro player pool, people aren't going to try and treat it as an xp farm for the weekly drop
>>2195580I understand that, but it's stupid. One of the most fun parts about getting the basics of CS down is experiencing all of the community maps and learning them. Map discovery/learning has always been 10x more fun than just playing the seven active duty maps where most have been a part of the game for decades. It's even better now because you can hop into a practice server and make your own util in a few minutes. I had tons of smoke lineups for Thera and Basalt.It's like a 3-phase learning curve where phase 1 is raw mechanical skill, phase 2 is map knowledge and phase 3 is team synergy. Phase 1 isn't exactly fun and requires the most maintenance, phase 2 is mostly finite w/ active duty, and phase 3 is dependent on the people you play with.
>>2195580>>2195616also adding to this but non-community reserve pool maps also can be fun if played seriously, specifically hostage. CS2 hostage feels so good to play.
>>2195362Proof?
>premier still turned offBRUHRUH
Agency sucks lmao glad to see it gone rip agancy bozos lmao stay feasting on rubbish
>Jump changes: >Landing time is now calculated with subtick precision >Jumping and landing no longer affect stamina. The landing speed penalty is now a simple function of landing time >Any jump press within sv_bhop_time_window centered on the landing time that hasn't been penalized by sv_jump_spam_penalty_time will be treated as a successful bunnyhop >Legacy jump behavior can be restored on private servers with sv_legacy_jumpsomeone explain this to me, are we back to source bhops?
Whats the deal with the new weekly collections? Is it possible you get a $500 m4 as your weekly drop?
>>2193824opening cases is for youtubers only. if you want to profit from random chance hop on roulette the odds are genuinely far far better
>>2198988If you receive the highest tier in factory new in the first week, you can probably sell for a few hundred USD. It is possible in the same way you used to be about to get a CS:GO Weapon Case 1 until they removed all rare case drops.
yeah, i'm thinking we're back
>>2195574It's just so disincentivizing when every map has its own rank and playing has the same effect on your global rank as playing casual+ there's just so many other things that make it obvious Valve has completely given up on the game and grinding makes 0 sense
>>2195574>>>2195486>We need more people treating comp like actual competitiveWhy aren't people treating the ranked mode that isn't the actual ranked mode more seriously?
>>2199604My argument for that is that if you need a carrot on a stick to interact with a game, it probably isn't a game you actually want to play. People in general are taking the wrong lesson from CS Rating and I fully blame it on Faceit for normalizing "number tied to me going up is good at all costs" instead of having people enjoy the process of being allowed to play better players if you so choose. Not to mention just enjoying the learning process of a new/lesser played map is rewarding in of itself, I often times make my own map guides for community maps by loading up a practice server and fucking around for 20 minutes.>>2200568Competition is fun and should be the incentive. I'm always going to advocate for people playing the Competitive mode, especially community maps, because I want competition on those maps so it's not just me going against no ranks/low ranks every single game. I worry that this mindset doesn't have room to exist anymore, which is also why we no longer see smaller city/region wide LANs in NA. People want to either have a guaranteed win with a prize that is worth it or not go to events whatsoever. The only LANs we see are large and ambitious, and that's exactly why in two months NiP is going to be in Syracuse, New York of all places and why laundersLANs were once a year until the last one killed all trust in them and the last one had NRG there anyways.
>>2200606>it probably isn't a game you actually want to playFair enough I have thought that to myself as well alreadyThough sometimes the "lower stakes" of comp feels like it makes me play more calmly and betterAnd sometimes it makes me feel like giving up because I don't enjoy the match as much as I expected
>>2200729I leave a lot more premier games than competitive games because people don't treat it as low stakes and play it as if money is on the line. If anyone starts berating me, I tell them that I hope they enjoy playing 4v5 and abandon immediately. I know that sounds very thin skinned, but I have a stressful fulltime desk job and CS is an additional investment into being at a desk which I'm already at for a majority of the day. I'm older now and don't play this shit to pretend that I'm going pro, I play it because the teamplay/coordination is unrivaled and in those situations I'm not going to have that teamplay. Ranked pugs (faceit moreso but premier is heading in that direction too) have always felt like a massive waste of time because I have to micromanage what I'm doing to pair with random dickheads that leave their individual plays as a guessing game for me to interpret if they don't comm. My CS Rating isn't high anyways, it hovers around 15k-20k range when I actually do bother to get ranked and play it, but I can't believe that even at that low of a rank people act like it's fucking playoffs at LAN or something.Fortunately I am going to have a different premier experience altogether this season because of >>2189141 which we are starting tomorrow and I'm extremely excited about it since I already have built up a decade of synergy on most of the active duty maps within this five stack online and offline.
>>2200825Have fun!
Harlequin collection is looking pretty solid but idk what the fuck they were thinking with Achroma. It's all so dull and samey. Black and White can make some dope skins (Printstreams, Ticket to Hell) but every single one of these is so ass.
Reporting back on our time tonight:>officeWe played some Office tonight since we were curious where our ranks would put us after the adjustment. Now the whole squad's at black bg ranks, lowest is DMG and highest is SMFC. We went against a top 100 guy on csstats and a few other people that felt like they had radar hack since they'd pick us off at the best angles one at a time on T side. We completely fucking demolished them CT side though after that one person was talking mad shit. Dickhead had close to 500 wins on Office and was Global so I sincerely hope he deranked after that one. I told him he could such our collective dicks when we had 13 round wins.>premierPeople get so assmad when you they go against five stacks already and having the same clan tag for Steam names like triples that. It was fucking hilarious. Only map we dropped was Ancient because we simply didn't have good after plants. We still had a modified smoke wall we run consisting of three smokes on Nuke that worked extraordinary well. Last game and round I got a 3k with an AUG on inferno. People sleep on the AUG for B retakes since CT to site is such a distance for standard rifles.All in all: game is fucking great this season so far.
>>2203170For me it's the opposite. Sleets and Snow Splashes look amazing. The Sleet finish is basically Whiteout but with a built in wear/pattern that works really well. Snow Splash has an angular look to it which is nice for the two weapons that it is on. That AWP in Achroma fucking sucks and it's purple instead of black so it doesn't even fit the theme. I would have much preferred something like Polar Mesh/Polar Camo for the AWP. They just need a common grade AWP skin in general, I know they do it for rarity purposes but I mean come on, throw us a bone.The Harlequin Collection looks like it consists of case filler rejects, specifically those high variation colorful blue tier skins that Valve used to throw in to cases to say "see look, we're giving you vibrant skins in low tiers too!".
just started playing since like pre 2020, what did i miss?
>>2204429Oh god so fucking much I don't even know where to begin.
>>2204435scale of 1-10 where we at with the state of the game?
>>2204463For me like a 10. Other people will disagree. I'm east coast, always play on west coast servers because I have a teammate in Japan and another in Utah and literally never have issues with game feel on Seattle servers. Weapon balance and map variance is perfect right now where it feels like both teams always have a shot at both halves on either side.I was more saying that because there are so many changes to go over that it's hard to begin. Smoke changes, general weapon usage, map changes, all that. Hell, I think pre-2020 you couldn't even drop nades, I forget if that was before 2020 or not.
>>2204469>teammate in japanamerican expat?
>>2204611Canadian, but yeah otherwise not actually Japanese
>>2204469Finally someone else says it. CS2 is arguably the best cs has ever been.>inb4 b-but m-muh this and thatNo. Community is pretty shit but the game itself is great.
>be an absolute level6 shitter in csgo>not the best pc but gave good fps for the most part>get nasa pc and decent 260hz monitor (i can't justify a 500hz, and i want nice colours in daily usage)>level10 in 3~4 months 80% solomost pay2win game, you cannot convince me otherwise
>>2204953Community servers just need people to make Source2Mod so that mod development is streamlined if you're talking about that. I also hate that in order to scrim these days you need two separate other services (refrag for your own scrim server/your own server you manage and pay for and pracc.gg) when it used to be on ESEA included in your membership if you chose to have one.General community though, it's just the same shit you can tune out for the most part.>third worlders on Steam community forums with those gay checklists for Valve>people complaining about subtick when they just miss their shots, which used to be people complaining about server interpretation of shots>zoomers with enough time to spend 4 hours in aim maps to get an ego but zero minutes to expose themselves to anything that makes them not sound like the last zoomer I played with>skincelsOtherwise yeah the game is solid, feels good online, feels flawless offline. I'm okay with them holding off on casual modes like Danger Zone and Demolition because you get the same exact experience without third party services or sites for getting 5 people together and playing the game in a structured way. Fuck, they even baked map guides into the game now with annotations which is probably the best addition into the game since they changed the economy so you couldn't get loss round bonus reset.Do people unironically want Demolition back? It sucked.
>>2205117i miss the fun casual maps like lake or whatever. it was the closest to chill community servers from 1.6/source. now the game is so esports focused
>>2205088it's trueor better said, pay2swing
>>2205088Did you upgrade from 60hz? I have found that the difference between 144hz and 240hz+ doesn't really matter all too much from the various non-BYOC events I have been to where monitors were that high up. Like smooth consistent 144hz with the NVIDIA settings from that one official guide is probably the best experience you can have with this game, everything else is a meme.>>2205126I miss them too but realistically it's not like I was ever putting tons of hours into them like I was with community servers to begin with. Karma 1v1s still exist so I'm happy since that was my main thing, I was at one point like top 30 on that server.
>>2205126Funniest thing is newfags saying 5v5 is the way counterstrike is meant to be playedSomething must be done with the community server browser
>>2205535i had a 144hz monitor before but i think frametimes were all over the place and the game didn't feel as smooth, from what i remember at least
>>22055505v5 literally is the way it was designed to be played, the issue is that people are getting away from scrims of a dedicated five (because back then before ESEA you'd just hop on IRCs to find a scrim) and have decided that being a pugstar is a better use of their time.Once again, I agree, but also Valve has always been considering how to move some of the more popular gamemodes inhouse (like when they made scoutzknivez into a dedicated mode and how/why gungame is in CS2 currently). Problem is that there's inherently no value for them to move>Zombie Survival>kz>surf and surf dm>RP>escape maps>jailbreak>all of those arena maps like that one that looked like a racetrack with guns all over the mapover to the base game, plus they would really have to stretch the design philosophy of the game to do anything officially. As far as I am concerned, right now the community server browser and its servers entirely need the support of the community in order to make hosting a community server viable enough to where it's actually built in again instead of just using the Steam client browser. Also they need to fix all of the weird RU server listings that have fake engagement stats.
>>2205550>Something must be done with the community server browserThis. Idk how the hell theyve let it sit like this for as long as they have. Passwords are broken, can't access the browser in-game, etc etc. If they fixed the server browser and then provided all the classics community and casual modes and maps via valve's official workshop channel they seem opposed to re-adding (flying scoutsman, TDM, etc) they could just offload the casual stuff to the community. I run a server, but it's unnecessarily retarded given all the issues the community servers and browser have.
Fucking love it when I got headshot by unironic wallbots/aimbots from China/SEA.t SEAfag who never cheated at this gameAlso does anyone here use large crosshair?
>get 4stack as soloq>minimal comms from them whole game, only one guy is giving info and tries to talk if we are in the same place, others just completely silent>stuck anchoring B whole game, totally in the dark with information, have to figure out when to rotate and how to position purely on feeling, checking radar non stop>they lose 1v3 with full info on last guy and such silly rounds, bad team play synergy despite being a stack>get destroyed 13-6>bloo you are fucking idiot, you lost this game, you are slow, no braini hate four stacks so goddamn much, absolute toxic bullying faggots 99% of the time. fucking herd mentality
>>2206762The most toxic lobbies are 3-4 stacks with an E-girl in them.
>>2206669I did, then I mixed it up and use a small 200 transparency cross hair now and am playing better than ever.Old:CSGO-dBRiZ-kYLzX-4pmkO-RyBtU-W8nQDCurrent:CSGO-8jX5o-aHVe3-fMV3F-9kZKd-VKzMMBoth on 1280x960 stretched
>Fixed an issue that led to a small number of users to erroneously receive a VAC ban.
I've seen more awp no scopes in the few weeks I've been playing CS2 recently than in the whole time I played CSGO, what the fuck is this shit?
Is csfloat the best way to sell bulk cases?I have about $8k worth, mostly winter esports and weapons case 2 that I picked up cheap 10 years ago.
>>2031987should i play premier or competitive
>>2207887depends on how serious you want to play and care about grinding uppeople troll a lot on competitive, it's a lax mode. i don't like the fact that has map based ranks, there's a lot of randomness in there. Premier shows the skill level better, but there's a lot of cheaters when you start climbing over 20k. Comp has way less bc nobody cares about comp rank anymore since they introduced Premier.
>>2207887There's nothing "serious" about premier. Just play Premier if you want good matches. The entire point of matchmaking in any game is to get you balanced matches, that's it. You will never be a memesport superstar playing ranked in a game and you should never ever value your rank in a game.
>>2206923ThanksSeems like tiny crosshair is helpful to you and me lmao
>Switches to tiny crosshair once>Went from shitter to better than shitter>>2205088Use tiny crosshair like me and this guy >>2206923
Your crosshair literally doesn't matter. So long as you have something indicating the center of your screen that isn't obstructing your view it has absolutely no effect on your aim.Thinking your crosshair affects your aim is some white girl shit. Next you'll be putting crystals on your desk to align your chakras.
>>2209853I've been top fragging ever since i put crystals on my desk...
>>2209853>not aligning your chakras to fragout in csNGMI
>>2205550>5v5 is the way counterstrike is meant to be playedImagine if the game was played in 6v6. Imagine the kino
>NA Premier>Map isn't Mirage or Dust2 >50% chance one or more zoomer teammates start to whine about how the map sucks and they don't know it while running around like a headless chickenWhy are so many CS players like this? The game has less actively played maps than ever with the decline of community servers but so many players are allergic to learning anything outside of their 2-4 comfort maps.
>>2210405the best part is when people pick mirage and don't know a single instant window smoke
>>2209853
Time for the important questions anons, is there an orange m4a1s skin other than atomic alloy(it's too metallic)? Couldn't find one, am I doomed to waiting till they release one to complete my loadout?
>>2211072Nitro, it's one of the cheapest m4 skins as well
>>2211139Oh yeah forgot about that one, thanks!
I traded up to FN Mogul glovesI like them, but I was considering trading them for low float Amphibious glovesWhat should I choose?Knife is a doppler phase 4
Why does it feel like this game is full of.. stupid people?Like the bottom fragger randomly getting angry at your play and getting you kicked?Or someone constantly backseating and getting mad you didn't do exactly what they said then they spend the entire match being toxicOr unironically getting mad you didn't win 3 on 1 then kicking you despite them dying to the same scenario even worseIt's just full of brainless retards who try to downstream being bullied by their domineering mothers or something lol
pinup girl coolin on da claw - y/n?
>>2215714not bad
>>2209853the real secret is turning on follow recoil and using a crosshair that changes while you spray
>>2215185It's simple, if someone on your team starts berating people on your team put them on mute and report. If someone values a win over treating people with respect then subtly throw the game let them seethe.
>>2215714Pas mal
Have they added MR9 back yet? It was my favorite game mode.
>>2031987why do I get insane jitter on this game? From what google can tell me, it's just a common issue and you can't do shit about it.
Just bought B the Monster yesterday in FT 0.159, it’s amazing :D
>>2219173Switching to Ethernet fixed it for me but if that’s not possible then it might be hard to fix.
>>2219173Valve servers are really quite bad
>>2219573seems that way. Been playing Enemy Territory lately and it's like butter compared to CS2
>>2219857Good game that. I played so much rctw back in the day, and little bit of ET. I hate to shill it, but i just play faceit now. I played some prem first time in weeks yesterday and could barely hit anything. Maybe i was tired after a faceit marathon, idk. I get a lot more jitter and the redtext "slow server tick" (or however it's called) notices on mm.
>>2219979We just play goofy maps like office and italy because there's way too many cheaters in CS and cheaters on those maps tend to be shitters anyway. All the guys I play with are ex LAN players that can't really be bothered taking the game seriously.
>mute 4-stacks>disconnecters>griefers>guy with twice my rank playing with an obvious smurf on the other team>round 0 tilters>rude childrenpremier's been rough lately
Trying something new and it's quite nice. I normally play 1280x960 stretched on a 16:9 screen, the extra wide models are nice but people swing at lightning speed. The compromise is a custom res:1536x960, it's 16:10, so still a bit stretched (11% vs 33%) but swings are easier to react to and fps isn't heavily impacted.Make a custom resolution in NVCP/AMD software or CRU and you can select it ingame without having to use launch options.
Leaf living in EU here.Wtf is up with EU servers ?1. 80% of my games are slavic retards who can't speak english, can't play as a team and go ballistic the minute they lose a round, even 4-stacks of slavic players don't even use their mics and if they do its always in russian with soviet era background noise as if his fucking internet was under EU sanctions2. Tactics do not exist, everyone just doing their lone wolf shit trying to be Zywoo, mongoloids who can't snipe always going for the AWP, retards who can't shoot trying to rush, people who hear the AWP and still peeking like morons even when you warned them not to3. Only way to truly win and move up in premier is either do a 5-man premade with reliable friends (Which i dont have because i keep meeting eastern euro trash) or pray you got a smurf/cheater on your team.Starting to miss NA servers now lowkey
>>2222722You're being matched with that caliber of player because you're that caliber of player.>Only way to truly win and move up in premier is either do a 5-man premade with reliable friendsThis is true of any game with matchmaking ever. You remove the biggest source of RNG by playing in a premade.>move up in premierAnyone who cares about "moving up" in ranked is a retard tbqfh
I hate agent skins I hate agent skins I hate agent skins fucking valve piece of shit let me disable it
I love my cool agent skins
Office is my favorite map. I might start only playing comp with that and Italy selected, and play Premier for everything else.
>>2223418I didn't even get my premier rating yet, so matchmaking is wild at the moment hence the retarded team mates i keep getting. I couldn't care less about moving up, only to get to a bracket where im not surrounded by fucktards 24/7.
>>2223791I hecking love getting wallbotted/aimbotted by unironic cheaters in that map
>play some dm >start aiming good clicking heads>retard tries to votekick me>ask why>silence>second votekick>voted offIt's getting really frustrating, happens especially in the morning, guess it's some noob kids
>>2223791Same dude, there's nothing like a cozy round of office to clear the mind. I think I may have more games on that map in comp than any other put together (tbf I don't play much comp).
>>2224440Why play DM when you can duel?
>>2232377I like the chaoticness and to get the drops. Played duels on some hungarian server some time ago, it was pretty fun
i get really bad lag spikes on community servers, but have really good connection in premier. im not sure if its the servers themselves, since im getting crazy lag in all of the,. anyone have this happen to them
any ausfags who want to play?
Ive used alot of dif codes on Hellcase one i found on Reddit was cs2luck100 its an good code that gives %10 deposit bonus and if its you first time on hellcase and you click on the promocode button beside the refill button u get 0.7 cent free
>>2237678Me too something feels off the padt couple of weeks
I havent played for about 10 years and i used to be supreme master back then. Anyone knows the equivalent to premier rank?
>Frag York>literally a new venue where next to nothing is tested to function with 100% certainty>maxes out instantly>has NiP and other European teams sign up because of VRS>"lmao let's expand the tournament by double">expands into the Thursday before the weekend tooCan non-invite LANs go back to being for regular people that have jobs? What the fuck.
>>224301920k, but people also got better and you're rusty af. If you calibrate to 10k, it'll be impressive
>>2032043BASED
>be me playing cs2>peek dust 2 short>see oponent hold the angle on me>trip and fall>my spaghetti, shits everywhere>put it back in my pockets>pick up my gun back but it slips because of the sauce on hands>manage to pick it up>kill the oponent who just started to see me peekingI love cs2
>>2222722Normal Europeans don't play Counter Strike/they stopped playing in like 2016. The game is exclusively for Slavic/Turkish retards and a few western-EU boomers who haven't got the memo.
>friend group wants to give cs another shot>for reference last time we played was like 8 years ago>sold some skins over the years since I wasn't too attached>look up market history>awp corticera is now 400 (sold for 30)>m4a4 xray is now 330 (sold for 6)>other skins in my inventory skyrocketed in price>friends all had the same happen to them including selling for now criminally low pricesWhat the fuck happened here? Why did they go so high, nobody gave a shit about those two, especially the corticera. Even now if I had 400 steam funbux burning a hole in my pocket I'd get a mortis or redline over it, that thing sucks.
>>2255500A few months ago Valve allowed for red skins to trade up into knives. Ever since the market for reds has gone completely insane.This is on top of the fact that very old stuff was already getting very rare and due to trade-ups etc was in high demand.
>>2254667game hit record player numbers a while ago, what are you on about? There are a lot of bots in dm but I hear it was the same in go
How are there people who get good at this game so fast? I see people who get to faceit lvl 10 in 1k-2k hours. How do they learn the game that fast? How do they get such solid crosshair placement that fast? Are they just genetically gifted and high IQ learners, or is there a specific way to learn the gap as fast as possible. Deathmatch doesn't seem to work great for xhair placement since all the warmup servers are just mirage and d2
i hate how people keep banning anubis. the new hole in the wall in mid is the best thing that ever happened to me
>>2200606its not a carrot-on-a-stick problem, its because the new separate ranks for maps is an agonizingly dogshit system>yeah you need like at least 70 wins (probably double that) to get ranked, let alone to get reasonably matching ranks>actually that will never happen because barely anyone plays comp and the playerbase will be so incredibly fragmentedwhat the fuck are they thinking
>>2257520I've been grinding since Nov 2024 and have 2500 hours, and I am barely 10k Premier lol, maybe I'm just not made for this.
i just topfragged a 13-11 win full AK / Double AK lobby as a silver elite and wasn't called a retard/noob once
>>2259379damn 2.5k hours all in a little over a year. are you just grinding premier or practicing other things
reply to me with your highlights or funny clips i want to see what you guys are up to
>>2224440>ask why>silencethey're bots a lot of the time. many are programmed to join as a group and they eventually populate and take the server over by kicking others to optimize farming
>>2259441Practicing, have also been doing refrag routines almost daily for like 6 months now.
>>2259493damn what?!?!? maybe this game just comes down to genetics thats insane
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>>2259462spray and pray, the smg way
>>2031987I'm so sad they cancelled Classic Offensive, fuck Valve for ever
>Got kicked by knifing retards on Office/Italy deathmatch serverI HECKING LOVE THIS GAME
