Counter Strike 2 gameplay discussion thread - no esport dweebs allowed.Discuss gameplay, updates, skins and anything else Counter Strike in this thread.>Last week saw perhaps the biggest market update since the knife tradeups. >Major Stickers are now sold directly from the in-game store with dynamic prices reacting to demand>The most popular one (Donk gold) has reached way over $1000>Also changes to tradeups with souvenirs making their entry and much moreThoughts?
>>2503875Yeah 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.
>>2505728Valve 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 gameplaycan you solve captchas?
Have any of you guys experimented with aftermarket mouse skates? What's the appeal? Are they better in some way?
>>2506346It's a level of autism I try to stay away from lest I lose myself in it
>>2505747I 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.
>>2507309I went from 10000 to 1000, and now I'm stuck to play with idiots
>>2505728game 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
>>2508110Valve 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
Posted it in the other thread >>2508499 already. Rate this craft for this major. Shame the stickers scrape poorly...
>>2508511I rank it 6.5/10. Feel like it would go better on a purple skin but the stickers are nice
>>2508553Like 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.
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.
>>2510040u gotta play premier to escape them... faceit NA is full of them
>>2510040I still run into slavs in AU premier lolNot sure if they're Russian or some other slavic lifeform but they're all fucking awful, screaming their heads off. Please go home.
>>2510040Be grateful there are no turks
>>2510040>>2510107I 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
>>2506159>CS:GO thread>Le skinsLMAO this board
>>2507562Good update would be to add +2 damage per hit to every weapon.
>>2510040Now 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.
>>2505728i need help with pick'em i want diamond coin what teams should i do? i only know GL will be good stage 1
>>2512547Tdu as 0-3. FQ I have slightly more faith in as 1-3
>>2512547You'll want to ask in the esports thread and consult this post >>2507417
>>2512547Gaimin 0-3BR 5-stack with a stand-in
AAAAHHHH WHEN WILL THE MARKET STOP CRASHING I BOUGHT GLOVES + BFK JUST LAST MONTH€300 DOWN ALREADY
>>2514553Idk anon, I bought a lower tier knife+glove combo and there still worth about the same :)
>>2514571Happy for u
>>2514553I 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
>>2514676Even 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.
>>2514553When major starts or when summer is over
>>2514654Poorfags stay winning
>>2506346Bought 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".
GIVE ME FUELGIVE ME FIREGIVE ME T SIDEOR I RETIRE
>>2515600Man I think my mouse came with extra skates and I just tossed them aside without thinking
>>2514782more 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
>>2515600I 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 potentialHow 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?
>>2520163I 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.
>>2519235You might wanna check up on the wireless thingWireless might be *faster* these days
>>2520163Prefire maps (5e is easy to find), actual aim training like kovaak's (cs+tracking drills), community DMYes 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?
>>2522473Csnades.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 serversLeetify 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 gearAim_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 afterCsstats training map, aim_botz, recoil master are some popular warm-up mapsHLTV 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/brazillianbesides 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 RussianI 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.
>>2523431a 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 wayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaBOoZ_YQeU&list=PL0U4_MYvXNgPVmVFpvpLEoBCdYrhoZJsh
>>2523473Thank you
>>2523765also, 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
