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the only game that i had the chance of winning today got cancelled due to a network error, the last one was winnable but we had a retard teammate who left after losing the first 2 rounds

leetify bros we're broken

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Karambit with a shit finish or Talon knife with a nice finish?

>>3186518
shit finish is relative so you have to tell us which ones but personally id wouldnt buy a talon

>>3186522
Minimal Wear Ultraviolent Karambit or a Slaughter Talon (or something similar price wise)

Karambit doesn't look too good with wear on the blade but its nicer than a talon in general lol

>>3186528
Factory new Talon*

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Fuck

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>Kilowatt
Skipped for chicken feed

>>3186528
just get the karambit

>>3186528
What's the price of a high wear blue steel Karambit?

>>3186528
Get the karambit, it looks good

>>3186528
I made the decision to get a very mid bfk and I very much prefer this over say a Doppler Bayo or Skeleton Fade etc.
Karambit and bfk really have a level of smoothness to them which no other knife in the game has. There is nothing which they could be done better while literally every other knife has some animation or other design issues.

I must say though a talon slaughter is an exceptionally good looking knife so I would understand if you got that instead

>>3186575
Here, use this site

https://csgoskins.gg/items/karambit-blue-steel/battle-scarred

>>3186601
My hang up with the talon is that it alternates between the regular inspect (very nice) and the spinning inspect which I don't like. You can manually spin the karambit instead of it being an inspect. Leaning towards the karambit like everyone's saying.

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My ping is consistently 24, and I think that is F-ing me because all the dirty foreigners I play against have 100+ pings and I suspect that's why all my shots miss and all theirs hit.

>still no major stickers
I hope Valve HQ has something terrible happen to it if they do that jewish dynamic pricing shit again

>>3186603
Cs2inspects allows you to view them almost 1:1 in game through your browser

>>3186609
That's my problem with it too, otherwise I'd be rocking one now.
You can f+r spam and it will spin but the animation differs every time you do it while Karambit has this perfect loop

i get a leaver basically every game now either on my team or the enemy team. these vermin are just as bad as cheaters and should get fucking gimped

>>3186749
I'm a professional game leaver/AFK'er

>>3186756
get gimped

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YEAAAAAAAA

>bfk lost €300 in value in just a few months
Man I know it was never an investment and I mostly paid with overinflated skins but I'm still butthurt. I always imagined I could just cash out and be rich, now I am much less rich

>>3186962
Huh maybe I should wait until after the major to buy, there's usually an uptick of players after each one.

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>now I am much less rich
>much
>$300

>>3187218
that's a lot of money dude. i make 29k a year and thats about half my monthly rent

>>3187256
grim

>>3187218
My entire inventory is down well over 1k and only kept up by a bunch of weird old skins which have exploded.
Core items like gloves and knives are all down the drain

WHY THE FUCK IS THERE ARMORED AIM PUNCH

>>3187379
>weird old skins which have exploded
Recently I went through the 10 or so skins I own and found out that at one point my inventory would have been valued at 1k because skins like the M4A1S Leaded Glass I paid a couple Euros for had been pumped to something like 250€. I actively make an effort not compulsively check the value of my inventory. I buy cheap skins in a game I occasionally play with friends, I don't want to see it as an investment, that's what the stock market is for.

>>3187379
i wouldnt really worry too much about it and constantly checking the value of your inventory if you're not looking to move assets quickly is kind of silly
prices are still probably going to decrease a bit but the initial crash of people dumping because of the gold trade up, terminals and the player base "exodus" has already slowed down alot
unless you did some stupid shit like buying big ticket items at the peak of the bubble like a butterfly emerald at 15k your inventory is going to stabilize if its diversified enough

>>3187580
Yeah for me some absolute bangers were
- p2000 fire elemental
- galil chatterbox
- m4a4 paladin royal
- p90 cold blooded
- r8 fade
- ak47 leet museo
- deagle pilot
Just some stuff I kept around for fun and was never really attached to just rocketing past $100.
>>3187673
I don't check it compulsively but I do check sometimes to see what the overal market is doing and I notice I'm taking big hits in the last few months.
If I had known this I would have definitely liquidated 90% and just kept some cheapos which I think look just as good.

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I watch aim community content on youtube. These guys literally do everything to gain a competitive advantage. Wearing sleeves, glass mousepads, perfecting their posture, distance to monitors. The dedication and autism involved are amazing

>>3187950
And all of them are just pub heroes.

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>next CS major will be played on OLED
The soul will be gone from this world for good.

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>stoned out of my mind
>join an inspect server to check out some knives
>forget what I was doing
>start tapping away at people, nothing happens
>disconnect

>>3188123
OLED has least motion persistence / ghosting of all modern displays. You can read text as it strafes on your screen.

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my best ever purchase in this game are these tiger gloves. It's been hundreds of hours and I keep beeing surprised by how fucking nice and punchy they are.

>>3188207
It's worse than Zowie at equal refresh rate

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big game with an urban masked skeleton knife is cool. the little branch looks like it's coming out of the knife

>>3187950
>the aim community
i've literally only heard this term used in the context of cheaters trying to sound legit.

I make decent money but I feel like I'm doing something terribly wrong if I bought a 1k knife. But I want one...

>>3189060
do you like playing cs?
people have spent more on worse things like drugs and alcohol
atleast with cs you can always recoup some money back or even turn a profit and now is a pretty good time to buy because of the crash
the risk of course is not knowing when and where the bottom would be or you could miss out on a good deal

>>3189060
Go for it. I see no difference between the guy who buys and displays rare vintage posters, antiques etc than the guy who does the digital equivalent. What kind of knife were you looking at?

>>3189079
I love CS, its the only game I play. Recouping the money back is a good thing but it honestly feels pretty irresponsible to drop 1k on a virtual item in a game. That 1k has a lot better use financially, rather than being stuck in my inventory for years.

Its like a mental block.

>>3189081
Karambit - Slaughter. I kinda get it, like its a nerdy cheaper equivalent to being a car guy lol

>>3189103
since cs is the only game you play you can view it as spending 1k on something that brings some form of enrichment in your life
would you feel irresponsible spending 1k on something like a hobby or a vacation?
and you can always kind of get the money back if you wanted to
yes you could use 1k more responsibility but i feel like people get too focused on money sometimes and fail to be present and enjoy life for a little bit

>>3189129
>would you feel irresponsible spending 1k on something like a hobby or a vacation?
That is true. Money I spent on a holiday does not come back, but its worth it.

fuck it i’m buying a superstrike

Skeleton knife is overrated.

If the rare draw animation was the default then it would be top tier.

>>3189254
I bought the first version and its shit. The top half of the mouse is heavier than the bottom half and it makes it feel whack. The HITS bullshit doesn't do shit.

>>3189143
the way I felt better about mine was just putting it on paypal pay-in-4. that way it was only taking a piece of my paycheck every 2 weeks instead of a huge hit all at once

>>3189261
both my deathadder pros only lasted ~2 years (and i’m not slamming them or spilling shit on them) so i’m willing to try something new. this one has a problem charging and seems to disconnect once a day at terrible moments

>>3189285
Get a Zowie or Vaxee mouse, shit's built solid. The X2 Superstrike was fucking awful and I've used a lot of mice. Maybe X3 Superstrike is better and fixed but they are so expensive

>>3189103
>Karambit Slaughter
Good choice, and easy to resell if you don't want to keep it. I have a friend who bought a heart pattern karambit slaughter recently, the more sought after patterns don't fetch as much overpay as they used to.
If you're not struggling financially, and you enjoy the skin, go for it. Skins = wins is also true to an extent because CS is a confidence based game
>cheaper than being a car guy
That's for fucking sure

>>3189293
never heard of vaxee. i’ll look into those, thanks

>>3189300
Vaxee is a company created by the original Zowie design team who created all those famous Zowie mice. They make top tier mice and mousepads that's used a lot by CS pros. I main a Vaxee XE-S myself

i miss when gambling sites offered instant skin deposits, i used to bang gambling sites out and reverse the trade if i lost

Cobblestone is coming for Christmas

>>3189383
what makes you say that? god i hope they get rid of dust

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>>3189440
We are getting into schizo territory but the last time Valve used an emoji in the tweet of a release note, we got Cache soon after (they used an emoji of a Radioactive sign).

Snowy cobblestone has been datamined for years as well

>>3189460
>schizo territory
it's not the communities fault that valve teases things subtly

>>3189460
well that emoji is because they added the frost shaders

>>3189470
They added what? Is it something for map makers

>>3189475
its like how in train its raining and you get droplets on your weapon and model
with the frost shaders you get icy effects and when you go indoors it warms up and disappears

>>3189129
Keek I felt the same for a 60 dollar skin(the most expensive thing I bought)

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>>3189475
Similar to how rain/water effects gloves and weapon textures, cold weather gives gloves/weapons a frost effect

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>>3187950
>aim community
not a thing and never was, at most its random unaffiliated autists playing all kinds of mainstream FPS games, quake, osu, obsessed with hitting heads / crits.
The whole "aim community" thing of today is a another way of saying trannies and cheaters obsessed with e fame and "aim trainer" records (which are more often than not cheated anyway)
>sleeves
you wear sleeves with age, your hand is bigger, heavier, adds friction, sleeves solve that
>glass mousepad
again less friction, not an actual solution to any aim related problem thought, people always go back to regular big mousepads
>posture
you find your personally preferred position naturally, perfect aiming posture is a meme
>monitor distance
you find your personally preferred monitor distance naturally, perfect monitor distance is a meme
>aim community youtubers
grifters trying to sell you "aim" courses, telling you the most obvious shit ever or straight up bullshit, trying to build trooncord communities and gain e fame.
Donk, Kyosuke, Monesy, Niko, Scream are perfect examples of aim obsessed autists.

t. aim obsessed unc autist who fell in love with perfect tracking with lightning gun, perfect air shots with rocket launcher and perfect hits with rail gun in quake 3 because its fun, sick and tingles my brain

>>3189512
>>3189508
Perfect. They added it specifically for the Cobblestone remake!!!!!!!!!

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Season 6 will remove Ancient for...vertigo, train or overpass

>>3189532
hopefully vertigo because its actually fun
new train is shit
overpass is very mid and "ugh" to play

>>3189536
I agree with you. I fucking demolish on Vertigo but no one wants to fucking play it on Faceit currently. Valve will FORCE them to play it in season 6

>>3189460
interesting. the major starts very soon but maybe they’ll add it to comp after that in mid/late dec. i’m assuming the update yesterday was mostly getting the major stickers/prediction coins ready as it should he launching tomorrow or so (usually 11 or 12 days before)

>>3189516
i wouldnt really consider donk and kyousuke as aim obssessed autists they just have good aim naturally
monesy and niko does kind of veer towards a bit of the woo woo and scream is just a one tapper
the only pros i can think of thats like actually a weird autist to that level is elige and ropz pretty sure elige even hired an aim coach

>>3189536
What do you not like about overpass?
Completely agree with you on the train remake, they completely gutted the back ivy area and removed all nuance of playing around the traincars/ladders by making the traincars too fat and rounded

>>3189559
I mean they added Cache like a month before Cologne. Maybe Cbble in a few weeks, then the major, then it goes active duty.

I'm dreaming

>>3189536
vertigo is such a fun map. there’s too many basic lane aggro maps in this current pool and it would slot nicely along nuke as something different. still kinda wish overpass was in the pool as well

Ancient is most likely getting removed but I hope they get rid of Mirage instead and give us a refreshed Mirage in season 7. Most CT sided map in the pool btw.

>>3189563
>elige and ropz
larpers
>i wouldnt really consider donk and kyousuke as aim obsessed autists
they are the biggest examples of aim autists, no one has naturally good aim, you just develop it naturally, they are natural aim autists, not larpers who need to hire aim coaches (lul) or watch youtube for perfect posture.
>the only pros
aim autismo is not profitable, most pros actually have aim autismo, just not to the point of prioritizing it over everything else (even actually winning the fight like scream)

>>3189572
major starts on the 24th so idk they’ll probably be spending the next week or so just putting the announcement focus on that and drop it after

>>3189579
how much do you think pro play affects their map pool choices? a lot of teams have been picking ancient again lately so idk

>>3187950
I've tried all of that
>Wearing sleeves
Doesn't matter.
>glass mousepads
Actively detrimental.
>perfecting their posture
Doesn't matter.
>distance to monitors
Doesn't matter.

>>3189571
Honestly i don't think its a bad map, i can't remember a single "bad time" i had with it, i do hate all of the boosts though.
I don't know how to say it, it just feels very "ugh / mid / tiresome" to play, that might be just my preference.

Now that i think about it, both a and b sites feel very claustrophobic to retake (think choke point)

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>>3189579
>>3189600
Anubis is going to be removed again not Ancient.

Also Cbble fucking sucks ass, shit CT sided map. Way too big

>>3189654
Maybe they’ve spent this goddamn long because it’s a rework and not a kinda straight remake like Cache. I mostly played source in the 00’s so I only played cobble in csgo casual when I came back before cs2 and it was kinda brutal

Having an updated Danger Zone seems like such a no-brainer what could be stopping them? Sometimes I don’t want to play competitively and the other modes are just shit

>>3189713
I actually like Rush

>>3189720
with proper ranks and a premier-style badge it could be better. I just don’t find the maps fun and teammates are a gamble

>>3189713
>what could be stopping them
there are like 3 (joke) people working on CS2, things that need to be done require engine level of codding, at that point its more of a source 2 development and im pretty sure they are "working on it"
i genuinely believe all of the scripting updates are not purely for community servers or custom maps, they are basic shit that cs2 team needs for development.
source 2 is pile of shit that had nothing ready in it, its why we lose like a 100 fps just by opening scoreboard, that shit is probably some of the most rotten and wildest spaghetti code out there

>>3189653
>both a and b sites feel very claustrophobic to retake
True, it feels like the map is played similarly to nuke late-round, especially with the vertical play back A site/heaven B area.
>tiresome to play
That's understandable. Overpass takes basic CS play to the extreme when it comes to falling off angles and giving up space as a CT, which makes for drawn out rounds as T side has to play more meticulously than other maps. Early round CT aggression is rather limited on overpass outside of connector, as a result a good portion of CT rounds depend on conn control. This is why you'll often see pro teams gamble-stack a random site when they lose conn. I love Overpass, but connector might be my least favorite place to fight in the game.
It's a very slow map with bursts of action dotted throughout

>>3189754
I imagine most hands are on for getting Deadlock out and other stuff. CS is still I money train even with a couple dozen people working on it. Though we have got a lot of interesting though not entirely huge and eye-catching changes this year; mags, silent reload, animgraph, cache, smaller stuff like nade buys etc

>>3189754
>>3189782
I think AustinCS who visited Valve recently said there's roughly 30 people working on CS which is kinda crazy to think about.

>>3189782
pretty sure at valve people get to pick what they want to work on
deadlock probably attracts the most workers because its new and its probably alot of fun to work on because theres alot of creative freedom
cs is pretty much a complete game at this point at 26 years old
the only things that need active work are maintence improving stability and optimization which probably doesnt require much manpower and anticheat which is going to be a specialized job anyways
and like the anon said the scripting updates are going to be the foundation for alot of the game modes and community driven mods

>>3186601
I reckon bfk is the better choice for poor cunts, karambit needs a good finish or it looks mid and I'm not buying a doppler karambit

all i ask for is teammates who have sound and can hear

>>3190205
Okay but they're all Russian

>>3189060
I have the same. I bought my expensive gear by buying individual skins worth like $20-80 and then selling a bunch + adding some cash.

>>3189254
>>3189261
>>3189285
I've went back to wired mice. I now have an OP1 and the wired Deathadder V3.

>>3190184
Karambit black lam my man, go check it out

Also genuine welfare line brokies walk around with shit like Nomads and Kukris they cannot even afford a safari mesh BFK

>>3189786
I imagine Valve has set up some Potemkin development wing with tranny figurants clicking away on their mechanical keyboards connected to nothing (or playing deadlock like they all do) to simulate a videogame development team.

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>>3189516
>Donk, Kyosuke, Monesy, Niko, Scream are perfect examples of aim obsessed autists.

>>3189585
>elige and ropz
not that anon, but i know elige plays kovaaks and spent 1k+ hours in aim strainers. his gf goosebreeder is on the aim trainers too.
>they are the biggest examples of aim autists, no one has naturally good aim, you just develop it naturally, they are natural aim autists, not larpers who need to hire aim coaches (lul) or watch youtube for perfect posture.
How are they aim autists? I know their aim is their strong point, but I'm not sure if they play any aim trainers? I don't think donk plays any aim trainers but he grinds for high HS% in DM. I think he mostly just plays a shitload compared to everyone else and thats why he has good aim.
Please explain this "aim autismo" more. To me elige fits it the most since he grinds kovaaks

>>3190642
>plays a shitload
>grinds high HS% in DM
aim autismo
>grinds kovaaks
trannies, larpers, cheaters looking for a quick and easy solution to aiming, a trick to make them just like donk without doing what donk is doing.

Aim trainers don't work, never did beyond basic "muscle memory" build up.
Elige is a special case of retarded

>>3190728
nigga what are you on about

>>3189605
I use my bed blanket for mouse pad, and is perfect
>>3189654
I hope not, because is the best map

>>3189654
This is just picks in pro play right? It's hugely skewed by teams being afraid of new maps and some perma bans. Ultimately you end up on these "neutral" battlefields like Ancient and Dust 2

The MP7 is goated and worth the extra money, it's like a MP9 with famas characteristics, but better than the sum of its parts.

Used by a few pros but it should be more common

>still no major stickers

>hop on cs2
>lose 13-2 with 3 blatant cheaters on the enemy team
yep it's still counter strike
thanks volvo

>>3191292
Unc nobody cares about those anymore

>>3191347
i care and im 30 years young so

please god, remove mirage, please...

>>3190783
Dude comes across as a retard, but he's right. Aim trainers don't actually do a whole lot, at most it'll give you insights and it will help teach you to obsess and hyperfixate on certain positions or angles. There is a reason why ramp on Mirage is considered "the donk spot".

>>3191301
go next puci

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>warming up to play a video game

>>3191347
I care. It's fun to follow and root for a team (yes I know this is the non esports thread). So I also like having that teams stickers on a gun.

>>3191292
maybe they're waiting for tuesday idk. the last three majors it was around 2 weeks before

>>3191735
>There is a reason why ramp on Mirage is considered "the donk spot".
ok nigga you too what the hell are you talking about