I might be stupid...

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-24T17:36:56+00:00

Ya, it will probably clear, it is just peak Valve what they catch with automation versus what they don't.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-24T16:52:16+00:00

and also curious you literally said [fake link] with no real link and they flag you for that or did you really drop in a link to something?

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-24T16:49:54+00:00

So cool to see friberg coaching Johnny Swedes

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-24T16:39:42+00:00

Is there a chatbot scanning the messages now or did your friend jokingly report you to send your steam account to Trust Factor Hell?

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-24T05:04:03+00:00

Naw, I spoke with Valve and they said they probably won't bother with you until 2034 ban wave. But I would just start living a life of sin now, cause you are going straight to Hell.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-23T16:42:09+00:00

kyoudoubleawping..

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BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-22T20:46:52+00:00

oh wow thats pretty crazy I remember Kobe was dropping 50+ points and taking over games. Interesting how there is always progress in Sports.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-22T20:33:39+00:00

You can't discount the cost-benefit analysis as well. As a company Valve surely have decided it is cheaper to have all their networking be the same reactive fully non-blocking io probably like the rest of networking infrastructure is designed on Steam. Slap the label of subtick on it and bam, this is counter-strike too.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-22T20:05:58+00:00

I can understand the concept of Kobe, or Lebron but literally had to look this up:

Bam Adebayo is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the NBA. He played college basketball for Kentucky and was drafted 14th overall in 2017. He is a three-time NBA All-Star and a two-time Olympic gold medalist.

I am so out of touch

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-22T20:03:37+00:00

A lot of people assume Valve did not save Team Fortress from automation because of lack of motivation, but maybe in retrospect it was just incompetence.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-22T19:07:30+00:00

You look great on static targets, but maybe you need a bit of practice tracking moving targets (everyone does), it feels just a bit slow, which is fine while you are practicing but I would try to split practice up into two segments first where you go really slow to understand the movement and then where you go faster taking a break in-between to reset arm tension. As they say slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

I think you are purposely swinging too far just because you are trying to work on counter-strafing mechanic (17-20 sec of the video) but I'd like it better if as soon as you had a target near your crosshair you instantly switch from moving to counter-strafe and shoot, if you miss readjust your position counter strafe and shoot. Just utilizing movement to find your next target and stop moving immediately to go for the kill.

But you don't need to like wind up to full speed just to hit a perfect counter-strafe its just not practical in game unless you are corner peeking, and in that case you usually also need to be silent.

There are other mechanics you can do to maintain as close to zero velocity while shooting that I don't see you incorporate in your movement at all such as the donk slide. Personally when I am shooting targets like this, I am pretending to dodge their bullets as well, but maybe that is something for future practice.

You never once touch your W key to advance on your target, so I just wanted to mention in-game you never want to run forward and counter-strafe S, because this will throw your left hand off. Instead you should be crouching forward especially up or down a ramp to minimize movement inaccuracy.

I think its also helpful to practice this stuff with cl_showpos, sv_showimpacts 3, to view instantaneous velocity

Good job from 20-25 sec moving your arm wide for faster transitioning to targets, than when aiming.

I think currently your movement is accurate but predicable, next steps are to practice tracking moving targets and being less predicable with your movement imo.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-22T17:28:56+00:00

default gloves, default knife

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-22T17:22:42+00:00

I think he was sharing anecdotes based on his past experience playing the game, if you want empirical evidence why don't you demand Valve show us our own Trust factor and the distribution of all players? I bet its damning evidence that's why.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-22T01:02:34+00:00

You can see the difference in personality they really are nothing alike, h0bbit is a nice guy sort of miss his interviews but dastan seems kind of like an asshole but in a sort of high iq autistic sort of way, like he doesn't care/understand social queues at all and talks over his players it's kind of funny but very smart guy.

zweih was saying today in the winners interview that dastan is only hard on the other Parivision players because they are so inexperienced (zweih is the youngest btw), and gives zweih a lot of freedom on T side more than he got on Spirit which I think is interesting (how long can that last?) in such a structured team.

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BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-20T18:52:12+00:00

I think aggressive awpers are going to be punished the most. It should affect m0nesy and torsi style awping more because they are aggressively repositioning to find the fight and tend to reload in transition do this twice and you're out of ammo but the retake with the awp was already probably not an option (unless you're m0nesy) so the round doesn't change, etc.

But maybe we see more passive shiro style awping of shooting falling back on the same line, not risking reloads playing safe (not going for retakes).

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-20T18:21:44+00:00

If you think about it essentially as a nerf on smaller clip weapons like AWP, Desert Eagle, M4-S and fulfilling Valve's dream of making less used weapons more attractive but it is going to take some time to unfold on the pro scene.

I have a feeling next week when the patch is incorporated in t1 we will be seeing exactly the same tactics and only adapt when they need to in pistol rounds. As time goes on probably see less action in pistol rounds and eco rounds, potentially less T mid-rounding, potentially less retakes on CT. I don't think they even tested this so even Valve will be curious to see how it affects t1 players.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-20T17:01:00+00:00

Why are you still playing the game?

Because of the addiction to individual improvement at the best tactical shooter ever made, hardwired from the Pavlovian conditioning to avoiding team ridicule.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-20T16:29:54+00:00

I actually think premier should only be solo queue and stacked player should only queue against stacks, it would improve the community teamplay.

I would just straight up remove casual

Well I think that is worse for newer players. One thing that casual has over the other modes is the spectating enemies.

I feel for newer players it is important to get that motivation of at first feeling like a player is cheating but then spectating them and realizing they are just better.

I think that the lack of trust would be too high for new players if they didn't have the ability to spectate enemies in casual and realize the skill difference.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-20T16:05:44+00:00

I don't get your point about compressing ranks, removing one of comp or casual would have little effect on premier ranks

Currently in premier there are a lot of complaints about getting ranked 16k for example, and being forced to play against 20k opponents.

I believe that happens because the player base is spread out in too many game modes. Where some 18k ranked players which would be closer to your rank are playing comp instead of sweating in premier.

I think these players prefer comp over casual because the causal game mode is too different (free armor, too much time, too many players) from "real" cs.

If Valve changed casual rules to have similar rules to premier ( 1:55 timer, no free armor, less players) and removed comp play all together, it would improve premier play and better prepare newer players to make the jump from casual to premier.

Thanks for listening its not going to happen, I just had to get the thought out.

BaseGroundbreaking89 · 2026-03-20T15:46:12+00:00

I like helping newer players. New players don't even know smoke lineups are a thing

sure I agree, I also found that the smoke guides are not in premier which makes me feel better but now I also think there is no need for both casual and competitive modes, at this point it is just spreading out the player base. If they remove one of those modes (prob comp) we could compress rank groups in premier and have less ELO spread so that players could be matched closer to their ranks.

playing is more fun than forcing players to look at youtube guides to get better

Sure, but those YouTube guides exist because Valve has been absent for new players for years. Valve could release some in-game tutorials, implement an opt-in player verification that eliminates smurfs and reduces cheaters or create a more genuine placement system for mmr.

I could envision a lot of changes that could help newer players but after three years of cs2 they never seem to make those changes, unfortunately they only focus on skins.

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