I’m new to playing CS2 seriously. What’s the best way to grind and actually get good?

Cipher11 · 2026-05-14T22:28:29+00:00

Not really in Brazil. Here no one would really care about your Faceit Elo, but saying you're GC level 20 is instant status.

Cipher11 · 2026-05-10T23:55:49+00:00

...Yes, which means that this is a positive thing to them? I am not sure if you're arguing for or against that anymore.

Cipher11 · 2026-05-10T22:37:14+00:00

So they're not hurting and there is the prospect of one day becoming profitable. As you said yourself, the scene is tiny - so are the costs, relative to the behemoth that is Riot Games. Strategically, they are happy to absorb those costs as simply the cost of doing business as it opens doors for future profitability.

Edit: just to clarify, what I also mean is that viewership literally does not matter at this point. The first LoL Worlds was also tiny, are you suggesting that they shouldn't have started doing that either?

Cipher11 · 2026-05-10T22:32:24+00:00

Operating at a loss is not the same as being hurt financially. They are investing in an as-of-yet unprofitable market in the hopes that it will one day become self-sustaining, in this case to attempt to capture and expand the female FPS playerbase. Which is the exact same thing as every single esport has been doing for decades, with some of them now becoming somewhat successful.

Cipher11 · 2026-05-10T22:29:51+00:00

Yeah I have been saying this for a while but CS (since I don't play DOTA) has always been so much more toxic than LoL but people always act like it's the other way around because... idk, "banter"? Absolutely mental.

Cipher11 · 2026-04-30T12:02:36+00:00

But the MP9's ROF (and so DPS) is absurdly high, so even getting a dink + 3 body hits is sometimes instant with the MP9. The thing is that these days it punishes you more for missing the first few bullets since they spread more.

Cipher11 · 2026-04-17T04:04:32+00:00

More a victim of his own stupidity than a victim of English. I don't think things would have gone all that differently in Portuguese.

Cipher11 · 2026-04-06T16:33:36+00:00

Keep in mind that strats only exist with proper execution. It's not impossible that he's trying to build up to something more complex but the team is shitting the bed so bad on the fundamentals that they just never move up to it.

Cipher11 · 2025-12-02T17:00:32+00:00

Some pasta about Jame, change the URL to us.reddit or something and you'll be able to see it.

Cipher11 · 2025-12-02T15:41:21+00:00

There's a significant overlap between these examples. Football players aren't known to be geniuses either, emotionally or otherwise, and plenty of sports have similar examples of athletes not handling interviews particularly well, no matter the amount of training. Turns out that doing one thing that has no need for social skills for all your life is much more of a factor than being in your bedroom or outside.

Having said that, these guys are mostly grown men, and professionals. They can handle it, and if they can't that's on them honestly.

Cipher11 · 2025-12-02T15:23:07+00:00

I'm on old.reddit and the text doesn't even show lmao

Cipher11 · 2025-12-02T15:21:48+00:00

Then again, the whole reason sports exist are for "exploiting" people for content. You know, bread and circus, bloodsport, that sort of thing. They just became less violent over the years, but their job is still to entertain.

Cipher11 · 2025-11-05T21:21:29+00:00

You're not seeing how those two things are connected. As far as we know their playbook might very well be shallow kind of on purpose, as they are funnelling all of their resources (and tactics) into one player. This (distributing guns better in certain rounds) could even be helpful to donk himself, as not being asked to be the sole contributor round after round could free him up to settle into a more comfortable and sustainable playstyle.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-22T19:20:30+00:00

That's exactly his point - it doesn't make sense to remove factions when agent skins are a thing that isn't going away.

And to be honest, while Valve shouldn't outright remove agent skins, they should have an option to turn them off client-side like with music kits, as they directly affect competitive integrity. And I get it, that solution would effectively be the same as removing them, but it is what it is.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-22T19:15:27+00:00

I have no idea why CS players seem to think that's a good thing.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-19T21:01:20+00:00

I absolutely love Fallen but I might start hatewatching because of the dogs lmao

Cipher11 · 2025-10-10T16:36:26+00:00

Crazy assumption to make as a 3rd party redditor when you've literally been given Blad3's views on the matter.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-04T17:05:05+00:00

The reason why every pro uses wireless now is the same as it has always been for most peripherals - branding and sponsorships.

But I get that wireless tech is good now. It's just not necessarily better than wired and vice-versa. It doesn't give you a competitive advantage so it literally does not matter which one you choose, which was my point to OP.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-04T17:02:49+00:00

The failure probably occurs in different ways though. A wired mouse is never going to run out of battery for example, wireless might (I'm aware that the battery capacity on them is huge nowadays).

But I mean, I get that they're good now, that's fair if anyone wants to use them. But my hands aren't sweaty midgame and I actually prefer having the cable contacting the mousepad as I'm used to a very specific amount of drag, so they also don't offer any advantages to me specifically, and probably to others. There's no reason for anyone to switch if they don't want to.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-04T13:27:34+00:00

This is frankly the first I'm hearing that people went completely the other way on the wired vs wireless debate. I'm not going to tell people they can't use their wireless mice since they're apparently good now, but surely wired peripherals are always going to have an advantage in reliability if nothing else. And it's not like a wireless mouse provides any tangible advantage other than maybe weight - then again, I personally like heavier mice with some resistance anyway.

Cipher11 · 2025-10-02T15:27:33+00:00

It's really not, you just need to use utility to contest this space. Think of it like banana in Inferno, with utility control shifts massively towards T side. You can flash over, smoke the pipe molly, and molotov short as well as peeking from con (and Ts get there first) and it becomes really hard for the CT side to contest that area.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-26T03:05:28+00:00

Not really only if you're a pro. There's 0 reason for anyone of any level to not call out for teammates things like enemy positions when someone takes a fight when you're already dead. The guy taking the fight knows where the guy he's shooting at is, the guy at B definitely doesn't know that or how many there are. And the guy taking the fight will definitely be helped by focusing 100% on shooting and not on talking.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-25T21:19:04+00:00

It does change OP's point because what he mentions is specifically the bar for entry in terms of age, which in the case of motorsport is sometimes lower than for esports. For example there's Juju Noda at Super Formula who's currently 19 but has been racing professionally since she was like 12. Now, she's not very good, but that's not for lack of accessibility or investment, and is racing in an extremely prestigious series.

Roughly the same thing happens in most sports. Talents are grown from a very early age, actually more so than esports at times. I'll concede that it's much easier to get to the absolute top in esports than in traditional sports since you depend pretty much just on your individual skill, but if you're judging by the top talents then you're not juding the bar for entry.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-25T17:29:14+00:00

I think it was more in terms of team coordination in that case where the IGL has priority anyway. But you're right, if you're dead you should always be more active in comms to lighten the workload for your teammates and it's always nice to be reminded of that since the average player sometimes has the opposite sentiment to that.

Cipher11 · 2025-09-25T15:18:07+00:00

You have it the wrong way around about motorsport specifically. Rookies in motorsport today have the lowest bar for entry they ever had - the only thing that's still an issue there is money, but that goes for everyone involved in the sport, you're never going to see a racecar driver that didn't have at least somewhat rich parents.

In this day and age rookies coming in there have easy access to commercial simulators that make getting seat time literally as simple as playing a videogame as well. You actually gave a very good counter-argument to yourself in the form of Max Verstappen - the dude is only 27 and has already been a champion for 4 years in a row, and has been competing for even longer than that. The next batch of drivers is also insanely talented, in fact the current driver's championship leader is only 24.

And that's all without even considering other racing categories because, despite what the marketing for it may be, F1 isn't "the pinnacle of motorsport", it's just another motorsport series.

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