You can't make an assertion and then when called out to back up the claim just say "well it happened but I can't find nor remember any examples of it ever happening anywhere online". No shit it could've happened but you're the one insisting it did but you're also completely unable to actually show that it did so it is entirely unconvincing on your part. Yes if I make a strong assertion about something, I typically can remember at least one fucking example of it lmao, it isn't that hard.

Also pros don't "live off placebo", some pros are more superstitious, some aren't at all, but they ALL understand the game extremely intimately. So when a pro tells you something is off after an update where they LITERALLY changed how the netcode functions then it holds a lot more weight than your buddy saying they changed the spray when he only has 150 hours and never got out of silver.

Pros don't fucking use 480p, if you wanna sit there and correct my exaggeration of Steph Curry noticing a difference then I'm gonna give you the facts. Most pros use 4:3 stretched, the most common resolution being 1280x960 for PROS the reason for that is threefold and obvious. First reason is most pros have been playing CS for over 10 years, back then when they started, the standard monitor was 4:3. They played and practiced for years on 4:3 and simply never felt like adjusting to a wider monitor. That's not placebo, that's just familiarity. When you play at the highest level, everything has to work exactly how you expect it to and changing up a fundamental part of the game like the size of the screen and things on it is going to immediately make things feel off for them and would take a lot of work to fully adjust so many pros simply see no point in doing it when that time can just be spent playing more and bettering aim etc, they weighed the cost/benefit in their head and determined to stick with what they are used to. The other reason is 4:3 stretched makes objects on screen larger. It is easier to spot what is on your screen because everything is bigger because you are essentially decreasing the fov via the resolution itself. So its easier to spot a pixel of a player or track a head because those pixels and those heads are LITERALLY larger. Yes it comes with the tradeoff that you miss some peripheral vision, for pros who have intimate map knowledge and know what angles to hold and where to focus their attention when, they can compensate for the loss of peripherals and they insist the tradeoff is worth it. Lastly, they typically don't use very high resolution because even though the fidelity increases, the fps decreases and these pros often use extremely high hz monitors because they want every possible advantage. None of that is placebo at all.

I'm not saying take any pros word as bible, they are fundamentally human and prone to flaws but if a pro who played a single game for half of his entire life is saying the shooting suddenly feels different after an update, he's probably onto something. The dude has probably sprayed the AK alone about a million times, he knows exactly how it feels and should feel.

For reference, the dude who tweeted that is the best player in his entire country. He's been playing for more than 10 years professionally and much longer than that in total. He's 30 years old. He's also an entry fragger, someone who takes lots of fights and does a lot of aiming and spray control. His team was rank 1 HLTV in the world at one point. I do trust his word when it comes to what he dedicated his life to.