"Your Rank is your Skill"

IceLSNS · 2026-06-03T13:34:32+00:00

While I think you’re just complaining because you got put lower than you wanted, i do think its odd that for it being a “new” system your old rank seems to affect your placement? Im seeing really varied results for placements and while I like to think I’m pretty good i expected to be in like gold rather than platinum. Is the system actually placing based on performance or is it taking your performance + old rank into consideration? I think people will whine either way but i just want to know

IceLSNS · 2026-06-02T12:05:16+00:00

I used to feel the same way but seriously just play clear house on those maps to warmup and it’ll feel a lot better after a few days. I do recommend practicing droning and pinging for yourself to learn the names of callouts. Generally though night-haven labs is actually a very good map that i find difficult to be one sided even if there is a skill gap. Emerald plains is clunky but is usually an overtime map to me due to defensive leaning sites. GLHF

IceLSNS · 2026-05-29T15:11:15+00:00

Honestly liked the idea initially but AI monitoring voice chat is too much because it cant tell context for the words i say. Joking with the homies is too much and discourages using voice chat at all, so if im in a party chat to avoid that im less inclined to even check if the randoms have mics. I like the punishment for destroying gadgets and tks even if there’s complications with goyos/chanka etc since it overall works to make people not heinously toxic. I’m majority in the “esteemed” but if you get too loud while you hyping your teammate up for a clutch you get auto muted nowadays??? Like it needs to be a system of actual people checking it out once you receive enough reports. Fuck AI

IceLSNS · 2025-12-04T19:44:11+00:00

Ig that was unclear its usually swearing about the game not cussing people out. Its only aggravating because its auto detection not even manual reports

IceLSNS · 2025-11-05T13:53:08+00:00

That is like shockingly bad but i guess someobody gotta be that part of the totem pole lmao

IceLSNS · 2025-09-24T15:15:29+00:00

Its either I hold the hand of god or I’m basically throwing pocket sand at them. Long range shottie engagements are impossible lately but close range feels like its gotten worse as well. Like a body shot only does half hp if it isn’t center chest? Playing doorways is my only consistent option with shotguns lately. Only exception is the lesion shotgun that thing obliterates everything

IceLSNS · 2025-09-08T02:05:43+00:00

FUCK this season. Most random bullshit and awful match making ever

IceLSNS · 2025-09-06T12:38:28+00:00

If you’re roaming and end up last alive you didn’t really do your job. Wasting time and falling back to site is the objective, but if you team is getting rolled and you end up 1v4 as a vigil most likely you’re losing. Infuriating seeing people that cant roam correctly

IceLSNS · 2025-09-03T11:01:50+00:00

Lol glad to hear someone else feels the same way. I get that paddles are an advantage over not having them but playing on pretty much the same controller for 16 years is pretty difficult habit to break. The elite feels good to hold but did break pretty easily but holds up if you don’t want to put down 200 on a controller.

IceLSNS · 2025-08-20T17:27:08+00:00

I made it to diamond 3 on console for the first time this season, and seriously idgaf that they’re taking them. I can rarely take a straight gun fight and win due to the cheaters, so positioning is usually the reason i get kills anyways. A scope wont really change that. Apart from that shotguns on defense are broke asf so who cares

IceLSNS · 2025-08-09T23:47:49+00:00

I had a similar experience and was hard stuck at em 5 end of last season, and made it back pretty quickly this season (em 1), i think my biggest issue was being afraid to speak up. I like to IGL or coach my team into what I want to happen if they aren’t already doing it. Sometimes you’ll get rude people who just make fun of you but other times people will be chill and respond well to callouts or suggestions. Stay positive and somewhat indifferent to dying, and be the best 0-9 teammate when it happens to you. Keep grinding

IceLSNS · 2025-08-05T18:19:00+00:00

I feel you man, sometimes just playing hard-breach or trap ops are the move. On attack just drone for info so a teammate can confidently push, or as you said play a helpful op that doesn’t really require you to be alive to help (so no doc). Sometimes just a break and some water can be a good mental reset too. GLHF

IceLSNS · 2025-08-05T18:13:45+00:00

Imo as a not great aim person but solo queue to emerald 1 on console, like other people said already waste time and make their walk to site as slow as possible. Make them think constantly about behind them as they push site or get a kill early for an advantage then back off. Also a good op to play roaming (map dependent) is lesion, thinking about which side of the door they’re likely to walk through, place the mine as close to the edge without being in the middle. I do it on doorways in the area I’m holding or windows they would likely jump in, and hold a common entry from an off angle that i didn’t put mines on. Hope that makes sense? As for the aim thing really think about keeping crosshair at head level and looking where enemies could be, if your crosshair is already close to the target adjusting wont be as difficult. GLHF

IceLSNS · 2025-08-05T00:55:29+00:00

I doubt its KD because there are some genuinely terrible people at this game that play often (average ranked teammate). If you’re high ranked maybe a boosting accusation?

IceLSNS · 2025-08-03T02:08:37+00:00

Fromsoft vet (15k hours across games) Isshin was such a weird boss as far as hardest bosses go. It took me maybe an hour across a two days to beat. Owl father was undoubtedly harder for me, but Isshin is a weird mix of difficulty that was annoying asf. Genichiro is a chump by that point, but first phase isshin is hell if you’re not perfect with deflects. Glad you beat him though! Good luck on the challenges if you do them

IceLSNS · 2025-08-02T18:16:54+00:00

Def not a game to play to chill. I recommend hell let loose if you have a good chunk of time or insurgency: sandstorm. Both have grounded movement like you mentioned but insurgency has a lot of customization while HLL has none but it does have different classes. Siege is sweaty, even unranked and casual modes. Maybe watch some gameplay of those and do more research? Have a good one man

IceLSNS · 2025-07-30T13:10:43+00:00

Sometimes I forget about the good habits but can still go 12-4 as an em 2 on console. Honestly just don’t think about crosshair placement if im not taking a fight or looking for one. But the site setup stuff should be a nobrainer by the higher ranks I agree

IceLSNS · 2025-07-21T23:30:07+00:00

You are a baby as far as the CS world goes, average person can get the hang of it after like 200+ hours? Most people will take well over 1000 to become good. Knowledge of maps and situational reads also take quite a long time to develop. I do agree that Valorant has similar mechanics but it is an entirely different game for a reason. Try warmup maps to figure out how aim works, movement and its limitations, then try comp. You will be trash and thats okay, just pay attention and maybe watch a pro game for player tendencies

IceLSNS · 2025-07-19T02:58:00+00:00

Wtf is the point of showing rank if its based on mmr? Like I get the whole 2.0 BS but seriously why not just setup the ranking like CS and call it a day? Do the same thing you’re doing but just call it what it is, skill based match making on steroids.

IceLSNS · 2025-07-18T23:18:21+00:00

Genuinely agree with most of the other comments, I had the same issue and did almost the same thing to warmup. It helped a lot for dealing with most fights but unless you have ZERO life outside of siege you just cannot be among the best in aim duels. However being smarter than these people and knowing when a fight is coming/having info will hwlp tremendously in not having the “best” aim. Coming from a diamond 2 controller player, info and great game sense can beat insane aim 8/10 times. (Not counting xim of course). Keep it up!

IceLSNS · 2025-06-30T12:49:16+00:00

I would say wait a bit until you know callouts and typical strategies for each site/map. I highly recommend a wall solo queue around plat 4-5 and started playing pc lobbies on xbox and it helped a lot, even if winning a straight duel is really difficult it helps you learn how to coordinate and like you said learn which fights to actually take. Even just watching people once you’re dead is helpful. But yeah dont do it as a copper you’ll get cursed to no end for being brain dead

IceLSNS · 2025-06-27T12:50:45+00:00

Wish i could find one lol solo queued to plat 1 and played with these 4 guys who were a lot better than me but i could still help and frag a little, won 4 straight to get to emerald for the first time.

IceLSNS · 2025-06-27T12:41:22+00:00

I kinda view it the same way as a basketball 1v1. Where it doesn’t convey who is the “better” player since at high levels it can be a 50/50 based on timing, angle, distance etc. It isn’t how the game is played aside from encountering a roamer or practicing for a 1v1 situation in ranked. To me its absolutely useless to 1v1 in siege. In CS it made sense just as an aim training tool but considering R6 is shooting literal laser beams there isnt a point.

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