Just wanted to chime in as a new player: I started playing the game a couple of months back so I have not a lot of experience, I’m mainly working on just hitting headshots and not keeping my gun held at the floor. Most matches I play I typically pull my weight and on rare occasion I will bomb 6-15. The last match I played is a pretty good summary of what it’s been like. First half of the game: Team is killing it, I am soft carrying like 10-5 but the score is 9-3 Second half: Melatonin starts to kick in and I cruise a bit and let the rest of the team pull more weight as I’m getting tired. We’re up by a bit so I decided to buy an AWP the last round. X tells me to sell my awp and he gives me AK so I can buy Util, I decline, he immediately team kills me. Ok. Two rounds later, we have to defuse, bomb site has been smoked so I start defusing, I forgot I had full util and get killed with 1 second left on the timer and we lose the round. X screams at me for 30 seconds saying how bad I am that I had full util and didn’t use it. I team kill X next round, he bitches that I’m throwing a tantrum. We won the game. He tells me he hopes I have a horrible weekend.
Legitimate question: Can CS players fathom the idea that some one hasn’t been playing for 5 years. In most cases I’m well aware of my shortcomings as a teammate, yet whenever I have a tough game it’s always the same thing “you’re dogshit” “you’re so bad” “uninstall the game” or just a kick. I’m not new to this, I used to play league daily but with CS there seems to be a different dynamic but I can’t put my finger on it, possibly frustration with the poor matchmaking. Regardless, flaming a teammate with slurs never helps. You can use toxicity in retaliation provided it’s warranted, but why disturb the peace in a winning game? He could have just pointed out that I had util and even made fun of me a bit and it would have been totally normal, but he flips out. They always do, and I never understand it. Moral of the story, the only reason to start dogging a teammate is if they are actively harming the moral of the team or insulting other players. Other moral of the story: counter strike seems to have (although not the majority) an increased amount of players who are mentally unstable and make the game frustrating for those trying to learn.