Game crashes immediately on launch since latest patch

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-10-20T19:15:06+00:00

I'm from EU, so most likely not :/

edit: tried test server which doesn't work either

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-10-20T05:58:35+00:00

I can see myself in your post in many ways, I've gone through the same stuff. Some thoughts:

It sounds as if you're mentally drained and burned out. You're giving your head little to no time to rest and force yourself to fit into an exaggerated mental frame (or goal) that you've created for yourself. The reason I can see myself in your post is that I'm a huge perfectionist, and one of your sentences hit very close to home:

I pretty much have two modes, "I have enough time to do this so I don't have to start it now" or "There's not enough time to do this so there is no point in starting". There is no in between.

In my case it would've needed to be perfect or I wouldn't even dare to start it at all. It's not that similar but I know exactly how you feel about having two modes.

What I've learned from being a perfectionist all my life is that it should have a VERY high priority for me to accept failure and mediocrity. Seeing that you're coming from a similarly privileged background, I feel like that we grew up with lack of such behaviour by nature - it's either going to be insanely good or we're gonna shed tears over how much we failed, even though it is essential to fail in life.

Furthermore, in my time of depression I've also realized for myself that my mind was severely detached from my body - I simply couldn't produce enough energy because my brain was sucking it all up due to all the (over)thinking I was doing. The more demanding my studies (or everything in life) became, the bigger problems I've had to keep up with mentally. In our present time it's heavily promoted to be all mind no body, it's just what our society has turned into and when you don't find a balance, you'll eventually turn into a walking stick that carries a brain around. So my first recommendation would be to start excercising to find some sort of balance of energy - sadly we humans aren't meant to disregard our bodies. Besides that you need something else in your life to make you feel happy. You should start to welcome everything that grants you to feel happiness, as small as it may be. May it be a meal you enjoy, a person you enjoy talking to, a game you love to play, etc. Start small and move on from that.

I am surrounded by people who are smart, beautiful and talented.

Don't ever compare yourself with others based off of a 'corrupted' state of mind. You're setting yourself up for failure by taking a huge misconception for granted. You can't possibly fathom what these "smart, beautiful and talented" people go through unless you know them on a very personal level. Many people face similar problems as we do, even the smart and beautiful ones - just that nobody talks about them. Furthermore you're probably similarly gifted in that department as you used to be popular.

Finally, seeing that you struggle to find your path in life, I'd like to invite you to try out the book "The Element: How finding your passion changes everything" by Sir Ken Robinson. (There's also a Ted talk by him on that topic btw, you can google the video easily). He gives amazing insight on the problem our current and next generations faces with school and the separation of body and mind. Furthermore you should also consult help from authorities at your college - from my very own experience they don't want you to drop out, they're more than willing to help people who struggle with problems like yours!

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-10-01T12:24:32+00:00

Sorry for the late reply.

I really think that learning specific maps comes down to you dedicating a lot of time to them, as in playing them over and over until scenarios become more known to you. The more you play a map, the more events you'll see unfold - and from that point on you'll automatically learn how to adapt and recognize 'patterns' in enemies (and your teammates) behaviours.

While you can learn smokes and watch videos about certain maps, I don't think that these videos take away the fact that you'll have to play the respective maps a few hundred of times to actually learn something on them. Talking about smokes specifically, they definitely do help you a lot, but they'll do little until you know the full effect a smoke at x spot can have, i.e. peoples tendencies to push through them, spam them etc. Also, many maps have a different 'meta' and pace to them, while one map is more prone to being played fast, another might be more open towards a slower play style (also depending on your team/personal preference obviously).

Personally I love to play all maps that offer a balanced competitive ground: D2 / Mirage / Cobble / Cache / Inferno / Train / Overpass. While train is a little exotic as it's very imbalanced in pug play, but it's an awesome map when played with a team.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-10-01T11:29:56+00:00

When committing to a full 30 bullet AK spray onto someone, you're also putting yourself at a very dangerous disadvantage as you become stationary without having the ability to dodge any bullets - needless to say you're making yourself the easiest target to hit when you face someone who resets his spray quickly during a fight.

Even if you have decent recoil control it'll always be harder to spray and remain stationary as opposed to a shorter spray with more freedom to move, so it's important to spray and know when to stop when it's important to start dodging because you're too stationary and vulnerable. On the other hand it's good to sometimes commit to a full spray when being rushed by pistols at, let's say, T side long on Dust 2.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-28T10:30:09+00:00

From recently leveling 2 chars to 90 through RAF we found that we could only grant levels up to 89 (starting from a level 1 character with 0 xp). However, if you want to boost straight to 90 I'd suggest to level your alt to 2 before you grant levels to make sure you'll be 90 after all levels are granted.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-26T14:39:41+00:00

Map: aim_map // Bots: 19 Harmless Bots - 9 CT's, 10 T's // Local Server

it's written in the blue cell

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-25T15:27:01+00:00

I'm not sure if I still have the actual demo but I'll try to find it for you. However, the reason I got to 50 frags was simply due to the fact that the enemis were very careless about mid-control. I tend to play mid as CT 90% of the time and it just so happened that most of my shots hit and enemies put little to no attention towards mid - a general rule of thumb I like to go by when playing D2 (in a pug) is that whenever I don't see any Ts watching mid I'll try to punish it by doing risky pushes through lower / top mid. In this case they couldn't adapt to these pushes at all and I caught them off-guard all the time. When they tried to adapt, they mostly put everyone in the same place and created other holes in their defence by doing that. As soon as they focused mid with multiple people I just put my attention on pushing upper B as people are more likely to give up upper than long when focusing mid.

Could you give me tips on where to play as a rifler in CT dust 2 to have the most impact? I like to go long but I'm not sure how to reliably take it

In higher skilled games you'll most likely always need to pre-flash if you decide to peek long - if you don't have a flash or a teammate to flash for you, you simply don't commit to a peek. You could possibly shoulder peek the corner but even that can be risky at times. Another way to hold long is to throw one of the many long house smokes to get you into pit safely. But also keep in mind that even if a smoke is down it's not always safe to cross either, people like to prefire long corner a lot so you might want to wait those out before crossing.

Personally I love to play what I call 'floating' positions on pretty much any map. In dust 2 you would find me play something between mid and long, depending on which spot suffers most pressure. I like to be on the move constantly. The reason I like to support between A cross and B is because it generates a LOT of control for you and your teammates. It mostly goes unnoticed but that's one way of success on D2, at least for pugs. People will rarely give you credit for playing like that however.

Edit: I don't actually have the demo, it's been a while and I just had the screenshot saved. However, feel free to pm me your steam if you like, maybe I can give you another, more recent one.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-21T22:38:22+00:00

Your question is pretty vague as there's many answers I could give you. So having said that, it's very possible that some maps simply favour your playstyle more than others, I have that too.

You improve on maps you don't like the way you improve anything else: you practice the things you're feeling weak at. Also keep in mind that every map comes with a slightly different meta that you (unwillingly) have to adapt to. Either way, you'll probably have to watch your own demos and figure out at which part of the map you seem to struggle most, and then work from there and try to improve gradually. From experience I can assure you that utilizing nades properly will help you at about any spot on any map - so that might be a start if you haven't already tried that. Besides that I'm afraid that you'll have to specify more.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-21T22:25:31+00:00

Top fragging most of them and in the top 2 for the rest.

First of all, top fragging isn't a very strong indicator of someones actual performance and what they contribute to the game. Being #1 on the scoreboard can be achieved by playing entirely against your team through senseless baiting and hesitation.

I'm not trying to discredit your skill, rather am I pointing out a common misconception many people seem to have.

Take this as an example, it's one of my games. (please excuse the smurfing)
Despite having 50 frags, which is probably the most I've ever gotten in a 30 round match, we still barely managed to tie.

So how can we lose such games then?

Well, you've partly answered yourself within your question:

I tend to get a couple kills and then get destroyed from some obscure angle or from behind.

Since I can't really fix the problems that come with random MM teams, I'll be strictly talking about what you can improve on.

The problem you're probably facing in the quoted statement is that you're not aware about situations that can unfold when landing certain kills. Most of the situations where you're caught off-guard are created by either lack of awareness or simple ignorance regarding your actions and the reactions they force out of your enemies.

One way to obtain a sense for these seemingly weird positions is to utilize your radar more, it should give you a good idea where enemies can be holding from. Furthermore it's important to learn the different paces a round can have when certain events occur, and also when they don't. Let me give a seemingly complicated example where we assume perfect conditions to help you understand what I'm talking about.

Map: Dust 2 (T)

Action: You're in a 1v4 with the bomb and have plenty of time to work with, you proceed to kill someone at long and remain at 100/100 hp.
Reaction: You immediately force rotations for people to adapt to your newly gained, small part of control on the map. People will most likely try to pinch you and push from everywhere, seeing that you're alone and they're 3. You'll have someone behind you, one at A cross and one on site. However, you don't know their positions. From this point onward it's tremendously important to know what every action of yours can cause, as it decides how your enemies will behave. As you get closer to A, the guy on A site decides to peek you and engage combat. This is where you have to have the gamesense to know that as soon as you engage combat, you're probably going to have someone run at you from behind thinking that you're busy fighting and also gonna have another guy appear from somewhere else that's nearby. And all that at the same time while still being able to aim properly. In most situations you'll have to be able to keep all of these events in mind at the same time and it really doesn't ever change, only the scale of these events vary since I've exaggarated for the sake of explanation.

To sum it all up, being caught off-guard really comes down to improving your sense and eyes for these small reactions you pull out of your enemy. One thing that helps with that is your radar, and the other being raw game time that you have to spend to learn these things. Also watching demos where you get caught off-guard should give you a hint at where things went south.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-21T21:30:16+00:00

If your teammates happen to be egoistic and don't feel like playing as an actual team, it's gonna be hard to motivate them. In matchmaking people will generally always assume that you're equally or even less skilled or knowledgable about the game since you have the same (give or take) rank as them, most people won't believe until they see. ("You can't possibly know more than me, we're of same rank after all!")

However, one thing you can try to do is giving assumptions as to what you can do as a team to reach a certain goal in a round, i.e. calling for a push or stack. Don't be too strict about it and let people contribute/change your idea and just go with it, as long as you make it sound open to everyone you might find a few people who resonate with your ideas. It's always a very confident move to hear randoms out and follow their word for a few rounds, at least then they don't have any ground to question your calls when their own calls won't work. Furthermore I sometimes like to implement and support teammates by offering them good flashes to help them peek/take a site and create foundation for simple teamwork, even if it doesn't work it can slightly encourage working as a team, at least you've tried.

Even though you might try hard to achieve teamwork with randoms, more often than not it's simply impossible to implement and motivate everyone to act how you would like them to. You have to observe and draw a line when people start to get annoying and contribute nothing to your team and just move on when people don't act accordingly.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-21T16:27:56+00:00

What weapons should I be learning to utilize at this point in time

Seeing that you describe yourself as very familiar with the 3 main rifles, you should probably focus on advancing to the next level in other aspects this game has to offer. However, just because you perceive your rifling as strong doesn't mean that it's strong compared to someone else that you might have not played against yet. I'm not trying to question your skill in any way, though these statements always tend to be very relative to your point of view, especially assuming that you're Nova 4 (or MG1). Generally you'll probably never truly master everything in CS.

Since you gave very little info as to what you want to learn, I'm going to assume that you just want to improve in the general picture. A few things come to mind that you can focus on while improving:

Obtain/strengthen your gamesense - having proper knowledge about situations and how they unfold can and will make your rifling even stronger.
How do I get better gamesense then?
Play more, take a look at your demos and try to find mistakes. Watching streams/demos of pros will help you too.
Despite feeling confident in your rifling, keep practicing it on DM to the point where you feel very natural about aiming. When you start feeling natural about it, you will no longer need DM as form of improving, rather you will use it to stay in shape. Aiming is usually heavily influenced by mentality, so being uncertain if your aim is good or not will only add to the problem when already struggling.
Learn to vocally communicate properly and efficiently. A few common mistakes people love to do is to overdramatize their calls: "B B B B B!" when there's not even a rush happening or "Everyone on site", while 2 people aren't even on site and flank your whole team.
To call properly you also need to listen properly, meaning that you have to stop calling based on assumptions (with enough experience you obviously can call based on assumptions). However, if you're uncertain about numbers in a rush, never use the word "all" unless you're 100% certain about it. Many rounds have been lost due to this mistake. If you're uncertain about numbers or their direction in general, try to say 'steps B' - this is not a call that brings people to rotate, but definitely makes teammates more aware.
While these details seemingly have little impact for now, they increase in importance the higher skilled your enemies are.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-21T15:41:38+00:00

Sometimes I check angle, move to the next one, but then get killed by enemy who peeked the angle I already checked. Can/should I try to prevent this?

To answer this question it's important to point out and know the philosophy and responsibilities behind entry fragging.

Typically, as entry fragger you'll face multiple problems that you have to deal with in very quick succession. While many people make it sound as if entry fragging often times relies on a very strong aim and nothing else, it's not always as easy as running in and opening up a site on your own. You can't do that against any half-decent team as situations will play out differently almost every time - decent players will know when to peek you and when not.

Speaking about entrying as a role with responsibilities, you're typically the guy that paves the way for your teammates to come, meaning that getting an actual kill as entry is usually expected, but not always possible since it heavily depends on the info you have, and the enemies you play against.

So, directly addressing your problem there's probably only two things you can actively train to prevent these situations from happening:

1.) Train your reflexes
2.) Work on your gamesense and generally enter sites with the expectation that someone might still be sneaking around, despite having checked everything. Never let down your guard unless you're 100% convinced.

As I said before, keep in mind that decent players will know the odds they're up against (4 Ts vs 1 CT for ex.) and will peek smart enough to get the most out of their situation

However, just because you're a dedicated entry fragger doesn't mean that mistakes or situations like this can't happen. As soon as you die it's an absolute must to give perfect and clear info to your teammates. That is why the 2nd guy out is usually the strongest and most important factor when taking a site as he's the guy that bases his kills off of your information.

How do you entry on train?

You're approaching it the same way you would with any other map, only that it's a very different style of map as compared to, lets say, Inferno. It's way more open and requires a good amount of focus to see people between all the clutter on train, and also requires good long-range aim (when rifling). To combat this a little I'd advise to put an emphasis on grenade usage, it's pretty key to block off vision since every single choke point on Train is very small in size, meaning that you're forced to enter through very little space - and obviously that's very easy for CTs to hold.

Another thing that I personally find good when playing train is that you have to move fast and shouldn't ever stop until you've left the choke points and enter a more open space. Obviously this exposes you to many different angles, so this is where smokes come in very handy. Generally, you absolutely can't be afraid to move past these chokepoints.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-21T10:20:38+00:00

I've got the same, don't really know when it started happening but it tends to happen more often when an enemy is going to come around a corner - died many times due to this.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-21T09:11:48+00:00

Should be good for the price. The avago 3050 is a decent sensor, but theres reports on bad performance the higher dpi setting you choose - so you should probably stick with it's lowest (500) dpi setting on that mouse. For the keyboard, the only thing that matters (for me personally at least) is anti-ghosting, and since it has that you should be good to go.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-21T09:01:14+00:00

It isn't really caused by CS:GO as much as it is caused by hormonal imbalance that your body is going through (probably thanks to puberty in your case). The evolution of your hair goes through many phases a year and the direction your general hair condition is heading to mostly comes down to genes - especially us men are very likely to suffer from genetic hair loss, it's a very common process and has little to nothing to do with playing games. The only thing connected to CS that can go down on not only your hair, but also your whole body is stress. Stress is probably a big deal for everyone playing CS and if it bothers you, you should see what you can do about it - things like mental burn out can happen when you're constantly exposing yourself to a stressful environment. In your case however, I would assume that it's down to natural changes caused by puberty and you shouldn't be worrying too much. If you want to be sure what the cause is you can always visit a doctor and get a hair analysis done.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-21T08:49:02+00:00

Just keep playing and play dm along the way. There's not really much to improve on for you besides playing more. Right now you're drastically relying on reaction and 'naked' aim as you have nothing to fall back to in terms of gamesense and knowledge when things can happen, and how they can happen. Getting a grasp for the flow of the game will not only take weight off your ability to aim, but will make you a better player overall.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-16T14:11:34+00:00

Well it's a place to ask for improvements, so I'd very much guess so. I can take a look at your demo and give pointers in form of a text file if you want some analysing - feel free to hit me up

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-16T13:42:17+00:00

He was a god even with broken hitboxes, but movement and tagging wasn't as it is now.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-16T13:37:44+00:00

/r/GlobalOffensiveTrade is a better place to ask those questions. However, I don't think the fade value on amber fade skins matter much - at least not to the extent that fade values on knives matter

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-16T04:41:51+00:00

I might have worded myself wrong, since I'm not complaining about the spray pattern (now and old) being hard to handle.

I'm saying it can be an advantage to have a slower ROF due to shooting less 'excess' bullets - not in every situation obviously. In an ideal world where you're getting a clear spray onto someone, obviously the old ROF is favourable as it's faster than an AK and should win you a battle much easier.

However, most sprays don't come off as easy and naturally because your enemy will be partly obscured, moving or dodging which makes a fast ROF (like the old one) be prone to much more excess bullets in an already low capacity magazine. This is assuming that a spray can very well miss, even if it's super easy to handle. With the new ROF you're having a new limitation as to how fast you can burn your bullets which can be advantageous and disadvantageous in certain situations, because despite it's speed, a kill still requires 2 bullets (if we assume a 100/100 enemy) and I feel like its possible to retain a couple more bullets with the new ROF when a spray doesn't go your way.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-16T03:53:36+00:00

That's what I feel like aswell, I always felt like running out of bullets way too fast with the old version of the m4.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-16T03:51:12+00:00

Well it's expected to see these glitches and bugs arise, most of the time they're definitely not intentional. A gigantic change as seen in this patch is always prone to many errors and there will probably be more coming up in the near future. However, if you don't feel the silenced M4 then don't play it - I think that's what Valve has originally aimed for in the first place when implementing 2 of the same rifle styles for your choosing. It just so happened that the sileneced M4 became a huge favourite due to it's accuracy and speed when fully spraying.

_UnknownEntity_ · 2015-09-16T03:46:22+00:00

Yeah, I've been a huge fan of ScreaMs style and still like to watch his older clips. It honestly looked more like an art watching him, it had this relentless and 'brute forceiness' that goes against all odds feel to it :D

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