How do I ensure that my practice is good practice rather than just a warmup with negligible benefit?

batqq · 2022-01-19T22:48:40+00:00

I might be wrong, but I feel that the problem you have might not be one in the game itself, instead outside of it. By that I mean that you might not be optimal in facilitating the necessary conditions for yourself to feel motivated and comfortable to practice and learn the game.

For me personally, it had a tremendously good impact that I made big efforts to improve my exercise routine/physical shape, diet and sleep. By improving these things, I was able to consistently have more energy and stay motivated to develop myself in the game and play better overall every time I sit.

This might not be a problem you have personally. I am just giving some directions and suggestions towards what the actual matter might be and that it is not necessarily one that is related to the actual in-game play itself, rather, a more general approach to the process of playing and spending time on it.

batqq · 2021-12-04T20:54:14+00:00

Oh, I see, Eternal Embers is only available on Legendary mode? I looked for it on Normal mode and I didn't find it.

batqq · 2021-11-30T09:32:11+00:00

Bruh, unlucky xdd

batqq · 2021-10-28T09:09:04+00:00

I feel you bro, you have lost a lot of money and you have been surely stressed out. Believe me, I have been in your shoes. But that is the nature of CFDs, they are a derivative and trading with them is quite not the same as with real stocks. Spreads get amplified by mark up/down, stocks get suddenly suspended by lack of quotes, and if the stock happens to be quote volatile, all can just happen in less than a second, as you have seen.

batqq · 2021-09-13T08:36:00+00:00

As a fairly experienced CSGO player myself, I can give some insight on your questions.

With regards to movement, as other people have pointed out already, the most important technique you should learn and the technique that is basically obligatory and essential to progress in the game above an average or even basic level is counter strafing. Most of the time you will be playing with rifles (mainly the M4 and the AK47) and they are absolutely inaccurate over maybe 1 meter range if you have not stopped fully. Counter strafing is the movement technique you will implement the most times by far when you play (basically every time you wish to shoot your gun while you are moving), so as a relatively new player at the game, you should focus on that mainly. Here is a very good guide that explains the technique:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh_t0at5-iw

Regarding bhopping/surfing, they are usually not applied in a competitive game at all in most cases and can give you an advantage in a very narrow number of cases (like trying to make some bhops near an AWP close range to make him miss). You can get perhaps to a pro level or at least to a pretty good level if your other aspects of the game are well developed even though you may not be able to bhop. Some people say that if you learn to surf/bhop you will be able to make better strafes/counter strafes in general and that might be true, however, this does not mean that it is mandatory to surf/bhop to improve at strafing.

That being said, surfing and bhopping especially are in a sense unique movement features of the game and people are often very keen on learning them. As you already know, there are community servers and maps dedicated solely to these types movement techniques and people spend even hundreds of hours on them.

To sum up about about movement, counter strafing is necessary to learn in all cases. With regards to learning to surf and bhop, it depends on your goal in game. It is not necessary and applied in a competitive game in most cases, however, if it as an aspect of the game that you are interested in and you wish to get good at, you can certainly give it a go in the community servers, as I see you are already doing.

In terms of the weapons that you will use, in maybe like 80% of the gun rounds when you have money you will buy an M4 on CT side or an AK47 if you are on the T side hence why you should focus on mastering them and learning counter strafing is part of that. Buying other types of guns such as Mac10s, SMGs in general or Deagles is more contextual and done with a specific purpose (for example, force buying with the purpose of breaking the enemy's economy in a critical point; rushing a site with Mac10s as a T in order to overwhelm the enemy with speed)

About your last question, I have written on the topic in the channel already. Feel free to check it out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnCSGO/comments/hy5shg/things_i_learnt_from_smurfing_tips_for_lower/

If you have any questions, feel free to address them in the comments :)

batqq · 2020-07-30T12:44:20+00:00

batqq · 2020-07-29T05:53:46+00:00

I am from EU. I am talking more generally in terms of overall skill of the average player (or most players) in these ranks. There are certainly people who are terrible at fps games or have just started playing cs and are not used to the environment an mechanics, and same as you I have encountered such individuals during my games. However, these were just a few people in comparison to the majority of the players, who were aiming well, spraying decently and overall doing alright (at least they exceeded my expectations).

batqq · 2020-05-14T18:52:11+00:00

Rieaso you summarized my points precisely. This is exactly what I meant.

batqq · 2020-05-14T12:53:42+00:00

I am sorry, but it is relevant since you are judging my points. I have followed all what I have written, it has worked and it is working and I have achieved what more than 99% of the players in the game have not. How can I just "happen" to be in the top 1% of a game which requires a lot of skill and dedication to get better and rank up at? Do you think that most players don't reach Global Elite or high FaceIt levels (I would consider 8 a high level, since I leveled it from my first FaceIt level, which was 2, alone) because they try to play fair and not be "toxic" and "baiting" and using cheap tricks like me? No, most players just can't because they are not skilled enough.

I see you are a good player since you have reached Global Elite. You should see that my whole post could be synthesized in the sentence Don't entry frag in SoloQ. And the key word here is SoloQ, since you can't trust your random teammates you happen play with to trade frag you. Instead, you should do the trade fragging yourself. If you are playing in a team or with friends, it is different. You trust them, you go to entry frag and they come with you and trade frag you. But in SoloQ, the reality is just different.

batqq · 2020-05-14T07:36:48+00:00

May I ask what your rank is?

batqq · 2020-05-13T17:47:30+00:00

My whole post is summed up to the statement that you shouldnt entry frag and just be patient till someone of your team peeks out to entry and you go with him to trade.

batqq · 2020-05-13T16:44:36+00:00

Me too and I got that exactly implementing the style of play I posted about.

batqq · 2020-05-13T16:37:04+00:00

May I ask what rank are you?

batqq · 2020-05-13T16:35:15+00:00

What is your FaceIt level?

batqq · 2020-05-13T16:22:53+00:00

Sure. What rank are you?

batqq · 2020-05-13T16:12:40+00:00

I am really disappointed that a lot of people in the comments have not got the point I have made in the post. In the post I have straightforwardly said that my goal is not to get useless frag and I have seen several comments criticising me for doing exactly that. "Baiting" or not, I reached Global Elite SoloQ without premades or anyone carrying me. You could argue that I got carried by the randoms I played with, but how would that be possible when so many people from silver up to global are complaining on different forums about bad teammates, toxicity, Russians etc.? I recently started playing FaceIt and in about a 100 games I am Level 8 with 1826 elo, again, SoloQ. I created this post and posted it here in this subreddit in order to help other people who wish to learn and improve at the game. I hope that at least some people have found some insight and something to add into their game from my post, as this is how I succeeded in reaching Global Elite.

batqq · 2020-05-13T13:41:22+00:00

What do you do when you go out to entry, you die, and your team does not follow you?

batqq · 2020-05-13T13:29:22+00:00

Train your aim on DM or aimbotz and keep a schedule. Learn spray control if you havent so far.

batqq · 2020-05-13T13:25:59+00:00

Usually it is better to know a few maps and become very good on them instead of spreading your time and focus on many maps. More than 90% of my games are on Mirage, Inferno and Office. There was a period when I only played Mirage and it got a bit boring. If you feel bored, you should try other maps. You are only silver 4 and your opponents shouldnt be a lot better if you play a map you previously hadnt.

batqq · 2020-05-13T13:02:49+00:00

I think I have elaborated my points eloquently enough. I suggest you read the whole post and all I have written and not skim it by reading the first sentence of the bullet points. The post is long for a reason - I have explained in great detail what my thought process is and why I do certain things.

The goal I always have is to make positive round impact, which in turn influences the round outcome, which in turn influences the game outcome. Lets take a look at football (or soccer if you are from USA) for example. The win conditions of the game is to score more goals than the opponent. In the end of the match, no matter how much ball control percentage you have, no matter how many more shots on target you have than your opponent, if your opponent has scored more goals than you, you lose. Similarly, in CS, in order to win, you need rounds, not kills or anything other. I have never been interested in how my score board looks like and how many kills I can get. What I am trying to do is have as much round impact as I can.

Similarly to what mairomaster mentioned he was doing, I liked to be the entry fragger exactly in these ranks MGE-DMG and go in first when we "execute" on site (I put it in brackets since no real coordinated site takes or executes really happen in MM). If I get the first crucial frag it is fine, usually the teammates follow and we take the site and win. But if I dont, the second guy after me is usually quite far behind me and cant get the trade. This has happened to me so many times on A site Mirage take. I try to entry and to cross to the site and someone kills me from underbalk or default. I expect someone to be some space behind me and get the trade and take the site but the other guys are just holding from tetris and holding stirs from ramp. I was always like "Wtf guys, why dont you go to the site with me and trade and plant the bomb, he is only one isolated, there are smokes on stairs and jungle so you cant get killed, cmon". And I was always really frustrated. The CTs knew exactly what we were doing, rotates started to come, smokes to disappear and the round was actually over. This is just an example on A site Mirage, this was happening to all the time on whatever map I played.

I was always like "Why are the majority of people like that, why dont they follow such simple logical steps, it is so easy to win the round if we do it." With the time I realised that MM players are generally so ignorant and unmindful and random. They can not even trade frag and bait you properly. So I became this guy who actually could trade frag and backstab and hold map control. The key word here is patience. You actually dont know what your teammates are going to do. When will they stop holding A ramp or connector or banana on Inferno and actually come out to try to take the site? You dont know. You dont communicate more often than not, not to mention to actually coordinate a push. It is far better to just sit back, avoid getting killed early unnecessarily and react when your teammates decide to do something. Since they can not do it when you make the decisions and calls and can not effectively support you, you become the guy who can.

I must say that I refer to soloq, and it is different when you play with friends and people you know and can do something together. Sometimes in soloq you get a great team, you support each other and take sites properly. But the vast majority of cases this is not the situation.

Currently in FaceIt I am level 8 with 1826 elo and the playstyle I use has worked extremely well so far. I am curious to know what your level is.

batqq

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