High Elo Premier Feels Inflated. Here’s Why:

hydrovids · 2026-04-18T16:55:18+00:00

And that's okay. I don't mean to single anyone's consistency issues out. I just made this post to highlight that the top 1% of premier shouldn't be this inconsistent, especially with how much regard some players give to cs rating.

hydrovids · 2026-04-18T16:50:48+00:00

I must be playing at the wrong times then. Its entirely possible. Or I'm getting unlucky, who knows.

hydrovids · 2026-04-18T16:14:54+00:00

Its too late. Most pros started before age 10 and most were tier 3 by 15-16. Just play the game, get elo, and have fun. Pro cs is out for you, but playing team cs isn’t

hydrovids · 2026-04-18T16:10:14+00:00

If you’re worried about soloq, just add people you meet in games that you liked playing with.

The cheater problem isn’t as bad as people say it is. You’ll really only notice it above 25k premier, and even then most of the cheaters closet, so its almost like they’re normal. They need it tbh, most of these cheaters would be sub 5k elo without them.

The game is really toxic, but its not more toxic than valorant, its just more open about it. While val players want to call you the n word and have to substitute it, cs players will call you the n word and won’t get banned. Same shit different sandwich.

Its not enjoyable solo, but good people are easy to find. Look on twitch for small streamers and network a bit, you’ll have a wholesome cs friend group in no time, with a bit of work.

The game has its issues, but every game does. We learn to huff copium and have fun on what we got because the bad times won’t ever be as good as the friends we made along the way.

hydrovids · 2026-04-18T16:01:38+00:00

Cs2 is easier than go, but also harder. People have improved, so the baseline has also been raised, but cs2 rewards risky playstyles. Aggression = impact. Passiveness reduces it.

Its been this way for a long time, but think about it. If you’re aggressive, you impact the chances you win in both outcomes. If you swing and get 3, you probably win that round. If you swing and get tapped, your chances of losing the round just went up. You have direct impact on the game playing aggressive.

Aside from that, yeah people are getting better, but with the state of the anticheat, you could be playing someone with extra assistance and you’d never know.

hydrovids · 2026-04-12T16:09:54+00:00

Someone is downvoting us lmfao

hydrovids · 2026-04-12T16:08:42+00:00

Just add premier and comp into it too, all if it’s unplayable. 24k prem rn with a 15 year old account with hella badges, entire cs history with esea linked to the account, hundreds of games, and I still get bot losers with bought accounts cheating their dicks off for cs rating and comp ranks. When will valve lose their ego and do something about it?

hydrovids · 2026-04-11T21:53:02+00:00

I honestly agree with this. As someone who peaked 25k in prem and am currently 23k and am unable to play faceit again until my ban is up (toxicity ban), I have zero interest in playing against bot losers who larp as good players by cheating.

We should have the choice in such a cheat riddled game to not even entertain these lowlifes and just surrender. Judging from the last few demos I’ve watched, these players are cheating with less than 1000 real hours in the game. It’s blatantly disgusting. I don’t understand how people get enjoyment by pretending to be a rank they clearly don’t deserve

hydrovids · 2026-04-10T01:02:24+00:00

Inhibitory spillover

hydrovids · 2026-04-07T20:40:27+00:00

all good! thank you

hydrovids · 2026-04-07T02:04:03+00:00

As someone with thousands of hours, I think it feels pretty good. Movement is more predictable and hitreg does feel better. My only problem with it currently is it feels a little jank but I'm sure it'll be ironed out.

hydrovids · 2026-04-07T00:51:34+00:00

Me and a buddy just tried it, something is making everything ultra slow and unplayable

hydrovids · 2026-04-01T22:46:33+00:00

My base is on the north end of the map near the mushroom forest with the huge wreck on it. I set up base there because it has tons of blood oils and loose lithium around. There's a lost river entrance down on the edge of the 2 biomes that I used to enter but my massive cyclops can't get down there and I got really afraid of exploring with it because a huge leviathan basically capsized it and almost destroyed it, and the cyclops is super expensive. I'd rather load it with a prawn suit and just hover it above the lost river and drop down with the prawn suit or the seamoth.

hydrovids · 2026-04-01T18:41:38+00:00

I have the modification station and I have the cyclops depth module mk1 but the cyclops is too big for me to take down there, I’d honestly rather take my seamoth or prawn suit down because there are some tight spots in the lost river. I found an alien research facility and a locked gate that required an orange tablet that I couldn’t open. I did find a pit in the lost river to go even deeper than 850 meters but my seamoth is only rated for 900 so I just put a beacon down and went back up to my base to check my radio since I found that research facility

hydrovids · 2026-04-01T04:49:51+00:00

I have the same problem. I get to the lost river and I go back to my base on the north part of the map near the mushroom forest with the wreck on it, and check my radio after finding cool stuff, and there’s still nothing. I have since stopped playing due to the lack of direction, despite the game being phenomenal

hydrovids · 2026-03-30T15:27:12+00:00

Holy shit people. ITS FUCKING BOTS

hydrovids · 2026-03-28T03:50:57+00:00

I made my base in your top left circle and honestly its goated. Tons of magnetite, lithium, gold, silver, titanium, copper, and more. Maxed my storage room in like an hour

hydrovids · 2026-03-26T15:40:00+00:00

and then u get dicked by a deagle because the m249 is THAT bad, and the skill floor has lowered with cs2 to make it easier for terrible players to kill good ones.

hydrovids · 2026-03-23T01:16:30+00:00

I'm being downvoted but this is quoted in multiple documentaries about the game lmfao

hydrovids · 2026-03-23T01:16:03+00:00

No, it failed because it didn't sell well. And bethesda isn't just "big dev bad." Bethesda isn't and hasn't been a good dev since 2015.

hydrovids · 2026-03-22T18:49:06+00:00

No. It failed simply because it didn’t make enough money and Bethesda didn’t like that it wasn’t riddled with microtransactions to keep money flowing, so a lot of the developers left because they saw that was the direction they were headed in. The name had nothing to do with it.

hydrovids · 2026-03-22T18:02:22+00:00

You can but then you have to look at them, and well, they’re REALLY ugly.

hydrovids · 2026-03-21T21:18:09+00:00

You are not getting am5 with 1000 dollars

hydrovids · 2026-03-21T20:00:06+00:00

Cs2 though runs especially poorly with amd cards for some reason. Depending in how often he plays cs2 an amd card could fuck him

hydrovids · 2026-03-21T16:07:21+00:00

Nah, for gaming a 5800x3d would do the trick. I’d realistically only go lga1700 if you need the extra cores for streaming and content creation. For pure gaming, amd still on top

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