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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Things You Shouldn't Do in Game
- Swing your knife around like a jump rope when you're running out of spawn.
- Throw a flash directly at the enemy (exception: when the enemy only has one HP).
- Throw a high flash when your teammate is in the middle of an open area engaging an enemy.
- Bounce a nade off of the tunnel entrance and into the B site on Dust 2 when your team is rushing the site.
- Flash into the B site on Dust 2 when you're the 3rd/4th/5th person entering the site.
- Repeek.
- Rerepeek.
- Rererepeek.
- Throw a molotov into a smoke.
- Buy a deagle when you can't aim.
- Buy an AWP when you can't AWP.
- Incessantly switch to your knife when you're not 100% safe.
- Buy when the rest of your team doesn't (exception: you have a ton more money for some reason and you want to even out your economy).
- Don't buy when the rest of your team does (yes, that means buy a pistol & armor if that's all you can afford).
- Skip head armor after winning the pistol round.
- Rush out as CT every round when the enemy is just waiting for you after the nth time (exception: if it still works after the nth time).
- Wait until your teammate dies to peek (exception: a planned consensual bait).
- Rage.
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On August 26 2015 09:26 Souma wrote: - Flash into the B site on Dust 2 when you're the 3rd/4th/5th person entering the site. . Actually, I have the perfect flash for that. As long as you don't get like a perfect long spawn this works as a great flash to back up your teammates. + Show Spoiler + Run, and throw it right when you're entering the archway. Doesn't have to be terrible precise, just line up your crosshair so it's about in the middle of that thing. + Show Spoiler + It pops right in this corner, + Show Spoiler + As long as they haven't crossed this line, it's good. (Thats why it doesn't work if you have the absolute best long spawn, but everyone else got the best 4 B spawns, or some extreme example like that.) Flashes a lot of positions and is especially strong at dealing with players at big box and doors.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Hm yeah that's pretty cool never thought of that.
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I don't think "Don't buy an AWP when you can't AWP" should be in there. Creates a bad mentality.
There are plenty of people out there like me who destroy with AWP on deathmatch, but when in a competitive game when the pressure is on and you have 3 team mates watching you, you suddenly start missing every shot. The only solution to this problem? Keeping AWPing in competitive until you finally overcome the nerves of missing your shots, and you start doing well.
The thing is, the people watching me don't see it that way. They just rage with comments like "Don't buy an AWP when you can't AWP".
AWPing in competitive games is completely different to AWPing in deathmatch or casual. It's also along the mindset of "don't play competitive if you are a noob" which is completely backwards logic in my opinion.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
What? Nerves are a mental thing, not a skill thing. Just because you pick up an AWP doesn't mean you'll automatically get over your nerves.
Also, AWPing in casual is much like AWPing in competitive if you actually try to approach it in the same manner. Posting up, holding an angle, etc. etc. can all be done. It's what I did and it helped a ton. It's even better than competitive for practice because there are a lot more people to kill.
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On August 26 2015 11:23 Souma wrote: What? Nerves are a mental thing, not a skill thing. Just because you pick up an AWP doesn't mean you'll automatically get over your nerves.
Also, AWPing in casual is much like AWPing in competitive if you actually try to approach it in the same manner. Posting up, holding an angle, etc. etc. can all be done. It's what I did and it helped a ton. It's even better than competitive for practice because there are a lot more people to kill.
Well...no, not really. No one cares if I miss my shot in casual. No one gets angry and rages and calls me a noob and starts a vote kick on me. It's a completely different level of stress, as no one gives a shit in casual, and people give too many shits in competitive. As I said, I AWP like a beast in casual (I've been awping for over a decade since I started playing 1.6). I can also AWP very well in competitive until I feel like people are watching or feel any pressure. Soon as I feel the pressure and the eyes of my team mates the nerves set in, and I start missing shot after shot, and then get bombarded with "omg noob don't buy AWP if you can't awp". You cannot replicate this feeling anywhere else on CS:GO other than competitive.
Given what you have read in this reply, would you tell me that I should not AWP in competitive?
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Question: Are you only feeling the pressure when you're AWPing, or is it when you're wielding some other weapon as well?
(also it must be different in the UK because there are more vote kicks in casual than competitive by a fair margin for me).
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Of course not, the AWP is the only real stressful weapon in the game. You have one shot or you're fucked. Miss that shot and you either have to give up your position or die. Either way you just screwed up. The AWP is high risk high reward. Miss your first bullet with the M4? It's ok, I've got 19 more and I am not moving until I have used them all up.
Anyways, you are missing the point here. It is about the mentality. I have been AWPing for a decade, I have AWPed at competitive LANs and I have AWPed on stream being casted by Pansy in front of a few thousand people. But this was before the times of competitive match making, where if you miss your shot, people would just say "unlucky dude, nice try". Now I have to put up with multiple entitled pricks who say things like "Dude don't buy an AWP if you can't AWP". That is a terrible mentality, and putting "Don't AWP when you can't AWP" in your post simply encourages that.
While I would agree with you that, yes, if you haven't practised with the AWP before then don't start AWPing in competitive as it won't benefit you. However, getting angry at people for missing a few AWP shots and telling them not to AWP if they can't do it doesn't help anyone. And I know that's not what you are saying in your post, but it simply reinforces that terrible negative attitude.
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Canada4481 Posts
Forgot to include:
"Play the objectives, don't be kill hungry and chase after frags, unless it's to specifically screw over the economy of the opposing team."
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
If you've been AWPing for so long yet now succumb to some stupid pressure in MM then I don't think you're gonna solve the problem just by merely picking up the AWP. Sounds like you either have to learn how to ignore people or just learn how to play through it. Either way it's not gonna be solved simply by you AWPing.
In any case, it's a different case from what I envisioned. I don't care when people suck, but I do care when they do something like team flash/team kill/play around with weapons they can't handle when they can perform just fine with other weapons.
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sounds more like an issue of playing under pressure than anything else honestly.
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
do not argue with your igl during the game.
save the discussions for after the game. this also includes not listening to your igl. The game is already stressful enough, no need to bring even more stress by introducing a negative atmosphere. Of course you can give ideas and suggestions to your igl if you want the team to make a slight adjustment to what you're doing.
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France9034 Posts
One of the most annoying in these is the "buy when your team doesn't, don't buy when they do".
The first one especially. It's soooo annoying when a teammate buys like when he has 4,4k as CT or 3,8k as T, when no one else can afford even just a rifle + armor. You just know at that point that either you should force with him (and I think that's the best option), but that's still an unplanned force... either you let him alone, but then you know you'll play 4v5 the next round (greater chance of a loss) or play an eco (which concedes somehow a round either way).
Incessantly switch to your knife when you're not 100% safe.
I have a really bad habit with that Second worst habit is recharging right after I get a kill and that I still have 20 bullets in AK, 10 in M4, or just not switching to pistol...
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On August 26 2015 09:48 Varanice wrote:Show nested quote +On August 26 2015 09:26 Souma wrote: - Flash into the B site on Dust 2 when you're the 3rd/4th/5th person entering the site. . Actually, I have the perfect flash for that. As long as you don't get like a perfect long spawn this works as a great flash to back up your teammates. + Show Spoiler +Run, and throw it right when you're entering the archway. Doesn't have to be terrible precise, just line up your crosshair so it's about in the middle of that thing. + Show Spoiler +It pops right in this corner, + Show Spoiler +As long as they haven't crossed this line, it's good. (Thats why it doesn't work if you have the absolute best long spawn, but everyone else got the best 4 B spawns, or some extreme example like that.) Flashes a lot of positions and is especially strong at dealing with players at big box and doors. Interesting find. Didn't know about that. Gotta try it out.
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You can also just flash against the wall in tunnel and bounce it enough to the right so people in halls aren't flashed either? I don't really see what the problem is, you can even do it as 2nd spawn without the first one being flashed.
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On August 26 2015 18:59 BeeLz wrote: You can also just flash against the wall in tunnel and bounce it enough to the right so people in halls aren't flashed either? I don't really see what the problem is, you can even do it as 2nd spawn without the first one being flashed. As 2nd it's very tricky to get the flash right so the first guy isn't flashed. If you're even further behind it's impossible to bounceflash without blinding your team.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Oh here's another one:
Not planting in an advantageous spot and instead opting to plant safe after you secure an entire site and everything's smoked.
HATE that. Especially on Dust 2, when you go up cat and clear it out, yet the bomb planter plants safe (or even worse, long) instead of planting for cat.
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France9034 Posts
On August 27 2015 04:38 Souma wrote: Oh here's another one:
Not planting in an advantageous spot and instead opting to plant safe after you secure an entire site and everything's smoked.
HATE that. Especially on Dust 2, when you go up cat and clear it out, yet the bomb planter plants safe (or even worse, long) instead of planting for cat.
One of the worst for that (but that may be because I've played the map so much) is when people plant default on Cache even though they are safe. It's just a horrible pain... You can't hold from main, can't from squeaky... In fact there's not a single safe way to hide as T while still being able to peak decently (quads get molly'd, naded, or is simply expected anyway).
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
On August 27 2015 04:41 Ragnarork wrote:Show nested quote +On August 27 2015 04:38 Souma wrote: Oh here's another one:
Not planting in an advantageous spot and instead opting to plant safe after you secure an entire site and everything's smoked.
HATE that. Especially on Dust 2, when you go up cat and clear it out, yet the bomb planter plants safe (or even worse, long) instead of planting for cat. One of the worst for that (but that may be because I've played the map so much) is when people plant default on Cache even though they are safe. It's just a horrible pain... You can't hold from main, can't from squeaky... In fact there's not a single safe way to hide as T while still being able to peak decently (quads get molly'd, naded, or is simply expected anyway).
People need to learn that the default plant should always be that left side of the small box next to generator. That is the safest place to plant for Ts. You can defend it from B main, site, checkers, etc.
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