high sens players be like

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CS2 thoughts so far: TLDR: game isn’t ready to pro play. Lots of bugs, poor optimization, everything feels off. My experience so far has been a 4/10. 1) movement feels very off. Bhopping is less consistent than 64-tick in GO. 2) there’s something wrong with utility. 35% of the time nades don’t feel like they’re going where they should be or would be in GO. 3) a lot of unexplainable bugs. Unfixable gun model shaking which has something to do with resolution changing, graffiti overlay getting stuck on screen even without it being bound, sound volume being inconsistently loud or quiet and difficult to pinpoint. 4) the updated map graphics are beautiful but too much but a part of me doesn’t like how much there is going on visually. Feels hard to focus or pick out enemies in some common positions. 5) smoke feel slightly too short. Sometime I can see over them when I feel like I shouldn’t be able to. 6) no one ways is amazing. 7) smokes only put out mollies on the spots they bloom. Mollys can still burn on edges of smokes if thrown too far onto one side. Not sure if I like it or not. 8) mr12 so far has been fun casually. Economy doesn’t feel as shit as I though but CT could still use some help there. I don’t think more serious players are going to enjoy it and I don’t think it’s ready for pro CS (especially the major). 9) lower resolutions feel worse and look much blurrier (regardless of graphics settings) than in GO and playing on higher resolutions I feel noticeable input delay that I don’t get in GO. 10) the netcode feels very off in a really weird way. The best I can describe it is I feel like my game is always playing catch-up to what’s actually happening even when I have 2 ping. I get a weird feeling often that I’ll do something like shoot at an enemy or throw a nade and even though it’ll happen on my screen, it’s almost like my game is rewinding time when I get killed because the server is choosing the enemies action over mine. Sort of like bad hit registration but slightly different. 11) the new buy menu mega fucks with my muscle memory. Sawed-off and bizon are where the old util tab used to be on the radial menu. I like being able to sell back misbuys. I’ve had to use that feature a lot already lol 12) I HATE the updated UI. Nothing feels like it’s in the right place. I feel like I need to struggle to find my money, HP, or remaining ammo. Looking for those HUD elements feels like a chore and it shouldn’t at all. 13) some of the sounds feel goofy. Not sure how to explain it but hit sounds seem “squishy”. Not a fan. 14) game seems poorly optimized. Even on low res and low settings, my fps drops are noticeable. The game doesn’t seem like something I should be getting consistent input delay and fps drops in. Specs: 5950x @ 4.1 + 3080 + 32 GB ram + m.2 ssd As the make changes and I play more I’ll update my thoughts or add new ones. This is my completely honest take on the game so far.

i genuinely hate that this is considered top tier content in our scene... i remember when the best content outside of pro play was also people actually playing the game. we've fallen so far.

if you gamble your house, you should expect to lose it, and you can't make a scene when you do.

IMPORTANT FOR ALL ESL COMPETITORS: I've just confirmed with ESL admins that alias binds that script player movement are illegal in all ESL/EPT events (ESEA league, ECL, cash cups, EPL, etc.). ILLEGAL BINDS example: alias "_checkw" "-forward; alias checkw" alias "+w" "+forward; alias checkw _checkw" alias "-w" "checkw" bind "w" "+w" alias "_checks" "-back; alias checks" alias "+s" "+back; alias checks _checks" alias "-s" "checks" bind "s" "+s" LEGAL BINDS example: bind "w" "+forward; clear" bind "s" "+back; clear" bind "a" "+left; clear" bind "d" "+right; clear" bind "ctrl" "+duck; clear" bind "shift" "+sprint; clear" bind "mwheeldown" "+jump; clear" bind "mwheelup" "+jump; clear" bind "space" "+jump; clear" Admins have also confirmed for me that this jump throw bind is legal: alias "+jump" "+jump" alias "+throw" "-attack; -attack2" alias "+fall" "-jump" bind "v" "+jump; +throw; +fall" Anyone competing in any ESL events make sure to adjust your autoexec accordingly or you risk being penalized!

There are a lot of aspiring CSGO coaches asking me in my DMs what they should be doing for their teams so I'll just address you all in one tweet. This is everything you need to be a good CSGO coach:

skincells panic selling their counter strike nfts and acting like this is the 2008 financial crisis

huh?

Wrong. I’m 29. There’s always a chance. Never give up on your dreams.

CS2 isn't perfect, but you know what else it isn't? Unplayable. If you really think about it, the game is actually pretty good overall. You all really need to get it through your heads that Valve doesn't owe the community anything. They developed one of the best games of all time with infinitely replayable game mechanics and an incredibly satisfying and competitive gamemode. You are all entitled and spoiled. You are all annoying. Get over yourselves and appreciate what you have and be thankful for the updates they release. They'll come when they come so stop mass deluding yourselves into believing expectations that never existed. You guys are the reason Valve doesn't "communicate."

Malbs is impossible to hate.

me getting a 4k when I'm losing 3-14 knowing full well i'm going to lose the game

Am I the only one that thinks a victory graphic with a bunch of guns pointed at monesy’s head kind of insane?

ESL killed NA Pro League. Covid forced all competition to Europe. TOs kept all competition in Europe post-covid. The largest NA organizations went international or backed out completely. ESEA Cash Cups died. Valve killed the RMR. and today Dust2us is crumbling. The only thing keeping NA alive now is our 7 major spots. This might be it guys... the beginning of the end.

If ropz is only #8 then s1mple shouldn't be in the top 10 for 2023. I don't really see any way to argue that s1mple had a better year than ropz... IMO ropz is easily a top 5 player of 2023

Everyone seems to forget that Karrigan played on Envy for a month so there's actually 3 NA players (s1mple+Twistzz) in the Major Grand Final today. 🇨🇦🇺🇸

🎄 SPECIAL HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! 🕎 It's been a great year for me so I'm going to give back a little to the community that made it all possible! To Enter: 🔹 Follow me @MuensterGG 🔹Like + Retweet this tweet 🔹@ 1 friend Winner picked 01/15 Good luck everyone & Happy Holidays!

Evil Geniuses gang gang 😈

EG Class of ‘22 🎓

Pimp: “G2 are doing a great job working the map and forcing the other team to rotate in ways they aren’t comfortable” Jake: “I asked the desk what they thought about the game and this is what Pimp said!” *rolls clip of Pimp’s analysis 10 seconds prior*

Nevermind, your destiny is predetermined at birth...

MM players out here playing 4D chess while the rest of us are still learning checkers

cadian's system was proven in heroic with weaker (at the time of conception) players on paper. Liquid's results were either a failure on his part as a leader to convince the team to buy in, a failure on the rest of the team for thinking they could do better a different way, or a combination of both. either way this was a disappointing period in his career because expectations for him were so high. He was a top IGL, he turned nobodies into stars, his team was always a lock for playoffs and a title contender. Just goes to show how important chemistry and trust in your leaders are in a team. Hopefully cadian still has it in him and can find the right players to replicate the success he had on heroic. Heroic used to play FaZe levels of entertaining CS and I'd love to have that back.

I was making more on EG

where you sitting?

With 5 days left until EPL roster lock cyn1c has suddenly informed us that he is joining a new team. We are now looking for a new player to replace him.

Seeing this post get a lot of attention and a lot of people being needlessly condescending to her. My 2 cents (for what it’s worth) is that she didn’t do anything wrong posting this. It may be true that it seems like a bit of a non-issue when compared to the other issues the game has or the female scene faces, but it’s also true that those other things get regular attention whereas this particular thing hasn’t been brought up at all or at least not enough for most people to have thought about it. They probably just wanted to bring a little attention to something they thought would be cool for women in the space and there’s nothing wrong with that. Just because they posted this doesn’t mean they don’t care about those other issues. The community needs to stop making things up to get upset about. Their team didn’t do anything bad by posting this so everyone saying negative things to them because of it needs to relax a bit.

Twistzz seems a bit out of touch with the current state of CS. It's like he occasionally sees on social media that NA is struggling, but has been away for so long that he doesn't actually know what the issues are or how they affect the players currently suffering in the system.

I've been bored during player break so I wrote up a Team Building and Development outline/guide for aspiring Coaches and CS players. (1/2) docs.google.com/document/d/1…

I can't breathe

ROSTER REPORT: Party Astronauts🇺🇸 will be acquiring NiKo🇧🇦 and viz 🇺🇸 has completed negotiations with FaZe🇪🇺.

“It is past the 17-day window for withdrawal from the event, which means the team will still be seeded in the bracket and will forfeit their matches. However, as only the top-24 portion of the 48-team event is covered by HLTV, Liquid will not have their VRS points impacted.” HLTV has just announced that teams that no longer benefit from participating in Blocktober can now no-show the event after the official withdrawal period and not be penalized in any significant way because of HLTV’s arbitrary standards for event coverage. Thanks for fucking us @HLTVorg 🫡

This is the first and last time I tweet something like this but our team is still orgless and we are only 1 month away from EPL S15. We desperately want to bootcamp in EU before the event but without an org supporting us it's unlikely we would be able to do it. @Partynauts_GG

In just 1 afternoon not only did we get the opportunity to bootcamp in EU for free from @1337Camp but we also hit $5k on the gofundme! The support we've gotten from the community has been overwhelming. I'm so incredibly proud to be part of NA CS! Thank you all so much! ❤️

2 CS Summit Quaterfinalists

This weirdo just walked into our room, sat at the PC and called he was rushing B… @floppyCSGO 🤪

In English we don't say "I love you," instead we say " yo shawty I fuck witchu foreal" which translates to " your smile lights my day up like a thousand suns." Which I think is the most beautiful thing ever.

IT'S REAL! THIS ISN'T A DREAM!!

More rage bait. Community needs to stop falling for this. These players grind the game an unhealthy amount and then fail to have the self awareness to realize they're burnt out and attack other people instead. Enjoying the game does not make anyone a liar or brain damaged. It is very possible to enjoy imperfect things.

normal entry pathing

If you actually want to win the round, don't smoke all 3 spots off. You will lose the post-plant because you will be trapped inside a shitty bombsite where you can barely dodge flashes and if you try to play from banana you will get smoked or mollied off. If CTs don't have smokes or mollies for the retake, it's a really hard spot to multi-frag from from consistently. Leave 1 of the 3 spots unsmoked and push into it with flashes so you can fight the retake from much stronger positions. Even if you don't have man advantage in the post plant you have a better chance at winning the round 2v3 or 3v4 with long or short control, than a 5v4 or 4v4 without any forward space.

almost definitely not cheating. - preaims donut with awp looking for kill - nobody on angle so starts to aim left without unscoping to start looking at temple without making sound - last second CT peeks and they catch the movement so they cancel out their previous mouse swipe halfway through while cycling through the scope zoom to get to unscoped and try to look back at donut - CT #2 just so happens to be inbetween where they were going to start looking in temple and where they were trying to aim back to in donut and since sens gets all funky in high zoom, the movement looks like it locks on the highest zoom where sens is the slowest this is the leaf vs mibr thing all over again

At this point it's pretty hard to argue against JT being a top IGL. Regardless of CoLs consistency or placements, he is always able to coordinate his teams into major qualification while not being a mechanical liability. Of all the IGLs outside of the top 10, JT seems like he has the most potential to be a top 5 IGL given higher level players. If G2 ever considers a strategic overhaul, they should 100% be looking at JT as the tactical mastermind.

are we being for real right now @ESEA? NA teams are already paid up, flights & housing booked, ready to play and you decide to just throw out an important qualifier that conflicts?

Some people think going Pro in CS is a dream come true, but is it really worth it?

Something I really respect about Complexity is that they are a big NA org that shifted away from attempting to build title contending rosters from scratch by throwing money at big name players and instead are focusing on developing the next generation of talented players. (1/2)

when lil bro has no cultural impact

it's so funny that it has to be scripted

cs pattern recognition test

I found your #1 fan @fl0m

Mixing C9, Navi, and Forze might have some crazy potential. This might seem crazy but hear me out... C9: Shiro Axile Perfecto Hobbit Jerry Navi: Zorte Simple Bit Electronic Shalfey lol

These attempts at price manipulation are pretty blatant and funny.

it's major time b*tches

#29 HLTV World Ranking and #4 HLTV NA Ranking!!! LET'S FUCKING GO!!!

Hey @ESL, this is the 2nd season in a row where I submitted our player photos the same exact day you requested them, and this time around I specifically asked you to inform me if you weren't going to use them so I could fix them and I wasn't contacted. (1/2)

Stop engaging with transphobes and attempting to debate/counter their positions. It's all just an avenue for them to hate something. When you engage with them it makes them feel like marytrs and when they start believing they're the ones being persecuted because they're "the only people who truly care about women", the more justified and powerful they begin to feel. Ignore small men with weak minds and hateful souls.

Was watching a valorant stream earlier and heard someone say "flashing for info" and i was kinda confused, then their character voicelined "BLINDED" because the flash hit someone that they didn't even know was there. Am I the only one who thinks that's dumb as hell?

The “valve doesn’t care crowd” looking dumber and dumber every single day.

I will be continuing my top tier analysis of the major tomorrow during the finals.

This will be my first big event + my first international event. Unbelievably excited to go.

Full series of events and my apology to my teammates and the community: Read: tl.gd/n_1srv92t

.@Mauisnake lookin' like a college professor about to lecture the class on man advantage scenarios and rotations.

Valve has developed one of the most consistent and replayable game loops of all time and all people do is whine that there’s no content. The base game is all the content you need. More skins isn’t going to make you like the game you just have a gambling addiction.

In the last 10 years of CS:GO I could count on 1 hand the number of HLTV Top 10 players that put a lot of focus into content creation and for the players that did, it was secondary. If you are a professional your main focus should always be competing and improving your abilities.

The NA region can’t improve unless the players themselves want to improve. If you’re a player/coach wondering how you could possibly make the region better, just start with yourself. A good work ethic and positive attitude are contagious. Be the change you want to see in others.

Attending Frag15 means missing both IEM and DreamHack. Really cool.

boo 👎

this has to be a structure clash between the IGL and Coach and the org siding with the coach right? I don't see how cadian goes before skullz or yekindar even though all 3 have been massively underperforming.

"When asked for comment, nbgee12 claimed that he was influenced by marijuana usage" bro really said the weed made me do it 💀💀💀

It actually pisses me off constantly seeing people say NA is lazy and entitled just cause a few people decided to play another game. There's still a ton of hardworking players grinding to reach their goals but people constantly downplaying their effort with this shit narrative.

holy counter strike haven't played this close a series in a while. ggs @JTcsgo 😵‍💫

Thank you @EvilGeniuses @EGCSGO!! 😍

Hey 9ine, I’m glad you like my photo, but next time please do not re-edit and post it without the watermark unless you purchase the rights to the photo. Sincerely, The volunteer photographer who took this photo

LFT for next season. Preferably a star rifler role, but open to AWPing as well. My comms and attitude could use some work but I'm so talented that you won't even notice I'm not talking. Hit me up.

Last time I checked 🇧🇷 wasn't 🇺🇸 or 🇨🇦 @pglesports 🤔

That’s a pretty bad faith interpretation of her post.

blameF and cypher happy in philadephia at a @fragadelphia $10k. God bless VRS.

We are playing to win but it is not the expectation. My goal for this event is to learn and understand ourselves better so we can grow and improve. Every death, every round loss, every map loss, and every series loss is a learning experience. It doesn't upset me to say we lost.

meanwhile in NA 🤠

my guy @TheRealPwnAlone out here flyin’ with the Cloud2’s

When we were in EU and scrimmed against G2, @G2Swani would message me with pointers afterwards of our weakness and suggestions to improve them. Such a genuinely nice and hard working guy. Absolutely deserved trophy for him and his guys!

As someone working closely with the players and staff within EG that are currently being discussed by fans and critics on public forums and social media, my opinion is

IEM Dallas 2025 if we keep showing case openings to keep viewers "engaged"

"There was a period of time where Party Astronauts didn't practice for 5 months because it was a waste of time." It's incredible how confidently people spew complete nonsense on reddit.

CS players will have the confidence to buy deagle on pistol round, but won't ask a girl to be their valentine.

Insane that I got the opportunity to have a drink with a legend like @tabseNcs and pick his brain about CS. He is such a great guy and his passion for the game is contagious. Thank you for a great end to an amazing event!

RL vs. Stewie(+community) & Launders vs. Dona top 5 all time post-event drama. We're experiencing history in the making.

6. Watch demos 7. Take criticism from teammates 8. Practice Smokes and flashes 9. stop weapon switching 10. buy p250 + smoke instead of deagle on ecos

After 4 years together, my journey with @ben1337cs and @TheRealPwnAlone has come to an end. I'm eternally grateful for all the amazing memories we made along with @viz_cs, @JonjiJlc, and @Momofps1. Love you guys. End of an era.

NA Premier S38 will give zero ESL ranking points due to the fact that not enough pertinent teams participated. So even though the event qualifies us directly to ESL Pro League group stage, it isn't considered a relevant event.

"This scrim is pointless cause this team doesn't play like this in matches" is something I've heard a million times in NA and it's a dogshit mentality to have when practicing. You don't practice against teams to get reps and understand just that one specific team, you do it to develop your own teams style and tactics to use against a wide range of team playstyles. If you give up in a scrim just because an aggro scrim team usually plays passive in matches, then you're wasting your own time. Saying it's because of the other team is mega-cope. Eventually (most likely sooner rather than later) you're going to play against a team that plays aggro, loose, or "random" so why skip an opportunity to practice against it. Focus on the things that are within your own control and stop making excuses.

Because there's a lot of attention right now around the usage of my photos, I just want to be clear that these are, always have been, and always will be the rules for using my Frag photos for free: 1. Do not remove the watermark or crop the photo to not include it. Using it as a profile picture is the only exception. 2. Do not alter the photo. No editing. 3. Do not use it for profit. That means don't put your sponsors on the photo, do not use it somewhere that generates ad revenue, and do not sell it. 4. Do not use it in a hateful manner. As long as you follow these rules, you can post my photos wherever you want without purchasing them. You don't even need to tag me or give me credit. The Frag watermark is my credit. Frag is a part of me and I want to use my media to grow our brand and reach within the community. Leaving the watermark benefits me directly even without the individual credit. If you want to break rules 1-3, then contact me to purchase the rights to the photo(s). Breaking rule 4 will always result in DMCA and loss of rights if purchased.

Reddit moment

Something does not need to be 100% your life for you to become or stay exceptional at it. This is an unhealthy mindset to have. Without good relationships, fun hobbies, or consistent physical activity (to name a few), you are at extreme risk for depression, illness, and burnout.

drive.google.com/file/d/1zqX… Being unemployed and teamless for the last few months has been nice in some ways but not being part of something bigger than just me has me feeling a bit purposeless recently. I've been missing working with and helping people so I've been setting some time aside from my days these last few weeks to work on an updated and more extensive version of my old CS:GO Team Building and Development document I put out about 2 years ago. If it turns out that I can't find any work in esports and I need to start looking at options outside of the industry, I want to at least be able to pass on some of the lessons I've learned over the years to the next generation. I really enjoyed writing this document and I hope anyone that reads it can learn a thing or two from my experience.