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This Jacket Is Me
Jan 29, 2009
Im drunk and I just saw the mr pink video. Lmao

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Carrier
May 12, 2009


420...69...9001...
I spend more time on kz servers than I do playing the actual game atm. Gotta get that sick longjump stat bro

John DiFool
Aug 28, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyNFSzwTtF8

Smol
Jun 1, 2011

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
Happy is the best player on inf B

Bohemian Nights
Jul 14, 2006

When I wake up,
I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Clapping Larry
It's okay to be gay, but don't gently caress with them drugs my friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-vtHL6VDuI

Lacedaemonius
Jan 18, 2015

Rub a dub dub
Is there some place I can download CS:GO replay files for these games, so I don't have to watch lovely 480p Twitch streams?

kcer
May 28, 2004

Today is good weather
for an airstrike.
allu is amazing

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake
"I hope they're not recording right now"

mistermojo
Jul 3, 2004

Lacedaemonius posted:

Is there some place I can download CS:GO replay files for these games, so I don't have to watch lovely 480p Twitch streams?

http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=28&eventid=1605

Lacedaemonius
Jan 18, 2015

Rub a dub dub

What a hero.

Fateo McMurray
Mar 22, 2003

wow name yourself "drunk", use nothing but the p90, and people hate you

Luna Was Here
Mar 21, 2013

Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkoPB4iZsZE

The Blue Caboose
May 20, 2007

jeff gerstmann hates fun

Bohemian Nights posted:

My love for the scoped weapons is definitely related to a decade away from cs and in games where ADSing is standard, but I disagree completely about the scope. I feel it's is an absolute godsend for range and makes landing both long distance headshots and sprays hella easier due to the reduced firerate and tighter spread. Sure, it reduces your peripheral vision and slows you down when you scope up, but 90% of the time it's not like you're scoping until you've spotted the target anyway.

I imagine the extra 0.10ms I spend drawing up the scope would matter in LEM+ games, but at my current level I feel like I find myself winning most medium-long duels, in large part due to the scope. Of course, it may just be working for me because I'm Incredibly lucky

The AUG is weird. It has like identical recoil to the AK when unscoped (which is to say a whole shitton of it), but it doesn't get 1sk headshots outside of about a 5 meter range, which means that the AK is better, even though the AUG is super accurate. The M4 does similar damage and has faster movement and way better recoil too. I never buy the AUG.

The SG553 on the other hand, I actually like a lot. It has really weird recoil, kicking up and to the right really hard. On the other hand, it's more accurate than the scout while scoped, while the AK is actually pretty inaccurate at longer ranges.

The SG also has a really long predictable recoil phase. Most rifles spray 9 or 10 reliable straight line shots before they start to kick heavily to the right or left. The SG fires 15 shots in a straight line to the up and right, and the last 5 shots are actually really tightly clumped. Ideally you should never get to that point, but lets be honest, it happens a lot, especially at lower/middle MM tiers.

I like the SG, especially since the economy is innately T sided. A full buy with a SG is still cheaper than a CT full buy, even if the CT skips helmet ($5000 for SG with helmet and smoke/frag/flash/flash, $5150 for M4 with vest, kit and smoke/frag/flash/flash).

Obnoxious little crap about the SG:
The scope is a trap, never use it when you're attacking. It's okay if you're holding an angle.
You move slightly slower than an AK (84% v . 86% of knife speed).
It's a really bad buy against unarmored opponents. Most rifles kill in 1 less shot at all ranges when armor is eliminated. This means that the AK absolutely tears through unarmored enemies (3sk with any combination of chest or stomach shots). The SG has 100% AP, which means it deals identical damage to armored and unarmored targets. Don't buy a SG round 2. The scope is wasted against eco targets and the extra $300 is more meaningful there.

I'll buy the SG as a slumpbuster gun, or if i'm attacking a really long angle and I have enough for a proper full buy. I still tend to use the AK because the spray pattern of the SG makes transitioning back to the other rifles really difficult, especially the Galil, which actually kicks in the opposite direction. And assuming that you're buying 8-10 rifles in a half (which feels about right for me), thats almost an extra AK that you could have bought. It also means that you can turn 2 full ecos into Tec-9/vest ecos instead, which I actually think is way more crucial.

I will also generally buy the SG over an auto in almost every auto situation-- but that's because I'm miserable with the autosniper for some reason.

I think if the SG was available to CTs, it would be an obvious choice, even if it still cost $3300 or $3500 or whatever. A SG back plat on B is almost as brutal as a SCAR-20. It's also really great for hostie maps, but lolol competitive strategy in hostage maps, right?

Also, for what it's worth, the fire rate is identical in both scoped and unscoped modes. The scope actually linearly reduces recoil.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

Bohemian Nights posted:

It's okay to be gay, but don't gently caress with them drugs my friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-vtHL6VDuI

Holy poo poo, allu is seriously the most incredible person in esports

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

I switched to the m4a4 and haven't looked back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_b9JYg5XAY

I don't know what the gently caress I did in the last two weeks but I wish I could do it again. I went from doing OK to top fragging most games and getting promoted twice.

lizardhunt
Feb 7, 2010

agreed ->
Does Starladder do POV streams? I wanna hear NiP play again. :munch:

Bohemian Nights
Jul 14, 2006

When I wake up,
I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Clapping Larry
Herding eastern europeans in MM isn't always so bad when they're polite enough to get hilariously starstruck by the end of the match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1uVAJjQ660

Burgo
Jun 1, 2008

jerkstoresup posted:

Does Starladder do POV streams? I wanna hear NiP play again. :munch:

only audio: http://www.twitch.tv/starladder7

Waltchelg
Jan 21, 2009

13 rounds on nuke and allu is 0-13. This is TSM's chance to pull off this bo3. I thought the map might've been lost after device got bs'd by the flying tek9 but they're keeping it together.

Burgo
Jun 1, 2008

Waltchelg posted:

13 rounds on nuke and allu is 0-13. This is TSM's chance to pull off this bo3. I thought the map might've been lost after device got bs'd by the flying tek9 but they're keeping it together.

That flying tek9 was the greatest.

Smol
Jun 1, 2011

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
nV won the first pistol, right? That'd mean they've won 14 pistol rounds in a row against NiP.

sleppy
Dec 25, 2008

Pretty sure NiP won the first pistol and got eco'd second round.

Smol
Jun 1, 2011

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
Ah okay. I just tuned in on the 5th round and saw nV with 3 rounds, so I assumed they won it.

aborn
Jun 2, 2001

1, 2, woop! woop!
Get Right looks so pissed

Queering Wheel
Jun 18, 2011


What an absolute rear end beating by NV.

Smol
Jun 1, 2011

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
nV and Fnatic seem to be soooooo much ahead of everyone else right now

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011
So what's the recommended cloth mousepad these days? Mine's 15+ years old (seriously, I should have bought a new one years ago but hard mousepads were all the rage and I can't stand them) and I really need a new one.

Bohemian Nights
Jul 14, 2006

When I wake up,
I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Clapping Larry
I'm currently using a cloth http://www.corsair.com/en/gaming-mouse-mats

It's pretty good, and huge

Beach Bum
Jan 13, 2010

Kazinsal posted:

So what's the recommended cloth mousepad these days? Mine's 15+ years old (seriously, I should have bought a new one years ago but hard mousepads were all the rage and I can't stand them) and I really need a new one.

http://steelseries.com/products/surfaces/steelseries-qck-plus

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

Inexpensive and gigantic. I'm going to have to rearrange my desk I think.

bpower
Feb 19, 2011
mouse carpet

http://www.amazon.com/Razer-Goliathus-Medium-CONTROL-Gaming/dp/B00EUPVQ04

VelociBacon
Dec 8, 2009

The steelseries qck mini or w/e it's called is pretty great. It's just a smaller version (more reasonable).

hello internet
Sep 13, 2004



The only mouse pad you need

Powerful Wizard IRL
Aug 8, 2007

-_- CS Depression? -_-
Ask your admin if BanMe® is right for you!
^o^
Might I suggest an affordable pad with dumb branding from a REDDITors company
http://www.pcgamingrace.com/collections/all

Powerful Wizard IRL fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Mar 29, 2015

aborn
Jun 2, 2001

1, 2, woop! woop!

Also consider the QcK Heavy, which you can roll into a bat and kill a man with

hello internet
Sep 13, 2004

Powerful Wizard IRL posted:

Might I suggest an affordable pad with dumb branding from a REDDITors company
http://www.pcgamingrace.com/collections/all

What would those weird long mouse pads be used for?

Hashtag Banterzone
Dec 8, 2005


Lifetime Winner of the willkill4food Honorary Bad Posting Award in PWM

hello internet posted:

What would those weird long mouse pads be used for?

Playing with 2 mice

The Ferret King
Nov 23, 2003

cluck cluck

hello internet posted:



The only mouse pad you need

I finally threw mine away a couple weeks ago.

Fat Lou
Jan 21, 2008

Desert Heat? I thought it was Dessert Heat. No wonder it tastes so bad.

hello internet posted:

What would those weird long mouse pads be used for?

Multimonitor? I dunno. Why are almost all mousepads still square when monitors are rectangle?

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Powerful Wizard IRL
Aug 8, 2007

-_- CS Depression? -_-
Ask your admin if BanMe® is right for you!
^o^

hello internet posted:

What would those weird long mouse pads be used for?

a desk mat like

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