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Delay and quality in 3rd party VOIP is marginally better, that's reason enough, but if you're playing with friends you probably want to talk to them not in game. And in other games. And when ESL wire doesn't work. And if you wanna get real mad at your opponents without it being saved on the CSGO demo for them to laugh at you. I can't think of a single good reason to prefer in-game to VOIP. Sounds better, more customisable, more flexible, more private. Even if it's just you and a mate, might get a little awkward when you wanna whine about how poo poo your teammates are on shared voice chat all game. Which I always do, thank you.
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canoshiz posted:I don't get it, isn't the whole point of a double elimination bracket the fact that everyone has to lose twice to be eliminated? Shouldn't fnatic have to had win 2 bo3 matches since they were coming from the loser's bracket? I feel like just having the advantage on the map veto process isn't that good for the team that qualified for grand finals through the winner's bracket. How much
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mcvey posted:How much My net worth in skins is about 10 cents, so, nothing 
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It is true that map veto advantage is a joke, and so is a bo3 for any Grand Final except for $100 online cups. A Grand Final with winner/loser brackets should be bo5 with 1-map advantage, or two consecutive bo3's, where the upper bracket has to win 1, the lower bracket both.
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Photex posted:is there a goon discord yet?
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Jeza posted:Delay and quality in 3rd party VOIP is marginally better, that's reason enough, but if you're playing with friends you probably want to talk to them not in game. And in other games. And when ESL wire doesn't work. And if you wanna get real mad at your opponents without it being saved on the CSGO demo for them to laugh at you. What about if you want to whine about your friends to yourself
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Jeza posted:It is true that map veto advantage is a joke, and so is a bo3 for any Grand Final except for $100 online cups. A Grand Final with winner/loser brackets should be bo5 with 1-map advantage, or two consecutive bo3's, where the upper bracket has to win 1, the lower bracket both. qhat fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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The whole point of double elim is that you have to lose twice to get knocked out of the tournament. The fairest, most logical and easiest to implement grand finals that keeps this in mind is to have the losers win 2 matches to win the tournament. I guess it just confuses me that they would deviate from this and instead convolute it to this whole map veto advantage thing that defeats the purpose of double elimination. Picking the first map is a huge advantage, sure, but no way could you convince me that it's an equivalent replacement for winning one whole bo3 set. Apparently ESEA tried this once (standard double elim) and everyone hated it which honestly completely blows my mind.
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Edit: Nevermind, I'll do the numbers first.
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I think its stupid that they can elimanate maps. I tried to watch one of the recent tournaments and all they played was cobble 8 times in a row
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Pookum posted:I think its stupid that they can elimanate maps. I tried to watch one of the recent tournaments and all they played was cobble 8 times in a row
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Photex posted:is there a goon discord yet? I just made one so there is now, click here to be taken to it
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Bohemian Nights posted:Teamspeak/skype has noticably better sound quality than the ingame voice, and the minute it takes to set it up before you start queuing for a game is always worth it. The ingame codec is okay and better than it was six months ago, but it's still a lot worse than every other 3rd party alternative The codec used in counter-strike is CELT, which is a voice-optimized codec that's been used until Mumble's 1.2.4. If you haven't updated Mumble in like a year, you're probably still using it. The new codec that Mumble uses is Opus, which is literally the best audio codec that's ever existed. However, while it is much better in general than CELT ever could be, CELT is part of the Opus specification for a reason: it's already drat good. For most speech, Opus will use the SILK specification, which is what Skype uses. Finally, I can guarantee that Ventrilo is worse than the Counter-Strike codec in every conceivable way and any notions you might have to the contrary are placebo because you tend to hear russians whining in CS. dex_sda fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Welp that's it. Allu is out of NIP
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Hollenhammer posted:Welp that's it. Allu is out of NIP i'm not surprised, he belongs on a team that can close out games.
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Photex posted:i'm not surprised, he belongs on a team that can close out games. Absolutely. I'm excited anticipating further roster moves
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Hollenhammer posted:Welp that's it. Allu is out of NIP Get_Right to C9, Allu to Liquid. NiP disband.
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gonna miss the allu/GTR banter on voice comms though. "you gotta push it like you push your girlfriend"
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Capt. Sticl posted:Get_Right to C9, Allu to Liquid. NiP disband. Gtr already confirmed on twitter that a move C9 is out of the question.
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UNF... imagine a steven universe X undertale skin for the AWP 
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Dongicus posted:UNF... imagine a steven universe X undertale skin for the AWP While I would like this, there is no way it would happen
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They did overstep the line with waifu AUG already.
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Don't trash talk the best skin in the game, please. It's a crime that it's so rare and expensive and on a weapon that never gets used
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I use AUG from time to time since I have seething hatred for M4 in CS:GO.
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Bohemian Nights posted:Don't trash talk the best skin in the game, please. It's a crime that it's so rare and expensive and on a weapon that never gets used If I had that skin I'd never use the m4 again
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Dongicus posted:UNF... imagine a steven universe X undertale skin for the AWP
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kalstrams posted:I use AUG from time to time since I have seething hatred for M4 in CS:GO. Why? Is dope.
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ranked up to LEM last night/this morning, I've been off my game generally going 1:1, whiffing stupidly easy shots and poo poo like that, but 4/5 of the last games I played in LE were pretty good matches, communicative teams, the matches were close etc etc etc, even had some games with some bad vibers but the rest of the team ignored it and just kept playing instead of tilting. One game on overpass we just crushed the other team, I partied up with a few dudes and the next game we hit inferno and they ended up being turds, accusing some dude of hacking (I highly doubt he was, but he did hit a bunch of ridic shots) and we got blown out like 16-8. Partying with random MM dudes is such a crapshoot. basically solo queue MM is a shake of the dice.
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fennesz posted:Why? Is dope.
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For me it's been pretty consistently spending 1-1.5 months at each rank before ranking up ever since I hit MGE. I'm LEM at the moment too.
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qhat posted:For me it's been pretty consistently spending 1-1.5 months at each rank before ranking up ever since I hit MGE. I'm LEM at the moment too. This but every rank since Silver II except a couple weeks after the ban wave where I gained 2 ranks.
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I rocketed out of silver but got stuck at gold nova master, I think its because I was only playing one game a month.
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Pookum posted:I rocketed out of silver but got stuck at gold nova master, I think its because I was only playing one game a month.
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Is anyone watching VP-HR? It's quite awesome.
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Tevery Best posted:Is anyone watching VP-HR? It's quite awesome.
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Tevery Best posted:Is anyone watching VP-HR? It's quite awesome. VP and HR are my favorite teams to watch, I'm loving the poo poo out of this matchup. I missed the middle of overpass, got back in time to watch VP come back.
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symbolic posted:For me, it was the opposite. Took me 101 wins to go from Silver II to Gold Nova I. It's only taken me 75 to get from Gold Nova 1 to DMG, but pretty much LE/LEM level at this point from constant goonmanning (as the goons I queued Mirage with last night can attest to). 35 wins to go from never having played a CS game before to MG1.  I guess my 1000+ hours of TF2 managed to impart some gamesense.
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xsf421 posted:35 wins to go from never having played a CS game before to MG1.
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symbolic posted:Last time I checked, byali was going 3-15 and they were still winning, albeit by a small margin. Pasha is quite big today. He had a masterful play where he snuck through a wall of smokes they put up on CT-stacked A site and ran into the tunnels, then down to the now-empty B. Amazing stuff. EDIT: VP into a double scout CT-side Mirage after a lost pistol, pasha tags 3 or 4 guys with it 
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