CS:GO- so I kept getting banned for racism despite saying nothing about race.

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Stumbletron: Jan 3, 2006; Anti-Stumble unit is fail!

Unfunny Poster posted:

So rather a random question as I'm getting back into playing after like a year or so and was never close to passable. What are good things to practice/focus on doing as a relative newbie to get better?

Eg. in Dota 2 learning a heroes animation speed to get a last hit is rather important to know which is why some people suggest doing like 5 minutes of a bot game every day to practice just last hits. Is there anything like that to be done for CSGO or is it just "play the game, learn through osmosis"?

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Stumbletron fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Aug 10, 2017

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Luna Was Here: Mar 21, 2013; Lipstick Apathy

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# ? Aug 10, 2017 08:54

surc: Aug 17, 2004

Unfunny Poster posted:

So rather a random question as I'm getting back into playing after like a year or so and was never close to passable. What are good things to practice/focus on doing as a relative newbie to get better?

Eg. in Dota 2 learning a heroes animation speed to get a last hit is rather important to know which is why some people suggest doing like 5 minutes of a bot game every day to practice just last hits. Is there anything like that to be done for CSGO or is it just "play the game, learn through osmosis"?

From my quoting of my re-posting the last time somebody asked, on page 486 (2 pages before you asked), here:

The link at the bottom has a bunch of practice maps

surc posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9mvXfnY8wU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWaTzSjE5i0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCRfTmBSGs

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=796681889

Also, read more than the last page of the thread.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 14:21

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

We're lucky in cs in that there's plenty of avenues to practice your mechanical skills outside of matches, but in the end it does boil down to just playing the game more. So much of it comes down to gamesense and the only way to develop that is by playing a ridiculous amount of cs

It's honestly disgusting to consider, but until you've put in at least 1000 hours (generously lowballing here) into the game you'll still be a dumb baby who barely understands what's going on

# ? Aug 10, 2017 14:33

Michael Scott: Jan 3, 2010; by zen death robot

Bohemian Nights posted:

We're lucky in cs in that there's plenty of avenues to practice your mechanical skills outside of matches, but in the end it does boil down to just playing the game more. So much of it comes down to gamesense and the only way to develop that is by playing a ridiculous amount of cs

It's honestly disgusting to consider, but until you've put in at least 1000 hours (generously lowballing here) into the game you'll still be a dumb baby who barely understands what's going on

It is sad that this seems like the right answer isn't it? I mean I enjoy my CS hours as much as the next cool cat, but imagine what we all could accomplish if we spent 1000+ hours of each of our short lives collaborating on something else.

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surc: Aug 17, 2004

I think it's safe to say that most people in this thread do spend 1000+ hours collaborating with other people on something besides CS.

That's like, 6 months at a job.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 15:17

Michael Scott: Jan 3, 2010; by zen death robot

surc posted:

I think it's safe to say that most people in this thread do spend 1000+ hours collaborating with other people on something besides CS.

That's like, 6 months at a job.

I don't understand your point. Obviously most of us who play CS also have a job where we spend more time. My question was about what would happen if the time spent playing CS was allocated to something else. Not making a value judgement either, just seems interesting to think about.

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whodatwhere: Aug 24, 2013

What Mr pink is saying is, "Uninstall you fuckin noobs"

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ThePeavstenator: Dec 18, 2012; Establish the Buns

*Eyes Widen*

"So many hours I could have been jerking off, wasted!!!"

# ? Aug 10, 2017 15:50

Push El Burrito: May 9, 2006; Soiled Meat

Michael Scott posted:

I don't understand your point. Obviously most of us who play CS also have a job where we spend more time. My question was about what would happen if the time spent playing CS was allocated to something else. Not making a value judgement either, just seems interesting to think about.

So you're saying I should quit my job to play more CS?

# ? Aug 10, 2017 15:59

New Zealand can eat me: Aug 29, 2008

Push El Burrito posted:

So you're saying I should quit my job to play more CS?

Yes

# ? Aug 10, 2017 15:59

Jeza: Feb 13, 2011; The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

You can get reasonably good in about 3-400 hours. It's not really a bad thing, it speaks to the fact that it is a game with an extremely high skill ceiling. To actually make it competitively, which few people really do anyway, you probably need a minimum of 2.5k hours.

Realistically, CS and all videogames are a massive loving waste of time. But so are nearly all 'pass-times'. If you stopped to consider how much time you could dedicate to self-improvement and becoming a better person, you'd probably go crazy. Almost nobody operates like that. And learning ten languages, programming, reading all of classical literature and so on are equally pointless in the long run without a goal in mind. Do what you enjoy.

If that doesn't do it for you, there are people out there who have probably sunk like 20% of their waking life on WoW.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 16:11

surc: Aug 17, 2004

Michael Scott posted:

I don't understand your point. Obviously most of us who play CS also have a job where we spend more time. My question was about what would happen if the time spent playing CS was allocated to something else. Not making a value judgement either, just seems interesting to think about.

My point was that obviously you would be productive in whatever you spent the time on instead, which you can tell because everybody in this thread has already spent that much time on other poo poo like school or a job.

There's nothing to think about there. It is a no brainer.

If you want to do more productive poo poo than play video games, spend the time you are playing video games doing productive poo poo instead of playing video games.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 16:22

A TURGID FATSO: Jan 27, 2004; Here's to ya, JACKASS

Michael Scott posted:

I don't understand your point. Obviously most of us who play CS also have a job where we spend more time. My question was about what would happen if the time spent playing CS was allocated to something else. Not making a value judgement either, just seems interesting to think about.

You're the loving worst.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 16:23

ThePeavstenator: Dec 18, 2012; Establish the Buns

I've put a couple of hours into leisure and now the min-max build for my life is ruined!

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Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

cool cat with another hot take

# ? Aug 10, 2017 16:29

drunken officeparty: Aug 23, 2006

Unfunny Poster and Peavs???? I thought I had stopped playing dota???

# ? Aug 10, 2017 16:32

Audax: Dec 1, 2005; "LOL U GOT OWNED"

I mean, if you actually had someone who knew what constructive practice was it wouldn't take as long... But still this is Vidya games so its just here for fun so we should all shut the hell up

# ? Aug 10, 2017 16:40

ThePeavstenator: Dec 18, 2012; Establish the Buns

drunken officeparty posted:

Unfunny Poster and Peavs???? I thought I had stopped playing dota???

csgo is the same as dota but everyone has a gun

everyone spends too much time farming kills
no one buys support items
people don't listen teammate info and die 3v1 or don't show up to winnable fights
theres usually a foreign guy with an open mic where you can hear children/a tv in the background

# ? Aug 10, 2017 16:42

Michael Scott: Jan 3, 2010; by zen death robot

Jeza posted:

You can get reasonably good in about 3-400 hours. It's not really a bad thing, it speaks to the fact that it is a game with an extremely high skill ceiling. To actually make it competitively, which few people really do anyway, you probably need a minimum of 2.5k hours.

Realistically, CS and all videogames are a massive loving waste of time. But so are nearly all 'pass-times'. If you stopped to consider how much time you could dedicate to self-improvement and becoming a better person, you'd probably go crazy. Almost nobody operates like that. And learning ten languages, programming, reading all of classical literature and so on are equally pointless in the long run without a goal in mind. Do what you enjoy.

If that doesn't do it for you, there are people out there who have probably sunk like 20% of their waking life on WoW.

This is good stuff, helps me put it in perspective. My post was only about that thought I have while playing cs "What if I spent all this time on more productive things?" and I thought it was a question worth posing. It wasn't a hot take lol.

Turk you've been nice in private steam messages and your SA jerk persona sucks, it's more insufferable than even me. MM with me goons.

VVV edgy!

Michael Scott fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Aug 10, 2017

# ? Aug 10, 2017 16:58

Luna Was Here: Mar 21, 2013; Lipstick Apathy

Michael Scott posted:

Turk you've been nice in private steam messages and your SA jerk persona sucks, it's more insufferable than even me.

Shut the gently caress up Mr pink

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New Zealand can eat me: Aug 29, 2008

Luna Was Here posted:

Shut the gently caress up Mr pink

# ? Aug 10, 2017 18:56

Unbound: Dec 11, 2012; Atlantis for best map

All others are bugged...

Guys, I think what Mr Pink is trying to say is that he's changed, and has obviously thought about things he can do outside of CS/Video Games as a whole. He's turned a new leaf, for sure.

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Macnult: Jul 7, 2013

Garfu posted:

cool cat with another hot take

# ? Aug 10, 2017 19:55

Macnult: Jul 7, 2013

CS:GO - imagine what we all could accomplish if we spent 1000+ hours of each of our short lives collaborating on something else.

# ? Aug 10, 2017 19:57

ThePeavstenator: Dec 18, 2012; Establish the Buns

Macnult posted:

CS:GO - imagine what we all could accomplish if we spent 1000+ hours of each of our short lives collaborating on something else.

*a montage of subio goons charging crystals plays*

# ? Aug 10, 2017 19:58

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

Unbound posted:

Guys, I think what Mr Pink is trying to say is that he's changed, and has obviously thought about things he can do outside of CS/Video Games as a whole. He's turned a new leaf, for sure.

I think I might have laughed the hardest at this post than anything else today.

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