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Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

hm so if I'm an absolute poo poo new player maybe I should avoid goonpugs for now, yes?

edit: or is this just typical stupid goony drama like usual

# ¿ Oct 10, 2015 20:38

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 16:00

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Alright, cool. I'll stick around the steamchat so I can bring down the CS:Go curve.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2015 21:08

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Dork457 posted:

Next to nobody hangs out in the steam chat anymore. Ask for an invite to the steam group if you haven't got one already goonmans are usually kicked off via announcements.

steam name is slowlydownward currently so if someone could throw me an invite I'd appreciate it :shobon:

# ¿ Oct 10, 2015 22:45

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

The 30 minutes I played goonman's before csgo poo poo the bed and died was fun and cool, and I totally deserved to be laughed at more :shobon:

# ¿ Oct 12, 2015 00:30

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Also double posting because nerd drama over video games is hilarious and sad

# ¿ Oct 12, 2015 00:32

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

I don't have the best keyboarding ability, meaning that the only thing I can do instantly is WASD. What are some essential buttons to bind to the mouse? Right now I have crouch, walk, and jump bound, as the three buttons CS recognizes on my mouse.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 04:56

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

symbolic posted:

It's probably different for everyone. Myself personally, mouse3 is buy menu, mouse4 is reload, and mouse5 is voice chat.

I guess a better way to ask this would be "what keys do you find yourself using the most in the heat of battle?"

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 05:09

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Stumbletron posted:

Walk, crouch, jump and reload are probably the most important if you have a hosed up hand or something.

Yup.

I can reload fine, I figured out how to bind crouch+walk+toggle grenade and it seems to work. Now to actually know how to use grenades well is the next step.

Thanks for the super awesome Goonman guys and directing my stupid rear end. Good vibes :cool:

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 07:59

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

trying to jack off posted:

if you have a legit hosed up hand have you thought about foot pedals?

I do pretty ok as long as I rebind poo poo to my mouse. I'm never gonna be noscope mlg pro but that's ok.

And not hosed up, per se, just missing my forearm and hand on the left.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 08:17

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Ahdinko posted:

Ok I'm genuinely curious about the logistics of this, when CS'ing you do anything with your left arm at all or is everything done with the right hand?

I figure if you've got a mouse with enough buttons on it, you could bind spacebar to "go forwards" and press that with your left, and then just run pretty much everything else on the mouse. All you really need is shoot (mouse 1), zoom (mouse 2), scroll wheel to cycle weapons/nades, crouch (mouse 4) and jump (mouse 5). You need strafe left and right too but either you need some more mouse buttons, or one of those scroll wheels that you can nudge left and right maybe?

My stump kind of tapers into vestigal fingers (imagine what your fingers looked like at 3 months in the womb and you got it) so I kind of roll them around WASD to move, tapping Q or R when I need too. I also type that way and have a pretty awesome KPM :smug:

Faffel posted:

Movement, crouch, jump, weapon switch. Ideally you want each nade bound to a button, but I just hit 4 and cycle through cuz I know how many presses I need at any given moment. Scrolling through all the weapons is real bad as a side note.

// buy binds
bind f1 "buy p250"
bind f2 "buy ssg80"
bind f3 "buy famas; buy galilar"
bind f4 "buy m4a1; buy ak47"
bind f5 "buy awp"
bind f6 "buy flashbang"
bind f7 "buy smokegrenade"
bind f8 "buy hegrenade"
bind f9 "buy molotov; buy incgrenade"
bind f10 "buy vest"
bind f11 "buy vesthelm"
bind f12 "buy defuser"

I recommend adding that to your autoexec for buying quickly at start of round.

after flashing instead of planting the bomb I think you might be right :v:

. I need to find a good solution for switching outside of Q. Maybe those footpedals wouldn't be a terrible idea.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 15:25

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

BUBBA GAY DUDLEY posted:

Whose womb? Because I can barely work halfway up there before they start complaining.

yr moms hahaha

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 15:40

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

I'm your long lost brother

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 15:41

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

symbolic posted:

So Team YouPorn is looking for a CS:GO team and yes, I'm just as shocked as you are that YouPorn sponsors eSport teams.

only requirement is that you suck :downsrim:

# ¿ Oct 14, 2015 07:40

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Thorgot posted:

If this isn't you on reddit, this post got a bunch of useful responses two weeks ago and is amazingly the exact same question: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/3njn1b/lost_my_left_hand_6_months_ago_help_me_figure_out/

Whoa, yah, that's not me, but some good advice in there. I was born with mine and been gaming my whole life, no :black101:

bacterial infection here.

Think I'll save up for some footpedals because those are super cool.

Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 13:49 on Oct 16, 2015

# ¿ Oct 16, 2015 13:33

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Got accused of hacking and being a smurf today.

I don't think there is any better compliment in the world :thumbsup:

# ¿ Oct 16, 2015 22:30

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

It's really frustrating to finally feel like you are playing competently for a round, then have the next team completely throw the match so they derank. What a waste of time, I really wanted to test my abilities :sigh:

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 03:50

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

YouTuber posted:

It's really loving toxic lately. Both games I played today featured 3 people raging at eachother and throwing. One guy was afk for pistol round so that induced another guy to rage out and throw the game. The dude who was afk had a buddy and was throwing to begin with.
The second game had one duo doing that crab walk poo poo then the other duo was doing the classic "WHAT THE gently caress DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY AIMING?!" poo poo.

The sad thing is, I've been playing pretty decently lately yet I deranked solely because of obnoxious team mates.

Is there a lobby goons hang out in to pubstomp? Let's be the toxic pubstompers this time.

Assuming anyone is unranked like me :shobon:

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 05:12

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Whatever happened to the nightly goonmans? I may be a horrible anchor, but somehow I've been carrying silver games after my first couple, and that's making me get a stupid dumb big head.

I want to be stomped pls :cenobite:

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 23:03

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

mcvey posted:

They still happen nightly

Weird. Haven't been seeing the steam group announcements.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 04:59

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Thom P. Tiers posted:

CS is always my fallback game when I get bored with other stuff, does anyone else find that to be true?

It's nice and predictable, and has a pretty clear learning curve, even if it is hard as balls.

That, and there is nothing as thrilling as the crazy clutch stuff you can pull off. It's the only game I know of where sound and vision matters so much.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 22:50

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Turk February posted:

Ive mentioned the hilariously unforgiving learning curve multiple times, but I've also combined it with how satisfying it is to be a feared one-man wrecking crew in this game than any other (save for OG Quake or UT).

I'm really poo poo, but CS is segregated enough by skill that I don't get hilariously stomped unless I'm playing goonman.

The new player experience is waaaay better then when I attempted to play Source.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 04:55

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

qhat posted:

I was playing with some friends last night and 2 Supremes got dropped into our game. Holy poo poo they were completely awful in virtually every aspect of the game. They basically spent the entire game bottom fragging and rage calling us, the eagles who were carrying them, noobs. I'm constantly amazed at how often objectively terrible players like that are able to make it into the top ranks.

Were they deranking on purpose?

# ¿ Nov 5, 2015 22:15

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

qhat posted:

They were French and one of them had us on mute by default at the start of the game. Basically they would never listen to callouts and always made their own plays, which basically meant they never rotated and we had to follow them everywhere when they had the bomb because they were always running off on their own mission. I honestly don't know if they were deranking on purpose because it seemed like they were playing serious (still not well) and making calls in the first half, at least until they started screaming at us in the mic and TKing our top players in the final rounds.

They were probably doing it on purpose then, just to be assholes.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2015 22:25

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Is there a good series going over each map in turn, showing locations and strategies for each? I don't mean just flashes or smokes, I mean positioning, and where to expect pushes.

Edit: alternatively, good historical matches to watch of pros

Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Nov 7, 2015

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 23:53

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Jeza posted:

Good advice

I play pretty similarly to him so that was really helpful. Any chance you have a demo of yourself I can compare to? I'm trying to learn nade placement especially.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2015 20:46

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

dex_sda posted:

Yeah

In pug pistol you're making a mistake if you don't do a yolo rush no stop imo. There's time for defaults and reasonable play in other rounds, but in the pistol you have a great advantage in a high speed aggressive play.

Dual pistol b rush always.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2015 22:38

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

So basically, the 1 game out of 20 I played that didn't have deranking assholes making us lose, doesn't count, because my teammate admitted he was hacking in the last round.

:suicide:

MM is loving unbearable at silver level right now

# ¿ Nov 10, 2015 03:23

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Smithereens posted:

im feeling a lot of rank envy here
http://imgur.com/0LvqtCo

oh man, I'll never steal your identity now that I don't know your fps!

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 01:14

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

I'm starting to be a big fish in a Silver pond, so I can't wait to rank up and loving hate my life again. :v:

Got my first Ace from a 1v5 that i forced into 5 1v1s yesterday, and it sucks knowing that soon enough I won't be able to get that adrenaline high. :smith:

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 19:09

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Turk February posted:

Last night four of us goons needed a fifth and none of our usual suspects were available, so I ended up inviting a 4 star nova as our fifth (1 SMFC, 3 le/LEM, 1 nova). It was a fun and exhilarating game that gave me a major adrenaline high because we ended up tying it (I played like dog poo poo in the first half) with some crucial rounds.

I will now take that little Nova under my wing and turn him into an unstoppable fragging machine! He said the game was intense and while we may have been hard on him at times he really valued the tips and criticism we had given him.

I'm way below nova, but would gladly be an anchor so I can learn, if you are down a person. Steam name is slurps.

I've gotten really good at not peeking, and instead lurking, and that's won me more shootouts than my aim does. My main issues is nade placement and proper pushing/rotating strategy.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 19:25

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

MF_James posted:

If you're nova your issues aren't nade placement and high level strategy, you're still in the realm of "Need To Click Heads Better". I'm not saying ignore the other stuff, but you probably have poor crosshair placement, haven't mastered strafe shooting etc.

I'm not trying to be a dick, just trying to be helpful, your largest strides towards improving (without having seen you play) are likely going to be made by improving your crosshair placement/aim ability, map sense kind of falls into that because as you're moving around you should know generally where people will be so that you can already aim at those spots as you peak them.

Game sense comes with playing a lot, you will get a general feel for how maps flow, watch some pro games and rather than watching an individual player shooting other players, watch how the team moves and creates space and plays, they will (generally) set up cross fires in specific areas because it minimizes their chance of dying and increases the likelihood that the enemy will die because the enemy exposed themselves to 2-3 people at the same moment.

But yeah anyway, work on crosshair placement and overall aim first, the rest will start to come naturally and then you can start to focus on the other stuff harder once you are hitting your "aim ceilling" In all honestly you could probably never throw a grenade until you get to MG ranks and 40 bomb and carry teams.

Good poo poo. I've been practicing strafe shooting and corner contol, but burst control is the toughest. Is there a good way to set up moving targets beyond DM? because sometimes i just need to shoot at defenseless bots.

That said, I know I will never be a great twitch player, and will never have a great stutter step (unless somehow you can bind rapidly pressing ad with a single click heh), so I want to excel in the things I know I can do easy, which is the meta game.

Edit: actually, maybe if I bound a macro to my mouse I could alternate between wasd and a "ad" macro. Experimenting is fun :science:

Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Nov 13, 2015

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 20:19

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Carol Pizzamom posted:

supreme and global are awash with 30-80 hour accounts, it's getting kind of annoying and contributes to the complete randomness of the ranking system

i really wish valve would do the simple solution of adding a casual 5v5 with the same ruleset like Dota 2 has (the game they actually pay attention to) and giving players access to ranked after some amount of wins, ideally 100-200

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 20:34

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

dex_sda posted:

you need like 150 wins to play ranked dota and nobody whines

Well, yeah, because people who play mobas are self flagellating by nature

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 20:40

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Carol Pizzamom posted:

There was a girl in one of my games who had like 110 hours, seemed legit, and was doing pretty well (middle of the board). I'm pretty sure your average girl is better than me at counter strike

DAE think that maybe gurls can be gamers too?!?!?

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 23:25

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

I placed directly into GN2 :woop:

# ¿ Nov 14, 2015 01:27

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

So wait, they had 4 A site and they couldn't hold it? Wowzers.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2015 19:32

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Smithereens posted:

i watched this and died irl laughing

What should CT have done differently if they were out of smoke? I've died stupidly retaking Cache like that too many times.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2015 03:03

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Jeza posted:

You're welcome. In my opinion the issue is very likely driver related, although unfortunately it looks like you've gone down that route quite extensively to no avail. You don't happen to be using a USB headset do you? As they are soundcards in themselves, there could be driver incompatibility there you are not considering.

Obviously prevention is better than cure, but the console command "snd_restart 1" will have the same effect as changing from Headphones to Speakers and back again. If you bind that to a key, you'll only need to worry about the little freezes. (Hoping this command isn't banned, it used to be used for an exploit.)

Anecdotal, but I've had numerous people in MM games complaining that their sound dies randomly, and supposedly is the reason they aren't hearing footsteps.

Or, they are just bad and can't hear the hoofbeats clapping against the ground :v:

# ¿ Nov 21, 2015 00:11

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Turk February posted:

ALWAYS CHECK DARK AND CLEAR THE ENTIRE SITE!

That's the one hiding spot that flabbergasts me when people miss it. It is so, so obvious. It also is one of the places people tend to habitually go to, so it's fun to toss a molotov or he grenade if you notice a pattern.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2015 23:30

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 16:00

Famethrowa: Oct 5, 2012

Motley posted:

I've been really really getting in to this game lately. I'm Nova 2, but I think I'm worse than that. I'm extremely interested in learning and getting better, but I'm having a really hard time playing solo in MM

Is there a group of lower ranked players that play here? I'd really like to get better and have a good time playing with people rather than dealing with random people.

Nova 2 and bad checking in. Steam name is slurps.

Think a goon added me weeks ago for similar reasons and we never played, so whoever you were shoot me a message because I forgot your name :shobon:

# ¿ Nov 24, 2015 04:45

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