meant like 5v5 organized team battle

got the itch and finally reinstalled 1.6 on steam. havent played in years so forgive me for how noobish this is but i cant seem to join any servers.... i joined one that said it was 18/22 and after all the maps and sounds and whatnot finished downloading it brought me to a completely empty server on some random remake of aztec.

now every single time i click on a server to try and join it brings me back to the empty aztec one. really tilting and i think i remember something like this happening last time i installed the game but forget if i ever figured out how to fix it.

I think I turned off my firewall to find servers way back when

completely wrong

CS is more about knowing where you should be looking at all times, on every map and in every situation. You don't get better at scrims by playing lots of fy_iceworld.

Obviously the top guys in the world have very good reflexes, but they always have their cross-hair on your face when you turn a corner...

o u've noticed that?!

did u play in competitive leagues too?

there was a guy who was really good at that, sk ahl. He had really good xhair placement. Just watching him turn corners was amazing.

geekmode enabled.

Yeah I played competitive CS back in the day. Only in CAL though, no other leagues.

nah my last team we just played a ton and we always made finals in our national comps. we won countless smaller comps

AMD sponsored us for a bit (:

city competitions don't mean much, unless u mean big ones like cpl/wcg

you must be in so cal?

there was 3 national comps
wcg
wgt?
cpl

im pretty sure we had cpl because i remember pracing bunch of mil which i hated

australian though so prob a joke to you guys lol my team did play 3D at wcg we won on cbble there was a demo on gotfrag (i hadnt joined yet though)

hoping cs:go is similar feel would be fun to play competitive again

<3 cpl mill

hated cpl fire tho

So basically if I continue my analogy, you're a live poker pro.

Anyone who says that reviewing strats, demos, or anything like that is marginal at best must have played the game back in 2004, and for a short time at that. To be marginally successful in CSS back in 2004 all you had to do was have decent aim, not even good aim. The game has completely evolved since then, just like poker, and "just playing" will no longer be enough to even last in the leagues below invite.

Back in the days of CAL/CEVO/CGS (you probably don't even know what CGS is right?), I was known for being a very solid awper...probably one of the better ones in NA, what I did back then would no longer work in today's competition at the top levels. Every map, every bombsite, every angle is broken down to a science (counter-flashes, pop flashes etc...) that unless you know everything yourself, there is no way you stand a chance to even win a round.

Don't sound to be mean, but you would remember if you were CPL caliber. So by the fact that you a) don't know your team name from back then, and b) are unsure of whether or not you were CPL, I am guessing you weren't at that level. Also, just because you played cpl_mill does not mean you were CPL level. Mill was used in other leagues such as CAL, CEVO, CGS and ESEA until recently (and even other worse leagues that only baddies played like OGL).

Great! Now lets take it one step further, lets assume that your opponent has also mastered "pre-aiming" (what you are describing in your post). What will you do so that he does not kill you when you come around a corner. Pre-aiming is something is that learned through countless hours of practice. Everyone that plays the game competitively always has their cross-hairs on their opponents head. It's things that I said in my a few posts above that separate the mediocre from the good.

The game is much more complex than just knowing where to put your crosshair. That is one important step, but to say that is all that is required to be good is like saying knowing how to be good at poker just requires knowing what good starting hands are.

fml.. this domain where i hosted all my images from my cs days went down.

Remember GGL? It was supposed to overtake the CPL but I think it failed after the 1st or 2nd event. Anyways, gotfrag was streaming the matches and somehow I got the IP to the LAN server and connected as a 6th member of one of the clans playing and TK'd during the pistol round. lol @ the freakout "NOT LIVE NOT LIVE NOT LIVE"

I also joined another match but it was midway through the match so I didn't join a team or anything, that would have been ****ed up.

New update to the game just happened...they finally added screen shake.

What is the point of the ELO in CSGO? Seems like it doesn't serve any purpose.

I've been getting better at Arms Race, my highest is 23...the Deagle, but I still suck pretty badly. It's probably just me, but the game feels inconsistent. My first round has my crosshairs on the guy's forehead and it doesn't kill him.

Are headshots not 1HK?

Anyways, the server browser is completely underwhelming. I thought it would be some kind of integrated program, not a background with the CSS browser on top. Hopefully they implement it into the interface and make it look like they put some work into it.

ELO is a rip off of ESEA. Basically its competitive play for competitive people. Sad thing is, most people that will be playing on it will probably be the worst players in the game. So there is really no point to playing it if you are decent at the game.

It's supposed to generate teams of 5v5 with equal skill to play against each other.

Let me clarify. ELO is the rating system, the way Valve is implementing it is a rip off of ESEA.

I look forward to playing against people of equal skill. I just don't understand how it's calculated? By my KDR? Whether I win or lose?

Is it working right now? I've watched CSGO streams where they either get dominated or they go around crushing everybody. Doesn't seem very "equal."

No sure if it is implemented right now. Whose GO stream are you watching? If they are competitive players I doubt they are using Valve's servers. The first season of ESEA-GO just started so if you are watching that stream they probably won't be equal in terms of skill.

Also, one good player can dominate an entire match in these types of games...that's why Valve's way of doing it is basically a joke.

Hey why are there no counter strike strat threads in the FPS strat forum? All you see there is call of duty ****. yawn

Same reason why this is only 3 pages and why the CoD crap is a million pages. COD is easy, has no strategy (lol @ anyone who thinks CoD has strategy) and can be mastered within a few days by a monkey.

or it could be because cs 1.6 and cs:s are pretty much dead and cs:go hasn't been released yet

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what he said

I love the game and hopefully my friends will want to play online leagues again. <3 cs strat talk

Probably the more logical reason.

Interesting thing about CS strategy is that they don't need to be complex to work against most teams. The thing is getting all 5 players to buy into the strategy and actually execute it properly that becomes the issue.

Splitting mid to B and upper B on d2 is an easy strategy to learn, but if you have 1 or 2 guys lurking back, the whole strategy falls apart.

yeah. The timing and smoke/flash placement needs to be precise.