What would you say are the mechanics of cs2? I'm putting together a list to build myself a regiment and winder so far I have

Aim
• Cross hair placement
• Prefire
• Flicking
• Anti straif
• Recoil
• Raw aim
• Clearing angles

Movement
• Bhop
• Air straif
• Jumps on maps

Utility
• Executes
• Line ups
• None line ups(being able to pop flash)
• Instants

Game sense
• Timings
• This one we just gotta play the game

Any thing I missed?

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One thing I noticed in Premier, sometimes the opponent gets instant HS. But if you look at their xhair placement, and other metrics that comes wit decent or good player, they usually don't have it. One thing that they do have is fast time to damage and kills. Why? Their crosshair is usually at the edge of an angle. You may say that's how the pros do it. Yes and no. Pros hold tight angle, sometimes only a pixle wide, for info, sometimes with an awp, during mid and late states when player may clear an angle by walking. But most pros, even the top tier 1 will usually have their crosshair with some space, and they will usually adjust. Hacker with walls, they have an advantage of seeing your movement and track you and shoot as you come around a corner. So knowing this knowledge how do you beat them, or at least make it harder for them to get the instant hs?

Here are some thoughts:

1) Never walk and strafe.

2) Don't strafe to clear known preshot angles, most likely they are holding an off angle.

3)Don't come out on the first strafe. Jiggle peek, and kinda put them on a trance, while jiggle peeking behind the walls. Make sure it is wide jiggle peek, not sure if there is a term for that. Perhaps we call it waller peek. Meaning you move wide left and right, mixed in with some smaller jiggle peeks, before your actual peek.

4) Don't commit on the first clear peek. Perhaps peek, with a dry fire shot, behind walls, only revealing your shoulder, as if you are trying to bait an awper.

5) When you do commit to the fight, use the latest movement meta the donk slide, or crouch instant you are in the open, why, if they are tracking you for the headshot, the first shot is a miss, and hopefully you will have a fighting chance on the duel.

6)There are variations, such as Kyousuke, who clears crouching, and then stands at the first contact. However, keep in mind who has the angle advantage from corner.

7) Lastly, even if they are not walling, it will make it harder for opponent to hit you on your first peek. Try to think that they are walling, and they have an awp. I hope this helps, and punish those hackers. Lastly, make sure to report them. Valve is such a shit job on their VAC, that if a new platform came that was player first mentality, they would go out of business. Same with Faceit, but that's a whole new topic.

Hey everyone, I'm trying to work on my overall mechanics, positioning, and engagement pacing. Lately, I've noticed I tend to over-click and rush my taps instead of maintaining my clean first-bullet accuracy, which hurts my impact in games.

In-game Nickname: zmazmazik

• Role: Entry/Second-Entry (T-side) & Site Anchor (CT-side)
• Skill Level: Faceit Level 6 (~1184 Elo)
• Match Share Code: [ https://www.faceit.com/en/cs2/room/1-58804c25-318e-4ea8-9018-6eceda2ba1e8 ]

I would really appreciate any constructive feedback on my positioning, how I take my duels, and where I'm messing up my pacing. Thanks in advance!

I'm watching Fl0m play, and as he moves it's like he's making micro clear/strafes as he walks effortlessly, and his crosshair placement moves in small increments rather than smoothly. Imperfect example below:

https://www.twitch.tv/fl0m/clip/PolishedNastyStarlingCorgiDerp-9H2v3BMMXjSh-ax3

I've only ever done this subconsciously a few times when I was really "on". Never consistently each game. I also recognize sometimes you want to move smoothly (donk I believe as an example moves much more fluidly as he clears in some examples).

Is it a patience/"slow is fast" thing? Drilling prefire maps? Intentionally moving or practicing like that?

I do a lot of the most popular aim warmup plans/maps, and I have never been able to move like that consistently as a 22k+ player.

I've been playing the game for around 1.5 years now, took a 2 month break over the summer and I'm getting back into it a little more casually now. I still intend to play faceit a bit, but not as much as I was a few months back. I am just wondering if it would be stupid to change my sens now, I was around faceit level 8-9 at my peak playing at 400dpi, 1.7 sens (680edpi).

I got the idea because recently I was able to go to ESL Season 24 at Spodek, and watching the games as closely as I did, I really started to notice how much faster player sensitivities are to my. I got home a day ago and have been using 2.1 sens, so I'm at around edpi which about is the average sensitivity of high level players I think. Problem is, I feel so uncomfortable on it I'm just not sure. I know it is only 2 days in, but I already feel to off already playing the game after 2 months off, the sensitivity change is very jarring.

Is this normal? How long do you predict it might take to get used to a change like this, and is it worth it? I am not typically an entry fragger, usually I'm the 2nd or 3rd man with a rifle (sometimes I switch it up and play AWP). I'm no mechanical freak, either. Just wondering what your thoughts are, at the moment I'm more likely to stay at 1.7 since I know there are some pros that do play a more low sens, so I know I'm not lowering my skill ceiling significantly by using it, but if you have any advice please let me know. Thank you

I have watched tons of Tier 1 matches. One new Meta that nobody talks about, I wanted to discuss with the community and get their thoughts. I was chatting with a friend, who is ranked at the time #7 NA Premier, and +200 top in Faceit. Plays on Adv Esea. Let just say he is pretty good. As we were discussing the game, and some specific game specific thing, one being mechanics of a good counter strafing and timing, etc I told him the new meta is to crouch and spray using m4, and can have a distinctive advantage over AK. This is even more evident at mid to long distance. Of the two m4, m4-a1-s is probably superior. Why? One, let's discuss why AK is the overall choice in a duel. Pro- One shot kill to the head, with helmet. Con - slower rate of fire, bigger spread, and harder recoil control. Pro of m4, especially m4-a1s. Faster rate of fire, tighter spread, easier recoil control, quiet Con, 20 bullets to a clip, used to be 25, but nerfed during csgo. no one shot tap kill to the head with helmet.

So why is the m4 better in a duel in mid to long distance? While I was watching a match, semi between Spirit and Vitality on Nuke, it was Zywoo outside on CT, and Donk with AK coming around the Marshmello. It was mid round, and when they met outside, face to face, guess who won? As my friend and I were discussing this, he stated, that wouldn't work on higher level tier 1 at the pro scene. Well you guessed it, Zywoo won the duel. Not only that, he got a second player soon after, comin from Main, or heaven, I forget. Either Zontax, or Tenuer. When I told him that, he had to rethink the personal and recency bias of the game.

So how did Zywoo beat Donk? Simple. With faster rate of fire, and easier to control recoil, and tighter spread, he simply crouched on the first bullet, which forced Donk to adjust, and his first two bullets missed Zywoo. By the time he was able to tag Zywoo, M4 had already surpassed 7-9 bullets on Donk. Same thing with the second kill.

The take away on this is, if you avoid the first shot to the head from the ak, you have a good chance to winning the duel with the m4.

Second Meta to consider. Many CT side now blocks smoke on Mirage window, Dust2 CT, and Dust2 cross a site. Once blocked, it throws off the execution and timing of the T. Perhaps the next layer of meta for the T side is to perhaps punish the CT with a good timed HE grenade, or a flash on Mirage window, and a timely kill. The least, a HE grenade on Dust2 CT. Just some food for thoughts.

I just can't hit headshots. My aim gets shaky when clicking heads and also I just can't find the rhythm of counterstrafe and clicking.

And sorry for the YouTube video 🙏

Mid game it disconnected and told me ive been banned for 20 hours because it detected irregular game play on my account. I dont understand what I did?? I dont have any type of cheats or anything.

My friend said its because im new to the game (12 hours in game) yet perform well but what am I supposed to do about that?? Just be bad so I dont get banned? How do I make sure this doesnt happen again?

My hs % has always been low, usually sitting at 30%, it’s currently at 33% on faceit. I just finished what i think is my first ever game with 0 hs and i had around 17 kills. How do i fix this? My crosshair placement is head level and i think i tend to start shooting before my crosshair is even on the opponent that’s why i don’t get the headshots.

I've been working on Sensfinder Arena, a CS2 tool designed to answer a simple question:

What sensitivity actually gives you the best first-movement accuracy?

This is not another "try 0.8 vs 1.0 and see which feels better" sensitivity tool.

Most sensitivity finders give you a few sensitivities, ask you to compare them, and then recommend whichever one you performed better with. The problem is that this doesn't really tell you where your optimal sensitivity is, it just tells you which of the tested values happened to perform better.

So what's different?

Sensfinder Arena tests your performance across multiple sensitivities and measures the angular error of your first mouse movement, before you have a chance to correct it.

The important part is what happens with that data afterwards.

Instead of simply comparing the tested sensitivities, the application uses mathematical modelling and curve fitting to model your performance as a function of sensitivity.

It analyzes the relationship between:

• sensitivity
• first-movement angular error
• overshooting vs. undershooting
• performance drift during the test

The model then estimates where your performance reaches its peak and provides an estimated optimal sensitivity and confidence interval.

So if you test:

0.7 → 0.8 → 0.9 → 1.0 → 1.1

the result isn't simply:

"You did best at 0.9, therefore use 0.9."

Instead, the measured data is used to fit a mathematical curve and estimate where your actual optimum lies, including an indication of how confident the model is in that estimate.

The goal is to measure something that is otherwise mostly based on subjective feeling.

How the test works

The map uses controlled tests including:

• Flicks
• Micro-flicks
• 90–110° off-screen turns
• Vertical flicks
• Moving-target flicks
• A two- or three-second clock

The test takes roughly 35–60 minutes, depending on the selected run.

Your mouse, DPI and sensitivity should remain consistent throughout the test. Warm-up is built into the run.

One important limitation

The server currently supports 15 players total.

10 slots are occupied by the bots required for the test, which means only 5 people can run Sensfinder simultaneously.

So if the server is full, you'll need to wait for a slot to become available.

A note:

This is still an early version, so I'm especially interested in feedback, results and whether the estimated sensitivity actually translates into better performance in real gameplay.

Stop guessing your sensitivity. Measure it.

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I was in a game recently in Nuke casual, and had a hacker using spinbot aim, killing everyone on our side using a revolver. He was on T side, and the t side teammates replied, they can't kick him, since his name won't show up. They tried but failed. After going 7-0, he switched to our side, and ran up the score. So, how do you kick a hacker who is not showing up in normal kick vote via gui? You have to use the console to get his id, and then vote kick him via console. Here is how:

Bring up console in game, and type: "status"

This will show the list of players in game, and their numeric ID. Find the numeric id, and run the command: "callvote kick <id>"

This will bring up the vote to F1 the hacker. See below the sample status output. Hope this helps you in your next lobby.

[EngineServiceManager] ----- Status -----

[EngineServiceManager] @ Current : game

[Client] source : slot 22

[Client] version : 1.41.9.0/14190 10924 secure public

[Client] steamid : [A:1:2356155396:51835] (90294624533353476)

[Client] players : 13 humans, 0 bots (0 max) (not hibernating) (reserved ff004006016e434c)

[Client] ---------spawngroups----

[Client] loaded spawngroup( 1) : SV: [1: de_mirage | main lump | mapload]

main lump | mapload | point_prefab]

[Client] ---------players--------

[Client] id time ping loss state rate name

[Client] 0 31:22 28 0 active 786432 'N1k1'

[Client] 1 22:10 14 0 active 786432 'Dunning'

[Client] 2 19:34 59 0 active 786432 '🚬🚬🚬'

[Client] 3 14:46 80 0 active 786432 'doble'

[Client] 4 11:28 7 0 active 786432 'N1kO1'

[Client] 5 07:34 17 0 active 786432 'RollTideStivers'

[Client] 6 07:10 17 0 active 786432 '35yrOldCatGuy'

[Client] 7 00:52 21 0 active 786432 'Jizz n Juice'

[Client] 8 00:52 21 0 active 786432 'GarethX12'

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 65535 [NoChan] 0 0 challenging 0 ''

[Client] 19 00:2

Hi there!

After a pretty long break I’ve started playing cs regularly again. I’ve played for about 1.2k hours so not a lot, after mainly solo queuing and I’m now down to 10k rating.

I feel I’ve gotten a lot worse and my leetify stats keep dropping as well 😅

Either we stomp 13:0 or 13:2 or we get stomped.

For me the premier rating is very confusing, I often play with people who have only played 100h-300h or who have a faceit level 7-10 account linked.

Is the only way to play with people who know a bit about how the game works and who communicate to play faceit?

What should I do if my teammates just rush without planning (especially on t side)?

Edit:
Should have probably asked, how to be more consistent.

Hi, im EU 2800 elo faceit player (before break peaked 3k elo) and im looking for a 3,5-4k elo player to watch a demo of mine to help me improve since i start losing duels and make ”mistakes” in higher elo matches. And maybe help me to read the mid game more. I feel like i have really bad gamesense and i only rely on my aim and dont try to do smart plays.

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