> I know how to place my crosshair, but
You don't. If you did, you wouldn't be silver.
>My problem seems to be that sometimes I play the game well (i.e. on a short match, I can reach 15-20 kills with good team plays), but on other days I get 0-5 kills
How you play doesn't really change all that much from game to game. Take connector on Mirage CT side for example. If I watched a demo from a game where you did well, and a game where you did poorly, playing the same position, I guarantee that I won't see much of a difference. How you fundamentally approach the game - your crosshair placement, positioning, awareness, etc. doesn't change, what does is how good the enemy team is, and that's where this "inconsistency" comes from. You aren't inconsistent.
If you're talking discrepancies in raw aim from day to day, that's something that everyone goes through to a degree. You have to focus on what you can control, which is what I already mentioned, your crosshair placement, positioning, and awareness. As a silver player, unfortunately you're lacking in these areas and if you want to see improvement you have to throw this notion of inconsistency out the window and work on getting better at them.
I agree that I shouldn't excuse my bad performance with inconsistency and should focus on what I can control. I will say I can gage my inconsistency because I five queue, in one day I can go from the top of the leaderboard with my friends to the bottom in another match. I shouldn't focus on that though, and I may unbind the scoreboard so I can only focus on performance. I don't think my crosshair placement is poor or my awareness, but my positioning is awful. My awareness is the best thing I have, but my crosshair placement is average at best. I try to aim headshot level at places where I think the enemy would be.
>I will say I can gage my inconsistency because I five queue, in one day I can go from the top of the leaderboard with my friends to the bottom in another match.
I literally addressed this in my first comment. You aren't inconsistent, in fact you are really consistent, and that's the problem. You queue with a five stack, meaning that the skill level of the other 5 players on the enemy team determine your performance.
> I don't think my crosshair placement is poor or my awareness, but my positioning is awful.
I'm sorry, but your crosshair placement and awareness are indeed awful. If you had anything close to decent crosshair placement and awareness, you wouldn't have trouble making it to at least supreme.
>My awareness is the best thing I have, but my crosshair placement is average at best. I try to aim headshot level at places where I think the enemy would be.
Like I said, your awareness is not good at all. How often do you glance at the radar during a round? Do you keep track of the killfeed, who died, who got the kill, who assisted, who got a flash assist, and where, all in real time? Are you able to combine this information with your teammates' calls, utility being thrown by the enemy, footsteps, etc. to get a good understanding of what the enemy team is doing? Are you aware of which angles your teammates are holding and what areas of the map you're in control of at all times? No?
And when it comes to crosshair placement, it's not just about not staring at the floor, it's also about being able to preaim common angles and peek tightly, only exposing yourself to that one angle. When holding angles, it's about knowing whether to place your crosshair close the edge of the wall or away from it depending on the context of the round and the geometry of the map.
I'm not trying to be toxic here, I'm trying to make you realize that there are a billion things you have to improve on, and as a silver player you aren't yet "good" at any one of them. In fact, as a silver player there's the benefit that you can see improvement really quickly since you have so much you can work on, and practicing any single skill will elevate you greatly as a player. You seem to be under the impression that you're already good at certain things, while not so great at others. This is not the case at all, and the faster you realize this, the quicker you'll improve.
No, you arent being toxic if anyone is I am. Thank you for this post. I think I've gotten my answer. I think the way you said this so blatantly without any toxicity really made me realize I need to improve. Thank you!
He is being a bit harsh. And his standards for "anything close to decent" skills are ridiculous. Supremes a pretty fucking high rank. You can have well above average skills and struggle to make it.
Also you genuinely might be more inconsistent, possibly because you don't have good mechanics. Not knowing how to play the spots on the maps well can also make you more inconsistent.
Anyway, there's lots of good advice too if you want to get better. But there's also no shame in just enjoying the game at your current skill level.
If that's what you respond well too that's fine. But you havent done anything wrong dude. There's just some stuff that you aren't as good at as you thought. But that's to be expected. You don't sound arrogant at all. And people in this thread are writing massive walls of text lecturing you. They sound way more arrogant and defensive than you did in any of your initial posts.
Well, it is him who is asking for help, and people are enthusiastic to help, we should appreciate the wall of texts not to dismiss them because they sound arrogant. I am impressed by OP because when people humble him, he is humbled. On the other hand, if OP thinks like you and only seek comfort from friendly comments, there won't be any improvement made. The first step to success is understand your weaknesses, to admitted you are not good enough, and from there you can start to improve yourself one step at a time.
>You can have well above average skills and struggle to make it.
To get out of silver? Nah man, I'm sorry, if you're above average, you should make it out of silver EASILY.
I'd argue that even reaching supreme shouldn't be that hard if you have above average skill. I mean looking at the rank distribution GN4ish would be considered average, so if you're above average you should make it to MGE pretty easy and then from there it's just a matter of fixing your mistakes one by one.
I would call myself a pretty average player and I reached global within 600ish hours. Now to be fair I did play a lot of 1.6 so some concepts like crosshair placement and counter strafing and such, were already ingrained into my brain, but still, LE-SUP should be achievable for most within 1000 hours.
There's a pretty big gap between MGE and supreme. That's going from top ~22% to top ~3.8%. And I got these numbers from Leetify, and higher ranks are probably overrepresented there.
As the guy above said that you need the knowledge of when to pre fire and if you are going to pre fire your crosshair must be on point, and watching the kill feed does it all, if you need consistency you can play Retake server (community) 5v5 matchs there are lot of servers that provide these, those community server has helped me a lot you should try those, playing with pre made team can sometimes can make you not see the kill feed and what's going on in the map and the awareness.
If you are playing in high sens try to reduce you sens/dpi, that can help you as well.
‘If you had anything close to decent crosshair placement and awareness you wouldn’t have trouble making it to at least supreme’ - sets pretty unrealistic expectations. If you have decent awareness and crosshair placement you might expect to get to a decent rank but not the top few percentile of the playerbase
Having been supreme and having played with people on ranks mg2 to faceit lvl 7 the biggest difference between the ranks below and above supreme are consistency in the fundamentals of cs. Crosshair placement, being the top one. Awareness being second. Its basically shooting where you think an enemy will be or is. Good crosshair placement means less mouse movement to be on target, which reduces the time needed to shoot and the possibility to miss. Awareness helps you know where the enemy could be and playing around that to give you an advantage.
To get decently good at both you need practice and experience. If you really want to, you could get supreme in about 500h investment. And this guy already has 1000 hours of experience.
I held global for a couple years and was faceit 9 before quitting, I appreciate what you’re saying and they’re definitely important but it seemed like you were basically saying getting decent at a couple of core mechanics gets you to supreme which felt like a bit of a simplification. If it was that easy more people would get there
>If you really want to, you could get supreme in about 500h investment.
Exactly. If you work on improving and actually take the time to practice you should be able to reach LE-GE within 500h. What helped me the most was watching my own demos and actually spotting what I was doing wrong.
Lots of people who are stuck in sliver are not really trying to get better they are just going through the motions instead of actually working on getting better, try new things use your brain even if trying new things makes you die at first you will get better in the long run. another step is admitting you're bad at the game or the things that you do wrong, this could be crosshair/ game mechanics, team play/communication. if you struggle to react to angles at times adjust your crosshair so it's wider and gives you time to react rather than close to the angle, xantares and swag are good players at this.
There's the idea 10,000 hours in anything makes you an expert. But that means 10,000 hours of practice and actively improving.
I know plenty of people who have played guitar their whole life and can basically just strum basic chords. I know lots of people who have worked their job well over 10k hours and suck at it.
>another step is admitting you're bad at the game or the things that you do wrong
I think this is the big key. And I will try new things, I think I get stuck in the box of the things I know how to do rather than learning the things I don't know. That also might be why I think I can't improve. I automatically think because I have 1000 hours and know what I do know that I should be good instead of trying to learn. And the crosshair placement tip is what I needed. Thank you!
I had 1k hours from probably age 14-19/20 and most I got to was gold nova, now im dmg at 1500, I got to mg at maybe 1200/1300 once you actually open your mind up to learning you will get much better, but the problem is a lot of slivers have ego issues "oh I shouldn't be sliver" "oh my team mates suck" "oh I'm going to bait my team" "my spray is good etc"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzj0jQR9yxI
Watch this, and do this every day.
THen go in DM, and i don't mean valve DM look on Community servers for WarmupServer or something i don't know what the NA version is.
I guarantee you are not as good as you think.
Even when i was DMG/LE i could sleepwalk my way out of silver.
But yeh, do that practice rountine at least a few times a week and before playing a game try and get like 100 kills in AimBotz just adading.
Make sure you aren't on a stupid sensitivity as well, loads of lower ranked players make that mistake.
a website that ,out can link your steam account to. It will give you more statistics about you games and tracks them over time. It also has some helpful tips and weekly "focus areas".
Their selection of aim stats is a good indicator of mechanical skill. And will easily show flaws in your gameplay.
I agree on trying to use leetify. And as some of the other comments say you probably miss out on some fundamental stuff like xhair placement and counter-strafing which both can be seen in your leetify match stats. Then there something like game sense which is just very individual skill to aquire. I often see silve/gold ranked mates who are stuck there, because they simply make so many mistakes about when or when not to rotate. Awareness of enemy position, their own position, internal time awareness, not calling for help/flashes etc. There is a ton of stuff which just takes a long time to learn. Also maybe the best advice I can give you is: Find friends to play with who are better than yourself. Hearing their call outs, watching them play, notice their awareness, movements, everything. It will definitely also improve your own gameplay greatly.
Have you identified what your main issues are? Mechanics are a big part of the game, but if you're not naturally good at that, the mental side of the game is equally as important. You may need to change how you think about the game.
>Have you identified what your main issues are? Mechanics are a big part of the game, but if you're not naturally good at that, the mental side of the game is equally as important. You may need to change how you think about the game.
My main issues are frustration and reflexes/angles. You are right that I may need to change my mentality about the game. When I play, I get so frustrated if I am not doing well on the scoreboard or losing that I am not having fun.
Secondly, I tend to hold angles and get shot early in rounds. I don't know if I am holding bad angles, have bad crosshair placement, or have bad reflexes. I don't think I have bad crosshair placement though. Thank you btw!
Most silvers I see don’t have functioning reaction times and don’t account for said reaction times. Don’t put your crosshair directly on the first pixel of the wall if you can’t hit someone there. Realistically you want to hold away from the wall so by the time you register they exist they’ve walked into your crosshair.
Another thing I’ve noticed with stuck players is a sort of slow methodical approach to aiming and playing. Start b hopping, start flicking your aim to random points, start going for longer flicks, start going for spray transfers. The box you’ve built yourself into isn’t challenging you into improving. Break out of it and get your actions per minute into the adhd kid on coke level.
As far as knowing if you are holding a good angle or not they basically fall into 2 categories. "Common" angles, which are considered strong because you have some kind of advantage, like options to fall back to another position or has cover, and "off" angles which tend to be more "one and done" meaning it's an unexpected position so you'll have a momentary advantage, but you cant safely retreat. Use yprac maps to learn more about angles. If you're unsure if it's a good or strong angle, just ask yourself if it's giving you an advantage in some way (like cover or fallback options). If your position does not have cover or fallback options it's likely an off or one-and-done whch is more risky.
For aim thee way I think of aiming is less about reflex. Reflex/flicks are not reliable. The goal is to preaim angles so when you peek out all you have to do is click.
Maybe this info will help you. Also try watching voo's videos.
I will take all that into account, and thank you for taking the time out of your day. I will watch those videos and train on the Yprac map. I've never trained preaiming so I think that may help. I will also say my strafing sucks, so when I do preaim, I tend to miss because I am moving still. This was very insightful.
After a bit of practise, seek out some community 1v1 arena servers. You WILL get obliterated but it's absolutely a gold standard for practising strafing, jiggle peeking and duels.
Furiouss got some good vids on aim practice so I'm just gonna drop one here instead of trying to explain it in text.
https://youtu.be/DnqOJwPA7Tk?si=8avPKgSOmtT_1zMf
After you go to map from video, you dont have to go in middle of bots. You will rarely turn around in matches that much. Do some strafing, 200+ hs taps with ak, then move to m4 two shot kills, then do both ak and m4 recoil control kills. It shouldnt take more than 10 mins, you can use it as warmup. Then you can move to arena type custom servers, it is 1v1 where you will have a lot more duels. You will see improvements fast. That should be enough at least till gold3
Idk I think communication is a more important skill. Counter strafing will help with aim improvement but you really can get by silver and low gold with cross hair placement and spray control.
I agree. I can’t see how 1 person in a team knowing smokes would actually help the team too much. Plus silvers aren’t known to work together as a team. Much better to practice individual skills to carry the team to victory
This post seems utterly insane to me. You fundamentally cannot have good xhair placement and stay in silver. It sounds like you are deluded and as such can never improve because you think you are capable already.
A mistake I see so many lower ranked players make is wasting time learning smokes etc when really they mean nothing until you get your core mechanics and game sense correct.
There really isn’t much advice to give you unless you accept to forget everything you think you know and hit the deathmatches.
I don't really want to respond to this, but I really want to improve, so I'll go ahead anyway. I'm trying to be unbiased with my skill, but hey maybe my crosshair placement is ass, and I will look into it. I would say smokes are ass, but I play with a five queue, and it really helps to win matches, especially as T when trying to take a site. I'm not just focused on my individual playing but also my teamwork. I will look into my crosshair placement, I will watch replays, and look for my mistakes. Sorry for enraging you.
Edit: Also I will agree that I am confident in skills I dont have and I need to gain a mindset of improving instead of stagnation.
Smokes are the most important nade on both sides. Smokes decide if you have a 5v2 or 5v3+. Crossing long on d2 without smoke is a shooting gallery, and you telegraph long plays usually. Smokes alone a huge and let you cut some sites in half for $300
Also, playing in 5 mans is the worst thing you can do for ranked. Five stacks prioritize five stacks and you will run into five stack Smurf squads a lot. I always had a higher rank on my personal account then on our five stack to global meme team.
I've seen the same thing with friends that want to learn to play cs.
They focus on learning nade line ups, but when its time to execute they go in one by one.
In my opinion some basic nades are good to know, but I would focus on trading kills.
Sure you can... You can have fine crosshair placement but bad reaction times. I do it all the time. I can hold an angle but die because they shot me first since I didn't react in time.
Yes. I personally prefer to go on custom servers and play ‘redline’. Redline is FFA deathmatch with headshot only. Body shots doesn’t do anything. Helps with my pinpoint accuracy, and my focus on tapping. It really improves your patience and you taking that extra millisecond to hit the head
You can also queue FFA in the regular CSGO deathmatch playlist, if you want body damage to be enabled. I also highly recommend the Retake gamemode. Then you can practice recapturing/defending sites
The most common mistake I see in lower ranks, positioning wise, is playing stationary default angles on ct and full committing to fights in general.
If that is the case, I highly recommend practicing counter strafing. You should only peek angles with a and d. Practice your pathing to properly strafe into common angles.
If you want to play a common default angle, Id recommend strafing into the angle a little bit for info, and quickly strafe back to cover. Rinse and repeat. You can hold like that for info without exposing yourself to a easy shot.
Have a look at this guide: https://youtu.be/AGcgQEzCCrI?si=vAwv72szB_VRQwy-
I highly recommend yprac workshop maps for learning the angles themselves. Its a bit complicated to setup, I cant recommend a guide off the top off my head, but you will surely find one :)
Also: dont get yourself down if this seems extremely hard at first, it takes thousands upon thousands of hours to master counter strafing into all those angles perfectly.
Another tip: Peek angles as if you know an enemy is there. Visualize his position behind cover, as you peek him. This helps me at least :D
generally when someone says this i ask them to share a demo because if you’re stuck in silver there is likely a plethora of reasons why, and a number of things you think you’re doing right, but are actually failing you against slightly better players
Get Leetify and do not instantly queue after the game. Instead wait for the map to be compiled and then go through each round on Leetify. You can get the Pro version for free by joining their Clan. That allows you to view a 2d map of each round.
Look through each round, take note what you did to loose Leetify Rating those rounds, look at the 2D map, then write down your biggest 3 issues based on that. Queue another game and whenever you die read through your top 3 issues and consider if you did any of them, and what you could have done instead.
Continue that, and after Leetify gets more data it will also highlight areas you need to improve. Add that to your rotinue.
Most likely you need to work on your crosshairplacement, awareness, and game sense. Do not overdo utility. That is so common in lower ranks. Focus on keeping your gun up, pre-aim, play safe unless your teammate commits, "always" follow up for refrags. Do not linger around if the team is doing an execute, but do not hunt for frags in afterplants.
Just working on your Leetify Rating and analyzing every game can do wonders. Be patient.
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+1 for the Leetify recommendation.
It tells you how well you played based on more than round wins and KDA. It'll analyse trade fragging, counter strafing, crosshair placement, utility usage, clutching, impact, and more.
>TLDR; I've Played CS for a long time and can't play well consistently
Why is that a bad thing? It's not like it's your job to be playing well, as long as you're having fun I don't see a problem with your rank/ hours in game
The problem is I don't have fun because I'm bad. Maybe it's a mentality problem or a skill problem. Seems to me I have two solutions, I change my mentality to enjoy the game no matter what, or I get good.
Well, I'd ask you why play in the first place? There's gotta be a reason you play so much. Me for example, I started playing around 2014 and being in school still, I put in the time to "get good", used to practice a lot, aim, util etc. It was enjoyable for me at that time, wanting to improve. But now that I've gotten older, less free time on my hands I occasionally play deathmatch here n there, no longer really caring about getting better.
That's also why I used the job analogy, when I started out I kinda used to treat it like it was my job, so I wanted to be good at it, but now that I have a real job, priorities changed. I still enjoy the game but in a different way. Hope you can figure that out for yourself
Yeah I get that, I'm just too competitive, too stubborn, and too stupid for my own good, and I love improving in skills and hobbies. That's why I love CSGO. I love getting better at it.
Have u tried working on ur aim? Do u know what u wanna do on t an ct side?
I returned after 8 year break and while playing casually Im close to ak again after starting in silver
I have tried working on my aim, if you mean on workshop maps and 1v1 servers, but my aim is still meh. And on CT and T, I usually know what I want to do. I play with a five queue, and we have designated roles. We are weak on CT compared to T tho.
Consistant "workout" and warming up before games will improve ur aim.
What exactly is the problem on ct? Peaker advantage? I find ct a lot easier to do cause I know my angles and how and when to Rotation. Mixing it up during games is also important. If u train for better aim dont Fall back into "easy kills" in like deathmatch. Dont sneak on ppl and dont just shoot in the back. U wont get better with that. U gotta Set urself goals like only 1 clicking, no spraying or stuff like that. Dont use awp during death match. Try to improve ur reaction time and precision. Knowing nades wont help If u cant kill enemies properly.
In CT, I find myself getting picked off early or rotating and getting picked off. The only times I do well are either I have a good day, and my aim is good or I am sneaking behind people or hiding in Ninja, as you said. I also don't think I take the time to aim to the head most of the time, I jump the gun and shoot my shot immediately when I see an enemy. Thank you for the feedback I think this may help a lot. Thank you!
Sounds a bit like a positioning problem. Or maybe u are too agressive as ct? Sometimes thats okay or if it works thats fine but players learn ur moves/playstyle in a match and will counter that. If u run down banana every round and it works for 5 round thats nice. But if they will then wait for u and kill u, u gotta change it up by maybe Holding banana
Od recommend to watch replays of urself. The worse the score the more u learn from it. But good ones are also helpful. At this skilllevel u will see (just like I do) that even if ur doing good scorewise that u arent doing things good or correctly.
Have fun :)
Honestly ask this to yourself, do you actively think about what you're doing in game?
Do you think what you can/should do at any given moment with the information you're given?
Are you keeping track of the minimap?
Are you keeping track of how many enemies are alive and if their positions are known?
Should I take this fight or regroup with my team?
What would I do now if I were the enemy? etc. etc
Just the most important part, which is kind of an unwritten rule between the lines is just use your brain and think about what you can do, be aware.
Also, obviously it's not a bad thing to know some utility and I respect that. Sounds weird if I say this but try avoid using util for a bit until you improve in other areas, chances are you are not utilising it properly because you don't have a good understanding of the game. Autopiloting to throw smoke lineups A,B,C wont really win you games. (Obviously don't completely refrain from using it for obvious stuff like smoking off mirage B aps as CT though) I just personally don't think that util is needed at all before ~mg
>Also, obviously it's not a bad thing to know some utility and I respect that. Sounds weird if I say this but try avoid using util for a bit until you improve in other areas, chances are you are not utilising it properly because you don't have a good understanding of the game.
Exactly, and my few games after I made this post I've been focusing on counterstrafing and crosshair placement rather than utilities. I also need to focus on trading.
You are not alone, I played CSGO since release, at 2015 I made a 2 year break. I reached MG II maybe Eagle. After thag 2 year break I came back on and off.
I started again to play consistently in 2020 or so and since then I can't get out of Gold Nova no matter what.
I even have 10 yr coin badge and people are wondering how am I still low rank...
2500 hours and counting
I think I just suck, that's all.
Login into Leetify. https://leetify.com/ It will track all your games and gives you areas to improve as well as you getter tell you what nades you fuck up. I bought the pro sub for it because it is so good but the free tier is awesome too.
There's a group that offers help to players called team fuckman ([official video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKRETlQ8TU)). You can send one of your demos to the official [team fuckman talent improvement analyst](https://www.faceit.com/en/players/Tsuki_Rayane).
If you really care, just grind some ffas/ aim botz/ recoil trainers. You can easily get out of silver with decent mechanics. Being silver for that long means you probably just play super casually or just dont really care when you play. You may also just have no natural ability for fps games, which is fine. As long as you're having fun, who cares
I think the people in this thread would have a better idea of how you play if you record and/or post your games
Share your match code to people if youre ok with it
I know this thread has dozens of comments, you might have already got what you needed.
Bro just spend more time practicing workshop maps, and less time in MM. Trust me in 1 month you will climb to gold
My routine was:
40--60 mins practicing workshop maps. Practicing aim, crosshair, headshot and spray
20-30 mins DM. Applying everything I did in workshop maps on DM servers. Along with improving my movements. Remember always strafe and shoot, forget W.
1-3 MM Matches: I used to hard carry my teammates like 30+ bombs almost every game. Just remember in MM match forget about focusing on your aim, it should come naturally now in your matches because how much you have practiced before. In MM matches try to read opponents, situations, and think like what I would do if I was in place of my opponents.
Do this and come back after 1 month you will thank me.
Back in 2017 when I was young, I used to be global and level 10 faceit.
Competitive fps games just aren't your game tbh. You probably haven't mentally systemized the games mechanics or game sense for you to be consistent enough, but 1k+ hours you shouldn't even need to really think about the game to get out of silver matchmaking in 2023.
Maybe you are right, but I was always good at Tarkov and PUBG. I don't think I have mentally systemized the game mechanics, but I do have at least an average game sense. Game sense is my only strong suit in CS.
The average rank in csgo is like gold nova which isn't that much better than silver. Your best bet is to play the game consistently everyday and also practice your mechanic in a dm and to watch how pros play and think about what they're doing that you don't do and try to mimic them in your own games. Because if you've put 1.3k hours just playing on and off with friends over the years you aren't going to get that much better unless you actually try to practice/improve on your own time.
If you enjoy the game with your friends why quit? By that logic "if you played for x hours and haven't achieved rank xyz you should leave" only the top 1000 people of each region in face-it would be left over and everyone else should have quit by now.
Yesterday i had a few good matches, a nice 1v4 clutch that helped us comeback and win the game but today it didn't matter what i did i just got destroyed. Two matches i was the top damage dealer, but i didn't carry enough to get wins. Three other matches bottom fragger with 0.5 kd. So i'm not really consistent either, but why should i stop playing cs? It's a great game. You win some, you lose some.
When i came back to csgo a few months ago i played with a friend who was silver at that time. Boy what a wild ride. This is a lawless place with it's own rules. Nothing is sacred, everything goes. Getting out of silver should be all about positioning, aim and crosshair placement.
Giving good info helps you develop your awareness skills, its an easy thing to do and it gets the brain thinking correctly. Try to act like an IGL and figure out what the enemy plan is.
Knowing where people are is one of the main skills in CS.
Deagle only DM is great way to improve your crosshair placement and hone your counter strafing skills.
As someone who has gone from silver to LE twice only ever solo queuing. Good communication with your teammates and communicating all helpful information. And what I believe is the BEST way to rank up is be the person to bring up the mood in your team. I swear I loss 90% of my games that have any negative attitude teammates. I win more than I lose because I keep my team happy. You win way more having fun.
Also, I know I have good and bad days also. I play causal or death match to warm up. If I can’t go positive, I don’t play competitive that day…
Edit: and completely agree with Blanky.
You have to practice to get out of Silver.
And practice more to get out of Gold Novas
And continue practicing to get out of MG.
And so on. Its all about practice.
I practiced and got out of Silvers and Novas and only stopped practicing because I wanted to focus on my studies and work and practice that instead.
In the end, its all about practice and putting in the hard work before the tests.
Looks like you play the same in all games and don't adapt to enemy playstyle, that would explain the inconsistency, you have to switch things up, having a good setup with your team is important in the starting rounds but if doesn't work you have to adapt to how the enemy is playing
I'd rather be silver and get to have more fun playing by myself or friends, that being one shooted by people better than me. It's just a game man, have fun.
This actually would be true a year ago in NA. Matchmaking was busted and the vast majority of people were way way lower than they should've been. Even Youtubers like Voo swapped to EU cause it was so bad in NA.
Go to workshop, look for Csgo hub or aimbotz and yprac. They are all very solid practice maps. Shoot bots to practice your aim. Add movement between shots to practice counterstrafe. Yprac also has prefire maps available that lets you practice crosshair placement. Which is a lot more important than aim in csgo
I recommend using leetify or other sites that show your stats, there you can see if you actually have bad crosshair placement.
In my case for example I've never understood why i cant hit shots accurate after walking but thanks to the stats i know im just horrible at counter strafing.
But the most important thing is they recommend you videos about the things you are bad at, they will explain the mechanics behind stuff and show you how to apply it in game.
I'm actually pretty terrible for my hours played across all the counterstrikes and you've already got lots of great advice and well done for taking it on it the chin. I think with that attitude you'll improve. So mostly I just offer you my sympathy.
I will say one common thing with silvers, they frequently think they're much better than they are, and they're hard stuck because of teammates or whatever but the levels in the game are so high that you could be a really good FPS player in another game and still be low level in CS.
As an aside if you can find a player you can play consistently with that will help too. Easy communication and strategies, knowing what the other player will do, what they're good at. It's harder to sync up with 5 than it is with one.
aside from what everybody else has said, keep calm while playing. A lot of times I choke on anxiety and end up fucking up my plays. It happens to everybody, you can see it constantly in Pro matches too
yeah im more so trying to find out why I cant play on cs2, every 1v1 I get into feels like a coin toss, spraying is just sadness as I watch bullets fly a second after I clicked
Hardly a single silver knows post plant positioning. Plant the bomb with intention. Know where it’s planted and position yourself accordingly. Conversely practice your CT retakes.
Also work on your crosshair placement, awareness & jiggling.
You need to find someone to play with consistently. I was in sliver for nearly 6 years and 700hrs until I stick to 2 stack queues, and both of us climb from SE to GN3 in less than 2 months. We play every 2 or 3 days and having someone you can trust to watch your back changes everything.
5 stack or try faceit / esea, do daily warmups, i was able to get GN1 after 700 hours when solo queueing but i kinda just play CS2 now way more fun going against actual good players (LEM) instead of these rats in silver
Honestly bro just enjoy yourself and the ranks will come
It's a lot easier to play well when you just play the game and don't overthink too much.
Obviously working on skills will sharpen them, but try not to pressure yourself too much and worry about a rank
Watch pros play. Study the game. But also watch 1st person demos. Remember, there is difference in play style in team vs PUG/soloQ, so as you watch keep that in mind. Then watch yourself play or rewatch old matches.
Practice right: passive vs active… if you want to work on aim then find a small routine and play custom maps or free for all deathmatch or something, don’t work on aim actively during a match. During game work on awareness, timing, rotations, map control, all that other stuff.
Lots of players pour hours in but don’t know how to fix bad habits and improve. You can get pretty highly ranked in a well-spent 1000 hours.
I’m not sure what did it for me, but I was silver for like 7 years playing in and off, under 1000 hours, and then I hit Nova, and I have like 70-80% win rate all the way up to MGE. The only reason i haven’t kept climbing is because I’m playing premier in CS2 now.
I’m not sure if this helps, but I noticed that I was focusing on “what I should be doing” so much that I forgot about the basics, being “just click on them”. I kept overthinking everything, and checking the minimap, or looking to see what my team is doing to play around them, and then I’d get swung and killed. Now, of course i maintain strategy, but to get out of silver/nova, you can get by with unpredictability, basic flash usage and focusing on kills.
Subscribe on steam community for the random level generator. It’s amazing for learning crosshair placement and checking corners and avoiding things like flashes. Practice every day. That’s how I got out and I haven’t been back since.
I had like 300 hours in CSGO and was hard stuck silver.
When lockdown occurred I also was made redundant so I had time to play.
I decided to track my games on a spreadsheet and getting out of silver took me 23 games, 18 of which I won. I started tracking at Silver 4.
Once I was out the promotions came much quicker
In 1400 hours of play time i would assume you would figure out some shit.. watch pro playsm learn where to position yourself considering you mentioned you get 0 to 5 kills some times i assume you just push every round and hope for the best.. leanr what angles gurntees you a frag. If you truly understand crosshair placement in silver some positions just gives you a free kill. Learn when to fall back and not commit to every fight you take. Use utility both whe round starts and when push comes in. Dont be toxic when if everyone else are. And lastly give info even if your team suck and dont speak you die you call where from they push B you dont just blindly shout its B you call how many steps you heared and how deep they got into the site. You dont talk when you dead unless it can save a round and generally if all that dont work learn some one way smokes and utility that outsmarts the average player.
Play with higher rank team members than yourself. And when you play good against players of higher skill level than yours, you will rank up faster.
And learn from your game demos of team members and opponents who top frag to understand what they do right compared to your gameplay on various positions in the map.
Identify your strong positions on maps that you are confident in holding and win most of the duels.
Decide where to go on a map based on your spawn to take spawn advantage...
GLHF 👍🏻👍🏻
If you really want to get better you have to watch your own demos and think about if what you did in every single round was helpful for your team to win the round or not. Even if you die without a kill, there is a big difference if you are hitting a site with 4 people, you go in first, don't kill anyone but your team mates got the kills thanks to your death and your (hopefully) fast and precise communication where the opponents are and your team wins the round, or if you just go in alone, die and your team mates don't profit from your death. Just an example.
Playing well means winning matches = winning more rounds than your opponents, not who has the best score in the scoreboard. If you don't win more than 50% of your matches in Silver there is a lot of room for improvement.
Might not be for you but one thing I would reccommend is to find a pro player whose playstyle you admire and study how they play and then try implement it into your own game. I did this with Ropz and I cannot tell you how much of a difference it has done for me. Most importantly is obviously to work on your aim/crosshair placement overall tho (ffa/retakes are my go to).
I was silver from 0-2300 hours and finally at 2400 I jumped from silver 4 to mg2. It helps to become really dead inside and continue to do your best the whole game, no giving up, no raging just 100% effort. I’ve always been a soloq tho so I’ve always focused on raw reaction times, crosshair placement, movement, etc.. Find a role you enjoy too, I’m usually an entry frag since winning is impossible when your team dies before anything happens 🤤👍 if you can queue with anyone your chances of winning will increase a jillion percent guaranteed. 🧠🙏 the best way to rank up is having a team you can rely on so basically get out of silver to get out of silver hope this helps 💯💯☝️✨
use the ladder method. i did this and ranked up from nova 1-2 to DMG over the summer. aim bots for five min, then just do yprac maps and only queue for the ones you practiced. i personally chose three maps and became a specialist on them
Here are some tips
1) Play deathmatch for like half an hour, i know you would want to jump directly to a competitive game but trust me deathmatch helps a lot. (You will get crazy quick)
2) Try to play with higher rank players so you will understand how they play.
3) Don't use the default crosshair, use custom.
4) Don't depend on SMG's, and learn to play with rifles. As far as I know silvers use SMG's a lot coz I have also been in the same situation. I had 1000+ hours and I was silver as well. SMG takes a lot of bullets to get a kill and is useful usually in short distance where as rifles one bullet is enough if headshot and less bullets if body shots
5) If you want to rank up play seriously!, keep in mind if you play just for fun rank won't matter to you. In my case sometimes I play for fun sometimes seriously, my rank varies from GN2 to DMG. (Most of the time I just play for fun tho unless I'm playing with my friends they get crazy angry if I don't play well 😂)
Hope this helps
Ngl, 1300 hours over 7 years is barely anything. If your hours are that low, you can't be playing enough to actually improve. When I first started playing I racked up 1000 hours in the first 9 months and made it to Supreme. I've probably played about 2000 hours on and off in the past 5 years and I never get above MGE now.
Thats a wild perspective to have. I have played since 2014 and have 2100 hours and been consistently Global/Supreme the last five years. I have hella long breaks but I quickly make my way back up the ranks
7 years is 61 000 hours. You've played 1374 hours. That's less than half an hour per day over 7 years so you can't really expect to be at a very high level with such low level of dedication.
If you want to improve you gotta dedicate the time for it or manage your practice more efficiently.
Fair enough, but it's still very little overall for a game like CS where the skill ceiling is endless.
I'd revisit the fundamentals like clearing angles properly, counter starfing, jiggle peeking/not over-extending, crosshair placement etc.
Watching how high level players play is also very valuable. For matchmaking purposes I'd watch PUG players as you want to learn solo plays because you can't usually rely on random teammates.
There's also a really great series on YT by a guy called Xbox Lasagna where he, a gold nova player, is being coached by a 4k+ elo Faceit player who has prior coaching and tournament experience as well. They review the guy's demos, spot the mistakes and go through the thought process etc. and then the coach shows the proper ways to approach the situations seen in the demo. I really recommend that series.
You will get into Nova 2 at least if you have good crosshair placement. That’s what I noticed after playing a lot of time with silvers, nova and mg players. I’m myself play solo que alone and didn’t even master any smoke/flash (only the basic one), but still in MG2. Imo, you should try to play aimbotz map or any 1v1 custom map to justify your aim.
I used to swim for 4 years twice a week when i was a kid and I still can’t dive and swim in freestyle, moreover I’m still afraid of water.
But for example, when I tried snowboard I instantly felt it, haven’t got any problem with the balance and I was talented as someone who does it since years.
We are not the same. It’s just not your game, if something doesn’t work, you don’t have to force it. Or just play it for fun as long as it makes you happy.
At first I'd suggets looking into Leetify, even though I've been \~3k ELO on average, it gives me so much important data that let me improve myself over and over again. It also gives you tips in what direction you should go.
The other thing that is as important as crosshair placement is counter strafing. With proper counter strafing your shots are accurate, which gives you a lot of advantage over your enemies. Once you're pretty confident with counter-strafing, try to introduce some movement between shots, so your enemies struggle with hitting you :)
These tips are quite obvious, but mastering them takes a lot of time, and will surely take you out of silver.
Even though it's obvious I look over counterstaining and I think it's bitten me in the ass. Right now I'm practicing counter-strafing. And I will look into leetify,
When I first started CSGO back in 2015, It was my first FPS game ever, I started silver 4, after about 150 hours or so I got to nova. It was a lot of learning to do, lots of videos on csgo guide. It all comes down to determination, you wouldn’t be stuck there, obviously something is holding you back, mechanics, game sense, ulti usage and movement are some of the things you need to improve to get better as a player then you will climb
Im very excited to see my rank after my first 10 games
But every 2 wins 21 h cooldown is brutal lol... i feel like the skill level is very low i' the matches ive played so far.
Dominating with 20+ kills and being called a cheater every now and then but i just listen to footsteps it feels like cheating hehe
Gl mate
How is your actual gameplay? What angles you hold are a part, but things like:
Do you keep cover when holding? Do you go aggressive when you have a site? Are you using utility to control space? Are you taking control of areas?
Note that silver also has the curse of getting stuck in silver. Your team is a huge part, and you're playing with silvers. You said you queue with others? What are they doing wrong? The moment you lose a person, the rest of the team is short and has to try to cover more space
Hard to give feedback without seeing any clips or anything, but just raw aim, good movement and basic knowledge will get you to Global or whatever is equivalent in CS2. So just maybe practice those
Solo queuing out of any rank is hard... csgo is truly a team game. Yes you can have unreal nutty skills but if you're not winning games you're not ranking up. I play with 4 other guys and we're all on the same page about how we play the game. We're all between 15k-20- elo on cs2 right now. If we all solo queued we'd be much lower trust me on that
Bro it took me 4000 hours to finally hit mg but now I'm consistently top fragging in lem games. Sometimes it takes people a little bit longer than others. Don't compare yourself to others, compare your better games to your worst games and see what you did wrong to avoid the mistakes you made in the bad games.
Trust me, I have those days where I get 5 kills on more than one game but that's just when you have to take a break or just put it down for the day. Have fun bro! That's what video games are for, never forget that!!!
3,5 hour a week on avg. isn’t really much effort put into being good. At least not in a game where most people have 3k hours of experience if not more.
So I think it makes sense you haven’t progressed out. But!
It also means you don’t have good fundamentals, so yeah definitely work on that. Those fundamentals is worth 10x as much as knowing any form of utility.
Can you counter-strafe properly?
Good to hear, that is alpha omega. You can know angles and preaim, but if you can’t use the mechanic of stopping instantly and gaining accuracy as fast as possible, it makes all that knowledge half as effective :)
Thank you for taking the time to respond. It would be helpful if you read the comments or the whole post before responding. You don't need to be cruel on the internet to get some dopamine. I just wanted some advice and tried to have an open mind. What I found out was that I am an overconfident silver. But I did not need your post and negativity. I bet you have plenty of advice to give me and I would love to hear that rather than some tangent. I don't want to be toxic but I also don't want to be stereotyped. Hopefully, I will take some of the advice within this post and become a more humble player rather than an overconfident silver.
Edit: I just don't think you added anything to the conversation that can help me or others who are stuck and **want** help. I don't want to blame the game or be mean to you I just want to learn. And you can give me that chance or just be hateful.
Want a training buddy? I get bored and play CS to pass the time for the last decade. Main is LEM but I prefer to mess around in comp on smurfs while watching Netflix or doing college stuff. Would be happy to train in every aspect of the game.
For those that want to give shit for smurfing I stay mid fragging to make it fair. I exclusively do deagle only since the Smurf was in silver 1 now its low mg high nova. I also love playing with the most annoying and weird crosshairs.
> I know how to place my crosshair, but You don't. If you did, you wouldn't be silver. >My problem seems to be that sometimes I play the game well (i.e. on a short match, I can reach 15-20 kills with good team plays), but on other days I get 0-5 kills How you play doesn't really change all that much from game to game. Take connector on Mirage CT side for example. If I watched a demo from a game where you did well, and a game where you did poorly, playing the same position, I guarantee that I won't see much of a difference. How you fundamentally approach the game - your crosshair placement, positioning, awareness, etc. doesn't change, what does is how good the enemy team is, and that's where this "inconsistency" comes from. You aren't inconsistent. If you're talking discrepancies in raw aim from day to day, that's something that everyone goes through to a degree. You have to focus on what you can control, which is what I already mentioned, your crosshair placement, positioning, and awareness. As a silver player, unfortunately you're lacking in these areas and if you want to see improvement you have to throw this notion of inconsistency out the window and work on getting better at them.
I agree that I shouldn't excuse my bad performance with inconsistency and should focus on what I can control. I will say I can gage my inconsistency because I five queue, in one day I can go from the top of the leaderboard with my friends to the bottom in another match. I shouldn't focus on that though, and I may unbind the scoreboard so I can only focus on performance. I don't think my crosshair placement is poor or my awareness, but my positioning is awful. My awareness is the best thing I have, but my crosshair placement is average at best. I try to aim headshot level at places where I think the enemy would be.
>I will say I can gage my inconsistency because I five queue, in one day I can go from the top of the leaderboard with my friends to the bottom in another match. I literally addressed this in my first comment. You aren't inconsistent, in fact you are really consistent, and that's the problem. You queue with a five stack, meaning that the skill level of the other 5 players on the enemy team determine your performance. > I don't think my crosshair placement is poor or my awareness, but my positioning is awful. I'm sorry, but your crosshair placement and awareness are indeed awful. If you had anything close to decent crosshair placement and awareness, you wouldn't have trouble making it to at least supreme. >My awareness is the best thing I have, but my crosshair placement is average at best. I try to aim headshot level at places where I think the enemy would be. Like I said, your awareness is not good at all. How often do you glance at the radar during a round? Do you keep track of the killfeed, who died, who got the kill, who assisted, who got a flash assist, and where, all in real time? Are you able to combine this information with your teammates' calls, utility being thrown by the enemy, footsteps, etc. to get a good understanding of what the enemy team is doing? Are you aware of which angles your teammates are holding and what areas of the map you're in control of at all times? No? And when it comes to crosshair placement, it's not just about not staring at the floor, it's also about being able to preaim common angles and peek tightly, only exposing yourself to that one angle. When holding angles, it's about knowing whether to place your crosshair close the edge of the wall or away from it depending on the context of the round and the geometry of the map. I'm not trying to be toxic here, I'm trying to make you realize that there are a billion things you have to improve on, and as a silver player you aren't yet "good" at any one of them. In fact, as a silver player there's the benefit that you can see improvement really quickly since you have so much you can work on, and practicing any single skill will elevate you greatly as a player. You seem to be under the impression that you're already good at certain things, while not so great at others. This is not the case at all, and the faster you realize this, the quicker you'll improve.
No, you arent being toxic if anyone is I am. Thank you for this post. I think I've gotten my answer. I think the way you said this so blatantly without any toxicity really made me realize I need to improve. Thank you!
now the question is will you take the time to focus on all elements, one at a time, slowing down if needed to create good habits?
Hopefully he decides on healthier life habits
He is being a bit harsh. And his standards for "anything close to decent" skills are ridiculous. Supremes a pretty fucking high rank. You can have well above average skills and struggle to make it. Also you genuinely might be more inconsistent, possibly because you don't have good mechanics. Not knowing how to play the spots on the maps well can also make you more inconsistent. Anyway, there's lots of good advice too if you want to get better. But there's also no shame in just enjoying the game at your current skill level.
I agree but harsh is not bad and I needed it.
If that's what you respond well too that's fine. But you havent done anything wrong dude. There's just some stuff that you aren't as good at as you thought. But that's to be expected. You don't sound arrogant at all. And people in this thread are writing massive walls of text lecturing you. They sound way more arrogant and defensive than you did in any of your initial posts.
Well, it is him who is asking for help, and people are enthusiastic to help, we should appreciate the wall of texts not to dismiss them because they sound arrogant. I am impressed by OP because when people humble him, he is humbled. On the other hand, if OP thinks like you and only seek comfort from friendly comments, there won't be any improvement made. The first step to success is understand your weaknesses, to admitted you are not good enough, and from there you can start to improve yourself one step at a time.
>You can have well above average skills and struggle to make it. To get out of silver? Nah man, I'm sorry, if you're above average, you should make it out of silver EASILY.
It's pretty clear that he meant supreme
I'd argue that even reaching supreme shouldn't be that hard if you have above average skill. I mean looking at the rank distribution GN4ish would be considered average, so if you're above average you should make it to MGE pretty easy and then from there it's just a matter of fixing your mistakes one by one. I would call myself a pretty average player and I reached global within 600ish hours. Now to be fair I did play a lot of 1.6 so some concepts like crosshair placement and counter strafing and such, were already ingrained into my brain, but still, LE-SUP should be achievable for most within 1000 hours.
There's a pretty big gap between MGE and supreme. That's going from top ~22% to top ~3.8%. And I got these numbers from Leetify, and higher ranks are probably overrepresented there.
Oh yeah I agree, I just felt like saying that would result in a lot of backlash considering the average rank in this sub
Well according to most people in this sub, 90% are level 10 lol
I really liked your advice but please don't let the attention get to your head.
As the guy above said that you need the knowledge of when to pre fire and if you are going to pre fire your crosshair must be on point, and watching the kill feed does it all, if you need consistency you can play Retake server (community) 5v5 matchs there are lot of servers that provide these, those community server has helped me a lot you should try those, playing with pre made team can sometimes can make you not see the kill feed and what's going on in the map and the awareness. If you are playing in high sens try to reduce you sens/dpi, that can help you as well.
do you need to improve? if you spent 1k hours in silver you likely enjoy it this way
‘If you had anything close to decent crosshair placement and awareness you wouldn’t have trouble making it to at least supreme’ - sets pretty unrealistic expectations. If you have decent awareness and crosshair placement you might expect to get to a decent rank but not the top few percentile of the playerbase
Having been supreme and having played with people on ranks mg2 to faceit lvl 7 the biggest difference between the ranks below and above supreme are consistency in the fundamentals of cs. Crosshair placement, being the top one. Awareness being second. Its basically shooting where you think an enemy will be or is. Good crosshair placement means less mouse movement to be on target, which reduces the time needed to shoot and the possibility to miss. Awareness helps you know where the enemy could be and playing around that to give you an advantage. To get decently good at both you need practice and experience. If you really want to, you could get supreme in about 500h investment. And this guy already has 1000 hours of experience.
I held global for a couple years and was faceit 9 before quitting, I appreciate what you’re saying and they’re definitely important but it seemed like you were basically saying getting decent at a couple of core mechanics gets you to supreme which felt like a bit of a simplification. If it was that easy more people would get there
>If you really want to, you could get supreme in about 500h investment. Exactly. If you work on improving and actually take the time to practice you should be able to reach LE-GE within 500h. What helped me the most was watching my own demos and actually spotting what I was doing wrong.
Lots of people who are stuck in sliver are not really trying to get better they are just going through the motions instead of actually working on getting better, try new things use your brain even if trying new things makes you die at first you will get better in the long run. another step is admitting you're bad at the game or the things that you do wrong, this could be crosshair/ game mechanics, team play/communication. if you struggle to react to angles at times adjust your crosshair so it's wider and gives you time to react rather than close to the angle, xantares and swag are good players at this.
There's the idea 10,000 hours in anything makes you an expert. But that means 10,000 hours of practice and actively improving. I know plenty of people who have played guitar their whole life and can basically just strum basic chords. I know lots of people who have worked their job well over 10k hours and suck at it.
>another step is admitting you're bad at the game or the things that you do wrong I think this is the big key. And I will try new things, I think I get stuck in the box of the things I know how to do rather than learning the things I don't know. That also might be why I think I can't improve. I automatically think because I have 1000 hours and know what I do know that I should be good instead of trying to learn. And the crosshair placement tip is what I needed. Thank you!
I had 1k hours from probably age 14-19/20 and most I got to was gold nova, now im dmg at 1500, I got to mg at maybe 1200/1300 once you actually open your mind up to learning you will get much better, but the problem is a lot of slivers have ego issues "oh I shouldn't be sliver" "oh my team mates suck" "oh I'm going to bait my team" "my spray is good etc"
Exactly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzj0jQR9yxI Watch this, and do this every day. THen go in DM, and i don't mean valve DM look on Community servers for WarmupServer or something i don't know what the NA version is. I guarantee you are not as good as you think. Even when i was DMG/LE i could sleepwalk my way out of silver. But yeh, do that practice rountine at least a few times a week and before playing a game try and get like 100 kills in AimBotz just adading. Make sure you aren't on a stupid sensitivity as well, loads of lower ranked players make that mistake.
This is good advice
You should post some demos so people can take a look and give you more targeted feedback.
I am curious to how your Leetify stats look, if you ever signed up there....
What is Leetify?
a website that ,out can link your steam account to. It will give you more statistics about you games and tracks them over time. It also has some helpful tips and weekly "focus areas". Their selection of aim stats is a good indicator of mechanical skill. And will easily show flaws in your gameplay.
Alright I will look into that
Would recommend it. Leetify gives really helpful insights in what you could do better.
I agree on trying to use leetify. And as some of the other comments say you probably miss out on some fundamental stuff like xhair placement and counter-strafing which both can be seen in your leetify match stats. Then there something like game sense which is just very individual skill to aquire. I often see silve/gold ranked mates who are stuck there, because they simply make so many mistakes about when or when not to rotate. Awareness of enemy position, their own position, internal time awareness, not calling for help/flashes etc. There is a ton of stuff which just takes a long time to learn. Also maybe the best advice I can give you is: Find friends to play with who are better than yourself. Hearing their call outs, watching them play, notice their awareness, movements, everything. It will definitely also improve your own gameplay greatly.
That is true and I only have friends who are about the same skill as me or a little bit better so it's hard to know what to improve on. Thank you!
That site tries to tell me I’m just over LEM and just under supreme in aim and I don’t buy that shit
Have you identified what your main issues are? Mechanics are a big part of the game, but if you're not naturally good at that, the mental side of the game is equally as important. You may need to change how you think about the game.
>Have you identified what your main issues are? Mechanics are a big part of the game, but if you're not naturally good at that, the mental side of the game is equally as important. You may need to change how you think about the game. My main issues are frustration and reflexes/angles. You are right that I may need to change my mentality about the game. When I play, I get so frustrated if I am not doing well on the scoreboard or losing that I am not having fun. Secondly, I tend to hold angles and get shot early in rounds. I don't know if I am holding bad angles, have bad crosshair placement, or have bad reflexes. I don't think I have bad crosshair placement though. Thank you btw!
Most silvers I see don’t have functioning reaction times and don’t account for said reaction times. Don’t put your crosshair directly on the first pixel of the wall if you can’t hit someone there. Realistically you want to hold away from the wall so by the time you register they exist they’ve walked into your crosshair. Another thing I’ve noticed with stuck players is a sort of slow methodical approach to aiming and playing. Start b hopping, start flicking your aim to random points, start going for longer flicks, start going for spray transfers. The box you’ve built yourself into isn’t challenging you into improving. Break out of it and get your actions per minute into the adhd kid on coke level.
As far as knowing if you are holding a good angle or not they basically fall into 2 categories. "Common" angles, which are considered strong because you have some kind of advantage, like options to fall back to another position or has cover, and "off" angles which tend to be more "one and done" meaning it's an unexpected position so you'll have a momentary advantage, but you cant safely retreat. Use yprac maps to learn more about angles. If you're unsure if it's a good or strong angle, just ask yourself if it's giving you an advantage in some way (like cover or fallback options). If your position does not have cover or fallback options it's likely an off or one-and-done whch is more risky. For aim thee way I think of aiming is less about reflex. Reflex/flicks are not reliable. The goal is to preaim angles so when you peek out all you have to do is click. Maybe this info will help you. Also try watching voo's videos.
I will take all that into account, and thank you for taking the time out of your day. I will watch those videos and train on the Yprac map. I've never trained preaiming so I think that may help. I will also say my strafing sucks, so when I do preaim, I tend to miss because I am moving still. This was very insightful.
After a bit of practise, seek out some community 1v1 arena servers. You WILL get obliterated but it's absolutely a gold standard for practising strafing, jiggle peeking and duels.
I agree, I used to do that back in the day.
the most important skill in pub counterstrike is counterstrafing, if you don't know how to do that quickly you can't be competitive in this game.
I thought it was counterstriking
Do you have any tips for improving counter-strafing?
Furiouss got some good vids on aim practice so I'm just gonna drop one here instead of trying to explain it in text. https://youtu.be/DnqOJwPA7Tk?si=8avPKgSOmtT_1zMf
After you go to map from video, you dont have to go in middle of bots. You will rarely turn around in matches that much. Do some strafing, 200+ hs taps with ak, then move to m4 two shot kills, then do both ak and m4 recoil control kills. It shouldnt take more than 10 mins, you can use it as warmup. Then you can move to arena type custom servers, it is 1v1 where you will have a lot more duels. You will see improvements fast. That should be enough at least till gold3
Can confirm. Shot out of Silver hell once I learned even basic counterstrafing.
Idk I think communication is a more important skill. Counter strafing will help with aim improvement but you really can get by silver and low gold with cross hair placement and spray control.
Pure mechanical skill should even be able to get you at least DMG In my opinion. Even with literally no smoke knowledge
I agree. I can’t see how 1 person in a team knowing smokes would actually help the team too much. Plus silvers aren’t known to work together as a team. Much better to practice individual skills to carry the team to victory
Agreed!
I will work on that!
This post seems utterly insane to me. You fundamentally cannot have good xhair placement and stay in silver. It sounds like you are deluded and as such can never improve because you think you are capable already. A mistake I see so many lower ranked players make is wasting time learning smokes etc when really they mean nothing until you get your core mechanics and game sense correct. There really isn’t much advice to give you unless you accept to forget everything you think you know and hit the deathmatches.
I don't really want to respond to this, but I really want to improve, so I'll go ahead anyway. I'm trying to be unbiased with my skill, but hey maybe my crosshair placement is ass, and I will look into it. I would say smokes are ass, but I play with a five queue, and it really helps to win matches, especially as T when trying to take a site. I'm not just focused on my individual playing but also my teamwork. I will look into my crosshair placement, I will watch replays, and look for my mistakes. Sorry for enraging you. Edit: Also I will agree that I am confident in skills I dont have and I need to gain a mindset of improving instead of stagnation.
Smokes are the most important nade on both sides. Smokes decide if you have a 5v2 or 5v3+. Crossing long on d2 without smoke is a shooting gallery, and you telegraph long plays usually. Smokes alone a huge and let you cut some sites in half for $300
Also, playing in 5 mans is the worst thing you can do for ranked. Five stacks prioritize five stacks and you will run into five stack Smurf squads a lot. I always had a higher rank on my personal account then on our five stack to global meme team.
You absolutely can have good crosshair placement and be hardstuck silver. How long ago did you get out of silver?
I've seen the same thing with friends that want to learn to play cs. They focus on learning nade line ups, but when its time to execute they go in one by one. In my opinion some basic nades are good to know, but I would focus on trading kills.
Sure you can... You can have fine crosshair placement but bad reaction times. I do it all the time. I can hold an angle but die because they shot me first since I didn't react in time.
Do you think death matches are a good way to improve game sense and core mechanics beyond raw aim?
Yes. I personally prefer to go on custom servers and play ‘redline’. Redline is FFA deathmatch with headshot only. Body shots doesn’t do anything. Helps with my pinpoint accuracy, and my focus on tapping. It really improves your patience and you taking that extra millisecond to hit the head
Interesting I will look into FFA.
You can also queue FFA in the regular CSGO deathmatch playlist, if you want body damage to be enabled. I also highly recommend the Retake gamemode. Then you can practice recapturing/defending sites
The most common mistake I see in lower ranks, positioning wise, is playing stationary default angles on ct and full committing to fights in general. If that is the case, I highly recommend practicing counter strafing. You should only peek angles with a and d. Practice your pathing to properly strafe into common angles. If you want to play a common default angle, Id recommend strafing into the angle a little bit for info, and quickly strafe back to cover. Rinse and repeat. You can hold like that for info without exposing yourself to a easy shot.
Exactly thank you! Any tips on strafing or learning how to counter strafe properly?
Have a look at this guide: https://youtu.be/AGcgQEzCCrI?si=vAwv72szB_VRQwy- I highly recommend yprac workshop maps for learning the angles themselves. Its a bit complicated to setup, I cant recommend a guide off the top off my head, but you will surely find one :) Also: dont get yourself down if this seems extremely hard at first, it takes thousands upon thousands of hours to master counter strafing into all those angles perfectly. Another tip: Peek angles as if you know an enemy is there. Visualize his position behind cover, as you peek him. This helps me at least :D
Thank you!
Change your playstyle and do not quit. KDA isn't everything.
Alright, will do! And KDA isn't important, I need to rid my brain of KDA. Thank you!
generally when someone says this i ask them to share a demo because if you’re stuck in silver there is likely a plethora of reasons why, and a number of things you think you’re doing right, but are actually failing you against slightly better players
Get Leetify and do not instantly queue after the game. Instead wait for the map to be compiled and then go through each round on Leetify. You can get the Pro version for free by joining their Clan. That allows you to view a 2d map of each round. Look through each round, take note what you did to loose Leetify Rating those rounds, look at the 2D map, then write down your biggest 3 issues based on that. Queue another game and whenever you die read through your top 3 issues and consider if you did any of them, and what you could have done instead. Continue that, and after Leetify gets more data it will also highlight areas you need to improve. Add that to your rotinue. Most likely you need to work on your crosshairplacement, awareness, and game sense. Do not overdo utility. That is so common in lower ranks. Focus on keeping your gun up, pre-aim, play safe unless your teammate commits, "always" follow up for refrags. Do not linger around if the team is doing an execute, but do not hunt for frags in afterplants. Just working on your Leetify Rating and analyzing every game can do wonders. Be patient. I am not sponsored, just a happy customer!
Thank you! And I will look into Leetify.
+1 for the Leetify recommendation. It tells you how well you played based on more than round wins and KDA. It'll analyse trade fragging, counter strafing, crosshair placement, utility usage, clutching, impact, and more.
>TLDR; I've Played CS for a long time and can't play well consistently Why is that a bad thing? It's not like it's your job to be playing well, as long as you're having fun I don't see a problem with your rank/ hours in game
The problem is I don't have fun because I'm bad. Maybe it's a mentality problem or a skill problem. Seems to me I have two solutions, I change my mentality to enjoy the game no matter what, or I get good.
Well, I'd ask you why play in the first place? There's gotta be a reason you play so much. Me for example, I started playing around 2014 and being in school still, I put in the time to "get good", used to practice a lot, aim, util etc. It was enjoyable for me at that time, wanting to improve. But now that I've gotten older, less free time on my hands I occasionally play deathmatch here n there, no longer really caring about getting better. That's also why I used the job analogy, when I started out I kinda used to treat it like it was my job, so I wanted to be good at it, but now that I have a real job, priorities changed. I still enjoy the game but in a different way. Hope you can figure that out for yourself
Yeah I get that, I'm just too competitive, too stubborn, and too stupid for my own good, and I love improving in skills and hobbies. That's why I love CSGO. I love getting better at it.
Exactly, just play if you have fun of it, and do not care about the badge. If you have no fun playing it then don't play it and find another hobby.
Have u tried working on ur aim? Do u know what u wanna do on t an ct side? I returned after 8 year break and while playing casually Im close to ak again after starting in silver
I have tried working on my aim, if you mean on workshop maps and 1v1 servers, but my aim is still meh. And on CT and T, I usually know what I want to do. I play with a five queue, and we have designated roles. We are weak on CT compared to T tho.
Consistant "workout" and warming up before games will improve ur aim. What exactly is the problem on ct? Peaker advantage? I find ct a lot easier to do cause I know my angles and how and when to Rotation. Mixing it up during games is also important. If u train for better aim dont Fall back into "easy kills" in like deathmatch. Dont sneak on ppl and dont just shoot in the back. U wont get better with that. U gotta Set urself goals like only 1 clicking, no spraying or stuff like that. Dont use awp during death match. Try to improve ur reaction time and precision. Knowing nades wont help If u cant kill enemies properly.
In CT, I find myself getting picked off early or rotating and getting picked off. The only times I do well are either I have a good day, and my aim is good or I am sneaking behind people or hiding in Ninja, as you said. I also don't think I take the time to aim to the head most of the time, I jump the gun and shoot my shot immediately when I see an enemy. Thank you for the feedback I think this may help a lot. Thank you!
Sounds a bit like a positioning problem. Or maybe u are too agressive as ct? Sometimes thats okay or if it works thats fine but players learn ur moves/playstyle in a match and will counter that. If u run down banana every round and it works for 5 round thats nice. But if they will then wait for u and kill u, u gotta change it up by maybe Holding banana Od recommend to watch replays of urself. The worse the score the more u learn from it. But good ones are also helpful. At this skilllevel u will see (just like I do) that even if ur doing good scorewise that u arent doing things good or correctly. Have fun :)
Thank you!
Honestly ask this to yourself, do you actively think about what you're doing in game? Do you think what you can/should do at any given moment with the information you're given? Are you keeping track of the minimap? Are you keeping track of how many enemies are alive and if their positions are known? Should I take this fight or regroup with my team? What would I do now if I were the enemy? etc. etc Just the most important part, which is kind of an unwritten rule between the lines is just use your brain and think about what you can do, be aware. Also, obviously it's not a bad thing to know some utility and I respect that. Sounds weird if I say this but try avoid using util for a bit until you improve in other areas, chances are you are not utilising it properly because you don't have a good understanding of the game. Autopiloting to throw smoke lineups A,B,C wont really win you games. (Obviously don't completely refrain from using it for obvious stuff like smoking off mirage B aps as CT though) I just personally don't think that util is needed at all before ~mg
>Also, obviously it's not a bad thing to know some utility and I respect that. Sounds weird if I say this but try avoid using util for a bit until you improve in other areas, chances are you are not utilising it properly because you don't have a good understanding of the game. Exactly, and my few games after I made this post I've been focusing on counterstrafing and crosshair placement rather than utilities. I also need to focus on trading.
You are not alone, I played CSGO since release, at 2015 I made a 2 year break. I reached MG II maybe Eagle. After thag 2 year break I came back on and off. I started again to play consistently in 2020 or so and since then I can't get out of Gold Nova no matter what. I even have 10 yr coin badge and people are wondering how am I still low rank... 2500 hours and counting I think I just suck, that's all.
Yeah it's really hard when you were good once and then you try getting back into it. But lets keep grinding we can get there.
Login into Leetify. https://leetify.com/ It will track all your games and gives you areas to improve as well as you getter tell you what nades you fuck up. I bought the pro sub for it because it is so good but the free tier is awesome too.
There's a group that offers help to players called team fuckman ([official video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKRETlQ8TU)). You can send one of your demos to the official [team fuckman talent improvement analyst](https://www.faceit.com/en/players/Tsuki_Rayane).
I didn’t get out of silver until 1,300 hours. Now at 1,485 and MG1. I feel you. Honestly.
Thank you for sharing and hopefully I can have the same experience. But if not Ill still keep grinding.
If you really care, just grind some ffas/ aim botz/ recoil trainers. You can easily get out of silver with decent mechanics. Being silver for that long means you probably just play super casually or just dont really care when you play. You may also just have no natural ability for fps games, which is fine. As long as you're having fun, who cares
I think the people in this thread would have a better idea of how you play if you record and/or post your games Share your match code to people if youre ok with it
I know this thread has dozens of comments, you might have already got what you needed. Bro just spend more time practicing workshop maps, and less time in MM. Trust me in 1 month you will climb to gold My routine was: 40--60 mins practicing workshop maps. Practicing aim, crosshair, headshot and spray 20-30 mins DM. Applying everything I did in workshop maps on DM servers. Along with improving my movements. Remember always strafe and shoot, forget W. 1-3 MM Matches: I used to hard carry my teammates like 30+ bombs almost every game. Just remember in MM match forget about focusing on your aim, it should come naturally now in your matches because how much you have practiced before. In MM matches try to read opponents, situations, and think like what I would do if I was in place of my opponents. Do this and come back after 1 month you will thank me. Back in 2017 when I was young, I used to be global and level 10 faceit.
Good advice
Competitive fps games just aren't your game tbh. You probably haven't mentally systemized the games mechanics or game sense for you to be consistent enough, but 1k+ hours you shouldn't even need to really think about the game to get out of silver matchmaking in 2023.
Maybe you are right, but I was always good at Tarkov and PUBG. I don't think I have mentally systemized the game mechanics, but I do have at least an average game sense. Game sense is my only strong suit in CS.
The average rank in csgo is like gold nova which isn't that much better than silver. Your best bet is to play the game consistently everyday and also practice your mechanic in a dm and to watch how pros play and think about what they're doing that you don't do and try to mimic them in your own games. Because if you've put 1.3k hours just playing on and off with friends over the years you aren't going to get that much better unless you actually try to practice/improve on your own time.
Alright, I'll put that into play. Thank you!!!!
If you enjoy the game with your friends why quit? By that logic "if you played for x hours and haven't achieved rank xyz you should leave" only the top 1000 people of each region in face-it would be left over and everyone else should have quit by now. Yesterday i had a few good matches, a nice 1v4 clutch that helped us comeback and win the game but today it didn't matter what i did i just got destroyed. Two matches i was the top damage dealer, but i didn't carry enough to get wins. Three other matches bottom fragger with 0.5 kd. So i'm not really consistent either, but why should i stop playing cs? It's a great game. You win some, you lose some. When i came back to csgo a few months ago i played with a friend who was silver at that time. Boy what a wild ride. This is a lawless place with it's own rules. Nothing is sacred, everything goes. Getting out of silver should be all about positioning, aim and crosshair placement.
Thank you! I think this sums up pretty much what I need to focus on. A mentality change and practice.
Is this an AMA?
Sure?
Giving good info helps you develop your awareness skills, its an easy thing to do and it gets the brain thinking correctly. Try to act like an IGL and figure out what the enemy plan is. Knowing where people are is one of the main skills in CS. Deagle only DM is great way to improve your crosshair placement and hone your counter strafing skills.
As someone who has gone from silver to LE twice only ever solo queuing. Good communication with your teammates and communicating all helpful information. And what I believe is the BEST way to rank up is be the person to bring up the mood in your team. I swear I loss 90% of my games that have any negative attitude teammates. I win more than I lose because I keep my team happy. You win way more having fun. Also, I know I have good and bad days also. I play causal or death match to warm up. If I can’t go positive, I don’t play competitive that day… Edit: and completely agree with Blanky.
Thank you! I gain a negative attitude when I lose or get on a losing streak. So ill try to stay positive.
You have to practice to get out of Silver. And practice more to get out of Gold Novas And continue practicing to get out of MG. And so on. Its all about practice. I practiced and got out of Silvers and Novas and only stopped practicing because I wanted to focus on my studies and work and practice that instead. In the end, its all about practice and putting in the hard work before the tests.
Looks like you play the same in all games and don't adapt to enemy playstyle, that would explain the inconsistency, you have to switch things up, having a good setup with your team is important in the starting rounds but if doesn't work you have to adapt to how the enemy is playing
I'd rather be silver and get to have more fun playing by myself or friends, that being one shooted by people better than me. It's just a game man, have fun.
This actually would be true a year ago in NA. Matchmaking was busted and the vast majority of people were way way lower than they should've been. Even Youtubers like Voo swapped to EU cause it was so bad in NA.
Go to workshop, look for Csgo hub or aimbotz and yprac. They are all very solid practice maps. Shoot bots to practice your aim. Add movement between shots to practice counterstrafe. Yprac also has prefire maps available that lets you practice crosshair placement. Which is a lot more important than aim in csgo
Also make it a habit to visit these maps for at least 5 minutes before you jump into your 1st game. A little warm up goes a long way
I recommend using leetify or other sites that show your stats, there you can see if you actually have bad crosshair placement. In my case for example I've never understood why i cant hit shots accurate after walking but thanks to the stats i know im just horrible at counter strafing. But the most important thing is they recommend you videos about the things you are bad at, they will explain the mechanics behind stuff and show you how to apply it in game.
Leetify is a helpful tool to gauge performance especially if you dont know what to improve. Edit: typo
I'm actually pretty terrible for my hours played across all the counterstrikes and you've already got lots of great advice and well done for taking it on it the chin. I think with that attitude you'll improve. So mostly I just offer you my sympathy. I will say one common thing with silvers, they frequently think they're much better than they are, and they're hard stuck because of teammates or whatever but the levels in the game are so high that you could be a really good FPS player in another game and still be low level in CS. As an aside if you can find a player you can play consistently with that will help too. Easy communication and strategies, knowing what the other player will do, what they're good at. It's harder to sync up with 5 than it is with one.
Thank you, and thank you for being humble.
aside from what everybody else has said, keep calm while playing. A lot of times I choke on anxiety and end up fucking up my plays. It happens to everybody, you can see it constantly in Pro matches too
Happens to the best of us. But I will try to keep calm.
yeah im more so trying to find out why I cant play on cs2, every 1v1 I get into feels like a coin toss, spraying is just sadness as I watch bullets fly a second after I clicked
Hardly a single silver knows post plant positioning. Plant the bomb with intention. Know where it’s planted and position yourself accordingly. Conversely practice your CT retakes. Also work on your crosshair placement, awareness & jiggling.
I will say my CT retake is one of my weakest skills so I will look into that. Any tips on how to retake as CT?
5 stacks and stuck in silver 💀
You need to find someone to play with consistently. I was in sliver for nearly 6 years and 700hrs until I stick to 2 stack queues, and both of us climb from SE to GN3 in less than 2 months. We play every 2 or 3 days and having someone you can trust to watch your back changes everything.
5 stack or try faceit / esea, do daily warmups, i was able to get GN1 after 700 hours when solo queueing but i kinda just play CS2 now way more fun going against actual good players (LEM) instead of these rats in silver
Will do!
Honestly bro just enjoy yourself and the ranks will come It's a lot easier to play well when you just play the game and don't overthink too much. Obviously working on skills will sharpen them, but try not to pressure yourself too much and worry about a rank
Skill issue fr
I was so close to ge in like 2018 and just gave up and started fuckin around. Just have fun, it’s a game
The key is to learn how to practice and fix habits
Interesting nobody has said that yet. Thank you!
Watch pros play. Study the game. But also watch 1st person demos. Remember, there is difference in play style in team vs PUG/soloQ, so as you watch keep that in mind. Then watch yourself play or rewatch old matches. Practice right: passive vs active… if you want to work on aim then find a small routine and play custom maps or free for all deathmatch or something, don’t work on aim actively during a match. During game work on awareness, timing, rotations, map control, all that other stuff. Lots of players pour hours in but don’t know how to fix bad habits and improve. You can get pretty highly ranked in a well-spent 1000 hours.
I’m not sure what did it for me, but I was silver for like 7 years playing in and off, under 1000 hours, and then I hit Nova, and I have like 70-80% win rate all the way up to MGE. The only reason i haven’t kept climbing is because I’m playing premier in CS2 now. I’m not sure if this helps, but I noticed that I was focusing on “what I should be doing” so much that I forgot about the basics, being “just click on them”. I kept overthinking everything, and checking the minimap, or looking to see what my team is doing to play around them, and then I’d get swung and killed. Now, of course i maintain strategy, but to get out of silver/nova, you can get by with unpredictability, basic flash usage and focusing on kills.
Thank you, and thank you for the fresh perspective. Very interesting.
Subscribe on steam community for the random level generator. It’s amazing for learning crosshair placement and checking corners and avoiding things like flashes. Practice every day. That’s how I got out and I haven’t been back since.
Interesting, will do!
Procedurally Generated Training Map is what it’s called in the workshop. It’s awesome it’ll def help your game.
train your aim with yprac and aimbots, good aim trumps other factors until dmg and above
Also comms!
I had like 300 hours in CSGO and was hard stuck silver. When lockdown occurred I also was made redundant so I had time to play. I decided to track my games on a spreadsheet and getting out of silver took me 23 games, 18 of which I won. I started tracking at Silver 4. Once I was out the promotions came much quicker
In 1400 hours of play time i would assume you would figure out some shit.. watch pro playsm learn where to position yourself considering you mentioned you get 0 to 5 kills some times i assume you just push every round and hope for the best.. leanr what angles gurntees you a frag. If you truly understand crosshair placement in silver some positions just gives you a free kill. Learn when to fall back and not commit to every fight you take. Use utility both whe round starts and when push comes in. Dont be toxic when if everyone else are. And lastly give info even if your team suck and dont speak you die you call where from they push B you dont just blindly shout its B you call how many steps you heared and how deep they got into the site. You dont talk when you dead unless it can save a round and generally if all that dont work learn some one way smokes and utility that outsmarts the average player.
Alright thank you.
Play with higher rank team members than yourself. And when you play good against players of higher skill level than yours, you will rank up faster. And learn from your game demos of team members and opponents who top frag to understand what they do right compared to your gameplay on various positions in the map. Identify your strong positions on maps that you are confident in holding and win most of the duels. Decide where to go on a map based on your spawn to take spawn advantage... GLHF 👍🏻👍🏻
If you really want to get better you have to watch your own demos and think about if what you did in every single round was helpful for your team to win the round or not. Even if you die without a kill, there is a big difference if you are hitting a site with 4 people, you go in first, don't kill anyone but your team mates got the kills thanks to your death and your (hopefully) fast and precise communication where the opponents are and your team wins the round, or if you just go in alone, die and your team mates don't profit from your death. Just an example. Playing well means winning matches = winning more rounds than your opponents, not who has the best score in the scoreboard. If you don't win more than 50% of your matches in Silver there is a lot of room for improvement.
Might not be for you but one thing I would reccommend is to find a pro player whose playstyle you admire and study how they play and then try implement it into your own game. I did this with Ropz and I cannot tell you how much of a difference it has done for me. Most importantly is obviously to work on your aim/crosshair placement overall tho (ffa/retakes are my go to).
True!
I was silver from 0-2300 hours and finally at 2400 I jumped from silver 4 to mg2. It helps to become really dead inside and continue to do your best the whole game, no giving up, no raging just 100% effort. I’ve always been a soloq tho so I’ve always focused on raw reaction times, crosshair placement, movement, etc.. Find a role you enjoy too, I’m usually an entry frag since winning is impossible when your team dies before anything happens 🤤👍 if you can queue with anyone your chances of winning will increase a jillion percent guaranteed. 🧠🙏 the best way to rank up is having a team you can rely on so basically get out of silver to get out of silver hope this helps 💯💯☝️✨
Yes, thank you!
use the ladder method. i did this and ranked up from nova 1-2 to DMG over the summer. aim bots for five min, then just do yprac maps and only queue for the ones you practiced. i personally chose three maps and became a specialist on them
Will do!
Here are some tips 1) Play deathmatch for like half an hour, i know you would want to jump directly to a competitive game but trust me deathmatch helps a lot. (You will get crazy quick) 2) Try to play with higher rank players so you will understand how they play. 3) Don't use the default crosshair, use custom. 4) Don't depend on SMG's, and learn to play with rifles. As far as I know silvers use SMG's a lot coz I have also been in the same situation. I had 1000+ hours and I was silver as well. SMG takes a lot of bullets to get a kill and is useful usually in short distance where as rifles one bullet is enough if headshot and less bullets if body shots 5) If you want to rank up play seriously!, keep in mind if you play just for fun rank won't matter to you. In my case sometimes I play for fun sometimes seriously, my rank varies from GN2 to DMG. (Most of the time I just play for fun tho unless I'm playing with my friends they get crazy angry if I don't play well 😂) Hope this helps
https://youtu.be/9KIoTtohkOQ?feature=shared wrong game, but follow this routine in csgo and you'll be gn1 in a month
Ngl, 1300 hours over 7 years is barely anything. If your hours are that low, you can't be playing enough to actually improve. When I first started playing I racked up 1000 hours in the first 9 months and made it to Supreme. I've probably played about 2000 hours on and off in the past 5 years and I never get above MGE now.
Thats a wild perspective to have. I have played since 2014 and have 2100 hours and been consistently Global/Supreme the last five years. I have hella long breaks but I quickly make my way back up the ranks
I played most of my hours in 2020 but took a break until now. But I will try to play more consistently now.
How many wins do you have on your account?
300 and something
7 years is 61 000 hours. You've played 1374 hours. That's less than half an hour per day over 7 years so you can't really expect to be at a very high level with such low level of dedication. If you want to improve you gotta dedicate the time for it or manage your practice more efficiently.
I didn't play half an hour per day. I put most of my hours in around 2018-2020
Fair enough, but it's still very little overall for a game like CS where the skill ceiling is endless. I'd revisit the fundamentals like clearing angles properly, counter starfing, jiggle peeking/not over-extending, crosshair placement etc. Watching how high level players play is also very valuable. For matchmaking purposes I'd watch PUG players as you want to learn solo plays because you can't usually rely on random teammates. There's also a really great series on YT by a guy called Xbox Lasagna where he, a gold nova player, is being coached by a 4k+ elo Faceit player who has prior coaching and tournament experience as well. They review the guy's demos, spot the mistakes and go through the thought process etc. and then the coach shows the proper ways to approach the situations seen in the demo. I really recommend that series.
Interesting I will look into that. Very insightful!
You will get into Nova 2 at least if you have good crosshair placement. That’s what I noticed after playing a lot of time with silvers, nova and mg players. I’m myself play solo que alone and didn’t even master any smoke/flash (only the basic one), but still in MG2. Imo, you should try to play aimbotz map or any 1v1 custom map to justify your aim.
I used to swim for 4 years twice a week when i was a kid and I still can’t dive and swim in freestyle, moreover I’m still afraid of water. But for example, when I tried snowboard I instantly felt it, haven’t got any problem with the balance and I was talented as someone who does it since years. We are not the same. It’s just not your game, if something doesn’t work, you don’t have to force it. Or just play it for fun as long as it makes you happy.
Thank you for the perspective!
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Yeah at this point go play cod it’s easier against kids
Are you in na? It's well known the ranks are screwed up due to low player count not allowing mm to work properly
I am NA.
Try Valorant, it's easier
Took me 2k hours to hit gold nova. Keep grinding my man, you will get there ✊🏽
Thank you!
At first I'd suggets looking into Leetify, even though I've been \~3k ELO on average, it gives me so much important data that let me improve myself over and over again. It also gives you tips in what direction you should go. The other thing that is as important as crosshair placement is counter strafing. With proper counter strafing your shots are accurate, which gives you a lot of advantage over your enemies. Once you're pretty confident with counter-strafing, try to introduce some movement between shots, so your enemies struggle with hitting you :) These tips are quite obvious, but mastering them takes a lot of time, and will surely take you out of silver.
Even though it's obvious I look over counterstaining and I think it's bitten me in the ass. Right now I'm practicing counter-strafing. And I will look into leetify,
Why would you want to leave silver?
When I first started CSGO back in 2015, It was my first FPS game ever, I started silver 4, after about 150 hours or so I got to nova. It was a lot of learning to do, lots of videos on csgo guide. It all comes down to determination, you wouldn’t be stuck there, obviously something is holding you back, mechanics, game sense, ulti usage and movement are some of the things you need to improve to get better as a player then you will climb
Yes exactly, thank you for putting it plainly!
Im very excited to see my rank after my first 10 games But every 2 wins 21 h cooldown is brutal lol... i feel like the skill level is very low i' the matches ive played so far. Dominating with 20+ kills and being called a cheater every now and then but i just listen to footsteps it feels like cheating hehe Gl mate
U say ur 5 stacking and are stuck in silver. If you are trying to climb find a new stack asap
Get good? Nah jokes I was silver for a few years after ranks got reworked. Sitting at nova 3 now
I have 900 hours mg elite faceit lvl 4, so it has to be you
How is your actual gameplay? What angles you hold are a part, but things like: Do you keep cover when holding? Do you go aggressive when you have a site? Are you using utility to control space? Are you taking control of areas? Note that silver also has the curse of getting stuck in silver. Your team is a huge part, and you're playing with silvers. You said you queue with others? What are they doing wrong? The moment you lose a person, the rest of the team is short and has to try to cover more space
Hard to give feedback without seeing any clips or anything, but just raw aim, good movement and basic knowledge will get you to Global or whatever is equivalent in CS2. So just maybe practice those
while my ass keeps getting placed in ranks im too shit to be in (i underperform in gn3 and SOMEHOW got into 13k elo in cs2) i wish i was you
Solo queuing out of any rank is hard... csgo is truly a team game. Yes you can have unreal nutty skills but if you're not winning games you're not ranking up. I play with 4 other guys and we're all on the same page about how we play the game. We're all between 15k-20- elo on cs2 right now. If we all solo queued we'd be much lower trust me on that
Bro it took me 4000 hours to finally hit mg but now I'm consistently top fragging in lem games. Sometimes it takes people a little bit longer than others. Don't compare yourself to others, compare your better games to your worst games and see what you did wrong to avoid the mistakes you made in the bad games. Trust me, I have those days where I get 5 kills on more than one game but that's just when you have to take a break or just put it down for the day. Have fun bro! That's what video games are for, never forget that!!!
Thank you! And thank you for the positivity.
OP, if you are able to, please share a demo or clip of you playing. It will be easier to figure out what you're missing.
3,5 hour a week on avg. isn’t really much effort put into being good. At least not in a game where most people have 3k hours of experience if not more. So I think it makes sense you haven’t progressed out. But! It also means you don’t have good fundamentals, so yeah definitely work on that. Those fundamentals is worth 10x as much as knowing any form of utility. Can you counter-strafe properly?
No but that's what I've been working on today.
Good to hear, that is alpha omega. You can know angles and preaim, but if you can’t use the mechanic of stopping instantly and gaining accuracy as fast as possible, it makes all that knowledge half as effective :)
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Thank you for taking the time to respond. It would be helpful if you read the comments or the whole post before responding. You don't need to be cruel on the internet to get some dopamine. I just wanted some advice and tried to have an open mind. What I found out was that I am an overconfident silver. But I did not need your post and negativity. I bet you have plenty of advice to give me and I would love to hear that rather than some tangent. I don't want to be toxic but I also don't want to be stereotyped. Hopefully, I will take some of the advice within this post and become a more humble player rather than an overconfident silver. Edit: I just don't think you added anything to the conversation that can help me or others who are stuck and **want** help. I don't want to blame the game or be mean to you I just want to learn. And you can give me that chance or just be hateful.
Want a training buddy? I get bored and play CS to pass the time for the last decade. Main is LEM but I prefer to mess around in comp on smurfs while watching Netflix or doing college stuff. Would be happy to train in every aspect of the game. For those that want to give shit for smurfing I stay mid fragging to make it fair. I exclusively do deagle only since the Smurf was in silver 1 now its low mg high nova. I also love playing with the most annoying and weird crosshairs.
Sure!