by Sumedh Balan
Welcome to another edition of loading continuing exactly where we left off. Improving our Game!
Sensitivity
No I am not talking about your emotional outbursts after loosing a match. Your Mouse Sensitivity, This relates to how fast your crosshair movies directly related to the mouse movement. Get your sensitivity just right and you will find a great increase in your game level. Practice with bots and move your sensitivity up and down by notches of .2 every 5-6 rounds and see which sensitivity suits you. To set your sensitivity open console and type sensitivity 3.42 or any other digit.
How do you know your sensitivity is causing problems in your game? Well are you finding it hard to dodge flashes? Is it tough to move your crosshair from one enemy to another? Are you overshooting your enemy targets?
All these are problems with one’s sensitivity. For the first 3 questions it is obvious that your sensitivity is too low. For the last question the sensitivity is too high. So adjust accordingly.
Constant QQ
One of my teammates has this problem and no matter how much one yells at him he still does it. Its kind of an addiction pressing Q and then Q again switches between two weapons basically q is associated with previous weapon. This has a lot of use incase you are spraying down a couple of enemies and a third pops out just when you run out of bullets you can switch to secondary with q and shoot him with your pistol. Also helps to change to knife to enable you to run faster.
So what is the addiction? Well pressing it constantly keeps you in a state of switch all the time and an enemy can come in front of you and shoot you before you know what happened. Also pressing Q with the knife as your previous weapon causes a sound which means an opponent nearby can hear you and know your exact position.
Backup
There are two elements to the term Backup. Firstly giving backup. Don’t be a chicken and don’t bait you teammates. It’s the worst thing to do. If you see your teammate engaging go and help him. In all likeliness your opponents will be distracted by him and you can sneak up and clean them up and save him at the same time.
Second is waiting for backup. So you just killed an enemy and… wow! He had the C4 and it has dropped. Well now you should wait for you teammates to come and then hunt as a horde. Being greedy can only lead to one thing. Your death and it could cost you the match. One of most experienced CS players in the country told me this after an early Kode 5 exit for my team. “Why are you being so greedy for frags? Go get one kill, come back wait for teammates and go again, you will get another kill.” And it’s true. It always helps to be patient in CS.
RADAR & SOUND
Yes you know what I am coming to don’t you? Why did you kill your teammate in the last map? I just can’t stretch on the importance of Radar. It tells you practically every position of your teammate. And sounds from somewhere else can mean only one thing — it’s an enemy. Just have a look at your radar before you blindly spray down somebody over the corner.
Stop running so much around the map. Opponents have good headphones as well — don’t forget. Especially if you are playing an experienced team. They have the same gear as you so don’t think because you have better sound a better mouse and a better mouse pad that they can’t do anything to you and you can rush and ace them each round. It’s a fundamental error. Slow down. Walk or try the overly popular Russian Walk. (Tap the Crouch button in a pattern to help you move fast with less sound commonly referred to as the crouch walk Allowed at ESWC from 2008).
Now when you hit a common spam spot and you hear the opponent bleed what do you do you spray down and kill him right just like when a shark smells blood? Well reverse the roles you get hit by a spam don’t just camp thinking “Ahh… he is just trying his luck in all probability he has heard you and you have a split second to move out so get out of there.
Help you teammates with your sound sense. Probably you’re a little more experienced or you just have a better headset nevertheless you heard your opponent running at outer. Tell your teammate exactly where he is. as I had said earlier — communication is the key in CS.
Money Management
There was the article on Gotfrag.com that really helped me understand how Money system in CS works. Most players have a vague idea of what the money system is about but not a lot of them have an in-depth knowledge allow me to share with you what exactly is the Money scenario Round by Round. Keep in mind effective usage of money and make sure your caller understands this. Don’t go on a full buy round when two of your mates have only 3k it could spoil your chances for the round.
Keep in mind that all these bonuses do NOT account for the additional 300 dollars you get per frag.
DEFENSE MONEY FACTS
Winning the round by time running out: 3250
Winning the round by fragging all the offensive players: 3250
Winning the round by defusing the Bomb: 3250
1st round loss: 1400 (no bonus)
2nd round loss: 1900 (1400 + 500 bonus)
3rd round loss: 2400 (1400 + 1000 bonus)
4th round loss: 2900 (1400 + 1500 bonus)
5th round loss: 3400 (1400 + 2000 bonus max value)
6th round loss: 3400 (1400 + 2000 bonus, no higher for any round after 5th because it’s maxed out)
As soon as you win a round, the rounds consecutively lost is broken, and the next round lost will result in starting the cycle over again, at 1400.
TK: 3300 to whoever committed the TK.
OFFENSE MONEY FACTS
Winning the round by eliminating the entire defense: 3250
Winning the round by bomb explosion: 3500
Planting the Bomb BUT then fragging the defense before it blows: 3250
Planting the bomb but losing the round: Normal bonus + 800 dollars extra
1st round loss: 1400 (no bonus)
2nd round loss: 1900 (1400 + 500 bonus)
3rd round loss: 2400 (1400 + 1000 bonus)
4th round loss: 2900 (1400 + 1500 bonus)
5th round loss: 3400 (1400 + 2000 bonus max value)
6th round loss: 3400 (1400 + 2000 bonus, no higher for any round after 5th because it’s maxed out)
As soon as you win a round, the rounds consecutively lost is broken, and the next round lost will result in starting the cycle over again, at 1400.
TK: 3300 to whoever committed the TK.
I hope this makes you understand what you could do in each round and how much it could affect you when you do a wrong buy or when you team kill. Read Understand and Revise.
Also Officially now V-street.net has cancelled this years ESWC. It is a Big blow to the Indian gaming scene you could read more about it at v-street.net.
Now I have some inside sources telling me that indiangamersleague.com or the IGL as its known to the Indian CS community has plans of hosting a National Level CS tourney in July and of course WCG is still there coming up in MID august so keep preparing. As always thanks a lot of Reading and please leave a comment and let me know if there is anything “Bugging” you about Counter-Strike. On the next LOADING I will be going in-depth into the world of Spamming.
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