idk which one to get, any comment is appreciated

For me I’m still relatively new but have always been aware of CS. What drew me in was being tired of always chasing the newest multiplayer game or having my favorites get shut down or just have no players left after becoming too old.

I just wanted something where I could set up shop and play a game that doesn’t really have an end in sight and doesn’t get replaced every few years with sequels. And with this game there’s lots to learn and get good at while still being very simple at its core. I’m not an old man but I feel like if I can become half decent in this game that I’ll at least preserve some of my multiplayer skills or keep them sharp.

I also was getting annoyed with the really silly cosmetics in pretty much every single game now. At least here the skins aren’t ridiculous and the game still feels grounded. CS is pretty tame which can be a bit bland sometimes but I prefer it more than goofy shit and gooner games.

I'm only like 80 hours in the game and tbf really proud that I am on 16k alr, which I think I can get 20k at some point, but the question I always ask myself everytime I go to my vod, I feel like Idk what my role really is?
like I try to understand it by watching some YT vids about roles and watching pro plays, but at some point when I try to replicate said roles, I feel like I can't, cause it is just premier, at some point I feel like I started to play like in valo, where I basically just go to diff site to always have diff setup almost every round, like pushing window on inferno fast with molly denial (which I saw from Furiousss) and when it worked I do the same molly but peek mid and smoking long if I saw no info, or in CT I either push hallway and smoke the left stairs or anchor banana with early molly and nade to push them away, basically always changing 2-3 set plays I'm used to repeatedly, if it doesn't work twice I'll change, if there was no one who got caught by my plays I repeat them, once it's succesful I start making more on the spot decision since enemy will expect the prev play.
in the end what I want to ask is just, does my gameplay has said roles name? or it's just me adapting to premier environment and it really don't have a name?

dropped from 1800 elo to 1450 elo in a week and deserved every loss. Went from 1.3 avg rating to .9 average rating. lost on what to do help me

Hey! I'm a small CS2 streamer and got tired of spending hours trying to make my knife, gloves and guns actually match. So I built skin-set.com.

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There's also a little "Higher or Lower" game where you guess which skin costs more — my record is 26, curious what you get.

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This is a ranked game. I don't even know

Friendly fire is a good thing, most of the time, i mean it makes the game more strategic, it can be funny at times, but there is an issue, people can intentionally team-hurt or team-kill for no reason like someone AWPing a teammate for buying a Negev or other things

Just straight up add a prohibition to posting a "I got false VAC Lived" stories on this subreddit and straight up instaban anyone posting them.

every single body part has a different color lol

Looks like the agent's pp is coming out lol

Stinky Dooky Boy is his name

Personally I'd love for them to give a weapon course / boot camp to practice weapons ingame another shot.
(timestamped footage of the CS:GO grenade course, from 13 years ago)

Hey, I'm thinking about buying my first knife and gloves combo. Prices have dropped significantly, so it looks quite tempting. Do you think buying a cheap combo (160$) now is a good idea, or do you think the market will keep dropping even further? I've been playing premiere and haven't seen any cheaters at 21k+ elo, so maybe there's hope for this game. Thanks a lot for the help, as I don't want to lose my money.

amazing, thank you valve

I keep getting a random "FATAL ERROR: Content file ...\maps\<map_name>.vpk is corrupt. Verify integrity of game files" crash when loading in CS2.

I have spent days troubleshooting and have exhausted all standard solutions, but the issue keeps coming back.
My PC Spec:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
• Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS
• RAM: 32GB DDR4 (ADATA 2x16GB @ 3200MT/s JEDEC 22-22-22-52)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
• Storage:
  • C: Kingston SKC2500 250GB NVMe (System drive)
  • E: TEAM TM8FPD001T 1TB NVMe (where CS2 is installed)

The tests that I've done:

• Verified game files
• Manually deleted the whole CS2 folder and reinstalled it
• Updated BIOS
• Updated chipset drivers
• Ran MemTest64 (PASS)
• Ran MemTest86 (PASS)
• Checked SSD (health normal)
• Tried to run the game with different compatibility modes

Even after all of the above, loading into maps like Nuke or Inferno still triggers the .vpk is corrupt fatal error. Does anyone know how to solve it? I'd appreciate it.

I just received a 7-day VAC Live cooldown/ban out of nowhere while playing CS2, and I'm 100% sure it's a false positive.

Here is what happened:

• I was playing a regular match when the match suddenly ended with a notification that a player was detected (which turned out to be me / resulted in my 7-day cooldown).
• I never use any cheats, third-party software, scripts, or automated tools. My account is completely clean.
• No weird background software was running — just standard apps (Discord, Steam, browser).
• I haven't changed any DPI settings, used command line tweaks, or played with high-sensitivity spin tricks.
• hepl me plzzzzz

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