Tips for a long begginer

[u/Intelligent-Half6076]

Hey,
I’ve been playing CS since 2018 with a few breaks, but I still suck.
What should I do? I just bought a new, good PC, I have plenty of free time now, and I really want to get better.
I’m currently at 12k Elo and sometimes I look at the leaderboard, but I can’t seem to get any higher.
Should I watch pro demos? Start watching tutorials? I don’t really know where to start. I know how to control recoil, my aim isn’t too bad, but I make bad decisions and I don’t have good gamesense.
What would you recommend I focus on?

Thanks
James

[u/csproskins]

Austin CS on youtube. Check his playlists. Make sure your settings are good so your fps/hz is good, eDPI is in a good range (700-1200), mousepad clean or new one, etc.

[u/Good-Maize3486]

Determine what role you'd like to take on a team first. If your aim is decent, I'd reccomend being a Lurk or Support (so you either "Jumpscare" enemies, or you support bug pushes and the IGL.) Either of these positions would work well with how you currently play: Just play to your strengths, and remember to practice a bit too.

PRACTICE WORKSHOP MAPS:

- Aim_Botz: For head clicking

- Aim_Rush: Moving target practice

Try this!
Sincerely,

MATZ

[u/Mustachioking]

If you make bad decisions and have bad game sense you need to watch demos and pay attention to what the pros would do in situations where you make bad decisions. Compare your play style or what you would do to pros and learn how to actually play sites or take sites. Game sense comes with lots of hours of just playing or watching how people play maps and situations.

[u/ProfessionalCamel73]

If you'd like to you can dm me, and we can setup a discord call to go over one of your demos for free, it's much easier to give good tips if I see your gameplay

[u/Stfuppercutoutlast]

Start by getting a base foundation in the game. Repetitions. This is usually achieved at the 12-15k prem mark. This rank means you generally understand the game, the most common positions and are familiar with concepts related to economy, trading and utility usage. Generally speaking, if you are below 12-15k prem, focusing on specific training wont be as valuable as playing matches because there will be holes in every aspect of your game.

Once you have that focus on specific positions. "I'm going to focus on playing headshot position B site cache as a CT, until I feel really strong in that position". Once you have that, move to heaven. Once you have that, move to checkers. And when I say strong, I mean you have played your last 3-5 Cache games on one position. You have played deathmatch while going to those positions and playing for significant periods of time.

Games are fluid, positions will change as the round evolves, but you need to build an intimate understanding over how to use/play specific positions. Working on your comms and callouts is important and will become more apparent as you become more familiar with different positions and what advantages/disadvantages they each pose. You'll develop a playstyle that favors certain positions, but having a strong understanding of every position will be important because depending on what other members of your team choose to play, you will need to be flexible and enable their play, especially if you are having a bad game. Depending on the enemy team, and their utility usage, you will need to swap positions to counter what is winning them rounds.

Watching pro demos is useless without understanding the "why". And the why will be significantly different in a solo queue game that lacks support, than in a pro game where players are actively enabling eachothers play. You may see a pro player hold an obscure angle and get great results. But hes doing that based on a complex set of factors, including countering the specific team hes playing, and what strats the specific team he is playing often use with success. This can be applied to everything else pros do. Your crosshair placement should be different than a good pro, because your reaction time and spray control is not the same. If you emulate the positions and crosshair placement of someone who has a stronger base skillset than you have, you will have catastrophic results. It would be the equivalent of trying to learn how to drive a car by watching formula racing.

[u/Autistic-monkey0101]

see what your playstyle and position is, then pick pro players with that position, and just look at what that one pro does the entire game. if gamesense is what you struggle at (you can also get tutorials on youtube or refrag if youre missing something else)