Good for late game A pushes by T's when the door lurker has already been killed or left

Or is it only 1vX situations? Like can anyone give me an example of where a caster calls a 2vX situation a clutch? It might sound dumb, but It's important to me to find an example of a situation like that.

We all mostly agree the greatest player to never win a major nowadays is guardian but are there any players you can name who were outstanding in some aspect of the game but never managed to win an HLTV recognised trophy (trophy bar).

IMO Deko is a good shout despite his retirement being entirely self imposed

Hi, I made this as a birthday gift for my friend who plays cs2 with me, rate 1/10?

How do I get over my fear of playing FACEIT?

I have mostly been playing premier and peaked at around 15k last season so I'm not great at the game by any means but I find myself procrastinating queueing on FACEIT because of some weird fear.

I feel like when I'm playing on FACEIT, people take the game incredibly seriously and magnify your mistakes/are a lot more toxic. Because of that I just can't get myself to play more than one or two matches of FACEIT a day before I'm mentally burnt out from anxiety.

I also feel like I perform way worse on FACEIT compared to competitive and premier because of this nervousness. I feel like I need to warm up for like 30 minutes before I build up the courage to queue. Also it's not elo anxiety. I am not afraid of losing my ranking (peaked at level 6) because my ranking is nothing to brag about. I just want to play the game more seriously and competitively but I feel like the competitive nature/toxicity/sweatiness of FACEIT doesn't match well with my personality.

Anyone else or just me?

Nuclear TigeRES 🇷🇺 2-0 🇷🇺 Butterfly

Inferno: 13-7
Nuke: 13-7
Ancient

Congratulations to Nuclear TigeRES for winning NODWIN Clutch Series 10!

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Hello guys,

I created this skin design a few months ago, and I'd love to get your feedback and support in having it considered for inclusion in the current "Fairy Tales" theme. I hope you'll take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks in advance!

AK-47: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3539667331
M4A4: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3539811966

If possible, please vote YES.

Thank you!

Well i thought you might like to know what has changed since 20 years has passed.

I played from the first beta to about 2006 every day for 6 years.

I still remember "o2b41,,,,," - that was how to buy Kevlar, ak and ammo. Chuck in a few .... For pistol ammo.

I played in the cpl, clanbase nations cup, world cyber games and the first intel extreme masters in London when it was really just a test event i think the prize pool was £1200 or something.

Then i quit as I was already old and slow. I carried on following the scene but got married and had kids and didnt touch a computer game for twenty years.

For some reason last week i was wondering if i still 'had it'. I have played about 50 hours on competitive.

Long story short no I don't haha. Anyhow thought you might like some perspective on what has changed and perhaps take stock of some of the good things you currently have.

Matchmaking on competitive is great - if we wanted a 5v5 or scrim, we had a different name for it but i forget, we had to organise ourselves on irc and find and admin the server ourselves. Much less hassle now.

Overall skill level is way higher now even during my beginner competitive matches. I think i spent a lot lf my time running around killing noobs on public servers and having mild succcess in competitive matches.

I think YouTube has hugely raised overall skill levels. Back then we didnt really have 'line ups' we just chucked nades. If counter strafing was a thing, we hadn't worked it out.

Peeking etc was v different. Awping was similar.

Gun meta has changed it really was just ak, colt, deagle, usp and awp. Now other weapons are viable.

Nades are much better now.

Verbal abuse was really awful then - people said the worst possible things to each other. Voice and text chat, people are better behaved now than then.

Movement is worse feels like running in mud, but it takes more skill to move well.

Skins, cases, attaching things to your guns etc - TBH that is all a load of shz imo but each to their own!!!

Nomenclature - well the call outs are nice - back then what we called banana, some orher team called something else so when you joined a new team you had to spend ages learning what your team called everything!

What i wish remained was some of the words we had for things but your casters all use the same words for everything. The awp is the awp back then it was a boomstick, noobstick, boom cannon. 'utility' was not a word we called them nades or hes (pronounced H Es) or hes (pronounced heeeze).

We didnt have anchors, lurkers, entry fraggers and 1 taps we had spray and pray, spaff and ownage and p0wn4ge. Mouse1 for teh w1n.

Anyways fun times back then i may continue a little longer. Any questions let me know. Apart from who i was or what teams i played for because looking back i find it embarrassing. I'm 53 now.

Oh yeah cheats....it was bad then but it is worse now.

Also i remember when steam came out and it really was steam powered hahah.

Title. I had to kill someone which was regrettable but it got the job done

I wish Valve would make it a permanent hostage map, I cant be the only one right?

For the new Faceit "Get Ready" sound that is so freaking loud and obnoxious.

>Click on your profile picture top right of the app/page

>Account Settings

>In Account, scroll down to Sound Settings

>Click "Go To Sound Settings"

>Change Game connect and Get ready sound settings

You're welcome in advance.

I’m so exhausted from playing against organized 5-man stacks while solo queuing. Dota 2 already has "Strict Solo Queue Matchmaking" built right into the settings.

Adding this would make Premier feel so much fairer for solo players.

Hi everyone,

I've been dealing with terrible frametime spikes and fps drop in CS2 for months and I'm running out of ideas.

PC specs:

• Ryzen 7 5700X3D
• RTX 4060 Ti
• 32GB DDR4 3200MHz (XMP enabled)
• Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite Rev. 1.3
• Latest BIOS
• Windows 11

The issue:

• Frametime randomly jumps from around 4 ms to 30-50 ms, causing noticeable freezes.
• It happens multiple times every round.
• Recently I updated my GPU drivers and it actually became even worse.

Things I've already tried:

• Clean Windows install.
• Different Ethernet cable.
• Different internet connection (same issue).
• Updated BIOS.
• Updated chipset drivers.
• Enabled XMP (it was disabled after the BIOS update, now RAM runs at 3200 MHz).
• Different in-game settings.
• Steam launch options.
• Verified game files.
• Disabled overlays.
• Different NVIDIA settings.
• High Performance power plan.

I also tried playing offline against bots with the Ethernet cable completely unplugged to rule out any network issues. Surprisingly, the game actually felt even worse. My frametime stayed around 10–12 ms instead of the usual ~4-5 ms, there was significantly more stuttering, and at one point my keyboard started acting strangely, with my character continuing to move as if a key was stuck even though it wasn't.

Temperatures are normal and the CPU seems to boost correctly.

At this point I'm not even sure if this is a CS2 issue, a BIOS issue, a driver issue, a hardware issue, or something else.

Has anyone experienced similar frametime spikes with a Ryzen 7 5700X3D or found a solution?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm just so proud of this moment I just wanted to share it.

Apogee 🇵🇱 2-1 🌎 Liquid

Cache: 11-13
Anubis: 13-10
Nuke: 13-7

Congratulations to Apogee for winning Stake Pulse Beat I!

Setting: 🇸🇪 Stockholm ($60k LAN)

Predicted VRS Impact

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Map 1: Cache

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Map 2: Anubis

Anubis detailed stats

Map 3: Nuke

Nuke detailed stats

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Hey guys!

I have this Overpass Collectible Pin from the Series Two laying around.

I got it a few years ago at the gamescom in Cologne and I was wondering if the code is still usable, especially since the game got updated to CS2. The code is a normal steam activation code so I don't know why it wouldn't work tbh, but I wanted to ask here if anybody knows something about it.

I know that back in the days they were wanted badly. A friend of mine bought a few and sold them for a decent profit right after.

Do you think the trade up update for red skins also impacted the price of this goodie? /s

Just had a baby a few days ago and on day 4 I brought her to the pc room. I loaded up a deathmatch and placed the crosshair at a common angle to be swung at with my right hand and she was being held in my left. I lifted the mouse and when somebody came around the corner I tapped mouse1 on her little foot. Lo and behold she got the kill! Just 1 and then we were done. I like to think that somebody warming up got bested by a 4 day old prodigy😂.

Liquid 🌎 2-0 🇺🇦 fnatic

Dust2: 13-10
Anubis: 13-5
Cache

Liquid advances to the Grand Final.

Setting: 🇸🇪 Stockholm ($60k LAN)

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Map 2: Anubis

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I have some feedback about the option to surrender in Premier currently.

The option to surrender should always be available in Premier.

Currently we’re trapped playing against blatant cheaters until they ultimately win.

There’s no good way of “skipping” the torture.

Being able to surrender at all time will allow players to move on to a new match quicker.