Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

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What is Tagging and how does it work?
By CS:GO Official
This guide explains the system that is commonly referred to as "tagging".
 
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Explanation
The term "tagging", is used to explain what happens to player when their movement is "slowed down" when they are shot or take damage.

When a player is shot and "tagged", their movement speed is reduced and their max acceleration and movement speed is capped by an amount determined by a bunch of factors.
How does it work?
For a player to be tagged, they need to take damage. The most common way to take damage is when one player shoots another player. For the explanation below, we will call the player shooting the "Attacker" and the player being shot, the "Target".

The amount of tagging that the Target receives is defined by the Attacker's currently held weapon in combination with how many times in quick succession the Target was shot. The more powerful a weapon is, the more tagging it will do to its target. Additionally, if the Target is hit multiple times in quick succession, they will be tagged more.

The Target also has a minor amount of control over how much they are tagged. When the Target is tagged, the tagging amount is modified slightly and "capped" by the "Mobility" value of weapon that they are currently holding.



Here are some examples of how much the Target's movement is modified by being shot with different weapons. If a player is running at 100% (top speed) and they are shot, we display what their new (temporary) movement speed percent would be as "New Speed". This number is a percentage of their held weapons "Mobility" value.

Powerful weapons tag more.
Attacker's Weapon # Hits Target's Held Weapon New Speed

Glock
>
M4A4
40.6%

Bizon
>
M4A4
38.4%

AK47
>
M4A4
31.9%

AWP
>
M4A4
28.3%

The weapon you're holding matters.
Attacker's Weapon # Hits Target's Held Weapon New Speed

AK47
>
Glock
36.0%

AK47
>
M4A4
31.9%

AK47
>
AK47
29.2%

AK47
>
AWP
25.1%

Hitting a Target multiple times in quick succession will slow them down more.
Attacker's Weapon # Hits Target's Held Weapon Hit #1 Hit #2 Hit #3 Hit #4

Bizon
>>>>
Knife
46.6% 35.0% 31.4% 30.4%

Bizon
>>>>
M4A4
38.4% 28.9% 25.9% 25.0%

Bizon
>>>>
AWP
30.3% 22.8% 20.4% 20.0%
Decay
When you are tagged, the slowdown penalty does not last forever and decays rapidly. The decay will only happen when your feet are on the ground and you aren't currently being shot.

If you've been tagged and your New Speed is at 20%, you will make a full movement recovery in about 2 seconds. If you're tagged and your movement has been reduced to 40%, it'll take about a second and a half to recover fully.
Practical Examples
In the below example, we have a CT peeking around a corner to see if he can see anyone approaching.




In example A, he moves back around the corner without being shot. This will take approximately 0.75 seconds to travel this distance.




In example B, he spots an enemy and the enemy hits him once with an AK47 before he is able to move back. Our CT is carrying an M4 so it would roughly take him twice as long to travel the same distance (because his speed recovers as he moves). Or in the same time, he would travel approximately half the distance.

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802 Comments
Spanner 30 Mar @ 3:32am 
Dead & Wreckfast, your a retard, If you are fucking shot in the leg while holding a block of lead, you will walk away slower than you would if you were shot in the leg and walked away with a block of foam
MacLeod 17 Jan @ 5:36pm 
A glock shouldn't bring a M4 user down to 40% speed, lighter weapons should get tagged more than heavy weps
pr3da 5 Jan @ 12:01pm 
JOHNNY CASH 3 Jan @ 4:13pm 
I want the new nuke , cmon guys who's not with me?
SgB 8 Nov, 2015 @ 5:30am 
3kliksphilip told me this is the nu newkie :P
£eoKıng -S- 8 Nov, 2015 @ 3:27am 
When the new operation will be up to go, we will have a new nuke! Mark my words lads.
GameChaos 4 Nov, 2015 @ 1:44pm 
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Play Hard Go Pro 16 Oct, 2015 @ 2:38pm 
2) It is possible to enter into game any spray paints, for coloring of various parts of the weapon, but only for standard guns. Something on similarity of nominal labels. Players could differ in identity and other. Demand I suspect them to appear. For example I handle glok 18. To me its look ceased to please and I recoloured it in other color.

3) It would be possible to enter the sixth gun into game (there is just a cell for this purpose). For example Makarov's gun of a TT or any revolver.

So that;) Argue)
Play Hard Go Pro 16 Oct, 2015 @ 2:38pm 
Excuse for my bad knowledge of English. Therefore I use the translator. I write you with three addresses.

1) Relatively recently you entered a medal for service 2015. And so to me the idea came to a golva why not to make a patrol medal. Which the checked player could receive. I long looked for as you to write and at last found:) For example, the person looks considers many suspects, for example 500 people and acquire the right to have a patrol badge. Or for example you made a certain number of viewings of suspects your account is checked for VAC and has an opportunity to receive a badge. Or it is possible to use and think over other ways of a polcheniye of a badge. I think many of cheaters would start being afraid of it and ceased to use Chita and third-party programs. Simply I was tired to play with injustice.