What is the best way to learn the game?

[Ryderlmao]

I am a fairly new and bad player, who wants to improve. What are the best ways to do so? What game modes or settings are good for new players?

[Ray Benchmark]

To learn most aspects of the game conbined deathmatch on competitive mm maps is the best. You learn movement, crosshairplacement, aim, spraycontrol, clutch situation, awareness, ...

Later workshop maps like aimbotz and prefire are also good, but that only gives you a very limited aspect of skillset.

[Wunderwaffe]

1) Get a rig with at least 5800X3D or 13600K or 7600X (better 7600X3D). GPU is not so important, RX580, or GTX1660 from 3rd hand is enough.
2) Go to 128tick deathmatch to practice aim. 90 percent of servers suck and stutter so you need to find a good one (mirage WaSe, overpass WaSe, tuscan Wase, these servers have low server var + low server sided sv processing inconsistency). Dodge all valve servers, ignore 64tick.
3) make a 2ndary account for skins and workshop, download ypracc maps, train nades and utilities at this account
4) wait until valve releases usable game engine and not this lagging 10 years old piece of garbage obsolete laggy source 1. Meanwhile train aim and nades and watch some pro matches to get used to strategies and playstyles. Dont play competitives.
5) When finally valve releases usable game engine with no stutter, low input delay and powerful servers with no internal lag (the opposite of cs:go now), find few STABLE friends and start playing with them and training together. Together. Not alone (until you are a lonely wolf or masochist). Faceit or ESEA, you can try ESportal also. Be ready for losing in first months, its normal. Im in this stage too.

[Wehzy]

Originally posted by Wunderwaffe:

1) Get a rig with at least 5800X3D or 13600K or 7600X (better 7600X3D). GPU is not so important, RX580, or GTX1660 from 3rd hand is enough.
2) Go to 128tick deathmatch to practice aim. 90 percent of servers suck and stutter so you need to find a good one (mirage WaSe, overpass WaSe, tuscan Wase, these servers have low server var + low server sided sv processing inconsistency). Dodge all valve servers, ignore 64tick.
3) make a 2ndary account for skins and workshop, download ypracc maps, train nades and utilities at this account
4) wait until valve releases usable game engine and not this lagging 10 years old piece of garbage obsolete laggy source 1. Meanwhile train aim and nades and watch some pro matches to get used to strategies and playstyles. Dont play competitives.
5) When finally valve releases usable game engine with no stutter, low input delay and powerful servers with no internal lag (the opposite of cs:go now), find few STABLE friends and start playing with them and training together. Together. Not alone (until you are a lonely wolf or masochist). Faceit or ESEA, you can try ESportal also. Be ready for losing in first months, its normal. Im in this stage too.

That CPU is totally overkill for CSGO and not needed at all.

[Tea™]

tbh just play and learn from your mistakes

[Moo]

I'd question if it's even worth getting into this game at this point. Game at its core is fun but the community will make you question humanity and as someone else mentioned the engine is some finicky spaghetti code shi't that works great for some and not for others.

[sb0t.]

Originally posted by Wehzy:

Originally posted by Wunderwaffe:

1) Get a rig with at least 5800X3D or 13600K or 7600X (better 7600X3D). GPU is not so important, RX580, or GTX1660 from 3rd hand is enough.
2) Go to 128tick deathmatch to practice aim. 90 percent of servers suck and stutter so you need to find a good one (mirage WaSe, overpass WaSe, tuscan Wase, these servers have low server var + low server sided sv processing inconsistency). Dodge all valve servers, ignore 64tick.
3) make a 2ndary account for skins and workshop, download ypracc maps, train nades and utilities at this account
4) wait until valve releases usable game engine and not this lagging 10 years old piece of garbage obsolete laggy source 1. Meanwhile train aim and nades and watch some pro matches to get used to strategies and playstyles. Dont play competitives.
5) When finally valve releases usable game engine with no stutter, low input delay and powerful servers with no internal lag (the opposite of cs:go now), find few STABLE friends and start playing with them and training together. Together. Not alone (until you are a lonely wolf or masochist). Faceit or ESEA, you can try ESportal also. Be ready for losing in first months, its normal. Im in this stage too.

That CPU is totally overkill for CSGO and not needed at all.

:D:D:D:D

[Ryderlmao]

Originally posted by Wunderwaffe:

1) Get a rig with at least 5800X3D or 13600K or 7600X (better 7600X3D). GPU is not so important, RX580, or GTX1660 from 3rd hand is enough.
2) Go to 128tick deathmatch to practice aim. 90 percent of servers suck and stutter so you need to find a good one (mirage WaSe, overpass WaSe, tuscan Wase, these servers have low server var + low server sided sv processing inconsistency). Dodge all valve servers, ignore 64tick.
3) make a 2ndary account for skins and workshop, download ypracc maps, train nades and utilities at this account
4) wait until valve releases usable game engine and not this lagging 10 years old piece of garbage obsolete laggy source 1. Meanwhile train aim and nades and watch some pro matches to get used to strategies and playstyles. Dont play competitives.
5) When finally valve releases usable game engine with no stutter, low input delay and powerful servers with no internal lag (the opposite of cs:go now), find few STABLE friends and start playing with them and training together. Together. Not alone (until you are a lonely wolf or masochist). Faceit or ESEA, you can try ESportal also. Be ready for losing in first months, its normal. Im in this stage too.

Lmao bro I’m dead 💀

[smiley‽]

Ima just give you the same tip they gave me in 2005 or something; play for 1000 steam hours and ask this question again. Or you know, its 2022 and internet is full of guides now


Don't run/walk and shoot. When you see someone, stop, aim, shoot. The one thing I see a lot with low level players is they think this is CoD and they can rush spawns and get an ace by running and shooting.

Settings. Figure out what settings(crosshair, sensitivity, aspect ratio, resolution) you are comfortable with and STICK with it. The thing about CSGO is the most consistent certain aspects are, the better you'll get at the game.

Communication. This will become more important the more you see yourself improve. Learn a couple of the maps and callouts. For example, if I were you I'd learn Dust 2, Mirage, and Cache. The map you'll get 9/10 is Dust 2 so you'll learn that map very quick.

Probably the most important. Be patient. People have been playing Counter Strike for years and they will still say there's stuff to learn. There's always something to learn and if you keep positive you can improve quicker.

Gamesense will come slowly and painfully with thousands of hours so I wouldn't worry about that straight away. If you don't understand map timings and player tendencies then you will not be able to anticipate you opponents, which is effectively what people mean when they talk about 'gamesense'.

Focus on understanding how the gunplay works as well as the movement first. This is best done in a healthy combination of offline servers/aimprac maps, DM servers (beware of the valve servers) and MM games where you will learn via a trial by fire.

Try to find somebody who can spend time with you bringing you up to speed, it can be a rough initiation if you are on your own!

A great way to speed up your gamesense is to watch pro matches and observe the radar. From it you can pick up rotations on maps, where to sit and hold, how people can flank you in certain positions and the relative timing of the game at an elite level. It will still take time, but rather than learning the game and making mistakes by watching other low level players or by having your own mistakes, you can see the game at the highest level and adapt it to your play accelerating how fast you pick up the game. Watch some videos on youtube about common grenade spots and lineups, these can easily make you take bomb sites and help you win rounds that you otherwise couldn't win. Sometimes knowing that extra nade is all the difference between you going out mid on Mirage for instance and getting three people down short without a death and all three of your teammates dying before the other two can burst out of T apartments

If you generally want to get better as a player, play some Deathmatch community servers to warmup your aim before you play a match (this makes sure you're ready and have your aim dialled in).

Then play some Community Retakes servers to learn angles and spots people typically sit on bomb sites, this is a quick and fast way to basically get retaking bomb sites or keeping them down as a skill and is faster than playing regular matches of CS:GO (once again accelerating your progress at learning maps and angles).

You can work on playing surf or kz maps to master the movement of CS:GO, just be mindful that only some of these skills will transfer to playing in Matchmaking and competitive games since the settings for acceleration and landing hops is different on some servers, but it's still good for mastering the overall character movement in CS:GO, which helps you navigate maps faster or use movement to your advantage to outskill your opponents.

Next I'd play some matchmaking or faceit games just to get in some actual experience under your belt, after all thats what is going to help you the most at being a confident and better player.

Lastly, learn the names for positions on maps and callouts and how to communicate properly, sometimes giving as much info for your team as possible is important to winning rounds, also don't backseat them and tell them what to do, just give them the info they need and let them take it from there and play how they do.

Final point, there's some maps on the workshop to help you learn certain skills, like spray pattern maps to learn the sprays of guns or maps that teach you smoke spot or flash spots, super useul and use the actual map to teach you the skills you need.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnCSGO/

YouTubers to watch: WarOwl, n0thing, VooCSGO, 3kliksphilip

[Abow99]

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[VpR]

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[AzertyX67]

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