How does the crosshair work?

[Germanic Tigress]

I can't seem to find any threads to answer my question. I'd like to know how the crosshair works, not how to customize it. I'm mostly fine with how I've set mine to look for now with minimal customization (never was picky). But I'd like to know what the two different components function for. The cross and the circular one. I've noticed the cross one goes outward more the faster I move, but it seems like that predicts recoil where as the circle predicts the accuracy of the current/next shot. Someone please clarify. I try to play games via mechanics.

[frisky]

Not sure exactly which crosshairs you're talking about :p

http://csgohelp.com/crosshair/

Did a quick google; hopefully it's one of those, the site seems to explain what each one does fairly well.

[D.A.R.K.]

All crosshair have the same function, they show you where is your aim and how accuracy is your shot. Every time you move or shoot, your aim will increase, reducing your accuracy. You can configure it the way you like, but if you change to something that don't say to you how accuracy you are, maybe you can miss a lot o bullets cause you don't know how accuracy you are.

You can put a dot in the middle of your aim, letting you know the exacly location of where you bullet will go in the first shot, but at long range, you could miss enemies head cause of that dot, so you have to check the best crosshair to you.

It's same as real life, everytime you move, your accuracy changes, but if you jump and reach the peak, you accuracy will be perfect cause you will stay stopped, you know, when you stop going up and start to fall down... In this time is the perfect momento to shoot, better with SSG.

A lot of players, as me, like more SSG than AWP cause of that. AWP doesn't have this advantage, so if you jump, at the stopping moment, you shoot with the AWP, you will not have accuracy, but if you do that with the SSG, you will hit whathever you aim.

[Germanic Tigress]

I'm talking about the crosshair that moves two different parts of it. Which part corresponds to what?

[Pizlenut]

I don't have the default crosshair, but if I remember correctly, the circle is to judge where your bullet might go and then the other lines show your stability... so wider on those the more the circle expands when actions are taken.

but again, kind of guessing.

[D.A.R.K.]

Dude, better you create your own crosshair and don't search for problem with the others.

[onk3l]

just google: cs go crosshair generator

[Germanic Tigress]

I don't want my own crosshair.... >.> I just want to know how the default works.