Thanks guys for all your help! I'm really enjoying playing this game, complete terrible noob that I am.

Two quick questions:

I'm following the general consensus advice and have lowered my DPI settings from 1600/6x (woah was that twitchy) down to 800/6. Is it worth it to get used to an even lower setting? 400/6 or a lower 800/x? My mouse can cycle between 3.2/1.6/800/400 really quickly so it's pretty easy to come back to my default 1600 SC/general use setting.

Also, I'm finding the item and case drop scheme very confusing. How do you guys go about getting good items? Do you guys open those cases? or just sell to fund future skins (or spring sale purchases

tofucake

Hyrule19237 Posts

June 07 2014 02:36 GMT

#8845

Lower! 3 is the high end of "acceptable" sensitivities for competitive. Most of the best players are down in the 1 range.

Nimix

France1809 Posts

June 07 2014 03:08 GMT

#8846

You should stay on 800 dpi as it's a really good sens for everything 1080p (desktop, SC, etc), and find a sensitivity you like between 1 and 2. If you really prefer to stay on 1600 dpi, divide that by 2!
And about the cases, it's really rare to get good items, so unless you invest a lot I guess you have very little chances of getting back the money you invest in keys. You can open some for the thrill though, it's kind of fun

You can also bet skins on pro games on cslounge which is pretty cool

Fawkes

Canada1935 Posts

June 07 2014 03:35 GMT

#8847

I sell all cases I get, save that money. Whenever I get enough for a key, I wait for a case that I would like to open to drop, then open said case. Repeat. This is the 0 cost way of doing things. (It has not paid off. I could use that money I wasted on keys to buy the skins I want, excluding any super rare expensive ones.)

I just like the fact that CSGO "pays" you to play a bit once a week. Adds up if you have smurf accounts from the CSGO sale which they end up paying for themselves in like 3-4 Huntsman cases.

wptlzkwjd

Canada1240 Posts

June 07 2014 04:03 GMT

#8848

On June 07 2014 12:35 Fawkes wrote:
I sell all cases I get, save that money. Whenever I get enough for a key, I wait for a case that I would like to open to drop, then open said case. Repeat. This is the 0 cost way of doing things. (It has not paid off. I could use that money I wasted on keys to buy the skins I want, excluding any super rare expensive ones.)

I just like the fact that CSGO "pays" you to play a bit once a week. Adds up if you have smurf accounts from the CSGO sale which they end up paying for themselves in like 3-4 Huntsman cases.

This is nice way but if you really want to make money to buy items, you should save up and purchase $2-5 weapons and use the betting system on csgolounge.com.

I spent $40 on a Stattrak X-ray M4A4 and after trading that and using the money to bet, I have over $1500 worth of items. It does take a while though and definitely a lot of patience with trading (always trade up no matter what).

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

June 07 2014 08:34 GMT

#8849

^ this guy, this guys jammy as fuck, $1500 O.O

+ Show Spoiler +

i suk yo dick fo 5 dolla!

If you're planning to spend money directly (not going through csgolounge etc) buying skins straight off the market is the best alternative. Skins will be much cheaper in the long run (if not outright, alot of them are under £0.50 lol) to just buy this way since opening cases is £1.50 a pop and almost always give garbage. I've opened 4 cases and gotten nothing but £0.20 skins or lower. The more expensive ones are cheaper too considering getting them in a case is even harder.

tl;dr - buy market, get what you want and for cheapz!

Roggay

Switzerland6320 Posts

June 07 2014 11:39 GMT

#8850

I only open cases with the money I get selling cases, so in the end I don't spent anything on skins. This also means I open few cases and the only thing good I got was a nova antique stattrak (all the others were blues). But im happy with this. I also bought 1 or 2 good looking cheap skins on the market.

NihiLStarcraft

Denmark1413 Posts

June 07 2014 12:03 GMT

#8851

I'm even greedier than that. I never buy keys at all. Whenever cases and sticker capsules drop I sell them (as soon as they gain some value) and then, instead of getting a key with that money, I wait for Steam games to be cheap and get them instead. Of course I get very few skins this way. Yesterday I got a nice blue rarity M4A1-S camo drop (the one from the Dust 2 collection) that I'm going to keep a hold of, though. All other white rarities or ugly blues that drop go into a Trade Up contract as soon as I get ten of them.

EDIT: There's this guy called Weed on twitch who opens 100 cases every Friday. I watched him open about 40 last night (couldn't stand the guy so I tuned out) and he got nothing useful from that. Considering that's ~50 Euros (?) for pretty much nothing, and him saying that last week he got nothing out of all 100, that's insane. He hasn't gotten a knife, for example, in the last month, that's almost 400 crates opened! Good CS:GO items are really, really, really, really rare. REALLY! Numbers like that make me never ever buy keys.

Miragee

8699 Posts

June 07 2014 12:14 GMT

#8852

On June 07 2014 21:03 NihiLStarcraft wrote:
I'm even greedier than that. I never buy keys at all. Whenever cases and sticker capsules drop I sell them (as soon as they gain some value) and then, instead of getting a key with that money, I wait for Steam games to be cheap and get them instead. Of course I get very few skins this way. Yesterday I got a nice blue rarity M4A1-S camo drop (the one from the Dust 2 collection) that I'm going to keep a hold of, though. All other white rarities or ugly blues that drop go into a Trade Up contract as soon as I get ten of them.

EDIT: There's this guy called Weed on twitch who opens 100 cases every Friday. I watched him open about 40 last night (couldn't stand the guy so I tuned out) and he got nothing useful from that. Considering that's ~50 Euros (?) for pretty much nothing, and him saying that last week he got nothing out of all 100, that's insane. He hasn't gotten a knife, for example, in the last month, that's almost 400 crates opened! Good CS:GO items are really, really, really, really rare. REALLY! Numbers like that make me never ever buy keys.

Game designers realised that they could milk much more money from people when they do it through random chances in strong boxes instead of selling the skin directly for a similar price that would equate to the chance it has to drop.

Nimix

France1809 Posts

June 07 2014 12:45 GMT

#8853

It's a fair model though, the game is cheap and the developers support it a lot, and it's only cosmetic stuff they milk people for. They don't sell you vanilla maps remakes or DLC with nothing in it :D

NihiLStarcraft

Denmark1413 Posts

June 07 2014 13:05 GMT

#8854

I'm not complaining! I'm very happy with the fact that CS:GO pays for itself pretty much.

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

June 07 2014 13:06 GMT

#8855

On June 07 2014 21:45 Nimix wrote:
They don't sell you vanilla maps remakes

Hmm....

....

Isn't that what the entirety of CS:GO is? D: Like 75% of the MM maps are from CS pre-1.6 if not beta? D: Same everything else just remade? D:

tofucake

Hyrule19237 Posts

June 07 2014 13:26 GMT

#8856

The guys who made CS didn't make that many maps. All of the ones that are standard are owned by Valve, and the ones in the Operations aren't.

Miragee

8699 Posts

June 07 2014 14:13 GMT

#8857

On June 07 2014 22:05 NihiLStarcraft wrote:
I'm not complaining! I'm very happy with the fact that CS:GO pays for itself pretty much.

I wasn't really complaining either in regards to CS:GO. I just wanted to throw that in. The system can be used in very different ways and ranges from kinda fair to completly agressive milking.

Kronen

United States732 Posts

June 07 2014 15:31 GMT

#8858

Thanks guys for the help! I'm currently at 2x adjusting down. Also, I'm playing around with 800 for everyday use, just for shits and giggles. I've gotten so accustomed to shifting my hand less than 1.5 inches to access both of my monitors, but I do overcorrect much less with the 800 setting.

Sidenote: I'm watching Handi because twitch was awesome enough put him on the front page and holy shit! That guy puts me to shame! So inspiring to watch.

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

June 07 2014 19:45 GMT

#8859

Out of curiosity, what stops big streams / tournaments from being DDoS'd? You hear so much shit about DDoS being unable to be stopped/blocked and then more about people simply not doing enough to stop DDoSing. Streamers / small tournaments suffer from it immensely. I only really watch LoL/CS:GO though.

(Copy-pasted from my last post in a LoL thread =p)

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

June 07 2014 19:47 GMT

#8860

LAN is the best solution.
I think its also possible to set up private servers that arnt vulnerable... i think blizz did that after one of the bigger sc2 tournaments was ddos'd.