On October 16 2015 20:19 Sableyeah wrote: Yup, average rank has gone up, but everyone is where they should be relative to everyone else. But I did read somewhere about a "Masters" or "Challenger" rank within Global Elite would help out the topdogs play on their main more often and combat some of the little frustrations of smurfing. Well, I am not on that level just yet but I really should play more on my main account. I blame my love for Music to smurf nowadays ^^ I still play as high a rank as possible tho.
On October 16 2015 20:19 Sableyeah wrote: Yup, average rank has gone up, but everyone is where they should be relative to everyone else. But I did read somewhere about a "Masters" or "Challenger" rank within Global Elite would help out the topdogs play on their main more often and combat some of the little frustrations of smurfing. Well, I am not on that level just yet but I really should play more on my main account. I blame my love for Music to smurf nowadays ^^ I still play as high a rank as possible tho.
On October 16 2015 22:10 -Celestial- wrote: Comments about "yeah, average rank has gone up and people have jumped ranks, etc etc" always seem to be missing a large part of what is happening and the implications. The truth is: the community overall is much, much lower skilled than the perception of a lot of people. Especially those on sites like this.
The "true average skill level" (excluding those hacking of course) hasn't changed. The average rank amongst players who go out of their way to go on websites like this may have but that's a VERY DIFFERENT THING to the average skill among the CSGO population as a whole. The simple fact is the overall skill level is bad. Really bad.
Removing hackers just means that people who are legitimately better than the "average" skill level go up to the rank they should be at. But being better than average doesn't mean being a great player.On the whole most people aren't all that good. You only have to look at the average casual match for this. I like to mess in there to relax and typically I'm top 3 on my team easily, even when I'm screwing about. I consider myself to be a fairly godawful FPS player and my aim can be shockingly bad...but I still outclass most people on the typical casual pub server. Even drunk. Even using Deagle/AWP (both weapons I rarely trust myself to handle in ranked unless I'm really "feeling it" that day because I'd rather rely on my spray control than my near-inability to flickshot).
There's a lot of people out there with zero map understanding, zero situational awareness and only a marginal ability to even aim.
I don't get what you are adressing because this never was the point in the most recent discussion. The point was that people felt they get rank-ups much quicker compared to a year ago or so. And that without or only marginal skill-improvement on their side. The point wasn't that they were suddenly good players or suddenly better than the average...
I AM SO BAD AT THIS GAME. God played 2 awful games on my own rank, it's unbelievable. 12kills total on one and the other maybe 8kills. FUUU need to step up my game. Need to train more and smurf less :')
On October 17 2015 07:39 Sableyeah wrote: I AM SO BAD AT THIS GAME. God played 2 awful games on my own rank, it's unbelievable. 12kills total on one and the other maybe 8kills. FUUU need to step up my game. Need to train more and smurf less :')
On October 16 2015 22:10 -Celestial- wrote: Comments about "yeah, average rank has gone up and people have jumped ranks, etc etc" always seem to be missing a large part of what is happening and the implications. The truth is: the community overall is much, much lower skilled than the perception of a lot of people. Especially those on sites like this.
The "true average skill level" (excluding those hacking of course) hasn't changed. The average rank amongst players who go out of their way to go on websites like this may have but that's a VERY DIFFERENT THING to the average skill among the CSGO population as a whole. The simple fact is the overall skill level is bad. Really bad.
Removing hackers just means that people who are legitimately better than the "average" skill level go up to the rank they should be at. But being better than average doesn't mean being a great player.On the whole most people aren't all that good. You only have to look at the average casual match for this. I like to mess in there to relax and typically I'm top 3 on my team easily, even when I'm screwing about. I consider myself to be a fairly godawful FPS player and my aim can be shockingly bad...but I still outclass most people on the typical casual pub server. Even drunk. Even using Deagle/AWP (both weapons I rarely trust myself to handle in ranked unless I'm really "feeling it" that day because I'd rather rely on my spray control than my near-inability to flickshot).
There's a lot of people out there with zero map understanding, zero situational awareness and only a marginal ability to even aim.
I don't get what you are adressing because this never was the point in the most recent discussion. The point was that people felt they get rank-ups much quicker compared to a year ago or so. And that without or only marginal skill-improvement on their side. The point wasn't that they were suddenly good players or suddenly better than the average...
dunno how it was but the system seems to adjust your rank pretty fast. im 200 hours and 75 comp wins in and scrathing lem now(started on gn3). on reddit i read stories how people were stuck 200 wins in the gold nova bracket. they that bad or did valve change something?
also important question: mw misty or ft aquamarine? wanna waste 25€ to upgrade my redline and really cant decide...
On October 16 2015 22:10 -Celestial- wrote: Comments about "yeah, average rank has gone up and people have jumped ranks, etc etc" always seem to be missing a large part of what is happening and the implications. The truth is: the community overall is much, much lower skilled than the perception of a lot of people. Especially those on sites like this.
The "true average skill level" (excluding those hacking of course) hasn't changed. The average rank amongst players who go out of their way to go on websites like this may have but that's a VERY DIFFERENT THING to the average skill among the CSGO population as a whole. The simple fact is the overall skill level is bad. Really bad.
Removing hackers just means that people who are legitimately better than the "average" skill level go up to the rank they should be at. But being better than average doesn't mean being a great player.On the whole most people aren't all that good. You only have to look at the average casual match for this. I like to mess in there to relax and typically I'm top 3 on my team easily, even when I'm screwing about. I consider myself to be a fairly godawful FPS player and my aim can be shockingly bad...but I still outclass most people on the typical casual pub server. Even drunk. Even using Deagle/AWP (both weapons I rarely trust myself to handle in ranked unless I'm really "feeling it" that day because I'd rather rely on my spray control than my near-inability to flickshot).
There's a lot of people out there with zero map understanding, zero situational awareness and only a marginal ability to even aim.
I don't get what you are adressing because this never was the point in the most recent discussion. The point was that people felt they get rank-ups much quicker compared to a year ago or so. And that without or only marginal skill-improvement on their side. The point wasn't that they were suddenly good players or suddenly better than the average...
dunno how it was but the system seems to adjust your rank pretty fast. im 200 hours and 75 comp wins in and scrathing lem now(started on gn3). on reddit i read stories how people were stuck 200 wins in the gold nova bracket. they that bad or did valve change something?
also important question: mw misty or ft aquamarine? wanna waste 25€ to upgrade my redline and really cant decide...
They are bad, Im 90 wins and touching LEM and I hadnt touched an FPS for 10 years.
On October 17 2015 09:53 BeMannerDuPenner wrote: also important question: mw misty or ft aquamarine? wanna waste 25€ to upgrade my redline and really cant decide...
whatever you like the most personally I think all the covert ak's look much nicer than the misty.
Yo I personally think the AK Elite Build is way underrated. It came in, went hot for a day or two and then some mysterious backlash occured lol. Everybody seems to hate it. I got on for ~1.8 Euros factory new I believe and I love it. Obviously not the same level as Aquamarine etc. but just wanted to throw it out there. I really like the skin and don't understand why there's such massive hate against it!
On October 16 2015 22:10 -Celestial- wrote: Comments about "yeah, average rank has gone up and people have jumped ranks, etc etc" always seem to be missing a large part of what is happening and the implications. The truth is: the community overall is much, much lower skilled than the perception of a lot of people. Especially those on sites like this.
The "true average skill level" (excluding those hacking of course) hasn't changed. The average rank amongst players who go out of their way to go on websites like this may have but that's a VERY DIFFERENT THING to the average skill among the CSGO population as a whole. The simple fact is the overall skill level is bad. Really bad.
Removing hackers just means that people who are legitimately better than the "average" skill level go up to the rank they should be at. But being better than average doesn't mean being a great player.On the whole most people aren't all that good. You only have to look at the average casual match for this. I like to mess in there to relax and typically I'm top 3 on my team easily, even when I'm screwing about. I consider myself to be a fairly godawful FPS player and my aim can be shockingly bad...but I still outclass most people on the typical casual pub server. Even drunk. Even using Deagle/AWP (both weapons I rarely trust myself to handle in ranked unless I'm really "feeling it" that day because I'd rather rely on my spray control than my near-inability to flickshot).
There's a lot of people out there with zero map understanding, zero situational awareness and only a marginal ability to even aim.
I don't get what you are adressing because this never was the point in the most recent discussion. The point was that people felt they get rank-ups much quicker compared to a year ago or so. And that without or only marginal skill-improvement on their side. The point wasn't that they were suddenly good players or suddenly better than the average...
dunno how it was but the system seems to adjust your rank pretty fast. im 200 hours and 75 comp wins in and scrathing lem now(started on gn3). on reddit i read stories how people were stuck 200 wins in the gold nova bracket. they that bad or did valve change something?
Well, stucking for 200 wins in gold nova probably means they have reached their limit at what they can achieve with their current effort. I can mostly only talk from my perspective and maybe from that of a friend because I mostly played with him together. There were certain ranks where we were stuck for ages. Like Silver 6-Nova 2 a year ago. I think we did 30-40 wins while moving up and down in that segment. Then we jumped to Nova 4. There we were stuck for another 30-40 without ranking up or down. Since the rank up to AK we mostly had long win streaks ranking up in a few games until we reached DMG. It's also note-worthy that we play a lot less than we played back when we started. Back then we played 1-3 com games every day. Now it's more like 1-3 per week.
On October 17 2015 09:53 BeMannerDuPenner wrote: also important question: mw misty or ft aquamarine? wanna waste 25€ to upgrade my redline and really cant decide...
On October 17 2015 15:35 Camail wrote: People hate the elite build because its blue, that's it. If it was rarer people would like it more because black AKs are amazing.
See that makes no sense to me personally. Maybe because I don't hoard skins for their imaginary color or number associated with them but for how they actually look like in-game. :p But I'm not saying you aren't right. Oh well, wouldn't mind the same happening with more skins! More cheap and good-looking stuff for me haha.
On October 17 2015 09:53 BeMannerDuPenner wrote: also important question: mw misty or ft aquamarine? wanna waste 25€ to upgrade my redline and really cant decide...
When I'm playing MM I leave most of the default competitive maps checked, as I'm familiar with most of them now (if not all that experienced) and know very basic callouts, but I've seen a couple of people talking about certain maps that require very good teamwork to be played effectively. Overpass is one that I've heard that about, for example.
That got me thinking, are there any maps that you definitely just don't play (or recommend playing) when you're solo queueing, for that reason?
EPT
personally I think all the covert ak's look much nicer than the misty.
