My post stated that you dont need to buy unless you think you expire your armor. It doesnt really matter if you buy a new armor at 50 or at 30, you will most likely have enough cash because you survived a few rounds on a row.

b3nd3r

Germany158 Posts

March 27 2015 00:51 GMT

#284

k, to stay healthy I'll get a new kevlar around 60 when my cash floats and in need I can stay with it until it's reaching ~40, in really bad cases even lower. So I can spend a little more on weaps/nades. Thanks guys!

Hofflerand

United States3 Posts

March 27 2015 10:49 GMT

#285

On March 27 2015 09:51 b3nd3r wrote:
k, to stay healthy I'll get a new kevlar around 60 when my cash floats and in need I can stay with it until it's reaching ~40, in really bad cases even lower. So I can spend a little more on weaps/nades. Thanks guys!

I've played 1.6, Source, and GO and I can't remember my Kevlar ever running out. I'll only refresh it if I'm at ~25 and it rarely gets that low. Don't waste your money!

Aocowns

Norway6070 Posts

March 27 2015 15:37 GMT

#286

Any tips to avoid being caught with nades? specifically as CT. i more often than not get rushed down and killed when i try to popflash properly, is it all about feel, sound and experience or are there any general rules of thumb i can follow?

Nagisama

Canada4481 Posts

March 27 2015 18:09 GMT

#287

Short answer, it's feel, and experience of being rekt with a nade out that you eventually just have your gun out at the right time.

Long answer, a general rule of thumb is if you're encountering someone early in the round, and in the open, have a gun out. An example is defending B. At start of the round, if you run into the DDs and you're blinded, chances are they're rushing you, so by the time you throw a counter flash, they're out of tunnels and shooting you up. Ways to defend that, pre-flash it, or just have your gun out if you hear that flash come out the tunnels.

If it's a bit later in the round, and about to execute onto the site by flashing out of B tunnels, you might already be in your position, so you can throw a pop flash without them knowing where you're hiding, wait for that to pop, come out and shoot some blind Ts then hide/call for backup.

Souma

2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts

March 27 2015 20:59 GMT

#288

Learn safer angles to use your nades.

lastpuritan

United States540 Posts

March 27 2015 22:32 GMT

#289

and one more thing, always try to save armor even if you have no gun to save.

crappen

Norway1546 Posts

March 29 2015 18:38 GMT

#290

Could someone explain Tec-9 for me? I understand the recoil is sweet, and that you can move faster, but during the starladder series, I heard the commentator say that NiP did not know to counter the Tec-9 eco rounds. So how do you counter it? What steps do I need to take versus someone with Tec-9 that is different from a regular gun?

Maybe first, how do you counter an eco using regular guns, and how should you counter a Tec-9 eco?

Sorry if not quick question

Souma

2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts

March 29 2015 18:47 GMT

#291

Countering the Tec-9 eco is like countering any other armor pistol eco, except it's just more difficult since the Tec-9 is pretty OP.

On the CT side you want to force battles from a distance. The last thing you want to do is hide in some corner and let a Terrorist fly out and run and gun you down. The best thing to do is to actually peek and force battles at range instead of playing passively. That'll give you a much better shot than shyly holding a close angle. Of course, people will tell you that the Tec-9's accuracy is pretty nuts regardless, but you still have a much better shot at long range than close for sure.

Also, a big mistake a lot of teams make is pulling out nades while the terrorists are rushing in with Tec-9's. That is foolish as you're just giving T's more time to close in and often people die because of this. If you want to nade/flash them, have a partner do it for you while you keep them at bay, but if you're the closest one to the T's, most of the time you cannot afford to because Terrorists with Tec-9s just don't care.

MassHysteria

United States3678 Posts

March 29 2015 19:34 GMT

#292

What Souma said is correct, plus there's a current meta of buying SMGs on 2nd round/antieco rounds. That way you can still remain mobile vs the tec9 while having a better gun that will also not be game-changing if you do lose.

iXphobos

Germany1464 Posts

March 30 2015 10:17 GMT

#293

On March 30 2015 03:38 crappen wrote:
... and how should you counter a Tec-9 eco?

You don't. You die and do the same on T side.

Headshot

United States1656 Posts

March 30 2015 21:22 GMT

#294

I'm not sure if this question belongs in this thread, but I'm trying to create a gametype for practicing grenades, so I copied the cfg file from this guide, but it doesn't seem to be working. I am able to pull up the file correctly after joining a bot game with "exec nadepractice", but I am not able to buy any nades, and the keys I replaced "KEY" with in the binds section of the cfg file do not do anything. Very confused.

NihiLStarcraft

Denmark1413 Posts

March 30 2015 21:28 GMT

#295

bind i "bot_kick; sv_cheats 1; sv_infinite_ammo 1; sv_grenade_trajectory 1; ammo_grenade_limit_total 5; give weapon_smokegrenade; give weapon_flashbang; give weapon_hegrenade; give weapon_molotov"

Here's my keybind. Just put that into console in one line and hit return. Replace "i" with the key you want.

And use "mp_ignore_round_win_conditions 1" (or something very similar to that) to make the round go on forever.

Nagisama

Canada4481 Posts

March 30 2015 21:34 GMT

#296

On March 31 2015 06:22 Headshot wrote:
I'm not sure if this question belongs in this thread, but I'm trying to create a gametype for practicing grenades, so I copied the cfg file from this guide, but it doesn't seem to be working. I am able to pull up the file correctly after joining a bot game with "exec nadepractice", but I am not able to buy any nades, and the keys I replaced "KEY" with in the binds section of the cfg file do not do anything. Very confused.

Have to type "exec nadepractice.cfg". You're missing the .cfg portion. Try that and see if it works.

Also, what key are you binding the commands to? Certain keys are not as intuitive as just "bind 'a'". For example, if it's the keypad, then it's "kp_end" for "1" on the keypad, and so on.

xxsaznpride

United States506 Posts

April 02 2015 00:23 GMT

#297

Every time I try to open up an aim map offline with bots, I get a "Failed to find dedicated server" error. Opening up a casual map with bots works just fine, but it puts me on random maps like Office. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?

Netscape9

United States139 Posts

April 02 2015 03:34 GMT

#298

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what is the difference between the "Competitive Map Pool" and the "Reserve Map Pool." There are no operations going on right now (to my knowledge), so why separate them? Are there any differences in ranking or anything like that?

Fencar

United States2694 Posts

April 02 2015 03:53 GMT

#299

As far as matchmaking goes, it's just a separate tab of maps you choose from. Many of the maps in the competitive map section are also often played in pro games, so there's that.

Netscape9

United States139 Posts

April 02 2015 05:21 GMT

#300

On April 02 2015 12:53 Fencar wrote:
As far as matchmaking goes, it's just a separate tab of maps you choose from. Many of the maps in the competitive map section are also often played in pro games, so there's that.

Alright thanks for the answer.