okay one question:
i wanna bet on matches on csgolounge (not trying to earn money or anything, i just like betting on my fav teams and earn some skins i actually want (some ak47 or some knifes or some m4a4)). i am logged in, click on a bet and where i could place my items (skins) it says:

Can't get items. Possible reasons:
- This profile is set to private ?
- Could not connect to Steam servers;
- Backpack is empty.

all 3 are bullshit.
if i wanna trade however, it says the same, but there is a windows above the error message which says:

Retry using steamcommunity public api.

and if i click that, it shows my backpack, everything works and i can trade

wtf ?

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

January 25 2015 22:02 GMT

#126

your inventory has to be set to public as well as your steam profile (it's in your steam profile settings)

DerSchober

Austria66 Posts

January 25 2015 22:16 GMT

#127

ah it told me that my profile has to be privat and not profile and inventory
thanks !

Nagisama

Canada4481 Posts

January 25 2015 22:27 GMT

#128

Even with your profile/inventory etc on public, there will be some struggles for it to show. I get that pretty often too, and I just blame it on mix of csgl being high traffic, random site issues.

jkillashark

United States5262 Posts

January 26 2015 02:23 GMT

#129

What the hell does A-ba-du mean?

Ragnarork

France9034 Posts

January 26 2015 10:45 GMT

#130

On January 22 2015 21:11 Fleetfeet wrote:

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Huh. I'd figure that less surface area to shoot at and a gun's natural tendency towards vertical recoil would mean crouching, even for scrubs, would amount to more bullets whizzing over your head. I haven't played around with it at all though, because the first thing to go through my head when I see someone isn't "Okay, now CROUCH" lol

There are also IMHO a few downsides to crouching that make it punishable. First on top of my head is that you're in a terrible position if you're engaged by more that one guy and you're crouching. You may take down one, but you're close to immobile and will be a sure kill for the other guys in many cases (talking about frontal engagement here, of course when ambushing, that's another story), while standing lets you keep some mobility and the possibility to play with covers/angles.

tl;dr: crouching can be awesome in duels, but terrible in many engagements, esp. 1vX.

ahswtini

Northern Ireland22213 Posts

January 26 2015 11:02 GMT

#131

I think the main reason crouching at lower ranks is bad is because most people at those ranks don't aim at the head, and their crosshair placement isn't geared towards aiming at the head either. So they run around with their guns aimed at chest height, and when you crouch you basically place your head into their crosshairs.

For recoil control, iirc crouching doesn't improve accuracy (different to recoil) by very much, but for M4 and AK there is a part in the spray where it jumps up by a lot, and I think some people crouch at the right time to offset that.

But I'm only SEM so I could be very wrong

Nagisama

Canada4481 Posts

January 26 2015 13:31 GMT

#132

On January 26 2015 20:02 ahswtini wrote:
I think the main reason crouching at lower ranks is bad is because most people at those ranks don't aim at the head, and their crosshair placement isn't geared towards aiming at the head either. So they run around with their guns aimed at chest height, and when you crouch you basically place your head into their crosshairs.

For recoil control, iirc crouching doesn't improve accuracy (different to recoil) by very much, but for M4 and AK there is a part in the spray where it jumps up by a lot, and I think some people crouch at the right time to offset that.

But I'm only SEM so I could be very wrong

Pretty much correct. To add to the second point, in 1.6 crouching used to decrease the recoil, but not in CSGO.

NihiLStarcraft

Denmark1413 Posts

January 26 2015 17:01 GMT

#133

Why is it so uncommon to bring an AWP to the overpass/bridge at T apps on inferno and AWP CTs that run through CT apps? I've tried this out recently and got several picks on a guy a couple rounds in a row. Not easy as you have to react quite fast but it didn't seem worse than D2 mid double doors. Still I barely ever see anybody try this.

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

January 26 2015 17:22 GMT

#134

On January 27 2015 02:01 NihiLStarcraft wrote:
Why is it so uncommon to bring an AWP to the overpass/bridge at T apps on inferno and AWP CTs that run through CT apps? I've tried this out recently and got several picks on a guy a couple rounds in a row. Not easy as you have to react quite fast but it didn't seem worse than D2 mid double doors. Still I barely ever see anybody try this.

Timing problems (you're relying on having a CT run over from boiler to t stairs instead of from CT Apts to T stairs and you're assuming you can beat them), and if your awp is covering that angle, then the awp is not being used elsewhere on the map like controlling mid or banana. If I was on CT side and there's an AWP in alt mid, I'm happy with that since mid and banana will be easier to control

NihiLStarcraft

Denmark1413 Posts

January 26 2015 17:28 GMT

#135

Oh okay, the timing aspect there I didn't know about. They had one CT running into boiler and up every round for some reason so that made it possible. We played double AWP on T side, I rushed there to get the pick, then immediately went into banana to use it there. The other AWPer was playing mid. Sucks about the timing then but good to know!

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

January 26 2015 18:24 GMT

#136

On January 27 2015 02:28 NihiLStarcraft wrote:
Oh okay, the timing aspect there I didn't know about. They had one CT running into boiler and up every round for some reason so that made it possible. We played double AWP on T side, I rushed there to get the pick, then immediately went into banana to use it there. The other AWPer was playing mid. Sucks about the timing then but good to know!

im suspecting that the dude was trying to hide in dark room of which you can easily spam him out with firing into dark or nading him out. No need to awp there imo.

WiseBagus

Canada452 Posts

January 27 2015 01:19 GMT

#137

Does anyone know of an easy way to do a private 5v5 competitive custom game with 10 players?

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

January 27 2015 01:21 GMT

#138

On January 27 2015 10:19 WiseBagus wrote:
Does anyone know of an easy way to do a private 5v5 competitive custom game with 10 players?

Everyone get ESEA or CEVO, make 2 teams and scrim amongst yourself.

[Phantom]

Mexico2170 Posts

January 27 2015 01:49 GMT

#139

OK so i got two questions that might sound trollish or rude, but i don't say it that way, i geniunely wan't to know the anwser.

Why i didn't heard about the game if it was relased on 2013? Im pretty sure on 2013 it didnt have 200k´viewers Wouldn't a game have more viewers when it release and slowly decline after that? What is valve doing right?

And also, is the game as full of cheats, and scandas as the recent dreamhack and now this match fixing thing, and other things as the drama suggest? i have never played a shooter game appart from the consoles ones, but i like them, and im very curious about the CS series but if the game is as full of cheats as it appears i don't know if i'll like it. I want a pretty honest answer here, I know you all like the game, i know you all think this must be the best shooter or one of the best and thats because you play it or watch it, i just want to know how prevalent that kind of stuff is.

Also i hear theres a betting system of some sorts?

Thanks for the help :D