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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive |OT| The bomb has been planted
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VAC bans now apply to the specific game the person was banned in, rather than being based off of the engine of the game.
In Europe or NA? I haven't come across a cheater yet myself.
Mister0079
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I've played CS since 1.4 on and off casually and CS:GO feels a bit weird to me since I just started playing it. Sometimes I stay still and shoot short accurate bursts and my bullets don't hit and I die. Meanwhile my opponent is strafing and spraying and headshotting me.
Heavy's Sandvich
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Welcome to CS:GO.
Game just feels as inconsistent as Source. Don't take it too seriously and P90 everyone for fun.
Don't exaggerate, the game itself is nowhere close to as shitty as Source.
Heavy's Sandvich
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I disagree, got my autoconfig and they both feel as headscratchingly inconsistent as each other.
Valve or non-Valve, doesn't matter.
Snacks the sober sea lion
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Because Counter-Strike. That's the only explanation I've ever come up with.
And it's tempting to open crates, but any weapon I want could just be bought off the market for the cost of 2 keys rather than gambling for it. Except for the Asiimov M4, which is ludicrous.
Crimsonclaw111
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One day I'll luck out and find a knife. Good thing I haven't spent any of my own cash on them (only skin/crate money).
What are your guys' favorite skins?
What are your guys' favorite skins?
CountAntonius
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My faves.
Candy Apple Nova(Wish there was a Stattrak version)
M4A4 Asimov
Scout Blood in the Water
AWP Lightning Strike
M4A4 X-Ray
Gut Knife Night
Karambit Crimson Web
Deagle Blaze
Dualies Hemoglobin
Glock Dragon Tattoo
P90 Cold Blooded
Bizon Carbon Fiber
M4A1-S Dark Water
Five-SeveN Anodized Gunmetal
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Dragon Tattoo Glock. Makes it feel like a different weapon that I actually (sort of) know how to use.
Candy Apple Nova and Five-Seven. Looks delicious.
Kami Five-Seven.
Souvenir Colony FAMAS, even though I can't hit anything with that gun.
Shattered Galil.
I played a pretty good game on Mirage. Everyone used their mic, and 4 rounds in a row were close enough that we would have lost without defuse kits.
Candy Apple Nova and Five-Seven. Looks delicious.
Kami Five-Seven.
Souvenir Colony FAMAS, even though I can't hit anything with that gun.
Shattered Galil.
I played a pretty good game on Mirage. Everyone used their mic, and 4 rounds in a row were close enough that we would have lost without defuse kits.
Crimsonclaw111
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Is it weird that I'm better with the FAMAS than the M4? I prefer to buy it and a few nades and then steal an AK.
My favorite skins are the following:
FAMAS Hexane
Five-Seven Anodized Gunmetal
AWP Boom
AK-47 Blue Laminate
Scar-20 Crimson Web
Sawed Off Mosaico
M4A4 Desert Storm
My favorite skins are the following:
FAMAS Hexane
Five-Seven Anodized Gunmetal
AWP Boom
AK-47 Blue Laminate
Scar-20 Crimson Web
Sawed Off Mosaico
M4A4 Desert Storm
Heavy's Sandvich
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Sold my skins for whatever I could get for them.
Anti-skin brigade - come join.
Anti-skin brigade - come join.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Eh. At some point most skins are worth absolutely nothing.
Snacks the sober sea lion
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What I really want is unique animations for each pistol, rather than only the Deagle. The current ones don't even compare to the old Five-Seven draw and reload animations.
Head of Vengarl
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Man, I have gotten so spoiled by my new gaming PC. I'm at my parent's house right now so I'm using my old laptop + I forgot my MX510 mouse so I had to use their stock Dell mouse:
and some tiny mousepad they had lying around the house. Playing CS was pure agony. I kept going off the mousepad during firefights so I'd suddenly be looking at the sky or the floor. Plus it has no mouse4 or 5 buttons, which I use to switch to my pistol and knife. And of course my laptop has to run GO on the lowest settings so it looks like dogshit.
and some tiny mousepad they had lying around the house. Playing CS was pure agony. I kept going off the mousepad during firefights so I'd suddenly be looking at the sky or the floor. Plus it has no mouse4 or 5 buttons, which I use to switch to my pistol and knife. And of course my laptop has to run GO on the lowest settings so it looks like dogshit.
my knife is appreciating in value nicely, its settled at over $100 from when i bought it. also the fade glock and nuclear p250 sold for more than i bought them
Soo I've been playing cs go a bit lately after owning it for a year and I'm loving it, guess nostalgia from 10 years ago is helping. Did 10 placement matches and I'm in gold nova I, guess I'm not as good as I thought >.>
How does skin drop system work in this game? I barely get anything, is it time based, x per week etc?
How does skin drop system work in this game? I barely get anything, is it time based, x per week etc?
Heavy's Sandvich
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It's usually 2 skins per week and 2 crates.
Either it was a typo that went uncorrected (seller meant to list for $25.00) or it's two people attempting to easily transfer between new account. With SteamGuard you can't trade with an account until after it's been active for 15 days, so if you list it on the market for cheap and have the other account quickly buy it you can 'bypass' the system.
The original skins went up a little bit since they no longer drop. Of course most are still a buck or less so theres not really any profit
If you want to make money, get lucky with a crate or get lucky with a drop, AWPs are worth a ton
I made like 30 bucks from this game just selling crates so thanks Valve
If it was a typo I'm really sorry for the guy because it was probably 250.00 and not 25.00, the exchange to another account could be possible but risky.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
I had 4 DreamHack crates drop for me and made over $30 from them. And the game was gifted to me. So I've actually profited from playing this game.
I'M PRO
I'M PRO
Crimsonclaw111
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I'm still saving a Dreamhack case for a few years. Let's see how that goes.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
If only I could get an AK-47 Fire Serpent so I wouldn't have to give up the wood parts of the gun to have an AK skin. But it is not meant to be. I think I'm getting better with it though.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
I would have gladly given you my one.
But I sold it for keys and more unhappiness.
Anyone around the DMG/Eagle rank down to play? I've been having a miserable time lately playing alone and I'm tired of it. Feel free to add me, Steam ID: heytred
@ Educator - to expand on Uriah's post: You are limited 'drops' weekly (they reset Wednesday 7 p.m. EST) and you generally get 2 skin drops and 2 case drops in that time frame. I've heard of people getting up to 7, but I don't know if there's any truth to that. You can open the cases, but they require a key - which costs $2.49. In my opinion it's a scam as you have a really low chance of landing anything of quality. You earn drops based off game time spent on Valve servers. These can be Deathmatch, Casual, Competitive, or Community Servers (for the most part). If you have any more questions, feel free.
@ Educator - to expand on Uriah's post: You are limited 'drops' weekly (they reset Wednesday 7 p.m. EST) and you generally get 2 skin drops and 2 case drops in that time frame. I've heard of people getting up to 7, but I don't know if there's any truth to that. You can open the cases, but they require a key - which costs $2.49. In my opinion it's a scam as you have a really low chance of landing anything of quality. You earn drops based off game time spent on Valve servers. These can be Deathmatch, Casual, Competitive, or Community Servers (for the most part). If you have any more questions, feel free.
educator
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Oh, ok. Not to keen on microtransactions. Would have been fun to just download some community skins without having to wait for drops and pay for keys.
Thanks!
Not sure if you can get banned/VAC'd for it, but you can definitely download custom skins and apply them. I think it's a tricky process and you need to do it everytime CSGO updates.
Also, some of these may end up in community skin updates (officially put into CSGO by Valve) later on if they're also submitted to the Workshop.
Shouldn't have to do that/risk a VAC ban for the sake of getting workshop items.
Really, that's their biggest fuckup. AFAIK TF2 allows you to use whatever from the Workshop as is. But I guess GO isn't selling enough crate keys or whatever (because people are smartly selling them?) to where they have to lock half the workshop off. :/
To be honest, I'm not sure if there's a better way of doing it (I just started playing not too long ago, myself) but that's one of the ways I've seen of getting custom stuff in.
Because of my inexperience with CSGO + VAC, I wonder if it's a potential ban risk.
CountAntonius
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Pretty sure it isn't bannable to use the old method of skinning. Only you see those skins however. They haven't taken anything away from the community the way people used to skin they still can.
Yeah, but the question is: Why are they locking half the workshop off? TF2 doesn't do that as far as I know and it sells bucketloads of items.
I guess it's because they don't have the "hats" or whatever that TF2 does and since they don't want to turn it into a wacky game (thank god) they have to lock half the workshop.
But that's royally stupid. You can't let people do it through the workshop like this skinning method and only have the "official"/pay-for items show for everyone else?
I guess it's because they don't have the "hats" or whatever that TF2 does and since they don't want to turn it into a wacky game (thank god) they have to lock half the workshop.
But that's royally stupid. You can't let people do it through the workshop like this skinning method and only have the "official"/pay-for items show for everyone else?
CountAntonius
Member
You can't equip TF2 or Dota 2 items through the workshop either. Workshop is for people to share and vote on items so they can be included in future updates. Only CS: GO's map workshop lets you "subscribe" to items in game. Keep in mind these cosmetic items are the reason these games have been getting free updates for years(in TF2's case) and the CS:GO ones have already funded two 250k tournaments, they also make the item creator a good deal of money for their efforts.
CountAntonius
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Just hit 100k concurrent.
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