just curious, what would it take for you to consider going back to cs? like an anti cheat, functioning report system, subtick improvement, all of that , right?

true, but I feel like CS and Valorant playerbases are split and set in stone, at least for now. Who knows, maybe cs2 goes down the tf2 route or valorant somehow collapses because VCT gets what OWL got, we will just have to see

+1, people will say that faceit has a great system, but then I literally found a smurf in my own team who has 2-3 accounts with pretty much the same name. All playing with the same player group, all abusing faceit rules, but then the support tell you ''get fucked lmao''

the biggest problem in brazil is that there is talent, it's just spread out. Kinda a miracle how EDG has assembled the best chinese players in one team, literaly no other team in no other region had this luxury

I mean as a CS enjoyer myself (over 4k hours, top 30k europe rn), I never tried the switch to valorant. Played the game a few times, but I just don't like the gunplay, it's fundamentally worse than in CS. not even Riot's fault, source is literally the perfect engine for such a great gunplay. Those who say they will go over are just either going to deadlock or staying in the game despite it being so ''shit''

probably wouldn't, maps in val are designed specifically for abilites, it would require massive changes to avoid maps being one-sided/boring/stale. plenty of cs source and 1.6 maps went extinct in cs go because it was too narrow and the molly would just annihilate the one standing there

speaking on the behalf of the cs community, we will gladly trade dust2+vertigo+cbble to valorant for a working anti cheat or some slight workforce from riot to actually make updates

maybe not in riots style, but skins, bundles, maybe even cash for like top 100 in the act? or maybe add a unique one-time skin for every act, basically if you see this skin then you know this guy grinded the act out completely

brazilian crowd is just wild bro

IEM Cologne felt like a real sport, ngl. Riot just refuse to acknowledge the crowd

actually seangares' teammate, n0thing, was the reason cs either has walls separating or they have those tainted glass. he would legit just go ''throw the flash there, I will tell you how many there are''

depends on who plays there, kinda sad vct has so few events causing a constant rotation instead of having annual events

CS is basically forced to make it side by side cuz you can throw a flash and then see if you flashed somebody :D not possible with valo's green haze

waiting for a thread urging the heretics management to send the entire roster to Alcatraz cuz they lost the final again

lock in cuz the crowd added another layer to the atmosphere

malding during the tactical pause, ye their mental got broken, GG go reset before next game

I still like talking to people, even if they are baiters :D

band wagon the winner ''because I like their playstyle'' :)

there are things like being in shape (sen are on a holiday and m80 are in the gaming form), dedication, what teams are trying. even if you lose 13-0 13-0 in a pracc, it does not matter, you have more material to work with. If you win comfortably, you can see what you are doing right. if you lose, you can see what went wrong. Literally any experience is a plus when you pracc

nothing is decided yet, anything can change

scrims wins and losses do not matter at all. actually surprising some people don't understand this

unc needs some chill, I, as a professional malder, suggest you switch games for today and watch the vp-furia game of pro league. its chill and meme cast alongside VP's boring ass slow ass gameplay is perfect to calm down before losing braincells

TSM get the 4th slot based on round difference and then fluke it to ascension, making riot think that the format is shit before introducing relegation

I just smashed my Razer Huntsman V3 Pro RGB in front of 10 guests at my watch party because of the game. My e-girl just took our crying teammates and said they’re all spending the week watching CS. This team has ruined my life and my party. I can’t handle this anymore. Goodbye TSM. I am no longer a fan.

just fyi, heretics were hot ass last year, this year they were at every tier 1 event this year, what even is the question, boo is a cornerstone of heretics

year 2024, 13th September, nihso has invented theory of evolution

not watching cuz my pookie bear Mira isn't on stage, GG 3-1 liquid in finals

Poop break is the epic moment, like seeing a goalkeeper scoring off the corner kick

Moves VCT Amer to LA, locking tier 2 in SA out of scrims
Attracts all the clout orgs to tier 2 of NA, not SA
Gives them opportunities to practice with tier 1
0/4 ascension playoffs teams are north american

Emea lost when ruskies laughed at "xild game" and proceeded to gamble on their bettor orgs

Enough with the oceania copium, I cheered for you lot in CS, 2019 Berlin Major gave me hope.... Now I stare at alistair going 0.8 rating with an AWP

Fuck franchising

I would cheer for Oceania, buttt unlucky ((

Bro lost the qualifiers to the major qualifier, it's that bad rn

I figure out what approximate sens I want to get, overshoot it slightly, play a few dm sessions with it and then set into the sens I wanted initially. Either I A) hit the perfect sens by overshooting the sens B)will hit the sens I wanted by just going closer and closer towards my designated sens. I guess I am more of a high sens player ( at least in CS, there I have pretty much the s1mple sens)

valorant and cs are still in the league of their own when it comes to first person shooters

valorant needs some Launders LANs, free for all, plenty of teams, open circuit, peak racism, peak toxicity, raises absolute units
downgraded because I rate Mason ''Lake'' Sanderson as NA CS' saviour, wtf

who knows what happens, we will just see

what other description I expected from a southern state with no huge landmarks or talk around it

what about arkansas?

I like it, then I can just say that ''my bad G, this mechanic stopped me from healing you''

I play moira, obv I use the health orb to self heal

FC Copenhagen had North
technically not football clubs, butttt Oleksandr Zinchenko (arsenal) owns Passion.UA, Casemiro is part owner of Case I believe and I think Artur melo is in some team as well

the best doesn't mean there will be no rivalry from NA/SA/asia

I mean nitro wasn't that bad, autimatic isn't that bad. I feel like what can theoratically save NA CS is the VCT NA baloon popping. There is no stable org in VCT NA, I just feel like the baloon might pop

chinese spyware adds a vegetable to your team any time you launch any game made by valve.

that's why my dopamine peaks at friday evening/saturday morning, truly appreciating that freedom

those aren't nationalists, those are populists

I feel like this initial push might sway some tier 2-3 talent in NA valorant to CS. NA teams in valorant have 30 slots in franchising (possibly 35), yet no way to get into that closed club. It makes more sense to grind an open circuit

thing is, anything will piss them off :) funny shit is that I as a ukrainian know exactly which pricks will show up talking their shit and their solution would be ''just don't sign russians lmao'' while those idiots still want to use the russian audience because they are pests. talking shit about war and stuff, attacking people like s1mple but they still were attending events in Moscow after Crimea was already occupied and Donbass had a conflict there as well