Practice creates masters! The standard saying of every trainer applies to football, tennis and cycling as well as billiards, chess and CS: GO. If you want to get better at Valve's tactical shooter, you need to practice regularly. But how do you actually practice counter-strike?
On Ex professional Reddit reveals three steps that should make you a better counter-striker. Three core competencies are equally important: shooting, situational awareness and movement.
Step 1: train your aiming!
Logically, without shooter skills you see no country in CS: GO. Accordingly, you have to Train precision and reflexesto finish off your opponents faster than they can blow you out of their shoes.
In order to be able to aim and shoot better, the ex-professional recommends playing the community map Aim Botz every day. Starts the map in offline mode in a private game. The card can be configured to your training needs. The ex-professional suggests shooting 1337 bots every day and stopping your time to get faster and faster.
It is important that you master both the setting of precise individual shots and the control of the recoil pattern of all important weapons. To internalize the patterns, the ex-professional recommends the Recoil Master training map.
Here you start a training session by practicing precise individual shots. If that works well, you try to apply two-shot volleys with pinpoint accuracy. If that goes smoothly, you practice three shots in a row. The whole thing goes on until you can shoot long volleys and the balls land as close as possible.
Later you top off your training by: CS death match against real players plays. Train all weapons that you would buy in a real match. Also think of pistols and MPs for the economy rounds!
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Step 2: train to read the game correctly!
Shooting is only half the battle in a tactical shooter. You must also be able to read the course of a round and the make the right decisionsto have the right answer ready in a wide variety of situations.
Here the ex-professional recommends a simple trick to improve your situational awareness: Watch professionals! Counter-Strike: Global Offensive offers ingame the possibility to download and watch the game progress of other players.
Then you can watch professionals in first-person perspective, how they react in certain situations and learn from them for your own game. You should also watch your own replaysto identify mistakes that you better avoid in the future.
Step 3: train the movement!
If you have trained your right hand (shooting) and your brain (awareness of the situation), only your left hand (movement) is missing to include all CS muscle groups in your training. Here the ex-professional recommends special community maps that deal with the topic Movement deal. We have selected two categories for you:
Jump training: On this community map you train how to use jumps correctly. This includes important places for bunny hopping and long jumps to get to difficult to reach places.
Surf maps: There is now a huge selection of these maps, which are only designed to cope with long slide courses and train your movement gameplay accordingly.
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By the way: After years without real competition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has to prepare for Riot Games' new tactical shooter in summer 2020. The League of Legends developer wants to combine Valorant with the best of CS: GO and Overwatch in one game.
