People try everything possible to get an advantage CSGO, PUBG, Fortnite, or any competitive game. But lately I’ve been following the glorious efforts of a low rent gamer to improve his sniper behavior.
This post originally appeared on Kotaku Australia.
It’s reminiscent of an old trick I learned about in 2003. I took part in my first national competition for Counterstrike, and one of the players – a Day of defeat Veteran – had a piece of Blu-Tak on his monitor. I asked why the hell they would spoil their CRT screen like that, and the answer was simple: it gave them a sniper crosshair.
Today, many monitor manufacturers have integrated crosshairs into their settings. But it’s not a universal feature, especially if you’re playing on a gaming laptop. So over on Tiktok the @ csgogoezhack channel posted different solutions to solve their no-scoping problem.
I especially like their EA sponsored “hack”:
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There is another version – and for God’s sake not with your own monitor – with a used lemon and a piece of clear tape:
Other amazingly crappy solutions to the noscoping problem are: a curved Q-tip, the end of a cucumber, a golf ball, Duct tape, and my all time favorite, a floss stick.
Now there is one caveat to all of this: the user is playing on Matchmade Deathmatch servers as seen in the UI at the top of the screen. There is no footage of them in a regular matchmaking game, let alone an organized competition, or even on a “normal” third-party deathmatch server. (Australian deathmatch servers usually limit sniper usage to those who have paid to access it, though that’s a whole different matter.)
Still, it’s fun to see someone come up with creative, inexpensive solutions to problems. And it’s nice to see that a piece of hardware is as durable as the ASUS laptop that clearly survived multiple versions of markers and stick directly on the screen.
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