It took a while to reach that level at Cs go.
It took a while to reach that level at Cs go.
I started strong, but my friends helped me improve, and now I think I'm fairly decent after playing together.
The time that pushed me from solid performance to competition level came after roughly two years of nightly practice. While you can achieve decent precision in hundreds of hours, reaching match-level accuracy requires much more time. Based on my experience at COD European championships, I spent around 3,000 hours before being selected for a team, another 3,000 hours in training and competition. I began with a fairly average FPS skill but dedicated significant effort to improve. In total, it seems I invested about 9 to 10 thousand hours. After winning a match, I stopped playing and resumed gaming a few years later, only to find myself back at my previous level.
Still getting there, in Global it's insane how good people can get. I have 2,000 hours and there are people still way way better then me. (Global Here)
It relies on your inherent abilities. Certain individuals may always remain at the bottom, regardless of how much time they invest.
Very much this. You can have perfect aim and know all the spam spots/angles in maps and still be just average. The real skill comes when you're under pressure in 1v2+ situations. Do you often win these scenarios? Are you clutch? Can you carry your team if they're under performing? Reading and outplaying opponents is something very few people master. People call this "meta game". If you can anticipate what the other team is doing then you're well on your way to becoming a pretty damn good player. Edited January 1, 2016 by eLucid
I'm not sure if I'm "good" at this. I haven't reached the top scores yet, but I usually handle games with 1.5+ K/D most of the time. I don't see myself as a bad FPS player—I often rank high in games like Battlefield 3/4 with 3-6 K/D. Yet, CS:GO is a completely different kind of shooter. As for how long I've played CS:GO, I began around 1.6 years ago, either against bots or friends on LAN. I've tried many shooters over the years, and I just started with CS:GO recently.
Typically, those who present as "good" won't engage past cevo-im. That's just the norm.
I'm feeling really down right now, just a small setback. I'm working on tuning the game sense in Nova 3 and it's not going well yet.