Overview
This is a more advanced tutorial for players who have already mastered the basics of the game, that may want to start playing competitively.
Welcome.
So, you know the basics in Pavlov. You can kill people, control recoil, plant the bomb, use nades, all that jazz. but youre still getting stomped by better players. what do you do? Heres what i did, Right now I am a Pro in the VR Master League with more than 1000 hours of game time logged, so these are tips that the pros do
Join the Community
As i said before, i am with the Pavov VR master league. we are mostly really just a bunch of friendly guys who are really good at the game. we love playing with newer people that are trying to get better, and playing with people better than you and learning from your mistakes and watching what they do is what helped me get where i am today. normally you can spot us with a VRML badge on our profile picture. You can also join our discord at:
[link]Now, for some tips
Settings
There are a few things you should have turned on as well, make sure that if you’re not using a physical stock (which personally i don’t recommend, i tried and it slows everything else you do (IE Using utility, reloading, changing weapons. etc.)to a crawl, Instead, turn on Virtual stock, makes aiming and snapping much easier in my opinion, though some do do better without it, it is mine and roughly 75% of the communities recommendation, though if you feel like its worse, go ahead and turn it back off. I would also make your locomotion your head vector, which means that you go in the direction you look at(hard to explain but just trust me, it makes movement much more consistent.) Turn on Arm killfeed, so you can track how many players are alive without pausing to look at the scoreboard, and smooth turn as well, if you can handle it. If you can tweak it, I would recommend to make yourself as short as possible without losing the ability to run, which just makes you a smaller target and helps a bit by giving you a slight advantage.
Use Proper guns.
Throw away those P90s and M9s, you should first make sure you can reliably use the proper guns. guns that should be a neccesity to get good with include the M4, (always use an angled grip, not a verticle, as the angle adjusts for left to right recoil which is much harder to compensate for than the verts up and down!) the aug, (remember, it comes with a free agoc scope, which is not a bad option even for CQB with the hole in the bottom of the sight.), the AK, the famas, the glock, the revolver,and the 50 cal. These guns are what we call the Meta. Getting good with these guns will ensure you have a better time not using trash weapons, and getting better with guns that will be usefull to you. Never use guns like the ak12, p90. m9, ump, shotguns in general, and auto snipers. Its a good idea to spend a lot of time with the revolver, as you will be doing a lot of save rounds. speaking of which,
Control your Economy.
You dont want to be the guy with 1000 bucks on last round, you should always try and have the best eco. In order to do that, i personnaly follow these simple steps.
if i have:
<2400: buy nothing
2400-3000: save and buy a revolver
3000-3200: Famas and armor
3300-3500- Either aug and armor or ak and armor.
4000-4400: ak or aug and utilities (flashes, nade, etc.)
4400-5800: M4 with attatchments (never buy a silencer, waste of money and removes tracers, harder to aim imo) and utilities.
5800+ heavy sniper and armor plus utilities.
Make sure to talk to your team and make sure everyone has about the same money so everyone saves or buys and not everyone saves except for rich guy bob who just wasted 6 grand on a full buy and is basically playing a 1v5.
Learn utilities.
I cant tell you how many people i see just throw away precious utilities like they’re ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tic tacs. Flashbangs are 200$ and they can save your life and clutch the round if you use it right, but if little timmy just buys 3 and chucks them into where T’s MIGHT be he just wasted 600 bucks.
Nades: Expensive but extremely useful when used correctly. good examples of pre nading things are learning how to nade certain spots on A site mirage as a T to detect where CTs are, prenading spots as CTs such as prenading boost from Z on Cache, and other strats can be used to great effect to make entire teams one shot or getting nice kills.
Smokes: good for creating cover for certain strats, such as simply smoking the cross on Dust II so Ts don’t know how many people go to B, smoking off Long A on Dust II to block off Cat and CT spawn as Ts taking site, or smoking off Heaven or Tree on Cache taking B site. these are just a few examples, and smokes can also be abused as the times are different for each player, for example smoke might dissipate faster for some people so you can see someone before they see you, but nothing in this game is a guarantee so be weary.
Flashbangs- Great for flashing into sights for hard pushes, also good for popping around corners to get them off guard. its a good idea to trigger it and hold it for a second so they don’t see it coming as well. also good for if you’re in a tight spot, flash around a corner and run away while everyone else is blind. it will almost always stop CT’s in their path if they’re hard pushing so you can get into a better spot
Clips- expensive but if you have the money buy them. They can turn a “they planted, save” into a “they planted, time to clutch”. also if you’re name is Metastasis you can just clip any bomb in like half a second, so that’s fun.
There’s a great tool made by 11Pan called “11pans Dungeon” that allows you to practice utility on all the comp maps and its a very useful tool to learn proper nade spots and the like, check it out!
Learn maps and callouts
Put aside playing TTT and Jailbreak people, its time to set that search bar to snd and find any maps that are related to CSGO and join em. Many people have already played CSGO so callouts should’nt be too hard, but if you need to learn them just search up for example “cache callout map” and practice it. maps you should be familiar with and have good strat knowledge on include:
Cache (by Tarmac)
de_seaside (by Maverick)
Dust II (by Tarmac)
Inferno (by Tarmac)
Manor (by voxie)
Mirage (by KENNITHH)
Oil rig (by Reimus)
Overpass (by Tarmac)
Pipes (by JingleJosh)
Reachsky (by Crackers)
these are popular competitive maps and are not only fun to play, but if you decide to go pro, are the map pool rotations atm, most maps you can find a map of callouts online or just ask in the VRML discord to acquire some of the OG maps. (Manor, Reachsky, ETC)
Practice
Man when i look up tips and tricks for other things and people tell me “iTs jUsT a lOt Of pRacTiCe” i hate it, but thats the truth. there is no easy button tho this, it takes a certain type of person to be good. it took me over 100 hours just to start going positive in lobbies. What i would reccomend is practicing in Deathmatch servers before you go into SND, gun games are also really fun and help you get famialiresed with alot of guns, and what i would really stress is playing 1v1s on map like duel_aim whenever you get a chance. this will help your aim, peek, reaction time, and gun familiarization. its how i got good, pretty fast.
Anyways, that about wraps up this guide. if anyone has any suggestions or comments feel free to lmk. Thanks!