Overview
very short and basic guide of what to do and not to do in Counter Strike Source. Some tipps are as easy as meesing with the mouse options and other tipps will tell you when to walk and how to shoot. Im not saying that I know how to play your best A-game im just trying to give some knowledge to players. 🙂 INDEX:Sitting Position (Claw grip)Video Settings (ULTRA settings but i cant see SH*T)Mouse Settings (mouse Acceleration is EVIL)Ping (crouch before you have to)Console command (show frames per second)Aiming / Shooting (oneshots, strafing, wh aim)Weapon comparison (Deagle AK-47 M4A1 AWP)
Sitting Position
sit comfortable, cant say you how though 😀
its important that you can hit every button you need at every moment.
more important than that, is the position of your arm you use your mouse with.
try to have it at the same postion as much as you can.
if you play with your wrist in the air (claw grip) or if you leave it rested on the table/pad, it doesnt matter as long as your comfortable with it, but stick to one technique.
your brain will get used to distances and you will get better with hand eye coordination.
Video Settings
imagine you stand out in the open, with the sky above your head, looking into a building.
with HDR enabled the room will be darkercompared to HDR turned off.
the room will become brighter once your actually in it.
once you leave the room and go out again you will be blinded by the sun.
this makes the game more realistic, as it mimics the pupil of the human eye
its your call.
MINIMUM Frames Per Second (FPS)
to enjoy cs:s you need to have 60 frames per second constantly
gameplay will feel more fluid at 60 fps, eventhough it looks fluid to the human eye at 20 PFS.
Mouse Settings
Mouse speed
it doesnt matter at what DPI setting your mouse is, as long as you are comfortable with.
but make sure you can turn at least 180′ in an instant!
dont change the mouse settings, unless you really have to!
(what I personally do is, I increase my mouse speed every 3 months or so by just 1 unit, i startet with 0.70 now im at 0.93. its important that you start at a speed you are comfortable with.)
+ you will be able to do a lot of nice flickshots
– sprayfire and long distance shooting will become more difficult because you cant move your mouse as fast/much anymore.
so please, if you increase your mouse speed, do it slowly! controlling the spray fire will otherwise become nearly impossible
Disable mouse acceleration
This is one of the most important part of this guide and its soooooo simple.
turn off the mouse acceleration ingame and in windows.
YOU CAN ENABLE RAW INPUT in the options menue which will bypass the mouse acceleration in windows, this means that css will use the data which is coming from the mouse only. without any other calculations
EXAMPLE:
ACCELERATION ON
you move your mouse from the very left of your mousepad to the very right at a speed of 2km/h
you turned 360′ ingame
you move your mouse from the very left of your mousepad to the very right at a speed of 10km/h
you turned 580′ ingame
ACCELERATION OFF
you move your mouse from the very left of your mousepad to the very right at a speed of 2km/h
you turned 360′ ingame
you move your mouse from the very left of your mousepad to the very right at a speed of 10km/h
you turned 360′ ingame
acceleration messes up the hand eye coordination. the computer predicts what you want to do, which might be fine on the desktop but not ingame.
even if you have been playing with mouse acceleration enable for the past years, turn it off. it feels weird at first but it will go away soon, ive done it myself 🙁
Ping
Press TAB ingame to see the score sheet.
You can see everybodys ping right next to their names.
imagine ping as a delay time. your computer has to give information to the server and back.
if you have a ping of 1000 the delay would be 1 second.
try to find a server close to your location or just filter by ping upwards.
A LAN game has a ping of 0 which makes the gameplay a lot faster and instant.
EXAMPLE: 1vs1 both players have same hp, same weapon, and aim for the head.
one goes down the other one does not.
you will never ever see a vice versa kill in css.
you can increase your chances of winnnig such a situation by having a lower ping than the opponent.
crouch before you have to! being shot in the head while already being in cover is not uncommon when playing online.
Console command
to enable the console
to to your steam games (library)
right click on cs:s
properties
set launch options
type in
-console
make sure you have enabled dev console at the keyboard section of the options menue.
restart css
commands
net_graph 1 (shows ping aswell) look at screenshot bottom right
cl_showfps 1
cl_showfps 0 to turn it off
Aiming / Shooting
1. Rule DONT SPRAY!
Even if your good at spray fire its 99% the wrong answer.
Too many bullets miss its mark.
Reloading makes you vulnerable.
flickshots will kill you instantly.
BURST FIRE is a good alternative. Its the technique of firing 2-4 bullets by holding the left mouse button.
the second and thrid shot get really close to the center of the first shot.
BUT
the closer the enemy is the more bullets you can put in a burst.
dont expect to hit your burst fire with the ak47 from across the map.
bursting increases your chance of not dying significantly.
AK-47 2-3 shot burst
M4A1 3-4 shot burst
2. Rule STAND STILL WHILE YOUR SHOOTING!
Just dont move. sounds so simple but sometimes difficult when your being shot at, i know.
3. Rule STRAFING
Strafing combines moving while shooting. all strafing does is cancel your movementspeed down to 0 in an instant.
EXAMPLE
IF YOU STRAFE LEFT HOLDING THE A KEY
LET GO OF THE A KEY
AND PRESS THE D KEY TO STOP
SHOOT!
STRAFE BACK WITH D KEY
AND STOP (PRESS A KEY)
SHOOT!
a good indicator when to shoot is your crosshair.
while shooting or walking/running your crosshair will increase in size.
only shoot when its small in size.
if your crosshair is constantly the same in size enable the dynamic crosshair in the console
cl_dynamiccrosshair 1
If you use strafing, your not a sitting duck anymore! combine that with cover and your almost safe 🙂
4. Rule Aim through walls / predict movement
listen to every step, check on the minimap whats going on.
if you hear steps look at them through walls if you have to, this gives you full sound from the left and right speaker,
which makes him turning easier to hear, rather than if you were looking at an angle.
you have to know at what height a head will pop out of a corner in order to hit it right?
so be prepared always aim at the right height and at the right spot.
dont look straight at a wall if you make a turn, scan your environment
increase your angle of view slowly, and check every spot before you advance.
5. DONT RUN ALL THE TIME
tmake the enemies hear your shoots before they hear your steps.
running around a corner not knowing whats around it will get you killed. period. so dont.
walking around, with nobody hearing your steps buys you a little time to aim and making kills.
just walking slowly on public server will even get you knife kills this way, catching guys off guard.
to be honest the w key could just be the walk slowly key.
Weapon comparison
Deagle headshot damage 160 with helmet $ 650 oneshot headshot. +most bang for your buck! +precise, +powerful, -low clip size
one of the deadliest weapons in close to mid combat.dont rely on it at long ranges. but if your out of money get the deagle honey.
AWP headshot damage 448 with helmet $4750 +oneshot bodyshots (no limbs) -expensive.-range limitations
the most powerfull rifle in the game, 100% accurate while standing still, but beware at close range dont overdo your luck with no scope shoots, keep a deagle handy.
M4A1 headshot damage 92 with helmet $3100 -no oneshot headshot. -exspensive, +very fast shooting rifle, +precise at spray fire.
silencer eliminates muzzle flash and you dont show up on the radar if you fire. (exept if the enemy is near)
AK-47 headshot damage 111 with helmet $2500 +oneshot headshot beast, +-burst is ok but spray and pray.
Although the spray can be mastered at low to mid distances, pull the mouse down slowly the first 10 shots then a lot and pulling a little to the bottom left.
Goodbye
thats it guys 🙂
hope it helps someone out there!
css is a great game, community is getting smaller because the game is getting older.
so i hope you got some infos that helped you improve your game and have some fun!
if you want to play some css (location germany) with me and my clan you can connect via [link] or go to my profile for links
a comment or a review is much appreciated
greetings
woody
