A Blog to Help You Improve at CS:GO

Counter-Strike Global Offensive is a first person shooter focusing on team based combat rather than a free for all fragging contest. Being the fastest, most skilled individual sure goes a long way to becoming good at this game, but to be great one will need to become a team player. Therefore it could be rather frustrating playing when your teammates have no clue of what they are doing since you need to come together as a group. Otherwise, your team will most likely fail. This blog is my contribution to the cs:go community, or cs:gommunity as I like to call it, and it aims to help you avoid being the person on the team who is clueless.

Short? Long? Catwalk? WTF!

Why should you listen to me? Well, for starters I have at least ten years experience in the Counter-Strike franchise and I have seen enough players, in real life as well as online, that play counter-strike ineffectively. I do not say that they cannot aim or do not get the goal of the game. I am talking about players who just need a little bit of help to improve a lot, and who willingly are looking for ways to improve their game. Such people are everywhere on the cs:go matchmaking servers. Some of them are even aware that they are lacking in the "skills department", but not all of them. These are the people who are beginners or who are unfamiliar with counter-strike matches. I was once one of them and back in time when matchmaking were done manually through MIRC I picked up a whole lot of important know-how from my teammates since that was a necessity for success. Remember, back then, all teams consisted of players who knew each other and played together every evening and sometimes even every night. They also used any voice over net provider, such as ventrilo or teamspeak, to synchronize their strategy and tactics. Compared to today's randomized matchmaking, the teamplay of counter-strikes past is far beyond the level of today.

Communication is key.

What does this have to do with anything about improving as a cs:go player? Well, remember the know-how I picked up from experienced teams, you could play a lot and never learn about them today. Because of this, I am going to reveal these somewhat forgotten secrets in this very blog. The contents of this blog will therefore include individual as well as team based tips and strategy advice, weapon guides, tactical guides, map guides, and configuration advice. The blog will not include advice concerning maximizing your frames per second or anything that has something to do with the flow of the game since those are not what I call counter-strike skills, even though they may come in handy. There are, however, other sites that can effectively help you with that.

Hopefully, you are one of the players out there that will benefit from my blog, and if you are, be sure to let me know. Nothing makes me happier than helping a fellow gamer improve, except for maybe fragging them in-game.

Well met!