I had been through 15 matches or do before my rank was unlocked, and it happened to be 2.5k, I was up against higher opponents though and on leetify I was matching 5k-10k

Is this ordinary? Or do people get higher rankings? Am I just bad?

I suck at cs but want to learn where do I start?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21382218

Two new community (competitive) maps released for CS2 today, and one has callouts in the map itself. Created by FMPONE and MF_Kitten, we have Thera.

I decided to make a callouts map because it's the only way we will play for sure... although the new ranking system also helps, we won't be thrown in way over our heads when we play.

Thera looks to be a smaller map, but there are a fair number of upper and lower parts. However, since I used the in game minimap to make this map, the lower parts are darkened and not obvious. If anyone knows how to get the base layout map (much higher res, used to be shown in loading screens), please let me know. The map underneath the writing is terrible and I added contrast and denoised it a bunch just to make it useable.

As for the callouts, I changed a few parts. Here's the list of everything different (or could be different) about the in-map callouts:

• "B Balcony" is just an unnam

The major is upon us. Megathread to discuss the major. Opening stage is over, elimination is upon us:

Group elimination stage:

Advance to quarter finals:

• Cloud9
• Vitality
• Spirit
• Faze
• Eternal Fire
• Natus Vincere
• MOUZ
• G2

Eliminated:

• paiN
• Virtus.Pro
• Complexity
• ECSTATIC
• Imperial
• HEROIC
• TheMongolz
• FURIA

Group stage results.

Advanced to elimination stage

• Cloud9
• Heroic
• ECSTATIC
• paiN
• Eternal Fire
• FURIA
• Imperial
• TheMongolz

Eliminated in the opening stage:

• AMKAL
• KOI
• Lynn vision
• Apeks
• ENCE
• Legacy
• Gamerlegion
• SAW

Since the last patch without patchnotes a few days ago loading workshop maps has been broken for me, anybody else experiencing this or is this an issue with my install?

A bit late but I noticed it wasn't even posted here

Lets check out the new skins

Golds

Kukri Knife

Available in the classic finishes of Fade / Slaughter / Crimson Web / Vanilla / Case Hardened / Stained / Blue Steel / Night Stripe / Forest DDPAT / Urban Masked / Boreal Forest / Scorched / Safari Mesh. sadly no new finishes

Reds

AWP | Chrome Cannon

Awp Fade now out?

AK-47 | Inheritance

*Idk if I would want to inherit marble, a red low float ak skin on the other hand..

Kinda late with the post, but better late than never.

Day 1:

• G2 vs NiP -> G2 advance, NiP drop to losers bracket
• NaVi vs Compexity -> NaVi advance, Complexity drop to losers bracket
• Vitality vs OG -> Vitality advance, OG drop to losers bracket
• Astralis vs Falcons -> Astralis advance, Falcons drop to losers bracket

Day 2:

• NaVi vs G2 -> NaVi advance, G2 drop to losers bracket
• NiP vs Compexity -> NiP faces G2 in losers bracket, Complexity are sent to Spring Showdown
• Vitality vs Astralis -> Astralis advance, Vitality drop to losers bracket
• Falcons vs OG -> Falcons face Vitality in losers, OG are sent to Spring Showdown

Day 3:

• Faze vs Gamerlegion -> Gamerlegion advance, Faze drop to losers bracket
• Spirit vs Liquid -> Liquid advance, Spirit drop to losers bracket
• VP vs BIG -> VP advance, BIG drop to losers bracket
• C9 vs Heroic -> C9 advance, Heroic drop to losers bracket

Day 4:

• Gamerlegion vs Liquid -> Liquid advance, Gamerlegion drop to losers brac

The yearly HLTV top 20 players of 2023 is upon us: https://www.hltv.org/news/37845/top-20-players-of-2023-introduction

1. Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut
2. Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač
3. Robin "ropz" Kool
4. Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov
5. Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi
6. Álvaro "SunPayus" García
7. Oleksandr "⁠s1mple"⁠ Kostyliev
8. Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov
9. Martin "stavn" Lund
10. Helvijs ["⁠broky⁠"](https://www.hltv.org/n

Hello

This community has been rather inactive for a long time and probably partly because the community creator and former mod was never active. There's also no strong CS community on lemmy so I decided to step up and hopefully shape this community into a healthy CS community, because I love CS and I don't want to go Reddit for my CS fix.

Moving forward I will take a more active role in this community to post content for others to discuss. To focus the discussions I will start by creating megathreads for the bigger happenings in the community. For instance instead of having 20 posts about the HLTV top 20 players that will get little to no comments, I will create a HLTV top 20 megathread to get more a discussion going on.

At least that's the plan, please do stick around and help me (by posting, commenting and upvoting) help you get this community up and running.