Edmund

Alright since you asked, I'm supreme on mm and 2200 elo on faceit premium (not hardstuck,I play neither consistently) I don't play esea pugs but I've practiced with a team going into main the next season. I really do appreciate your input despite the banter because it all makes me better. I understand how you could've interpreted me posting this as my frustration about struggling against the krieg in retakes, but that's not what's happening at all. This post was entirely for the happiness of the community and discussion of the topic, not a post for help. The root of the discussion here was whether it's okay in retakes where people don't know how they can counter the krieg and just get insta-headshot. I'm not sure if the correct way to go about it now, thanks to your help, is by making a change, or just telling people to git gud and deal with it. The danger with the latter is that people might just stop trying to play.

I don't know why you're making assumptions about my pedigree as a player. I'm not going to flex about it because it isn't relevant but I don't need you to tell me how you can kill someone with a krieg... I understand you're a long time player with a lot of experience but i simply don't see an m4 winning that battle CONSISTENTLY at any range just based off of the dps difference between the two and the headshot potential. The recoil doesn't play enough of a factor. I've used the krieg for 2 years BEFORE it ever got buffed, I have a lot of experience using and playing against it, there's just no way you can convince me the gun is balanced in the state that it's in.

@Fuze how the fuck is it ridiculous to say the gun is causing unfairness when it shoots faster than the ak, has 100% armor penetration, can do 100 damage to the body within 3 shots, has a scope, and has much lower relevant inaccuracies? All of this while the other guns in the game aren't adjusted accordingly to counter it at all. the gun is broken and causes an unenjoyable experience to play against it. simple as that. some fuckhead out there might like the challenge of facing one, but that's not at all what I've seen across reddit, professional players, randoms in mm, and regulars in retake. The only negative it has is it's price, and that's out the window in retakes.

Looking at https://www.hltv.org/stats?startDate=2019-02-27&endDate=2020-02-27 , the last 6 months of weapon usage(the time period where the krieg is at it's highest) in all games recorded by hltv show that the ak is still getting nearly 20% more kills than the krieg. These are semipro and above games. Not everyone uses the krieg. There's a clear trend of skill and krieg usage, shown if you change the parameters on hltv to follow big events where the best of the best play, and if you play low ranked faceit or mm, rarely will players stick to the krieg throughout a game(given enough money.) It's flat out wrong to say every person wants to use the krieg. In fact, our stats page for the server shows that the krieg collects a measly 6% of the kills on the server, while the ak has 42%. (the stats for this may be screwed up because of testing, etc. The headshot percentage for ak is wacked out so that's what makes me think it might be.) Despite the krieg being used less, people still view it as an issue. It's just not fun to play against and I think something like this should be tested and polled upon, to see where the community stands and if existing population is negatively affected by the change. I don't see how it's out of the meta to not give krieg user utility in the interest of player happiness. While I said I agree if changes that are unrealistic to cs:go's meta are made as long as they are beneficial, I didn't make any suggestions that would be very drastic at all. Changing this server is going to be a slow process regardless with increments being made so higher ups can catch what players don't like.

@Gentoo no retakes servers that I've seen correctly train you for a realistic retake in comp. In competitive you're only retaking as a ct when there's a tangible advantage at hand, e.g. a t is low hp, you have someone in the bombsite already, or a sizable man-advantage. In this server there's no advantage to be had. I understand that the defender of the bombsite, whoever is currently in control, has an inherent advantage. I think retakes should stay that way of course. But it just feels futile to be retaking a bombsite round after round against 5 full health t's with utility and kriegs with no advantageous positioning. In a real game, which you're allegedly practicing for by playing retakes, you'd save. You can't make people start with low health or spawn a ct in the bombsite for obvious reasons, so doing what we can to make it more fun when you're stuck on ct side should be something we do. And for the idea of the gamemode being used to practice to retake effectively in comp, I completely understand why you would think that, but the meta of the server and it's regulars do not reflect that. Our players will drypeek or push positions like truck on cache or library on inferno just to catch out a player and kill him, where in a comp (depending on rank of course) it's risky play that won't pay off if you do it every round. Our regulars play to get their points higher than their friends on the leaderboard. They aren't practicing nade lineups or flashes to try and secure the round, they're going for kills.

@Manny You say not having 5 kriegs is unrealistic, but having lots of utility(given your change, I don't know how much you are thinking) after a bomb plant is? I think the ct's utility right now is okay, if multiple ct's had 2 flashes it would be a mess for both t's and ct's to do anything. There isn't enough time during a retake to clear 5 positions with 5 mollies if all the ct's had one. I really think getting rid of utility for krieg players would be good because it directly reflects the meta of competitive. I don't see why we can't try and balance retakes to be something other than what csgo's (in my opinion broken) meta is. The whole situaton of a 5v5 retake is so unrealistic in the first place. If you want to play competitive meta, play competitive. SG is in control of this server and they should change it so the community as a whole can have the most fun on it as a gamemode, and if that requires making changes that one may or may not view as realistic to a competitive game, so be it.

Having spent a fair bit of time recently on the retakes server, I and others that I've communicated with have found an issue with the balance of t side on the server. There are multiple factors that could be adjusted that could properly balance the gamemode and make it closer to a classic competitive style retake. (cs is inherently favored to the defenders). These things include the 5v5 playercount limit instead of a more balanced 4v5, number of kriegs, t sided player spawns, and the amount of utility given to either side. Reducing the playercount limit is the last thing I'd recommend doing, to keep more people playing at once, but in the meantime I suggest that kriegs should be rebalanced on the server. I think either a limit of the number of kriegs per t-side team (~2-3) OR (i like this one better) removing all utility from the t player if they have the krieg equipped. This fits in with the natural balance of the game because you trade extra utility for the krieg in a normal game. Playing on maps like dust 2 or inferno, a single smoke can shut down an entire retake and funnel all the ct's into one chokepoint, making for easy cleanup. I'd really like to see some sort of con to using the krieg, because it is straight up better than the ak if you don't have to pay extra for it.

I am also supporting a kz server if we can get members of SG on it frequently. definitely needs some sort of points system, lj/bhop leaderboards, contests like we have for bhop and surf now.

good video

ns bro

Advent Calendar Event Submission What is your in-game name? Edmund What is your STEAM ID? STEAM_0:1:94875087 What week are you submitting this for? Week 1 [JB and Retakes] - (12/8 - 12/15) Screenshot of maps you beat (BHOP only) N/A

I don't recommend the vg248qe. Really old model and there are better monitors picture-wise nowadays. Dont know too much about new monitors nowadays but this one seems good. Freesync will work with your nvidia gpu now after the update nvidia did a few months ago. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A0ZRR50?tag=monitorfan-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1 edit: also don't recommend a 27 inch monitor if you are buying 1080p. You'll be able to notice the pixels at that ratio.

you got this brother. see ya soon