Recent reviews by grog

I believe CSGO has what it takes to be one of the best games of all time, but there are some underlying issues. Although these issues are present, I still recommend downloading and playing this game for at least 200 hours to see if you enjoy it. Although, if you do end up downloading it, buy PRIME because it makes your matchmaking experience 10x better as I have done both Prime and Nonprime. I took the time to make an account and get it to level 21 in about 150 hours and some methods I used were slow, so I think it could be as low as 100-120 hours to get it to level 21 prime. Anyways, here is the issues that I think would make the game a lot better if fixed.

-Trust Factor: I believe trust factor is a good idea in practice, but not execution. I myself have struggled with low trust factor for a long time due to the weight of reports and lack of skill when I first started. When I first started CSGO, I was really bad and was worse than most silver ones, but as I got better, my rank barely increased so I played at a Master Guardian level in Silver, causing a lot of reports. Along with competitive matchmaking, I did a lot of Wingman. I have approximately 800 wingman wins currently and am still farming them, but due to low trust factor and lack of players, I am a Supreme in Wingman playing against Gold Novas constantly, who report me before the game is even over, even though it's just bad matchmaking. You would think someone with 500 wins, 800 wingman wins, almost all of the achievements, and nearly 1800 hours would be very unlikely to cheat, but Valve doesn't think the same way.

-Matchmaking (As stated previously): Whenever I play wingman the chances of playing against a Silver/Gold Nova/Master Guardian is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than that of my own rank, and I believe the underlying issue is trust factor. Ever since the update in which trust factor is the highest matchmaking priority, I have played against ranks way higher or way lower than me in matchmaking as well. Although trust factor isn't the only issue. For example; My friends decided to play a Vertigo game (right after the newest update) at the rank of S3-SE, every other player in the lobby was between MG1 and LEM. Yeah, LEM playing against silvers in a competitive gamemode, talk about a "fair and fun matchmaking experience".

-64tick: Although a study has been done and indicated people can't tell the difference, I would like to disagree. Now I am not saying I would notice a difference, but I guarantee 90% of pros could tell the difference between 64tick and 128tick. If 64 tick is almost indistinguishable from 128tick, why would Riot make Valorant spend extra money making it 128tick instead of 64tick? The answer is they wouldn't. As you get more experienced, you realize how useful 128tick can actually be.

-Hit Detection: This shouldn't come as a shocker because hit detection in CSGO is terrible. From what i've seen there are times were bullets shouldn't hit, but do and vice versa. From what I have noticed, Snipers actually have high accuracy/damage dropoff over a distance. I have a folder on my desktop of clips of bullets missing when a target is standing still when they shouldn't have missed. I think increasing it to 128tick could possibly fix this, but I am unaware of every benefit.

Fixing just 1 of these could drastically increase player count (I have a lot of friends that would start playing again), but fixing all of them could keep it alive for more years to come. Thanks for reading!

Highly underrated, love to play with groups of friends.