CounterStrike Source... SUCKS.!!! a Multiplayer full of BlackWater, SWAT an Grunts killing your ass

[sam sarrha]

before you can even look up.. really nice maps, fascinating.. but you really got to be a natural born killer to even score once..

also the F'n piece of crap wont load... i managed to play a few times.. but connection is a real problem.. i am thinking of sending it to Iraq for some soldiers to play our use as a Frisbee

[rockymountaindem]

1. That game... maybe. I've never played it

But with a lot of similar games I have played, most of the people one might think are in the army are actually 14-year-old kids who literally play all day and get very good.

[NewHampshireDem]

2. It takes practice and patenience to play

I don't play CS regularly anymore, preferring instead Day of Defeat and Battlefield 2142. However, the same rules apply whatever multi-player FPS you choose:

1. Don't run out in the front of the pack unless you want to die! Let the n00bs take care of that for you. It's easier to be the vicitm of random gunfire in a pack of 5 than it is sneaking around by yourself. Playing more slowly also lets you do #2 ...

2. Learn the maps to find the common hiding and sniping spots, and the chokepoints. For example, on Dust, never ever just run into the tunnels, unless you want to get naded, or run under the bridge, unless you want to get sniped.

3. Don't full-auto. Learning to play with the slower rate of fire guns will make you a better player, because those guns are much more deadly in the hands of an experienced player than anything else in the game. (In CS, I always played with the AK, since the first bullet from an AK is DEADLY accurate. I would just squeeze them off one at a time and get headshots like mad. In DoD, I learned to play with the garand and KAR rifles. When I first started, they were so hard to use I thought the only way anyone could get a kill with them was to hack--now I'm the so-called hacker sometimes!)

4. MOST IMPORTANTLY--Watch how the best players play. Follow them around the map, watch which guns they use, when they use specials (like nades, etc), watch how they move.

I'll admit--I am not a 1337 player by any stretch of the imagination. If I run into a CAL guy I always get my @$$ handed to me ... but I rarely finish out of the top 10% of players on an open server, not matter which game I'm playing. And believe me, I *totally* understand how frustrating it can be to pick up a new game and play against people who have played 24/7 for years. However, it really doesn't take much to get there, and eventually be better than most of the gamers out there--because most of them, you'll find, are pretty damn stupid. ;)