Guide to focus to play CSGO well

If there’s one thing longtime gamers wish they’d known sooner when they first started playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, it’s probably focusing on better mindfulness. This article will focus entirely on teaching you how to play CSGO better from the standard centering.

This is good advice for those who are new to CSGO, but it is too vague for a game with so much to learn. Some new players don’t even know what good mindfulness means, let alone practice it.

Mindfulness must practice, but before you can develop good habits, they must first understand their bad habits. Here are a few examples of poor mindfulness and why they are bad.

Every player will have a moment of death as soon as they enter the bombsite or when they turn to another check corner. The problem is even more annoying when you are the one to see the opponent first, but still lose the gunfight. To be able to guide you to the standard centering in CSGO. There are two main reasons why it happens.

The first reason is because the enemy knows prefire. CSGO gamers use this term a lot, but not everyone is told or explained what prefire is, and few are given detailed prefire instructions when playing. No need to elaborate, it simply means shooting at an angle/position where you think the enemy might be, even before you see him. Guessing where the opponent is standing is due to the sound heard from footsteps, gunshots, information reported (notice) from teammates or luck, but usually situations kill the opponent as soon as possible. Seeing often comes from good concentration.

The second factor is usually due to the opponent’s excellent attention. If you really want to improve, then this is one of the things you need to practice.

Take for example the following specific situation in CSGO to guide:

Let’s say this is a 2 vs 2 phase in Mirage map at around 40 seconds. Time is running out, so two of T’s guys decide to move into bombsite A. One of CT’s also bets to protect A, by standing. suicide in the bombsite. The other CT actively pushes in the ramp position and waits at the corner as shown below.

As you can see in the green area, when the CT adjusts the focus, the direction of the centroid movement is either up or down. With this angle of fire, especially when this is a small area on the T ramp, CT has an advantage if T cannot use the utility (flash/nade/molotov/smoke) to clear the area.

Meanwhile, T must clear (check) the way to the site and in the site, so it is imperative to have a good mind in every position. and guess where the enemy is to prefire (first shot) to take advantage. When T checks the corners, they have more areas to worry about. T needs to think about the ramp angle, then the stairs, the angle that the CT aligns to the right and obviously that easily distracts them so their focus may not be in the correct position where the CT is holding.

The only way T can survive in this situation is with an unbelievable flick or adjust his centering position. The T in the image above cannot fully focus on a certain position when entering the ramp, putting them at a huge disadvantage.

T’s center is located in the middle of the road, where there are usually no opponents or standing. And when turning to the right corner, they must be ready to confront the CT even though it is unknown whether the enemy is standing there or not. With good focus and enough information, T can prefire and take out CT’s men at a position that theoretically in this situation CT has the advantage of catching and firing first.

If T sticks to the wall, and centers the gun right at this angle: where CT usually waits, T will most likely win the gunfight (and usually AK will beat the M4 when prefired).

Some maps can help you focus better. The black line on the wall on the right side of the screen is one of the many ways CSGO maps show players where you need to focus. These lines on the wall are not for decoration. It’s a hint to help players focus before deciding to peek (poke out just enough to check the information).

The above is just a very small example in the Mirage map. Fortunately, centering is an easy concept to learn, only the hard part is always having to remember the center of gravity and the angles. A lot of times, new players automatically center the ground because it allows them to see more of what’s on the screen when their weapon is pointed down. But CSGO has many command consoles that can fix this problem.

You can read through the tutorial on adjusting the viewmodel in CSGO 2020 to help while moving the weapon not to get in the way of the screen, allowing you to see more things on the battlefield. Then you need to make sure you are constantly paying attention to where your center of gravity is at all times. If the mind does not rest on the head of the standing opponent, then you need to practice more.

CSGO has many custom maps for this purpose. Steam user YPRAC has released many maps on the Steam CSGO workshop that allows players to walk around the map and prefire popular corners, teaching you where to focus in situations. Such maps are valuable for new and old players alike. They also guide CSGO gamers to overcome some bad habits when they first learn to play. You can find YPRAC’s training maps by following this link.

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