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Quoted from Rake

Regarding your earlier post, I did work as a technical helpdesk for 6 months, so I’m fairly familiar with stupidity. I just want to believe that those people don’t actually exist and some company just pays them to call helpdesks to annoy them.

There’s people too retarded to call a helpdesk. Working with those. Fun people.

Quoted from ash

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There’s people too retarded to call a helpdesk. Working with those. Fun people.

I thought I had it bad.

For the pure 1v1 strategies, you might wanna check clockworks video someone linked earlier. My take on your issue, however, would be to avoid 1v1. Call aggressive scouts early, make sure your team reacts promptly, bait them, trick them. Abuse weird angles to engage them and get a free shot off. The more aggressive they are, the easier they are to bait into anything really. Also if your scout partner fares better in scout v scout you might wanna switch positioning in a way that allows him to do that more and lets you focus on bringing the meat to the heavy classes, for instance badlands middle. If you go valley, you are way more likely to get into a secluded 1v1 with the enemy scouts, but if you go choke, there’s a lot less chance of that unless the scout runs straight over the point (which should be suicide anyway cause you have a demo with you). The scout in choke/train generally focuses on jumping soldiers and dealing constant damage from a bit further away. Read my earlier posts aswell if you haven’t already to get a piece of my mind, since I have the exact same problem as you. I can’t duel scouts for the life of me.

Also another thing, mostly applies to the fragmovie-wanting scouts, is that the more you stay alive, the more cleanup you do, the more cleanup you do the more impressive 3-6k’s you do. People don’t actually notice if you miss in a fragmovie and deal little damage, they notice you running around shitting on everyone. Remember that. An alive scout is a good scout, a dead scout is a useless scout.

or you just play and enjoy the game?

Quoted from sheepy dog's hand

“I only did that stupid mge video for the money” – Clockwork

But although learning about gamesense and stuff is important you really do need to spend time everyday playing mge/dm if you wanna improve faster. Aim really is a big part of scout and when you start playing vs players who have decent dm you need to be able to keep up. But anyways just my opinion that you should prioritize your aim instead of watching demos or playing lobbys/mixes ect.

I think you need to move to the US of A.

Quoted from freshmeatt

I always was under an impression that my job mostly consists of taking care of the scouts, and even if that means I should repel them rather than eliminate right away, I obviously won’t be able to handle pressure from the aggressive ones. We’ve won our division, gonna go for d2 next season and I realized I’m probably gonna be spending more time speccing than playing, hence my decision to step it up on that front.

[Sorry for bloody eyes]

To make it explicit, I’m not worried about my overall aim, rather my chances against other aggressive scouts. MGE against those is a pain, since they usually perform some dubstep dances (cheers Squirry).

Since fresh mentioned me, I tell u my own experience that how I realized that a good scout is made by his brain, not by his aim.

I was a scout no-lifer constantly in dm, just training, training and training, 2h day and later 30 min of tr_aim or mge, or whatever, only playing scout. Then when I play with my team I was playing awful, completely awful, below div6…just because in my team, my scout partner do my job and his job, and then the only thing that I can think it’s just “chase kills”. Then is like trying to do everything without thinking, losing our advantage everytime and pissing off myself and my team as well. Because I was nervous all the time I cannot aim constantly and then my aim is just random flicks.

Since around one week, got criticism of my medic about my positioning, my calls, and started to working about that, and suddenly, when i just finished thinking in aim + dm and just training 30 min maximum/day , just I was doing my job, preventing enemies behind and deal most damage as possible without dying.

Of course, I still have so much mistakes, I know and I like to fix it in every match that I do analyzing my own demos.

I’m telling you that because I was 80% out of the team because I was not comfortable with my team, not with the players, is just that I have had a feeling that I was the weakest player and then they gonna play better with new one scout instead me.

Then in my personal point of view, recommended to every scout div6 to div4, focus in your brain, as Spike said before, you cannot force the aim. And ofc, enjoy the game.

Peace! :]

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