The Intangibles of Counter-Strike: dev1ce's Positioning

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11 ай бұрын

In this series, I will be going over the elements of what makes pro-esports players as good as they are. Today, we will be analyzing Astralis’ dev1ce’s expert positioning and it allows him to get into easy frags.
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@launders 10 ай бұрын

imagine not playing on high settings 😂!

@WaTzu 10 ай бұрын

yooooo love your work man, you were one of my inspirations for making csgo pro analysis!

@3.000ft 10 ай бұрын

imagine not playing on ultra gigachad settings🧔🏿‍♀️

@KNDCHV 11 ай бұрын

Few years ago when Astralis were in their prime I played against him. Even managed to clutch 1v3 against him and 2 others. Me and my friends against him and his friends and his ex-gf. The guy was insane. He wasn't flashy like s1mple, he wasn't disrespecting us, but he was bold because he is a pro - he had a lot of other advantages over us. His shooting was flawless, his deagle was making us shit ourselves. I don't know how we managed to win, but to be fair only device and one other swedish guy were good. Emilia was trash and the other two were around our level. He dropped 35+ kills and still lost, but he wasn't salty. My friends disrespected him and started meme talking and telling him he is a choker, but he didn't react. To be fair I was never an Astralis fan, but from their roster I always liked and respected device, because he just seemed flawlessly cool. And even when my friends started meme-ing at the end of the match he kept his cool and didn't trash talk back. I have huge respect towards the guy and his consistency. People may say he is boring but to be fair he plays a "correct" Counter-Strike. Minimizing mistakes, which is underrated compared to the flashiest players.

@Velihn 10 ай бұрын

I aint reading allat

@Katt1n 10 ай бұрын

@@Velihn Consult a rope, zoomoid

@houdinics2 10 ай бұрын

LMFAO back when he was dating trashmilia

@iamclydieCS 10 ай бұрын

yeah i readed that

@maruftim 10 ай бұрын

fr he got that charisma in him

@bartoszwitkowski5297 11 ай бұрын

Tbh this is most fun and interesting demo breakdown I saw, keep it up this is some good shit

@GarjiO 11 ай бұрын

I love your content man, keep up the channel and it will definitely grow!

@gilohana8541 10 ай бұрын

man this vid was really nice, keep up the good work (:

@thaimafia9 11 ай бұрын

1:20 here he writes "Luder" which means whore hahahah didnt know device was a legend like that

@WaTzu 11 ай бұрын

hey, these pros may be gods amongst men at counterstrike, but at the end of the day, they're still gamers at heart lol

@thaimafia9 11 ай бұрын

@@WaTzu Yeah true bro, its cool to see actually the part with the chat messages, ive never seen him talk like that before. He comes from the same city as me, its a small town in Denmark called Vejle, we used to go to the same school

@unconsistentone5385 10 ай бұрын

it's insane because to a smart player, a god flash implies two players, so despite being the only anchor in B, the smoke and the god flash plus him awping it gave the impression that there is an AWP and a potential rifle

@iamclydieCS 10 ай бұрын

yeah

@filipradojcic461 10 ай бұрын

Many of regular players just focus way too much on hitting headshots and then fail miserably when spraying fight comes. Because of that, players take stupid fights where they want to hit headshots but die because there is 2+ players pushing their position or opponent is at better position holding angle where you are about to show up. Device is perfect example of how important positioning and patience is when it comes to taking fights, he is very smooth to watch and very calculated, there is reason why he has 4 (?) majors under his name. When you focus on headshots, you will only aim for head and there are moments where aiming at head simply wont get you kill but instead, get you killed. Nice video by the way!

@Valyy7316 11 ай бұрын

Great Video once Again!

@mirai2967 11 ай бұрын

"Blue Baguette balls"-💀💀💀

@WaTzu 11 ай бұрын

i was going to make a joke about this in the video but i complete forgot, thank you for reminding me lmao

@-VEVE 10 ай бұрын

Lovely channel! Glad the algorithm works as intended

@heyb0ss594 10 ай бұрын

great video :D

@boblolrus 10 ай бұрын

Nice!

@WaTzu 10 ай бұрын

Nice!

@CurbsideT 10 ай бұрын

Great work

@yazhvendan666 10 ай бұрын

Your content is quality!!

@Tiraskaar 10 ай бұрын

He does actually gets a fair amount of hs, if you watch pro matches, against teams like heroic or navi or g2 from IEM Cologne, you'll see that he knows he can't just beat all these top players by positioning alone, a lot of his shots were hs. Although I would say in Astralis in general there is a lack of pure mechanical aim. Device Baitf Buzz and Staehr, none of them are known for their pure mechanical aim, device is top 5 top be fair with awp deagle and ak but he's not he's kown more for positioning. That's why they got Borup in I think. Borup did a lot of enteries and some really good lurks where he would just hs multiple enemies.

@WaTzu 10 ай бұрын

oh no absolutely, im just pointing out in this particularly game, he struggled a lot mechanically. im not trying to imply that he is always "this bad"

@Tiraskaar 10 ай бұрын

@@WaTzu same same, its a fair point. He isn't always mechanically brilliant. Also one more thing I have noticed watching device play for all these years is that from round 1 to round 7 or 8 you'll see he's negative kd or struggling. And then if you stop watching and see the end scores you'll see he top fragged or carried or had a very positive KD. There are times when he dominate from the start but more often than not I've usually seen him having a bad start and then coming up with muli kills in mid rounds. Crazy guy.

@yeahok9222 10 ай бұрын

i heard someone say sunpayus was the spanish device and while i don’t think he’s as good he’s probably the best at positioning himself i’ve seen since device, in cologne up until that final it felt like he was almost always able to get a 7/10 awp duel that he also couldn’t be traded from

@kritsagc 11 ай бұрын

🤓

@superdude1408 11 ай бұрын

I like the idea of looking at a demo from a faceit game

@marcuppf4358 10 ай бұрын

W video ❤

@CTStyles31 10 ай бұрын

Didn't know dev1ce was a fellow HimikoCHAD

@WaTzu 10 ай бұрын

if i learned anything from all of the demos i watched, its that a surprising amount of pros have anime pfps

@houdinics2 10 ай бұрын

he has never watched an anime, he just put it on because of superstition

@uuuuNB 8 ай бұрын

Holy shit that mid run boost was incredibly smooth

@reinhardr2161 10 ай бұрын

Comments are full of fanboys, this was a rational and well done video . Thank you

@okaysavage1842 11 ай бұрын

cant believe you made a video about me

@Mordaqie 10 ай бұрын

Cool

@drinkintea1572 10 ай бұрын

Seeing device use Toga Himiko as pfp is weird yet fascinating

@bappy2222 11 ай бұрын

woah i wish i was as good as this guy

@fatstacksmax 11 ай бұрын

Device is so good

@WaTzu 11 ай бұрын

absolutely, as much as I joke about him having ugly kills in this video, def a top 10, if not top 5 player of all time

@mrs6207 11 ай бұрын

@@WaTzu u must be braindead saying he is not top 5 lmfao

@srensen3081 11 ай бұрын

@@WaTzu who do you rank higher than him? i dont see 9 or even 4 players being better than him over the course of their careers

@WaTzu 11 ай бұрын

@@srensen3081 definitely zywoo and s1mple above him in terms of team impact, but then the rest of the list gets blurry. i personally rate prime fnatic olafmeister, sk era coldzera, prime jw, prime guardian, and a few other players over him if we were to talk purely skill wise. but over an entire career? yeah dev has them all beat especially when you account for accolades

@srensen3081 11 ай бұрын

@@WaTzu my point exactly, sure there were players with higher peaks, but longevity and the impact hes had on cs as a whole should imo also be considered heavily, which is why he is in my top 3

@muasfamilyxiao4042 10 ай бұрын

Well play mate ! his nick name is immortal device ! he can dodging bullets and if he missed he always has second chance to reset his aim to shoot again by his positioning

@iamclydieCS 10 ай бұрын

devve is damn dope

@Pumpo 11 ай бұрын

The device in question when I download aimbot and outskill him💀

@4kt1v3 10 ай бұрын

w video

@didrik901 10 ай бұрын

funny you say hes playing vs normal faceit lvl10s when hes playing vs flamez and spinx😅

@bigidiot123 10 ай бұрын

Device has insanely good mechanics tho

@WaTzu 10 ай бұрын

yes he does, but in this game he's struggling, which i wanted to make a point out of since he still carries his teams despite his struggles

@OHTASISAN 10 ай бұрын

@@WaTzu What does struggling mean? Since when was 37% headshot bad; especially as an awper?

@WaTzu 10 ай бұрын

@@OHTASISAN in this game, he used the awp 4 times and got 3 kills

@ufufreundfreund69yearsago2 10 ай бұрын

@@OHTASISANwatch the vid

@-VEVE 10 ай бұрын

He should try to go pro

@homsterluder5364 10 ай бұрын

luder

@PuReXtremeGaming 10 ай бұрын

this is not a flex, i feel like i position exaclty like this guy, and i commonly throw those util if i susepect pushes etc, tryna control my teammates from swinging mid like idiots too. i never say these things, i just passively do it knowing itll stop certian moves from my teammate LMAO good video,. funny shit. additonally : some players in faecit who think they are skilled try to call it baiting or other things when waiting for the frag, like when he was walking up short after thorwing the falsh for A waiting to trade, thats genuinily a good play. and something ID get yelled at for if it lost it lol

@Fyr35555 10 ай бұрын

functionally the only difference I've found between faceit 3 and 7 is primarily mechanical skill, most of the people at my level are still just as brain dead as they used to be lol.

@paterpen9832 10 ай бұрын

@@Fyr35555Agreed. I as lvl 10 often queue up with 4 lvl 9-10 friends and apart from aim there really is not that much of a difference

@OHTASISAN 10 ай бұрын

@@paterpen9832 cs is less about raw mechanical ability as it is anticipation. Anticipation meaning crosshair placement and experience. The time you spend actually fighting people in a given round is small. Positioning is a skill that requires a lot of experience but is a consistent tool you can rely on even if you're having a slow day. On a side note everybody thinks they are the smartest cs player when they queue up. The people that call others braindead are usually too fixated on some random aspect of the game that they deem more important than everything else. These videos are good but it also creates a sense of entitlement. Dunning Kruger hits hard.

@paterpen9832 10 ай бұрын

@@OHTASISAN I fully agree. However, the same argument about positioning applies to Valorant. In a sense, it is even more punishing: Consider e.g. the bad decision to stay in Lamps with an enemy brim ult.

@user-fo2ps3or1s 10 ай бұрын

You keep saying not mechanically good which makes 0 sense

@pol44r 10 ай бұрын

"against faceit level 10" lol 4 of the guys are israelis signed to pro teams

@WaTzu 10 ай бұрын

im trying to future proof myself in case i make one of these videos and accidentally don't know one of the players lol, i think it's better to act as though they are all on the same level than to gas up a few players, and embarrassingly discredit someone by not mentioning them