1) What is a rank and what ranks do we have?

CS:GO ranks

2) What affects your rank?

• current ELO points (your rank)

From your current rank is counted the chance of winning each round against your opponents. If you have higher rank than your opponents, your chance of winning is higher, so you lose more ranking points if you lose and you get only a little ranking points if you win.

• round WIN/LOSE

MVP´s are really imporant

• MVP = Most Valuable Player

Try to get as most MVP stars as you can get. That means, that if you want to rank-up fast, take the bomb and plant, defuse, try to be the best and most effective player of your team. The player who scores an MVP is rewarded a significantly larger share of points than the other four players in his team.

• overall matches won

A player with 20 wins is able to rank-up and/or de-rank A LOT faster than one with +100 wins. So the more matches you´ve won, the slower you´re ranking up and de-ranking.


What does NOT affect your rank:

• Kills, assists, deaths, grenade kills, knife kills, hostage rescues
• Teamkills, suicides
• Scoreboard position
• Headshots, accuracy
• Time of each round, if the bomb was planted
• Damage given/taken
• anything else you can think of...

(A speculation is, that the system has changed with the last update and that your rank is influenced by percentile, that counts, if you´re below average or above average in comparison with other players. So since Nova 3-4 is average, there are 50% players above and 50% players below Nova. If there are a lot of high-ranked players removed from the system (VAC waves, that recently happened) you can rank up faster and easier to match the percentile. That´s why there are a lot of rank-ups lately.)

3) How does matchmaking function?

Your rank decides the skill groups, which you could possibly be matched against. The range of ranks of your opponents is very wide on the start and it gets smaller the more you´re playing (the more matches you win, the more accurate your rank is) So it could happen you will be ranked sometimes against too low/ too high ranks, but it´s because of you/your teammates/your opponents could be fresh players and the range of skill groups they could play against is very wide.

4) What effect has surrender, tie, leave/kick on Elo points?

Tie

Since the ELO points are not based on win or loss, but on round results, both promotion and demotion are possible when a draw happens. One side will allways lose/win some ELO points at a round end.

Surrender

You can surrender only if one player leaves the match and your team is weakened. The player, who left the match will keep only the changes for his ELO points till he left. For the players, that stayed on the server, the ELO points for 5 players will be divided between 4 players, that stayed on the server. So you can get a lot more points if you play in 4. If you reach MVP by playing as BOT, your points will be disributed between all 4 players.
That means, if on player leaves, remaining 4 players gain more points for round wins and the enemy team loses more points for round loses. So it´s not wise to surrender if you´re strong enough to win some rounds.

Leave/kick

The player, who left/was kicked the match will keep only the changes for his ELO points till he left (so if he left in the fourth round, only the four rounds he played counts into his ELO score). What happends in the match afterwards does not affect his ELO points.
Kick does not affect his points either.

5) Rank-ups and boosting

In order to rank-up fast, boosting is not the best choice for you. If you have higher rank just because you gave your account to some Global-Elite friend, that made 3 rank-ups for you, you´ll be lacking enjoyment of matches you play, because you´ll be much worse than other players on the server and you´ll probably drop your rank down fast. So what is the point? (The same problem is if you´re a Gold Nova 2 playing with Supremes)
Better option for you is to try to play matchmakings with 4 more skilled friends, learn and get better by playing with them and have a chance against evenly-skilled or slightly better opponents. In this point, you have read the text above and you know every MVP counts for you to gain ELO points, so try to get kills, plant and defuse bombs.
If you are "forever alone" guy and you lack 4 friends on your skill level, just try to play matchmakings, be friendly, communicate and try to play well. You can meet in the game some friendly guys with even skill, so try to add them and write them if they want to play next match with you as premade. If you played well and was friendly, they will have no problem playing with you ;)

6) How does it work if you are unranked

Every player with no matchmaking experience has to win 10 matches before getting his rank. He can either play alone or group with other 4 players (grouping with less players is not possible).
An unranked player will start playing with a default amount of ELO points. When he wins, he will play against player with a lot higher skill group, If he wins, he will gain a bigger amount of points and play against higher skilled groups. In order to achieve a higher rank, you have to win the early matches, that place you early against much higher ranks.
For example winning first 4 matches, then lose 4 matches and then 6 matches will give you a higher rank than losing the first 4 matches and the win all of the matches afterwards.

7) Don´t be a di*k about ranks

If you want to play with your friends, i doubt you will be all at the same skill/rank in CS:GO. It could happen, you´ll lose some games with your lower ranked friends and you drop easily even 2-3 your ranks in very short time (´cause you were supposed to win with your rank).
So you have 3 options:

1) Stay and play with your friends, play better than them, but have the same rank as them. You can enjoy your time with your friends without spending money/solving issues woth some second "smurf" account, but you have to face then the di*ks, who will laugh about your skill group.

2) Buy a second steam account and smurf games with your friends. You´ll be able to save your main account from de-ranking and still be able to play with your friends. But keep in mind, that smurfing is spoiling ranks and game enjoyment of your opponents, which is not a fair thing to do.

3) Stop playing with your friends and start to play with people in your or higher skill group. This option isn´t very friendly thing to do, but it could improve gaming experience for your friends and you.


And please, guys, don´t be such di*ks about ranks and don´t laugh at lower skill groups than you. Each and every player started somewhere and it´s really stupid to ruin the game for others by you being foul-mouthed. You´re only showing how stupid you are.

They learn CS:GO eventually, just wait

Special thanks: 
http://steamcommunity.com/id/retr1buti0n
http://www.funnyjunk.com/
http://www.quickmeme.com/
http://diylol.com/
http://cdn.smosh.com/
http://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/
http://www.imgur.com/
http://www.livescience.com/
http://keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/

Some games teach us to appreciate the common soldier

1) Wolfenstein 3D 

Final boss - Adolf Hitler

2) Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

D-day on Omaha beach 

Each little black dot on this aerial picture from D-Day Utah beach is a dead body of a soldier

You just ran out of the boat praying to make it to the fist anti-tank barrier and hide behind it. Dead soldiers everywhere, no medkits, no help, no axis soldier, that you can shoot and so help you from this situation, to be seen.
It was just you running in the mist from one barrier to another. In the middle of the beach, there was a medic taking care of a mad soldier, The only thing awaiting on the end of the barriers were machine-guns, snipers and mines. And the only chance for you was the moment of them reloading. It really left a big impression in me. This game taught me a lesson about being a soldier.
Just look at the walkthrough video. Even it is an old game and doesn´t look so real for us now than it looked for me when i was younger, it still serves like a good example of how it looked like:

5) Return to castle Wolfenstein

Helga von Bullow and her female commando

Here are some of my favourite missions:

• Stealth mission: forest compound 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvBd1Zj-_4

• Female commando mission + Helga von Bulow

Girls jumping and shooting! Though fight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULB9_Pp3TLs

6) Other WWII worth playing

H&D: You have to decide which soldier to take, what to wear and what to equip before starting a mission.

• Hidden and Dangerous

H&D introduced a great game by allowing you to choose and control 4 soldiers at once, dressing them up and equiping them with weapons and others stuff, riding vehicles, switching between aerial controlling, 3rd person view and first person view, giving commands and making the best strategic steps on every map. You have to be stealth most of the time, because the game was realistic even in the damage taken.
Second thing I like about this game is that it´s a czech game from czech developers containing a map taking place in Prague, Czech republic.

• All games from Wolfenstein franchise

Wolfenstein is the kind of game i don´t want to miss. It has a lot of good ideas (secrets-you can finally use the gold from secrets to enhance weapons, eater eggs, phantasy worlds) and it can still surprise with new ideas and new gaming mechanisms. Just look at this animation from Wolfenstein 2009 - ghastly officer, that is capable of moving in different dimensions:

• Mortyr

Mortyr is the first WWII game introducing the time-travelling possibility, that lead to destroying the whole world.

German dinosaur from Dino D-Day

• Dino D-Day

Online multiplayer FPS game introducing dinosaurs, that helped Nazi war efforts. It´s a real fun to play in a group of friends!



These games, that I´m recommending all only the games I ´ve played and I personally like. There are a lot of other games from the WWII, which could be even better than the games I´ve mentioned. The whole list of WWII-themed games is here.



Special thanks:

http://photosofwar.net/

http://www.geocities.ws/
http://www.vg247.com
http://www.wargamer.com/
http://www.mobygames.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/LightningBoltForever

Pudge (Dota2) vs. Vi (LoL) Good depiction of both games: They are both so similar to be drawn dueling each other, but still in alot of aspects far from each other

Similarities of both games

If it´s about this little Satan, Dota 2 and LoL became friends

Main differences of both games

Dota 2

Dota 2 map vs. LoL main map

League of Legends

1. 1) Map is a forest on both sides of the map. There are a lot of monsters in the forest, you can kill, that give you money and different abilities. That´s one of the reasons, jungling (having a hero, that fights against neutral monsters in forest) is so much more important in LoL than in Dota 2. There are no side-lane shops or secret shops in LoL.
2. 2) Friendly monsters = minions.
3. 3) Your base = nexus.
4. 4) Game characters = champions.
5. 5) Monster spawning structure = inhibitors. Inhibitors can be revived.
6. 6) Guarding towers = turrets.
7. 7) Guarded spawning area = base
8. 8) Slightly cartoonish graphical interpretation.
9. 9) By playing you can choose from different roles and builds: AD (champion build - damaging by auto attacks), AP  (champion build - damaging by making spells), jungler (champion role -earning money and XP playing in the jungle and killing the neutral monsters), tank (champion role - taking a damage, defending the carries), support (champion role - helping carry by stunning the enemy, deflecting attacks, healing).
10. 10) You cannot deny a creep or tower. The only way to gain money is to last-hit the minions or enemy champions, so the game is based more on farming than Dota 2.
11. 11) You don´t lose money, when you die - the game is more friendly to beginner player by not taking money from them, when they die.
12. 12) If you want to buy any items, you have to return to your base using a teleport spell or running back.
13. 13) Very user-friendly interface for your spells. You could see the animation of the reach, spread or direction of your spell.
14. 14) You are able too see everywhere in your reach except of bushes. So it´s important to place your vision wards into bushes and not onto strategic places (Roshan, runes) like in Dota 2.
15. 15) All champions are free to play, but you have to wait on their rotation in the system, or buy them with real money or with the points you earn by playing the game.
16. 16) Microtransactions in game could be used buy cosmetic items like skins for your champions or wards and for buying items, that could give you a headstart in the game (champion are free, but you have to earn points by playing to buy them, the same by runes, that enhance your skills in the game)
17. 17) There are features, that can give you an advantage against a new or starting player. You can own  runes, more champions and masteries points prior match starts, that could give you a better chance to win.
18. 18) There are two main neutral monster in the game: Baron and Dragon. Killing a Baron gives you experience and a buff inceasing your powers, killing a Dragon gives you a lot of experince.
19. 19) Max level of your character is 18.
20. 20) You can play on 4 maps, if there are no special events.
21. 21) There´s no buyback possibility if you die.
22. 22) There is no armory or inventory of your skins. If you own them, you can choose from them prior starting a game, but you can choose only from splasharts with no preview. Furthermore you can´t trade your skins or sell your skins, they stay on your account forever.
23. 23) There is no possibility to influence or somehow design skins put in LoL.

Big neutral monsters: Baron (LoL), dragon (LoL) and Roshan (Dota 2)

Beginner problems

Dota 2

There are no bushes in Dota 2 aka A good Dota2 player likes it without a bush

• - You feel safer on a map without bushes!
• - There are no limitations for you - you can choose every hero you like!
• - You start a match and there is no chance your level or items cause you to be in some kind of disadvantage against your opponents
• Orientation in heroes i easier, because every customization respects the heroe´s nature and color scheme.

• - You can lack the graphical interpretation of the skill (you cannot see the spread, reach, ... of your spell/skill)
• - Denying creeps, controlling couriers, finding secret shops and buying items in the battlefield (together with last hitiing, watching the map, poking/killing opponents) could be very challenging for a LoL player
• - Losing gold after dying is very frustrating for a newbie player
• - There are a lot of usable items in game. Items in Dota 2 concentrate more on adding skill to your hero (adding mana, jumping skill, invisibility skill, lifesteal aura, hex, ...) than better-upping your skills in a passive way (like in LoL - not so many usable items). Fresh player could be overwhelmed by so many usable items together with last hitting, denying, ...
• You have the in game camera nearer to your hero than in LoL. The field of view is narrower, smaller.
• The minimap position and size sometimes inflicts a misshap by you clicking accidentally in map, when you want to flee form the battlefield and this click in the map returns you back.

Teemo (LoL) skins with very different colors, shapes, movement and spells animations vs. Death Prophet (Dota 2) item sets, that respect color scheme, nature of the hero and lack animations

League of Legends

Graphical interface of Braums (LoL) skills

• - Graphical interpretation of your spells/skills give you decent hints what to do and that helps you to learn the skills (picture)
• - It´s a lot easier to orient in game, because of fewer usable items, denying creeps, shopping only in base, only one type of shop, ...
• - You will probably like the funny skins available for buy in game. (In Dota 2 it is not usual for any funny items to be approved into game, they have to respect an existing codex for making skins for each hero)

• - If you play against more experienced opponents, they´ll start the match with masteries and runes and you´ll have a disadvantage
• - If you start playing LoL as a total newbie, you cannot choose any champions you like (they cost points, that you can earn in the game or real money), but you have to choose from a few champions, that are free and these rotation chamiopns change every week.
• - From my point of view, I had problems orienting in spells/skills of the champions. LoL champions depend more on combination of skills (Cassiopeia poison+claws) and you have to know, if the skill is more skill (AD) or a spell (AP), to support it with right items.
• - The skins for heroes doesn´t respect the color appearence (and appearence of spells) from default skin, sometimes it´s challenging to identify what spell is done by what hero (for example invisible spear from Headhunter Nidalee). In Dota 2 every item has to respect color scheme of the hero and only really rare (immortal, arcana) items can change appearance of the spells (and if yes, than only really slightly). (see picture)
• - Apprehending the function of bushes could be hard from the start.
• - Sometimes there are to many graphic elements in game that could be confusing.
• - If you want to buy any skin from game, you have to choose only from splash arts with no in-game screens. In-game model very often doesn´t resemble the splash art.

Mecha Aatrox (LoL): Splasharts always look better than the skin in-game (and sometimes even don´t resemble it)

And that´s what really grinds my gears.

1) Learn from other cups and tournaments

2) Make sure you can do it in the given time

3) Rules

4) Keep in mind special cheating precautions for female players

Everytime getting beaten by an apparent unknown girl gamer

5) Casters

6) Admin team

Mkay, admin

7) Give decent information about the cup prior the start

Shyvanna (LoL) vs. Dragon Knight (Dota 2) - Who will win?

Heroes vs. Champions

It´s more attractive to cosplay a sexy women than a dwarf creature

There are a lot of heroes on mounts in Dota 2

Sejuani cosplay by Britthebadger

Luna cosplay by Desireeska on a statue and Keeper of the Light cosplay by Lumi on a real horse

Death Prophet (Dota 2) item sets vs. Katarina (LoL) skins LoL: very different colors, shapes, movement and spells animations vs. Dota2: item sets, that respect color scheme, nature of the hero and lack animations

Dota 2 vs. Lol: Cosplayability overview

Dota 2 heroes and their needs by cosplaying:

• Mirana, Luna, , Chen, Disruptor, Keeper of the Light, Chaos Knight, Abaddon, Batrider (Centaur Warrunner, Gyrocopter, Enchantress, Bane, Leshrac, Outworld Devourer - somehow similar to mount).

• Earthshaker, Tiny, Brewmaster, Treant Protector, Centaur Warrunner, Bristleback, Tusk, Elder Titan, Earth Spirit, Phantom Lancer, Riki, Bounty Hunter, Ursa, Naga Siren, Troll Warlord, Ember Spirit, Nature´s Prophet, Enchantress, Jakiro, Ogre Magi, Huskar, Alchemist, Timbersaw, Shadow Shaman, Tinker, Disruptor, Techies, Sven, Huskar, Alchemist,  Juggernaut, Vengeful Spirit, Templar Assassin, Strom Spirit, Oracle, Axe, Pudge, Slardar, Sandking, Tidehunter, Wraith king, Lifestealer, Nightstalker, Doom, Spirit Breaker, Chaos Knight, Undying, Magnus, Shadow Fiend, Razor, Venomancer, Faceless Void,  Viper, Clinkz, Broodmother, Weaver, Spectre, Meepo, Nyx Assassin, Slark, Medusa, Bane, Lich, Lion, Witch Doctor, Enigma, Necrophos, Pugna, Dazzle, Leshrac, Dark Seer, Batrider, Ancient Apparition, Puck, Outworld Devourer, Winter Wyvern, Visage, Shadow Demon.

• Io, Phoenix, Morphling.

• Legion Commander, Vengeful Spirit, Skywrath Mage, Doom, Terrorblade, Queen of Pain, Jakiro, Visage, Puck, Winter Wyvern, Outworld Devourer, Viper, Phoenix (Venomancer, Tinker, Batrider, Phoenix).

• Kunkka, Beastmaster, Dragon Knight, Clockwerk, Omniknight, Legion Commander, Anti Mage, Crystal Maiden, Windranger, Zeus, Lina, Silencer, Rubick, Sniper, Lone Druid, Lycan, Bloodseeker, Warlock, Invoker, Gyrocopter.

• Death Prophet, Templar Assassin, Drow Ranger.

Dota 2 heroes

League of Legends champions and their needs by cosplaying:

• Nunu, Sejuani (Annie, Corki, Hecarim)

• Aatrox, Alistair, Amumu, Azir, Bard, Blitzcrank, Brand, Cassiopeia, Cho´Gath, Dr. Mundo, Fiddlesticks, Fizz, Galio, Gnar, Hecarim, Heimerdinger, Jax. Karthus, Kassadin, Kennen, Kha´Zix, Kog´Maw, Malphite, Maokai, Nami, Nasus, Nocturne, Rammus, Rek´Sai, Renekton, Rengar, Rumble, Shaco, Sion, Skarner,  Teemo, Thresh, Trundle, Twitch, Urgot, Veigar, Vel´Koz, Volibear, Warwick, Wukong, Xerath, Yorick

• Anivia, Zac 

• Aatrox, Galio, Kha´Zix, Morgana, (Ahri, Elise, Karma, Zilean, Anivia)

• Ahri, Akali, Annie, Ashe, Braum, Caitlyn, Corki, Darius, Diana, Draven, Ezreal, Fiora, Gangplank, Garen, Gragas, Graves, Irelia, Janna, Jarvan IV, Jayce, Jinx, Karma, Katarina, Kayle, LeBlanc, Lee Sin, Leona, Lissandra, Lucian, Lulu, Lux, Malzahar, Master Yi, Miss Fortune, Mordekaiser, Nautilus, Nidalee, Olaf, Orianna, Pantheon, Quinn, Riven, Shen, Singed, Sivir, Sona, Swain, Syndra, Talon, Taric, Tryndamere, Twiste Fate, Udyr, Varus, Vayne, Vi, Viktor, Vladimir, Xin Zhao, Yasuo, Zed, Zilean, Zyra

• Elise, Evelynn, Kalista, Poppy, Shyvana, Soraka, Tristana,

League of Legends champions

1) How to get a knife

2) What knives could i get

1) GUT KNIFE

Gut knife could be dropped from all cases except Falchion case, Operation Breakout cas and Huntsman case.
It´s one of the cheapest knives on steam market, because it´s not quite attractive looking as teh other knives and the animations are pretty boring. In addition to that, the gut knife is one of the most dropped knives.

2) FLIP KNIFE

Flip knife is based on a real life Benchmade 860 Bedlam Folding knife. It´s a folding persian style knife. It´s curved blade could be hidden in the handle.
Flip knife could be dropped from all cases except Falchion case, Operation Breakout cas and Huntsman case.
It´s one of the cheapest knives on steam market, because it´s not quite attractive looking as teh other knives and the animations are pretty boring. In addition to that, the gut knife is one of the most dropped knives.
Positive thing about flip knives is their overall better look in all qualities. Sometimes it could happen, that a Filed-tested flip knife could look same(/better) like Minimal Wear.

3) FALCHION KNIFE

Falchion knife is based on a real life Cold Steel Espada L. It is a opening knife inspired by Flachion sword.

Falchion knife could be dropped only from Falchion case,
It´s a better equivalent to a flip knife, but athe majority of players don t like the look of the knife, even it has a great animation. That´s why he dropped to the cheapest knives available.
It has one bonus animation, when the knife is balancing on the palm of your hand.

 4) HUNTSMAN KNIFE

Huntsman knife is based on a real life  Mtech USA Xtreme MX-8054, It´s a tactical survival knife with a special point Tanto for maximal penetration and it measures 11 inches.
Huntsman knife could be dropped only from Huntsman case,
It´s one of the best-looking knives in the game and its value is not so high at the moment. It´s the fourth cheapest knife and that´s because its "boring" animation taken fron Gut knife.
I personally think Huntsman knife is the best knife in the game and I love the animation too, but it´s not the favourite one of the cs:go community.
We can expect the knife value will rise because of Hunstman cases, that aren´t dropped in game anymore.

5) BAYONET KNIFE

Bayonet knife is inspired by real-life knife Smith & Wesson SW2B and it´s a representative of higher middle class knifes. From the WWII is its look unchanged and it is one of the most used military knives.
Bayonet knife could be dropped from all cases except Falchion case, Operation Breakout cas and Huntsman case.
It is not a cheap knife but it doesn´t belong to the most expensive ones. Its average look is balanced by a great looking animation. And its price is higher because of its lower drop rate from cases.
Negative aspect of Bayonet knife is its very bad look of other qualities than Factory New. The wearing-out of the lower skin qualities like Minimal Wear and Field-Tested is really apparent.

6) M9 BAYONET KNIFE

M9 Bayonet knife is based on real-life knife Smith & Wesson SW3B.
M9 Bayonet knife could be dropped from all cases except Falchion case, Operation Breakout cas and Huntsman case.
It´s one of the  more expensive knifes with good animation and compared to simple Bayonet it has a tuned up, manlier look. Drop rate of it is really low.

7) BUTTERFLY KNIFE

Butterfly knife is based on Terry Guinn´s Gargoyle (balisong) and it´s a higher class knife in CS:GO. It could be opened like fan and its blade could be hidden inside hollow knife handles and the size of the knife yould be decreased this way. The butterfly knife could be easily hidden because of its size, so it´s forbidden in a lot of countries.
Butterfly knife could be dropped only from Operation Breakout case.
It is one of the more expensive knives with two great animations, that appear randomly. Both animations are really good and favourite of the community. That adds to the value of the knife.

8) KARAMBIT KNIFE

Karambit knife is based on real-life United Honshu Karambit, that comes from a tradition of  martial arts with knifes from Indonesia. It´s a smaller curved knife, that mimics a tiger claw, that could be easily hidden inside a palm of a hand and only the blade sticks out and it´s barely visible. Karambit in the game has a pistol grip and it´s one of the best, most valuable and most precious knifes.
Karambit knife could be dropped from all cases except Falchion case, Operation Breakout cas and Huntsman case.
One of a kind animation adds to the high value of the knife.

Skins and patterns of CS:GO knives

I´ve written a guide into patterns, that you can read here:
http://aimreg.blogspot.cz/2015/04/csgo-weapon-patterns-guide-by-germia.html

Principles from this article could be applied to knifes too.

In the article you cannot find this overview from the least desired skins to the most desired ones:

1) Least desired skins and patterns:

Safari Mesh
Forest DDPAT
Urban Masked
Boreal Forest
Scorched

2) Lower desirablity:

Stained

Rust Coat

Night

Ultraviolet

3) more desired:

Blue Steel

Vanilla
Case Hardened (most desired with a lot of blue)

Crimson Web

4) most desired:

Slaughter

Fade
Tiger Tooth

Doppler

Marble Fade

Damascus Steel








Zdroje:
http://counterstrike.wikia.com/
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960347689
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheExens
https://www.youtube.com/user/nxinyourface

1) BUYING:

a) DIOPTER

b) DURABILITY

c) PRICE

d) REVIEWS

e) ACCESSORY

2) WEARING:

Toning lenses (5)

Colored lenses (6)

Fully colored lenses (3)

Bigger and sclera lenses - 17 mm - 22 mm (1, 2)

UV lenses (4)

3) MY COSPLAY LENSES

1) Ženy a počítačové hry - proč je jich tak málo?

1) Women and computer games - why are there so few of  them?

WHAT IS THIS SKILL TREE ABOUT:

Other alternatives of this skill tree:

Tough healer by Majoji:

HEISTS:

WHAT IS THIS SKILL TREE ABOUT:

OTHER NECESSARY COMPONENTS:

HEISTS:

OTHER ALTERNATIVE OF THIS SKILL TREE:

O čem je tento skill tree:

Další nezbytné komponenty, které je nutné kombinovat s tímto skill tree:

Na které mise je tento skill tree nejlepší?

2) First world bank - stejná strategie jako Big Bank, druhý parťák si vezme masku

3) GO Bank/Bank heist - rychlé otvírání zámků vám umožní odemykat depozitář tiše a rychleji.

4) Shadowraid - v této misi je dobré zakoupit Spotter asset, v bezvýchodných situacích pomůže i camera loop, rychlá interakce z taškami a velká rychlost pohybu. Dobré je také zjistit si, kudy je možné se do objektu dostat (střechy, kanály - vyžadují termite, postranní schodiště a uličky, okapy, balkóny)

Další možnost úpravy tohoto skill tree:

Další možností jak upravit tento skill tree je ještě vylepšení skillu urychlujícího drillování. Ušetří to mnoho času ve stealth misích. Drill lze vylepšit na úkor kratšího camera loopu, který nebude trvat dvacet sekund, nýbrž deset, a skillů vylepšujících damage a přesnost pistolí. Odměnou však bude rychlejší drill s šancí na saamorestartování při zaseknutí.
Na upravený skill tree se lze podívat ZDE.




Doufám, že se vám tento článek, který jsem vytvořila s malou pomocí svých zkušenějších kamarádů, líbí. Určitě se nejedná a o univerzální návod na hraní Paydaye 2, hodně reflektuje to, co ve hře baví mě. Přesto myslím, že se díky tomuto návodu můžete stát užitečným členem týmu a hru si pořádně užít :)

Příště se podíváme na skill tree věnujícímu se skillům, které využijeme hlavně pokud máme v oblibě roli tanka nebo technika.

Vaše germia :)

Clover - Payday 2

1) Why I chose to make this costume:

2) How I made this costume:

1) Mask

2) Clothes

3) Accesories

3) Advantages and disadvantages of this costume:

In-game droppable items

1) WEAPON CASES

2) STICKER CAPSULES

3) PACKAGES

4) WEAPON SKINS

5) MISSIONS

Weapon cases - opening, buying, selling

Players can get weapon cases as a drop after each completed game on a VAC secured server or buy them on Steam market from other players.

What´s the price?

The price depends on many factors like on every aother marketplace (supply and demand):

1) How many cases are dropped in-game
There are always 3-5 cases in rotation in the item drop system and as new cases come in, old cases are phased out. In the current drop system, there is Chroma case, Vanguard case, Phoenix case, Breakout case and Huntsman case. These cases belong to the cheapest on the market because of their vast numbers. Players have a rare chance of dropping some older case like Bravo case, which price is now really high.
Some cases drop exclusively to the operation ticket holders (when there is some operation active-Breakout, Phoenix, ...), so the exclusivity affect their number and the price.

2) How old the case is
Keep in mind, that cases are consumables, so their numbers (even there are a lot of them) are sinking every day, when they are not dropped in-game. And it really affect the price a lot.
New cases are quite overpriced, old cases´price rise.

3) What weapon skins are in the case
Even if the case is old and there are not so many of them left on the market, it´s the weapon skins, that determine the price. For example old CS:GO Weapon Case 3, that doesn´t drop in game anymore and there is about 30 000 of them, costs about 0,10 Euro. On of the newer cases, Operation Phoenix Weapon Case, that still drops and there are about 300 000 of them, costs the same. And it´s only because Case 3 contains mainly unattractive pistol skins.

How to open them?

The cases can be opened with matching key available from CS:GO store or Steam market. It´s usually better to buy a key in-game, where there are currently available for 2.29 Euro, than on the Steam market (aprox. 2,5 Euro).

If you´re not sure how does the opening functions, you can make a rough try in one of the opening simulators in your browser or on your smartphone:

CS:GO Case opening simulators:
BROWSER: http://convars.com/case/
ANDROID: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.synthdark.casesimulatorfree.android&hl=cs

Cases drop chance studies:

If you´re still not sure if it´s worth to open a case, there are some studies I´ve found for you, that recorded drops from cases and made a calculation of drop chances you have by opening cases:

1) 347 cases study by Crosscade

Mil-spec (Blue) Drops: 78.8% (287)
Restricted (Purple) Drops: 16.2% (59)
Classified (Pink) Drops: 2.5% (9)
Covert (Orange) Drops: 1.6% (6)
Exceedingly Rare (Yellow) Drops: 0.8% (3)
StatTrack Chance = 8% (28)


2) 259 CS:GO weapon cases study by PieceMaker42

Mil-spec (Blue) Drops: 206 - 79,5 %
Restricted (Purple) Drops: 46 - 17,8 %
Classified (Pink) Drops: 3 - 1,2 %
Covert (Orange) Drops: 3 - 1,2 %
Exceedingly Rare (Yellow) Drops: 1 - 0,38%

3) 2023 cases study by Shadowolf1212

Blue: 1594 (78.79%)
Purple: 343 (16.96%)
Pink: 57 (2.82%)
Red: 20 (0.99%)
Knife: 9 (0.44%)

1619 cases - counting stattrak drops:
146 Stattrak - 9% chance
0.44% knives - 0.04% chance stattrak knife


4) 1088 cases study by Array

Blue Mil-spec - 69,94485294117647 %
Blue Mil-spec StatTrak - 8,180147058823529 %
Purple Restricted - 14,98161764705882 %
Purple Restricted StatTrak - 1,746323529411765 %
Pink Classified - 3,308823529411765 %
Pink Classified StatTrak - 0,2757352941176471 %
Red Covert - 1,011029411764706 %
Red Covert StatTrak - 0,0919117647058824 %
Yellow Exceedingly Rare (knife) - 0,4595588235294118 %
Yellow Exceedingly Rare StatTrak - < 0.1 %

Special thanks:
http://csgoarray.blogspot.cz/
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/
http://www.reddit.com/user/Shadowolf1212
http://www.reddit.com/user/PieceMaker42
http://steamcommunity.com/id/sphonixx

Demon Hunter - Diablo 3

1) Why I chose to make this costume:

2) How I made this costume: 

1) Bodysuit

2) Cape

3) Hood

4) Bracer armor

5) Boobs armor

6) Leg armor

7) Corset

8) Pauldrons

9) Collar

10) Boots

11) Accessories

12) Crossbow

There is this epic crossbow with demon skull, bones, big and arnoured.
I´ve seen one contest, where there was a demon hunter with foldable crossbow and I´ve decided to make it foldable too and make it shiny with the red LED lights from the mouth of demon skull. I´ve seen that and it was made from umbrella.
There were not so many referrence pictures to that particular crossbbow so I had to improvise a little.
The whole crossbow was made from an umbrella with spring. The handle of the umbrella had a shape of U and was made from the wood. I used saw and cut half of the handle off to make a shape of the gun handle. I´ve adjusted the shape and the thickness of the handle by adding foam from yogga matt and this I´ve coverd with papiermache to make it hard. I´ve added foam from yogga matt on the top and bottom of the handle,covered it then with moosgummi and added details from moosgummi. I took an old leather bag made from small leather squares, cut the squares out and made little triangles out of them. I glued the triangles to the handle making a kind of dragon scale look. I´ve then added a trigger made out of foam and fastened it with nails. Then painted.

I've screwed to the top of the umbrella and added a led light for a bicycle - it is fastened with screw. I ´ve made the first layer of foam on the arms. I´ve cut the handle, stuffed it with foam and reinforced it with papiermache (2). Then I´ve taken cardboard, cut two sides of it (3) and reinforced them with wooden sticks (4). Then I´ve covered it in papiermache and fastened it to the crossbow with nails, glue and foam and painted it black (5). Then I´ve covered the arms in moosgummi and painted it black and covered the whole handle in scales, that I´ve made from leather (6). I´ve made a ceramic skull and jaw, two side bones and 6 teeth from clay, painted it with acrylic colors to make it look like dirty and old and fastened the jaw to the crossbow with lot of wires (7). Then I´ve made decorations from moosgummi and base for the horns from foam and fastened the skull and the side bones to the crossbow with wires (8). I´ve added two smaller horn bases and reinforced them with wire to be adjustable and painted it all black (9). I´ve painted the arms of the crossbow silverish metallic and decorated the whole horn structure with moosgummi. I´ve cut out the moosgummi part, painted it with acrylic color, waited till it is dry and glued it to the horn base. And that I´ve repeated the whole day Emotikona grin (10). I´ve added some decoration on the base of the crossbow, decorated the handle and mounted the trigger (11). I´ve added more decorations, painted ti silver, added mount on the downside decorated with rivets and added the 6 teeth on the arms of the crossbow. It took me a month to do this.¨

13) Painting tutorial

Here's how I painted this cosplay to look like silverish metal:

3) Advanatages and disadvantages of this costume:

Advantages:
- Stunning costume, that attracts attention wherever you are.
- I have same hair color with the character and the hair is hidden under the hood, so I don't have to wear wig.
- Your cosplay shows a lot of different skills (sewing, crafting, lightning, painting, modelling) and has a potential to win prizes.
- The use of this costume can be pretty diverse. I had a photoshoot with a lot of photographers interested in phantasy themes, had an interview about both Diablo and HotS games, even non-gamers and casual people admire the skill behind and beauty of this costume.
- Your costume isn't unnecessarily naked and doesn't show much skin. It's still quite sexy and seducing I think.

Disadvantages:
- Not really comfortable to wear
- Every wearing damages the moosgummi a lot - it's not very durable material - it needs a lot of repairs
- The transportation ond storing of the cosplay is not easy. It has a lot of parts and when I want to transport it, I have to take the biggest suitcase I have.
- Your cosplay looks weird and scary, so forget about wearing it on some public places without drawing attention. You cannot dress up in advance, but right on the place of the action/photoshoot.
- Your cosplay is not very original, because with every minute, more and more cosplayers around the world are making new Demon Hunters, because it's pretty famous character, a lot peoples favourite and with Heroes of the Storm, the Demon Hunter was reincarnated and it's popularity has risen. (To this point I have to say I hate makin unoriginal cosplays. But I said to myself, noone did it in CZ/SK, almost noone had a Blizzard cosplay then and I was the first cosplayer in CZ making DH and one of the first cosplayers, that made something from Diablo).
- You cannot dress alone in this costume, you need someone to help you.


And if you like my work, I would be honored if you're interested in my other work too and like me on my facebook page HERE.
Yours
Germia

Ravenborn LeBlanc from League of Legends 

1) Why I chose to make this costume:
After making two marksman cosplays without any sewing knowledge, I decided I have to try something really challenging and new for me. Something totally different, that would push me to use a sewing machine and won't be any badass armoured character like the two previous ones. And when I saw this model from League of Legends, I was stunned. It was seductive, pretty dark, but not totally black/grey/red as my usual picks are, there was a lot of sewing, work with feathers, real challenge with big collar, that should stay in place and it has white (kinda greenish) hair and I just love white hair. LeBlanc as a character is something new for me, she's kinda hard to play for a noob like me, but she's really powerful, fun-to-play and pretty cheeky if you ask me. How could I resist?
ORIGINAL CHARACTER:

















2) How I made this costume:

1) Corset

As usual I've done a lot of searching if there are any previous cosplayers of this particular character with this particular Halloween skin. Looking at other cosplayers makes me think of how could I do this and that and if I don't like something, it makes me think of a better ways how to do it. The corset is made out of two parts, that should be connected by black stripes and show your skin a little. But as I looked at other cosplayers, the gap was only damaging the shape of the whole corset. So I've decided to use a skin-toned fabric (that i bought in second-hand store), to fill the gap.

I´ve made the shape of the corset from paper to fit my body, then transfered the pattern onto the black unwoven fabric and purple taffeta fabric (taft). I´ve glued the taffeta borders to the black fabric and sewn all the corset parts together. I´ve reinforced the seams with black plastic corset mountings. I´ve sewn a black bra into the corset. Everything is hand-sewn.

As I´ve seen some LeBlanc cosplays, that tried to make a corset with blank space on the front side like on the model and it never looked good just because the corset can´t hold its shape when space without fabric included. So I´ve decided to buy a fabric in the same color like my skin and sew it on my corset. I´m pretty happy with the result.The second thing I didn´t want to do like other cosplayers do is to use satin for the whole thing. Satin is a nice fabric, but if overused or not well sewn, it looks cheap and the whole cosplay seems clownish. So I´ve found a taffette, that looks great and doesn´t "shine" so much.The brooches are made from metal with jewellery technique tin soldering. Materials used: nonvowen black fabric for lining, purple satin for folded bra, stretch black leggings, that looked like leather for bra and brooch straps, sew-through púlastic corset reinforcements, black bra, purple taffette and beige shirt.

2) Collar

I´ve noticed, it´s one of the hardest parts of this cosplay - it shouldn´t move, it should be big, it should hold its form... How to do that properly I´ve learned from Mowky cosplay - she inspired me with her collar construction. The inner part is made from yogga mat rolled into rolls The mat is then covered in worbla thermoplastic material and shaped properly in heat. I measured the gaps between each part of the collar and transfered the paper patterns onto dark purple velvet. Each side has three parts, that are sewn togethet and glued on the constraction with hot glue. That was made from both sides and the upper parts was overcast with black fabric piece. The whole construction has been painted black and then silver with my sponge painting technique. Everything was measured and formed to fit on my neck. On the bottom part I made two eyelets for the brooches to fit in. The bottom feather collar was glued to the bottom part of this collar and fastened with wires.

3) Feather collar

Bottom collar with feather is made from 2mm black craft foam supported with copper wires, that go through the worbla pieces. Then i took feather stripes from black rooster (I chose these because of the greenish effect on the light, that they make) and glued them with hot glue on the craft foam. I've bought single feather bundle for the blindspots to fill. Thanks to the wire the collar can be shaped at will.

4) Skirt

The whole skirt is made out of black felt, and the same purple taffete like the one used for the corset. Then I've used a decorating black ribbon, for the stripes.

5) Shoes

I've made straps from the leftovers from dark purple velvet with black rubber sewn inside and black velcros, that go together on the back of the leg. They're not sewn into the shoe. The shoes I bought from the e-shop of used clothes called vinted.cz.

6) Bracers

7) Tiara

9) Sleeves

10) Cape

11) Accessories

Gems - The gems I bought from local beadshop known for their high-quality glass and beads. I chose cyan blue glass beads with misty inner structure.

Hair - I wanted to stay true to both splashart (white hair) and in-game model (green hair), so I've bought a wig, that was white with slight greenish tint from e-bay, that I curled wet with curling iron. For picture of the product I bought, see "material" picture.

Neckpiece - I used the same fabric like for the straps and bra on the corset. It's actually made out of old leggings with leather effect, that I bought really cheap.

Tights - I used two different tights for my photoshoot - For the first time I used simple skin toned tights, but i think black ones fit better to this costume.

Contact lenses - I used purple toning lenses. For more info, visit please my LENSES TUTORIAL.

12) Staff

It´s made out of wooden stick found in a forest with the right shape for the staff. I had to cut it and sharpen the bottom of the staff. The raven was too big to hold on the smallest part of the staff, so I had to make it bigger and harder. I´ve used yogging mat foam for the inside and worbla for the outside. It wasn´t necesary to have the worbla smooth, because i wanted to use cement for more reinforcement, that will cover upt he whole part. Worbla was important for the raven to hold on it and to fasten the led light screw into it. Then i´ve made out of moosgummi, yogga mat foam and EVA foam the bottom part of the staff (the decoration, i dunno). I´ve used cement to cover the whole upper part and drew the tree rings into it. Then I painted it with black acrylic color and the the whole wooden part with brown color for wood.The raven is made from polystyrene boards glued together.

The body, wings and feet are made separately and then glued together with hot glue (any other glue melted the material - it was too agressive).I´ve carved it with exacto knife and smoothened it with acrylate cement used for walls. Then sanded and painted with black acrylic color.The hot glue wasn´t enough to hold the big raven on his small feet on the staff, so I had to use worbla to reinforce his feet.It´s not done yet. I have to make his eyes, moosgummi decorations and color shading into silver wit acrylic colors.

MATERIALS:

3) Advanatages and disadvantages of this costume:

- It's too naked for winter and too hot to wear in summer.


And if you like my work, I would be honored if you're interested in my other work too and like me on my facebook page HERE.
Yours
Germia

Několik událostí v poslední době mne motivovalo k napsání série článků věnující se ženským hráčkám a zodpovědět takové otázky jako proč je jich tak málo, proč nedosahují mužské výkonnosti, nebo jak se k nim vlastně chovat.

A nyní už k tomu, co mě motivovalo napsat tyto články:

1) Článek o ženských hráčkách, který tvrdil, že ženy nemohou dosáhnout takových výkonů v e-sportu, protože mají "jiný mozek".
2) Odchod mé dlouholeté spoluhráčky kRAViCky z eSuba.ladies a negativní i pozitivní reakce lidí na tuto skutečnost.
3) Probíhající "nábor" na zaplnění chybějícího místa v našem týmu eSuba.ladies CS:GO a pozorovaný růst domácí ženské scény.
4) Zpráva na mé fb page s žádostí o podporu ženských hráček v hraní samotném, při kterém se setkávají se šikanou ze strany mužských hráčů.
5) Absence jakýchkoliv turnajů, offline i online, pro ženskou CS:GO scénu, a to zahraniční i domácí.

2) Ženy a e-sport - proč nedosahují takových výkonů jako muži?