CSGO: This player is too persuasive!

Chapter 486 46. The resort agency turned around

NIKO woke up from his sleep and subconsciously knocked his aching head.

"You're awake? The operation was successful, you're already a girl!"

Before he could remember what his current situation was, he heard Xu Beifang's voice ringing in the room.

NIKO rolled his eyes and said, "Are you teasing a fool?"

No, it seems like the North is teasing me.

He woke up in a daze, feeling his brain was overloaded.

"what time is it?"

"One o'clock in the afternoon." Xu Beifang pointed at the table. "You slept too soundly. You didn't respond when I called you to have lunch. I packed a burger for you. Take it from the table yourself."

NIKO smiled awkwardly: "It's because we had so much fun last night."

"Of course not, it's your home turf now."

After having supper last night, they went to a nightclub. After winning the championship, a group of people opened champagne and had a party, completely releasing their energy.

NIKO really likes the environment of nightclubs, and he even turned that nightclub into his home ground.

NIKO picked up his phone and looked at the replies from fans and professionals in the circle under his Twitter post. He still felt it was unreal.

"Did we really win the championship?" He couldn't help but ask Xu Beifang.

Xu Beifang's face was speechless: "Let's not drink anymore. We'll go to a nightclub and get drunk."

NIKO was not angry. Even though the other party said a few words of disgust to him, he smiled happily instead.

After looking at the photo of himself holding the trophy on Twitter and laughing for a while, he turned around and looked at Xu Beifang who was stretching out of boredom, "What are our plans for the future?"

"I just asked TC." Xu Beifang stopped what he was doing, picked up his phone from the side, and saw that the coach had replied to him, "We will take a flight the day after tomorrow morning and fly directly to Malta to participate in the ESL S19 season."

“After we get there, we will have some training and we should be able to fight.” NIKO thought they were going to Malta in advance to make preparations.

Xu Beifang shook his head. "We didn't have much time to prepare for the training camp. Once we got there and adjusted to the time difference, we started the competition. So we shouldn't set too high expectations for the results this time. We should mainly practice through the competition."

He loves CS games very much, but the overly tight schedule of CS still makes people feel uncomfortable.

They just won the championship, but the next competition will start in 9 days.

There is simply not much time for them to prepare or practice new tactical content, so training through competition is the best option next time.

"That's not right." Danking was a little surprised, "Don't we need to qualify for ESL?"

In this IEM Chengdu, COL started from the qualifiers, and even when playing in the Asian region, it took quite a while.

But ESL went up and started fighting, which made him feel a little strange.

Xu Beifang raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

NIKO helped explain: "This is the charm of money! Our COL is the sponsored team of EPL, and we paid for the seat."

He knew this because when he was in G2, G2 was also a sponsored team. Every time the EPL started, they were invited to start from the group stage.

"I'll test it!" Danking suddenly remembered this, "It seems that teams that don't qualify need to play a particularly complicated qualifying match. Tianlu also played it at that time."

CS first-line competitions are already very dense, and there is no need to fight hard for qualifications from various preliminaries. This can reduce the players' energy consumption and spend more time on important competitions.

This sponsorship qualification is of course very good for their top players.

But it is too harsh for the second-tier teams.

Because for a league like EPL, apart from sponsoring teams and invitations based on points ranking, there are not many remaining qualifications.

It's too difficult to stand out from the crowd.

"The sponsoring team is so despicable!" Danking's face was full of indignation.

Xu Beifang and NIKO both shrugged their shoulders. Although it was unfair to the second-tier teams, there was nothing they could do about it.

E-sports competitions are ultimately about pursuing traffic, and if second-tier teams are truly capable, they still have a chance to stand out from the competition.

Then they heard Danking grinning, "Luckily we are the sponsored team."

Don!
Xu Beifang looked a little speechless, then added: "Fortunately, the quality of this competition is pretty good, and the group stage adopts a double-elimination BO3, and there is also a last chance stage, so we can at least play a full 3 BO3, and we can practice a lot of things."

As the team leader, he actually knows everything.

The team's map pool is still a bit shallow now, and there are too few means in some complex maps.

Once the gap in strength between the two sides is not big, it is easy to fall into a stalemate.

They still lack the means to tip the balance.

Moreover, this championship win has brought the team back into the public eye, so it is inevitable that they will be targeted.

Some of their commonly used tactical routines must be changed.

"It's not a big problem!" NIKO waved his hand, "I think with our current state, we can definitely make it to the knockout stage. It's all done with practice!"

"This is a very good mentality. We just need to be confident." Xu Beifang gave NIKO a thumbs up.

He personally thinks that being a champion is very nourishing.

The people in the team now are definitely capable. After all, it is impossible for them to stay on the front line for so many years without any skills.

But sometimes, this group of people just lack that one breath.

It's often just a little bit off.

It is still a little difficult to make rapid progress in strength, but if they can be more confident, they can fully exert their due strength, and even in some special times, they can achieve a level of 90 points from 120 points.

Improving self-confidence is very simple, you just need to achieve results in this field.

When you know that you can do it well, you will naturally have confidence.

After winning the IEM Chengdu championship, he clearly felt that the mental outlook of his teammates was changing, and even Danking's overall fighting spirit was greatly improved.

At least he wouldn't ask Xu Beifang, "Can we win?" like when he just joined COL and met a top-tier strong team.

However, one championship is still a little short of it now, and we need to slowly add more things to the glory in the future.

"Coach Xiaoxi has announced that we will have a small meeting later, and then we will review last night's game." Danking reminded the two.

When NIKO heard this, he quickly got up and washed.

He didn't want to be the only one waiting in the team.

However, Coach Xiaoxi's approach made him feel that he had come to the right place.

You know, generally after winning a championship, everyone is surrounded by ecstasy, so who cares about reviewing the final after winning the championship.

We can just brush it off by saying that we won the final, we are awesome and there is no need to review it.

But COL did not do that, instead he worked hard to finish some things after the finals.

And to be honest, they didn't play very well in map one yesterday.

All we can say is that the group of people are resilient enough, which gives them hope of a comeback.

Danking was chatting with NIKO about how much prize money each of them would get after this round of finals.

Xu Beifang didn't think much about it, so he simply opened his phone and started surfing the Internet.

A day later, the pace online is still very hot.

The impact of COL's championship is still spreading on the Internet. Xu Beifang took a look at HLTV and found that HLTV had not updated the rankings, but he roughly calculated that after the rankings were updated, they might be able to rush into the top 5 with this championship.

The reason why I didn’t get first place directly was mainly because there were too many personnel changes in COL. All the previous points were lost, so I had to start from scratch.

HLTV's current scoring algorithm is the sum of results + status + offline and other columns.

Their championship result is naturally excellent, but their form and offline points are too low, so it won't reach a particularly high level.

This is also in line with his expectations.

It’s interesting only when there is room for advancement.

He continued browsing the forum for a while and found that the posts in the forum were quite enthusiastic.

[Rational discussion, who is the world's best rifleman now, Nice or donk]

[Is this even worth discussing? Donk fans, stop pretending to be reasonable.]

[Donk’s nickname is Little Nice, you can understand it, right?]

[In terms of performance, the North has Major championships and Grand Slams. In terms of individual strength, the North has been top 2 for two consecutive years.]

[Don’t you understand the statistics in the finals? They both played against Faze, but the statistics crushed them]

[We will know when we fight each other. After all, the professional arena is the world of young people.]

The audience in the forum soon started arguing, but Xu Beifang didn't care. Instead, he was quite happy reading the comments from netizens.

Donk is indeed a top rifleman who appeared after CS2, and can be regarded as a genius born out of that version.

He actually quite likes Donk's playing style, and he was impressed when this guy suddenly appeared.

But later I found that Donk relied too much on his talent to play the game, and I knew that he still lacked experience in the 'dungeon'.

Donk has too few tricks up his sleeve. As long as we target him with a wave of "superstar" level attacks later, this guy will definitely behave himself.

He is now more happy about winning the championship. In 20 years, he won too many championships and became indifferent to victory.

But now returning and winning the championship again gives him a different feeling.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a message: "CS2 version updated..."

But before I could see what was going on, I heard NIKO say, "I'm ready, let's go up to the training room."

He looked up and saw NIKO eating a burger, so he immediately followed him.

They entered the training room and found that not only the coach, but Elige and JKS were also there.

"Do we want to start reviewing the game now?" Danking asked Coach Xiaoxi.

The smiling coach shook his phone and said, "Look at the vacation agency's Twitter. They just had a big update. The content is quite important."

A group of people started sitting in their seats and opening their phones. Xu Beifang went into Twitter and found the vacation agency's account.

I saw that the vacation agency posted an update half an hour ago.

Xu Beifang finished reading all of them and concluded:

The price of M4A4 was adjusted from 3100 yuan to 3000 yuan.

The price of the police's incendiary bomb has been adjusted from 600 to 500, but the range has been reduced and the duration has been shortened.

Then the economic reward for placing the order changed, from 800 yuan to 600 yuan.

The Death Building has undergone a major transformation by the resort agency.

First, the wall connecting A to A small was broken through, and then an iron frame was added to the periphery of area A.

Then the A slope got deeper by 50 floors.

"Hiss~" Danking couldn't wait to open his computer and enter the building's map server after reading the update, then took a sip of ice cola, "Is this still a building?"

The update to the resort is just a few words, but it is a huge change in the game.

"Now that small wall A has been opened, how can the bandits rob the police?" Elige was also a little surprised by the changes in the building.

NIKO commented: "In the past, if we pushed forward from A, we only needed to light a cigarette on the left side, but now we have to seal A."

"Not only that." Xu Beifang explained his opinion, "This wall has been opened. Even if you put up smoke bombs, it will be much easier for CT to return to defense."

"Also, the strategy for defending the A-zone will change after we capture it. In the past, after we captured the A-zone, as long as we had the A-zone fulcrum, it would be easy to defend and take it down, because it was very difficult for the opponent to clear the A-zone."

"But once the wall is opened, A will have to face gunfire from two angles when playing the endgame, which increases the difficulty of the game."

JKS pointed to the new iron passage in Area A and said, "Look here, there is an extra road here, which makes the attack in Area A more difficult. The CTs have one more shooting position and choice."

The emergence of the iron passage provides CT with more gun positions for defense.

Whether it is defending the point in the early stage or the subsequent endgame, the difficulty for the attacking side has increased.

Coach Xiaoxi also said: "Then it will completely become a big police picture from now on, which is a bit difficult to deal with."

"It's not just the building. The resort has strengthened the defense of all maps. The building is just more obvious." Xu Beifang saw the key point. "The building only strengthened the CT from the map structure, but have you noticed the adjustment of the economic system?"

"The A4 has become cheaper. It looks like it's only $100, but you all know how embarrassing this $100 is."

Everyone in the room nodded.

In today's version, most players choose A1 as their main rifle.

Even though A1 has some defects compared to A4 in terms of bullets, its silencer and low price make it popular among most players.

After all, the number of rounds in CS2 has decreased, and the economy has become more difficult to operate. Sometimes 200 yuan of economy and an extra flash bomb may be the hope of a comeback.

Sometimes, all you need is 200 yuan.

But if the A4 becomes 3000 yuan, the nature of the product is different.

"I think many players would be willing to pay 100 yuan for the ability to kill streak." JKS prefers to use A4, and he also plans to replace A4 with his main weapon later.

Xu Beifang signaled Danking to open the store. He pointed at the incendiary bomb and said, "Besides, the fire is 100 yuan cheaper, so there is basically no pressure to use A4."

"Then here comes the biggest nerf to the bandit!" Xu Beifang couldn't help but complain, "He really plans to ECO after losing the pistol round."

NIKO frowned: "What do you mean?"

Xu Beifang did not keep the secret and immediately explained: "The economic reward after placing the bomb in the pistol round is 800 yuan. If we are on the attacking side and lose the pistol round, we will have a basic economy of 2800 yuan in the next point. We can directly use the full armor Galil to fight and try to turn the tables."

"But the economic reward for this wave has been cut by 200 yuan. If you don't get a kill, you can only use the full armor submachine gun."

After CT wins the pistol round, they usually need to buy props, and most members can only afford hair dryers.

When facing the bandits with full-armor Galil, the guns are at a disadvantage, so after the bomb is planted, the bandits still have great hope of turning the tables.

However, the changes made by the resort agency mean that the bandits are less well-armed than the police after losing a pistol round.

"So the resort is not just trying to improve the win rate of the tower defenders, they are trying to improve the win rate of the CTs in all aspects and reduce the win rate of the Ts."

Xu Beifang took a breath.

It is certainly a good thing that the salted fish holiday agency is willing to turn around and move.

However, because COL's team style tends to focus on individual ability, the increased winning rate of the defense has raised the lower limit of the system team, but it has also made it more difficult for them to rely on individual ability to perform.

"This holiday agency has really given us a difficult problem!"

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(End of this chapter)