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Counter-Strike: CS For Dummies: Angles

By: Chris Boutté - Published February 11, 2006 at 4:02 AM EST - Writer Archive
Bootman's CS For Dummies series continues with an installment on angles. This piece focuses on using angles on defensive to frag your opponents.


In this article we are going to go over one of the most important parts of playing on defense, angles. Angles are the best way to catch your opponent off guard without having to do anything too insane or too risky.

The best way to play at an angle is going to be up close and in an unexpected position. My number one word of advice is you should find a spot that will allow you to play from the corner of a wall where there is also a box or another obstruction (possibly a wall) to line up perfectly with where you are standing. (You will see what I mean later in some screen shots down below). When you are aligned like this, the offensive player will more than likely be either checking the first corner that you are not behind, or a position wider out. In either situation, their focus will not be on you, and you will have an angle where you will see them just as they are checking either spot.

I did skip a few maps in this article, but the best advice I can give you is to put yourself into the mind of someone playing on the offense. You want to get yourself into a close up position where your opponent would not suspect you to be, a corner where they will have to check two spots on two different height levels, or a position in which they will have to check a much more trendy spot and overlook the spot you are at, giving you an easy frag.
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NICE!
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good tips, some that i think a lot of people have known already but helpful because a lot of people don't realize how important their positioning is on either side of the map.

part 2 of this showing some angles for T side?

but overall i think u gave people enough to get the idea of what u were getting at.
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very nice this will help a lot of people out :)
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Angling is the most important aspect of the game, if you can master it, your game will significantly improve =)
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lets get a good angle on mill
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didn't bair just do an article about "angles" too?

Seems odd that you wouldn't give him any credit when he published his a few days earlier.
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i dont see any of bairs angles here...
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nice article, but you gave away 2 of my fav spot, now everyone will check there. (floor on nuke, suicide box in inferno)

:(

This comment was edited at 02/11/2006 5:25 AM
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another g8 article from my <3 bootman :* loveee
Sorry for my bad enlgish :\
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nice booty
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Excellent stuff.
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Hammett,

Did you read Bair's piece yet? It is indeed a great article and can be found here - http://www.gotfrag.com/cs/story/31230/?sp..

He talks about angles for 1 paragraph and 4 screenshots as an introduction to the rest of his article. Making the assumption that Chris somehow took content from Bair and should credit him when Chris has been working on this piece for quite some time is an incorrect thing to do.
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Nah good peioce of work mate, Hopefully it will encourage people to make some own unique angles of there own, its not hard just put yourself in the opposing persons shoes in an empty server. Hit where you normally hold, and demo it, or if you can trust your instincts just take note of what you do when you go around certain corners and where you check in what order. Then you can easily find a spot to hold which you know the opponent (provided you are above par when it comes to CS) will not look at sraight away giving you the entry frag advantage.

Just thought I'd add my own opinion in :D
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its for dummies, like #13
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Yay for Bootman :).

Knew most of it, but still very helpful.
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good stuff, basic but fun read
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good article
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good read, its always nice to refresh your memory on some of the basic angles.
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Good stuff here, nice job.
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Very good substitute for people that hardly ever watch any demos :)

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interesting
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Good read, basic stuff thou.
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#12 Why should bootman give credit to bair when he didnt use any of the angles that bair gave?
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good stuff
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Nice screenshots and pointers bootman. Its all about getting to them in time i having good aim. (and hoping the enemy come you way :E)
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nice read - good use of pics too
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coolio
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Dear Bootman, we will be incorperating these tatics into our next match on de_inferno.
=o
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Most were good, some will never work against a decent team (ex. 3rd and 4th Screenshot in Dust2).

This comment was edited at 02/11/2006 4:32 PM
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Bair > Bootman
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very nice write up
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#29 if they can work for me, they can work for anyone :-P

all those spots are really good, I use all of those actually :p Its tricks like those that can make the difference between rounds/games
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personable read!
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lets just say good job bootman and bair so they can both take credit for 2 good articles
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More of these!
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good stuff as always
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SirScoots,

In reply I'd like to apologize to bootman after hearing that this piece has been in the works for a long time. My feelings were that maybe bootman was inspired by bair's piece and wanted to do a big article on it to really do the subject justice.
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i actually didnt even know bair's article existed lol
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Good stuff! I need to show this to a teammate that never seems to know where to defend at. =]
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These are kinda obivious to me, but I guess it good to study them so I can setup quick when there's a rush.
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nice
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I personally found most of these angle's to be trash... if you are playing on a cal-m/i level all of these spot's were very open and about 90% of the time you would get flashed 3-4 times by the oposing team and be dead cause you were standing out in the open..
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Good article, learnt a couple of new ones.
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Now people will know what to expect.
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very good article. :]
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Nice article =D
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What only two positions for inferno!?! How could you miss the one at the balcony looking into the apartment exit? :(
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the nuke one is great on the upper bomb site.
if i doubble post its becouse i hit the back button on browser or something but not on purpose.
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nice work !

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