Anticipation

Psychology is a large subject here since all players are human beings, all playing at different locations. It is a key to understanding what is happening in the round and what might happen next round: anticipation. Get to know your teammates and your opponents: they all have a different personality and having a rough idea of their behavior can be of great help. Experience shows that players have preferred routes, default behavior when facing a situation; use this predictability against your opponents. Never panic: panic ensures quick death. Think fast, after a bit of training some moves will become reflexes that will be triggered by external stimuli. Be confident in yourself and your teammates: starting a round with a fear of the enemy will result in panic, see above. Do not keep on repeating similar patterns: you will become predictable. The flow concept From the beginning of each round and for a limited time, opponents’ “flow predictability” works: each player in the field moves at the same speed and experience tells you how far you can rush before encounter enemies. Spying on the enemies’ moves allows you to get a rough overview of which places on the map are ‘hot’ and which are not. This concept, allows only getting assumptions with a limited lifetime, based on facts or previous assumptions. A sense of rhythm and tempo is required here. Such a concept can be used to find the best time to attack a group of opponents from behind, or to have an estimate of how long you can stay in a place before starting to suspect a potential attack from behind. An example of the flow concept has been developed in figure 9.1 with the map de_dust2. If a group of counter-terrorists engage the terrorist flow #1 on the point #3 of the map, they have to be ready to encounter other terrorists coming from the flows 2 and 3.