NolanM wrote:
I'm thinking about getting this game, anything I should know about it?
Besides saying "it will suck you in" "say goodbye to your life" "too addicting"
Just tell me what I should know about gameplay.
Looks like fun and everyone I know plays it 
Just random bits of misc advice, in no particular order:
It's one of those games where you'll spend a while being dead weight before you get good. If you get it, before you go into competitive, spend a while doing deathmatch until you get the hang of controlling recoil and stopping to shoot (if you're not standing still, you're lucky to hit anything in this game; recoil in this game doesn't move your crosshair, so if you're firing a five shot burst, by the end of it you'll have to drag down so you're aiming beneath where you actually wanna hit). One of the best things a new player can do to improve is to try to always walk around with your crosshair at head level, because headshots from almost anything instantly kill, and shooting feet does way less damage than the body, etc. You'll naturally want to aim at the floor when you're running around getting from one place to another, just try to suppress that urge. Understand how the grenades work: if you walk through a smoke, you lose your vision until you come out of it. Anyone looking at you when you come out of it gets to see you before you get to see them, therefore walking through a smoke into enemy territory is usually guaranteed death. Block off places with smokes and use them to make cover when you're trying to go into places where you don't have any (know there's a sniper aiming down a long road? Throw a smoke toward them. They now can't see you). Flashes make people go blind if they look at them while they explode, if you see one, look away from it. Throw them into places where you expect enemies to be camped and come out when you hear it pop, and you'll have some time to shoot them before they get to see you. Explosive grenades and molotovs just mean you have to move away or take damage, be aware that they won't ever instakill you from full health. In this game you have money, you get more of it for winning than you do for losing, and you get little bonuses for killing people and planting the bomb. The only way to get equipment is to buy it with this money (or murder someone and take it), and teams without equipment almost always lose. Sometimes you just play with no gear for a couple rounds to save up until your whole team can buy guns. Don't be afraid to eco, which just means to buy nothing. You can also drop guns for players that have no money if you have some spare. That's the basics, I think. Lastly, once you know how to shoot, don't be afraid to play competitive: it's not as serious as it sounds and if you do bad at first, you just get easier opponents. Look up a dude called WarOwl on Youtube, he makes great tutorials.
