Counter-Strike and Eastern Europeans

[sufjan]

I've been playing Counter Strike GO since last summer trying to improve at the game, but as I am in Europe all of my competetive matches consists of me and usually the whole other part of the team is Russian, Polish, Ukrainian... It's almost impossible to play as a team because 9/10 games the other guys insist on speak every language under the sun that isn't English. If you're the last guy alive they shout "Cyka Blyat!" and kick you, if you're so lucky.

Is there any way to play this game as a European or is it simply a lost cause?

In deathmatch this would not bother me, but competitive usually takes one and a half hour, it's a pain to go on for so long only to lose at the end because the team cannot cooperate.

 

[Morgoth780]

You could do what I'm currently trying to do, which is get a dedicated group of people together and always play competitive with that group.

Also, I don't remember the name of the utility, but there's one you can use to block certain servers. I blocked everything except us West, and it's worked wonderfully since I don't get horrendous lag anymore. Perhaps you could use it to block eastern European servers so you usually don't end up with them on your team. Assuming there are separate European servers.

 

[Muspelheim]

When I had similar problems, I dug out the pocket dictionary and tried to get the very basics you'd need down. Not an ideal solution, but it was quite fun, at least.

But then again, I wasn't playing very competitively, tactics might get a bit more technical than "Forward over there, two guys chasing me over here" and whatnot.

If that does sound a bit extreme for playing some CS:GO, Morgoth is probably right, there ought to be a way to filter the servers somewhat.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Form a group so that you're going in with people you know (and can understand).

Then all you have to worry about is lag, poor-sportsmanship and the maddeningly rife cheating that goes on.

Seriously, I used to enjoy the game and had a reasonable rank. Somewhere along the way it just became joyless.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Ya them stupid foreigners not even speaking your language... can you guess what kind of mindset they operate on when someone isn't speaking their language?

Anyway find a steady server or a group of non foreign friends to contain those phobias.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Ya them stupid foreigners not even speaking your language... can you guess what kind of mindset they operate on when someone isn't speaking their language?

Anyway find a steady server or a group of non foreign friends to contain those phobias.

He wants them to speak English so they can coordinate their game, when he askes them to they insult him instead.
Even the French and Germans speak English in those games on English (support) servers.

Yeah it's "phobia"...

 

[BeerTent]

Now and then I got French players over here. I can only speak English and a little bit of (bad) Acadian. When I hear REAL French, I lock up!

Really, the only solution, get a group of friends. Choose a time to play together. Games are more fun when you're with people you actually know, and not just a bunch of randoms. When I play now, I normally have a group of 3 or 4, sometimes 5.

 

[sufjan]

Ya them stupid foreigners not even speaking your language... can you guess what kind of mindset they operate on when someone isn't speaking their language?

Anyway find a steady server or a group of non foreign friends to contain those phobias.

I'm Swedish, and I speak English when I want to be able to work together in a team based game, so why can't other people?

 

[Zhukov]

"Cyka Blyat!"

Just out of curiosity, what does that mean?

I'd Google translator it, but I don't know Eastern European alphabets.

 

[Smooth Operator]

I'm Swedish, and I speak English when I want to be able to work together in a team based game, so why can't other people?

Well why aren't you speaking Russian/French/German to be able to work with your team mates who do, they learned it so why aren't you complying with their needs?

This is the exact kind of asinine stance that makes people pissy at each other.

 

[DoPo]

"Cyka Blyat!"

Just out of curiosity, what does that mean?

I'd Google translator it, but I don't know Eastern European alphabets.

The correct "translation" (or rather, "transliteration", I believe is the proper word) is "suka" pronounced suh-kah and...well, "blyat" pronounced as you see it (I hope). To my knowledge these are both common curse words in Russian. I think (from the way they are used) they correspond to something like "fuck", "shit", "*****" (choose any two, I suppose).

That's from my, admittedly, very very limited knowledge of Russian (it's slightly above knowing it exists), playing Dota 2 and watching funny Hearthstone videos (they have compilation of, mostly streamers, and there are several Russians that show up).

 

[Muspelheim]

"Cyka Blyat!"

Just out of curiosity, what does that mean?

I'd Google translator it, but I don't know Eastern European alphabets.

Sukah means ***** (with more or less the same meanings as in English), and blyat means whore, I believe. General purpose curses, mostly.

Ya them stupid foreigners not even speaking your language... can you guess what kind of mindset they operate on when someone isn't speaking their language?

Anyway find a steady server or a group of non foreign friends to contain those phobias.

I'm Swedish, and I speak English when I want to be able to work together in a team based game, so why can't other people?

Well, there's only about nine million of us, learning a second language isn't a very common phenomenom if your first language is one of the big ones. It might feel a bit annoying, but I still repeat my suggestion; learn the very basics you need to coordinate with your team mates in that language. Not ideal, but it'll work. Och det danar karaktären!