A brand-new advance slot had appeared, giving Yang Yu the possibility of borrowing a new ability.
At the same time, the prompt after his credit score rose also caught his attention.
Previously, whenever he advanced a brand-new ability, he had always relied on guesswork.
But now that he could look up the credit score rating required to advance an ability, things were much more convenient. Yang Yu also wanted to see just what conditions were needed for the abilities he wanted to obtain.
“Show me mine.”
【Host: Yang Yu】
【Age: 18】
【Current Rank: Perfect S, 37 Stars】
【Firepower: 79】
【Aim: 78】
【Sniping: 68】
【Trade Fragging: 71】
【Awareness: 71】
【Clutching: 70】
【Map Understanding: 66】
【Mentality: 78】
【Utility Usage: 50】
【Credit Score Rating: B】
【Advance Points: 2583】
【Current Advanced Abilities: 1. None 2. ropz’s Inferno Map Understanding (369/911)】
【Obtained Abilities: B1T’s Headshot Talent, Low-Level Fragment of Xantares Peek, Reverse Shrimp…】
【Owned Items: Product Lock Voucher…】
Over the course of this month, Yang Yu’s stats had changed tremendously. In his view, he should have already touched the threshold of professional play by now—though, well, the kind that was rather lopsided.
Compared to when he had first started, his fundamentals had undergone a qualitative transformation.
Looking at his overall stats, aside from “Utility Usage” being a bit low, most of them had already passed the line.
But there was nothing Yang Yu could do about utility usage either. It wasn’t as if he only knew how to dry peek and had no idea how to use utility at all.
It was just that he truly had no talent when it came to utility. His understanding of utility trajectories always had some slight deviation. Fixed lineups were still fine, but for those kinds of grenades tossed out casually, he was basically just like damn Broky—a living, breathing utility king.
So now that a new advance slot had appeared, he did not intend to spend it on utility-related abilities. Later, he could just spend more time studying fixed utility lineups and still become a grinding maniac.
Aside from utility usage, map understanding remained his lowest ability.
However, Yang Yu discovered that he really did have some talent for CSGO. Whether it was aim or other techniques, once he learned one thing, he could quickly draw parallels and figure out the rest.
For example, B1T’s headshot talent had only subtly made him better at landing headshots and given him some better habits. But his handling of tempo during matches and his control over information were all things he had thought through and understood on his own.
And after obtaining ropz’s understanding of Inferno, techniques such as near targets appearing larger and distant targets smaller, choosing rat positions, and using terrain to isolate 1v1s were all gradually understood by Yang Yu during combat.
Now, his map understanding on other maps had also improved quite a bit. From here on, it was just a matter of practicing more and slowly increasing his proficiency.
So in the end, Yang Yu still chose to place this new ability slot on improving his firepower.
And improving firepower was basically the ability and awareness to take head-on duels.
Among the new abilities, he could check the “credit score” required for them. Yang Yu immediately gave it a try.
“Check the credit score rating required for ‘ZywOo’s awareness’…”
“The credit score rating required for ‘ZywOo’s awareness’ is S!”
Yang Yu’s current credit score rating could only advance B-rank abilities. “ZywOo’s awareness” was far beyond his scope, so Yang Yu could only give up.
If he could advance “ZywOo’s awareness,” he would become completely transparent in matches, and the opponents would have no idea how to play at all.
At that moment, another sudden idea came to Yang Yu.
“Check the credit score rating required for 2021 S1mple’s peak strength.”
“The credit score rating required for 2021 S1mple’s peak strength is SSS!”
Good lord. So S wasn’t the end after all!
After learning the price required for the upper limit of advancement, Yang Yu began checking the credit score ratings required for things like “Karrigan’s commanding talent,” “IM’s prefire,” “FlameZ’s entry ability,” and “device’s stability.”
Then he obtained many different results.
Even among top-tier players, the credit score ratings required for each of their abilities were all different.
For instance, something like NIKO’s crosshair placement required an A credit score rating.
But device’s stability talent surprised Yang Yu quite a bit. He could advance it right now.
After all, device was planning to return recently. Could it be that after his return, device would start declining at lightspeed and no longer be as stable as before?
In Yang Yu’s mind, device’s stability talent was a skill as outstanding as NIKO’s crosshair placement.
For now, Yang Yu could only speculate like this.
After looking around, Yang Yu ultimately made his decision. He planned to use the new advance slot on recoil control.
His current head-on firepower was not bad. B1T’s headshot talent allowed him to play short bursts quite well, and he could handle simple recoil control for ten bullets or so.
But after ten bullets, things got a little hopeless.
Ten bullets was indeed enough most of the time, but sometimes he would inevitably face an enemy army pressing in. In an instant, he might see three or four people at once. At such times, Yang Yu could at most trade one or two.
But for a rifler, spray transfer was the greatest charm.
Recently, as his ladder rating increased, the quality of his opponents had also become higher and higher. Their grouping became tighter, and Yang Yu had already encountered several situations where the entire enemy side rushed over as a group in one wave, forcing him to take one and a half before getting traded out.
At those moments, what Yang Yu thought of was the operation of a spray transfer, but when he actually tried it, it often turned into a mistake.
So he had long been yearning for spray transfer.
The technique of spray transfer was closely related to recoil control. In Yang Yu’s impression, professional players with excellent recoil control included Magisk, electronic, TeseS, Elige, NIKO, and Xantares.
These were all people capable of pressing all thirty AK bullets into one point.
But after consideration, Yang Yu ultimately chose Elige.
There was nothing wrong with the recoil control of the others, but this gunman from Liquid was best at killing people through recoil control.
Moreover, this guy was a famous recoil control instructor!
His recoil control might not be the flashiest, but it was the most academic and rigorous.
【Advancing Elige’s recoil control ability…】
The system’s response arrived quickly.
【Elige’s recoil control ability requires credit score rating—B】
【Elige’s recoil control has been advanced…】
【Advance Cost: For 30 consecutive days, use spray transfers to obtain 500 kills in deathmatch servers…】
In that instant, Yang Yu felt as if he had spent a very long time honing himself on aim training maps.
The spray patterns of various firearms seemed to have been engraved into his heart.
For example, with the AK-47’s spray pattern, he had originally just pulled down toward the lower right. But now he clearly understood that if he wanted to control the AK-47, the recoil path should be lower right, left, right, left.
The spray patterns of all kinds of other rifles also gradually became clear. In an instant, Yang Yu went from a player who only knew how to fire short bursts to a recoil control master.
The images of spray transfers flashing through his mind made his blood boil even more. He was ready to dive straight into some satisfying combat.
Yang Yu then looked at the advance cost again.
Compared to getting 911 backstab kills on Inferno, landing 500 spray transfer kills per day in deathmatch was relatively easy.
Now that he had finished paying the advance cost for B1T’s headshot talent, he had already planned to continue going into deathmatch every day to get a certain number of headshots and maintain his headshot feel.
Thinking about it now, getting headshots in deathmatch and practicing spray transfers did not seem to conflict at all.
I just need to land headshots with my spray transfers!
Yang Yu felt that he was simply a genius!
【Congratulations, Host, for paying the first advance cost in full. Would you like to begin the challenge mission?】
【Number One Big Bro: Reach rank one on any platform, and your rating must not be lower than 1.5.
PS: A professional player once said that “points” are useless; as long as you’re strong, that’s enough. But if you do not reach number one, how will the world know of the Host’s strength?】
【Mission Reward: Random Sacred Body Remnant】
……
There will be another chapter later. It’s not far from entering the professional arc.