In other news, I ranked into Silver III on CS:GO!
Then I promptly starting complaining about other players being bad:
The amount of people who don't listen to calls or footsteps while playing competitive mode makes me angry. Valve should suggest casual mode.
— Brad Carr (@bcarr) June 16, 2014
You just finished with less than a .4 KDR and are unranked. You should get a warning that forces you into casual mode for a few hours.
— Brad Carr (@bcarr) June 16, 2014
Or how about a "You're bad and you should feel bad" message? Anything would be better than sandbagging a team in matchmaking.
— Brad Carr (@bcarr) June 16, 2014
But getting back to the reason this post exists at all:
On the bright side, the 13" i7 MacBook Air is running CS:GO at 50-60 FPS at native resolution like a boss. Happy I made the purchase.
— Brad Carr (@bcarr) June 16, 2014
I might have over-estimated the frame rate of the game, but I’m amazed that the machine can handle the game at all, much less render the game playable at native resolution. I have the graphics turned down to a lower level than the game’s auto-detect suggested and I’m using the MacBook Air’s built-in keyboard and an ancient Logitech RF laptop mouse, and it’s still an awesome little machine.
I’m glad that I made the purchase, even if I put it off for months because I felt like it might have been an irresponsible purchase. I’m looking forward to playing games on a PC again, since the good ship Xbox One still isn’t worthy enough of laying down money on, in my opinion.