The God Who Goes Unstretched: How a Rebellious Prodigy is Breaking the Rules of CS:GO 

So which res are you all repping?

Ropz is a god who lived in sadness and regret. His family didn't have much at one point and they had to sell their house or something, and then his father killed himself in shame. Ropz wished that his father had waited, because he made it and could make enough money to carry his family. I hope nothing but the best for Ropz

How many clips does dimitri have of me

He stretches the screen himself with how close he is to his monitor

The guy literally have cool as his last name, what a legend

11:24 this is a really good example of high level game sense. AZR knows that a 4:3 can't see him, in his brain he is in a blind spot and thinks he's safe, but unfortunately it's Ropz up there, lol.

Only OG's remember that n0thing played in 1920x1080 back in CS:GO's early days

the guy is literally named Robin Kool. Like, that is 90s action cartoon protagonist levels of cool. He was prophesized to succeed.

Twistzz is crying right now, people even forgotten about his res holy shit

I used to play with ropz back in 2016 when I was in fplc with him. You could tell he was on a different level, it was the era when zywoo and woxic where in fplc too. Good times man.

when your the only one playing with 16 : 10

any time i see dimitri's face I know its gonna be a cs video

Thanks, now I don't feel bad anymore playing 16:9 :)

8:54 his brain's stretched

16:9 gives a better situational awareness which can be useful. Ropz even says that "I sometimes see enemies my teammates probably missed" or something along those lines.

wow how crazy, it's almost like being that good is down to personal skill and what you're used to! who could have guessed...

The title makes ropz sound like a Magical Stretch Armstrong who would lose his powers if they stretched him arm or something. "The god who goes unstretched"

That explains why he's different. His aim is so smooth and calm

"I play it stritch it" -Every BR player

I Remember playing 1.6 estonian servers with ropz when he had time, good days

It’s awesome seeing a legend like GTR speaking so highly and showing so much respect to ropz. So many of the old heads in any esport or traditional sport are just relentless haters on the new young superstars, especially when they do things differently.

I love these videos so much, keep up the awesome work!

He plays with his face so close to the monitor that he actually plays 4:3

He plays with 16:9 but he also "kisses" the monitor

Idk if resolution makes you a god.. that's a bit of a.. **stretch**

Pro player: Plays the game like every casual Everyone: HOW DOES HE DO IT? WHAT A CHAMPION!

Stretched has been a thing since cs 1.3, the general reason was the wider player models. Fps became a reason after lcd monitors got introduced in early 2000s

4:3 stretched sure has an advantage when you are shooting still targets but when the enemy is running they also move faster on your screen. Probably should have mentioned this in the video when comparing pros and cons.

I exclusively use 21:9 and I will never go back. Stretched models=faster model movement which makes them as hard to hit as beforehand. I get accused of hacking constantly by the 4:3 noobs, like it's not my fault you're still gaming like its 2008

I know he's saying 16:9 but I hear 69

I love Dmitri's videos. He's definitely my favorite host for the Score.

Men Ropz is such a model. I just love him. Hope the best for him.

15:50 "We need to win now, OK?" :D

Shout out to people playing with dem unstretched black bars ;_;

I swear that Dimitri can make anything sound exciting by his writing and delivery

Amazing content man!

Me, an intellectual, playing on non wide-screen monitor on 800x600

The reason stretched res seems to improve your aim is because it alters your X by Y sensitivity. It makes the mouse move faster in the X axis than the Y axis. Since we move the mouse right to left more easily than up and down (because of how our arms/wrists work), we are more likely to make over/under corrections when moving the mouse on the Y axis. Using a stretched res effectively lowers your sensitivity on the Y axis, and since we know lowering your sensitivity allows you to make more precise corrections, it stands to reason that this would improve your aim in a game like CS:GO where there are not a lot of vertical elements (another reason people dislike Nuke). This is not true of other shooters like quake, unreal, TF2, Overwatch etc, because those shooters require more vertical mouse movement.

Dimitri is the best theScoreEsports reporter ! so lovely to watch !

I play 21:9 and there have been hundreds of time where I've saved a team mate from death. We clutched on mirage the other day bc I could see a ct rotating t spawn to mid while my team mate was holding it... Won us the game!!!

It makes sense that someone is having success with a more standard resolution. If you think about it, stretched, mechanically, is the equivalent of having a lower horizontal sensitivity, instead it seems more natural to us because of warped perspective. A shot doesn't get easier, necessarily. I'd even go as far as to say a good reason a lot of these players do it is well, they're used to it.

finally a pro player to represent us 16:9 kings and queens

The guy with the vertical is built different and straight up vibing honestly

Ropz, the one and only that pops heads on native.

i watched this and i said to myself "I should try going 4:3"

Thank you for saying that at the end of the day those are your settings and you do whatever you want with them. It always lowkey annoys me when people obsess about pros' settings; they get their chrossahirs, their sensitivities, their resolutions, graphical settings... why? It's cool if you want to experiment and see what works best for you (and some people can never find the right crosshair too) but ultimately you should be setting everything yourself. You choose the sensitivity that works best for you (plus mouse weight makes a difference so just blindly copying is dumb), you get your graphics the way you can get most fps for most visibility and readability, and the resolution that suits you. I've always been rocking full hd just because of the field of view, I am obsessed with seeing as much as it's possible because in a game so heavily focused on information it's good to see the most you can. Sure, stretched makes the targets fatter and honestly it makes holding tight angles with an AWP a lot easier and that's about the only good thing I see about it; in the cons section you have sensitivity that will feel off as you'll move faster vertically and slower horizontally, less FOV and CS has relatively low FOV anyway, and I find it hard to see people that have the very tips of their heads exposed like standing in CT on dust2 shooting at short A entrance - it's almost as if you see 1 pixel of their heads on stretched and 3 pixels on full hd. So yeah, 3 cons for 1 pro is not enough to justify 4:3 for me. On 16:9 I have the exact opposite, 3 pros to 1 con, FOV is the biggest seller; I have seen too many people lose a round or just die because someone with 16:9 crept up on their 4:3 ass and they didnlt get a chance to react. tl;dr set your own settings instead of copying others, play what suits you and not what other people think is best.

in 16:9 the models move slower so it can actually be easier to hit sometimes and you also get a better overview. however it is worse when shooting at long distances

4:29 - The delivery of this. Perfect.

Damn, Get_RiGhT is really good in this commentary piece like his opinion is really great and the eloquency in his delivery is excellent. He could have a great career in this field.

Fun fact device changed his resolution to 16:9 because of eye strain

I've always played in 16:9 and never had problems in poppin those heads. Since ropz joined mouz, I've been a big fan of him and finally I can be happy that I have a good player whose settings are similar to mine.

Showing scream and shox while about stretched is pure disrespect, shox runs black bars till this day, and scream rocked 800x600 black throughout his entire career

Lol so I guess everyone forgot about shroud or something? He played 16:9 I believe

“Ropz why do you intentionally use an objectively worse res” “its memes” *proceeds to dominate the esport

No one: Literally no one: Dimitri every video: If you've heard of csgo then you know what we're talking about

I was definitely expecting a "New Year's Resolution" joke at the end there

I get native players are rare but just simply forgetting about shroud brax twistzz tabsen etc.. Who all played it aswell kinda weird guys

21:9 all day

In recent ESL One when KennyS missed gla1ve in connector on overpass is a good example for the disadvantage of 4:3

i fuckin love ropz he says "it's memes, pretty cool exposure like this" so honest hahahaha

The fact that the game slows down helps me in pistol rounds for example, where everybody is moving. The higher fov also helps a lot. It also feel a lot smoother to move around. For me at least 16:9 is better, and i played 4:3 for 1000 hours or so.

bro, amanek playing with inverted audio is way crazier than this

what a legend ROPZ! 16x9 1080p! how it should be!

shroud who was rocking 16:9 before ropz was even well know is getting only mentioned on the side...but ropz is the one pro using it...

dosia won a major on native res lmaoooop

would this video exist if swag wasn't banned?

When he said “or just want to fuck your shit up” i lost it lmao

man's really roasted theScore esports so subtly 3:28 . New favorite pro

Idk why, cs is the only game i like playing on 4:3 tbh It just feels good ig. Placebo heh

What about shroud's 16:9 res?

There are two constants in CS: -If you're too good, you must be cheating -Cyka blyat, drop AK and rush B, blyat!

9:43 "some scrub who didnt know about it" that hurts bro

have people just forgot about the legend himself Braxton swag peirce

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesnt twistzz also use native?

1920 x 1080 is goated

Watching 16:9 plays:😛 Playing 16:9:😭

get right is retiring f in the chat

12:07 The models *LOOK* bigger. Nothing changes in the game itself. It's like having bad vision. You see things blurry, others don't. But the world is the same.

“Resolution revolution” OMEGALUL

ropz' crosshair placement is so good

I'm out here with a 1:1 1080. Even more cursed then 16:9

ropz didn't turn on his mic for the interview

The problem of stretched Res is we all had been through a phase that we need to do anything to improve even if it's changing everything in your game from crosshair and sens to Res and audio But after one got used to stretched res, it feels so weird when changing it back so people naturally just stuck to it

I love it when get_right says “sheeting”

ig im not first quz a bot beat me 10 seconds after upload sadddd

Find out kjaerbye's resolution. That's some interesting stuff.

*Dimitri appears on a video* Valorant: *chuckles* I'm in danger

Get right !!. Good to see the legend !

13:49 Imagine taking HLTV seriously lmao

twistzz uses 16:9 too fyi

I still use 4:3 because when I was on pro teams in 1.6, we used CRT monitors. Flat screens at that time had huge input lag.

I always wondered how expansive a fps can get in terms of strategy.. But this is the biggest brain outside the box unintentional thing to happen.

Everybody knows Shroud is the native god

YEKINDAR: Am I a joke to you?

07:05 "Mamaliga cu carnati" Ah yes, Romanian dishes taking over the competitive scene since 2014

Ive played against him on D2 , the game was so much fun - hes insane

Early but no notifications gang

Why we talked about 69 a lot? 😂

Ah yes "Bucket" the key to being great at CS (14:17)

I use 5:4 1280x1024 stretched and 1920x1080p, If you change res while playing will seem very weird but 1 to 2 days max, you can adapt to any res, the game seems more smooth, ( not motion blur or other filters) but seems that you move faster, the characters look fat the sprays really seem easy, but that just depends of what your sense is and personally I can move a lot better in stretched, but 1080p just seems 👌🏻👌🏻 I also use the same sense in both res 0.9 in game no raw input and 1600dpi with no filters 😁