I didn’t play CS 1.6 too much, but I did play more than enough of CSS. I’d say that getting shot through a wall because someone decided to buy m249 or p90 was pretty much dying to low effort kills or getting killed by a random grenade because 10 people threw nades in your general direction when you were walking out of spawn. Let’s not forget the wonderful flashbang spam in de_dust2 where everyone throws nades from and to long.
CS was and is a great fps game, I will completely agree to that. But like every game, it had things that some people just hated. That’s why there were servers where flashbangs couldn’t be bought, or awp/autosniper was restricted to one per team.
There is also a great difference between OW and CS. Other game has abilities and ultimates which can completely change which side wins. Other game, tactics and mainly very good aim decided which side won.
In CS, people didn’t respawn until round was over or it was deathmatch. Aim was most critical part and headshot almost always leads to instant kill. Unless it was an awp and it killed always unless it hit leg. You actually had to care about your ammo and if you played CS 1.6, you always had to buy the magazines/clips for your gun if you wanted to shoot more than what you already had in clip/mag. CS also didn’t have any sustain.
In Overwatch you have heroes such as reinhardt who people would consider “brain-dead”. Thing about these “brain-dead” heroes is that they don’t need to aim much, but they don’t benefit from critical hits. The “brain-dead” heroes in Overwatch have the set time-to-kill which doesn’t usually change, but with heroes such as widow for example, TTK can drastically change from instant to forever.
For true FPS experience, even for me CS is better candidate than the game called Overwatch with abilities and other stuff like that. But I like Overwatch way more due to versatility it has. Overwatch would be much more boring for me if it was just about aim like lots of people want it to be.
Don’t like “brain-dead” heroes? (This isn’t directed at you, just general now)
Aim is all that matters?
If that’s the case… Why do you play Overwatch, a game which doesn’t care about your ability to aim? Even in CS just aim wasn’t enough. Aim was the greatest part in the game, but even in CS you couldn’t get to the top with aim alone. Now Overwatch cares about the aim even less, so the aspects that you could mostly ignore in CS are more important.
You may ask, what are these aspects? Strategy, tactics, understanding of game, its players, communication and most of all teamwork. If you have played a game like Red Orchestra(2)/Rising Storm, you may understand that it doesn’t matter how well you can aim, because you cannot do anything alone. In Red Orchestra or Rising storm, team with someone who communicates the plans and strategies/tactics wins. But that also requires that people actual act on those plans.
These casual/“brain dead” heroes in Overwatch usually tend to be the ones who take on the role(s) of shot-caller, ult-tracker and target-caller to compensate their hero’s lack of ability. People who play heroes which require a lot of aim (DPS) don’t usually do any of these.
Maybe DPS acts as a scout, because dps characters usually have greater mobility and tell rest of the team what enemy team is doing so that the shot-caller makes plan of attack or defense with the help of ult-tracker, who has tried to track ultimates of enemy team.
When plan is being executed, target-caller who is usually tank says who to focus. If let’s say, Moira uses fade, target-caller calls to attack Moira because she doesn’t have a way to escape anymore.
Overwatch has way more to it than just being able to aim or play casual/“brain dead” heroes. Due to the abilities and different heroes, the importance of aim is smaller and the importance planning and such is greater compared to a game like CS. I do not mean that aim isn’t very important, because the ability to kill someone is very important in Overwatch. The method of killing someone is a different thing though.
Anyway, I meant to give you advice at some point and not write an essay. My advice for you to avoid tilting is taking a break, finding another game, maybe something chill like mount&blade, or something like that. After your break you can come back to overwatch feeling a bit more refreshed. You could also look for PUGs where you can play Overwatch with people of varying skill ratings and actually play the game with proper team and have fun.
There is no point in forcing yourself to play a game. Find an alternative for a while and then come back. NEVER force yourself to play a game you don’t enjoy playing. If you want to play comp, remember to have fun. Losing sucks, but honestly, it is just a game. You lose some virtual ego and that’s it. Don’t take it too seriously.