Downloading practice maps from the csgo workshop

Training from inside the game makes it easier to apply your new skills in a competitive match. That is why Yprac focuses on practice tools that you use from inside csgo. Here are the basics to get you up and running.

Downloading maps

First things first: to be able to use our custom practice modes to improve your aim and map knowledge, you will need to have them on your PC. To get them on there, you need to subscribe to them on the steam workshop.

You can decide to get all maps by choosing "Subscribe to all" in a steam collection, or you can select which ones you want to download by scrolling through and pressing the plus buttons on the right. You will not be able to play some workouts unless you subscribe to all the maps.

The maps will automatically download in the background the next time you launch csgo. Worth noting is that any patches and hotfixes of the maps will be downloaded as soon as they are made available. You never have to worry about not running the latest version of a map.

Finding the maps

When you have subscribed to the maps they should pop up inside your game. You can locate them by going to the play section and choosing "Workshop Maps" in the dropdown.

If you have subscribed to many workshop maps you can easily filter your maps to quickly find what you are looking for.

Selecting and launching

Once you have found the map you are looking for it is as simple as selecting it and pressing go. The csgo client will launch a local server on your pc and do all the configurations for you. 

To address a common issue when downloading a map for the first time. If you get the error "Failed to find dedicated server" when trying to launch a map, it hasn't anything to do with dedicated servers.

What happened is that you tried to open the map before it was fully downloaded. Despite the confusing error-message, you only have to wait for the map to finish downloading and you should be all good.

And that's it, you now know how to download essential practice maps and can start using aim, recoil, prefire and many other custom practice modes.