In a 2v2 retake, which ESP elements are actually decision-relevant?

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@retake_ronin

Retakes are the most information-dense situation in the game and the easiest to over-clutter. You've got the spike ticking, two defenders somewhere in the site, utility on the floor, and about eight seconds to decide a path.

If you had to strip the overlay down to only what changes your decision, what survives? My instinct is that health, shield, view direction and defuse progress are the ones that alter what you do, and most of the rest is context you could get from the minimap or from comms.

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@quiet_kj

Defuse progress first, obviously. Everything else is downstream of whether the clock lets you take a fight at all.

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@flankwatch

View direction and health. Knowing someone is one-shot and facing the other way is the whole read on which one to take first.

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@retake_ronin

Health and shield both? Or is shield redundant once you have health.

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@flankwatch

Shield matters because full shield changes how many bullets a trade costs you. Health alone understates it.

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@mild_mannered_duelist

Skeleton over box in a retake for me. Two defenders in a small site means overlapping boxes and you can't tell who's who. Posture reads better.

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@retake_ronin

Fair, though that's a lot of elements for an eight second window. Might be a combat-mode-and-trim situation rather than running all of it.

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