I have played the game for a few months, am currently diamond 2 but queuing with a lot of gold-platinum randoms. I come from CSGO and everyone there knows what defaulting is and are generally good at spreading out across the map as T (attacker) to get map control and a possible entry frag. You then pick a site to attack based on the map control and entries you've got.

When I play with randoms everyone just follows me where ever I go and we always end up being 5 guys going at the same place, everyone making lots of noise and making it really obvious for the enemies where we are. This results in us walking into 3-4 enemies at the site and being flanked by the last.

To avoid this I usually try to run away from teammates to get map control on other parts of the map. Usually I get 1-2 entries but sometimes the other 4 guys just die in a pile and it is impossible to win.

Am I stuck playing with really low level players that don't understand such a basic concept of the game, or is the meta in valorant really that different from CS and I am clueless?