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CS2 guides

Short guides to sticker crafts, charms, finishes and patterns, each with skins and crafts you can open in 3D.

Illustration: gloved hands hold an AK-47 whose bare finish peels away like a sticker to show a Fire Serpent finish, in a sunny CS2 mapHow to make a CS2 sticker craftSlots, placement, rotation and scrape, with crafts to open in 3DIllustration: gloved hands tilt a white and blue CS2 AK-47 in the inspect pose while a little chicken charm swings from its side, on a sunny CS2 mapCS2 charms: patterns and pricesWhich guns take a charm, what the pattern number changes and what a charm adds to a craftIllustration: a gloved hand holds a pink and purple Doppler Karambit while red, blue and purple Doppler Karambits stand in a crate behind itCS2 Doppler phases explainedPhases 1 to 4, Ruby, Sapphire, Black Pearl and the Gamma Doppler phases side by sideIllustration: three CS2 agents kneel in awe around a blue and gold Case Hardened AK-47 on Mirage A siteCase Hardened patterns and blue gemsHow the pattern seed moves the blue, gold and purple, and how to read a blue gemIllustration: an M4A1-S Printstream bursts out of a phone screen held in a gloved hand, as if a shared link just openedCS2 inspect linksWhat an inspect link holds, how to open one and how to make your own from a craftIllustration: gloved hands hold an AK-47 that builds itself from a wireframe, block by block, into a black and red finish with four gold stickers, in a sunny CS2 mapHow to use a CS2 gen commandWhere it works, what it carries and how it differs from an inspect link