Counter-Strike 2 Guide Directory
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Valve’s Counter-Strike 2 is perhaps the most prominent esports shooter on the scene, and for good reason. Starting out as a mod for Half-Life, the series has evolved into what it is today - a force to be reckoned with on PC, offering some of the most tactical, skill-based shooting in the genre.
This guide collects GGRecon’s comprehensive guide coverage of the game, offering you strategies on how to play certain maps, tips to improve your aim, and explainers for all the intricacies in between.
Competitive Guides
Competitive is the main mode that most people playing Counter-Strike 2, pitting yourself against other players of a similar skill level to climb the ranks. Taking place on iconic maps with strict round-based rules, it’s arguably where this game is at its best.
These guides will walk you through how Competitive works, with explainers on topics such as rank distribution and the mode’s economy.
- Weapon spray patterns: How to learn and perfect
- Rank distribution
- All ranks listed
- Economy system explained
- Premier Mode explained and how to access it
Maps
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The maps of CS2 are where all the action takes place, with intentionally designed lines of sight and all manner of grenade throw spots unique to each location.
This section of our guide will walk you through each of the maps in the game, with helpful explainers on how you can improve your gameplay on each of them. This section is a work in progress, so be sure to come back soon once we’ve completed more map guides.
Settings
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This is a PC game through and through, and with that comes plenty of settings you can change to suit your own setup. From graphics settings to the best crosshair combinations, you’ll find answers in this section.
- Best graphics settings for max FPS & visibility
- Pro player crosshair codes
- Best launch options
- Bob settings
- Lower brightness
- Create a jumpthrow bind
- Enable left-hand view
- Get stretched resolution & is it bannable?
- Hide UI & disable HUD
- Convert VALORANT sensitivity to CS2
- Show your FPS
- Best dot crosshair
Cases and Skins
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Opening cases and the skins procured from them are a huge deal in the world of Counter-Strike 2, with an entire marketplace of players trading and selling them. It’s a weird and wonderful world to explore, and that’s exactly what these following guides will do, walking you through the most expensive skins out there and how to get some for yourself.
- Best & most profitable cases to open
- Kilowatt Case skins
- Anubis Collection skins
- Can you get Agent skins?
- Revolution Case skins
- How to get crates and cases
- How to rent skins
- Most expensive skin ever sold
- Skin float value explained
- Weekly Care Package drop reset
- Most expensive inventory in history
How To’s, Tips and Tricks
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CS2 is a complicated game, with lots of moving parts and plenty to remember from match to match. This section of guides will give you a few pointers to improve your gameplay.
- Smoke grenade changes
- Best CS2 console commands for noclip, grenades & more
- Beginner’s guide: Tips and tricks to win more games
- Knife commands and how to test them for free
- Hitboxes explained
- How to bhop
- How to see damage dealt
- How to check your Trust Factor
- How to defuse the bomb
- Improve trust factor
- Kick yourself
- Overwatch explained
- Peeker’s advantage explained
Errors and Bug Fixes
As a PC game, nothing ever goes completely to plan, and there are a few bugs and errors that regularly occur when playing the game. We’ve encountered a few of them ourselves, and have documented how you can go about fixing them in these guides.
- VAC was unable to verify your game session error fix
- Community servers not showing up fix
- Stuttering with high FPS fix
- Input lag fix
- Unable to establish connection error fix
Patch Notes
Valve regularly updates this game with tweaks to the balancing, map rotation, and more. This section serves as a backlog of patch notes, so you know exactly what’s changed in the game - and when.
FAQs
We hope you’ve managed to find an answer to your questions in the guides above. However, if you find yourself still looking for answers, chances are you might find one in this final section.
Here, we’ve collated a bunch of answers to questions that we regularly get asked about the game.
- Can you play if you’re banned?
- Steam Deck
- Can you still play CS:GO?
- Is it coming to console?
- Server tick rate explained
- Free to play?
- MacOS support
- Is there a battle pass?
- When was CS:GO released?
This guide is a work in progress and will be updated as the game evolves.