In Counter-Strike 2, the right crosshair plays an important role. We will show you how to set up your crosshair and which ones the professionals use.
Shooters like Counter-Strike and Valorant are characterized mainly by firing from the hip, meaning without looking through a scope. To still hit your opponents, your crosshair is of great importance.
Counter-Strike 2 offers you a range of different settings so you can customize and optimize your crosshair.
A well-adjusted crosshair can help you hit your opponents better in gunfights and land your shots more accurately. Therefore, we will show you how to adjust your crosshair in CS2 and which crosshair variants high-Elo players and professionals use.
CS2 Crosshair – How to change your crosshair in the settings
How do you change your crosshair? To change your crosshair, you need to go to the settings of CS2. Navigate to the “Game” section and then click on the “Crosshair” tab.
- Settings > Game > Crosshair
Once you arrive in the settings in the crosshair area, you can now make various adjustments. Besides the style, the friendly fire warning, and the new “follow recoil” feature, you can make individual adjustments to your crosshair.
Here you can change the color, for example, if you prefer a striking pink or green crosshair instead of a white one. You can also set the length and thickness of the lines and determine whether your crosshair should have a dot in the center.
Here’s an overview of the various customization options:
- Crosshair Style:
- Classic
- Classic (static)
- Traditional
- Friendly fire warning at the crosshair:
- Always on
- Always off
- Follow recoil
- Yes
- No
- Center point
- Yes
- No
- Length
- Adjusts the length of the lines
- Thickness
- Adjusts the width of the lines
- Spacing
- Sets how far apart the lines (from the center) should be
- Outline
- Sets whether you want an outline, i.e., a black border around your crosshair and how thick the border should be
- Red
- Green
- Blue
- Here you set the color component of the respective color and can create additional colors by mixing.
- Alpha
- Explanation: Sets how transparent you want your crosshair to be. If you set the value all the way down, your crosshair will no longer be visible.
- T-Style
- Yes
- No
- Weapon-specific spacing
- Yes
- No
CS2 Crosshair – The crosshairs the pros use
How do you use a professional’s crosshair? When you are in the crosshair settings, you will see an image of your current crosshair at the top. At the bottom edge of the image, you will see the option “Share or import”. If you click here, you can paste another player’s crosshair, for example, from a professional.
To do this, first copy the code of a crosshair to the clipboard. You do this by simply highlighting the code with your mouse and then pressing “Ctrl + C”. Next, click in CS2 in the text field that opened when you went to “Share or import” and paste the crosshair code you selected using the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl + V”.
What are these crosshairs? Here we show you the crosshairs of 5 (ex-)professionals so that you have an idea of what a high-Elo player’s crosshair looks like.
- s1mple
- CSGO-yVYbF-szZxZ-2QuNz-4YHEE-jeK5O
- NiKo crosshair code
- CSGO-Kt7BO-irudC-fuRod-y5fjA-fuzQN
- m0NESY crosshair code
- CSGO-hzrMn-jXu8b-R7VH4-hQ9aa-OnMHA
- dev1ce crosshair code
- CSGO-yxFut-M6Vka-p4GAf-X5yZT-ey3JE
- ropz crosshair code
- CSGO-HhqGJ-sDkmR-W9oNx-DvQOF-xpuCQ
- Shroud’s crosshair settings for CS2
- CSGO-Edh6j-RrwMz-CEfqX-DH3jz-raJGG
If you do not want to use a professional’s crosshair, you can of course create your own or adjust the ready-made crosshair of a professional to your taste.
However, when creating the crosshair, you should ensure that the finished artwork does not distract you or cover too large an area of the opponent. You do not want to unexpectedly miss your opponent because the crosshair obscured the head. Often, less is more.
If you still want to tweak your mouse sensitivity after adjusting your crosshair, we have a guide that shows you how to find the perfect sensitivity:
