Review of New CS2 Stickers. What do the 2025 Community Stickers Collection Hide?
The community was waiting for a major update for CS2’s birthday – and they got it. The catch is that the developers’ and players’ understanding of “major” doesn’t quite align, so we have to pretend we’re really happy about the new “accessories.” However, let’s put all the hate aside and be content with what we have. In our previous article, we compiled the best charms from recent collections, and today we’ll focus on stickers. Let’s see what VALVE prepared for us for their second anniversary.
Sticker | Sent With Love
The first and probably the only paper sticker that evokes any emotions. This flying bullet sticker can find plenty of applications and should really become popular for certain crafts. But its fully scraped version seems a bit absurd. Even with maximum zoom in the inspect menu, the remaining smiley face is extremely difficult to see. It’s possible that skilled crafters will find a use for this too, but not everyone will notice it.
Sticker | Chrome Dome (Holo)
We’ve seen this color combination and gradient before. For example, Sticker | Infinite Diamond (Holo) or Sticker | Runtime (Holo). In our opinion, they can even be called exact copies, but the skull design is quite capable of surpassing its older brothers in popularity. You may not have noticed the difference between the regular and scraped version, so let us explain – only the eyes scrape off and become completely transparent.
Sticker | Cutie (Holo)
This sticker should definitely appeal to the female audience, as it looks really cute. A great addition to pink, purple, or any other contrasting skins. The designer suggests using it with or without the background – it’s just a matter of taste, as the main inscription doesn’t disappear and remains completely intact.
Sticker | Evidence (Holo)
The fingerprint sticker looks quite interesting, and looking at it immediately brings many original ideas to mind. They’ll look especially good on minimalist, solid-colored skins like AK-47 | Slate or AK-47 | Midnight Laminate. The sticker won’t ruin the design concept, but will only make it unique, not like everyone else’s. The fingerprint can also be turned into a human eye silhouette, but the size becomes so small that the original version seems much more interesting.
Sticker | Froggles (Holo)
Here you can see a reference to agents from Operation Riptide – Cmdr. Frank ‘Wet Sox’ Baroud | SEAL Frogman, which are currently actively growing in price. Will this sticker see similar success? Unlikely, but finding applications is quite easy. Its scraped version looks very similar to Dead Eye (Holo) and should become a budget alternative to the sticker from the same Operation Riptide. So you don’t even need to show any creativity, all the ideas are already online – just use them.
Sticker | Eyes In The Sky (Foil)
The sticker’s main feature is its size. This is one of the few stickers that takes up almost the entire allocated area and definitely won’t get lost on any weapon. The design itself is clearly inspired by the famous game Flappy Bird, only the well-known duck has been replaced with a chicken. If you’re only interested in the main pet in Counter-Strike lore, the author has given you the option to leave it alone. There’s also a version where the rainbow remains and then the chicken starts to look like the cat from Nyan Cat.
Sticker | Good As New (Foil)
Despite the rather old metallic version of the sticker, it has a quite unique texture that strongly resembles duct tape. The design is executed very realistically and will look good on skins like AK-47 | Rat Rod or futuristic items like Printstream or Redline. While the band-aid idea isn’t new either, here you can find positive aspects in the interesting texture and coloring.
Sticker | Hands Off (Foil)
Another metallic sticker that looks more like a holographic version. The prohibition sign will definitely appear quite often in original crafts, so we’d advise not parting with it prematurely. In the final scraping phase, the sticker turns into the inscription from its name – Hands Off, which will only be visible on solid-colored skins. A decent sticker, but we didn’t see anything outstanding here.
Sticker | Digi-Strike (Lenticular)
Moving on to the rarest stickers, we start with the main toy of the 90s – the Tamagotchi. This is a kind of virtual pet that you had to take care of, and how closely you watched it determined its mood and even life. These “pet” stages are exactly what change each other thanks to the Lenticular effect. If you fully scrape the sticker, a Japanese inscription remains, which translates to English as “Striker.” You can also scrape only the screen area and make any character already drawn on the skin your pet.
Sticker | Neon MVP (Lenticular)
This is probably the only sticker that captures all attention as soon as you open the collection. It’s all because of the highly recognizable MTV logo, which has been remade into the abbreviation MVP. We hope all copyrights are preserved and we won’t lose this masterpiece. The neon stripes that form the basis of the letters create an 80s atmosphere, when everyone’s favorite entertainment channel began broadcasting. Who would think of scraping the sticker, leaving only the crown – it’s hard to imagine, but such people will definitely be found. For example, trying it on AK-47 | The Empress or M4A4 | The Emperor. We don’t condemn this, but we don’t support it either.
Sticker | BullHit (Lenticular)
The last sticker from 2025 Community Stickers with a cool spinning bullet effect. It should look gorgeous on M4A1-S or USP-S silencers or become part of an interesting sticker craft. But the sticker itself again doesn’t look like an undisputed banger, and its scraped version altogether resembles canned corn.
Why VALVE Disappointed?
After the incredibly cool Character Craft Stickers and Elemental Craft Stickers collections, which inspired many players to create cool crafts, the new stickers look very sparse. There isn’t a single interesting easter egg, and half of the techniques have already been seen in the game before. We won’t even mention Sugarface 2 – let’s pretend none of us see that window in The Armory Pass.
It’s hard to imagine how the developers planned to entice people to buy passes with these stickers, so we don’t rule out that another update awaits us in the near future.
Author: Alex
Alex is an author and esports observer with more than seven years of experience. He specializes in analyzing new releases in the world of computer games, gaming services, and in-game economies. Alex shares practical experience and an expert perspective on the development of gaming, helping readers understand complex mechanics and stay up to date with the latest news.
