The Best CS2 Workshop Maps To Get Better

Introduction

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Counter-Strike is one of the most popular games the world has ever seen for a number of reasons, and one of the foundations of its success is the fact that it’s very easy to understand and get started with while having an incredibly high skill ceiling. CS is not an easy game to get good at, and even the best professionals are still learning and getting better every single day, partially due to using the best CS2 workshop maps out there.

In this article, we’ll list the best CS2 Workshop maps that you can download right now to help you improve. This guide will mostly be focused on individual improvement. Fun maps or multiplayer 1v1 maps (we have a dedicated article for the best 1v1 maps) are not the focus of this list.

Why not just play the game?

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If you’re even a little bit serious about your gameplay as a competitive CS2 player, you will want to train vital aspects of your game outside of the official servers. While it’s true that you get better by just playing the game, practicing something like spray control in official matches is not an incredibly efficient way of mastering that aspect of your game since you don’t get many opportunities to really nail and analyze a spray when playing against real enemies.

Think of it like training your passing in football: you’re going to progress a lot faster if you’re doing dedicated passing drills on the training pitch than you would if you’re only playing full matches, where there’s more pressure and less opportunities to nail the mechanics. CS2’s Steam Workshop offers many such training pitches, and in this article we’ll go over the very best CS2 Workshop maps that can and will improve your gameplay.

What is the Steam Workshop?

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The Steam Workshop is an integrated hub for player-created content. It’s basically a streamlined way of publishing and downloading modded content (mods) for games that support it. Contrary to the ‘old’ way of adding mods to your game, there’s no need to download files from a specific website and add them to your game by moving them to certain folders; with the Steam Workshop you just have to click one button and the mod gets added to your game.

How to add Workshop maps to CS2

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Simply go to the Workshop page of the Workshop item/file you want to add, and click the green Subscribe button. Steam will then automatically download the necessary items, after which you can find the content in your game. In the case of maps, you will find them under Play -> Workshop Maps. Just load the map and you’re good to go!

Check out the CS2 Workshop

Recoil/Spray Pattern Mastery

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Mastering the recoil and spray pattern of the most used guns in the game is an absolutely vital skill if you want to become a complete player. When it comes to mastering recoil in CS2, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is that every gun has a different spray pattern, and the good news is that these spray patterns always follow the same general trajectory, making it possible to learn these patterns.

The best map to do so is Mr.uLLeticaL’s Recoil Master – Spray Training map. This map has tons of options for you to master the spraying pattern of every single weapon in the game. The spraying pattern is clearly displayed above the practice wall, you can have a dot on said wall trace the spraying pattern to practice muscle memory, you can have the map spray the weapon for you to visually see how the bullets fly, …

All in all, this is one of the handiest and most essential CS2 Workshop Maps in the game, and we would go as far as saying that it’s a necessary download for newer and beginning players.

Download Recoil Master – Spray Training

Smokes and Grenade Lineups

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If you’ve watched a bit of pro CS, you will know that utility (i.e. grenades) is an integral part of any CS2 player worth their salt. As a beginner or intermediate player you obviously don’t have to know as many smokes as the pros do, but you really don’t want to be the one player who doesn’t know a single Mirage A site smoke, for example.

In addition to using the game’s built-in utility practice preset, you can also use grenade practice maps.

There are multiple maps to practice grenades (just search for map name + utility) but we recommend HLTV’s utility maps. These have tons of smokes and nades to train on, and it’s all free. Over CS:GO’s lifespan, Yprac’s nade training maps were the go-to, but most of the functionality on those maps is now hidden behind a paywall, so that’s not an option for most players.

Using YouTube or watching your favorite streamer to learn new lineups is definitely also a viable option, but for the basics we recommend using a Workshop map.

Download HLTV’s Utility Maps

Crosshair Placement / Prefiring Angles

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If you’ve ever played (much) higher ranked opponents you might have had a few moments where it seemed like they shot you in the face almost inhumanly fast. Usually, this is the result of them prefiring (or at least pre-aiming) common angles. You can learn this skill by playing deathmatches in the maps you want to learn, but lmtlss’ prefire training maps have dedicated scenarios to let you run by the most common prefiring angles.

Download lmtlss’ prefire training maps

Aim Training / Warming Up

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Most players will agree that warming up before getting into a competitive match is something that’s worthwhile.

In order to warm up, you could join any number of deathmatch servers (read our article on the best CS2 DM servers for more info) but if you want to be a bit more casual about it there’s Aim Botz – Aim Training by Mr. uLLeticaL. This has a ton of configuration options so that you can get the blood pumping and your aim warmed up before heading into a real match. It’s also one of the most iconic community maps in the game, with everyone from seasoned pros to fresh players using it. It’s definitely one to have in your collection.

Download Aim Botz

Movement / Jumping

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Movement in CS2 is a skill that needs to be trained, and having good movement not only allows you to get to places faster (allowing you to get a timing kill on enemies) but it will also get you to places where other people with worse movement can’t go, leading to free kills, shorter rotations, and other benefits.

There are tons of maps out there to train your movement, but a good one to get the basics down is Movement Hub by i like cats. This one has all of the current maps in one hub, so you don’t need to download separate files for each individual map. It also has handy guidelines and examples, and it has the most common skill jumps for each map, meaning that you’ll learn useful tricks with this map.

Download Movement Hub

Crosshair Generator

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Yes, you can configure your crosshair in the game itself. You can also browse our CS2 crosshair database and steal one from the pros. But having a map in the actual game where you can tweak and import crosshairs is still the best way to see what a crosshair looks like when playing.

For this reason, crashz’ Crosshair Generator is one of the most popular Workshop maps to ever grace the game. Here, you can do anything you’d want to do that’s related to your CS2 crosshair, and it’s an incredible tool for when you’re making your first crosshair or you want to spice things up with a new one.

Download crashz’ Crosshair Generator

Viewmodel Generator

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The viewmodel (where and how your hands and weapons appear on your screen) is something that’s of secondary importance to most players, but it can be fun to mess around with. And with players like NiKo experimenting with ‘oddball’ viewmodels, it’s becoming a more integral part of the pro scene, too.

If you want to get your own custom viewmodel (or try out some really crazy ones just for fun), then crashz’ Viewmodel Generator is a perfect map for you. It’s also a must for skins enthusiasts, as it’ll allow you to configure a viewmodel that maximizes the visibility of your skin for screenshot purposes.

Download crashz’ Viewmodel Generator

Config Generator

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The config generator by crashz & Misterio is the one-stop-shop for people who want to adjust their config settings. In this map, you can change your crosshair, viewmodel, HUD, radar options, and so on. You can also download and apply pro player and community configs.

This is incredibly handy and a real must for newer players, as changing up the radar zoom, inventory visibility, and the likes can massively improve your gameplay.

There are individual workshop maps that allow you to address things like your crosshair and viewmodel separately, but we really recommend having this map in your arsenal, as it has all the config options that you need built in.

Download config generator

Warmup / A Bit Of Everything

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You can craft a completely satisfactory warmup routine with all of the abovementioned maps, but we love Fast Warmup – Bot Training as a one-stop-shop for a quick warmup before you start grinding. It has multiple sections, including an aim_bots type of area, a section with elevation and building for a more realistic warmup approach, a spray trainer, and so on.

It’s our go-to map to play for a couple of minutes before that queue pops. And while it’s perhaps not the greatest for actual practice due to the limitations of the various scenarios, it definitely lives up to its name as a fast warmup map.

Download Fast Warmup – Bot Training

The best CS2 Workshop Maps – Conclusion

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One of the most beautiful things about CS2 (if you ask us) is its Workshop support. You can have hours and hours of fun playing community-made game modes and maps, and over the years there have been so many quality Workshop maps that it’s impossible to list all of them. This article contains a list of what we consider to be essentials for competitive CS2 players, and even though not all of these maps are as essential (no need to download a config generator if you already have a config, for example) it can’t hurt to have these maps in your rotation.

These maps, when used correctly, can and will make you a better (or at least more consistent) CS2 player, but don’t stop there. There are so many fun, handy, and downright impressive Workshop maps out there that we wholeheartedly encourage you to browse the Workshop section by yourself if you have the time. You’ll be amazed by the creativity and skills of the people who put out these wonderful maps.

Thanks for reading, and happy fragging!