About cs2loadouts.com

Who is behind it

I've played Counter-Strike for about 2,000 hours and I'm Faceit level 10, though these days I play mostly for fun. My day job is design, so color, contrast and how things sit next to each other is the part I actually know something about. I am not a market analyst, I just care how a loadout looks.

My own taste runs white. My favorite setup is Pillow Punchers gloves with a vanilla knife and clean white weapons, something like this Karambit set. You will notice the white combos get a lot of love here.

Why it exists

Honestly, because I enjoy it. Putting skins together is the part of the game I never get tired of, and this was a way to turn that into something I could build and share instead of keeping it in screenshots on my desktop.

It also fills a gap. Every marketplace shows a skin on its own, on a black background, at an angle you never see in a match. That tells you almost nothing about the question that matters once you own a knife or a pair of gloves: does this go with what I have? Each combo here is a specific pairing, shown in-game, with the price of the whole set attached.

How I choose the combos

I usually start from one skin and look for the gloves that suit it best, then try the pair in-game. There are no fixed rules behind it. A combo goes up when the pieces look good together to my eye, the same way you would judge an outfit, and it does not go up just to fill a category. That is why some colors have far more sets than others.

I do all of this solo: picking, checking in-game, taking the screenshots and adding each set to the site. Browse the result in the combo gallery.

Where the prices come from

Item prices come from live Skinport listings and refresh daily. The last sync was September 30, 2026. A combo's total is the sum of its items in the wear shown. Where an item has no set wear or phase, its cheapest listing is used instead, and the total gets a plus sign because the real price can only go up from there.

Listings move constantly and vary by float and pattern, so treat every number as a starting point rather than a quote. If an item in a set is not listed at the moment, the total falls back to a recorded figure so the page never shows a blank.

How the site makes money

Right now it does not. There are no affiliate deals, no sponsorships and no ads, and the Buy buttons are plain links to a marketplace so you have somewhere to get the item.

I don't want to run the site for free forever, so once it has enough visitors I plan to add affiliate links, possibly with more than one marketplace. When that happens it will say so here. What will not change: combos are picked before any link exists, no marketplace gets a say in what appears on the site, and prices come from public market data.

What is coming

Full loadouts covering every slot, and guides on building a set around what you already own. I also try to add things you will not find elsewhere, like Skindle, a daily guess-the-skin game.

Corrections

If something is wrong, a price that looks off, a skin under the wrong color, a pairing that does not hold up in-game, send a message on any of the profiles in the footer. Getting the details right is the whole point of the project.