CS2 Case Opening Guide: Discover How to Open Cases

They are containers that hold skins and items, which can be opened with a key. It uses a Random Number Generator to determine the skin that will drop once a player decides to open it with a key.

If you’re asking yourself “can you open cases in CS2”, the answer is yes. This is the same as in the good old days of CS:GO. You can win them in-game or buy them from the Steam Marketplace or your preferred third-party site.

It’s also important to mention there are three types of cases in CS2: Black Cases, Yellow Cases and eSports Cases. 

Now that you have a proper definition, let’s see how you can start opening them.

If you already have cases in your inventory or arsenal you want to open, here’s how you can unlock the contents:

1. Open Counter-Strike 2
2. Find the “Inventory”
3. Click on the CS2 case you want to open
4. Click on “Open”
5. Select the corresponding key
6. The case will be opened and let you know what skin you’ve just won

No rocket science here – and you can repeat the same steps anytime you want to open a new case. 

If you still don’t have cases, and you don’t know how to obtain them, the section titled “How to Get CS2 Cases to Open”, will bring you all the information you need to flood your inventory with new boxes.

Opening cases is pretty easy, but if you’re curious about the underlying process once you hit “Open” and select the key, the next section contains a detailed explanation.

Similarly to games of chance, think of online slots or new popular games like CS:GO Crash, Valve uses a Random Number Generator (RNG) to determine the skin you’ll win, without interference from any party, including the developer itself.

To understand it better, here’s how it works, step by step:

1. You decide to open a case and use the corresponding key
2. The RNG generates an unpredictable series of random numbers and symbols
3. This series of random values determines the skin that will drop from the case
4. Once the process has concluded, you’ll get to see the item you’ve just won
5. The new skin or item is added to your inventory

The use of an RNG, which has been audited and certified, makes sure no party can know what skin the case will drop beforehand. Even though the odds depending on the skin rarity are already established, the case opening process is 100% random and thus fair.

It’s also important to mention that this very same RNG guarantees that all the outcomes are independent from each other. For example, if you decide to open the same case 2 times, the second result will not be related in any form to the first outcome.

If you’d like to understand more about how the case opening process works, we invite you to read our article titled “Are CS:GO Cases Predetermined? – Randomness and Fairness”, which will bring you exclusive insights about the odds and nature of case opening in CS2.

Now you know how to open cases and you understand how the case opening process works, so it’s time to show you how to start collecting CS2 containers to win your first skins.

There are many ways by which you can start collecting cases in the game, and here you will find information about each one.

The Weekly Care Package

The first way by which you can get cases is in-game, thanks to the Weekly Care Package. To be eligible, you must meet the following requirements:

• You must be a Prime user, so you need to buy the subscription for $14.99 (one-time payment)
• You must level up at least one rank within the week, before the drop timer resets (Wednesday at 1 AM GMT)
• You shouldn’t have already claimed the free drop of the week

If you meet the eligibility criteria, then you’ll be able to choose two of the following 4 prizes:

• 1 CS2 Case
• 1 CS2 Skin
• 2 Graffitis

The best choices are the case and the free skin, because the graffitis has very little value.

So to make it easy: just buy the Prime subscription and grind hard. This is the only way by which you can win 1 free case every single week.

What case you will win is determined by The Droop Pool, which is composed of a list of different CS:GO cases. We can find the common ones, with a 99% drop chance, such as the Fracture Case ($0.15), and rare ones with a 1% drop chance, such as the Huntsman Weapon Case ($10-13).

If you’d like to learn more about the Weekly Drop Package, you can check our blog for a dedicated article about it.

Unfortunately, it’s not possible to get CS2 drops if you’re a non-Prime player. This was one of the major changes in comparison to CS:GO, but we’ll talk about this later in the corresponding section.

Buy Cases on the Steam Marketplace

Getting cases via the Weekly Care Package is free, but it’s pretty slow because you can only get a maximum of 4 cases per month. And if you’re determined to win a specific skin, such as a Karambit Fade, Pandora Gloves, or even a Blue Gem AK-47, you need to open lots of cases, and getting them via the in-game drops is not a feasible idea, especially since it will only drop a limited number of games, and the rare ones only have a 1% drop chance.

In this situation, the best choice is to buy the cases you want from the Steam Community Marketplace. Just search for the name of the case you want to open, find an available listing, purchase it and that’s it. It will be added automatically to your inventory.

Buy Cases at Third-Party Marketplaces

If you don’t like the prices on the Steam Marketplace, or if there’s a shortage of the cases you want to buy, because some of them can be pretty scarce such as the CS:GO Weapon Case Series #1, third-party marketplaces will become your best friend.

DMarket, SkinBaron, TradeIt.gg, CS.Money, Skinport and SkinsMonkey are just some of the best sites where you can buy CS2 cases.

We recommend you to explore them, because you can usually find more listings and at better prices, allowing you to make the most out of your budget for case opening.

Let’s Not Forget About Keys

We have talked a lot about getting, buying and opening cases… but to unlock them you need to buy the keys as well. You can find them on the Steam Marketplace or your favorite trading site. Once you have it, just follow our 6-step tutorial from the start of this guide and you’ll be able to discover the contents of your preferred crate.

The game offers a large list of different cases, and here you have the full breakdown:

• Total Cases: 40
• Prime Cases: 5
• Rare Cases: 29
• Discontinued: 6

With so many options at your disposal, it can be hard to pick one, especially if you have never opened CS2 cases before. To make it easy to choose, answer the following questions:

• What skin would you like to win?
• What is your budget?
• What is your risk tolerance?

Let’s say you answer the following:

• “I want to get a Case Hardened Flip Knife (Blue Gem)”

• “I can afford a total of $2,000 USD”

• “I don’t mind losing half or all of my budget… YOLO lol”

Based on the skin you want, you have the following cases at your disposal:

Remember, the Case Hardened Flip Knife is an Exceedingly Rare Special skin, hence its drop chance is barely 0.26%, which means you’d have to open the same case 391 times to stand a shot at winning such a knife.

Based on this, and your budget and risk tolerance, the best choice would be the Revolver Case, since with $2,000 you can open it 427 times, bringing you a higher probability of winning a Blue Gem Flip Knife.

Taking its recorded ROI into account, you can expect to get back $1,039.80, and this is why we consider it the best case to open based on the answers of this example.

This is how you should be picking your CS2 cases, by answering the three main questions. But if you want to simply go for the highest-ROI cases, here you have the list:

1. Kilowatt Case: 83.03%
2. CS:GO Weapon Case 3: 76.31%
3. CS:GO Weapon Case 2: 72.89%
4. Operation Wildfire Case: 68.26%
5. eSports 2013 Winter Case: 65.22%
6. Operation Vanguard Case: 64.52%
7. Winter Offensive Case: 63.58%
8. Horizon Case: 62.28%
9. Prisma Case: 61.48%
10. Huntsman Weapon Case: 60.69%

They are a good starting point, so go ahead and buy your first

cases to start experiencing the thrill of case opening and winning your very first CS2 skins!

CS:GO Case Opening vs. CS2 Case Opening: Is There a Difference?

Case opening hasn’t changed much in CS2 when compared to CS:GO, here are the unique differences:

• The only way to win cases in-game in CS2 is by claiming the Weekly Care Package, this new version doesn’t offer random post-match drops like CS:GO
• CS2 no longer offers other types of random drops, which is another difference in comparison to CS:GO
• CS2 offers a new case option, the Kilowatt Case, which was not available in CS:GO previously

Other than that, the odds keep being the same, so if you were opening cases in CS:GO, you can expect the same in CS2.

The downside of opening CS2 cases is you have to spend more money on getting the keys as well, which noticeably diminishes your chances of dropping an exotic and gold-rated drop.

This is why thousands of players are opening cases at third-party sites instead of Steam or Valve nowadays. Because you can open them directly without spending more money on keys, you can use that cash to buy even more cases to increase your chances of scoring an extremely rare drop.

Here at CSGOLuck we offer case opening with an outstanding variety of CS2 cases, and you can open them without wasting your money on keys. And what’s even better, you can claim bonuses of FREE daily cases, and all you need to do is to sign up now.

This is all for this guide, and now you should be a pro at opening CS2 cases, but if you want more help or information, just leave a comment below and we’ll get back to you ASAP!