Welcome! If you want to know how to get CS:GO cards in Steam, we advise you to read this article to the end. All the more so, at Valve nothing happens for nothing — even in such a simple task you'll have to sweat a little.
Steam collectible cards were first introduced back in 2013 and have undergone one reincarnation. Unfortunately, Valve decided to redraw the design of the achieves for everyone, so it's impossible to find the first revision today. By the way, they looked like this.
The modern variation is more down-to-earth, though no less spectacular.
Nevertheless, we are still interested in how to get CS:GO cards in Steam.
The first catch lies in the fact that the player can fall only 3 cards out of 5 possible. And which ones — nobody knows, complete randomness. The giveaway algorithm is set up in such a way that no one gets more than three for free. Want to build a collection — will have to buy the remaining 2 on the trading floor. Thankfully, they cost only 1-5 rubles, so especially on the pocket will not hit.
The second option to get free cards in Steam — exchange with other players or friends. But that's assuming both have something interesting and missing. Otherwise, welcome to the store.
If you managed to get all five — , 100 points will be automatically added to your Steam rating and a badge for the first level profile will appear in your piggy bank. You can upgrade your badge to level 5 in total. With each up, a random smiley or profile background drops into your inventory. The highest achievement — metal badge, the total value of which is estimated at 30-50 rubles, it all depends on the current exchange rate.
There is no specific value of the received sets of cards in Stima — only decor, profile decoration and bragging among friends. On the other hand, why not change the appearance of a profile you look at regularly. The dark blue color palette is periodically depressing, and so at least some variety.
How to get collectible cards in Steam
The algorithm of the service is created in such a way that the entire set of collectibles is dumped into the cart after 2 hours spent in the purchased game. Previously, Steam operated under a different scenario:
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for the first two hours;
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immediately after launch.
Now the situation is such that you can't get cards in Steam quickly — sit for 120 minutes and only then check your inventory in the cabinet. And as in the case of CS:GO, only half of the collection will fall out, the rest of the collection can either be purchased for blood money (if necessary), or changed from friends and random members of the community.
.Important: repeated downloading and replaying the game will not give anything — the system will think that the reward has already been given.
If you are dealing with a free-to-play game on the Free to Play model, the cards will fall exclusively after in-game purchases, at the rate of 1 unit — 9 dollars spent in the in-game store.
This is the most convenient mechanic for fans of collecting everything. But this is Steam.
What cards are
Since we have figured out how to get cards in Steam games, let's look at their merit. These items exist in two versions:
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plain;
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metal (Foil).
The latter have a gray background instead of the standard one and have a less than 1% chance of falling out.
But don't be deceived and think that they are extremely expensive. Versions for CS:GO are pretty common. There are exceptions, though. At the moment, the first place is held by Apex War, an Achievement from the post-apocalyptic sandbox game Apex War. On the trading floor, Uranium Mine can be asked for a cosmic sum.
Another type of card is — boosters. They fall out with a very small chance, but can present the owner with 3 collectibles at once. They fall into your inventory in a package, which you need to unpack «yourself». It is possible and not to do this, selling a random pack to a collector.
How to make a badge from cards
As we wrote above, in CS:GO there are 5 levels of ordinary badges and one metal badge. To craft a level 1 nameplate, you must collect all possible cards for the game (in our case — 5) one copy at a time. If all conditions are met, a big button «Done»will appear next to the collection and we will have to click it.
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The picture was taken for example.
To reach the second level we do the same operation. Only the cards will have to be bought or exchanged on their own, nothing else falls out of the game. Want to scraft a level 5 at once? Prepare 5 copies of each card, which amounts to about 40-50 rubles.
Important: metal badge is crafted only from metal cards.
Backgrounds and smiles are given randomly, sometimes in pairs. Smileys for chat rooms can be obtained one per craft. A total of 11 images are provided for CS CS GO. You do not want to collect — buy for 2-3 rubles on the same trading floor, or on the site Lis-Skins.ru. We have even cheaper, and you won't have to overpay.
A nice bonus when crafting will be vouchers for a discount when buying something in the Steam store. They look like this.
Another fun fact. Each time players create icons from a set of cards, a booster from the same game is randomly generated inside the court. It is then sent to someone's inventory in the same random order.
For every 10 account levels, you can get an additional window in the «showcase», which shows all your virtual achievements. Absolutely no impact on anything, but why not decorate the account.