This guide is to equip anyone making sticker crafts or buying crafts from a marketplace with the knowledge of what has changed with stickers.

This guide takes the sticker changes to their core and displays at a surface level what has changed visually, but it also explains how stickers now function with custom placement, small quirks like how slot numbers are now arranged, and so on. ~these in depth details are still WIP

Please note that this guide displays the legacy CS:GO models, as technically all sticker presets on the CS2 gun models are new. Additionally skins that are on the legacy model make a lot of sense to document here as they represent a clash between the old and the updated. It is also impossible to have a skin that was released in CS2 to have an old sticker size and preset.

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- Stickers now have a coordinate system that places the sticker relative to its preset slot. That means that two stickers with exactly the same coordinate data will be placed in completely different spots if the preset they are initially placed onto before being moved is different. However, identical coordinates between stickers will have the same distance away from its original preset even if different presets are used.

gif coord system showing original preset with link to custom, then relative equivalence when preset swaps:

- Stickers that are applied to a preexisting craft will always be shown on the right side of the stickers that were already on the skin while looking at the applied sticker icons in the inventory.
Slot numbers are ordered by the apply order, not numerical order. This means that you can often now tell if someone recently crafted onto an old craft based on that order (which can tell you if the new sticker is using the new sticker sizes) [image defo needed].

gif apply order over numerical:

gif og craft vs new craft (fire serp):

- Stickers that are newly applied on a skin will always be layered on top of other already applied stickers. You can no longer apply a sticker below another one (as was possible for certain presets on certain guns before the sticker update).
Say that someone wanted to complete this classic 1x craft by applying more Virtus.pro (Holo) | Katowice 2015 stickers. Here's how the sticker layering would have looked before vs after the update.
Notice that the sticker to the right of the StatTrak™ counter is on top of the existing sticker after the update.

- Gold stickers on newly opened souvenir skins are also affected, Regardless of how old the souvenir package is.
Above are two Souvenir P250 | Gunsmoke skins with the same sticker from Cologne 2015, yet one was unboxed before the sticker update while the other was unboxed after the sticker update.
Additionally, here they are on CSFloat. Notice that the apply order is randomized despite the same sticker positions being present for each sticker.

more stuff, probably :)

Galil AR
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

FAMAS
New preset: back of body, rightmost position
Removed preset: middle of body, middle position
Smaller preset: middle right of body, second to rightmost position
Identical preset: middle left of body, second to leftmost position
Identical preset: front of the body, leftmost position

AK-47
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

M4A4
Larger preset: back of the body, second to rightmost position
Larger preset: middle of the body, second to leftmost position
Smaller preset: above the mag, leftmost position
Identical preset: on the stock, rightmost position

M4A1-S
New preset: on the silencer, leftmost position
Identical preset: above the mag, middle position
Identical preset: middle of the body, second to rightmost position
Identical preset: back of the body, rightmost position
Identical preset: on the shroud, second to leftmost position

SG 553
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

AUG
Smaller preset: front of the body, leftmost position
Identical preset: above the handle, second to leftmost position
Identical preset: above the mag, second to rightmost position
Identical preset: on the stock, rightmost position

SSG 08
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

AWP
Smaller preset: middle of the body, second to rightmost position
Identical preset: on the scope, leftmost position
Identical preset: below the scope, second to leftmost position
Identical preset: on the stock, rightmost position

G3SG1
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

SCAR-20
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

MAC-10
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

MP9
Larger preset: on the handle, bottom position
Identical preset: back of the body, rightmost position
Identical preset: front of the body, leftmost position
Identical preset: above the handle, second to rightmost and leftmost positions

MP7
New preset: above the trigger, leftmost position
Removed preset: on the stock, rightmost position
Larger preset (also moved upwards slightly): on the handle, bottom position
Identical preset: back of the body, second to rightmost position
Identical preset: above the handle, second to leftmost position

MP5-SD
New preset: above the handle, rightmost position
New preset: on the barrel, leftmost position
Larger preset: above the trigger, second to rightmost position
Larger preset: above the mag, third to rightmost position
Identical preset: right side of the grip, third to leftmost position
Identical preset: left side of the grip, second to leftmost position

UMP-45
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

P90
New preset: above the front grip, leftmost position
Removed preset: the big spot, middle position
Identical preset: above the handle, second to leftmost position
Identical preset: middle of the stock, second to rightmost position
Identical preset: back of the stock, rightmost position

PP-Bizon
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

Glock-18
Smaller preset: above the handle, top right position
Identical preset: on the tip, leftmost position
Identical preset: above the trigger, middle position
Identical preset: on the handle, bottom right position

P2000
Smaller preset: above the handle, top right position
Identical preset: on the tip, leftmost position
Identical preset: above the trigger, middle position
Identical preset: on the handle, bottom right position

USP-S
New preset: on the silencer, leftmost position
Identical preset: above the handle, top right position
Identical preset: on the tip of the body, second to leftmost position
Identical preset: above the trigger, middle position
Identical preset: on the handle, bottom right position

Dual Berettas
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

P250
Larger preset: on the tip, leftmost position
Larger preset: above the trigger, middle position
Smaller preset: above the handle, top right position
Identical preset: on the handle, bottom right position

Tec-9
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

Five-Seven
Larger preset: above the trigger, middle position
Larger preset: on the tip, leftmost position
Smaller preset: above the handle, top right position
Identical preset: on the handle, bottom right position

CZ75-Auto
Larger preset: on the tip, leftmost position
Larger preset: above the trigger, middle position
Identical preset: above the handle, top right position
Identical preset: on the handle, bottom right position

Desert Eagle
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

R8 Revolver
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

Nova
New preset: on the back, rightmost position
Removed preset: on the top, second to rightmost position
Identical preset: above the trigger, middle position
Identical preset: middle of the body, second to leftmost
Identical preset: front of the body, leftmost position

XM1014
Larger preset: on the grip, leftmost position
Identical preset: above the trigger, rightmost position
Identical preset: middle of the body, second to rightmost position
Identical preset: front of the body, second to leftmost position

Sawed-Off
Larger preset: on the pump, leftmost position
Identical preset: above the trigger, rightmost position
Identical preset: middle of the body, second to rightmost position
Identical preset: front of the body, second to leftmost position

MAG-7
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

Negev
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

M249
All identical presets: sticker positions are unchanged

Zeus x27
All new presets: all sticker positions are newly added

WIP notes for me:
how newly applied stickers change the order like on my fire serpent vs my wasteland
custom sticker pos coordinate system and how it works, picture to explain same coord dif slot
gif of notably affected guns linked

Please leave a comment below if a sticker change is incorrect or is missing. Please state the sticker change in detail.

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