🇺🇦 Cache wasted no time!

In just 24 hours after returning to the 🇬🇧 FACEIT pool, it reached 3.12% of matches played — already enough to pass Overpass.

Yeah, people really wanted that map back 🔥

#Cache #FACEIT

🍰 NiKo is the highest-rated player on 🇺🇦 Cache!

Across big events from 2016 to 2026, he sits at the top of the map’s rating list.

Some maps have favorites. Cache has NiKo!😅

#NiKo #Cache

🗺 Cache is officially back in CS2!

Valve dropped it overnight, playable since the April 22 update.
Time to refresh the callouts before your next queue.

📍 Callouts by zone:

A side - A Site, A Main, Squeaky, Quad, NBK, Shroud, Toxic, Fork, Lockers, Outside A, Van, New Box, Boost/Under, Pipes

Mid - Mid, Highway, Truck, White Box, Sandbags, CT, Z, CT Spawn, T, T Spawn

B side - B Site, B Main, B Halls, Outside B, Sunroom, Heaven, Tree Room, Headshot, Default, Tripple, Garage, Vent, Checkers, Snax, Useless

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Cache

🗺 Cache is back after 7 years — and the numbers from its peak era still hit hard.

Top 5 most-watched Cache matches ever (Esports Charts, Oct 2016 – removal 2019):

1. 🇸🇪Fnatic vs 🇩🇰Astralis — ELEAGUE Major 2017 — 785K
2. 🇧🇷 SK vs 🇩🇰Astralis — PGL Krakow 2017 — 708K
3. 🇪🇺FaZe vs 🇪🇺MOUZ — ELEAGUE Major 2018 — 674K
4. 🇷🇺VP vs 🇩🇰North — ELEAGUE Major 2017 — 550K
5. 🇧🇷 SK vs 🇷🇺VP — EPICENTER 2017 — 433K

🕹 Worth knowing:

1. Cache is set in Pripyat, Ukraine - Chernobyl skyline visible from T-spawn.

2. In the CS2 version, the s1mple graffiti is gone — the falling angel with an AWP that Valve painted on B-site to commemorate his mid-air no-scope at ESL One Cologne 2016. s1mple still has it tattooed on his shoulder.

Currently in Competitive, Casual, DM, and Retakes — expected to join Active Duty after IEM Cologne Major 2026.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Cache

🇺🇦 Cache is back, and someone has been waiting longer than the rest of us.

Among players from 🕹 HLTV's current top-20 teams, 🇫🇷 apEX has played Cache more than anyone — 205 maps. 🇩🇰 Karrigan and 🇧🇷 XANTARES are the closest at 174 and 152.

🕹 Worth knowing:

1. Cache was first added to Active Duty in 2014 as the very first community-made map ever to make the pool. It got cycled out for Vertigo on March 28, 2019 - and stayed out for 7 years.

2. Valve bought the rights from FMPONE in May 2025 and added it back to CS2 on April 28, 2026.

3. So far it's only in Competitive, Casual, DM, and Retakes — not in Active Duty yet.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#CS2 #Cache #apEX

🕹 CS2's monthly peak fell by 149,019 players in April — an 8.7% drop, the worst since the summer.

🕹 Steam concurrent player peak, last 6 months (per SteamDB):

- April 2026 - 1,573,122 (−8.7%)
- March 2026 - 1,722,141 (+5.7%)
- February 2026 - 1,629,389 (−1.7%)
- January 2026 - 1,657,189 (Premier Season 4 launched Jan 21)
- December 2025 - 1,630,561
- November 2025 - 1,624,130

🕹 Year-over-year:
- April 2025 peak: 1,862,531
- April 2026 peak: 1,573,122
Drop: 289,409 - about 15.5%

Cache returned on April 28 after seven years away. With only two days left in the month, it didn't have time to reverse the trend — and the early "Last 30 days" reading (−1.1%) suggests the bump hasn't been dramatic either.

🧐 Worth knowing
March 2026 was the only CS2 month above 1.7M peak this year. The peak landed during BLAST Open Rotterdam, which Vitality won at the end of March. Big tournaments and player counts move together.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#SteamDB #Cache

🕹 CS2 Premier match volume just jumped 38% in one quarter - AND IT'S NOT EVEN RELATED TO THE CACHE!

🕹 Premier match count, per Leetify:
- Q3 2025 - 10.82M matches
- Q4 2025 - 11.16M matches (+3.2%)
- Q1 2026 - 15.39M matches (+37.9%)

🇺🇦 Then Cache returned on April 28:
- That's more than Dust 2 and Mirage combined on the same day
- Cache held above Dust 2 and Mirage for about four days after release, then started settling back toward the pack
- By May 3 it was around 20% — still active, but no longer dominating

🧐 Worth knowing:
Premier volume was already climbing hard before April 28. The Q1 surge happened on the existing seven-map pool. Whatever Q2 looks like, the baseline was already set high.

The +37.9% jump came before Cache existed. cache can affect overall online, returning old players to all modes.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Premier #Cache #Leetify

🕹 CS2 dropped a new patch overnight - Cache fixes, music kits, and a quiet but meaningful map detail.

🖥 What's in the May 7 patch (per Valve patch notes):
- 🇺🇦 Cache - various map holes patched, grenade clipping simplified, surface sounds fixed
- Cache - orange wire spool at Sandbags swapped for white (cosmetic)
- 🇺🇦 Cache - Ukrainian inscription added to the Chernobyl liquidators memorial in mid (previously only English and Russian)
- NIGHTMODE II music kits dropped - six new tracks, available standard and StatTrak
- Deathmatch - score values for various weapons adjusted (Valve didn't list specifics; community testing suggests the AWP took a points cut, while AK and M4 stayed put)
- AnimGraph 2 - Talon and Karambit knives now display correctly while defusing
- Source Film Maker - progressive refinement rendering fixed

🇺🇦 The Cache trajectory:
Cache returned April 28 and posted a 43.5% share of all matches on day one. By May 3 it was around 20% - still active, but no longer dominating. Hotspawn reports the map is expected to enter the Active Duty pool after IEM Cologne Major 2026, with the start of Premier Season 5.(rumors)

🧐 Worth knowing:
NIGHTMODE Records' founder posted a community note alongside the drop, confirming the music kits are DMCA-free for streamers and content creators.

👉 cs2analytics.com

#Cache #Update #Valve