Off-screen

CS2 · Visuals. Pointers along the edge of the screen or on a ring around the crosshair that show the direction to enemies, grenades, smoke and fire that are out of view.

Also searched as: offscreen, off-screen arrows, enemy arrows, enemy indicators, out of fov arrows, arrows outside the screen, enemy behind me, grenade direction

Where to find it in the menu

Visuals  →  Off-screen

The page has sections: Enemies, Grenades, Effects, Layout, Appearance. The first three have their own header toggle.

How to enable

1. Menu (Insert) → Visuals → Off-screen.
2. Turn on the header toggle of the page: the feature is off by default.
3. The Enemies, Grenades and Effects sections are on by default — turn off the ones you don't need in their headers.

What it does

• For each object off screen, it draws a pointer in its direction. The pointer fades in and out smoothly.
• Enemies: living enemies within "Max distance". No more than "Max indicators" of the nearest ones are shown. Enemies behind obstacles are drawn paler ("Hidden enemy opacity"). With "Visible enemies only", pointers remain only for those not blocked by an obstacle.
• Grenades: grenades in flight, with the grenade type icon and its own color. By default only enemy grenades. "Detonation timer" shows how much time a fused grenade has left until it explodes.
• Effects: smoke clouds and burning areas, with the time they have left.
• The time is shown with tenths when little is left, and in whole seconds when a lot is left.
• The farther the object, the paler the pointer: at "Fade distance" it reaches "Distant marker opacity".
• Placement:
  • Center ring (default) — pointers sit on a ring around the screen center; the radius is set in percent;
  • Screen edge — pointers are pressed against the screen edges with the set inset.

Settings

General

Setting	Type	Default	Range / options	What it does
State	Header toggle of the page	Off	—	Turns the feature on

Enemies

Setting	Type	Default	Range / options	What it does
Show enemies	Header toggle of the section	On	—	Pointers to enemies
Max distance	Slider, m	200	25–500	Show enemies no farther than this distance
Max indicators	Slider	6	1–12	How many enemy pointers at the same time
Visible enemies only	Toggle	Off	—	Only enemies not blocked by obstacles

Grenades

Setting	Type	Default	Range / options	What it does
Show grenades	Header toggle of the section	On	—	Pointers to thrown grenades
Max distance	Slider, m	150	25–500	Range for grenades
Enemy grenades only	Toggle	On	—	Don't show your grenades and your teammates' grenades
Detonation timer	Toggle	On	—	Time until a fused grenade explodes

Effects

Setting	Type	Default	Range / options	What it does
Show effects	Header toggle of the section	On	—	Pointers to smoke and fire
Smoke clouds	Toggle	On	—	Active smoke clouds
Fires	Toggle	On	—	Burning areas
Max distance	Slider, m	30	5–200	Range for smoke and fire
Remaining time	Toggle	On	—	How much time the smoke or fire has left

Layout

Setting	Type	Default	Range / options	What it does
Placement	Dropdown	Center ring	Screen edge, Center ring	Where the pointers are placed
Screen inset	Slider, px	78	48–220	How far the pointers are moved away from the screen edges
Focus radius	Slider, %	70	40–95	Ring only: distance from the screen center
Circular ring	Toggle	On	—	Ring only: a round ring rather than one stretched to the screen shape
Indicator size	Slider, px	52	36–76	Pointer size

Appearance

Setting	Type	Default	Range / options	What it does
Hidden enemy opacity	Slider, %	72	30–100	How visible the pointers to enemies behind obstacles are
Distant marker opacity	Slider, %	40	10–100	How visible the most distant pointers are
Fade distance	Slider, m	60	10–300	At what distance the pointer fades to its minimum
Indicator color	Color	White	—	Color of the pointers to enemies
Colors	Settings button	—	—	Pointer color for each grenade type: Smoke — light gray, Molotov — light yellow, HE — light red, Flashbang — white, Decoy — light lime

The other items in the "Grenades" and "Effects" sections are hidden while the section's header toggle is off. The enemy items in "Appearance" are hidden if the "Enemies" section is off; "Colors" — if "Grenades" is off.

FAQ

There are no pointers. The feature is off by default — turn it on in the page header. Pointers appear only for objects off screen and within "Max distance".

I don't see pointers to my own grenades. "Enemy grenades only" is on by default. Turn it off.

The pointers get in the way in the center of the screen. Increase "Focus radius" or set "Placement → Screen edge".