Nova | Currents

Nova | Currents released January 21, 2026 as part of the Achroma Collection.

It's a Counter-Strike 2-native release, launched after Valve's September 2023 relaunch, with no CS:GO history of its own.

It launched as a Consumer Grade finish, with a Souvenir edition but no StatTrak™ version.

As a finish, "Currents" is applied to the Nova — a pump-action shotgun available to both sides, a step up from the pistols at close range — and carries the grey rarity color every Consumer Grade skin shares on the Steam Market and in-game.

That Consumer Grade classification places it among the most common tiers in CS2 — a rank that only appears in Collections, never in a Case's own drop pool.

Nova | Currents ships in all five wear conditions, but its float is capped between 0.00 and 0.65 — narrower than the full 0.00–1.00 range some other skins allow.

As with every CS2 skin, lower float values look cleaner: Factory New copies (roughly below 0.07 float) show the finish at its sharpest, while Field-Tested and Well-Worn pieces make up the most commonly traded middle ground between mint and heavily worn.

Nova | Currents is part of the Achroma Collection rather than being unboxed from a traditional weapon Case — the Collection is currently cycling through CS2's weekly Prime drop pool, so trade-ups and the Steam Community Market are the main ways to acquire one.

Valve has never published exact Collection odds. The estimate above (1 in 10, 10.0032%) applies the same rarity-tier cascade confirmed for Cases, giving a general sense of scale rather than a guaranteed rate.

Alongside the Normal version, this finish also has a Souvenir edition — there's no StatTrak™ counterpart.

Beyond that, there's no separate "phase" or pattern family tied to this finish in the site's data — it's tracked as a single fixed look across every wear condition it ships in.

As a Consumer Grade finish, Nova | Currents sits among the more common pulls from the Achroma Collection rather than being a chase item — a straightforward, affordable way to add a Nova skin to a loadout or collection.

Its Souvenir edition tends to trade at a premium over the Normal version, the same pattern seen across most CS2 skins with that variant available.

Nova | Currents has been part of the Achroma Collection since January 21, 2026 — a Counter-Strike 2-native release with no CS:GO-era version to compare it to.

It's one of 8 Consumer Grade items in the Achroma Collection, out of 20 items total.

This is one of 47 Nova skins currently listed on the site, spanning multiple rarity tiers.