★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh (Field-Tested)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh in Field-Tested (FT) is an olive-gray CS2 butterfly with a stenciled mesh pattern. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. It comes out of the Operation Breakout Weapon Case. The float scale of the finish runs from 0.06 to 0.80, hence five wears, and Field-Tested takes 0.23 of its 0.74.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh looks like in Field-Tested

The blade and the handles are painted a muted olive-gray, with a design of hexagonal cells running over the whole surface. There is no bright spot: the color is even, and every part, the latch and the heel included, stays dark gray. Valve writes that the paint was applied through chain-link fence and cardboard stencils, and the pattern on the model bears that out.

The wear band for this ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh lies between 0.15 and 0.38. Wear shows on the protruding parts: on the tip of the blade and the ribs of the handles the paint wears off sooner than on the flat. The wear is fixed at the drop, and neither 0.15 nor 0.38 changes on the knife afterward.

What to check before buying

A few points are worth checking on the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh before buying:

• the float: search by the number rather than by the wear label, since the 0.15 to 0.38 band is wide;


• the pattern: the design on the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh is the same on every copy, so there is no particular one to hunt for;


• the applied name: if a listing has one, it stays on the knife after purchase;


• the wear in the title: the five wears are sold as separate items.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 1.81 times as much. The other wears lie in a narrow corridor: Minimal Wear is 4 percent higher, Well-Worn costs almost the same, and Battle-Scarred is again 4 percent higher. Between Field-Tested and the more worn wears the price gap is small, so the choice goes by looks.

Among butterfly finishes in this wear, Safari Mesh is third from the bottom of 18. Only two camouflages are cheaper, Boreal Forest and Forest DDPAT, and they barely differ in price. Scorched is 2 percent higher, Urban Masked 7, and Bright Water a seventh. The top of the lineup is Autotronic, Blue Steel and Slaughter.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh

The butterfly with this finish drops from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case, and the wear that comes out is random. There is a contract as well: five Covert skins of one collection yield one rare special item, and neither the model nor the finish can be ordered. The butterfly you want is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh in Field-Tested is reasonable in these cases:

• you want a butterfly in a camouflage palette, not bright Doppler or Fade;


• a CS2 loadout is built in olive and gray tones;


• price matters more than an untouched edge, since by cost this is one of the most affordable butterflies.