★ Talon Knife | Case Hardened (Field-Tested)

The ★ Talon Knife | Case Hardened in Field-Tested (FT) is a Covert rank knife with the ★ mark. In CS2 it is a Talon with a color-hardened blade and a pale ivory handle. Factory New costs 2.5 times as much and Minimal Wear a quarter more, while Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred come in cheaper. Two cases give it out: the Horizon Case and the Danger Zone Case.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Case Hardened looks like in Field-Tested

The handle is pale, the shade of ivory, with brass rivets. Along the spine of the blade runs a row of saw teeth, and three round holes pierce the blade itself. The color gathers at the tip and on the ring: blue, purple, orange and gold spread in patches over silver steel, while the middle of the blade stays light. Valve says the finish comes from color hardening in charcoal at high temperature.

In this wear the float runs from 0.15 to 0.38, which is 23% of the finish's whole scale. That is a long stretch, and listings from its two ends do not look alike.

What to check before buying

Before paying for a ★ Talon Knife | Case Hardened, check:

• the float: compare the number, not the wear label, because 0.15 and 0.38 are far apart;


• the name tag: the knife can take one;


• the version: StatTrak comes as its own listing.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Case Hardened costs in Field-Tested

Of the thirteen Covert Talon Knives priced in this wear, Case Hardened is second from the top: eleven are cheaper and one is dearer, Slaughter, by a quarter. Blue Steel costs slightly less, Crimson Web a sixth less, Stained and Damascus Steel a quarter less. The most affordable are Boreal Forest, Safari Mesh and Forest DDPAT.

Between the wears, prices run as follows:

• Factory New costs 2.53 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs 1.23 times as much;


• Well-Worn costs 1.06 times less;


• Battle-Scarred costs 1.09 times less.

Getting the ★ Talon Knife | Case Hardened

It drops from the Horizon Case and the Danger Zone Case, and the wear it arrives in is random. The other route is a craft, which takes five Covert skins of one type, with normal and StatTrak never mixed. What comes out is a random rare special item, and neither the model nor the finish can be chosen.

Is there a StatTrak version

Yes, the ★ Talon Knife | Case Hardened exists with StatTrak in the game.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested on the ★ Talon Knife | Case Hardened makes sense if:

• you want a Talon with color hardening and Minimal Wear already costs more than you plan to spend;


• color at the tip matters more than factory cleanliness;


• you have time to compare listings by float, since a band from 0.15 to 0.38 is a long one.