AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 (Well-Worn)

This is the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 in Well-Worn (WW), and it costs the same as Minimal Wear. The skin is Restricted and drops from the Operation Hydra Case. By float the wear covers 0.38 to 0.45, which is 13% of a scale that stops at 0.55.

What the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 looks like in Well-Worn

The skin is red along the bottom and the side of the receiver and graphite on top. The receiver cover and the upper half of the handguard are graphite, and the 01 sits on the side. The magazine is dark red, with a glowing red stripe along the ribs. The grip is black, the stock black with red.

The pattern is made of angular dark patches lying on the red parts of the handguard, magazine and stock. Valve calls it a hand-painted design in red and black, and the flavor text mentions the COLONY01 base.

In Well-Worn the paint comes off noticeably at the receiver edges, the buttplate and the magazine rim. Wear is fixed when the skin drops, so the float is what shows how scuffed a given copy is.

Where the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 came from

The author is nozza, and the Steam Workshop submission was named "COLONY01 AK.r.V2". The skin joined the Operation Hydra Collection, which was added to the game on May 23, 2017. Its Valve catalog number is 656. In a note dated June 1, 2017, Valve describes "Hydra events": a 2v2 mode and a 5v5 mode in which you have to own different weapons. The same note names variants of the classic rules: heavy armor, and sniper fights at low gravity.

What to check before buying

A few points are worth checking before buying an AK-47 | Orbit Mk01:

• a float within 0.38 to 0.45;


• the receiver edges and magazine rim, where the paint goes first;


• stickers and a name tag that the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 inherits from a previous owner.

Pattern index plays no part on this rifle. The scale gives the wear only 0.38 to 0.45, so copies look alike.

What the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 costs in Well-Worn

Factory New costs 2.7 times more, and Minimal Wear costs the same. Field-Tested is cheaper by about 1.24 times and Battle-Scarred by 1.2 times. Well-Worn costs more than Field-Tested even though its wear is heavier.

In the row of Restricted AK-47s the skin stands second from the top of nine. Of those that cost more, AK-47 | First Class remains, at almost three times the price. The nearest below, AK-47 | Blue Laminate, is a fifth cheaper, and the other Restricted AK-47s have gone lower still.

Getting the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01

The AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 drops only from the Operation Hydra Case.

A trade-up for it uses ten skins of the rank below. When the ten are all from this collection, it holds five Restricted skins, so the odds of the rifle are one in five. The skin is itself an input for contracts toward the Classified skins of the collection: Dual Berettas | Cobra Strike, Galil AR | Sugar Rush and M4A4 | Hellfire.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 has a StatTrak version. Souvenir sets were never released for this finish: they were made only for tournament map collections. Yet you can make a souvenir copy yourself, since the Souvenir-O-Matic adds gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to an ordinary inventory skin.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Orbit Mk01

The graphite cover gives a dark background on which light stickers work. On the red parts of the body, red and black stickers get lost among the dark patches of the artwork. The stock and handguard are freer than the side of the receiver with the 01.

Who this wear suits

The AK-47 | Orbit Mk01 in Well-Worn is justified when:

• you want a red-and-graphite AK-47 for CS2, and Minimal Wear costs the same;


• the COLONY01 artwork interests you more than clean edges;


• you want some margin on wear, and Battle-Scarred is not what you need.

If price is the concern, Battle-Scarred is a fifth cheaper, while Minimal Wear costs the same with sounder paint.