AUG | Akihabara Accept (Battle-Scarred)

In Battle-Scarred (BS), the AUG | Akihabara Accept is the cheapest way to get the anime collage. Factory New costs more than eleven times as much. The skin is Covert and comes from The Rising Sun Collection. The float on the AUG | Akihabara Accept lies between 0.45 and 1.00 in this wear.

What the AUG | Akihabara Accept looks like in Battle-Scarred

The body is papered with overlapping posters that hide the stock and the side panel. The base is blue-violet with white and pink areas, and the posters run pink, orange and light blue. A girl is drawn near the buttplate, with large kanji beside her. The magazine is violet; the handguard, grip and barrel are gray.

That is a band 0.55 wide out of 1.00, more than half the skin's scale. Both 0.45 and 1.00 fit into this wear on the AUG | Akihabara Accept, and those listings look different from each other. The pale margins of the posters get dirty first, then the edges of the body, where the collage seems to peel off.

Where the AUG | Akihabara Accept came from

The AUG | Akihabara Accept was made by Valve itself; the finish has no outside artist. The skin was released on May 26, 2015, and Valve's finish catalog lists it under number 455. According to the item's text, the artwork is a heat-transfer vinyl decal with an anime magazine cover, and the description ends on the exclamation "Yatta!"

What to check before buying

Listings of the AUG | Akihabara Accept are compared on:

• float: the spread from 0.45 to 1.00 gives different degrees of scuffing;


• the pale margins of the posters and the edges of the body;


• stickers on the body of the AUG | Akihabara Accept and a name tag, if there is one.

There is no second artwork for the AUG | Akihabara Accept.

What the AUG | Akihabara Accept costs in Battle-Scarred

This is the lowest price among the wears. The others cost more:

• Factory New, 11.3 times as much;


• Minimal Wear, 4 times;


• Field-Tested, 1.67 times;


• Well-Worn, 1.13 times.

Between the bottom two wears the gap is small, and further up the price climbs ever more steeply. There are only two Covert AUG skins: the AUG | Akihabara Accept in Battle-Scarred costs about 3.7 times as much as the AUG | Chameleon.

Getting the AUG | Akihabara Accept

The AUG | Akihabara Accept never appeared in cases. It is built by trade-up, with ten skins one rank down going in. The Rising Sun Collection has one Classified skin, AK-47 | Hydroponic, and a ten from it leads specifically to the AUG | Akihabara Accept.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the AUG | Akihabara Accept was never released. There were no Souvenir packages for this finish either, but you can make a souvenir copy yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the AUG | Akihabara Accept

The posters take the stock and the side panel, leaving the handguard and grip clean. A scuffed collage is busy enough already, so plain white and black stickers with no artwork of their own work best. Fine tournament graphics get lost among the kanji.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AUG | Akihabara Accept here, in Battle-Scarred, makes sense under these conditions:

• you want a Covert AUG with the anime collage and no overpayment for the top of the scale;


• you pick the float by the number, since the 0.45–1.00 band holds varied looks;


• you need the rifle for CS2 or an inventory, and the cleanness of the posters does not matter.

If the pale margins have to stay white, the nearest by price, Well-Worn, costs only 1.13 times more. For playing CS2 the mechanics are the same in every wear.