AUG | Akihabara Accept (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) on the AUG | Akihabara Accept is the second-priciest wear. Factory New costs 2.8 times as much, while Field-Tested costs 2.4 times less. It is Covert rank, from The Rising Sun Collection. In this wear the float runs over the short stretch 0.07–0.15.

What the AUG | Akihabara Accept looks like in Minimal Wear

On the rifle sits a poster collage in a blue-violet palette: pink and orange patches, light-blue inserts, white margins. A girl and kanji appear near the buttplate, and scraps of Latin lettering are readable beside them. The character's face and hair can be made out. The barrel, scope, handguard and grip stay gray, and the magazine is violet.

The wear in this tier is slight: it touches the pale areas of the posters first, then the edges of the body.

Where the AUG | Akihabara Accept came from

The Steam Workshop has nothing to do with the AUG | Akihabara Accept; Valve made the artwork itself. The skin entered the game on May 26, 2015, and its finish number in Valve's catalog is 455.

What to check before buying

Before paying for the AUG | Akihabara Accept, it helps to check:

• float: the 0.07–0.15 band is short, so the number only refines the label;


• the white margins on the posters, where scuffing shows first;


• what the previous owner left on the AUG | Akihabara Accept: stickers and an applied name.

The pattern does not vary: all copies are the same. Since the wear fits inside 0.07–0.15, listings look alike.

What the AUG | Akihabara Accept costs in Minimal Wear

• Factory New costs 2.8 times as much;


• Field-Tested costs 2.4 times less;


• Well-Worn costs 3.5 times less;


• Battle-Scarred costs 4 times less.

The steps are steep already between the second and third wear. There are only two Covert AUG skins, and the AUG | Chameleon in Minimal Wear is about fourteen times cheaper.

Getting the AUG | Akihabara Accept

No case hands out this rifle; it exists only in The Rising Sun Collection. The trade-up contract produces the AUG | Akihabara Accept, with ten skins one rank down from the same collection going in. The only such skin is AK-47 | Hydroponic.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the AUG | Akihabara Accept does not exist. There are no Souvenir packages, but a normal copy can be turned into a souvenir through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the AUG | Akihabara Accept

The free space for a sticker is the gray handguard. A sticker laid over the posters covers the artwork, so keep it small. White and black logos read better than colored ones.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AUG | Akihabara Accept here, in Minimal Wear, makes sense under these conditions:

• you want the collage nearly intact and do not want to pay 2.8 times as much for the top of the scale;


• it matters that listings look the same: inside 0.07–0.15 the float barely matters;


• you want the rifle in your CS2 inventory as an anime accent.

In CS2 the difference between the wears is visible only up close, on the pale margins of the posters.