AUG | Chameleon (Factory New)

Factory New (FN) is the top step of the AUG | Chameleon, with a float of 0.00 to 0.07. The skin is Covert rank and sits in The Phoenix Collection. The finish scale runs from 0.00 to 0.50, and FN gets 14% of that length. The other four wears stretch up to the ceiling cut off at 0.50.

What the AUG | Chameleon looks like in Factory New

The body is dark gray, with a thin red stripe running along the receiver. A green chameleon with orange-yellow spots sits on the stock, and it is the one bright detail on the weapon. The barrel with its muzzle brake, the scope, the grip and the magazine are left unpainted.

In the factory wear the dark coating lies even and unbroken, so the lizard reads cleanly and the red line on the receiver is intact from end to end. There is no wear above this one, and that is what the extra money buys.

Where the AUG | Chameleon came from

The Phoenix Collection was added to the game on February 20, 2014, and the AUG | Chameleon arrived in the same update. In its update note Valve wrote about the operation pass and an exclusive case with 13 community finishes.

What to check before buying

What matters when buying an AUG | Chameleon:

• float inside 0.00 to 0.07: near the upper limit the first scuffs can show on the edges;


• what the previous owner left on the AUG | Chameleon, meaning stickers and a name tag;


• version: StatTrak and regular copies are sold as different listings.

Copies of the AUG | Chameleon differ only in wear: the artwork is shared. The scale gives this wear just 0.00 to 0.07, so the copies look alike.

What the AUG | Chameleon costs in Factory New

This is the most expensive wear of the skin, although the gap inside it is small. The rest are cheaper:

• Minimal Wear by 8%;


• Field-Tested by 10%;


• Well-Worn by 16%;


• Battle-Scarred by 17%.

Among Covert AUGs there is AUG | Akihabara Accept, which in Factory New costs about thirty-six times what the Chameleon does. That makes the Chameleon the cheapest Covert AUG in this wear.

Getting the AUG | Chameleon

There is one source: the Operation Phoenix Weapon Case. A contract works too. Put together ten skins from the rank below, taken from The Phoenix Collection, and the result is this skin or AWP | Asiimov, at one chance in two. The Chameleon can also go into a craft: five Covert skins give a rare special item with the ★ mark.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the AUG | Chameleon exists. No souvenir packages were ever released for it.

Stickers and craft on the AUG | Chameleon

The dark base holds light and silvery stickers well: they read on the receiver and the handguard. It is better to leave the bright chameleon on the stock uncovered, otherwise the only colored accent is lost. In Factory New a sticker sits on clean coating, and it cannot be taken off again without losing the sticker.

Who this wear suits

Factory New on the AUG | Chameleon is worth buying in these cases:

• you want the chameleon and the red stripe on the receiver untouched;


• predictability matters: with a band of 0.00 to 0.07 the listings are nearly the same;


• the skin is taken as a Covert piece of The Phoenix Collection, for a collection or a craft.

In CS2 the difference from Battle-Scarred hardly matters in a match, but in the preview the clean coating stands out at once.