AWP | Chromatic Aberration (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) is the cheapest of the five wears of the AWP | Chromatic Aberration: every other wear costs more. The skin's scale is cut off at the top by a ceiling of 0.70. The rank is Covert, and the rifle drops from the Recoil Case and can be played on either side.

What the AWP | Chromatic Aberration looks like in Battle-Scarred

The body is dark gray, nearly graphite. Wide pink-violet stripes cover the stock and the cheek piece, the only large patch of color. Small turquoise and pink symbols are scattered on the barrel, at the muzzle and on the butt, each doubled with a shift. Valve describes the technique this way: the colors are applied with an offset, and the result is an eye-catching effect.

The wear range is 0.45 to 0.70, and BS takes more than a third of the skin's scale. Wear is fixed at drop, and a copy stays as it was when it came to you.

Where the AWP | Chromatic Aberration came from

kosear drew the finish. The Steam Workshop submission went in on October 5, 2020, titled "AWP | Chromatic Aberration (candy pink)". Valve placed the work in the Recoil Case, whose release note speaks of seventeen finishes from community authors. The Recoil Collection was added to the game on July 1, 2022, and the skin arrived with that update.

What to check before buying

What matters when buying:

• float: BS holds the upper edge of the scale, and the difference between 0.45 and 0.70 is large;


• a name tag and stickers, which stay on the skin with the listing.

The pattern does not vary: what one listing shows, the others show too. For this skin the float number counts for more than the label, since the 0.45 to 0.70 stretch holds different looks.

What the AWP | Chromatic Aberration costs in Battle-Scarred

All four other wears cost more than BS:

• Factory New by 2.31 times;


• Minimal Wear by 1.30 times;


• Well-Worn by 1.26 times;


• Field-Tested by 1.12 times.

Among Covert AWPs with a price at this wear, the skin is second from the bottom: only Chrome Cannon is cheaper, by about an eighth. Hyper Beast, Wildfire, LongDog and Neo-Noir are higher by a sixth and more, up to two fifths. The Prince, Dragon Lore and Gungnir are in a different class.

Getting the AWP | Chromatic Aberration

The skin's source is the Recoil Case. Another is a contract of ten skins from the rank below. The set has two Covert skins, so if all ten come from it, the one you want comes out with odds of one in two.

Covert rank also works as an input for a craft toward a rare special item: the collection's rare special items are gloves, among them Broken Fang, Moto and Sport.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the AWP | Chromatic Aberration exists. Souvenir copies of the finish are found too, but Souvenir packages were never made for it, only for tournament map collections. To get such a copy, run an ordinary skin from your inventory through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which attaches gold tournament stickers and a player autograph.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Chromatic Aberration

The dark barrel and gray receiver leave plenty of quiet space, so stickers stand out here. The pink-violet stripes on the stock are busy, and a small sticker gets lost on them. Turquoise and white repeat the symbols on the barrel.

Who this wear suits

This wear of the skin is a reasonable buy if:

• you want a neon-patterned AWP for CS2 at the lowest price among the wears;


• wear up to 0.70 is acceptable, and the color of the stripes on the stock matters more than clean metal;


• you want an entry into the Covert rank of the Recoil Collection slightly cheaper than Field-Tested.