AWP | Chromatic Aberration (Factory New)

Factory New (FN) is the dearest of the five wears of the AWP | Chromatic Aberration: Minimal Wear is 1.78 times cheaper. Its floats start at 0.00 and stop at 0.07. The rank is Covert, and the rifle drops from the Recoil Case and is available to both teams.

What the AWP | Chromatic Aberration looks like in Factory New

The base of the rifle is dark gray, and only the cheek piece and stock are colored in the artwork: pink-violet stripes lie there and turn magenta toward the edges. The rest is restrained, with small turquoise and pink symbols along the barrel and the butt, and turquoise rings at the muzzle and on the bipod hinges. Every symbol is doubled with an offset.

At this wear the float band is 0.00 to 0.07. The paint is untouched, so the doubled symbols do not blur into scuffs, and the pink stripes lie flat.

Where the AWP | Chromatic Aberration came from

The finish was made by kosear, who posted it to the Steam Workshop on October 5, 2020, with the note "candy pink" in the title. Its number in Valve's catalog is 1144. The skin itself was released on July 1, 2022.

What to check before buying

Before taking one, look at these points:

• float: close to the 0.07 limit the first scuff can show;


• anything a previous owner added: stickers or a new name.

The pattern is not randomized, and all copies are the same. There is hardly anything to choose by float either, as 0.00 to 0.07 is a short stretch.

What the AWP | Chromatic Aberration costs in Factory New

Factory New costs more than any other wear of this skin:

• Minimal Wear is 1.78 times cheaper;


• Well-Worn is 1.83 times cheaper;


• Field-Tested is 2.06 times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is 2.31 times cheaper.

Among Covert AWPs in Factory New, this skin is a cheap one: only Neo-Noir is cheaper, by about a quarter. Chrome Cannon is almost level. Hyper Beast and Wildfire cost nearly double, Printstream more than double. At the top of the row stand Medusa, Dragon Lore and Gungnir, at tens of times the price and more.

Getting the AWP | Chromatic Aberration

It also comes out of a trade-up: ten skins from the rank below go into the contract. If they are all from the Recoil Collection, which holds two Covert skins, the odds are one in two.

The skin's case is the Recoil Case, which also gave the collection its name.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AWP | Chromatic Aberration comes with a StatTrak version. As for Souvenir, copies of this finish do turn up, but it never had Souvenir packages, which were produced for tournament map collections only. Those copies are made with the Souvenir-O-Matic: it applies gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to a regular skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Chromatic Aberration

The free areas are the gray receiver and the dark barrel between the symbols. The pink stripes on the stock are large, and any sticker shows on them. Red and orange fight with the pink, while turquoise and white sit in tone with the symbols.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is the right buy when:

• you want even paint with no scuffs on the stripes and symbols;


• paying 1.78 times more than Minimal Wear does not bother you;


• you need a Covert AWP for CS2 from the Recoil Collection.