AWP | Chromatic Aberration (Minimal Wear)

This is the AWP | Chromatic Aberration in Minimal Wear (MW): there is wear on it already, yet it costs 1.78 times less than Factory New. The band from 0.07 to 0.15 takes 11% of the skin's scale. The rank is Covert, and the case is the Recoil Case.

What the AWP | Chromatic Aberration looks like in Minimal Wear

The body is gray, nearly graphite, and carries only a few colored details. The cheek piece and stock are striped in pink and magenta, and all the color is gathered in that patch. Turquoise rings show at the muzzle and on the bipod, and a chain of small symbols runs along the barrel, each one doubled with an offset. The color shift is the idea of the design, not a printing flaw.

Here the float runs from 0.07 to 0.15, and in Minimal Wear the wear has only just begun.

Where the AWP | Chromatic Aberration came from

The skin was released on July 1, 2022, when the Recoil Collection was added to the game. In its release note Valve wrote about seventeen finishes from community authors and singled out the Broken Fang gloves as the case's rare special items. The Workshop submission was titled "AWP | Chromatic Aberration (candy pink)".

What to check before buying

In a listing, check these:

• float: the band is short, and the lower bound of 0.07 gives cleaner metal;


• stickers and a name tag, which stay on the skin when it changes hands.

There is nothing to choose by pattern, as it is identical on every listing. And with a band as narrow as 0.07 to 0.15, the copies are almost indistinguishable.

What the AWP | Chromatic Aberration costs in Minimal Wear

• Factory New is 1.78 times more expensive;


• Field-Tested is 1.16 times cheaper;


• Well-Worn is 1.03 times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is 1.30 times cheaper.

Well-Worn costs almost the same as Minimal Wear, a gap of about three percent. Among Covert AWPs with a price at this wear, only Chrome Cannon is cheaper, by about a tenth. Neo-Noir is higher by about a quarter, Hyper Beast by a third, Printstream and Wildfire by almost double. At the top are Medusa, Dragon Lore and Gungnir.

Getting the AWP | Chromatic Aberration

You can build the skin with a trade-up contract of ten skins from the rank below. With the ten taken from this set, it yields one of its two Covert skins at random, with odds of one in two.

The direct route is the Recoil Case, and the finish has no other.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is a StatTrak version of the AWP | Chromatic Aberration. Souvenir copies of the finish also exist, though no Souvenir packages were released for it; those were made only for tournament map collections. A copy like that comes out of the Souvenir-O-Matic, which adds gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to an ordinary skin from your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Chromatic Aberration

A sticker reads best on the stock: the stripes are wide, and the colors in them are limited to pink and magenta. Cool shades, turquoise and white, pick up the rings at the muzzle. The small symbols on the barrel are better left uncovered, since they are the skin's main graphic.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is worth buying on these terms:

• you want a bright AWP for CS2 without the Factory New premium, which is 1.78 times higher;


• you want the low end of wear, 0.07 to 0.15, at a price below Factory New;


• you are buying a Covert skin from the Recoil Collection for a set, and the price at 0.07 to 0.15 works for you.