AWP | Corticera (Factory New)

Factory New (FN) is the cleanest of the three wears in which the AWP | Corticera exists. Its float band is 0.06 to 0.07: the lower edge is cut off at the skin's minimum, and no copy with a float below 0.06 exists. The rank is Classified, and the collection is The eSports 2014 Summer Collection. This AWP can be had for CS2 only in Factory New, Minimal Wear and Field-Tested.

What the AWP | Corticera looks like in Factory New

The rifle is dark blue, the barrel is black, and there is a blue ring at the muzzle. The ornament gathers at the back. On the stock and the rear half of the receiver, lime-green stems with gold and turquoise veins intertwine, and thin shoots reach from them toward the handguard. The front half of the rifle is nearly clean, with no color on the barrel. Leaves and spirals can be told apart, and light marks like buds sit on the side of the receiver.

In Factory New the thin gold veins are intact, and the receiver edges and the butt plate have not lightened. Valve's description calls the finish a drawing with a corticera tree motif.

Where the AWP | Corticera came from

No Workshop submission stands behind it: this is Valve's own work. The skin came out in July 2014 together with The eSports 2014 Summer Collection, and in Valve's overall catalog of finishes it holds number 181.

What to check before buying

The choice of a particular copy rests on these points:

• float: the spread of 0.06 to 0.07 is so small that choosing by float is pointless;


• stickers and a name already applied to the copy come with the listing;


• version: regular, StatTrak or Souvenir.

There is no "rare" pattern to buy, since every copy has the same artwork.

What the AWP | Corticera costs in Factory New

The finish has three wears, and both lower ones are much cheaper:

• Minimal Wear by 4.9 times;


• Field-Tested by five times.

Factory New takes 4% of the finish's scale: 0.01 out of 0.06 to 0.30. The band is tiny, and the gap to the lower wears is fivefold: the most untouched condition is paid for separately here.

Among Classified AWPs in Factory New, the skin is fourth from the top of thirteen. Only AWP | Graphite, AWP | Silk Tiger and AWP | BOOM are above it. Cheaper are AWP | Crakow! and AWP | Electric Hive, and lower still AWP | Elite Build and AWP | The End. The most affordable in the row are AWP | Duality and AWP | Mortis.

Getting the AWP | Corticera

The skin drops from the eSports 2014 Summer case, and its collection is the same. To trade up into it, you hand in ten skins of the rank below. With all ten inputs taken from this set, it has four Classified finishes, so the odds of this AWP from a trade-up are one in four. The skin itself goes on into a trade-up for AK-47 | Jaguar or M4A4 | Bullet Rain.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the AWP | Corticera exists. No Souvenir packages were made for this finish, but a Souvenir copy can be assembled through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Corticera

The blue base in Factory New is even, and stickers show on it without interference. White, yellow and gold ones stand apart from the blue and from the green ornament, while green and turquoise ones on the stock sink among the stems. Free space is on the handguard and near the magazine, where there is no ornament.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is a reasonable buy in these situations:

• you want an untouched ornament: the gold veins are whole and the edges have not lightened;


• you are building a blue AWP for CS2 with a green pattern, where a clean look matters;


• the choice between wears is made on condition, and a fivefold gap is not a worry.