AWP | Desert Hydra (Well-Worn)

Well-Worn (WW) on the AWP | Desert Hydra is the narrow stretch before Battle-Scarred, where the pale parts of the AWP are already visibly dusty. Covert rank, The 2021 Mirage Collection. There is no regular case: copies come from tournament souvenir packages.

What the AWP | Desert Hydra looks like in Well-Worn

The red-orange receiver, the gold-yellow panel and the olive-brown coils of the hydra are recognizable at once. Wear lands first on the pale front half of the rifle, where the cream-white barrel, scope tube and butt plate are laced with thin coral lines. In Well-Worn the speckles on them gather into a film that is visible without zooming in.

The red and gold hold up better than the white: scuffs lie along the receiver edges, and the main fill is intact. Well-Worn covers floats from 0.38 to 0.45. It is short, and the difference between lots is lost in the margin of error.

Where the AWP | Desert Hydra came from

The author of the AWP | Desert Hydra is Valve itself, and no outside artist stands behind it in the Workshop. The 2021 Mirage Collection went live on September 21, 2021, with this skin among its contents from day one. The finish's number in Valve's catalog is 819.

What to check before buying

A few points to check before buying the AWP | Desert Hydra:

• float: on the stretch from 0.38 to 0.45 the number only shows which end the copy lies at;


• listing type: Souvenir copies with gold team stickers sell for a different price than regular ones;


• what the previous owner left on the AWP | Desert Hydra, meaning stickers and a name tag.

The pattern index changes nothing on the AWP | Desert Hydra: the artwork is the same on every copy.

What the AWP | Desert Hydra costs in Well-Worn

The other wears against this one:

• Factory New costs a third more;


• Minimal Wear costs about a seventh more;


• Field-Tested is a few percent cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred costs a few percent more.

Well-Worn costs almost as much as Field-Tested and a little less than Battle-Scarred. It takes up 0.07 of the 0.60 scale, about twelve percent.

Among seventeen Covert AWPs in this wear the skin is fourth from the top: thirteen cost less and three cost more. AWP | Medusa is higher, by about double, and AWP | Dragon Lore and AWP | Gungnir cost far more. AWP | Oni Taiji is about four times lower, and AWP | CMYK and AWP | Asiimov ten or more times lower.

Getting the AWP | Desert Hydra

The skin has no case, and tournament souvenir packages for the Mirage map hand it out. To get the AWP | Desert Hydra by trade-up, you hand in ten skins of the rank below; the more of them come from this skin's collection, the likelier it is to come out.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is no StatTrak version of the AWP | Desert Hydra. A Souvenir variant exists, and it comes from packages for the Mirage map.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Desert Hydra

The film on the pale parts takes away a clean background for a craft. Saturated dark stickers cover the film, while light ones merge with it. On the red receiver large stickers work better, and small ones sink into the coils.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AWP | Desert Hydra in this wear makes sense if:

• you want a Covert AWP for CS2 priced slightly above the cheapest wear;


• the film on the pale parts does not bother you;


• in CS2 the red-gold receiver matters more to you than a white barrel.

If you want a lower price, Field-Tested costs a few percent less.