AWP | Electric Hive (Well-Worn)

The AWP | Electric Hive in Well-Worn (WW) is the lowest wear of this skin: its own float ends at 0.40, so there is no Battle-Scarred. The band of 0.38 to 0.40 makes up five percent of the scale. It is a Classified skin that belongs to The eSports 2013 Winter Collection and drops from the eSports 2013 Winter Case.

What the AWP | Electric Hive looks like in Well-Worn

Violet with a metallic cast is the main color, and the cells are red-orange with dark outlines. The mesh runs over the receiver, handguard and stock, while the barrel is left dark. The bipod and rings are violet. There is no lettering, and hexagons of different sizes overlap in places.

Wear is fixed at drop, and here it is the highest the skin has. The edges of the receiver and stock are pale: the outlines of the cells are rubbed away and the violet has turned gray. The mesh reads better across the flat panels than at the edges, and the artwork as a whole is still recognizable.

Where the AWP | Electric Hive came from

The AWP | Electric Hive has no Workshop submission, because the finish was drawn inside Valve. It came out on December 18, 2013, and its number in Valve's catalog is 227.

What to check before buying

Before paying for an AWP | Electric Hive, check the following:

• float: this wear is allotted 0.38 to 0.40, so you can buy almost blind;


• the position of the cells on the body: copies differ in artwork;


• stickers and name tag: everything on the listing transfers with it.

Pattern index shifts the mesh across the body, and one copy differs from another in where the large hexagons sit. No named rare variants exist. The band of 0.38 to 0.40 is tight, which leaves almost nothing to choose by float: the artwork decides.

What the AWP | Electric Hive costs in Well-Worn

The other wears, relative to Well-Worn:

• Factory New is 1.46 times dearer;


• Minimal Wear is 1.45 times cheaper;


• Field-Tested is 1.67 times cheaper.

So the most worn wear costs more than the two middle ones, because its band is cut off by the ceiling of the scale. Of the eleven Classified AWPs priced in this wear, eight cost less, and only Redline and Silk Tiger cost more. The cheapest, Duality and Mortis, cost an order of magnitude less.

Getting the AWP | Electric Hive

The skin drops from the eSports 2013 Winter Case. A trade-up fits as well. Ten skins one rank down go in, and if the ten come from this collection, the chance at the AWP | Electric Hive is one in three.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AWP | Electric Hive has a StatTrak version. No souvenir packages were ever issued for the skin, but a souvenir copy can be built in the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Electric Hive

Worn edges and the mesh leave little clean space. Dense stickers with a light fill sit best on the violet base, and thin outlines get lost among the cells. For a craft, the stock near its edge is the more convenient spot, since the mesh is sparse there.

Who this wear suits

Well-Worn is worth buying for the AWP | Electric Hive when:

• you want the finish's maximum wear and an exactly known float of 0.38 to 0.40;


• you want the AWP in CS2 for the artwork, and scuffed edges do not bother you;


• a price above Field-Tested does not put you off: the Well-Worn band is cut off by the ceiling of the scale.