AWP | Elite Build (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) on the AWP | Elite Build is the most affordable version of this Classified AWP with a graphite base. The wear is allotted a float of 0.45 to 1.00, which is 55% of the scale. The rank is Classified, and the skin drops from the Operation Wildfire Case.

What the AWP | Elite Build looks like in Battle-Scarred

The rifle is dark gray: a graphite body with black areas, and a black barrel and scope. Orange picks out the muzzle ring, the scope screws, the bolt handle and small inserts on the receiver and stock. There is no artwork in the usual sense. The finish is built on a dark base and spot orange details laid out like technical marks.

A light badge with wings and fine lettering are on the receiver. Valve describes the finish as hydrographic paint with a stencil and heat-transfer decals.

In this wear the orange accents on the raised parts are rubbed down the most, while the dark base hides scuffs. So the differences between wears are subtle, and at a distance the AWP looks almost the same as in the higher ones.

Where the AWP | Elite Build came from

The AWP | Elite Build appeared in the game on February 17, 2016. Its author is M1nD, and in Valve's catalog the artwork is number 525. The release coincided with Operation Wildfire. A little over a week later, Valve described an update to lighting and shaders that arrived with the operation and the map de_nuke.

What to check before buying

What to compare when choosing an AWP | Elite Build:

• float: the closer to 0.45, the more intact the orange marks;


• the muzzle ring and the scope screws, which give out earlier than the rest;


• whether the AWP | Elite Build carries stickers and a name tag.

The artwork is one on all copies, so there is no particular one to hunt for. The 0.45 to 1.00 band is broad, so listings share a label but not a condition.

What the AWP | Elite Build costs in Battle-Scarred

Battle-Scarred is the lowest rung of the finish. Factory New costs almost six times as much and Minimal Wear almost twice as much. Field-Tested costs an eighth more, and Well-Worn a twentieth.

Among Classified AWPs the finish ranks sixth in ascending price out of nine. Above it stand the AWP | The End, by a few percent, and the AWP | Fever Dream, by half again. Below come the AWP | Ice Coaled, AWP | Mortis and AWP | Green Energy. The priciest in the rank is the AWP | Silk Tiger, at more than eighteen times as much.

Getting the AWP | Elite Build

The skin has no other case. A contract for the AWP | Elite Build asks for ten skins one rank down. Gather ten from this set and the chance is one in three.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AWP | Elite Build has a StatTrak version, and the finish has no Souvenir packages.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Elite Build

On the dark gray base almost every color reads, except black. There is free room on the stock and on the side of the receiver next to the badge. Orange stickers continue the factory marks, and cool colors give contrast.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred is worth buying if:

• you want a dark AWP for CS2 at the lowest price of the finish;


• wear does not bother you, since graphite hides it;


• you need the rifle as a base for a sticker craft.