AWP | Exoskeleton (Factory New)

Factory New (FN) is the top of the wear scale for the AWP | Exoskeleton, with a float band of 0.00 to 0.07. It is Restricted rank, and the rifle comes from the Operation Broken Fang Case. Every other wear of this finish costs less than Factory New, by factors of 2.5 to 7.3.

What the AWP | Exoskeleton looks like in Factory New

The rifle has no colored accents: the palette is gray-graphite with a cool cast. The body is assembled from plates that run across the receiver, the handguard and the stock, and a ribbed sleeve like a row of vertebrae runs down the barrel. The seams between the plates are dark, and here and there lighter gray segments show. The scope and bipod are black.

In Factory New the relief is intact along the whole length, and no light ribs have appeared on the receiver yet. The skin lives on the volume of its plates, not on color.

Where the AWP | Exoskeleton came from

The Operation Broken Fang Collection launched on December 3, 2020, and the AWP | Exoskeleton has been in it from the start. The artwork is by Rozzy, and the finish is number 975 in Valve's catalog.

What to check before buying

Two things are worth looking at on a Factory New AWP | Exoskeleton:

• stickers left by a previous owner, and whether the rifle has been renamed;


• float: a spread of 0.00 to 0.07 is so small that it gives you nothing to choose by.

The AWP | Exoskeleton has no pattern variants, so there is nothing to pick on that count either.

What the AWP | Exoskeleton costs in Factory New

Each of the other four wears sits below it:

• Minimal Wear by a factor of 2.51;


• Field-Tested by 5.81;


• Well-Worn by 7.3;


• Battle-Scarred by 7.15.

Among Restricted AWPs in this wear, the Exoskeleton is fourth from the top of nine. Above it sit AWP | POP AWP and AWP | Atheris, each about four percent dearer, and AWP | Pink DDPAT. AWP | Black Box is an eighth cheaper, and AWP | Exothermic more than three times cheaper.

Getting the AWP | Exoskeleton

The rifle drops straight from the Operation Broken Fang Case. The other route is a trade-up contract of any ten skins of the next rank down. The collection holds five Restricted skins, so a ten from it gives one chance in five at this rifle.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the AWP | Exoskeleton exists. No Souvenir packages were ever issued for the finish, but you can make a Souvenir copy yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Exoskeleton

A factory-fresh rifle with clean relief suits stickers that need to read without interference from wear. The gray base takes any color, and white ones stand out more than the rest. The best spot is the magazine; on the body a sticker has to sit across the plates.

Who this wear suits

Factory New fits when:

• you want the plate relief whole on the receiver and the stock, with no light ribs;


• the AWP is going into a CS2 loadout that needs an even field for stickers;


• the premium of about 2.5 times over Minimal Wear is justified by the look alone.