Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption (Field-Tested)

This is the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption in Field-Tested (FT), the most worn wear of the finish. The scale stops at 0.20, and FT runs from 0.15 to 0.20, which is 25% of it. The skin is Classified, from The eSports 2013 Winter Collection.

What the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption looks like in Field-Tested

There is no rust and no brown on this pistol. It wears blue digital camouflage in two shades, dark and light, with near-black patches. Pixels of varying size make up a mosaic, and they shrink toward the muzzle. The trigger and the screws are pale metal. Valve describes the finish as metal foil with a digital "disruptive" pattern.

The camouflage runs over the slide, frame, grip panels and magazine without gaps, and no single figure stands out. In FT the slide edge, the bump of the trigger guard and the grip corners lighten: pixels drop out there and gray metal shows through. Wear on the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption is set at the drop, so scuffs do not accumulate on a copy that has already dropped. With a float ceiling of 0.20, the finish has no Battle-Scarred version.

Where the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption came from

Valve drew the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption itself, and no Steam Workshop submission stands behind the finish. The eSports 2013 Winter Collection arrived in December 2013, and the skin came with the same update. In Valve's catalog this is finish number 231.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption rests on these points:

• float: this wear sits at 0.15 to 0.20;


• what the previous owner left on the gun, meaning stickers and a name tag;


• the pattern index, which the color layout depends on.

The scale gives this wear only 0.15 to 0.20, so the scuffing looks alike from copy to copy.

Pattern and color layout

According to csgoskins, the pattern varies on this finish: the color layout of the camouflage follows the pattern index, and every copy has its own. Two listings of one wear can differ even when their floats match.

Before buying, compare the placement of the dark and light areas on the slide and the frame across several listings.

What the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption costs in Field-Tested

The other wears of the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption relate to Field-Tested like this:

• Factory New costs about 1.2 times more;


• Minimal Wear is level, with a difference of under three percent.

The finish has only three wears, and the lowest costs as much as the middle one. Among Classified Desert Eagle finishes in FT, the skin takes second place from the top: only Fennec Fox costs more. Below it come Conspiracy, Kumicho Dragon, Eastern Enigma, Mecha Industries and Heat Treated.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption

The Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption drops from the eSports 2013 Winter Case.

The other route is a trade-up. The contract takes ten skins of the Restricted rank from any collections, and the result comes from the collection of one of the inputs. Putting all ten in from The eSports 2013 Winter Collection is a choice that keeps the result inside that set. Three Classified skins live there, so the Deagle's chance is one in three. From here the skin leads on to a contract for the Covert M4A4 | X-Ray.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption comes in a StatTrak version. Souvenir packages never included this skin.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption

Blue pixel camouflage with no standout figures leaves the whole side of the slide free, and a sticker reads there in full. White and yellow show best, while blue and black merge with the background.

Who this wear suits

This wear of the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption is worth buying for three reasons:

• you want the most worn look of the finish, since no Battle-Scarred exists;


• FT costs almost the same as Minimal Wear, while Factory New is dearer by roughly a sixth;


• you want a blue Deagle for CS2 where the camouflage layout matters more than flawless wear.