Desert Eagle | Crimson Web (Battle-Scarred)

The Desert Eagle | Crimson Web in Battle-Scarred (BS) is a red Deagle that keeps its webs on the body while the paint along the edges is worn the heaviest. Restricted rank, the eSports 2014 Summer Collection, the eSports 2014 Summer Case. The skin's upper float limit is 0.80, and Battle-Scarred runs right up against it.

What the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web looks like in Battle-Scarred

The red is deep, and fine dark strands of web run over it. They cover the slide, frame and grip completely, while the sights and the trigger guard are black. Valve describes the technique as hydrographics with a web pattern over a red base under a semi-gloss lacquer.

In this wear the lacquer and paint are already rubbed off the raised edges: the top of the slide, the ribs of the frame and the edge of the grip. The webs break off in those spots, but on the flat surfaces the pattern stays readable. Wear within the 0.45 to 0.80 band varies noticeably.

Where the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web came from

Valve is the sole author of the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web, and no Workshop entry exists. The collection with this skin, eSports 2014 Summer, came out in July 2014. In Valve's catalog the skin is number 232.

What to check before buying

What to compare when choosing a Desert Eagle | Crimson Web:

• float: this wear covers 0.45 to 0.80;


• the position of the webs on the slide and the frame;


• any stickers and a name tag this copy already carries.

The web pattern and how it varies

The pattern is drawn by lot on this skin: the strands land on the slide and frame differently from copy to copy. Two listings with identical float can therefore look different. After float, this is the main difference between copies. In Battle-Scarred the pattern matters especially: wear is already deep on every listing, and the easiest way to compare them is by where the threads fall.

What the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web costs in Battle-Scarred

The other wears relate in price like this:

• Factory New costs about 12.6 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs 3.3 times as much;


• Field-Tested is level;


• Well-Worn is dearer by roughly a tenth.

Between Field-Tested and Battle-Scarred there is no price gap, and the float of the second is higher. Among thirteen Restricted Desert Eagles, the skin in this wear has eight cheaper and four dearer. The nearest below is Desert Eagle | Heirloom, almost a third cheaper, while Naga and Directive are several times cheaper. Of the ones above, Desert Eagle | Hand Cannon and Desert Eagle | Sunset Storm 弐 are dozens of times dearer.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web

Among cases, the skin drops only from the eSports 2014 Summer Case. A trade-up for the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web takes ten skins of the rank below from this set.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak is available for the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web. Souvenir packages were never issued for this finish.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web

On the red base white, black and gold stickers read better, while red and burgundy ones get lost. The webs are thin, and a large sticker covers them entirely. Free spots for a sticker craft are the side of the frame above the guard and the bottom of the grip.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred is worth it for the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web for three reasons:

• it is the finish's lowest price, with Factory New above it by more than a factor of twelve;


• you can choose by pattern: with deep wear on every listing, the webs become the main difference;


• it is a red Deagle for a CS2 loadout where scuffing on the edges does not matter.