Desert Eagle | Heat Treated (Well-Worn)

In Well-Worn (WW) the colored swirls of the metal are still there, while the gold shine along the edges is already noticeably worn off. The Desert Eagle | Heat Treated is Classified, belongs to the Limited Edition Item collection and has no case. In CS2 the pistol works for both sides.

What the Desert Eagle | Heat Treated looks like in Well-Worn

There is no artwork in the usual sense: patches of temper color flood the slide and frame. They show steel blue, violet, copper brown and pale cream, and a brown stripe runs along the top of the slide. The grip panels and trigger are bare dark gray, and the magazine base is blue-gray.

This wear gives the Desert Eagle | Heat Treated a float of 0.38 to 0.45. Here the gold on the muzzle ring, sight rails and slide ridges takes the heaviest wear. Scrapes run along the edges and reach the teeth of the rail under the barrel. The flat side of the slide with its blue swirls stays readable the longest.

Where the Desert Eagle | Heat Treated came from

Valve is credited as the author, and the Steam Workshop plays no part in the history of this skin. The description says the hardening was done with charcoal at high temperature, and the catalog lists the skin under number 1054.

The Limited Edition Item collection came out on October 2, 2024, and the Desert Eagle | Heat Treated belongs to it. It was handed out in the Armory, and Valve later announced that it can no longer be picked up there.

What to check before buying

Before taking a Desert Eagle | Heat Treated, check the following:

• pattern: each copy has its own share of blue and gold, and the decision goes by the picture of the listing;


• float: at the 0.38 border there is still a little gold, toward 0.45 the worn edges are plain to see;


• stickers and a name tag already on this Desert Eagle | Heat Treated.

The 0.38 to 0.45 band on the Desert Eagle | Heat Treated is tight, and the outermost listings differ only in the number.

What the Desert Eagle | Heat Treated costs in Well-Worn

The other wears against Well-Worn:

• Factory New costs about thirty-four times more;


• Minimal Wear costs two and a half times more;


• Field-Tested costs a few percent more;


• Battle-Scarred costs the same few percent less.

The top wear is an order of magnitude away from the rest, and Well-Worn barely differs in price from its two neighbors.

Among the six Classified Desert Eagles priced in this wear, this skin comes first from the bottom. Desert Eagle | Mecha Industries costs six times more, Desert Eagle | Eastern Enigma thirteen and a half, Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon twenty-three. Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox is two orders of magnitude higher.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Heat Treated

The Desert Eagle | Heat Treated has no cases: it came out only in the Armory, as a limited item.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Desert Eagle | Heat Treated never came in a StatTrak version, and there are no souvenir packages.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Heat Treated

Against worn edges a sticker looks natural: the scuffing and the sticker blend together. Colored and gold stickers sink into the temper colors, so plain black or white is the safer pick. The frame under the slide and the side of the grip are free, and the blue field is better left alone.

Who this wear suits

Well-Worn is the buy if at least one of these fits:

• you want a colorful Deagle, and the gold along the edges does not matter;


• Factory New costs thirty-four times more, and paying that extra for cleanliness is not needed;


• you are buying for the blue field on the side of the slide, which stays readable.