Desert Eagle | Meteorite (Factory New)

The Desert Eagle | Meteorite in Factory New (FN) has a nearly black body covered in a golden-bronze mesh of crystalline facets. Its float in this wear is 0.00 to 0.07. The rank is Mil-Spec, and the Bank Collection is the set it belongs to.

What the Desert Eagle | Meteorite looks like in Factory New

The paint is metallic and dark, with a fine pattern of sharp polygons laid over it, like cracks in glass or the facets of a crystal. The lines are gold and bronze, and in places they thicken and gather into light patches. A small detail by the hammer is gold as well.

In Factory New the metallic is whole: the mesh is not rubbed away, and the edges have no bare patches. Wear is recorded at the drop, and in this wear it is minimal.

Where the Desert Eagle | Meteorite came from

The Bank Collection was released on May 2, 2014, and this skin has been in the set since launch. Valve's note from that day says the set was added to the drop list.

What to check before buying

When choosing a listing, this is what matters:

• float: Factory New on this skin runs from 0.00 to 0.07;


• the edges of the slide and the frame, where the first scuff shows on the dark paint;


• a name tag and stickers: on this Desert Eagle they stay with the lot.

The 0.00 to 0.07 band is tight, and the extreme listings differ only in the number. The finish has three wears, from Factory New to Field-Tested, and its scale breaks off at 0.18.

What the Desert Eagle | Meteorite costs in Factory New

The other wears measured against this one:

• Minimal Wear sells for roughly a tenth less;


• Field-Tested is also cheaper by about a tenth.

The gap between wears is small on this finish because the whole scale is short: Factory New occupies 0.07 of 0.18, about forty percent.

Among the eleven Mil-Spec Desert Eagles in this wear, the finish lies above the middle: six cost less and four cost more. The nearest below is Desert Eagle | Oxide Blaze, slightly cheaper. The most expensive is Desert Eagle | Night Heist, by dozens of times.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Meteorite

No CS2 case contains this skin.

A trade-up contract for it consists of ten skins from one rank lower in a single collection. The Bank Collection has three Mil-Spec skins, so the chance is one in three.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the Desert Eagle | Meteorite was never released. Souvenir copies exist, but there were no packages for this finish, since those were made only for tournament map collections. Such copies are built through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Meteorite

A dark body with a golden mesh suits stickers in a warm palette. Gold, yellow and white stand out on it, while black and dark blue ones merge with the paint. The pattern is fine, so a sticker with a large picture reads better than a small, busy one.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Desert Eagle | Meteorite in this wear makes sense if:

• you want clean dark paint with no scuffs on the edges;


• the price gap to Minimal Wear is small, and you want the paint clean;


• you need the Desert Eagle in CS2 as a dark pistol with a gold pattern for a black-and-gold set.

If scuffs on the edges are acceptable, Minimal Wear will do: it is cheaper by about a tenth.