FAMAS | Roll Cage (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) is the bottom of the scale for the FAMAS | Roll Cage: the paint on the edges is heavily ground down, yet the red splashes are still distinct. It is Covert rank, from The Gamma 2 Collection and the Gamma 2 Case. This wear takes up more than half of the skin's float.

What the FAMAS | Roll Cage looks like in Battle-Scarred

The skin is built from contrasting parts: a black barrel, receiver with arc handle, and grip; a beige-cream handguard and magazine; and a white stock panel with black strokes. Red splashes and drips lie over the beige and in places climb onto the black arc, while small icons and lettering run along its upper side. Valve describes stickers on a car body spattered with mud.

In Battle-Scarred the wear is deep: pale metal comes through on the edges of the arc and the bevels of the grip. The red patches on the flat faces hold up better, so the pattern as a whole survives.

Where the FAMAS | Roll Cage came from

The FAMAS | Roll Cage entered the game in August 2016 together with The Gamma 2 Collection. Of the collection's two Covert skins, this is one. Valve's caption for it is "Safety first".

What to check before buying

From one listing to the next, a few things change:

• float: the wear range runs from 0.45 to 1.00;


• the edges of the black arc and the red patches near the bolt;


• stickers and any name tag the earlier owner left on it.

The pattern is identical on all copies. Between 0.45 and 1.00 there is enough room to justify comparing several listings. Near the lower bound the edges are better preserved; near the upper one the metal shows more widely.

What the FAMAS | Roll Cage costs in Battle-Scarred

Every other wear costs more:

• Factory New costs about 28% more;


• Minimal Wear costs about 14% more;


• Field-Tested costs about 8% more;


• Well-Worn costs the same.

The skin's whole price row is tight: from the lowest wear to the factory one, the difference is a little over a quarter. Of the three Covert FAMAS skins, this finish is the most expensive here. FAMAS | Bad Trip is cheaper by more than two and a half times, and FAMAS | Commemoration by three times.

Getting the FAMAS | Roll Cage

The skin drops from the Gamma 2 Case. It also comes from a trade-up: the contract takes ten skins of the rank below, with a one-in-two chance of this skin when the ten come from one set.

The Covert rank itself serves as an entry point too: five Covert skins give a rare special item, which here means knives.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The FAMAS | Roll Cage comes with StatTrak. No souvenir packages were released for this finish.

Stickers and craft on the FAMAS | Roll Cage

The background of the FAMAS is busy, but two zones are cleaner than the rest: the white stock panel and the black grip. Dark and red stickers read better on the panel, while light and gold ones read better on the grip. In the middle of the body the splashes compete with any sticker.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred on the FAMAS | Roll Cage makes sense in three cases:

• you want a Covert FAMAS at the lowest price, and the gap to the cleanest wear is about a quarter;


• the red on cream matters more to you than intact paint on the edges;


• you need it as an input to a craft, or as a FAMAS for CS2: the wear is only visual.