Galil AR | Eco (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) is the lowest wear of the Galil AR | Eco on the scale, with a band from 0.45 to 0.85. The skin is Classified and drops from the Chroma 2 Case, and the rifle is on the Terrorist side.

What the Galil AR | Eco looks like in Battle-Scarred

The base is white and light gray. Green, a bright grass shade, marks the magazine, part of the handguard, the ring at the muzzle and the stock pads. The white field covers the receiver and the top of the handguard, while the green elements run along the bottom and the edges. A green eco is lettered on the receiver and the stock. The barrel is green and the sights are white.

In Battle-Scarred the white base is gray along the handguard edge and the top of the receiver, and the green pads have already faded. The lettering stays the main mark of recognition. Small light marks on the receiver are harder to make out.

Where the Galil AR | Eco came from

Credit for the finish goes to LoveCroissant. Valve describes the work as a rifle painted white and green and finished with heat-transfer decals. The finish's number in the Valve catalog is 428.

The Chroma 2 Collection with this skin came out in April 2015, and the Galil AR | Eco arrived in the same update.

What to check before buying

When choosing a Galil AR | Eco, pay attention to the following:

• the float: near the 0.45 edge the receiver keeps the most white;


• the state of the green pads on the stock and at the muzzle;


• stickers and an applied name, which on the Galil AR | Eco go with the listing.

The Galil AR | Eco has no pattern variants, so there is nothing to choose by. Between 0.45 and 0.85 lies a difference worth comparing several listings for. That is 53% of the finish's scale, and the scale itself runs from 0.10 to 0.85.

What the Galil AR | Eco costs in Battle-Scarred

The finish has no factory wear, so there are only four wears. The others, relative to this one:

• Minimal Wear is dearer by about a factor of six;


• Field-Tested is dearer by about 7%;


• Well-Worn is dearer by about 4%.

Nearly all the surcharge falls on Minimal Wear, which gets the short 0.10 to 0.15 band. The three lower wears sit close together.

Among Classified Galils, the skin is third of four. Above it are Galil AR | Sugar Rush, about four times dearer, and another skin of the rank, about 1.7 times dearer. Below it is Galil AR | Chromatic Aberration, about three times cheaper.

Getting the Galil AR | Eco

The Chroma 2 Case drops this skin. A trade-up for the Galil AR | Eco takes ten skins of the rank below. Among the inputs are AWP | Worm God, CZ75-Auto | Pole Position and UMP-45 | Grand Prix.

With the ten drawn from this set's three Classified skins, the chance is one in three. The skin itself works as an input in a trade-up toward M4A1-S | Hyper Beast or MAC-10 | Neon Rider.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Galil AR | Eco has a StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages were issued for the finish: those were made only for tournament map collections. Even so, a souvenir copy can be built by hand, because Souvenir-O-Matic applies golden tournament stickers and a player autograph to an ordinary skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the Galil AR | Eco

The white field of the receiver is the freest spot, but pale stickers vanish on it. Dark, saturated stickers read better, while green ones merge with the pads and the eco lettering. In Battle-Scarred the handguard edges are already gray, so it is safer to put a sticker on the flat of the receiver.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Galil AR | Eco in Battle-Scarred is worthwhile for three reasons:

• you want the cheapest white and green Galil for CS2;


• being able to pick a listing by float across a wide band matters to you;


• you need an inexpensive base for dark stickers in a CS2 collection.

Of the four wears, this one has the longest band: 0.40 of the finish's 0.75 scale.