Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 (Factory New)

For the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2, Factory New (FN) is the top of the scale: the green lacquer on the slide is nowhere broken through. It is also the most expensive of the four numbered phases of this finish on this pistol. It is a Covert skin from The 2021 Train Collection.

What the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 looks like in Factory New

On this Glock only the slide is painted, but it is painted completely, serrations at the rear included. The color is emerald green: dark swirls and light highlights run along the slide, and the swirls lighten toward the muzzle. The frame, the trigger guard and the magazine remain standard gray-olive plastic. The barrel and inner parts are light metal, and the muzzle cut and the sights are bare.

In Factory New the edge of the slide and the serrations are intact: they are what gives out first, and the green there wears down to metal. The frame picks up no scuffs at all, since it is not painted. That is why the difference between wears on this finish is read from the slide alone.

Phase and pattern

The Gamma Doppler pattern is a roll of the dice: in Valve's data the finish is split into five variants, Emerald, Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3 and Phase 4. The variant is part of the item name, so you choose it by page, not inside a listing.

By price, the numbered phases diverge noticeably. Phase 2 is first among them, Phase 1 and Phase 4 sit lower, and Phase 3 is cheaper than all four. Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Emerald stands apart: this gem costs more than three times what Phase 2 does.

Where the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 came from

The 2021 Train Collection came out on September 22, 2021. In the skin catalog the item is number 1121. There is no Steam Workshop submission for the finish: Valve made Gamma Doppler itself.

What to check before buying

In a Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 listing, check these parameters:

• the float: toward the top of the wear the serrations on the slide are a little lighter;


• the variant in the item name: you need Phase 2, not a neighboring number;


• stickers and a name tag already on this copy of the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2.

In this wear the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 has to be taken within 0.00 to 0.07. Inside that band there is no best copy to hunt for.

What the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 costs in Factory New

Within this variant the wears relate like this:

• Minimal Wear is cheaper by about a tenth;


• Field-Tested is about one and a half times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is cheaper by about a sixth.

Battle-Scarred is nonetheless dearer than Field-Tested, even though its slide is worn more. For Battle-Scarred this skin has a band of just 0.45 to 0.50, the shortest on the scale.

Among Covert Glocks in Factory New, the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 is fifth of eleven from the bottom. Glock-18 | Bullet Queen and Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel are right beside it, and the top of the rank is held by Glock-18 | Neo-Noir and Glock-18 | Ghost Protocol.

Getting the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2

This skin never appeared in cases, so there are two routes: a ready listing and a trade-up. A trade-up takes ten skins one rank lower, all from this collection. The game rolls the phase separately, so Phase 2 is not promised in advance.

StatTrak and Souvenir

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2

No StatTrak version of the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 was released. There were no Souvenir packages for this finish either, since those were made only for tournament map collections. But you can assemble a Souvenir copy yourself: the Souvenir-O-Matic puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from the inventory. That is why a few Souvenir copies turn up from time to time even where there never were any packages.

The pistol has little free field, and almost all of it is on the slide, which means directly on the green. White and light stickers read on the emerald base, while dark green ones sink into it. In Factory New you pay extra for an untouched slide, and a sticker does not come off it without a trace.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is worth buying on the Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 for these reasons:

• you need a clean emerald slide with intact serrations;


• predictability matters: listings within the wear barely differ;


• the Glock is going into a Terrorist-side set in CS2 and up for close inspection.

For combat this wear is overkill: in CS2 at a distance the slide looks the same at any float.