Glock-18 | Neo-Noir (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) of the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir is the second-best version of this Covert Glock. Neon and black-and-white graphics still read almost as on a new one, and the price is more than three times lower than in Factory New.

What the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir looks like in Minimal Wear

At the center of the skin is a woman's face drawn in black lines. The fills are magenta, purple and light-blue neon, and the background is light gray and white. The slide is dark with red lettering, and the grip has light-blue circles with red dots.

In Minimal Wear the scuffs are limited to small marks on the slide edges and at the muzzle. The frame and the grip are almost intact, and the lines of the face read in full. Wear is set at drop, so a listing will keep this look unchanged.

What to check before buying

Worth verifying on a Glock-18 | Neo-Noir:

• the float within the 0.07 to 0.15 band;


• stickers and a name tag already on this copy of the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir;


• the slide edges, where scuffs show sooner than on the light frame.

The 0.07 to 0.15 span of this wear is short, so the difference between listings falls within the margin of error. The Glock-18 | Neo-Noir is the same artwork on every copy, and rare examples do not exist.

What the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir costs in Minimal Wear

The other wears against this one:

• Factory New is more than three times pricier;


• Field-Tested is almost a third cheaper;


• Well-Worn is more than a third cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is more than two fifths cheaper.

On the Covert Glock-18 price ladder for this wear, the skin takes the second step from the bottom, with only the Glock-18 | Gold Toof beneath it. Above it stand the Glock-18 | Bullet Queen, a seventh pricier, and three Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler skins (Phase 1, 3 and 4). Those cost one and a half times as much or more. The top of the row is held by the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel, Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler (Emerald) and Glock-18 | Ghost Protocol.

Getting the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir

The skin comes out of the Operation Broken Fang Case. A trade-up also gets it: ten skins one rank down from this collection go in. The Operation Broken Fang Collection was added to the game on December 3, 2020, and the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir appeared in the same update.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir exists. No Souvenir packages for this finish were released: they were made only for tournament map collections. A Souvenir copy can still be assembled by yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir

The dark slide stays the calmest spot for a sticker, since there is no artwork on it. Over the light frame a sticker fights with the lines of the face, and only black or white ones come out ahead. For a sticker craft on this pistol, the pick is stickers with a dark outline.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is a sensible buy for the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir in these situations:

• you want bright graphics with almost no scuffs, but cheaper than Factory New;


• the frame and the grip should stay light, and small scuffs on the slide are acceptable;


• paying almost one and a half times the Field-Tested price is not a deterrent.

In CS2 wear never touches the shooting; it governs appearance alone.