Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy (Field-Tested)

Field-Tested (FT) is the last of three wears for the Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy: the finish exists only in Factory New, Minimal Wear and this one. The float scale stops at 0.20, and FT takes a quarter of it. It is a Classified skin from The Chop Shop Collection.

What the Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy looks like in Field-Tested

The slide is covered in blue anodized metal with a fine grain, and a vertical serration runs across its rear. The frame and grip are gray, with a greenish warm tint and a ribbed grip. There are just two colors: cold blue on top and neutral gray below.

In Field-Tested the blue layer has already been touched: pale metal comes through on the slide edges and along the ribs of the serration. The gray frame barely changes against that backdrop, so the wear is read off the slide.

Where the Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy came from

Valve's post on Operation Bloodhound, dated May 28, 2015, lists The Chop Shop Collection among the weapon collections of the pass. Rewards for pass owners dropped from exactly those.

The collection was added to the game on May 28, 2015, and the Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy appeared in the same update.

What to check before buying

What sets one listing apart from another:

• float: the stretch of the scale here is 0.15 to 0.20;


• the slide edges and the serration, where light scuffs read immediately on the blue coating;


• stickers and a name tag, which come with the pistol.

The 0.15 to 0.20 stretch is short, and the difference between listings falls within the margin of error.

What the Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy costs in Field-Tested

The other wears relative to Field-Tested:

• Factory New costs almost twice as much;


• Minimal Wear costs almost the same, within three percent.

The whole price difference sits between the factory wear and the other two: wear up to 0.20 costs the same.

Of the seven Classified Glock-18 skins in this wear, this is the most expensive: no skin of the rank costs more. Glock-18 | Water Elemental is about eleven times cheaper, and Glock-18 | Snack Attack thirteen times. Glock-18 | Mirror Mosaic and Glock-18 | Shinobu are roughly forty to fifty times cheaper.

Getting the Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy

The Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy never made it into any case.

The second way to the skin is a trade-up: hand in ten skins of the rank below. From the skin's own collection, the Dual Berettas | Duelist and SG 553 | Bulldozer will do. The outcome is random, and with such a ten the odds are one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak versions of the Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy were not released. Souvenir copies are out there, yet no souvenir packages existed for this finish, since those were made only for tournament map collections. Such copies are built with the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph onto a regular skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy

The pistol is compact, and there is little room for stickers: a smooth gray frame and a narrow strip of slide. A sticker reads best on the frame. White and yellow stickers separate from the blue, while blue and light-blue ones merge into it. In CS2 a Glock with this slide looks like a cold accent, and extra stickers clutter it.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested on the Glock-18 | Twilight Galaxy is the one to buy if at least one of these applies:

• you want a Classified Glock in CS2 at the lowest price among the wears;


• the blue slide should stay blue, and pale edges do not bother you;


• it matters not to pay almost double for the factory wear.

Minimal Wear costs almost the same, so choose between the two by float and by how the edges look.