Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel (Field-Tested)

The Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel in Field-Tested (FT) is a Covert Glock from the Gamma Case, with white graffiti over worn metal. Its float in this wear sits between 0.15 and 0.38. The finish scale runs from 0.00 to 0.54, so Field-Tested takes a little more than two fifths of it.

What the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel looks like in Field-Tested

Valve describes the finish as aged, covered in block print and sprayed with graffiti. The metal is gray and scuffed, and large white strokes, letters and cross-shaped marks, run across the slide, frame and grip. A brown-and-orange block-print ornament shows on the top of the slide. Valve's tagline is "Pay tribute".

In Field-Tested the scuffs on the gray metal are already noticeable. The degree of wear is stored in the float and fixed at the drop, so the item stays as it is over time.

Where the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel came from

The finish belongs to The Gamma Collection and comes out of the Gamma Case. Within the collection it is one of two Covert skins. The name matches the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel finish, but this is a separate skin on a different weapon. Its Valve catalog number is 586.

What to check before buying

A few points are worth checking before you buy the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel:

• the float: at 0.15 the graffiti reads cleaner than at 0.38;


• the StatTrak™ version, which is sold as a separate item at a separate price;


• the name tag and stickers on this Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel, which stay on the listing.

The Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel has a fixed pattern, so price does not depend on pattern. Both 0.15 and 0.38 fit inside this wear, and such listings look different.

What the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel costs in Field-Tested

All wears of this skin cost almost the same. Measured against Field-Tested:

• Factory New costs a few percent more;


• Minimal Wear is level;


• Well-Worn is level;


• Battle-Scarred is level.

Wear barely moves the price, so choose by how the listing looks and by its float. Among Covert Glock-18s in this wear, the skin is pricier than eight of them and cheaper than two. Glock-18 | Ghost Protocol costs about one and a half times as much, and Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler (Emerald) almost double. Gamma Doppler Phases 1 through 4 are cheaper by a quarter to a third. Gold Toof, Neo-Noir, Fully Tuned and Bullet Queen are cheaper by a factor of two to three and a half.

Getting the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel

The skin sits in the Gamma Case, and no other case holds this finish. You can also build the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel through a trade-up, with ten skins one rank lower from the same collection going in. The Gamma Collection has three Classified skins and two Covert ones, so the odds are one in two.

The Covert rank itself does not go into a regular trade-up, since only knives stand above it. Those are built from five Covert skins, and what comes out is a knife from the collections of the skins put in. For The Gamma Collection these are the Bayonet, Flip Knife, Gut Knife, Karambit and M9 Bayonet.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel has a StatTrak™ version. No souvenir packages were released for this finish, because those were made only for the tournament map collections. You can still build a souvenir copy yourself: the Souvenir-O-Matic puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a regular skin from your inventory. That is why a stray souvenir copy occasionally turns up even where no packages ever existed.

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel

White graffiti strokes lie over gray metal beside a brown ornament. Black, red and orange stickers read well there, while white ones blend into the strokes. The gray areas of the frame and grip between the strokes are the quietest place for a sticker, including in a CS2 craft.

Who this wear suits

The Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel in Field-Tested is a sensible buy if:

• you want a Covert Glock for CS2 with graffiti on worn metal rather than fresh paint;


• you want an entry into the Covert rank that costs less than Ghost Protocol and Gamma Doppler (Emerald);


• you pick a listing by its float, not by the wear label.

There is no need to hunt for Factory New just for cleaner paint, since it costs nearly the same.