Glock-18 | Winterized (Minimal Wear)

For the Glock-18 | Winterized, Minimal Wear (MW) takes 0.08 of the 1.00 scale, and it is the cheapest wear of the skin. It is Mil-Spec rank from the Recoil Collection and the Recoil Case. A Glock for the Terrorist side.

What the Glock-18 | Winterized looks like in Minimal Wear

A dark slide and a teal frame with peeling paint, as if the winter finish had begun to come off. The slide is dark gray, almost black, with a fine light print. The frame is teal-blue, rubbed down to sandy cream in places. The grip is black with a grainy texture, and a light plate sits at the bottom.

The color is split horizontally: dark on top, teal below. Chips gather along the edges of the frame, around the trigger guard and at the magazine window. The teal is worn down to the light underlayer in large ragged bald patches. Valve describes the skin as military camouflage in a winter palette.

Where the Glock-18 | Winterized came from

The Glock-18 | Winterized appeared on July 4, 2022, when the Recoil Collection was added to the game. Valve announced the update "A New Cassssssse": the Recoil Case, 17 community finishes and Broken Fang gloves as the rare special items.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular Glock-18 | Winterized rests on these points:

• float: Minimal Wear covers 0.07 to 0.15, and the listings inside it look alike;


• name tag and stickers already carried by this Glock-18 | Winterized;


• counter: the StatTrak version is a separate item with a price of its own.

There is no choosing the Glock-18 | Winterized by pattern, since it is identical across listings.

What the Glock-18 | Winterized costs in Minimal Wear

Here Minimal Wear is the cheapest wear. Factory New (FN) costs five times more. Field-Tested (FT), Well-Worn (WW) and Battle-Scarred (BS) each cost 1.8 times more.

Among sixteen Mil-Spec Glocks, this skin is the cheapest: nobody is below it. Teal Graf is 1.9 times higher and Oxide Blaze 1.8 times. Sacrifice, Coral Bloom and one more finish cost 2.3 to 2.5 times more. Ironwork and Blue Fissure stand tens of times higher, and Reactor a hundred times.

Getting the Glock-18 | Winterized

The skin drops from the Recoil Case. It cannot be produced by trade-up, because the collection has no ranks below it. From it a contract leads on to Dual Berettas | Flora Carnivora, M249 | Downtown, P90 | Vent Rush, R8 Revolver | Crazy 8 and SG 553 | Dragon Tech.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Glock-18 | Winterized has a StatTrak version. The skin has no Souvenir version.

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Winterized

The dark slide takes light stickers, while the teal frame with its bald patches suits only large, bright ones. Small stickers get lost on the chips. The grip is black and grainy, and stickers read worst there.

Who this wear suits

This wear of the Glock-18 | Winterized is a reasonable buy if:

• you want a Glock for CS2 with worn-away teal and the lowest price among the skin's wears;


• you want a visible trace of wear, but without the most scuffed wears;


• a Mil-Spec skin for little money matters to you.