M4A1-S | Control Panel (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) on the M4A1-S | Control Panel is the cheapest of the five wears and the widest. The float band takes 55% of the scale, which for this finish runs up to 1.00. It is a Classified rifle that can be played on the counter-terrorist side. There is no case for the skin; it sits in tournament Souvenir packages.

What the M4A1-S | Control Panel looks like in Battle-Scarred

The base is blue, laid over the receiver and the carry handle. Small instrument panels with red, orange, yellow and green lights are scattered across the receiver, and there is even a tiny green screen. The suppressor, handguard, magazine and stock are dark, with a metallic sheen and a fine grid, and a yellow ring runs near the stock. Valve's own description is of a hand-painted finish, with dials and switches in many colors against the blue.

The wear takes the band from 0.45 to 1.00. Wear is fixed at the drop, so a listing in this band stays as it came.

What to check before buying

When choosing a copy of the M4A1-S | Control Panel, these points count:

• float: the 0.45 to 1.00 spread is the largest of any wear;


• the name tag and stickers already on the M4A1-S | Control Panel;


• version: a Souvenir copy carries gold tournament stickers and counts as a separate item.

Copies of this skin differ in wear alone, as they share one artwork. The band stretches over more than half the scale, and inside it listings look different.

What the M4A1-S | Control Panel costs in Battle-Scarred

The other four wears cost more than Battle-Scarred, and the gap is very large:

• Factory New is 27.95 times more expensive;


• Minimal Wear is 6.82 times more expensive;


• Field-Tested is 4.51 times more expensive;


• Well-Worn is 1.19 times more expensive.

Only a short step separates Battle-Scarred from Well-Worn, and after that the price climbs steeply. Among Classified M4A1-S skins priced in this wear, three cost less and eight cost more. Nearest below is M4A1-S | Black Lotus, a tenth lower, then M4A1-S | Stratosphere and M4A1-S | Solitude. M4A1-S | Party Animal is one and a half times higher. M4A1-S | Atomic Alloy and two more skins are in a different bracket.

Getting the M4A1-S | Control Panel

No regular case holds the skin. It drops from tournament Souvenir packages, starting with the London 2018 Nuke Souvenir Package, and belongs to The 2018 Nuke Collection.

A contract also yields the M4A1-S | Control Panel: it takes ten skins from the rank below in the set. The odds of the right rifle are one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is no StatTrak version of the M4A1-S | Control Panel, but Souvenir packages with the skin were released, the London 2018 Nuke Souvenir Package among them.

Stickers and craft on the M4A1-S | Control Panel

The dark suppressor and handguard leave plenty of room for stickers. The blue box is busy with small details, so large stickers there fight the lights. Bright yellow and orange ones read worse next to the panels than white ones do.

Who this wear suits

The M4A1-S | Control Panel in this wear makes sense when:

• you need an M4A1-S for CS2 at the lowest price of any wear of the skin;


• wear up to 1.00 is acceptable, and the color of the instrument panels on the receiver matters more than a clean body;


• you have no wish to pay a surcharge for Factory New, which costs almost 28 times more.