M4A1-S | Cyrex (Battle-Scarred)

The M4A1-S | Cyrex in Battle-Scarred (BS) has a float of 0.45 to 0.50, and the skin's scale ends at 0.50. It is a Covert skin from The Breakout Collection and drops from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case. In CS2, players know the "Cyrex" M4A1-S by its black and red palette.

What the M4A1-S | Cyrex looks like in Battle-Scarred

The rifle is done in black, white and red. The body and the handguard are black. The suppressor has a red insert with small lettering, and the magazine is white with red. White and red details run along the receiver. Valve calls the finish a high-tech design in black, white and red. The drawing has no figures: it is made of technical lines and blocks.

Battle-Scarred is a short band here, 0.45 to 0.50, so two copies barely differ. Wear was set when the item dropped, and it stays.

Where the M4A1-S | Cyrex came from

Nextgenz drew it and filed "M4A1S | Cyrex" with the Steam Workshop on May 21, 2014. In the caption he stated that the artwork is entirely vector and was made with a mouse alone, without a graphics tablet. The collection with this skin came out in July 2014, and the M4A1-S | Cyrex arrived in the same update. The finish's number in Valve's catalog is 360.

What to check before buying

The float here is 0.45 to 0.50, a short band, so chasing the number is pointless. These points separate one listing from another:

• stickers and a name tag that may already sit on the rifle;


• price: it is almost the same in all five wears, so listings are easier to compare by float and stickers.

Every copy in the run has the artwork applied the same way.

What the M4A1-S | Cyrex costs in Battle-Scarred

All five wears of this skin cost almost the same: Battle-Scarred differs from any other by less than three percent. There is no point in choosing a wear by price.

Of ten Covert M4A1-S skins priced in this wear, it is third from the top: only Imminent Danger and Welcome to the Jungle cost more. Printstream is cheaper by a quarter, Chantico's Fire by more than a third, Hyper Beast and Mecha Industries by still more, and Player Two by more than three times.

Getting the M4A1-S | Cyrex

The skin is in the Operation Breakout Weapon Case. A contract is possible as well: ten skins of the rank below go in from anywhere, and the result is taken from the collection of one of them. Ten from Breakout are the player's choice, and they steer the result. A Covert skin also goes into a craft: five Covert skins give a rare special item marked ★, and for Breakout that is the Butterfly Knife.

StatTrak and Souvenir

In CS2 the M4A1-S | Cyrex has a StatTrak version. There are no souvenir packages for it, though you can make a Souvenir copy yourself with the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the M4A1-S | Cyrex

The black base gives stickers a dark background, and white and red ones read at once. The red insert on the suppressor and the red details already draw the eye, so it is better not to add more colors.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred is a fair choice here given these conditions:

• you want a Covert skin with a high-tech finish and do not need to pick a wear by price, since it is almost the same in all five;


• scuffs on the red edges do not bother you;


• you are interested in Nextgenz's Workshop work.