M4A1-S | Dark Water (Field-Tested)

In Field-Tested (FT) the M4A1-S | Dark Water is the most worn version of a nearly black rifle patterned in graphite waves. Within this wear the float runs from 0.15 to 0.26. It is a Restricted skin from The Arms Deal Collection, and its case is the CS:GO Weapon Case. The finish has only two wears, and Field-Tested is the lower of them.

What the M4A1-S | Dark Water looks like in Field-Tested

The rifle is dark. The suppressor and handguard are covered in graphite stripes, and the rest of the body is nearly black. Valve describes the finish as a pattern of water streaks applied with charcoal metallic paints of varying reflectivity. There are no bright colors on the skin.

The skin's float runs from 0.10 to 0.26, so Factory New, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred do not exist for it. Wear is fixed at drop: a copy that dropped at 0.25 stays just as it dropped.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular M4A1-S | Dark Water comes down to these points:

• float: inside 0.15 to 0.26 lie copies with different degrees of wear;


• how the graphite stripes on the suppressor and handguard look, judging by the listing preview;


• the name tag and stickers: on the M4A1-S | Dark Water they stay with the listing.

The 0.15 to 0.26 band on the M4A1-S | Dark Water is noticeably wider than Minimal Wear's, and copies at the edges differ in wear.

What the M4A1-S | Dark Water costs in Field-Tested

The finish has two wears, and Minimal Wear costs about an eighth more than Field-Tested.

Among Restricted M4A1-S skins priced in this wear, this finish stands first: none of the ten is dearer. The nearest neighbor below, M4A1-S | Bright Water, costs almost half as much. M4A1-S | Basilisk is more than seven times cheaper, and the other Restricted M4A1-S skins are tens of times cheaper.

Getting the M4A1-S | Dark Water

It drops from the CS:GO Weapon Case. A trade-up yields it too: ten skins one rank down go in, from any collection you like. If you build the ten from The Arms Deal Collection, the odds of this skin are one in three. In a contract, the skin itself goes toward AK-47 | Case Hardened or Desert Eagle | Hypnotic.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The M4A1-S | Dark Water has a StatTrak version, and there are no souvenir packages.

Stickers and craft on the M4A1-S | Dark Water

The black body makes bright stickers visible from afar. White and colored stickers read well on the suppressor and the stock, while black and graphite ones vanish against the paint.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested is worth buying for the M4A1-S | Dark Water if:

• you want a dark M4 for CS2 with a graphite pattern;


• a price below Minimal Wear matters to you;


• you are building a loadout in black and gray.