M4A1-S | Hyper Beast (Well-Worn)

The M4A1-S | Hyper Beast in Well-Worn (WW) is a narrow float band, 0.38 to 0.45, between Field-Tested and Battle-Scarred. It is Covert rank, from the Chroma 2 Collection. The price here barely differs from its neighboring wears, while Factory New costs a little over twice as much.

What the M4A1-S | Hyper Beast looks like in Well-Worn

The front and upper parts are flooded with blue and teal, with green veins and pink splashes. Lower down, by the magazine well, the paint turns raspberry and orange, and the suppressor stays dark. The artwork is dense and bright, and Valve calls it a beast in psychedelic colors.

In Well-Worn the wear is visible, but the artwork reads. It gathers first on the handguard ribs and the top of the receiver, which lighten, while the large fields of color survive. Float is fixed at the drop, so a listing will stay as it looks in its photo.

Where the M4A1-S | Hyper Beast came from

April 15, 2015 is the release date: the Chroma 2 Collection went live in the game that day with the skin already in it. frontaLOBE is the author of the finish, and its number in the Valve catalog is 430.

What to check before buying

What to compare when choosing an M4A1-S | Hyper Beast:

• the float: the 0.38 to 0.45 band is tight and covers 7% of the scale, so the extreme listings differ only in the number;


• stickers and an applied name tag: on the M4A1-S | Hyper Beast they come with the listing;


• light edges on the handguard and receiver in the listing's photo.

The M4A1-S | Hyper Beast is one and the same artwork on all copies, so rare examples do not exist.

What the M4A1-S | Hyper Beast costs in Well-Worn

The ratios:

• Factory New costs 2.14 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs 1.09 times as much;


• Field-Tested costs 1.07 times as much;


• Battle-Scarred is level.

There is nothing to gain from Battle-Scarred over Well-Worn: the price is the same, and Well-Worn has less wear. Among ten Covert M4A1-S skins with a price in this wear, five are cheaper and four are more expensive. M4A1-S | Printstream stands one and a half times higher, M4A1-S | Mecha Industries almost level, and M4A1-S | Player Two and M4A1-S | Golden Coil at half the price. M4A1-S | Vaporwave closes the row.

Getting the M4A1-S | Hyper Beast

The skin comes from the Chroma 2 Case. The second road to an M4A1-S | Hyper Beast is a trade-up: ten skins of the rank below from the same collection. It holds two Covert skins, so the rifle is one outcome out of two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The M4A1-S | Hyper Beast has a StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages were issued for this finish, since those were made only for 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.

Stickers and craft on the M4A1-S | Hyper Beast

The body is busy, and small stickers on the handguard get lost. White and yellow stickers read on the blue, black and white ones on the raspberry magazine. The suppressor remains the only even dark part, and the cleanest craft is built there.

Who this wear suits

Well-Worn makes sense for the M4A1-S | Hyper Beast in three cases:

• you want a bright rifle for CS2 at about half the Factory New price;


• of the two lowest wears, you choose the one with less wear at the same price;


• the artwork matters more than a zero float: the colored fields read even at 0.38 to 0.45.