M4A1-S | Solitude (Factory New)

This is the M4A1-S | Solitude in Factory New (FN), the dearest of its five grades: Battle-Scarred goes for nearly nine and a half times less. The band allotted here is 0.00–0.07. The rank is Classified. No case has ever held this finish — the rifle came out of the Armory as a limited-time item.

What the M4A1-S | Solitude looks like in Factory New

The body is light blue, from sky to steel, with thin dark blue hatching over it. The lines read as waves, or as contours on a relief map. The carry handle, the floorplate and the stock area are cream white, ruled with pale green, turquoise and brown marks like old chart paper. The ejection port cover is bright gold, and a gold arc crosses the front of the suppressor. The gas block ring, trigger and bolt stay dark and unpainted.

Nothing in the art answers to the name: there is no solitude or emptiness to read in it. Factory New keeps every thin dark line whole. They run along the handguard ribs, the lip of the carry handle, the spine of the magazine and the stock corners. The gold ejection port cover stands proud of the receiver and scuffs first in lower grades; here it is intact.

Where the M4A1-S | Solitude came from

Valve drew the finish in house, and no Steam Workshop submission stands behind it. The skin arrived on August 14, 2025. Valve's note for that update ran to one line: a new limited-time item is available in the Armory. The catalog number is 1338.

The treatment is hydrographic film, which settles onto the body differently each time, so two copies never match line for line. Valve gave the same mountain pattern to the XM1014 | Solitude, and its note of March 31, 2025 says outright that it comes in a wide spread of variations.

What to check before buying

From one listing to the next, this is what moves on the M4A1-S | Solitude:

• the hatching along the sides, since the film never lies the same way twice;


• the float, which this grade hides inside the art, while the gold on the ejection port cover stays whole;


• the stickers and name tag applied by the previous owner, which travel with the listing.

Inside the short 0.00–0.07 band one copy of the rifle is much like the next.

What the M4A1-S | Solitude costs in Factory New

The distance to the other grades is wide. Minimal Wear costs nearly three times less, Field-Tested seven times, Well-Worn six, Battle-Scarred nine and a half.

Of the Classified M4A1-S finishes this is the cheapest in the clean grade. M4A1-S | Black Lotus asks a little more, M4A1-S | Party Animal twice as much, M4A1-S | Stratosphere and M4A1-S | Leaded Glass better than three times. The top of the same rank belongs to M4A1-S | Blue Phosphor, M4A1-S | Hot Rod and M4A1-S | Knight, dearer by hundreds of times.

Getting the M4A1-S | Solitude

No case drops this rifle. The Armory sold it for credits, which Prime players bank as match experience, and it stood there a limited time only. The item belongs to no collection, so no trade-up contract can be pointed at it.

StatTrak and Souvenir

Stickers and craft on the M4A1-S | Solitude

No StatTrak version of the M4A1-S | Solitude was ever released. Souvenir copies do turn up, but no Souvenir packages were made for this finish: packages only ever covered tournament map collections. Those copies are built with the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a normal skin from the inventory.

The background under a sticker is uneven: fine artwork disappears into the blue hatching and reads cleanly on the cream fields. White and yellow stickers fight the cream areas, while black and dark red hold contrast on both. The stock, handguard and suppressor are open ground, and the gold ejection port cover is usually left bare.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is the right call on the M4A1-S | Solitude when:

• a spotless body is wanted for inspection and CS2 screenshots;


• the gold on the ejection port cover has to be whole, which lower grades cannot give;


• the pattern is chosen from a screenshot, and hydrographic film gives every listing its own.

For matches the premium is arguable: Minimal Wear sits at nearly a third of the price, and its thin lines are still unbroken.