M4A1-S | Solitude (Minimal Wear)

In Minimal Wear (MW) the M4A1-S | Solitude costs nearly three times less than the clean grade and differs from it very little at playing distance. Float here runs from 0.07 to 0.15. The rank is Classified. No case stands behind the rifle at all: it was sold in the Armory for credits.

What the M4A1-S | Solitude looks like in Minimal Wear

The base tone is sky blue with a steel sheen, crossed by dark blue contour hatching drawn as waves. Cream-white and pale green fields take the carry handle, the bottom of the magazine and the stock area. Thin strokes scattered over them look like letters but spell nothing. A bright gold ejection port cover sits mid-receiver, and both the hatching and the cream panels run toward it.

The name explains nothing about the art: a mountain motif has little to do with solitude. In this grade the rubbing reaches raised edges — handguard ribs, the lip of the carry handle, the spine of the magazine. Dark lines thin out there without breaking yet. Broad blue fields on the flat sides stay even, and on screen in a match nothing separates this rifle from a clean one.

Where the M4A1-S | Solitude came from

Valve made the art in house: it never passed through the Steam Workshop, and no community author is credited. In Valve's finish catalog the rifle carries number 1338. The finish is hydrographic, which means the pattern is transferred by film.

The Armory itself opened on October 2, 2024. Valve's note for that update covered the pass, the credits earned with experience, and a seven-day transfer hold on items bought from the shop. The rifle took a limited-time slot there on August 14, 2025.

What to check before buying

Three things separate one listing from another in this grade:

• the pattern, since the film lands its own way and the hatching on the sides comes out slightly different on each copy;


• the float, as the handguard ribs and the carry handle lighten visibly closer to 0.15;


• an applied name and the stickers the previous owner left.

On this rifle the 0.07 to 0.15 band is narrow, and copies are near indistinguishable.

What the M4A1-S | Solitude costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New asks close to three times as much. Downward the ratios soften: Field-Tested is two and a half times cheaper, Well-Worn half the price, Battle-Scarred a little over three times below.

Among Classified M4A1-S finishes this one is the cheapest here as well. M4A1-S | Black Lotus costs nearly twice as much and M4A1-S | Stratosphere close to three times, with M4A1-S | Leaded Glass and M4A1-S | Party Animal dearer still. The top of the rank, M4A1-S | Master Piece and M4A1-S | Blue Phosphor, lies hundreds of times away.

Getting the M4A1-S | Solitude

No CS2 case contains the finish. That leaves the Armory, where rewards are bought with credits built up alongside match experience. A trade-up does not yield the rifle either, since contracts work inside a collection and a limited-time item belongs to none.

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 body splits into two zones, and stickers behave differently in each. Fine artwork reads badly over the blue hatching and clearly on the cream fields by the stock and magazine. Cool blues sink into the background, while warm browns pick up the strokes on the cream. The base is still even here, so a craft is not wasted.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear on this rifle makes sense when at least one of these holds:

• a near-clean look is wanted without paying triple for Factory New;


• the rifle is bought for stickers, and an even base matters more than a perfect float;


• the pattern is picked from a screenshot, since a film finish differs from listing to listing.

In a CS2 match the difference from Field-Tested is invisible, and the price is two and a half times higher. For a rifle that will only be played, compare those two grades first.