M4A4 | Cyber Security (Battle-Scarred)

The M4A4 | Cyber Security in Battle-Scarred (BS) has a float of 0.45 to 0.98, the widest band among this skin's wears and 54% of the finish's scale. It is Classified rank. The skin belongs to the Operation Broken Fang Collection and drops from the Operation Broken Fang Case.

What the M4A4 | Cyber Security looks like in Battle-Scarred

The skin is styled after shop signs. Color lies in ragged panels, as if signs had been pasted over one another: turquoise, yellow, red and white. They cover the back half of the handguard, the side of the receiver and the magazine. The barrel, the front of the handguard, the rail and the stock frame are dark gray, almost black. Valve's caption for the item is styled as an advertisement for a cybernetics shop.

Hieroglyphic characters in red and white run across the receiver and magazine, some of them set in vertical columns. This is the most scuffed wear: gray appears first along the receiver edges, the rim of the handguard and the magazine corners. On the busy panels the scuffs show less than on the red grip and butt plate.

What to check before buying

When choosing an M4A4 | Cyber Security, check:

• float: copies in this wear run anywhere from 0.45 to 0.98;


• the red grip and butt plate, where wear reads better than on the panels;


• stickers on the M4A4 | Cyber Security, and a name tag if one is applied.

There is no rare pattern to hunt for, because every copy carries the same artwork. At 0.45 to 0.98 the band is wide, and listings from opposite ends of it look different.

What the M4A4 | Cyber Security costs in Battle-Scarred

The other wears cost more:

• Factory New, 5.1 times as much;


• Minimal Wear, about 1.6 times as much;


• Field-Tested, level, with a difference of under three percent;


• Well-Worn, also level.

The three lower wears cost almost the same, Minimal Wear is about 1.6 times as much, and the big jump comes at Factory New.

Against its Classified M4A4 neighbors in this wear, the skin ranks second by price of seven. Only Hellfire is above it, at about four times the price. Falak is a sixth cheaper, Desolate Space and Dragon King about a third, and Tooth Fairy more than five times.

Getting the M4A4 | Cyber Security

The M4A4 | Cyber Security appeared on December 3, 2020, when the Operation Broken Fang Collection was added to the game. The only case that carries it is the Operation Broken Fang Case.

For this skin, a trade-up takes ten skins from the rank below. AWP | Exoskeleton, Dual Berettas | Dezastre, Nova | Clear Polymer, SSG 08 | Parallax and UMP-45 | Gold Bismuth all qualify. For a batch from this set the odds are one in three. Beyond it, the rank leads on to the Covert Glock-18 | Neo-Noir and M4A1-S | Printstream.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The M4A4 | Cyber Security comes in a StatTrak version. Souvenir copies exist too, though the finish had no souvenir packages of its own: those were made only for tournament map collections. Such copies are made with the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a regular skin from your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | Cyber Security

This rifle has few quiet spots, since the busy panels swallow any sticker. The dark parts stay free: the rail above the receiver, the front of the handguard and the stock frame. White and red stickers pick up the colors of the signs, while yellow ones blend into them. In CS2 a craft needs only one slot, on the stock frame.

Who this wear suits

Buying the M4A4 | Cyber Security in Battle-Scarred makes sense when:

• you want a bright rifle for CS2 and clean paint does not matter;


• price matters: the three lower wears cost almost the same, and Minimal Wear costs about 1.6 times as much;


• you want visible wear across the widest float band.

Closer to 0.45 the paint on the edges is still distinguishable, while at 0.98 there are noticeably more gray areas.