M4A4 | In Living Color (Factory New)

The M4A4 | In Living Color in Factory New (FN) is a neon comic with no wear, set on a light background. It is a Covert M4A4 from The Snakebite Collection. The float range for the M4A4 | In Living Color in this wear is 0.00 to 0.07.

What the M4A4 | In Living Color looks like in Factory New

Valve describes the skin as a neon paint job covered in hand-drawn pictures. On the rifle it is a light M4A4 with turquoise, pink, lime green, yellow and purple scenes scattered over it. There is no central element: the composition is deliberately fragmented.

The barrel and the carry handle stay dark gray, and a light trim piece sits at the muzzle. In Factory New the edges of the receiver and the handle still keep their color. You can buy the M4A4 | In Living Color here almost blind, because the band from 0.00 to 0.07 is tight.

Where the M4A4 | In Living Color came from

The M4A4 | In Living Color was released on May 4, 2021, drawn by kadzor. Valve's finish catalog lists it as number 1041. It belongs to the Snakebite Case, where Broken Fang Gloves sit alongside the community finishes.

What to check before buying

Choose a listing of the M4A4 | In Living Color by these signs:

• the float: the band takes about a ninth of the skin's scale, and the ceiling is 0.79;


• the light edges of the receiver and the carry handle;


• stickers from a previous owner and a name tag on the M4A4 | In Living Color.

The design of the M4A4 | In Living Color does not vary, so pattern plays no part in the choice.

What the M4A4 | In Living Color costs in Factory New

The other wears are cheaper:

• Minimal Wear, by a factor of 1.93;


• Field-Tested, by a factor of 2.42;


• Well-Worn, by a factor of 2.56;


• Battle-Scarred, by a factor of 2.61.

The lowest three wears cost almost the same, and the top of the scale stands apart from them by a factor of two and a half. By rank the skin is third from the bottom among thirteen: only M4A4 | Desert-Strike and M4A4 | The Battlestar are cheaper. M4A4 | Neo-Noir and M4A4 | Temukau are a little above, and M4A4 | X-Ray costs half again as much. M4A4 | Buzz Kill costs six times as much, M4A4 | Eye of Horus almost nine times, and M4A4 | The Coalition fourteen times.

Getting the M4A4 | In Living Color

The skin drops from the Snakebite Case. Ten skins one step below, from the same collection, yield one M4A4 | In Living Color. On the input side sit Galil AR | Chromatic Aberration, MP9 | Food Chain and XM1014 | XOXO, and the collection has two Covert skins on the output.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The M4A4 | In Living Color has a StatTrak version. No souvenir packages were released for this finish, but you can build a Souvenir copy yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | In Living Color

Large single-color stickers read on the light background. The untouched body in Factory New gives a clean base for a craft. Thin tournament logos get lost among the scraps of lettering.

Who this wear suits

Buying the M4A4 | In Living Color in Factory New makes sense when:

• you want the neon design without gray edges;


• you are building a sticker set and need an untouched base;


• a price 1.9 to 2.6 times above the lower wears does not put you off.

In CS2 the wear changes only the look, and on a busy base the scuffs of the other wears get lost.