M4A4 | In Living Color (Minimal Wear)

In Minimal Wear (MW), the M4A4 | In Living Color costs 1.9 times less than in Factory New and sits only 1.25 times above Field-Tested. It is a Covert skin from The Snakebite Collection. The float band for the M4A4 | In Living Color here runs from 0.07 to 0.15.

What the M4A4 | In Living Color looks like in Minimal Wear

Turquoise, pink, lime green, yellow and purple run together, and there are almost no dark fields. The design covers the handguard, receiver, magazine and stock. Cartoon figures and scraps of lettering can be made out.

Between 0.07 and 0.15 the look of the M4A4 | In Living Color does not change. Wear is slight at this level, and on a busy base it gets lost altogether: the edges of the receiver turn gray first, but you can tell only up close.

Where the M4A4 | In Living Color came from

The Snakebite Collection was released on May 4, 2021, and the M4A4 | In Living Color has been part of it since launch. The author is kadzor, and Valve's catalog numbers the finish 1041.

What to check before buying

What sets one M4A4 | In Living Color listing apart from another:

• the float: within the 0.07 to 0.15 band, the number only refines the label;


• the carry handle and the edge of the receiver, which lose color before the rest;


• stickers and a name tag, which on the M4A4 | In Living Color go along with the listing.

There are no copies of the M4A4 | In Living Color with a different design; only the wear differs.

What the M4A4 | In Living Color costs in Minimal Wear

Relative to this wear, the neighboring wears of the M4A4 | In Living Color are priced as follows:

• Factory New costs 1.93 times as much;


• Field-Tested is cheaper by a factor of 1.25;


• Well-Worn, by a factor of 1.32;


• Battle-Scarred, by a factor of 1.35.

The three lowest wears sit close together, and the main step is at the top of the scale. Among thirteen Covert M4A4s, this skin is third from the bottom. The nearest ones above are M4A4 | Neo-Noir and M4A4 | Temukau, and M4A4 | The Emperor costs 1.7 times as much. M4A4 | Buzz Kill, M4A4 | Eye of Horus and M4A4 | The Coalition are in another price class, seven to ten times dearer.

Getting the M4A4 | In Living Color

The source is the Snakebite Case. A trade-up for the M4A4 | In Living Color takes ten skins of the rank below, all from one collection.

The Covert rank itself carries on into a gloves craft, and the Snakebite Case has six glove models, from Broken Fang Gloves to Sport Gloves.

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

The design fills everything, which leaves the dark parts for stickers: the carry handle and the barrel. Large single-color stickers show up on the colorful field, and small ones sink. The light trim piece at the muzzle suits a small sticker.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is the right buy for the M4A4 | In Living Color in these cases:

• you want a nearly untouched neon collage without paying the Factory New premium;


• you need copies that look identical, and the band here is short;


• the rifle is going into a CS2 inventory as a bright accent.

If saving matters, Field-Tested is cheaper by a factor of 1.25.