M4A4 | Royal Paladin (Field-Tested)

The M4A4 | Royal Paladin in Field-Tested (FT) is an M4A4 for CS2 with a bronze-brown body and an engraved silver handguard. Covert rank. The finish belongs to the Revolver Case Collection and drops from the Revolver Case. The float scale runs from 0.00 to 0.80, and Field-Tested takes up 29% of it.

What the M4A4 | Royal Paladin looks like in Field-Tested

According to Valve, the rifle was painstakingly engraved and painted to convey a sense of grandeur. The receiver and barrel are bronze-brown, while the handguard, stock, magazine and grip are light gray metal with engraving in a diamond-lattice pattern. The finish has no bright color: it relies on the pairing of bronze and silver.

Wear is fixed at the drop and in Field-Tested shows up as scratches on the metal. This wear gives the M4A4 | Royal Paladin a float between 0.15 and 0.38.

Where the M4A4 | Royal Paladin came from

The finish belongs to the Revolver Case Collection, and the case carries the same name. The collection has two Covert skins, and this is one of them. Valve's description ends with a reference to the story "The Paladin and the Father", Part 1.

What to check before buying

Three points matter when picking an M4A4 | Royal Paladin:

• float: it is what tells the listings apart in this wear;


• the stickers and name tag already on that copy of the M4A4 | Royal Paladin;


• the wear in the listing name: Factory New costs noticeably more than the rest.

The pattern on the M4A4 | Royal Paladin is not randomized: all copies are identical. Between 0.15 and 0.38 there is a difference worth comparing several listings for.

What the M4A4 | Royal Paladin costs in Field-Tested

Against Field-Tested, the other wears come out like this:

• Factory New costs a little more than twice as much;


• Minimal Wear costs the same;


• Well-Worn is cheaper by a few percent;


• Battle-Scarred is about a tenth cheaper.

Among Covert M4A4 rifles, the finish sits in the upper part of the line: of the thirteen others, nine are cheaper and four cost more. Bullet Rain and X-Ray are a little lower, The Emperor is about a third cheaper, and Full Throttle and Neo-Noir cost less than half as much. Above it come Eye of Horus and Buzz Kill, at two and a half times as much, and The Coalition, at four.

Getting the M4A4 | Royal Paladin

The M4A4 | Royal Paladin drops from the Revolver Case. For a contract to return the M4A4 | Royal Paladin, you put in ten skins of the rank below from one collection. The chance of getting this particular finish is one in two, because the collection has two Covert skins.

StatTrak and Souvenir

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | Royal Paladin

A StatTrak version of the M4A4 | Royal Paladin exists. No Souvenir packages were ever issued for this finish; those were made only for tournament map collections. You can still build a souvenir copy yourself: the Souvenir-O-Matic applies gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to an ordinary skin from your inventory. That is why the odd souvenir copy turns up even where no packages ever existed.

The silver handguard, stock and magazine are covered in engraving, so a sticker lands over the diamond lattice rather than on a smooth field. The bronze receiver is dark and even: light stickers read most clearly on it.

Who this wear suits

Buying the M4A4 | Royal Paladin in this wear makes sense if:

• you want an M4A4 with engraving and bronze rather than bright paint;


• price matters: Factory New costs a little more than twice as much, while Minimal Wear costs the same;


• your CS2 loadout is built in metallic tones for the CT side.