M4A4 | The Battlestar (Battle-Scarred)

The M4A4 | The Battlestar in Battle-Scarred (BS) is third from the bottom among its five wears. Field-Tested and Minimal Wear are cheaper, each by 5 to 8 percent. The skin's scale is cut off at a ceiling of 0.64. It is a Covert M4 for counter-terrorists.

What the M4A4 | The Battlestar looks like in Battle-Scarred

The color is muted: olive-gray with yellow accents and black details. The handguard is covered with light olive panels that have a square ornament and a yellow outline. The receiver is black, with thin yellow and orange lines running across it like traces on a circuit board. The magazine is gray-olive with black-and-yellow warning stripes, the stock is lighter, and the grip is greenish gray and ribbed.

Floats here run from 0.45 to 0.64, and BS takes 30% of the skin's scale. The wear is set when the skin drops and stays as it is.

What to check before buying

Two things separate one listing from another:

• float: the skin's own ceiling is 0.64, and BS takes about a third of the scale;


• whether the skin carries stickers and an applied name.

No lucky pattern exists to hunt down, since the artwork is identical everywhere. Copies in this wear do differ in how worn they are, though, because the 0.45 to 0.64 band is wide.

What the M4A4 | The Battlestar costs in Battle-Scarred

Ratios with the other wears:

• Factory New costs 1.95 times as much;


• Well-Worn is dearer by 1.12 times;


• Minimal Wear costs 1.05 times less;


• Field-Tested costs 1.08 times less.

The bottom three wears sit a few percent apart, and a noticeable surcharge starts only at Factory New. Among Covert M4A4s in Battle-Scarred the skin stands in the lower part of the row: five cost less, seven more. Desert-Strike is cheaper by a few percent, In Living Color by a tenth, Temukau and Neo-Noir by a seventh, Full Throttle by a quarter. Bullet Rain, Eye of Horus and Buzz Kill cost several times as much.

Getting the M4A4 | The Battlestar

The M4A4 | The Battlestar drops from the Operation Wildfire Case and belongs to the Wildfire Collection, which came out with the operation in early 2016.

The second route is a trade-up contract for ten skins of the rank below. The collection holds two Covert skins and a ten from it returns one of them, so the one you want comes up with odds of one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak is available on the M4A4 | The Battlestar. Souvenir versions can be found too, but this finish has no packages of its own, because those went only to tournament map collections. They are produced in the Souvenir-O-Matic, which attaches gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to a standard skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | The Battlestar

The dark receiver with its lines is already crowded, so a sticker there merges into the pattern. The light olive handguard panels and the stock offer more room. Black and white stickers contrast well, and yellow ones echo the accents of the artwork.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred makes sense for the M4A4 | The Battlestar on these terms:

• you want a Covert-rank M4 for CS2 and wear up to 0.64 is acceptable;


• you want a Covert skin without paying extra for Factory New, which costs 1.95 times as much;


• you are building a set from the Wildfire Collection.