M4A4 | The Battlestar (Factory New)

This is the M4A4 | The Battlestar in Factory New (FN), the priciest of its five wears: the rest cost 1.7 to 2.1 times less. Float 0.00 to 0.07, Covert rank, from the Operation Wildfire Case.

What the M4A4 | The Battlestar looks like in Factory New

The paint is muted, with no bright spots: a light olive-gray base, yellow outlining and black details. The handguard is built of panels with a square ornament, and the receiver has a black ground with fine yellow and orange lines. The magazine carries black-and-yellow stripes. The stock is light, the grip dark.

The float band for Factory New is 0.00 to 0.07. FN takes 11% of the skin's scale, which ends at 0.64.

What to check before buying

When picking among listings of the M4A4 | The Battlestar, compare:

• float: toward 0.07 the first scratches may show on the edges;


• stickers on the body and a name tag, should there be one.

The artwork carries over from one listing to the next without change. Between 0.00 and 0.07 the look barely shifts.

What the M4A4 | The Battlestar costs in Factory New

Factory New costs more than every other wear:

• Well-Worn costs 1.74 times less;


• Battle-Scarred costs 1.95 times less;


• Minimal Wear costs 2.05 times less;


• Field-Tested costs 2.10 times less.

Among Covert M4A4s in Factory New the skin sits in the lower part of the row: only Desert-Strike is cheaper, and eleven cost more. In Living Color is a sixth higher, Neo-Noir a third, Temukau one and a half times, X-Ray 1.6 times. Buzz Kill, Eye of Horus and The Coalition cost seven to sixteen times as much.

Getting the M4A4 | The Battlestar

A trade-up for the M4A4 | The Battlestar takes ten skins from the rank below, all from this collection. The odds of landing the M4 are one in two, because the collection has two Covert skins.

The skin's case is the Operation Wildfire Case. The Covert rank also leads on, into the knife craft: for the Wildfire Collection that is the Bowie Knife.

StatTrak and Souvenir

You can get the M4A4 | The Battlestar with StatTrak. Souvenir copies exist too, though no Souvenir packages were ever issued for this finish: tournament map collections were the only ones to get them. The Souvenir-O-Matic builds such a copy by adding gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to a normal skin from your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | The Battlestar

A clean body shows clearly where a sticker will land. The light stock and the handguard panels take dark stickers, while yellow ones reinforce the accents of the finish. Leave the receiver with its lines open.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is the right pick for the M4A4 | The Battlestar if:

• you want an M4 for CS2 with untouched paint and intact yellow lines on the receiver;


• the lower bound of the band matters, since a copy at 0.00 is the cleanest;


• the skin is going into a collection and the 2.05 times premium over Minimal Wear does not bother you.