M4A4 | The Battlestar (Minimal Wear)

The M4A4 | The Battlestar in Minimal Wear (MW) is the cheapest Covert M4A4 in this wear: none of the twelve others with a price here costs less. Its float band of 0.07 to 0.15 takes 12% of the skin's scale, and the price sits less than three percent from Field-Tested.

What the M4A4 | The Battlestar looks like in Minimal Wear

The colors are subdued: olive, gray and black, with yellow inserts. The light panels on the handguard are outlined in yellow, the receiver is dark with fine lines, and the magazine carries black-and-yellow stripes. The stock is noticeably lighter than the rest, and the grip is a greenish gray.

This wear covers floats from 0.07 up to 0.15. Wear is fixed at the moment of the drop and never changes afterward.

What to check before buying

What sets one copy of the M4A4 | The Battlestar apart from another comes down to two things:

• float: with a short band, a copy near the 0.07 lower bound has cleaner paint;


• stickers and a name tag that the former owner left on it.

Artwork is identical across copies, which takes pattern out of the decision. The 0.07 to 0.15 band is tight, and the copies at its two ends differ only by the number.

What the M4A4 | The Battlestar costs in Minimal Wear

• Factory New costs 2.05 times as much;


• Field-Tested is on par, within three percent;


• Well-Worn costs 1.18 times as much;


• Battle-Scarred costs 1.05 times as much.

In Minimal Wear this is the cheapest Covert M4A4, and all twelve others cost more. M4A4 | Desert-Strike is a tenth higher, In Living Color a third, Neo-Noir one and a half times. The Emperor costs more than twice as much, and Eye of Horus, Buzz Kill and The Coalition nine to twelve times as much.

Getting the M4A4 | The Battlestar

Ten skins of the rank below turn into the M4A4 | The Battlestar in a trade-up contract. If the ten come from the collection, which has only two Covert skins, the chance of the M4 is one in two.

The skin drops from the Operation Wildfire Case and belongs to the Wildfire Collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the M4A4 | The Battlestar exists. Souvenir copies turn up as well, although the finish never had packages of its own, since those were limited to tournament map collections. A Souvenir copy comes from the Souvenir-O-Matic, which applies gold tournament stickers and a player's autograph to a regular skin in your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | The Battlestar

The light stock gives the most even field for a sticker, and a dark one reads on it at once. On the handguard a sticker lands over the yellow outline and breaks the contour. The receiver with its fine lines is better left uncovered.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is the right pick for the M4A4 | The Battlestar when:

• you want an M4 for CS2 with almost intact paint and no surcharge for Factory New;


• the narrow 0.07 to 0.15 band suits you;


• you want a Covert skin at the lowest price among Covert M4A4s in this wear.