MP9 | Buff Blue (Factory New)

Factory New (FN) on the MP9 | Buff Blue is the grade where the checkering on the grips is still intact. There is little else on this finish for wear to change. The float band runs 0.00 to 0.07. The rank is Consumer Grade, and the MP9 | Buff Blue belongs to The Ascent Collection.

What the MP9 | Buff Blue looks like in Factory New

Every plastic part of the submachine gun is flooded with glossy bright blue, while the metal is left factory. Body, foregrip, pistol grip and magazine are a deep blue with occasional pale streaks. The rear stock post shifts toward blue-purple, and the base of the magazine is darker than the rest. Barrel, muzzle, top rails, stock rod and the small screws stay olive-brass and unpainted.

The finish carries no artwork: the whole effect rests on blue plastic against brass metal. There is no lettering, no numbers and no logo either, beyond pressed factory marks too small to read. Gloss sits on ridges and checkering, so the checkering on the foregrip and pistol grip goes first. The body edges by the ejection port and the lips of the magazine follow. Large flat sides hold the blue longest, and bare metal shows no wear at all.

Where the MP9 | Buff Blue came from

No Steam Workshop submission stands behind the finish: Valve drew it in house, and the treatment is a stencil, about as simple as they come. The Ascent Collection shipped with this skin on March 31, 2025. Valve's catalog numbers the finish 1278.

Valve gave the set a note of its own. Three collections joined the weekly drops at once: The Ascent Collection, The Boreal Collection and The Radiant Collection. Between them they brought more than seventy new finishes.

What to check before buying

A few things are worth reading on an MP9 | Buff Blue listing:

• the float inside 0.00 to 0.07, which really means the state of the checkering on both grips;


• the body edges by the ejection port and the lips of the magazine, which lighten next;


• stickers and an applied name, since both travel with the listing.

The scale gives this grade only 0.00 to 0.07, so copies resemble one another closely. The stencil is another matter. It lands offset, and the shift differs from copy to copy, which only the listing image will show.

What the MP9 | Buff Blue costs in Factory New

All five grades of this finish cost a few cents, and the order between them says nothing about the skin itself. Minimal Wear, Field-Tested and Well-Worn ask more than the clean grade, while Battle-Scarred is about six times cheaper. That difference rests on individual listings, not on any property of the finish.

Among Consumer Grade MP9 finishes in Factory New this one stands fifth of eleven by price. At the foot of the rank the gaps are token: MP9 | Bee-Tron is a little cheaper, and three further finishes roughly three times cheaper. Upward the distance turns real. MP9 | Army Sheen asks around seven times as much and MP9 | Storm more than two hundred times. The dearest in the rank is MP9 | Dry Season.

Getting the MP9 | Buff Blue

No case ever held this skin: the MP9 | Buff Blue came as a drop from The Ascent Collection. No contract produces the finish either, because it occupies the bottom rank of the set. The reverse works, and the MP9 | Buff Blue serves as input for a trade-up to the rank above.

StatTrak and Souvenir

Stickers and craft on the MP9 | Buff Blue

No StatTrak version of the MP9 | Buff Blue was ever released. Souvenir copies do turn up, but no Souvenir packages were made for this finish: packages only ever covered tournament map collections. Those copies are built with the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a normal skin from the inventory.

The craft space in CS2 here is the pair of large flat sides on the body. They carry no graphics at all, so a sticker lands on even gloss. Warm colors give the strongest contrast against blue, while blue and purple stickers drown in the base. The price of the finish means stickers can go on without a second thought about never coming off.

Who this wear suits

Buying the MP9 | Buff Blue in Factory New makes sense when:

• a bright blue submachine gun for CS2 is wanted for a few cents;


• intact checkering on the grips matters, since that is what gives way first;


• a cheap craft on an even glossy base is planned.

Lower down the scale the blue stays on the flats while the checkering lightens. The price difference between grades is so small that the choice comes down to looks rather than money.