Tec-9 | Brother (Factory New)

For the Tec-9 | Brother, Factory New (FN) fits into a band of 0.00 to 0.07 and costs noticeably more than the other wears. It is Restricted, from The Fracture Collection and the Fracture Case, and it is a pistol for the Terrorist side.

What the Tec-9 | Brother looks like in Factory New

It is a mustard-yellow frame with a dark top and a small text plate on the side. The frame, grip and front are ochre-yellow, while the slide group and the perforated shroud are black. The magazine is light gray with a red stripe near its base.

Yellow covers the lower half of the weapon and black the upper. A brown plate with cream letters sits on the side of the frame above the magazine and stays the only graphic element. Its text, several lines long, cannot be made out. On the grip, yellow ribs run over a dark base.

Where the Tec-9 | Brother came from

The skin came out in July 2020 together with The Fracture Collection. Valve describes it differently from how the model looks: the note speaks of a brown-gold camouflage and a Terrorist figure under the rear sight. What is visible on the model itself matters more here.

What to check before buying

On the Tec-9 | Brother, three things change from listing to listing:

• float: in FN it fits into 0.00 to 0.07, so listings look the same;


• a name tag and stickers, if they are already on this Tec-9 | Brother;


• version: the skin has a StatTrak™ edition, and it is a separate product.

The pattern on the Tec-9 | Brother does not vary: all copies are identical.

What the Tec-9 | Brother costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear (MW) is cheaper by a factor of 3.7. Well-Worn (WW) is cheaper by 6.6, and Field-Tested (FT) and Battle-Scarred (BS) by 7.3. The steepest step lies between FN and the rest.

Among the seven Restricted Tec-9 skins, this one is nearer the bottom: one is cheaper and five cost more. Red Quartz is cheaper by almost six times. Bamboozle costs twice as much, Re-Entry more than three times, and Avalanche almost four times. Titanium Bit is nineteen times higher, and Whiteout more than sixty times.

Getting the Tec-9 | Brother

The skin drops from the Fracture Case. A trade-up contract also yields the Tec-9 | Brother: you put in ten skins one rank lower from the same collection. The chance of getting this exact one is one in five. The other outcomes are Glock-18 | Vogue, M4A4 | Tooth Fairy and XM1014 | Entombed.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Tec-9 | Brother has a StatTrak™ version. The skin has no Souvenir version.

Stickers and craft on the Tec-9 | Brother

The yellow lower half and the black top give two zones. Dark stickers read well on the yellow, and light ones show on the black shroud. It is best not to cover the plate on the side of the frame: it is the only detail with graphics.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Tec-9 | Brother in Factory New is worth it for three reasons:

• you want a clean yellow-and-black pistol for CS2 with no scuffs on the ribs;


• you want a Restricted skin in the lower part of the price row;


• it matters that the factory paint on the grip and frame stays even.