USP-S | Cyrex (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) is the heaviest wear this finish comes in. Floats on the USP-S | Cyrex run from 0.45 to 0.55, and because the skin's float ceiling is 0.55, the Battle-Scarred band is cut off at the top. It is a Restricted skin from The Glove Collection, sourced from the Glove Case. In CS2, Battle-Scarred costs almost the same as Field-Tested.

What the USP-S | Cyrex looks like in Battle-Scarred

The paint is organized around dark, white and red. The suppressor and slide are dark gray, almost black. The front half of the frame with the trigger guard and the bottom of the magazine are white. The rings and triangle on the suppressor, the CYREX panel on the slide and the triangle on the grip are red. USP TACTICAL reads on the slide, with fine technical markings and numbers along the suppressor. Valve describes the red accents as restrained, giving the weapon a futuristic look.

Wear is heaviest in Battle-Scarred: the white parts of the frame and the guard pick up grime first, and the red inserts on the edges fade after them. The 0.45 to 0.55 stretch is short, and differences between listings fall within the margin of error.

Where the USP-S | Cyrex came from

The finish comes from Nextgenz. The skin came out in November 2016 together with the Glove Case, and Valve's catalog numbers it 637. The rare special items in this case are gloves; it holds no knives.

What to check before buying

Three things matter here:

• float between 0.45 and 0.55, where the white part of the frame darkens the most;


• what the previous owner left on the USP-S | Cyrex: stickers and a name tag;


• whether the listing is regular or StatTrak.

The pattern on the USP-S | Cyrex is not rolled. All copies are identical.

What the USP-S | Cyrex costs in Battle-Scarred

The other wears relative to Battle-Scarred:

• Factory New costs 11.5 times more;


• Minimal Wear costs 1.7 times more;


• Field-Tested sits level, with a difference of under three percent;


• Well-Worn costs slightly more, a gap of a few percent.

The whole gap is collected at the top. The three lower wears barely differ in price, while Factory New costs an order of magnitude more. Battle-Scarred takes 18% of the scale, 0.10 of 0.55.

Among Restricted USP skins in Battle-Scarred, this one is third from the top out of eight. Only USP-S | Overgrowth and USP-S | Road Rash are above it. Below are USP-S | Bleeding Edge and USP-S | Flashback, 3.4 to 3.7 times cheaper. USP-S | Sleeping Potion, USP-S | Ticket to Hell and USP-S | Royal Guard are 5 to 8 times cheaper.

Getting the USP-S | Cyrex

The skin drops from the Glove Case. A contract gets you the USP-S too: ten skins one step down. The collection has five Restricted skins, so a contract of ten from it gives a one-in-five chance.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak is available on the USP-S | Cyrex. There are no Souvenir packages for this finish, but a Souvenir copy can be assembled in the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the USP-S | Cyrex

The white frame and the dark suppressor give two different backgrounds. Dark stickers read on the white, while light and red ones, which repeat the accents of the finish, read on the dark. In Battle-Scarred the white part has already darkened, so a sticker with a crisp edge stands out there more than on a fresh copy.

Who this wear suits

The USP-S | Cyrex in Battle-Scarred makes sense when:

• you want a recognizable USP-S for CS2 at the price of the lower group of wears;


• wear does not bother you, and the red marks on the dark suppressor stay readable;


• Minimal Wear costs 1.7 times more, and paying that for less wear is not the goal.