USP-S | Royal Blue (Field-Tested)

The USP-S | Royal Blue in Field-Tested (FT) is a solid indigo-blue pistol with a suppressor and red details. Its rank is Industrial Grade, and it belongs to the Cobblestone Collection. The USP-S is played on the Counter-Terrorist side in CS2.

What the USP-S | Royal Blue looks like in Field-Tested

There is no pattern here, and the finish rests on one deep blue. The suppressor and grip are an even indigo, with the slide slightly lighter. The trigger, the slide stop and the small inserts on the slide are red, and the tip of the suppressor is gray. Valve calls it a solid paint job in indigo, crimson and gray.

The scale of this wear on the USP-S | Royal Blue lies between 0.15 and 0.38. Solid paint hides nothing: scuffs read plainly against the even dark-blue ground. Wear is fixed to a copy from the moment it drops.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular USP-S | Royal Blue comes down to these points:

• the float: the stretch from 0.15 to 0.38 is about a third of the skin's scale, which runs from 0.06 to 0.80;


• the name tag and stickers, which stay with the listing on a USP-S | Royal Blue.

Two different patterns of the USP-S | Royal Blue do not exist. In this wear the float is stretched from 0.15 to 0.38, and that shows on inspection.

What the USP-S | Royal Blue costs in Field-Tested

This is the cheapest wear of the skin. The others cost more:

• Factory New by about 11 times;


• Minimal Wear by about 2.8 times;


• Well-Worn by about 18 percent;


• Battle-Scarred by about 10 percent.

The skin never goes below 0.06, so Factory New covers only 0.06 to 0.07 here, a single hundredth of the scale. A band that narrow explains the elevenfold gap.

Among Industrial Grade USP-S skins in Field-Tested, the USP-S | Royal Blue is second from the top. Only USP-S | Pathfinder costs more, and the nearest one below is USP-S | Para Green. USP-S | Forest Leaves and USP-S | Desert Tactical are tens of times cheaper.

Getting the USP-S | Royal Blue

This finish has no regular case. Copies come from tournament souvenir packages, ten of them, from ESL One Cologne 2014 to Boston 2018, and from a trade-up.

The trade-up is built from ten Consumer Grade skins of the Cobblestone Collection, and it leads to one of four Industrial Grade finishes. The USP-S | Royal Blue itself goes in as an input. Ten such skins yield P2000 | Chainmail or MP9 | Dark Age, and among the collection's Industrial Grade finishes this is the cheapest input.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The USP-S | Royal Blue has no StatTrak version. A Souvenir version does exist: the finish is part of the tournament souvenir packages, and those copies carry gold stickers and a player autograph.

Stickers and craft on the USP-S | Royal Blue

The solid dark ground leaves the whole slide and suppressor to stickers. Light, yellow and gold ones stand out on the indigo most of all, while dark blue and black ones dissolve. The red details near the trigger can be backed with a red sticker, and the craft then comes together around a single color.

Who this wear suits

Buying the USP-S | Royal Blue in Field-Tested makes sense for these reasons:

• you want a strict USP-S with no pattern, in one color, for CS2;


• price matters: Field-Tested is the cheapest of the five wears;


• you need an even dark-blue base for light and gold stickers.

For paint without scuffs, Factory New will do, but it costs about eleven times as much.