USP-S | Royal Guard (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) is the lowest wear of the USP-S | Royal Guard. Its scale is cut off: the ceiling is 0.60, not 1.00, so no copy can be more worn. The float range of the skin in this wear is 0.45 to 0.60. It is a Restricted skin from The Ascent Collection, on the Counter-Terrorist side.

What the USP-S | Royal Guard looks like in Battle-Scarred

A saturated blue covers the slide evenly, with no pattern and no transitions. Brass-gold inserts sit on the slide's tail, the safety, the front of the frame and the recoil spring housing. Nearer the muzzle, the side of the slide has a small round blue mark. A fine white USP factory marking can be made out on the grip.

In Battle-Scarred the small gold parts and the top edge of the slide have suffered most. Gold on the protruding small details goes first: slide tail, safety, spring housing. After that the blue pales on the top edge and the front cut of the slide. The flat side of the slide lasts the longest, and the suppressor has no effect on the look, since it is unpainted anyway.

Where the USP-S | Royal Guard came from

The artwork came from Valve itself, with no Steam Workshop submission behind this finish. In Valve's finish catalog it is number 1217.

No case contains the skin. It has been in the game since March 31, 2025, when the update added The Ascent Collection.

What to check before buying

Before paying, it helps to check:

• float: across 0.45 to 0.60 it shows how much gold is still left on the small parts;


• the top edge and front cut of the slide, where the blue leaves;


• stickers and a name tag: what the previous owner left on this USP-S.

The pattern is fixed, which keeps it out of the price entirely.

The look does not change between 0.45 and 0.60.

What the USP-S | Royal Guard costs in Battle-Scarred

The finish gets sharply dearer toward the cleaner wears: Factory New by more than ten times, Minimal Wear by more than five. Field-Tested costs about a tenth more, and Well-Worn a third more.

Among Restricted USP-S finishes at this wear, the Royal Guard is the cheapest of eight. Its nearest neighbor, Ticket to Hell, costs a quarter more, Sleeping Potion one and a half times as much and Flashback almost double. The top of the rank is held by Cyrex, Overgrowth and Road Rash.

Getting the USP-S | Royal Guard

The skin has no case: the USP-S | Royal Guard comes through a trade-up contract and through The Ascent Collection. The Ascent itself is on the list of collections for the weekly playtime reward. The contract takes ten Mil-Spec skins, which can be from any collections; the result is drawn from the collection of one of the inputs.

Ten skins entirely from The Ascent are the player's choice that steers the result, not a requirement of the contract.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is no StatTrak version of the USP-S | Royal Guard, and the finish has no Souvenir packages either.

Stickers and craft on the USP-S | Royal Guard

The blue slide with gold accepts stickers, but free area is small: the level spot is the flat side of the slide next to the round mark. Light and gold stickers support the brass details, while dark ones vanish on the blue.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred is justified in these cases:

• you want a blue USP with gold details at the lowest price in the rank;


• deep wear on the brass of the small parts does not bother you;


• the wide float band of 0.45 to 0.60 matters, for picking out a copy.

In CS2 this wear works like any other: the skin changes only how the weapon looks.