USP-S | Royal Guard (Factory New)

This is the USP-S | Royal Guard in Factory New (FN). Its float runs from 0.00 to 0.07, about 12% of a scale that ends at 0.60 for the finish. The rank is Restricted and the collection is The Ascent Collection. Buying this USP-S in Factory New means getting a blue slide with no chips in the gold.

What the USP-S | Royal Guard looks like in Factory New

The pistol is barely painted. Blue covers only the slide, while the frame, grip and suppressor stay in stock dark gray. The gold comes as brass inserts on the tail of the slide, the safety, the front of the frame and the recoil spring housing. A small round blue mark sits on the slide's side, nearer the muzzle. Valve describes the finish as a solid blue slide with gold trim.

In Factory New the gold on the small parts is intact and the blue side is untouched. The wear value is fixed when the skin drops: every copy of the USP-S | Royal Guard keeps the float it dropped with.

Where the USP-S | Royal Guard came from

Valve itself made this artwork, and the Steam Workshop holds no submission behind it. The skin appeared on March 31, 2025 together with The Ascent Collection. In the update note Valve added Ascent, Boreal and Radiant to the weekly reward list. The catalog number of the finish is 1217.

What to check before buying

Three things matter when buying this USP-S:

• float: Factory New here spans 0.00 to 0.07;


• any stickers on the body, and a name tag if the copy has one;


• the gold inserts on the tail of the slide and the safety, and whether they are intact.

Choosing by pattern is not an option, because every listing carries the same artwork. And with a band this narrow, copies are almost impossible to tell apart.

What the USP-S | Royal Guard costs in Factory New

The other wears of the skin compare with Factory New like this:

• Minimal Wear costs about 1.9 times less;


• Well-Worn costs about 7.9 times less;


• Field-Tested costs about 9.6 times less;


• Battle-Scarred costs about 10.9 times less.

The sharpest step is from Minimal Wear to Well-Worn, where the price falls about fourfold. Among Restricted USP-S skins in Factory New, this one sits level with USP-S | Guardian, above Flashback and Ticket to Hell, and below Sleeping Potion and USP-S | Bleeding Edge.

Getting the USP-S | Royal Guard

Cases do not hold it. The Ascent Collection is on Valve's weekly reward list for time played, the Weekly Care Package.

In a trade-up, ten skins of the rank below work in any mix of collections, and the contract returns an item from the set of one of those inputs. Ten from The Ascent Collection alone yield one of the set's two Restricted skins, so the odds of this USP-S are one in two. The skin can also go into a contract for the Classified M4A1-S | Stratosphere.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is no StatTrak version of the USP-S | Royal Guard, and no Souvenir packages contain this skin.

Stickers and craft on the USP-S | Royal Guard

The blue slide is the only large painted surface, so a sticker on it is noticed at once. Gold and white ones read well, blue ones get lost. The gold inserts suggest a palette: yellow and gold stickers carry the trim on.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is the right pick for the USP-S | Royal Guard if any one of these applies:

• you want gold on the small parts with no wear;


• you need a blue-slide Restricted USP-S for the counter-terrorist side of a CS2 loadout;


• the band of 0.00 to 0.07 is narrow, so there is no need to pick a listing by float.