USP-S | Ticket to Hell (Factory New)

USP-S | Ticket to Hell in Factory New (FN): black-and-white typography on a USP-S in its cleanest condition. This wear lies between 0.00 and 0.07, which is 9% of the skin's range, a range that runs up to 0.76. Restricted rank, dropping from the Dreams & Nightmares Case.

What the USP-S | Ticket to Hell looks like in Factory New

The whole skin is white print on black. The suppressor carries a large DEAD SILENCE, and the slide a frame with TICKET TO HELL. Beside them run barcodes, small technical lines and icons. A row of white teeth is drawn at the tail of the slide, and a round emblem sits on the grip. There are two colors, black and white, with no red or orange.

The suppressor, slide, frame and grip are painted, while the end of the suppressor and the trigger guard stay bare. In Factory New the print is intact: the white letters on the edges of the suppressor and slide are untouched. Wear is set at drop, and a copy with a float of 0.01 will stay as it is.

Where the USP-S | Ticket to Hell came from

The artwork is by the Steam Workshop author supremat, who posted the "Ticket to Hell" submission on August 30, 2021. He explains the idea this way: utilitarian graphics are one of his favorite directions, which is why the skin carries so many markings, numbers and barcodes.

Valve put the skin into the Dreams & Nightmares Case, which holds seventeen skins from the Workshop, chosen in a contest. The skin came out on January 21, 2022 along with the case, and in Valve's catalog it is number 1136.

What to check before buying

What matters when buying a USP-S | Ticket to Hell:

• float within 0.00 to 0.07: the closer to zero, the whiter and sharper the letters;


• the edges of the suppressor and the front edge of the slide, where the print wears first;


• any stickers or name tag already applied, since they go with the listing.

The pattern on the USP-S | Ticket to Hell is not rolled: every copy is identical. The band 0.00 to 0.07 is tight, and the outermost listings differ only in the number.

What the USP-S | Ticket to Hell costs in Factory New

Factory New is the skin's most expensive wear. The rest are cheaper:

• Minimal Wear, by a factor of about 2.2;


• Field-Tested, by a factor of about three;


• Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred, by a factor of about 3.5.

Among the eleven Restricted USP-S skins in this wear, this one is the cheapest. Next comes one skin, while three others, Royal Guard and Bleeding Edge among them, cost about two and a half times as much. Three skins occupy the top of the row.

Getting the USP-S | Ticket to Hell

The main route is the Dreams & Nightmares Case. Beyond the case there is a trade-up. Ten skins of the next rank down from this collection yield the USP-S | Ticket to Hell, and the collection has five Restricted skins. The skin itself can go in as an input. Ten Restricted skins from the collection trade for one Classified skin, and the possible results are three, among them MP7 | Abyssal Apparition.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the USP-S | Ticket to Hell exists. Souvenir copies show up as well, although no Souvenir Packages were released for it, since those were made only for tournament map collections. Such copies are built through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the USP-S | Ticket to Hell

The body is densely covered in print, with little free field. Colored stickers read well on the black-and-white base but compete with the typography. Black-and-white works sit more calmly. In Factory New the print is intact, and a sticker stands out against it at once.

Who this wear suits

Buying the USP-S | Ticket to Hell in Factory New makes sense in three cases:

• you want a USP for CS2 with untouched white print;


• you are putting together a black-and-white CS2 loadout in which legible lettering matters;


• a float at the bottom of the skin's scale matters to you.

For actual play the lower wears are enough: they cost less, and the artwork stays the same.