USP-S | Ticket to Hell (Field-Tested)

This is the USP-S | Ticket to Hell in Field-Tested (FT), and people buy it for the black-and-white typography. There is no fire and no red in the finish. Floats in this wear fit within 0.15 to 0.38, almost a third of the skin's range. It is a Restricted skin: the pistol drops from the Dreams & Nightmares Case and is used by the Counter-Terrorists.

What the USP-S | Ticket to Hell looks like in Field-Tested

The whole finish is built from print on black. DEAD SILENCE is set large on the suppressor, and TICKET TO HELL sits boxed on the slide. Around the lettering run barcodes, small technical lines and pictograms. A row of white teeth is drawn at the tail of the slide, and a round white emblem on the grip. There are exactly two colors, black and white.

Paint covers almost the whole surface: suppressor, slide, frame and grip. Only the end of the suppressor and the trigger guard are left bare. In FT the white letters on the raised edges lighten first: the end and ribs of the suppressor, the front edge of the slide, the rim of the ejection port. The small print on the frame loses legibility before the large lettering does, and the flat planes of the slide keep the text longest.

Where the USP-S | Ticket to Hell came from

The artwork is by a Steam Workshop artist who goes by supremat. He posted the "Ticket to Hell" submission on August 30, 2021 and explained the idea himself. By his account, he likes utilitarian graphics: markings, numbers, barcodes, technical icons. That is where the finish gets its construction, a ticket assembled from technical print. The QR code on the body leads to the author's Workshop page, the other barcodes were generated at random, and the fonts he drew himself.

The Dreams & Nightmares Collection, with this skin in it, came out on January 21, 2022. In Valve's skin catalog the skin is number 1136.

What to check before buying

Before paying, it is worth checking:

• the float: white letters on black wear visibly, and near the top of the band the small print is already noisy;


• the condition of the large lettering, DEAD SILENCE and TICKET TO HELL, whose edges go first;


• what the previous owner left on the USP-S | Ticket to Hell: stickers and a name tag.

All copies carry the same pattern.

This wear of the USP-S | Ticket to Hell is stretched from 0.15 to 0.38, and you can see it on inspection.

What the USP-S | Ticket to Hell costs in Field-Tested

The other wears work out like this against this one:

• Factory New costs about three and a half times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs about one and a half times as much;


• Well-Worn costs a few percent more;


• Battle-Scarred costs a few percent less.

The three lower wears sit almost level, so there is no point saving on them. The gap opens only above Minimal Wear.

In this wear there are twelve Restricted USP-S skins, and the USP-S | Ticket to Hell is third from the bottom. Royal Guard and one more skin are cheaper by a few percent. Then comes a step. Bleeding Edge and one other skin cost almost twice as much, and the one at the top of the rank costs more than a hundred times as much.

Getting the USP-S | Ticket to Hell

The main route is the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the finish drops nowhere else. The USP-S | Ticket to Hell also comes out of a contract fed with ten skins of the next rank down from this collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the USP-S | Ticket to Hell exists. Souvenir copies of the finish turn up too, even though no Souvenir Packages were released for it: 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

Print covers the body densely, and there is little free field. Colored stickers read very well on the black-and-white base but compete with the typography, while strict black-and-white works sit more naturally. Room for a CS2 craft remains on the frame above the grip and on the rear of the suppressor.

Who this wear suits

Buying the USP-S | Ticket to Hell in Field-Tested makes sense when:

• you want a strict black-and-white USP for CS2 on the Counter-Terrorist side;


• paying three and a half times as much for Factory New does not appeal, and the small print is not a priority;


• you choose the listing by float: near the bottom of the band the lettering is still clean.

The weak spot of the finish is the small technical lines. Toward 0.38 they turn to noise, though the large lettering stays whole. For clean print, look for a listing up to about 0.20.