USP-S | Ticket to Hell (Minimal Wear)

USP-S | Ticket to Hell in Minimal Wear (MW): the black-and-white print is intact, and the price is about half that of Factory New. This wear of the USP-S | Ticket to Hell covers floats 0.07 to 0.15. It is a Restricted skin from the Dreams & Nightmares Collection.

What the USP-S | Ticket to Hell looks like in Minimal Wear

The USP is covered in print almost entirely: suppressor, slide, frame and grip are black, the lettering and icons white. The large DEAD SILENCE on the suppressor and TICKET TO HELL on the slide are visible from far off. At the tail of the slide there is a rank of white teeth, and on the grip a round emblem. The small lines and barcodes beside them read as texture.

In Minimal Wear the wear is only beginning. The white letters on the end and ribs of the suppressor, the front edge of the slide and the rim of the ejection port dull slightly. The planes of the slide hold the text evenly. These marks are set at drop, and none will be added over time.

Where the USP-S | Ticket to Hell came from

The skin was proposed by a Steam Workshop artist who goes by supremat. In the submission description he writes that the QR code on the body leads to his Workshop page and the other barcodes are generated at random. The submission is dated August 30, 2021.

The skin later joined the Dreams & Nightmares Case, assembled from Workshop works. It appeared on January 21, 2022, when the Dreams & Nightmares Collection was added to the game. Its number in Valve's catalog is 1136.

What to check before buying

What sets one USP-S | Ticket to Hell listing apart from another:

• the float: at 0.07 the white edges are better preserved than at 0.15;


• the end of the suppressor and the rim of the ejection port, where the print lightens first;


• the name tag and stickers this USP-S | Ticket to Hell already carries.

The drawing is the same on every copy, so there is no particular one to look for. At 0.07 to 0.15 the band is tight, and telling one listing from another is hard.

What the USP-S | Ticket to Hell costs in Minimal Wear

Against Minimal Wear, the rest of the skin's wears stand as follows:

• Factory New is about 2.2 times dearer;


• Field-Tested is cheaper by a factor of about 1.4;


• Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred are cheaper by a factor of about 1.6.

Among the twelve Restricted USP-S skins in Minimal Wear, this one is second from the bottom: only one skin is cheaper. Above it come four skins, Royal Guard and Bleeding Edge among them, at 2.8 to 4 times the price. Three skins top the row.

Getting the USP-S | Ticket to Hell

The Dreams & Nightmares Case is where the skin drops. The second route is a contract: ten skins of the next rank down from one collection go in exchange for a USP-S | Ticket to Hell. The collection has five Restricted skins, and each has the same odds.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is a StatTrak version of the USP-S | Ticket to Hell. Souvenir copies turn up too, though no Souvenir Packages were ever released for the skin: those were made only for tournament map collections. Such copies are assembled 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

On black-and-white typography, high-contrast stickers without small details work best. Red and gold ones stand out at once, while black ones dissolve into the base. The small print around the lettering is noisy already, so thin stickers beside it get lost.

Who this wear suits

Buying the USP-S | Ticket to Hell in Minimal Wear makes sense under these conditions:

• you want a USP for CS2 with nearly intact white print but no overpaying for Factory New;


• a black-and-white look matters in a CS2 loadout;


• modest wear on the edges of the suppressor and slide is acceptable.

If you want the cleanest print, look at Factory New.