USP-S | Whiteout (Field-Tested)

The USP-S | Whiteout in Field-Tested (FT) is a white USP whose cleanliness is already compromised, though the marks are not yet too many. A copy in this wear is limited to 0.15 through 0.38 of float. The rank is Classified, and the skin belongs to The 2021 Train Collection.

What the USP-S | Whiteout looks like in Field-Tested

This is a solid fill: slide, frame, grip and suppressor share one ivory color, with no lettering or artwork. Only the shape of the model shows: ribs on the suppressor, serrations on the slide, the relief of the grip. The front and rear sights and the muzzle opening in the suppressor stay dark, and metal flashes near the trigger guard.

Valve calls the USP a player favorite since Counter-Strike: Source, and this finish a spray-can paint job over the whole pistol. The exterior is clean and deceptive at once. In Field-Tested the deception has been exposed. The top of the slide, the front edge of the suppressor and the corners of the grip are gray, and separate spots show on the even fill.

Where the USP-S | Whiteout came from

Valve drew the USP-S | Whiteout itself, and no Steam Workshop submission exists for this finish. The 2021 Train Collection came out on September 21, 2021, and the skin has been part of it since launch. In Valve's catalog the finish carries number 1065.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular USP-S | Whiteout rests on these points:

• the float: near 0.15 the slide is lighter, while at 0.38 gray lies along the whole edge;


• the front cut of the suppressor and the top of the slide, where the gray comes first;


• the name tag and stickers already applied to the pistol.

This finish has no pattern variants, so there is nothing to choose by pattern. Between 0.15 and 0.38 sits a difference big enough to justify comparing several listings.

What the USP-S | Whiteout costs in Field-Tested

The other wears, relative to this one:

• Factory New is dearer by almost ten times;


• Minimal Wear costs almost twice as much;


• Well-Worn costs the same;


• Battle-Scarred is cheaper by a few percent.

The finish's scale runs from 0.06 to 0.80, and Factory New is left with a strip of one hundredth. Field-Tested takes almost a third of the scale, so the difference between listings inside the wear is tangible.

Among Classified USP-S skins in this wear, the finish is sixth of nine from the bottom. Nearest above are USP-S | Orion and USP-S | Serum, and USP-S | Target Acquired costs almost five times as much. Below come USP-S | Caiman, USP-S | Spiral Glitch and USP-S | Monster Mashup, while USP-S | Cortex and USP-S | Jawbreaker are cheaper by an order of magnitude.

Getting the USP-S | Whiteout

No case has ever held the USP-S | Whiteout.

A trade-up gets it too: ten skins one step down, one collection. The 2021 Train Collection has five Restricted skins and three Classified, FAMAS | Meltdown and MAC-10 | Propaganda among them, so the chance is one in three. Ten Classified skins give one Covert: Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler or M4A4 | The Coalition.

StatTrak and Souvenir

No StatTrak version of the USP-S | Whiteout was ever released. No Souvenir packages were made for this finish either, because packages only covered tournament map collections. A souvenir copy can still be built by hand: the Souvenir-O-Matic puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a normal skin from the inventory. That is why the odd souvenir copy turns up where no package ever existed.

Stickers and craft on the USP-S | Whiteout

A single-color body does not argue with a sticker: there is no artwork beneath it, and one large sticker reads as the entire decor. Dark and saturated ones come through whole, while white and light gray ones vanish. The side of the slide and the plane of the suppressor are free. For a craft in CS2, keep the sticker away from the gray film on the edges, since the rim of its artwork would land on the scuffing.

Who this wear suits

The USP-S | Whiteout in Field-Tested is worth buying if at least one of these holds:

• you want a white USP with no artwork, and paying almost ten times as much for a factory look is not justified;


• the pistol goes into CS2 matches, where gray edges on the slide cannot be made out;


• a craft needs an even single-color base.

If the spots bother you, Minimal Wear is the one to take. It costs almost twice as much, but its edges are cleaner.