XM1014 | Irezumi (Field-Tested)

XM1014 | Irezumi in Field-Tested (FT) is a CS2 shotgun with a black snake on a golden base, drawn in the style of Japanese irezumi tattoos. It has the Mil-Spec rank, belongs to the Kilowatt Collection and drops from the Kilowatt Case. The finish has a float scale from 0.00 to 0.80, and Field-Tested takes 29% of it. For this wear the XM1014 | Irezumi has a float of 0.15 to 0.38.

What the XM1014 | Irezumi looks like in Field-Tested

The base is golden beige, and a thin black line draws a snake coiled around the receiver and the stock. The barrel and the tube magazine are black, and the forend is dark and ribbed. The grip and the cap on the magazine tube are cream.

Valve ties the artwork to irezumi, the Japanese tattoo style. In Field-Tested the gold on the exposed edges of the receiver is already dulling, while the snake's black line stays readable. The wear is decided at the moment of the drop and never moves from there.

Where the XM1014 | Irezumi came from

The XM1014 | Irezumi appeared on February 7, 2024, when the Kilowatt Collection was added to the game. In its update notes Valve introduced the Kilowatt Case, with 17 community-made finishes and a kukri knife as the rare special item.

What to check before buying

Before taking the XM1014 | Irezumi, look at these points:

• float: the band from 0.15 to 0.38 holds clean copies and visibly worn ones;


• applied name tag and stickers: on the XM1014 | Irezumi they stay on the listing as they are.

There is no point hunting the XM1014 | Irezumi by pattern index, because the artwork never changes. The float figure matters more than the wear label here: the stretch from 0.15 to 0.38 covers noticeably different looks.

What the XM1014 | Irezumi costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 1.44 times as much. Minimal Wear and Well-Worn are each cheaper by a factor of 1.49, and Battle-Scarred by a factor of 1.06.

Among Mil-Spec XM1014 skins, the Irezumi sits in the lower half of the row. Slipstream costs 1.4 times as much and Scumbria a sixth more, while Oxide Blaze, Run Run Run and Mockingbird are cheaper. Blaze Orange, Red Leather and Frost Borre stand highest.

Getting the XM1014 | Irezumi

The XM1014 | Irezumi drops from the Kilowatt Case, and its wear is decided when the case is opened. A contract cannot produce it, since Mil-Spec is the lowest rank in the Kilowatt Collection. As an input, though, it works for a contract toward skins of the next rank.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The XM1014 | Irezumi has a StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages were ever released for this finish, because they were made only for 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 an ordinary skin from your inventory. That is why single souvenir copies now and then turn up even where no packages ever existed.

Stickers and craft on the XM1014 | Irezumi

The base is gold and the artwork is black and thin, so large bright stickers drown it out. Dark and gold stickers work better against this background, because the snake stays the main element.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested is a sensible buy for the XM1014 | Irezumi in these cases:

• you want a shotgun with a gold base and a black snake, and minor wear is acceptable;


• you are putting together a dark CS2 loadout with a gold accent;


• a cheap way into the finish matters more than a top wear.