XM1014 | Zombie Offensive (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) on the XM1014 | Zombie Offensive is a float from 0.45 to 0.50. The finish's scale is cut off at a ceiling of 0.50, so the lowest wear gets just 0.05, a tenth of the length. The skin is Restricted and drops from the Dreams & Nightmares Case. Among Restricted XM1014s in this wear, it is second from the bottom by price. In CS2 its color layout changes from copy to copy.

What the XM1014 | Zombie Offensive looks like in Battle-Scarred

The shotgun is covered in a collage of zombies. The base is brown and ochre, with orange and green blotches, and the figures are drawn in dark brown and beige. The artwork lies on the barrel, the tube magazine and the top of the receiver. The handguard is gray with cross-ribbing, and the grip and stock are light and almost free of pattern.

The float values here run from 0.45 to 0.50. Single silhouettes and faces can be told apart, but from a distance the scene reads as spotted camouflage. The edges of the receiver and the handguard turn pale, where the brown fades to gray, and on the variegated base this is hardly noticeable.

Where the XM1014 | Zombie Offensive came from

The author of the finish is oKeyush. The skin came out on January 21, 2022, when Valve announced the Dreams & Nightmares Case with seventeen finishes selected from the CS:GO Workshop. In Valve's catalog the finish stands under number 1135.

Pattern variance on the XM1014 | Zombie Offensive

Multicolor anodizing falls differently on each copy, because the layout of colors depends on the pattern index. It follows that two listings with the same float can look different, and the photo of the particular copy decides.

What to check before buying

What sets listings of the XM1014 | Zombie Offensive apart:

• float: in this wear it is a short stretch from 0.45 to 0.50, so there is no point chasing the number;


• the layout of colors on the receiver and the barrel: it differs from copy to copy;


• whether the gun carries stickers and a name tag.

What the XM1014 | Zombie Offensive costs in Battle-Scarred

Factory New costs about 1.7 times as much. Minimal Wear costs the same, Well-Worn is cheaper by a few percent, and Field-Tested by a seventh. Among Restricted XM1014s in this wear, only the XM1014 | Solitude sits lower. Above this skin come the XM1014 | Ziggy, XM1014 | Black Tie and XM1014 | Seasons.

Getting the XM1014 | Zombie Offensive

The skin is a drop from the Dreams & Nightmares Case. By contract it is built from ten Mil-Spec skins. The result comes from the collection of one of the inputs, and a player who puts in all ten from Dreams & Nightmares steers the result into that set.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak versions of this skin exist; Souvenir ones do not.

Stickers and craft on the XM1014 | Zombie Offensive

The collage on the barrel and the magazine is small and variegated, and stickers merge into it. The light stock and grip give a clean background for stickers.

Who this wear suits

The XM1014 | Zombie Offensive in Battle-Scarred is worth buying for these reasons:

• the lowest price among the wears, with the artwork intact;


• the chance to choose by color layout among listings in the narrow band from 0.45 to 0.50;


• a variegated base on which wear is almost invisible.