★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water (Factory New)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water in Factory New (FN) is a butterfly knife for CS2 with water camouflage on the blade and nearly black handles. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. Two cases hold it, the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The finish has five wears, but its float scale ends at 0.50, and Factory New takes 14% of it. In this wear the ★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water is assigned 0.00 to 0.07.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water looks like in Factory New

The blade is curved, with serrations at the base. The camouflage is built from dark blue, bright blue and pale gray-blue patches. The handles are dark blue and perforated, with a light-blue insert along each half. Valve calls the knife a balisong, whose blade fans open on a freely turning pivot, and says the pattern is applied with blue hydrographic film.

Every copy of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water carries the same pattern, so listings differ only in float. In Factory New the blade has no marks, and the wear is fixed at the drop.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water came from

Valve opened Operation Riptide on September 22, 2021, and the operation's case became one of the finish's two sources. The other was the Dreams & Nightmares Case: it came out on January 21, 2022, and brought the Riptide knives back as rare special items.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water, check a few points:

• the wear in the listing title: here Factory New costs more than every other wear;


• the applied name: a name tag is allowed on a butterfly knife, and the knife has no stickers;


• the version: a butterfly knife with StatTrak™ is catalogued as a separate item.

The band for this wear is tight, 0.00 to 0.07, and a difference between two listings there is hard to catch.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water costs in Factory New

Measured against Factory New, Minimal Wear is cheaper by a factor of 1.10, Well-Worn by 1.15, and Field-Tested and Battle-Scarred by 1.18.

Among the thirty-three butterfly finishes with a price in this wear, Bright Water is the cheapest: all the others cost more. Forest DDPAT is 12% higher, Freehand 16%, Safari Mesh a third, and Black Laminate and Damascus Steel 40%. At the top of the row, Gamma Doppler Emerald costs 12 times as much, Doppler Ruby 18 times and Doppler Black Pearl almost thirty.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water

The finish comes from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the wear on opening is random. A contract offers a different route to a rare special item. Five Covert skins from one collection are combined into a knife, but neither the butterfly knife nor the finish can be assigned. A listing that is already for sale is the way to get the exact copy.

Is there a StatTrak version

The Butterfly Knife | Bright Water has a StatTrak™ version in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Bright Water in Factory New makes sense for these reasons:

• you want a butterfly knife in blue camouflage with an untouched blade, and this is the lowest price among butterfly finishes in Factory New;


• your CS2 loadout is in a cold palette, and the dark blue handles with the light-blue insert fit it;


• there is one pattern, so the choice comes down to price: the float band is tight.