★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh (Battle-Scarred)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh in Battle-Scarred (BS) takes up almost half of the skin's float scale. The band runs from 0.45 to 0.80, which is 47% of the full range. Covert rank, with the ★ mark.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh looks like in Battle-Scarred

This butterfly knife is done in a muted olive-gray palette. The blade curves toward its point, and a mesh of large hexagonal cells, much like snakeskin, covers it and both handles. There is no flat paint, so the cells show only through shifts in shade.

Battle-Scarred is where the paint is worn hardest. The gray mesh breaks through to bare metal in places, especially along the edge of the blade and on the raised parts of the handles. The wear is set when the knife drops and stays as it is. The band for this wear runs from 0.45 to 0.80, and both ends fit inside it, so two listings can look quite different.

What to check before buying

Picking one particular ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh comes down to two points:

• float: 0.80 is the ceiling for the whole skin, while at 0.45 the paint has held up noticeably better;


• name tag: a butterfly knife takes one, and it stays on the item after purchase.

Phase and pattern

The design on the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh is fixed and does not depend on the individual copy. This finish has no phases or rare variants, and copies differ only in wear.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh costs in Battle-Scarred

Factory New is 1.83 times as expensive, Minimal Wear costs the same, Field-Tested is cheaper by a factor of 1.06, and Well-Worn is 1.05 times as expensive.

Eighteen butterfly finishes are priced in this wear. One of them, Forest DDPAT, sits below Safari Mesh, and the other sixteen sit above it. The nearest in price is Ultraviolet, roughly a tenth higher, followed by Urban Masked, Boreal Forest and Scorched, almost level. The top of the row is Case Hardened, Blue Steel and Damascus Steel.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh

In CS2 this knife comes out of the Operation Breakout Weapon Case, with the wear left to chance. The alternative to the case is a trade-up: five Covert skins of one type, all normal or all StatTrak, turn into one random rare special item. The outcome is random, so a suitable wear is better bought ready-made.

Is there a StatTrak version

Yes, the game also has a version of this knife with StatTrak.

Who this wear suits

This wear is the one to pick if:

• you want a butterfly knife in a gray-olive palette at a price near the bottom of the butterfly row;


• wear does not matter to you and you have no need for Factory New, which costs 1.83 times as much;


• your CS2 loadout is built in camouflage tones, and a scuffed mesh fits its style.