★ Huntsman Knife | Lore (Battle-Scarred)

The ★ Huntsman Knife | Lore in Battle-Scarred (BS): a golden blade with woven engraving. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. Two cases hold it, the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. Float here runs from 0.45 to 0.65. The skin's scale is capped at 0.65, so the BS band is shorter than usual.

What the ★ Huntsman Knife | Lore looks like in Battle-Scarred

The blade is golden, from light gold at the edge to reddish bronze at the heel. The handle is dark green with black, with lengthwise hatching and brass screws. Valve describes the finish as painted with a woven pattern.

The engraving lies only at the spine and the base of the blade. The rest of the surface is clean gold with a fine speckled texture. The pattern is interlaced ribbons and cords in a Celtic spirit, laid down in a thin line. In BS the gold near the tip and along the edge is lighter and looks rubbed, while at the heel it is darker, which reads as patina. Wear is set at the drop and does not grow.

Where the ★ Huntsman Knife | Lore came from

The finish dates from September 2021. Operation Riptide opened on September 22, and the Huntsman Knife in this skin was added to the operation's case. Later the finish also entered the Dreams & Nightmares Case.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular ★ Huntsman Knife | Lore comes down to these points:

• float: the BS band runs from 0.45 to 0.65, and the skin has its own ceiling, below the standard one;


• name tag: a name given to the knife by a previous owner goes with the listing;


• the light zone near the tip and edge: it shows how the wear settled on the gold.

Phase and pattern

The finish has neither phases nor gems: you cannot buy a ★ Huntsman Knife | Lore with a "rare" pattern, and every copy has the same artwork. Only wear is in play. The gold is lighter at the tip and edge, and in BS this shows more than in the cleaner wears.

What the ★ Huntsman Knife | Lore costs in Battle-Scarred

BS is the cheapest wear of the skin. Factory New (FN) costs 1.83 times as much. Minimal Wear (MW) costs 1.35 times as much, Field-Tested (FT) 1.13 times and Well-Worn (WW) 1.14 times.

Of the eighteen Covert Huntsman finishes priced in this wear, nine cost less than the Lore and eight cost more. The nearest above are Freehand, Autotronic, Night and Stained, from one to ten percent more. Urban Masked is about a sixth cheaper. The bottom of the row is Rust Coat, and the top is Damascus Steel, Blue Steel and Case Hardened.

Getting the ★ Huntsman Knife | Lore

Two cases hold this knife: the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. Wear is random when it drops. The second route is a craft: a contract of five Covert skins yields a gold item from the collections that went into the trade. You cannot choose the model or the finish in it, so the wear you want is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

The ★ Huntsman Knife | Lore does come in a StatTrak version in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Huntsman Knife | Lore in Battle-Scarred makes sense when:

• you want a golden Huntsman Knife for CS2 with Celtic engraving and the lowest entry point among its wears;


• you want patina on the gold rather than the clean shine of FN;


• you are after an Extraordinary-tier model from the middle of the Huntsman price row.