★ Survival Knife | Stained (Field-Tested)

★ Survival Knife | Stained in Field-Tested (FT): a CS2 survival knife with a pale blade across which blue-gray streaks spread. A Covert rank knife with the ★ mark, it comes from the Shattered Web and Fracture Cases. The finish has all five wears, and the float covers the whole scale, from 0.00 to 1.00. This wear of the ★ Survival Knife | Stained is assigned 0.15 to 0.38.

What the ★ Survival Knife | Stained looks like in Field-Tested

The blade has a sharp tip, a slot running along it and a serrated lower edge, with a gutting hook on the spine near the tip. The metal is light, gray-white, spread with blue-gray blotches and veins. Valve describes the patina as traces of lemon and mustard dripped on the surface. The handle is dark and gray-olive, made of composite on hex bolts.

In Field-Tested, wear marks join the blotches of the patina: on the pale blade they show near the tip and along the edge. Wear is fixed at drop.

Where the ★ Survival Knife | Stained came from

Valve showed the survival knife on November 19, 2019, together with the Shattered Web Case. The note says the case can yield one of four new knives: the paracord knife, the survival knife, the Nomad knife or the skeleton knife. Stained also drops from the Fracture Case.

What to check before buying

On a ★ Survival Knife | Stained listing, these are the parameters to check:

• for the ★ Survival Knife | Stained, the float figure matters more than the label, as the 0.15 to 0.38 stretch holds varied looks;


• name: a name tag is allowed on the knife, while it takes no stickers;


• StatTrak: a survival knife with a kill counter comes up as an item of its own.

What the ★ Survival Knife | Stained costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 1.92 times as much, and Minimal Wear 1.04 times. Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred are each cheaper by a factor of 1.06.

Among Covert survival knife finishes in Field-Tested, Stained is in the upper third of a ladder of thirteen: four finishes cost more and eight cost less. Above it stand Blue Steel, Crimson Web, Case Hardened and Slaughter. Below come Night Stripe and Scorched, and at the very bottom are Boreal Forest and Safari Mesh.

Getting the ★ Survival Knife | Stained

The ★ Survival Knife | Stained drops from the Shattered Web and Fracture Cases, and the wear is random. A rare special item can also come from a contract of five Covert skins of one collection, but its model and finish are random. Whichever copy suits you, it is acquired through a listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Survival Knife | Stained exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

The ★ Survival Knife | Stained is worth buying in exactly this wear if:

• a light survival knife with blue-gray patina is wanted, and Factory New costs almost twice as much;


• the float matters more than the wear label, and comparing listings by a number within 0.15 to 0.38 is no trouble;


• the CS2 loadout is built on cold gray tones, and the dark handle leaves the blade as the one light spot.