★ Talon Knife | Slaughter (Factory New)

This is the ★ Talon Knife | Slaughter in Factory New (FN), the wear in which the red talon with a light handle looks cleanest. It carries Covert rank with the ★ mark. The finish's float scale runs from 0.01 to 0.26, with the lower bound cut off at 0.01, and Factory New takes the stretch from 0.01 to 0.07, about a quarter.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Slaughter looks like in Factory New

The blade is red, with faceted planes in shades from light red to dark crimson. Serrations and round holes sit on the spine. The handle is light, ivory-colored, with brass rivets visible on it, and the ring is red. Valve says the knife is painted in zebra stripes, with aluminum and chrome paint under a tomato-red lacquer.

In Factory New the red is clean and the light handle shows no wear. Wear is fixed at the drop.

What to check before buying

What matters when buying the ★ Talon Knife | Slaughter:

• float: in this wear the band is a tight 0.01 to 0.07, and the difference between listings is hard to catch;


• the light handle: wear marks show on it more than on the red paint;


• name on the knife: a name tag is allowed, and StatTrak is sold as a separate item.

What the ★ Talon Knife | Slaughter costs in Factory New

This is the top wear of the finish: Minimal Wear is cheaper by a factor of 1.21, and Field-Tested by 1.22.

Among twenty-one talon finishes priced in this wear, Slaughter stands a little above the middle: eight cost less and twelve cost more. Doppler Phase 1 is higher by a quarter, Blue Steel is level, and Urban Masked and Marble Fade are lower by 8 to 10 percent. Tiger Tooth is lower by almost a third. Cheapest are Damascus Steel, Scorched and Boreal Forest, and highest are Doppler Sapphire, Doppler Ruby and Doppler Black Pearl.

Getting the ★ Talon Knife | Slaughter

In CS2 the knife is found in the Horizon Case and in the Danger Zone Case, so neither can be called the only source. A craft is the second route: five Covert skins of one type, regular or StatTrak, turn into a random item with the ★ mark. You cannot choose the finish or the model.

Is there a StatTrak version

The ★ Talon Knife | Slaughter also exists with StatTrak in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Talon Knife | Slaughter in Factory New is worth it if:

• you want a red talon with a clean light handle;


• your CS2 loadout is built on red and light tones;


• the float spread does not matter, since within 0.01 to 0.07 the listings are nearly identical.