★ Talon Knife | Stained (Field-Tested)

★ Talon Knife | Stained in Field-Tested (FT): a CS2 talon knife with a pale blade that looks splashed with blotches, and a light handle. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The two cases that hold it are the Horizon Case and the Danger Zone Case. It comes in five wears, the float scale is complete, from 0.00 to 1.00, and Field-Tested takes 23% of it. This wear of the ★ Talon Knife | Stained lies between 0.15 and 0.38.

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

The blade is gray steel with a bluish cast and milky-white smears that lie across the flat like uneven clouds. The cutting edge is light, and the spine carries three round holes and a row of teeth. The handle is ivory-colored with brass rivets, and the finger ring is chrome.

In Field-Tested, wear marks on the blade are already there: they settle on the tip and along the edge. How many scuffs a knife gets is decided at the moment of the drop, and none are added later.

What to check before buying

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

• float: the whole range of the wear sits inside 0.15 to 0.38, from a nearly clean blade to a visibly beaten one;


• applied name: the talon knife takes a name tag, and it stays on the item after the purchase;


• version: a regular knife and a StatTrak one are sold as different listings.

The ★ Talon Knife | Stained in this wear holds both 0.15 and 0.38, and those listings look different.

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

Factory New costs 1.50 times as much, and Minimal Wear 1.17 times. The two lower wears, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred, do not differ in price from this one: the gap stays within three percent.

Among talon knife finishes, Stained stands above Night Stripe and Urban Masked, but below Damascus Steel and Crimson Web. Safari Mesh, Boreal Forest and Forest DDPAT lie lowest, and Slaughter, Case Hardened and Blue Steel highest.

Getting the ★ Talon Knife | Stained

The ★ Talon Knife | Stained comes from two cases, Horizon and Danger Zone, and the wear is decided on opening. In a note of December 7, 2018, Valve wrote that the Danger Zone Case received the Horizon Case knives as rare special items. The second road is a craft: five Covert skins regardless of collection turn into one rare special item, with no choice of model or finish. A specific Stained copy is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

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

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Talon Knife | Stained here, in Field-Tested, is worth it given the following:

• a light blade and an ivory-colored handle are wanted, and small marks on the tip are no obstacle;


• the CS2 loadout is built on cold, light tones, and the talon knife has to fit in;


• the extra for Factory New, one and a half times the price, is not wanted, and the lower wears bring no savings.