★ StatTrak™ Survival Knife | Safari Mesh (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

★ Survival Knife | Safari Mesh in Battle-Scarred is the most weathered take on this sand-and-olive camouflage. Large areas of the blade show bare steel, and the paint survives mostly in patches on the flats and in the recesses of the handle. It fits players who want the knife model itself and like a battered, used look.

Item type: knife. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Spray-Paint: paint sprayed over the metal; scratches and scuffs appear early but look natural.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Factory New, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested and Well-Worn.

How the skin looks in Battle-Scarred

The whole knife is covered in a spray-painted camouflage of sand, light khaki and greyish olive, with a darker net pattern laid over it through mesh fencing and cardboard stencils. On the blade the tones shift softly from grey-green near the tip to warmer sand toward the guard, and the net runs across the flat and around the long slot.

Most of the blade outline is bare steel, and paint on the flat breaks into irregular patches. The handle ridges are worn through, with colour surviving mainly in the recesses. In game the knife reads as a scuffed metal tool with traces of desert camouflage. The deepest parts of the handle and the centre of the blade are the last areas that still look painted.

Battle-Scarred wear: float 0.45–0.8

The whole float range of ★ StatTrak™ Survival Knife | Safari Mesh is 0.06–0.8; Battle-Scarred takes the 0.45–0.8 segment (47% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Shattered Web Case
• Fracture Case

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 12th of 13 skins Covert Survival Knife in this quality (the first being the dearest).

StatTrak™ version

This is the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon shows confirmed kills. There is also the regular version without the counter. Right now the StatTrak™ version is 29% dearer than the regular one.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the chosen wear, since a low value keeps the edge and serrations noticeably cleaner.
• Inspect the cutting edge, the serrations and the gut hook first, because these parts lose paint before anything else.
• Pattern placement shifts the mesh slightly from copy to copy but rarely changes the overall look, so focus on wear rather than seed.
• Knives cannot carry stickers, so only a name tag and the StatTrak™ counter can set one copy apart from another.

Who should buy Battle-Scarred

• Budget buyers who mainly want the Survival Knife model and its animations.
• Players who like a heavily used, battered metal look.
• Conclusion: the entry point for those who care about the knife more than the paint.