M249 | Shipping Forecast (Well-Worn)

Skin overview

This M249 is painted in a teal hydrographic with darker zodiac-style circles, contrasted by a plain dark blue stock. In Well-Worn the print is visibly thinned on the receiver edges, the feed cover and the magazine corners, giving the gun a used, weathered look. The overall green-and-blue palette stays intact and is easy to recognise in a match.

Item type: machinegun. Industrial Grade is the second tier from the bottom: common skins from drops and collections.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

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

How the skin looks in Well-Worn

The receiver, handguard and feed cover are coated in a sea-green hydrographic with darker teal radial shapes that look like stylised suns or zodiac emblems. The box magazine carries one of the largest and most legible circles on its side, framed by the same teal print.

Bare metal spreads further along the receiver edges, the feed cover and the box magazine, and the handguard edges start to show wear too. The teal looks thinner and patchier, and some fine lines of the motifs are lost near worn areas. In game the gun reads as a weathered green machine gun with clearly scuffed edges. The centre of the magazine emblem and the middle of flat panels still hold most of the print.

Well-Worn quality — float range 0.38–0.45

The whole float range of M249 | Shipping Forecast is 0–0.5; Well-Worn takes the 0.38–0.45 segment (14% 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

M249 | Shipping Forecast belongs to The Gods and Monsters Collection, which holds 14 skins. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

What it costs in each quality

Among 5 skins of the M249 in the Industrial Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 2nd by price, counting from the dearest.

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Stickers in teal, turquoise, navy or gold suit the sea-green print and the dark blue stock. Holographic or foil stickers in cool tones work well on the receiver, where they echo the radial motifs without hiding the magazine emblem.

What to check before buying

• Look at the float position within the wear range, since the full range of this skin stops early and the worst grades stay relatively mild.
• Check the corners of the box magazine and the feed cover edges, where the print wears off first.
• Look at how the large radial emblem sits on the side of the magazine, as its placement shapes the look of the gun.
• On Souvenir copies, check which stickers are applied and whether they suit the teal palette.

Who the Well-Worn quality suits

• Players who like a weathered, used look on a machine gun.
• Budget buyers who still want the colours to read clearly.
• A good option for a lived-in version of the pattern.