Souvenir M249 | Impact Drill (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Battle-Scarred turns Impact Drill into a heavily chipped machine gun where much of the orange has been worn down to metal. The colour blocks are still identifiable, but the bright accents look patchy rather than solid. It is the most weathered version of this simple blue-and-orange design.

Item type: machinegun. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Solid Color: a single colour without a pattern; wear dulls it evenly and rubs it off along the edges.

Other qualities of this skin: Field-Tested and Well-Worn.

How the skin looks in Battle-Scarred

The receiver and top cover are painted a dark blue-grey, with small orange details on the bolt area and side fittings. The long barrel, front sight and rear sight are bright orange, and the large box magazine below the receiver is the same orange.

Large areas of the barrel and ammo box are worn down to bare metal, and chips extend onto the receiver cover and side parts. The orange survives in patches rather than as a solid coat. In game the weapon looks rough and heavily used, while the blue and orange zones can still be told apart. Only the recessed areas of the receiver and parts of the stock look relatively intact.

Battle-Scarred wear: float 0.45–1

The whole float range of Souvenir M249 | Impact Drill is 0–1; Battle-Scarred takes the 0.45–1 segment (55% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Chop Shop Collection with 16 skins in total. 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

Compared with the Battle-Scarred quality, the others go like this:

• Factory New — 214× dearer
• Minimal Wear — 3.3× dearer

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 8 skins of the M249 in the Consumer Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 5th by price, counting from the dearest.

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Which stickers suit it

Orange, yellow and dark blue stickers match the existing colour blocks, while black or holo stickers with blue tones fit well on the receiver. Placing stickers on the dark receiver keeps them readable against the bright barrel and box.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since the solid orange shows chips clearly on worn copies.
• Inspect the corners of the ammo box, as they are the most visible part in first-person view and wear early.
• Look at the muzzle and sight posts, which lose paint before the rest of the barrel.
• Pattern does not matter for this finish, so compare copies by float and applied stickers.

Who the Battle-Scarred quality suits

• Players who prefer a heavily weathered, rough-looking weapon.
• Collectors completing a full set of wears for this skin.
• The cheapest entry and the most worn character.