Souvenir M4A1-S | Hyper Beast (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

Hyper Beast turns the M4A1-S into a psychedelic beast, with ribbed scales along the handguard and a toothed face over the receiver. A Minimal Wear copy keeps the same vivid palette, and the few small marks it may carry are hard to spot without zooming in. For most buyers it looks the same as a fresh copy in a match.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

Other qualities of this skin: Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The handguard is covered in ribbed, scale-like segments in pink, red and blue with green highlights, and the same body continues across the receiver, where a toothed beast face sits above the magazine well. The magazine and grip carry the creature's pink and red flesh with teal and green accents, while the carry handle shows a small red and green detail resembling an eye.

Minimal Wear may add tiny specks of wear on the handguard ridges and the lower edge of the magazine. The beast face on the receiver and the stock remain untouched. At normal distance in game these marks are practically invisible. The colours keep the same brightness as on a Factory New copy.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir M4A1-S | Hyper Beast ranges from 0 to 1; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 8% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

Souvenir M4A1-S | Hyper Beast belongs to The Chroma 2 Collection, which holds 15 skins.

The source is Chroma 2 Case (on sale since Apr 15, 2015).

Price by quality

Compared with the Minimal Wear quality, the others go like this: Factory New — 8.2× dearer. Based on the cheapest SkinOut.gg listing of each quality, otherwise on the market reference.

Among 9 skins of the M4A1-S in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin is the most affordable.

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.

Stickers and crafts

Holo and foil stickers in pink, blue or green echo the neon palette and blend well with the artwork. Placing them on the dark silencer-side of the receiver or near the stock keeps the beast face and handguard scales visible.

What to check before buying

• Look at where the float sits within the wear grade, since a low float in Field-Tested or Well-Worn keeps noticeably more of the handguard scales.
• Inspect the handguard ridges and magazine edges first, as these are where the paint goes before anything else.
• Check whether the copy is a StatTrak™ version if you want a kill counter, and confirm any applied stickers or name tag in the inspect view.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-flawless look in game without paying for perfection.
• Crafters who are fine with marks that hide under normal viewing.
• A sensible balance between a clean look and cost.