Souvenir M4A4 | Desert-Strike (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Desert-Strike is a tan and black high-tech design, and Battle-Scarred is its roughest form. The sand paint survives only in patches, with dark metal exposed across the handguard, magazine and receiver edges. The result looks like a heavily used field rifle rather than a clean two-tone piece.

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: Factory New, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested and Well-Worn. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Battle-Scarred

The base of the rifle is dark graphite and black, with tan used as the accent colour. The ribbed handguard is largely sand-coloured with dark breaks, and the barrel carries a tan section near the front sight.

The tan paint survives only as broken patches across the handguard, magazine and grip. Receiver and stock edges are heavily scratched, with dark metal exposed in many places. In game the rifle looks mostly dark with scattered sand marks. Only the most protected flat surfaces keep traces of the original pattern.

Battle-Scarred wear: float 0.45–0.7

The float of Souvenir M4A4 | Desert-Strike ranges from 0 to 0.7; the Battle-Scarred quality covers 0.45–0.7 — 36% of this skin’s scale. Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

Souvenir M4A4 | Desert-Strike belongs to The Huntsman Collection, which holds 20 skins.

The source is Huntsman Weapon Case (on sale since Jun 11, 2014).

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

Stickers in tan, gold, brown or black blend with the desert palette of the finish. Placing them on the dark receiver gives better contrast than on the busy handguard.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since copies near the top of a grade look noticeably cleaner.
• Inspect the handguard ribs and magazine edges, as the tan paint wears there first.
• Look at the grip and stock to see how much of the larger tan areas remains.
• Check applied stickers and the name tag, since they change how the rifle looks and may not suit every buyer.

Who the Battle-Scarred quality suits

• Players who want the cheapest way to own this skin.
• Fans of a heavily used, rough look on their weapons.
• The most economical choice, at the cost of much of the pattern.