Souvenir USP-S | Cortex (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

Cortex pairs bright pink organic shapes with a dark base and a muted greenish slide, which makes this USP-S easy to recognise even at a glance. In Minimal Wear the lettering on the silencer and the skull on the grip are fully intact. Any marks are small and sit on the edges, so the pistol looks almost new while usually costing the buyer less than the cleanest grade.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Classified is the second-rarest weapon tier, only Covert sits above it.

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, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The silencer is black with thick pink swirls outlined in dark lines, and the central loops form the letters USP along its length. The slide has a pale silver-green base with dark green brush-like strokes, while pink brain-like folds spread across its rear half and spill down toward the frame.

Small specks of wear can appear at the muzzle end of the silencer and along the top edge of the slide. The pink areas and the lettering remain intact. At normal viewing distance in game the pistol is hard to tell apart from a Factory New copy. The grip and the skull stay clean.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir USP-S | Cortex is 0–1; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (8% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

Souvenir USP-S | Cortex belongs to The Clutch Collection, which holds 17 skins.

It drops from Clutch Case.

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

Pink, black and pale green stickers match the artwork, and holo or foil stickers in pink tones blend well with the swirls. Placing stickers on the slide keeps the USP lettering on the silencer visible.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float within the chosen grade, since the silencer tip and lettering show the difference first.
• Look at the top edge of the slide, where the pink folds and green strokes wear through early.
• Inspect the rear of the grip to see how much of the skull remains on worn copies.
• Note any applied stickers or name tag, as they change the look and can affect the price of the copy.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-new look without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafts where tiny edge marks are not a concern.
• A sensible balance between appearance and cost.