Souvenir XM1014 | Black Tie (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Black Tie in Battle-Scarred keeps its basic idea of dark metal and white panels, but the clean contrast is broken by heavy chipping. The light parts look patchy and grey, and the forend stripes are partly lost. It is the lowest entry point to the skin, for those who value the colour scheme over a neat surface.

Item type: shotgun. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

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

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

How the skin looks in Battle-Scarred

The barrel and the upper part of the weapon are finished in dark gunmetal, while the magazine tube under the barrel is light with a chrome-like sheen and a dark streak along it. The forend is black with a row of thin white horizontal lines.

The white receiver and magazine tube are heavily chipped and patchy over most of their area. The forend lines are largely worn away, and the light stock panels are scratched through. In game the skin reads as dark metal with grey-white patches. Only the dark parts keep a relatively even look.

Battle-Scarred quality — float range 0.45–0.75

The float of Souvenir XM1014 | Black Tie ranges from 0 to 0.75; the Battle-Scarred quality covers 0.45–0.75 — 40% 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

The skin’s collection is The Chroma 3 Collection with 17 skins in total.

The source is Chroma 3 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.

Stickers and crafts

Black, white, silver and gold stickers keep the formal two-tone scheme intact. Placements on the pale receiver stand out most, while dark stickers blend into the barrel and forend. Brightly coloured stickers break the monochrome look and suit only a deliberate accent craft.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at where the float sits within its wear range, since the white parts show every step of wear.
• Check the muzzle end of the magazine tube and the receiver edges first, as they chip earliest.
• Inspect the thin lines on the forend to see whether they are complete.
• Check applied stickers and the name tag, since they change the clean two-tone look.

Who the Battle-Scarred quality suits

• Budget buyers looking for the cheapest entry to this skin.
• Players who value the dark silhouette more than the white panels.
• A low-cost entry where the clean contrast is no longer the point.