USP-S | Business Class (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

Battle-Scarred is the most weathered take on Business Class, with large areas of paint gone from the slide and silencer. What remains is the brown leather texture and fragments of the stripes over grey metal. It is the most affordable way into the skin and reads as an old, heavily used case.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Mil-Spec Grade is the lowest rarity found in cases and the most common one among them.

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.

How the skin looks in Battle-Scarred

The slide carries a horizontal band in tan and gold with small lettering, bordered below by a red-brown stripe and thin light pinstripes. The grip panels are brown leather with a perforated texture and stitched edges, and a matching leather collar wraps the base of the silencer.

Large parts of the slide stripes and lettering are gone, leaving fragments over grey metal. The silencer is heavily scraped and the leather collar is worn at its edges. The grip panels show wear across their edges and raised areas. In game the skin reads as a worn brown-and-grey pistol rather than a striped case.

Battle-Scarred wear: float 0.45–1

The whole float range of USP-S | Business Class is 0–1; Battle-Scarred takes the 0.45–1 segment (55% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Baggage Collection with 15 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

Among 14 skins of the USP-S in the Mil-Spec Grade grade and this quality, this skin is the dearest.

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Which stickers suit it

Warm browns, gold, cream and muted red stickers match the luggage palette of the slide and leather. Placing them on the grey frame area or the silencer keeps the striped slide band visible.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the wear range, since lower floats keep the slide stripes and lettering sharper.
• Inspect the top and edges of the slide and the muzzle end of the silencer, where the paint wears first.
• Look at the edges of the leather grip panels on more worn copies.
• Check applied stickers and any name tag, and note whether the copy is a souvenir version.

Who should buy Battle-Scarred

• Players looking for the cheapest entry into Business Class.
• Those who like a heavily worn brown-and-grey pistol.
• An entry-level copy for play rather than for display.