USP-S | Neo-Noir (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The Neo-Noir finish combines a magenta-lit portrait on the slide with a dark, glossy silencer and a patterned grip. In Minimal Wear the artwork keeps its full colour, and any marks are small enough to be lost among the busy linework. It offers the clean look of the top grade without paying for perfection.

Item type: pistol. 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.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The slide carries the central image: a stylized woman's face and dark hair drawn in magenta and pink over grayscale shading, with small blue accents and lettering near the rear. The silencer is a dark, glossy tube with cyan highlights and magenta streaks running along its length.

Light specks may appear at the muzzle end of the silencer and on the sharpest slide edges. They are small and mostly hidden by the dense linework of the artwork. At normal viewing distance in game the skin looks practically the same as Factory New. The portrait and the grip pattern remain clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of USP-S | Neo-Noir ranges from 0 to 0.7; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 11% 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

USP-S | Neo-Noir belongs to The Spectrum Collection, which holds 17 skins.

It drops from Spectrum Case.

Price by quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline:

• Factory New — 3% dearer
• Field-Tested — 2% cheaper
• Well-Worn — about the same
• Battle-Scarred — 7% cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 4 skins of the USP-S in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin is the dearest.

StatTrak™ and Souvenir

There is also a the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon tracks kills. Right now it is 2% dearer than the regular one. There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Stickers in magenta, pink, cyan or holographic finishes match the neon palette of the artwork. Placing them on the silencer or the rear of the slide keeps the portrait visible. Black, white or grey stickers sit well against the grayscale base without competing with the image.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position within the wear grade, since the silencer and slide edges show the difference first.
• Look closely at the woman's face on the slide, as wear reaching it changes the look more than marks elsewhere.
• Inspect the muzzle end and rings of the silencer, the parts most visible in first-person view.
• Check applied stickers and the name tag, and decide whether StatTrak™ matters to you.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-perfect look in game without paying for the top grade.
• Buyers planning sticker crafts where tiny edge marks will not show.
• Conclusion: the sensible balance between clean looks and cost.