
You can’t smelt them into metal or use them for any crafting recipes.They simply spawn with one of five permanent levels of decorative wear. This means you can buy many of the more common Gun Mettle weapons very cheaply by choosing weapons with higher wear.Īlso, weapons do NOT wear as you use them.Note the price difference in the above rocket launchers, which have the same item quality but different grades (and thus different visual effects). This is likely because the design is much crisper and not missing many visual effects. A Minimal Wear weapon sells for two to three times as much as Well-Worn and Battle Scarred weapons also. In all cases, the Factory New sells for three to ten times as much as its Well-Worn and Battle Scarred counterparts. Collectors clearly prefer the least amount of wear. Each grade determines how much of the weapon’s reskin design is displaced by an appearance of wear and tear, and each quality seems just as common as the others. There are five grades of wear: Factory New, Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, Well-Worn, and Battle Scarred. “Factory New” weapons are preferred, and “Minimal Wear” less so.There are several dozen Decorated (a quality reserved for reskinned stock) weapons that can be earned, and many of the most common weapons can be had very cheaply. “Gun Mettle” Season runs through September 30th, 2015.Īs you may recall, the Team Fortress 2 has been busy completing contracts and earning rewards by participating in the Gun Mettle event. NOTE: Most recent observations of GM weps here.
