Some time ago we already told you about skins for CS:GO, which appeared in the game despite the fact that their appearance at first glance did not comply with the rules established by Valve. Indeed, against the general background, they may look like exceptions. But there are also skins that turn out to be even more rare: for example, in-game items with impossible parameters resulting from a bug.
Skins with impossible float
Errors can be related to the numerical parameters of the skin, that is, the parameters that determine its appearance. The main one is – float value, which determines the degree of skin wear. For each skin there are limits, in which the value of this parameter can change.
For example, Nova Predator cannot have a wear rate lower than 0.06. However, in 2017, an instance of this item was found in the database that had a float of 0.5999999. Even this small difference was enough to make the skin seem unique to many collectors. It changed owners several times in a short period of time, and eventually a youtuber bought it for over $700.
In 2020, a similar story happened with Nova Polar Mesh. This time the cost of a unique skin with float below the possible was even higher. It is known to have been sold for over two thousand dollars.
In both cases, the error was possible due to the peculiarities of how rounding works. In-game, the figure is rounded to a few decimal places, while third-party sites may display the full value. As a result, the rounded variable is 0.6, and the game considers the value acceptable, while looking up the item's properties in the database reveals itself to be an erroneous value.
A unique souvenir
An equally interesting story happened with R8 Revolver Bone Mask. This skin is part of the Bank collection, items from which were not dropped as souvenirs from major tournaments. However, this skin, probably as a result of a bug, is considered a souvenir skin for DreamHack 2013. As a result, it is possible to get it from a tournament souvenir set, and there are at least six such examples of this revolver, and with fairly low float. Really unique items considering the skin was added in 2015 and the tournament was held in 2013!
Incorrect copies
Knives are rare and expensive items in their own right, but the ones discussed here are even more unique because they came about due to human error. Previously, if a user lost in-game items due to cheating, support would not move the lost skins to their account, but would duplicate them manually. Once, while performing such an operation, a support worker Steam made a mistake and created unique items – knives Krambit without a star in the name and with zero float and pattern index value. Thus, they turned out to be unique collectibles, which the owner managed to sell for a good amount of money.
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