Desert Eagle | Code Red (Factory New)

The Desert Eagle | Code Red (Factory New) is a Covert pistol skin — a bright red body accented with white detailing. Factory New is the top grade, showing the finish with its color at full strength and no visible wear anywhere on the slide.

Design

Code Red runs a vibrant red base broken up by crisp white detailing, a loud, high-saturation look that leans on bold color rather than intricate graphics. It's a community design by the artist DasDas, whose taste for punchy palettes makes the pistol pop, and it carries a fitting in-game line: "Man your stations."

Desert Eagle | Code Red (Factory New) Float and Wear

Float on this finish runs the full 0.00–1.00 scale, and Factory New sits at the very bottom of it. At this grade the red reads at peak intensity and the white accents stay sharp, with no scratching or fading on the slide. If you want the design exactly as the artist intended, this is the grade to reach for.

Desert Eagle | Code Red Rarity

Rarity: Covert — the red tier, the highest of the standard weapon grades. It's the scarcest class of skin you can pull from a case short of a knife.

Desert Eagle | Code Red Case and Collection

The Desert Eagle | Code Red belongs to The Horizon Collection and drops from the Horizon Case, released with the "A New Horizon" update in August 2018. The Covert tier as a whole unboxes only about 0.64% of the time from the case (that figure is shared across the tier), which puts it firmly among the harder pulls.

Desert Eagle | Code Red Patterns

Code Red has no random pattern variation — the red base and white detailing land the same way on every copy, so there's no paint seed or "blue gem" to chase. Wear and float are the only things that set one from another.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A StatTrak™ Desert Eagle | Code Red exists and adds a confirmed-kill counter; it's a rarer, pricier drop from the Horizon Case than the standard skin, and the counter is permanent, carrying over when the item is traded or sold. There's no Souvenir version — Souvenir weapons come only from Major-tournament packages, and the Horizon Case was never a Major drop.

Desert Eagle | Code Red Price

Factory New sits at the top of the Code Red price ladder as the highest grade available — a clear step above Minimal Wear, a premium Deagle pick that commands the most within the finish's own range. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Is Factory New worth the premium over Minimal Wear?

It depends on your budget. Factory New keeps the red at its brightest with zero surface marks, but the bold base already hides light wear well, so a Minimal Wear copy looks close for less. Pay up if you want the color at full strength; otherwise Minimal Wear is the smarter value.

Which gloves go with Code Red?

Its red-and-white palette suits a warm, high-contrast loadout, so red or white gloves work best — a red pair echoes the base, while white or light wraps pick up the accents. It anchors a red-themed loadout nicely alongside other bright-red finishes.

How scarce is a Covert Deagle from the case?

Very. The Covert tier pulls at roughly 0.64% from the Horizon Case, a rate shared across the tier's skins, so most Code Reds change hands on the market rather than getting unboxed. Factory New copies are the rarest slice of an already scarce grade.