Tec-9 | Citric Acid (Factory New)

The Tec-9 | Citric Acid (Factory New) is an Industrial Grade pistol finish built around a yellow and green base splashed with a dark paint splatter. Factory New is the top grade of the range, showing off that acid-bright color combo at its most vivid.

Design

Valve describes it as a dark paint splat pattern applied over a yellow and green base, giving the Tec-9 a high-contrast, almost toxic-looking finish. It's a Valve-made skin, and the flavor text, "Warm regards," adds a bit of sarcastic humor to the acid theme.

Tec-9 | Citric Acid (Factory New) Float and Wear

This finish is float-capped at 0.60, so it never reaches Well-Worn or Battle-Scarred wear ranges, and Factory New sits right at the bottom of that scale. At this grade the yellow and green base looks fully saturated and the dark splatter reads crisply against it.

Tec-9 | Citric Acid Rarity

Rarity: Industrial Grade, the light blue tier and the lowest of the standard weapon grades. It's about as common as classifications get, which lines up with the finish's low price.

Tec-9 | Citric Acid Case and Collection

This finish belongs to The Radiant Collection, released with the Spring Forward update in March 2025. It has no weapon case of its own, so copies come from the collection's own drop pool rather than any specific case's odds table.

Tec-9 | Citric Acid Patterns

The splatter design sits in a fixed position on every copy — the paint seed doesn't shift the pattern at all, so there's no rare "blue gem" seed or best pattern to hunt for here. Only wear and float set one copy apart from another.

StatTrak & Souvenir

This finish exists only as a regular item — there is no StatTrak version and no Souvenir version. Souvenir weapons are only ever produced from Major-tournament packages, and The Radiant Collection has never been distributed that way.

Tec-9 | Citric Acid Price

Factory New is the priciest grade of the Citric Acid ladder, though the finish as a whole sits firmly in budget territory for the Tec-9 line. It's an easy, low-cost way to freshen up a loadout. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Why does the Tec-9 | Citric Acid never get very worn?

The finish is float-capped at 0.60, well below the game's full 1.0 scale, so even its worst grade stays milder than a fully worn skin. That cap means Battle-Scarred copies of this finish never look as beat-up as some other Tec-9 finishes can.

Is the Factory New Citric Acid worth the extra cost?

Given how affordable this finish is across the board, paying up for Factory New is a low-stakes way to get the brightest, most saturated version of the yellow-and-green design without spending much more than the lower grades.

Does the Tec-9 | Citric Acid have a StatTrak or Souvenir version?

No. This finish exists only in its regular form, with no StatTrak counter option and no Souvenir edition, since The Radiant Collection has never been distributed through a Major-tournament package.