XM1014 | Blue Tire (Battle-Scarred)

The XM1014 | Blue Tire (Battle-Scarred, BS) is a Consumer Grade shotgun with a black and blue tire-tread spray pattern in its most heavily worn condition. It's the cheapest way into the bold tire graphic, trading surface polish for the lowest entry price.

Design

The finish leans on its automotive motif — chunky black tread blocks over a blue field, sprayed across the shotgun in a deliberately loud style. Valve built it, and it carries a fitting in-game aside: "Burn rubber."

XM1014 | Blue Tire (Battle-Scarred) Float and Wear

Battle-Scarred is the top of the capped 0.00–0.55 float range. That cap sits far below 1.0, so even at its worst this finish stays milder than a full-scale skin's Battle-Scarred grade — heavy scuffing and paint thinning across the body, but never the blown-out, fully stripped extreme. The tread graphic survives to keep the look identifiable.

XM1014 | Blue Tire Rarity

Its rarity is Consumer Grade, the gray rung at the bottom of the standard weapon ladder. As the most common tier, it keeps the finish widely available — a plus at the budget end, exactly where this grade sits.

XM1014 | Blue Tire Case and Collection

This shotgun is part of The 2021 Vertigo Collection, introduced during Operation Riptide on September 21, 2021. Because the collection has no case, copies were never unboxed; they reach players through collection drops and market trades instead.

XM1014 | Blue Tire Patterns

There's no pattern lottery on this finish. The tire-tread design is fixed and applied identically to every copy, so the seed index means nothing and no "blue gem" variant exists to hunt. Wear and float are the only things that set one unit apart from another.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A regular version and a Souvenir version both exist, but there's no StatTrak edition — no case ever produced a kill counter for it. The Souvenir finish first came from the Stockholm 2021 Vertigo Souvenir Package and later from other Major souvenir packages, the exclusive source of Souvenir weapons.

XM1014 | Blue Tire Price

Battle-Scarred is the cheapest grade of the finish — rock-bottom pricing on a skin that's already affordable throughout its ladder. It's for players who want the tire-tread XM1014 for the least possible outlay. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Is the Battle-Scarred Blue Tire still recognizable?

Yes. Even with heavy scuffing, the black tread blocks and blue field keep the tire graphic readable at a glance in-game. Battle-Scarred trades surface condition for the lowest price rather than erasing the look, and the finish's low float cap keeps the wear from reaching a fully stripped extreme.

Why doesn't Battle-Scarred look completely destroyed here?

Because Blue Tire is float-capped at 0.55 instead of the full 1.0, its Battle-Scarred copies never climb to the harshest wear. The result is honest, heavy aging that stays short of the bare-metal, blown-out extreme you'd see on an uncapped skin — the tire pattern remains clearly legible.

Who should buy the Battle-Scarred grade?

Anyone who wants the bold tire-tread XM1014 for the smallest spend and doesn't mind visible wear. It's a great low-cost pick for a rugged budget loadout, and thanks to the float cap it still looks like a deliberate graphic rather than a wreck.