Nova | Antique

Description

The Nova | Antique is a relatively inexpensive shotgun and proves to be highly valuable for teams on the tightest of budgets, being the best use in surprise attacks. The skin has its design combined skillfully with hydrographics and dry-transfer decals, creating a worn wooden stock with beautiful, extensive gold inlay-ins, symbolizing both experience and formidable stopping power.

History

The Nova | Antique first appeared in CS2 almost a decade ago, on February 20th, 2014, when it was released as part of the Operation Phoenix Weapon Case during the "The Rise of Operation Phoenix" update. This is one great skin made by a very talented community designer-who goes by the name "Ancient"-leaving his signature in this game with his unique artistic touch.

Origin

The Antique is a vintage shotgun skin, which is unlockable by opening an Operation Phoenix Weapon Case container holding a set of unique weapon finishes. The skin belongs to The Phoenix Collection; it features a much-aged and weathered appearance, adding a touch of historical appeal to your arsenal.

Popularity

The Antique Nova has a popularity rating of 90%, which firmly puts this skin in the hottest commodities within the CS2 community. It is considered to be among the most chased skins within the game, and this is estimated by continuous high sales volume and substantial price that attracts this commodity on the market.

Rarity

The Nova | Antique is considered one of the rarer drops, with 134 other Shotgun skins existing. Failing that, it's allegedly only available at a 3.2% chance within the rare drop class. Therefore, picking up the Antique is an extremely fortunate and prized occurrence for collectors.

Availability

The prices of Nova | Antique go from $8.77 up to $22.42, therefore this skin is considered to be rather cheap and highly available for CS2 players. It is easily available because it can be found on numerous markets, meaning that such a skin won't be hard for players to buy. Besides, this skin, having 92.3k units in public CS2 inventories, is one of the popular and widely held ones among all the players.

Versions

The float value range of the Nova | Antique is 0.00-0.30, allowing players to receive the skin in Factory New, Minimal Wear, and Field-Tested versions. Furthermore, for all the aforementioned exterior conditions, collectors can obtain StatTrak variants of the Antique.

Community sentiment

So far, Nova | Antique has gained much critical acclaim within the community of CS2 players, where over 3.8K votes and an average rating of 4.6/5 stars on addskins.gg prove that. But most importantly, its ownership on such players as mixwell, boltz, and szpero finally proves that this skin is popular.

Finish style

Nova | Antique showcases the skin "Custom Paint Job" style in CS2. This skin features an Antique finish, giving it a really unique and even somewhat vintage feel. Rich brown tinted serves as a basic color for the skin. The Antique finish does not change with the pattern indexes, which gives the skin an unchanging look and customized.