M4A1-S | Vaporwave

M4A1-S | Vaporwave released October 2, 2024 as part of the Gallery Case.

It's a Counter-Strike 2-native release, launched after Valve's September 2023 relaunch, with no CS:GO history of its own.

It launched as a Covert-tier finish, with both a StatTrak™ and a Souvenir edition.

As a finish, "Vaporwave" is applied to the M4A1-S — the Counter-Terrorists' suppressed carbine, trading magazine size for reduced recoil and a quieter shot — and carries the red rarity color every Covert-tier skin shares on the Steam Market and in-game.

That Covert classification places it among the rarest tier a regular CS2 skin can reach — only Extraordinary knife and glove finishes rank above it.

M4A1-S | Vaporwave ships in all five wear conditions, but its float is capped between 0.00 and 0.60 — narrower than the full 0.00–1.00 range some other skins allow.

As with every CS2 skin, lower float values look cleaner: Factory New copies (roughly below 0.07 float) show the finish at its sharpest, while Field-Tested and Well-Worn pieces make up the most commonly traded middle ground between mint and heavily worn.

M4A1-S | Vaporwave comes from the Gallery Case — the Case is no longer part of the active drop pool, so trading and the Steam Community Market are the ways to acquire it today.

Valve's own published Case odds put a Covert-tier pull like this one at roughly 1 in 313 (0.3200%).

There's both a StatTrak™ and a Souvenir edition of this finish, alongside the Normal version — three ways to own the same look, differing only in that badge.

Beyond that, there's no separate "phase" or pattern family tied to this finish in the site's data — it's tracked as a single fixed look across every wear condition it ships in.

Covert-tier pulls like this one are inherently the rarest outcome of opening the Cases that contain them, which alone keeps demand — and market prices — meaningfully higher than the tiers below it.

Its StatTrak™ and Souvenir editions tend to trade at a premium over the Normal version, the same pattern seen across most CS2 skins with that variant available.

M4A1-S | Vaporwave has been part of the Gallery Case since October 2, 2024 — a Counter-Strike 2-native release with no CS:GO-era version to compare it to.

It's one of 2 Covert-tier items in the Gallery Case, out of 17 items total.

This is one of 46 M4A1-S skins currently listed on the site, spanning multiple rarity tiers.