Unlike the Leet Crew, who have been in Counter Strike since the original and who received
an upgrade last year, the FBI skin is new for CS:GO.
This means that there have only been 2 iterations: the first when the game first came out in
2012, and the second batch a few days ago, at the beginning of October 2018.
There are 5 variations of this skin.
And I’m going to warn you now- the new ones don’t bear much resemblance to the old ones.
There’s the odd feature that carries over here or there, but it’s not like the leet
krew where there were obviously some reoccurring characters.
I warned you!
Here is the first FBI model.
Note the brighter colours, how much stuff pokes out beyond the hitboxes, how his cap
is on the wrong way around… and how he’s now Asian.
We don’t have all day so let’s view them from the side, yup, you can really see the
backwards cap now- and how far the new backpack sticks out.
And now up close.
Check out those HRTF headphones, which reference the 3D sound system that CS:GO now has.
And from the front, the only thing these two models have in common is an intensely unsettling
stare, as though they’ve been holding bombsite B for 15 rounds and suddenly remembered they
left the oven on.
Varianta continues the trend of having nothing in common.
They can’t even decide on whether to wear their shades or not.
Actually, there is one similarity: these two are the highest poly-count models in the old
and new FBI collection.
Next I’ll zoom in on their faces.
You see anything…
odd about the new model?
I’ll give you a hint: look at his fingers.
Now look at the old model.
Now back to the new one again.
That’s right- he’s not holding the gun very tightly, is he?
And his fingers are all sticking through each other!
Maybe it’s just the angle.
Let’s view it from the side.
Nope, still looks a bit odd, his fingers pointing out in all directions.
At this point you might want to skip back to the Asian guy I showed first.
Was he holding the gun like this as well?
Spoiler: he was.
I’m telling you this because the next model is holding it properly again.
See?!
Variantb now, and this guy can at least hold his weapon.
But that’s the only thing these 2 models have in common!
I did consider switching the new models around to better compare with the older ones, but
then I’d upset the people who would prefer I compared the same variant.
A youtuber’s life is one of sacrifice and compromise, I’m afraid.
Now the view from the front- part of me would like a ridiculous looking model for each collection.
We all know how loved the Leet Krew were for this reason.
Imagine if they had an FBI model with something memorable like- I dunno, having his armour
on back to front or something.
As it stands, the bodies of all new FBI model variants are identical apart from for the
colours and a slight twist in the trousers, so any polycount differences must come from
the head bit, which you can see here up close.
Now Variant C- Uh… …that’s better.
We finally get 2 models who are almost identical!
They’re both wearing shades.
Both have gorgeous heads of short, dark hair.
Both have similar facial features and so on.
Shame the new model isn’t holding his gun correctly.
If we zoom out to show their full bodies, you’ll see the new model still isn’t holding
his gun tightly.
Also note how much bigger the headset makes his head look.
Bullets will go straight through those bits, annoying countless people on Nuke where these
models are featured.
This happens to be the lowest poly model for the new FBI collection.
And lastly from the side-
side.
But now you can see that the new model is holding his gun properly.
Just so you know, I captured all of this footage in the same round of the same session, so
maybe it’s not a problem with the separate models and is instead just another bug that
could happen to any of the models at any time.
Onto the final VariantD now.
If the new model looks familiar, that’s because he’s identical to VariantB, but
with some added sunglasses on his cap and is wearing slightly darker colours.
Compared with the old model, this new guy doesn’t skip shoulder day.
From the front now and you can see the different angle the back leg is at.
This is the same for all of the new models.
And last from up close.
You know how weird it looked for the new leet krew guy to have 3D modelled hair rather than
for it to simply be drawn on?
Check out the old model here- he had the same sort of thing, years before it was cool.
And he has headphones on and nobody complained about the hitboxes on this guy… so maybe
there’s still hope for the new models.
And that concludes the FBI comparison.
Check out this video here for the FBI update, and this video here for the Leet Krew video
I did from last year.