Much like the Inferno collection, this video is a visual showcase and I’ll merely be
talking about the basics of each weapon since the audio track exists and I don’t want
it feeling left out.
Before we start: Apart from the 2 classified skins, ALL of them are based off of 5 patterns.
These 3 were made by Chemical Alia,
and these 2 I assume were made by Valve. This will make it pretty hard to have something
to say about each weapon.
But I’ll try!
Mandrel is based around one of the patterns made by Chemical Alia, whose name you’ll
be quite familiar with by the end of this video! It’s the lowest consumer-grade level
of skin, and can be found at all wear levels, though battle-scarred is the rarest. As the
paint scratches off, the barrel gets lighter, the pump appears darker and scratched looking
and the body reveals the blue layer beneath. The Bizon Facility Sketch is another of Chemical
Alia’s patterns, and sports detailed sketches of powerplants across its design. This one
seems quite resilient to wear and a lot of the sketches remain visible even down at battle-scarred
quality. The Five-Seven coolant is another of Chemical
Alia’s designs. It’s hard to see from this but the pattern is of a factory wall,
littered with pipes and signs. This five-seven is available in all wear levels, with the
paint being increasingly worn off as the condition approaches battle-scarred. Interestingly,
she sent me a short video of what this weapon would have looked like had it been using the
powerplant-plan texture instead. If you’ve been watching, by now you get
the idea. The UMP45 may be a different colour but it uses the same pattern as the other
facility skins, a design made by none other than Chemical Alia! And it gets scratched
off through wear. In fact, let’s just show you what factory new looks like…
…And here’s battle-scarred.
And here’s the texture so you can see what it looks like if it was carefully peeled off
the guns.
The P250, also called Facility, is also consumer grade and is also using the same sketch that
I just showed you. It’s available in the same wear conditions, and being the same hydrographic
finish style, gets scratched off through wear. Now for something different! We move onto
the Industrial Grade skins with the Negev Bulkhead. It uses the same pipe-and-sign pattern
as the five-seven coolant did, but you wouldn’t know it from simply looking at it.
This gun shoots bullets.
Cold Fusion I assume is a Valve design and features lots of spooky skulls and bones.
And whilst most of the weapons covered so far are available in battle-scarred, this
one’s wear value drops further into that category than most, resulting in some heavily
scratched designs.
The M4A4 mainframe is another of Chemical Alia’s patterns, which appears to resemble
a circuitboard. It gets pretty scratched up by the time you reach battle-scarred, but
the bit near the butt of the gun remains virtually unscathed.
The MP7 Motherboard uses the same pattern again, only instead of black it’s now a
nice shiny green! With these designs, Chemical Alia would submit 3-4 suggested colours but
it was ultimately Valve’s choice which colour each design would be.
Moving onto military spec now! Starting with the P250 Exchanger, which uses the same pipe
and sign pattern as the negev and five-seven, only this time with a blue and yellow colour-scheme.
Remember that the pattern’s placement will be different for each skin.
And back to the Facility pattern again with the P90, this time in black and yellow and
with a splash of blue.
This was another one of the skins that Chemical Alia had sent me but in a different colour.
I present to you: the P90, had it been mostly blue and with dashes of yellow!
The AWP Acheron features Valve’s skull pattern, only with a lot more colours than the blue
galil design had. Acheron is a river in Hades, so I guess lots of skulls are fairly relevant.
This design, when at the lower end of battlescarred wear level, is almost all black as very little
of the skulls remain.
THE MP5! Always more exciting to see than the others just because it’s the MP5! We’ve
had this pattern in green with the MP7 and black with the M4. But now we get it in lovely
shiny blue with this one. Available in all wear levels, though battle-scarred will be
hard to come across.
Now into restricted quality with the AUG Random Access. With its computerised theme, it uses
the same pattern as the MP5 you just saw- but it will be the last time in this video
you see it, so make the most of it. Savour it. Once again, available in all wear qualities
but battle-scarred drops will be rare. She sent me this one in an assortment of other
colours. You can see here what it would have looked like in green, blue and purple.
The MAG7 Core Breach looks a bit like the AUG, but stare a little more closely and you
won’t see a circuit-board in sight. Instead, this is a Valve theme containing lots of radiation
signs. It’s the only one from this collection to feature this pattern! Some bits will have
orange signs on a black background, others, black signs on an orange background. Having
black as one of this skin’s main colours makes it harder to tell which bits are part
of the pattern, and which parts are scratched off. It’s worth seeing the underlying texture
again to get a feel for this pattern.
Nuclear garden returns to the skull and bones skin from Valve, but this time in a happy,
sunny looking green colour.
OF DEATH.
It’s available in all wear grades, and it retains a lot of the pattern even at battlescarred,
with most of the wear concentrated along the edges.
Now finally, FINALLY! We get away from the patterns as we reach the covert skins and
Millenia gets his time to shine. Starting with the M4A1-S, which is an intricate looking
design based around a secret agent theme. He got inspiration from the older Bond movies,
as well as the control panels found around Nuke, before he even knew it would be for
a Nuke collection! Here’s a BEAUTIFUL high-res render he made of it. Normally he stamps text
on in his texturing app, but he said that this design went through many iterations and
he required the freedom to shuffle the elements about. The suppressor on the end of this weapon
was borrowed from the Triton USP-S skin that he had already made, since it fitted the style
well enough.
And last, we see the tec9. Millenia said that this one came together a lot faster than the
M4 since he made this one after and the style had already been established. It was just
a case of building it up in the same secret-agent, retro tech-y style. He says that he’s aware
that these skins are very different from the ones in previous collections, but he hopes
it will appeal to fellow sci-fi fans. He also gave me this beautiful high-res render of
it in all its glory.
Thank you to Millenia and Chemical Alia for helping me with this video and for being a
huge part of the 2018 Nuke Collection.