{"id":409713,"date":"2026-07-21T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/?p=409713"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:14:10","slug":"scrawny-reacts-to-the-new-armory-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/scrawny-reacts-to-the-new-armory-skins","title":{"rendered":"Scrawny Reacts to the New Armory Skins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scrawny takes a detailed look at the two new CS2 Armory Pass collections, Spy Tech and Arabesque. While he appreciates Valve\u2019s decision to feature more community-created designs, he finds much of the Spy Tech collection underwhelming until reaching its higher-rarity skins.<\/p>\n<p>The standout from Spy Tech is the Glock-18 | Ghost Protocol, which Scrawny calls his favorite skin from both collections. He praises its transparent red design, futuristic circuitry and strong Cyberpunk 2077 aesthetic, rating it 10 out of 10.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Scrawny believes Arabesque is the stronger and more consistent collection, highlighting its hand-painted artwork, detailed patterns and vibrant color combinations. However, despite preferring Arabesque as a whole, Ghost Protocol remains his favorite individual addition to the Armory Pass.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__media y-red-dif-4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q6vGmGqI6sQ?si=VEr_9ZF8dIVzDcQT\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrawny takes a detailed look at the two new CS2 Armory Pass collections, Spy Tech and Arabesque. While he appreciates Valve\u2019s decision to feature more community-created designs, he finds much of the Spy Tech collection underwhelming until reaching its higher-rarity skins. The standout from Spy Tech is the Glock-18 | Ghost Protocol, which Scrawny calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":409735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scrawny Reacts to the New Armory Skins<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scrawny reviews the new Spy Tech and Arabesque collections in CS2, ranking the latest Armory Pass skins and revealing his favorite designs.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/scrawny-reacts-to-the-new-armory-skins\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scrawny Reacts to the New Armory Skins\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scrawny reviews the new Spy Tech and Arabesque collections in CS2, ranking the latest Armory Pass skins and revealing his favorite designs.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/scrawny-reacts-to-the-new-armory-skins\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CS2 &amp; 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