The name suggests a gilded blade, but the blade itself is deep maroon; the gold is confined to the trim, running as thin lines along the fuller and the false edge and filling the guard, the ring and the collar behind it. The contrast is what carries the finish, and the ring in question is the part a bayonet slides onto a rifle barrel by.

The view model holds 5,081 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 38 bones, under seventeen textures. Thirteen of them cover the knife piece by piece, among them 1024×177 and 1024×194 strips for the faces of the blade and a 152×641 map for the ring, three more are the hand maps at 252×123, 124×126 and 252×255, and the last is a 64×64 file whose name says nothing about what it does. The idle runs 150 frames and every attack and the draw 28. Nine knife sounds ship with the archive, but there is no third-person or dropped model, so in other players’ hands and on the ground the knife stays standard.