The marbling here runs warmer than in the earlier phases: emerald and grass green clouds spread across a dark ground, brightest along the fuller and above the sawteeth, and the point fades back to near black. The same bright green sport gloves hold it, and the M9 Bayonet is the fighting knife the US Army took into service in 1986.

The view model holds 18,590 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 38 bones, under thirteen textures. The knife is split across ten of them instead of one sheet: 200×989 and 204×1001 strips for the faces of the blade, 68×800 for the grip, and smaller maps for the guard, the ring and the pommel. The glove gets its own 544×547 file and the arm a 340×519 one, and a 64×64 chrome map supplies the mirrored sheen GoldSrc fakes on metal. The idle runs 360 frames, the draw 30, each slash and stab 36. The third-person model was rebuilt to 1,512 polygons where the stock one has 112, and nine knife sounds are in the archive. Nothing replaces the dropped knife, so on the ground it stays standard.