The blade is left dark steel, blued rather than painted, scuffed with light scratches along the flat and stamped with a small globe near the guard. All the colour goes to the fittings: the guard bar, the ring and the tail of the grip are a saturated red, which is the only bright thing in the frame besides the plain black gloves. The M9 Bayonet is a combat knife the US Army adopted in 1986; together with its scabbard it works as a wire cutter.

The view model holds 2,818 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 40 bones and fourteen textures. The blade faces take 200×989 and 204×1001 strips, the grip a 68×800 wrap, and the guard parts smaller maps of their own, while the three hand sheets keep the stock game sizes under the porter’s file names. A 64×64 chrome map adds the mirrored sheen GoldSrc fakes on metal, which is most of what the dark steel here is doing. The idle runs 360 frames, the draw 30 and each attack 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. There is no dropped-knife model, so on the ground it stays standard.