The blade is amber orange with black radiation trefoils scattered over it, crowded near the guard and thinning towards the point, where the metal turns dark. The guard, the grip and the pommel carry the same orange, so the knife reads as one cast piece rather than a painted blade on a black handle. The M9 Bayonet is a fighting knife the US Army adopted in 1986, and paired 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, under fourteen textures. Three are the stock hand maps of the game; ten are separate pieces of the knife, among them 200×989 and 204×1001 strips for the two faces of the blade and a 68×800 map for the grip wrap; and a 64×64 chrome map adds the mirrored sheen GoldSrc fakes on metal. The idle runs 360 frames, the draw 30 and each slash 36. What other players see was rebuilt as well, at 1,512 polygons where the stock third-person knife has 112, and nine knife sounds ship with the archive. There is no dropped-knife model, so on the ground it stays standard.