The blade is a saturated violet, marbled with lighter and darker swirls that brighten to magenta along the sawback teeth and cool to indigo at the ricasso. Guard, grip and pommel stay black, with a small round emblem stamped where the blade meets the guard. The M9 Bayonet is a fighting knife the US Army adopted in 1986, and with its scabbard it doubles as a wire cutter.

The view model holds 2,818 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, on 40 bones, spread over fourteen textures rather than a single atlas. Three of them are the stock hand maps of the game, ten are parts of the knife — the two faces of the blade get 200×989 and 204×1001 strips, the grip wrap a tall 68×800 map — and a 64×64 chrome map supplies the mirrored sheen GoldSrc fakes on metal. The idle runs 360 frames, the draw 30 and each slash 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.