Most of the blade is left polished steel with the fuller showing as a plain grey line; the colour sits at the base, where a mustard yellow panel runs under the sawback teeth and a blue wedge meets a dark red grip wrapped in something shaggy. The scabbard shows the same yellow. The M9 Bayonet is a fighting knife adopted by the US Army in 1986, and the ring on the guard is what a bayonet slides onto a rifle barrel by.

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; ten more carry the knife piece by piece, including 200×989 and 204×1001 strips for the faces of the blade; and a 64×64 chrome map adds the mirrored sheen GoldSrc fakes on metal. The idle runs 360 frames, the draw 30 and the 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.