A black blade carries rows of white spirals in the manner of a Greek wave border, running from the ricasso up past the sawback teeth, with the fuller left bare as a bright rectangle. A gold rosette is set on the guard plate and a gold meander band wraps the scabbard. 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 of the game; ten split the knife into parts, among them 200×989 and 204×1001 strips for the faces of the blade and a 128×298 map for the crossguard; and a 64×64 chrome map adds the mirrored sheen GoldSrc fakes on metal. The idle runs 360 frames, the draw 30 and each attack 36. What other players see was rebuilt at 1,512 polygons where the stock third-person knife has 112, and nine knife sounds are in the archive. There is no dropped-knife model, so on the ground it stays standard.