Your Eternal Reward

“

Promise not to bleed on my suit, and I'll kill you quickly. Click to listen — The Spy

”

Your Eternal Reward is a melee weapon for the Spy class. It appears as a long, ornate dagger with distinct oriental designs.

This weapon retains the backstab ability inherent to the Knife, but with additional features. Should the player successfully execute a backstab, the Spy will instantaneously disguise as the target. Furthermore, the enemy will not scream in pain as usual and their corpse will fade away almost instantly as if they are cloaking. The process is so fast that Sentry Guns will be unable to target the Spy during the process. Despite this, the kill feed will still display the death to observant players.

The disguise effect is activated upon a backstab, whether the target dies or not. This can allow players to disguise as a Bonked Scout, a Razorback-wearing Sniper, or an ÜberCharged enemy, provided they make a quick escape afterwards to avoid detection. Kills made without backstabbing will not disguise the Spy, yet the kill will be silent and the corpse will disappear. Furthermore, backstabbing an enemy while carrying the enemy intelligence will result in the Spy disguising, where normally this is not possible. Returning to a resupply locker will remove the current disguise on the Spy.

The player will be unable to disguise normally using the Disguise Kit, which will be removed from the inventory. Furthermore, disguised weapons canot be switched. This forces Spies to rely on extended use of Cloaking to move around undetected.

Damage

• Base: 40 (28-54 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 54
• Critical hit: 120, but only during Humiliation, charged via Kritzkrieg or during Crit boost given after capturing the Intelligence.
• Backstab: 600% of the enemy's current health resulting in an instant kill if stabbed in the back (An arc of approximately 180° behind the player model).

Note: Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Item set

This item is part of the Saharan Spy set. When the entire set is worn, the set provides these additional stats:

• Reduced decloak sound volume
• 0.5 sec longer Cloak blink time

The other set items are:

• L'Etranger
• Familiar Fez

Blueprint

Cloak and Dagger		Reclaimed Metal		Your Eternal Reward
	+		=

Related Achievements

Soldier

War Crime Spybunal Kill a Spy who just backstabbed a teammate.

Sniper

Shock Treatment Kill a Spy whose backstab attempt was blocked by your Razorback.

Consolation Prize Get backstabbed 50 times.

Spy

	A Cut Above Kill an enemy Spy wielding a Revolver, using your knife.		Agent Provocateur Backstab your Steam Community friends 10 times.
	Come In From The Cold Get a Revenge kill with a backstab.		Counter Espionage Backstab a disguised Spy.
	Die Another Way Kill a Sniper after your backstab breaks his Razorback.		Dr. Nooooo Backstab a Medic that is ready to deploy an ÜberCharge.
	FYI I am a Spy Backstab a Medic who has healed you in the last 5 seconds.		High Value Target Backstab an enemy who is dominating 3 or more of your teammates.
	Identity Theft Backstab the enemy that you're currently disguised as.		Is It Safe? Backstab 50 enemies who are capturing control points.
	May I Cut In? Backstab an enemy and the Medic healing him within 10 seconds of each other.		Sapsucker Sap an enemy building, then backstab the Engineer who built it within 5 seconds.
	Slash and Burn Backstab an enemy, who then switches to Pyro before they respawn.		Spymaster Backstab 1000 enemies.
	The Man From P.U.N.C.T.U.R.E. Stab an enemy while Fencing.		The Man with the Broken Guns Backstab an Engineer, then sap 3 of his buildings within 10 seconds.
	Triplecrossed Backstab 3 Snipers in a single life.		Wetwork Stab an enemy to death while under the influence of Jarate.
	You Only Shiv Thrice Backstab 3 enemies within 10 seconds.

Trivia

• The name is a reference to a scene in the 1992 film Aladdin. The entry's description in the Polycount contest furthers this by mentioning the phrases "Phenominal[sic] Cosmic Power" and "Diamond in the Rough", both of which are used in the movie.

• Before the item was released, Robin Walker joked that the Eternal Reward's drawback would be that it cannot facestab. It is still possible though.
• This is the first unlock that removes an item from a class.
• When pulling out Your Eternal Reward, the switch-blade sound effect of the Knife opening up can still be heard.
• If the player dies after switching Your Eternal Reward to the Knife, it may trigger a bug where respawning is not possible until they swap classes.

Gallery

• Eternal Reward 1st person red cropped.png

  RED 1st person view.

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  Full RED 1st person view.

• Eternal Reward ready to Backstab 1st person red cropped.png

  RED 1st person view ready to Backstab.

• Eternal Reward ready to Backstab 1st person red.png

  Full RED 1st person view ready to Backstab.

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  BLU 1st person view.

• Eternal Reward 1st person blu.png

  Full BLU 1st person view.

• Eternal Reward ready to Backstab 1st person blu cropped.png

  BLU 1st person view ready to Backstab.

• Eternal Reward ready to Backstab 1st person blu.png

  Full BLU 1st person view ready to Backstab.

See also

• Your Eternal Reward strategy