Your Eternal Reward

Your Eternal Reward
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Basic Information
Used by:	Spy
Slot:	Melee
Contributed by:	"Chemical Alia" Hamm Template:Dictionary/steam ids/143017136
Released:	Mann-Conomy Update
Availability:	Drop, Craft, Uncrate(#4), Uncrate(#14), Purchase
Tradable:	Yes
Giftable:	Yes
Craftable:	Yes
Nameable:	Yes
Medieval:	Yes
Available Qualities
Unique Strange Collector's
Loadout Stats
Your Eternal Reward 1 - 100 Upon a successful backstab, you rapidly disguise as your victim This weapon is a silent killer Wearer cannot disguise

“

Hehey, look, you shape shifted into a dead guy! Click to listen — The Scout

”

Your Eternal Reward is a community-made melee weapon for the Spy. It appears as a long, ornate dagger with distinct oriental designs. It features a team-colored wooden handle and a curved golden hilt.

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 without the "puffs of smoke" disguise effect. Furthermore, the enemy will not scream in pain as usual, no death notice or kill icon will be displayed to the enemy team, and the corpse of the victim will fade away almost instantly as if they are cloaking. The process is so fast that the Spy is never revealed between disguises; he swaps instantly to the new one. Sentry Guns will therefore be unable to target the Spy during the process, making it easier to backstab unaware Engineers and sap their Sentry Gun. Upon backstabbing someone who is being healed by a Medic, the healing beam will automatically transfer to the Spy. Together, these effects make backstabs increasingly difficult to spot, as victims disappear silently with the Spy instantly taking their place in battle.

The disguise effect is not activated upon a successful backstab if the target does not die; if they are invulnerable or wearing a Razorback, for example. As such, disguising as allied players is not possible. Kills made without backstabbing will not disguise the Spy, yet the kill will be silent and the corpse will disappear. Returning to a resupply locker will remove the current disguise on the Spy.

Due to the fact that disguises are reliant upon kills using the weapon, the player will be unable to disguise normally at will using the Disguise Kit, which does not appear in the inventory. The player retains the ability to change their disguise weapon using the lastdisguise command, however. Players must rely on extended use of Cloaking to move around undetected until they locate a susceptible target.

Taunting with the Your Eternal Reward equipped allows the Spy to perform a deadly Fencing maneuver. Kills made this way will not be silent, will leave behind a corpse and will not disguise the player, even if the taunt hits the victim's back.

The kill icon for the Your Eternal Reward was contributed by HyenaDip.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage

Identical to: Knife

Damage and function times
Damage
Base damage	100%	40
Point blank		28-54
Backstab		600%
Critical		120
Mini-crit		54
Function times
Attack interval		0.8
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Item set

Main article: Item sets

The Saharan Spy
	L'Etranger Your Eternal Reward Familiar Fez
Effect	Extra effects when taunting.

Crafting

See also: Crafting

Blueprint

Cloak and Dagger		Reclaimed Metal		Your Eternal Reward
	+		=

Class Token - Spy		Slot Token - Melee		Scrap Metal		Possible Results
	+		+		=

As a Crafting Ingredient

Your Eternal Reward		Refined Metal		Familiar Fez
	+	x4	=

Your Eternal Reward		Scrap Metal		Conniver's Kunai
	+		=

Related Achievements

 Soldier

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

 Sniper

Consolation Prize Get backstabbed 50 times.

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

 Spy

A Cut Above Kill a gun-wielding Spy with 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. Fast Fingers Backstab a Scout that is using the Back Scatter. 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.

Update history

September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)

• Your Eternal Reward was added to the game.

October 6, 2010 Patch

• The auto disguise effect is fixed to only occur when the target does not survive the backstab.
• Disguising will no longer occur when the Spy is carrying the Intelligence.

October 8, 2010 Patch

• [Undocumented] This weapon was added to the crafting blueprint for the Familiar Fez.

December 17, 2010 Patch (Australian Christmas)

• Spies can now change their disguise weapon via 'lastdisguise' while using 'Your Eternal Reward'.
• Already-disguised Your Eternal Reward Spies are no longer forced to switch to displaying the melee weapon when they make a kill.
• Spies no longer play speech lines when making a kill with this weapon.
• Sentry Guns no longer track Your Eternal Reward Spies after they backstab someone.

January 7, 2011 Patch

• Fixed enemies seeing death notices when you backstab their team mates with Your Eternal Reward.
• Fixed the attack animation not always playing correctly for this weapon.

February 14, 2011 Patch

• Fixed melee attacks not destroying remote detonation pipes (Stickybombs).
• Fixed players getting set bonuses applied on tournament servers when the server is restricting the player's weapons using the item_whitelist.

March 15, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] This weapon was added in the crafting blueprint for the Conniver's Kunai.

April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)

• [Undocumented] Added new animation for all Spy melee weapons when moving away from a backstab position.

Bugs

• When pulling out Your Eternal Reward, the blade-opening sound effect of the Knife unfolding can still be heard.
• Should the player die after switching Your Eternal Reward to the Knife, respawning may not be possible until they swap classes.
• Being auto-balanced or team-switched while holding Your Eternal Reward will cause the player to respawn with both the Disguise Kit and Your Eternal Reward equipped. Additionally, switching to the default Knife after switching teams once dead will result in the Disguise Kit being unavailable. These problems can be fixed upon death or accessing a Resupply Cabinet.
• Should Your Eternal Reward be used to backstab an enemy who is then auto-balanced, the Spy will disguise as a friendly version of that class.
• Enemy bodies will not fade away if the game is running under DirectX 8.
• Upon an enemy being stabbed with the weapon, the ragdoll will fade away, but any items attached directly to the player model will remain behind, suspended in midair. This applies to any badges, shields, bugle weapons, Miscellaneous items and the Gunboats.
• Backstabbing anyone (who is not of the same class as the Spy's disguise) will instantly disguise the Spy as that class holding their primary weapon instead of their currently equipped weapon.
• Backstabbing a Spy disguised using Your Eternal Reward will not give the achievement Counter Espionage.
• The handle of the weapon clips through the Spy's sleeve in first person view.
• The cubemaps (reflected static images of the current map) do not function properly with the weapon.
• If a player raises the knife to stab and then switches their view to any world geometry, the knife will remain raised.
• Wielding this weapon with DirectX 8.0 enabled will result in it being visible even when the Spy is cloaked.
• Carrying the Intelligence while disguised can still be performed upon acquiring it and backstabbing at the exact same time.
• Backstabbing a player will always result in the disguise holding the stock primary weapon of the victim's class, no matter what weapon they may have equipped in the primary slot.

Trivia

• Before the item was released, Robin Walker joked that Your Eternal Reward's drawback would be that it cannot facestab.
• The name is a reference to a scene in the 1992 film Aladdin, where Jafar fools Aladdin with his disguise and then attempts to murder him with a dagger.
  • 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.
• Your Eternal Reward shares the identity theft ability with the Knife from the Half-Life 2 mod Template:W. However in Fortress Forever, the Spy retains his disguise ability, and must land a single backstab while already disguised in order to take on the disguise of his victim.

Gallery

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  RED first-person view.

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  RED first-person view, ready to Backstab.

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  BLU first-person view.

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  BLU first-person view, ready to Backstab.

See also

• Your Eternal Reward strategy