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 an unlockable, community-made weapon added in the Polycount Update that replaces the Spy's Knife. It appears as a long, ornate dagger with distinct oriental designs. Landing an attack on an enemy's back will backstab them, killing the target in one hit and disguising the Spy instantaneously as the target. The target will not scream in pain as they usually do from a backstab and their corpse will fade away almost instantly, as if they are cloaking, giving the illusion that the Spy is taking their place. The disguise is so fast that Sentry Guns won't target the Spy who backstabbed the enemy.

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
	+		=

Trivia

• Currently, if you are disguised as an enemy with Your Eternal Reward, you cannot switch your disguise weapon. This may be either be a feature or a bug.
• Although the weapon is supposed to kill an enemy silently, you can still see the kill icon on the kill feed. Careful players should watch for this (e.g, if your Medic suddenly dies).
• If you return to the Resupply Locker you will lose any disguise you have acquired using Your Eternal Reward.
• The weapon's auto-disguise effect is activated upon a backstab, whether the target dies or not. This allows it to disguise the Spy as a Bonked Scout, a Razorback-wearing Sniper, or an ÜberCharged enemy.
• Non-backstab kills will not disguise the Spy, however, the kill will still be silent and the corpse will disappear quickly.
• Backstabbing an enemy while carrying the enemy intelligence will still result in the Spy disguising. This makes for a useful tactic of escape should the opportunity arise.
• Before the item was released, Robin Walker joked that the Eternal Reward's drawback would be that it cannot facestab.
• This is the first unlock that removes an item from a class.
• When pulling out the Your Eternal Reward you can still hear the switch-blade sound effect of the Knife opening up.
• If you die after switching your weapon from Your Eternal Reward to the default knife, it may trigger a bug where you can not respawn until you swap classes.
• The animation for this knife is still a bit unfinished.
• The name is a reference to a scene in the 1992 film Aladdin.

• This is furthered by the entry's description mentioning the phrases "Phenominal[sic] Cosmic Power" and "Diamond in the Rough", both of which are used in the movie

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.

Gallery

• Eternal Reward 1st person red cropped.png

  RED 1st person view.

• Eternal Reward 1st person red.png

  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.

• Eternal Reward 1st person blu cropped.png

  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
• Backstab