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: | Craft, Drop, Purchase, Uncrate (#4), Uncrate (#14) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 Your Eternal Reward |
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Your Eternal Reward is a community-made melee weapon for the Spy. It is a long, ornate dagger with distinctive oriental designs, a team-colored wooden handle, and a curved golden hilt.
This weapon retains the instant-kill backstab ability of the Knife, but with some tweaks. Upon a successfully backstab, the Spy will instantaneously disguise as the target without the "puffs of smoke" disguise effect, which is characteristic of the normal Disguise Kit. Furthermore, neither will the victim scream upon death, nor will a death notice or kill icon appear to the enemy team. Also, the corpse of the victim will fade away almost instantly as if cloaking. The process is so quick and unnoticeable that the Spy is never revealed between disguises; he swaps instantly to that of his victim's. Therefore, Sentry Guns will be unable to target the Spy between backstabs, making it easier to backstab unaware Engineers and sap his buildings. Upon backstabbing someone who is being healed by a Medic, the healing beam will automatically transfer to the Spy, even during an Ubercharge. The player still retains the ability to change and reload their disguise weapon, as with the butterfly knife. Altogether, backstabs become much more difficult to track, as victims disappear silently with the Spy instantly taking their place in battle.
However, the disguise effect is not activated if the target does not die from the backstab; namely, if the target was wearing a Razorback or was invulnerable. This also means that disguising as allied players is not possible. Non-backstab kills achieved will not grant the Spy the victim's disguise, but the kill will still be silent and the corpse of the victim will disappear. Returning to a Resupply locker will remove the current disguise of the Spy.
Since disguises are only available through backstabs, the player cannot disguise at will using the Disguise Kit, which is disabled. That said, Spies using this weapon must rely on Cloaking and the use of teammate distractions to move in for the kill.
Taunting with Your Eternal Reward equipped allows the Spy to perform the deadly Fencing maneuver. Kills made will be silent and the victim's corpse will disappear. However, the disguise effect will not be activated even if the taunt hits the victim's back.
The kill icon for the Your Eternal Reward was contributed by HyenaDip.
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
Identical to: Knife
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| Base damage | 100% | 40 |
| Point blank | 34-46 | |
| Backstab | 600% | |
| Critical | 120 | |
| Mini-crit | 46-62 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 | |
| Values are approximate and determined by community testing. | ||
Item set
Main article: Item sets
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Extra effects when taunting. |
Demonstration
Crafting
See also: Crafting
Blueprint
| Cloak and Dagger | Reclaimed Metal | Your Eternal Reward | ||
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As a crafting ingredient
| Your Eternal Reward | Refined Metal | Familiar Fez | ||
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Related achievements
Soldier
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Spy
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Update history
September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
- Your Eternal Reward was added to the game.
- 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.
- [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.
- 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.
- 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.
- [Undocumented] This weapon was added in the crafting blueprint for the Conniver's Kunai.
- [Undocumented] The silent killer attribute wording was changed from "This weapon is a silent killer" to "Silent Killer: No attack noise from backstabs".
- [Undocumented] Your Eternal Reward no longer defaults to the disguise's stock primary weapon after a backstab. It will now properly show an unlockable primary weapon if the victim was using one.
Bugs
- There are multiple issues with the weapon in first person view; it clips through the Spy's fingers when drawn, the unfolding Knife sound is played during the draw animation, and the handle clips through the sleeve.
- 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 locker.
- 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.
- Certain problems exist with the weapon when using DirectX 8; Enemy bodies do not fade away when backstabbed, and the weapon is visible when the Spy is cloaked.
- 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 disguised Spy using Your Eternal Reward will not give the achievement Counter Espionage.
- Backstabbing an enemy Spy with the Dead Ringer does not grant a disguise and causes the loss of any held at the time.
- If a player raises the knife to stab and then switches their view to any world geometry, the knife will remain raised.[1]
- Carrying the Intelligence while disguised can still be performed upon acquiring it and backstabbing at the exact same time.[2]
- When the Spy backstabs a victim wearing a hat with Your Eternal Reward, the hat will have clipping issues.
- When the Spy backstabs a Sniper who is wielding a Machina, the Spy will be holding a normal Sniper Rifle in the disguise.
- Should backstabbing an enemy with the Your Eternal Reward while undisguised in line of sight of a Sentry Gun, the sentry will continue to fire at the Spy until the line of sight is lost.
Trivia
- Before the item was released, Robin Walker joked that Your Eternal Reward's drawback would be that it cannot facestab.[3]
- The name is a reference to a scene in the 1992 film Aladdin[4] where Jafar fools Aladdin with his disguise and then attempts to murder him with a dagger that Jafar refers to as "Your Eternal Reward."
- 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
RED first-person view.
RED first-person view, ready to Backstab.
BLU first-person view.
BLU first-person view, ready to Backstab.
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghGvEul-pXM
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6KUImxX-Y
- ↑ PC Gamer: Next TF2 update adds trading, new game mode (http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/08/11/next-tf2-update-adds-trading-new-game-mode/)
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj52wrSksIQ
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Your Eternal Reward Conniver's Kunai Saxxy Big Earner Wanga Prick Sharp Dresser Spy-cicle Black Rose Golden Frying Pan Prinny Machete | ||
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Barbarian Swing | High Noon | Arm Blender Guitar Smash |
Oktoberfest Uberslice Medicating Melody |
Arrow Stab | Fencing | |
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