Your Eternal Reward
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| Basic Information | |
| Used by: | Spy |
| Slot: | Melee |
| Contributed by: | Chemical Alia |
| Released: | September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update) |
| Availability: | Drop, Craft, Purchase, Uncrate #4, Uncrate #14, Uncrate #33 (Strange) or Chemistry Set (Collector's) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | Yes |
| Nameable: | Yes |
| Craft No.?: | No |
| Medieval: | Yes |
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 Your Eternal Reward |
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| “ | Behold the phenomenal, cosmic power of this diamond in the rough!
— Your Eternal Reward publicity blurb
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Your Eternal Reward is a community-created 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. The other side of the handle, when holding the knife, has a crack in it.
This weapon retains the instant-kill backstab ability of the Knife, but with some tweaks. Upon a successful backstab, the Spy instantaneously disguises as the target without the puffs of smoke that usually surround a disguising Spy. Furthermore, the victim does not scream upon death (although there is still the noise of the backstab itself), nor does a death notice appear in the enemy team's kill feed. Also, the corpse of the victim fades away almost instantly as if cloaking (unless that user has the Bombinomicon equipped, then there is the exploding death effect with no fade). Finally, the Spy does not use any voice responses, including lines for dominations, on a successful backstab to prevent drawing unnecessary attention. The process is so quick and unnoticeable that the Spy is never revealed between disguises. Therefore, Sentry Guns are unable to target the Spy between backstabs, making it easier to backstab unaware Engineers and sap their buildings. Upon backstabbing someone who is being healed by a Medic, the healing beam is automatically transfered to the Spy. 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 is wearing a Razorback or is invulnerable. Non-backstab kills achieved do not grant the Spy the victim's disguise and the kill appears in the killfeed, but the kill is still silent and the corpse of the victim disappears.
As its downside, disguising (or re-disguising) using the Disguise Kit requires a full Cloak meter, which is consumed in the process unless the Spy is standing in a respawn room. Disguising while invisible is not possible, unless the Cloak and Dagger is equipped. Disguising fully consumes the cloak meter but does not force the Spy to uncloak. Changing or fake-reloading a disguise's held weapon is not affected and does not consume any cloak. In addition, the user's cloak drains 33% faster.
If the player backstabs an enemy Spy who is currently disguised as a member of the player's team, the player does not receive the disguise of the player's own team member, and instead disguises as the enemy Spy.
Taunting with Your Eternal Reward equipped results in the Fencing kill taunt. Kills made are silent and the victim's corpse disappears. However, the disguise effect is not activated even if the taunt hits the victim's back.
In Mann vs. Machine, the Your Eternal Reward undisguises before applying the disguise. Robots are therefore not fooled by the effect, and still target the Spy.[1]
The kill icon for Your Eternal Reward was contributed by Psyke .
Contents
Damage and function times
See also: Damage
Identical to: Knife
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| Damage type | Melee | |
| Ranged or Melee damage? | Melee | |
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| Base damage | 100% | 40 |
| Backstab | 600% | |
| Critical | 120 | |
| Mini-crit | 54 | |
| Function times | ||
| Attack interval | 0.8 s | |
| 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
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Strange variant
Related achievements
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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] The Your Eternal Reward 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 the Your Eternal Reward.
- Sentry Guns no longer track Your Eternal Reward Spies after they backstab someone.
- Fixed enemies seeing death notices when you backstab their teammates with Your Eternal Reward.
- Fixed the attack animation not always playing correctly for the Your Eternal Reward.
- 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] The Your Eternal Reward 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.
- [Undocumented] Added Strange Quality.
- [Undocumented] The Your Eternal Reward was added to the crafting blueprint for the Spy-cicle.
- Fixed Spies that have picked up a dropped Your Eternal Reward or Wanga Prick being able to manually disguise.
October 20, 2017 Patch #1 (Jungle Inferno Update)
- Changed attributes:
- Removed Cannot Disguise penalty.
- Non-kill disguises require and consume a full cloak meter. Backstab-based disguises are still free.
- Increased cloak drain rate by 33%.
- Fixed Your Eternal Reward ragdolls not fading.
July 18, 2024 Patch #1 (Summer 2024 Update)
- Updated the materials for Your Eternal Reward to fix incorrect lighting under certain conditions (community fix from Lindon).
Bugs
- Should the player die after switching the equipped melee from Your Eternal Reward to the Knife, respawning may not be possible until they change classes.
- Backstabbing the person you are disguised as while they are holding their melee occasionally causes the disguise weapon to become the Your Eternal Reward.
- If the Spy backstabs an enemy who is then auto-balanced, the Spy disguises 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 a disguised Spy using Your Eternal Reward does not give the Spy achievement Counter Espionage.
- Disguising while holding out the Dead Ringer results in it still being held out and showing it charging. Upon it being fully charged, it acts normally. However, if the user takes damage while the uncharged Dead Ringer is active they still receive the 75% feign damage resistance on the first hit taken.
Notes
- Backstabbing an Engineer while he is hauling a building results in the killfeed displaying the building's destruction to the enemy team.
Trivia
- Before the item was released, Robin Walker joked that Your Eternal Reward's drawback would be that it cannot facestab.[2]
- 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 that Jafar refers to as "your eternal reward".
Gallery
BLU variant of the weapon.
RED first-person view.
RED first-person view, ready to Backstab.
BLU first-person view.
BLU first-person view, ready to Backstab.
References
- ↑ game\shared\tf\tf_weapon_knife.cpp:L238-250
- ↑ PC Gamer: Next TF2 update adds trading, new game mode (https://www.pcgamer.com/next-tf2-update-adds-trading-new-game-mode/)
See also
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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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