Weapon amerknife

This entity is not in the FGD by default.
See below for instructions on making it available.

The Allied knife

Entity description

Creates a Allied knife.

Important:If placed directly in the map, the weapon will respawn after a few seconds. See DODS/Creating Weapon Spawns for workarounds.

Key Values

Name (targetname) <string>[ Edit ]

The name that other entities refer to this entity by, via Inputs/Outputs or other keyvalues (e.g. parentname or target).
Also displayed in Hammer's 2D views and Entity Report.

See also:  Generic Keyvalues, Inputs and Outputs available to all entities

Pitch Yaw Roll (Y Z X) (angles) <QAngle>

This entity's orientation in the world. Pitch is rotation around the Y axis, yaw is the rotation around the Z axis, roll is the rotation around the X axis.

Flags

Start Constrained : [1]

Prevents the model from moving.

Outputs

Weapon:

OnNPCPickup

!activator = NPC
!caller = this entity
Fires when an NPC picks up this weapon.

OnPlayerUse

!activator = player
!caller = this entity
Fires when the player +uses this weapon.

OnPlayerPickup

!activator = player
!caller = this entity
Fires when a player picks up this weapon.

OnCacheInteraction

Fires when the player 'proves' they've found this weapon. Fires on: Player Touch, +USE pickup, Physcannon pickup, Physcannon punt.

Attack modes

• +attack punches with the attached brass knuckles unless your behind a player. This generally takes 2 swings to kill the target. From behind, +attack will wind up and kill the target player in one hit.
• +attack2 does nothing.

Other information

• The American Knife is given to allied riflemen, allied support, allied MGs, allied snipers, and allied rocketeers.
• Due to some hitbox issues, the knife is hard to kill prone players with. The June 28th update fixed this for the most part, but it is still a little tough.