The eternal reward is one of the best Spy weapons.

[fnv]

The eternal reward always felt to me like the only true way to actually play as the spy, it makes weapons like the dead ringer practically useless forcing you to be skilled and use the invisibility watches, the weapon makes you think twice before disguising as someone so you are not running around in a scout disguise while people shoot at you, and encourages you to be sneaky and patient to take out your victims one by one, in a way they wont notice there is a spy among them.
it makes disguises feel like a way more important feature, forcing you to think about what you are currently doing instead of using the scout disguise meta.
it makes spy feel less like "disguise as scout, use dead ringer, kill this guy with trickstab, die" and more like an actual class that takes skill to use.
Paired with the cloak and dagger and the letranger, its just (imo) the best spy experience you will ever get.

[fnv]

the dead ringer was a mistake it encourages bad habits from players (like bad positioning) and it just doesnt require any sort of skill at all

[Scally]

Yes you have to be more skilled with invisibility when using this knife, so what did they do with the JI change? They made it harder for you to be invisible. Totally brain-dead update which killed the weapon for me.

[Anon]

It definitely feels better to play that way but avoiding death and being able to retreat and try again feels better than the enemy noticing you and killing you in an instant. There is also the problem that the players are spread out and bumping into enemies or getting hit by their projectiles/bullets/fire is very likely to kill/expose you while invis. Another plus for Dead Ringer would be getting some enemies to focus on you by knowing that you haven't died and searching for you.

[Cee]

i do agree with the header, it's like one of the top knives in pub servers, wish they changed the cloak downside though. maybe the inability to cloak for a few secs after a stab?

" the weapon makes you think twice before disguising as someone so you are not running around in a scout disguise while people shoot at you,"
that is a really good point, i havent even thought about that

[riZn]

It's great, they only need to remove the cloak drain and it's perfect.

[Arc]

I use it because it looks cool and if I was actually trying to get things done I wouldn't be playing Spy