This guide will help you to remove the sounds you don't like from any weapon mod for Left 4 Dead 2.
Just follow this simple steps and you will learn how to do it in a few minutes.

You will not be banned and it will not break your game. Just be very careful and strictly follow the instructions.

Go to your "Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\bin" folder and search for vpk.exe file. This file will let you decompile any Left 4 Dead 2 mod.

If there is one you can jump straight to the Step 2 of this guide. If not, keep reading.



In order to get this file you must install L4D2 Authoring Tools (Steam Library -> Tools -> L4D2 Authoring Tools)

Ok, you've installed L4D2 Authoring Tools and got vpk.exe. Now go to "Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\addons\workshop" folder and look for a mod you want to remove sounds from.

*Important note: you must subscribe to the mod and launch the game at least once to let the mod download itself.

For this guide I will use Kriss Vector The Division (Silenced SMG) as an example. Look for a thumbnail of this mod and a file with the same name next to it. In this case it's called 1104541765.vpk.

All you need to do is just drag and drop this file on top of your vpk.exe.



It will take a second and then a folder 1104541765 will appear in "Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\addons\workshop" directory.

Now rename your "1104541765" folder to something like "division_vector_silenced_smg" and open it.
To remove sounds from this mod you need to delete "sound" folder from it.



In case you want to remove HUD icon and script from a mod to avoid consistency problems on some servers you can delete "scripts" folder too.

After removing sounds you must drag and drop "division_vector_silenced_smg" folder on top of the vpk.exe.



It will take a second and then "division_vector_silenced_smg.vpk" file will appear in your "Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\addons\workshop" directory.

You can delete "division_vector_silenced_smg" folder, you don't need it anymore.

Cut the "division_vector_silenced_smg.vpk" file and paste it in "Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\addons" folder.



Now go to your Steam Workshop and "Unsubscribe" from your mod (in my case Kriss Vector The Division (Silenced SMG)). You need to do this because you already have this mod in your "addons" folder but without sounds.

That's it. Now start your game and give it a few moments to update addons list.

Your weapon will now use vanilla game sounds, you can subscribe to other weapon sound mods from a workshop if you want.

*In order to completely remove this mod from your game just delete "division_vector_silenced_smg.vpk" file from "Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\addons" folder.

Congratulations, you learned something new today. But that's not all.

Using the same technique you can even take sound files from one mod and insert them into another one.

For example you got 2 weapon mods: Mod A and Mod B (both mods must replace the same type of weapon, smg for example). Mod A is great smg model with terrible sounds, and Mod B has ugly low quality weapon model with amazing sounds.

Subscribe to both mods, unpack them using vpk.exe, remove sound solder from Mod A and paste sound folder from Mod B into it. Recompile Mod A folder using vpk.exe, cut and place Mod A.vpk file into "addons" folder. Delete Mod A and Mod B folders from workshop folder and unsub from both mods.

Now you got Mod A weapon mod with Mod B sounds.