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Tired of asking people to change weapon stats for you? Want specific melee weapons to spawn in official campaigns? Then i'm going to teach you today how to do all of this yourself without needing someone elses help by following the easy steps below.

1. First off you will need the following 2 programs.

- Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools from steam.
- GCFScape https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/GCFScape .

2. Subscribe to this addon and launch Left 4 dead 2, wait for it to download.

3. Exit left 4 dead 2, and go to your addons / workshop folder. The path should look like :

" Steam > steamapps > common > Left 4 Dead 2 > left4dead2 > addons > workshop "

3. Look around for this addon's image and match the numbers on the picture to a vpk file in the folder.

4. Open the vpk using GCFScape, and extract the contents onto your desktop. It should give you a folder named root.

5. Inside that folder I've prepackaged the most commonly edited game scripts with their respective folders. Remember it's important to keep the proper folder paths, or the game will not recognize the changes you've made.

6. Delete any .txt files you don't want to edit. Leave the ones you do in their respective folders.

7. Open the script you wish to edit with a text editor and look around. Weapon scripts are pretty self explanatory, you should know what everything does by simply reading it except for the few below i'll list.

Cycle time : the fire rate used by the weapon. For reference the smg fires at 0.0625 , the m16 is 0.0875 , the ak47 is 0.13 , and the military sniper is 0.25. Make any of the guns fire as fast as or slow as you want, increase or decrease their accuracy, give them more or less penetration, you could even make the m16 fire shotgun shells by increasing the bullet count and adding the 2 lines

"PelletScatterPitch" "4.0"
"PelletScatterYaw" "8.5"

Mission files dictate the melee spawn list. Add or remove any melee weapons you want, add custom melee weapons to the official campaigns by seperating them in the list with ;
I've already included my mission fixes so with these they automatically spawn all the offical melee weapons in official campaigns minus the riot shield and re enable female boomers in the campaigns that were missing them.

For editing melee weapon scripts, you can increase the swing speeds, and how long the swing lasts to count traces for dealing damage. You can even change the damage types to make your melee weapons light infected on fire or knock off heads, it's all up to you.

8. Once you're done, open the addon.txt file and rename it whatever you'd like so you know what it does. Rename the folder named root to the same name.

9. Go into your left 4 dead 2 bin folder and find vpk.exe. I recommend making a short cut to this on your desk top.

10. Drag the folder you just renamed in step 8 onto the vpk.exe shortcut and it should repackage the folder into a vpk.

11. Drag the vpk into your left 4 dead 2 addons folder or server addons folder and your good to go. All the edits you made will be active whenever you host a local, custom , or private server.

12. Disable this addon in your addons list while in game.

Feel free to ask any questions below, i'll do what I can to help out.

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Must be ran on a local / private / custom server to function. If friends are having issues joining you, type the following in your console.

sv_consistency 0
sv_pure 0