Hello, whoever you are.

Playing Killing Floor 2 for rather long time, you might have noticed some players carrying lots of cool and expensive weapon skins, — like, for example, Neon RGB ones. The most interesting case is when there is no some particular weapon skin on Steam Market and in-game Store at all, but a player has it somehow. Several skins just do not exist: for example, there is no Neon RGB skin for Kriss SMG — there is only a regular Neon one, implemented in lime-green color. Nevertheless, you still can meet people with such skins on public servers.

Before realizing what the trick was, I used to ask several players about the issue, but, unfortunately, no one rushed to share any knowledge with me, like it was something outstanding. Thus, I had to think on the possible solution myself. Not having any personality and ego issues, I see nothing bad in sharing interesting information about the game with other players and spreading it among the community, — unless it is some kind of offensive exploit, which can negatively affect the gameplay.

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This guide is the re-post of the original one from 19/03/2020, which had been banned by Tripwire Interactive after several months. Looks like it is way easier for these developers to prevent spreading information about their games' weak points than simply to fix them and make everything work as it should. My appeal to the Steam Support ended with them stating that the guide was absolutely fine by Steam terms, but, still, «Unfortunately, we can not remove the ban, since it had been given by the game developer».



A bit later, they had also banned my sarcastic meme on this topic, which i have uploaded as Steam artwork, and me in Killing Floor 2 for one month at the same time. Re-uploading it under a different title solved the problem, though. Still, for me it is pretty hard to believe, how these developers can be this lazy, greedy and incompetent.

So...
Enjoy the guide, lads, — while it is still here.

Okay, so, lets take the «Neon RGB» type of weapon skins as an example, with which we are going to work further. In fact, you can do the same trick with literally any weapon skin you want.

So, the file directory we are going to work with is the following:

C: (might be any other drive though, but, commonly, it is C:) \ Users \ Y/N \ Documents \ My Games \ KillingFloor2 \ KFGame \ Config.

The file we need is called «KFGame.ini». Open this file and scroll to its very end. You will see the list of all your currently applied weapon skins with sections looking like this:

[KFGameContent.KFWeap_Weapon_Name]
SkinItemId=XXXX

Where «Weapon_Name» is, obviosly, the weapon's name, and «XXXX» is the ID of the weapon skin, consisting of four numbers. By the way, the full list of weapon names used in KF2's configuration files is available in this guide.

So, lets think you had bought Tommy Gun Neon RGB weapon skin. Personally I would recommend exactly it, since it is not awfully expensive and its texture looks rather fine with most weapons, — even with melee ones. This skin's ID is «6901».

[KFGameContent.KFWeap_Blunt_ChainBat]
SkinItemId=6901

Ta da.

[KFGameContent.KFWeap_SMG_MP5RAS]
SkinItemId=6901

Ta da.

[KFGameContent.KFWeap_Blunt_PowerGloves]
SkinItemId=6901

Ta da.



As you can notice, textures applied this way look significantly worse than the original Neon RGB ones made exactly for these particular weapons. Still, it is same RGB and it is completely free for you!

My personal tip is that I would recommend owning 3-5 different RGB skins — one pistol, one shotgun, one assault rifle, etc. Obviously, applying a skin from one pistol to another will not look as weird and ugly as if you apply a shotgun’s skin to a pistol, for example. Of course, if you want everything to look kind of awesome, you should experiment with different skins applied to different weapons. I will not lie: sometimes it looks ugly as hell. Sometimes — oppositely, it looks like the skin is «native». Like, for example: