In all honesty, this is maybe my favorite mod for L4D2, it added so much additional playability as someone who loves the feel of the 1911, which is replicated near-perfectly. If this wasn't available, I may not have played the game again in the past two years, but now, every couple of months I come back and try new (or old) custom maps, and a big part of that is how perfect this weapon feels.

If I have any complaint, and its the highest nitpick, as someone who has handled a 1911, and only for a couple minutes, the fact that during the empty-mag reload (btw, props for having such great animations for either reload variant) the slide is released off-hand is just a tad annoying. I think the weapon is well-balanced as a Deagle replacement, including reload time, but holding a model 1911 for 3 seconds IRL was all it took to figure out that you could release the slide and be ready for the next shot far more quickly by releasing the slide-lever with your right thumb. (1/2)

This is such a small detail, but as soon as you know that that lever is the slide release, it's second nature to use the far more efficient movement, especially in a survival situation. I know all the survivors besides Bill don't have a ton of (or any) firearm experience, but if you can fire and reload an M1911 properly, which, necessarily for gameplay, all the survivors can fire and load their weapons properly, if not optimally, but on the 1911 it's intuitive and ideal to release the slide with your right thumb, and I know from experience that you get that idea the second you try it.

I don't expect an update for this, and if there is I don't necessarily think it needs to actually be faster than the current animation... but I'll be real, GOD it would be cool to take it from the 94% badass that it is already that made me play the game more, to 100%. It'd most definitely make my day. (2/2)