Thanks to Steampipe, I'm having to pirate a game I already own just so I can fully enjoy it. Now, I love Half Life 2, but I've played it so many times that I don't think I can bear to play it again with the same, bland old weapons that never change. So I thought to myself: 'Hey, let's go back to the OOOLD days and download some weapon mods for it!' Not only could I not find any actual weapon mods, all I COULD find were standalone mods that never worked, most of the time because of Steampipe. So I go and, after a whole day of trying to fix a sourcemod, give up. I go back to the old days, and manually mod HL2 like I used to. I take the weapon models, materials, and everything else from a few sourcemods, and shove them into the game.

A Half-Life 2: Episode Two (HL2:EP2) Skin Mod in the Gnome Chompski category, submitted by Jimbomcb. About this mod. ENB and SweetFX for Half Life 2, Ep.1. Half Life 2 update. Install the DX9 final release if you haven't done so previously.

Now, back then, this worked almost flawlessly. But for some reason, it just didn't this time. I spent a good while trying to figure out why, when I noticed these.vpk files. So, understanding THAT now, I try to edit those as well using GCFScape. You can only look at, and extract them. What you need to rebuild a VPK file is a L4D2 tool that refuses to download for me, even though i own L4D2. And that's why I'm where I am now, downloading a much older version of HL2 via torrents, just so I don't have to deal with this moronic SteamPipe bullcrap.

Restore Cracked Leather Interior here. 10/10, Valve. Originally posted by: They're not skins, they're actual weapons. NEW Weapons, but thank you for this information. As in, DLL files? Did that ever worked for HL2 back in the day?

Replacing the DLL files, I mean. I'm not entirely sure if they're DLL files, really. But actually, yes, it did. Back before I owned Half Life 2, or Garry's Mod, I modded a pirated version of the game on my own.

Believe it or not, but I actually got Hunters to work in HL2, and began using console commands to spawn things on maps i had downloaded. It really was like an 'alpha' version of Gmod. Now, though, I can't seem to do any of these things:T.