How to disable cosmetics

[Benny]

I don't want to see all the stupid hats/armor/skins. Is there something I can do to get rid of them? Edit the files or perhaps a mod. I already disabled the voicelines. I don´t need them removed for everyone, just so i cannot see them myself.

I want grimdark/realistic things, not pink and golden aks. The robots etc already ruin the immersion enough as it is.

[๖ۣۜMk137]

You could reinstall KF1 - there are still about 200-500 people playing at any given time.

[FUBAR]

I like to imagine they went cuckoo after zed apocalypse.

[wolfwarrior]

yeah... not a few wacky funny stuff here or there was fine, but they want overboard with the fashion show cosmetics

[Cyberlisk]

Nope , install KF1. And don't get yer hopes up that KF3 will be dark and gritty neither. Remember , their main target audience is the largest crowd(for profit's sake). And currently the largest crowd of people playing videos games are the Fortnite kiddos , i'd expect the same , if not more silly goofy cosmetics and themes in KF3

Gritty and dark is cool , but it doesn't sell. remember these are companies trying to make money at the end of the day.

[Benny]

But why not introduce a setting that disable seeing it and at least reverts the game to vanilla settings (without removing the skins)? Then those people that wanted could still play with their skins.

[Poor huwhyte Carl]

No easy way AFAIK (and I know a few things about this game). You can, however, reduce the detail level of appropriate textures so they don't consume much of your FPS if you are concerned about it through editing the UE3 ini files for characters. The textures themselves, however, will remain, although not as detailed. Also they will keep microfreezing your game for a split second and sometimes almost a second in a well-known "new player join" microfreeze phenomenon, which is believed to be the result of loading all the skins for newly joined players.

Also, to answer "why not introduce" question, one of the sources of revenue for the developers is selling skins. Now imagine that they bought the skins for everyone to see them and you just flip a switch and don't see anything. This will decrease the incentive for fashion monkeys to buy them in the first place.

[Enfild]

Question that arisen first i, and my friends saw this ♥♥♥♥ back in EA. Shame that they felt game needed that wacky clown feel, sort of like overkill screwed with payday. I dont get it, it is fun for a while, but it just detracts from the game.
But, sadly, kids love this stuff, and they like money.

[johnginnj]

Of course you can do it and of course you have a right to do it.

Easiest way is a private server with friends. You can mod it to be default skins only.

If someone gets upset that they bought a skin and can't show everyone., they'll get over it.

[Gunthak]

Admittedly some of them are out there (it's the wack skintastic age of Fortnite, after all), but I couldn't handle a nuclear global option for pure default skins either - because some of them are crap, and the variety of skins, for better or worse, can help you track your teammates in the thick of it.

Not to mention, there are some gear packs that are very basic/military, non-flamboyant designs, and available in muted colors like black/dark blue, etc. It's not like our opponents are gritty military humans, either. If you were a career Zed killer, you'd probably start dressing in weirdo protective gear and wield strange-looking weapons, just to keep things interesting in a mad, mad world.

But hey, I'd be fine with a client-side toggle to kill skins for those who want it.
As someone else mentioned, however, the game's primary revenue stream at this stage is DLC gear/weapons/skins, so even adding a "Use Default Skins Only" option might upset investors on the TWI board.

Only half-kidding. Some games literally produce millions per month in skin purchases. You could see a TWI investor balk, "Give users a game option to turn off all the skins - are you nuts? The game is barely paying for itself as it is, do you think our Saber Interactive contract team works for free? No way are we giving people that option. I don't care if it only affects what they see, they might cave-in at some point and want to buy a skin, and they need to see them for that to happen."

[Kepler-452b]

not sure it's what you want: it's to tweak graphics so skins will be less visible (you don't remove them but you tweak graphics). I found this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2127961422