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Ultimate Metal Baseball Bat - Beta Restoration

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Game Content: Sounds, Models

Weapons: Melee

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May 18, 2024 @ 3:40pm

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Description

The ultimate metal baseball bat mod is here... in my opinion, at least.

The baseball bat was initially supposed to be made of metal in Left 4 Dead 2, as seen in the pre-release beta builds. The original model and texture files are still floating around, so I've combined them with default animations and custom sound effects to make the best "vanilla plus" experience I can manage. I'm not aware of any bugs, but tell me if you find some.

Major credit goes to user Theuaredead for recompiling Valve's old bat model and releasing it on the Workshop. My Blender skills are limited, and this wouldn't have been possible without their original mod.

The new sounds were all custom mixed by me, using samples from TF2 (baseball bat hit) and L4D2 (crunchy, fleshy hit sounds). If you'd like to have the sounds as a separate mod, click here.

I've been using an older version of this mod privately for years now, but I think it's finally ready for the world to see now that I've fixed some animation issues from Theuaredead's original upload. Enjoy!

FULL CREDITS

MODEL & TEXTURE - Valve Software
ORIGINAL COMPILE - L4D2 Original Baseball Bat by Theuaredead
ANIMATION TWEAKS - Me (Kyle H. McCloud)
CUSTOM SOUNDS - Also Me (Metal Baseball Bat Sounds)

Check out my other Vanilla+ mods:

- Loading Screen Poster HUD Icons
- Campaign List in Chronological Order
- Stronger Pistol Gunshot Sound
- Stronger SPAS Gunshot Sound
- Kyle's Rebalance Mod - All Weapons Patched

11 Comments

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sis Jan 9 @ 8:50am

BONK!!

Kyle H. McCloud [author] Jul 24, 2024 @ 8:28pm

@ok

Good catch! That animation bug is so subtle I never even noticed it. I copied the default animations so I have no idea how that happened.

I might try fixing it someday, but to be honest I'm not sure if I'd even know how. Hopefully it's not too distracting for you

ok Jul 24, 2024 @ 6:51pm

Hey uh, I don't know if this is a bug or anything but, when I shove, the shoving animation doesn't transition correctly with the idle pose, nonetheless great mod! Would use it again!

Kyle H. McCloud [author] Jun 18, 2024 @ 6:40pm

@Skelevoid

I remember having some trouble changing the drop sounds for whatever reason, but I might give that another go.

SkellyVoid Jun 18, 2024 @ 3:56pm

The only thing missing is metal drop sounds, otherwise this is great

Kyle H. McCloud [author] May 20, 2024 @ 7:51am

@i agree

If there's a mod out there that makes the cricket bat look like a wooden baseball bat, you're good to go. Changing bat skins and sound effects on the fly isn't possible to my knowledge, but at least there's a workaround.