Mods to dismember Tank and Smoker in Left 4 Dead 2

One of the weak sides of L4D2 is that there was no big mutilation for the special infected. As we all remember (and was covered in the Gore Review), the body damage for the regular zombies was quite remarkable. With dismemberment, variations on the torso and head and really nice blood splatter around those variations.

And in the case of the special infected there was none of that. Just wound decals.

Well recently, thanks to the folks over at the channel's Discord I came across several mods to improve that. The mods are:

Tank - Soft and Supple

Grenade Launcher Staggers Tanks (recommended because the Tank variations are activated only for staggering hits)

Smoker Gibbing

In the case of the Tank, what it adds is dismemberment on the arms and variations on the stomach and the back. The big limitation here is, as I mentioned, that you'll see it activate only on staggering hits. If I'm not mistaken, by default that's things like gas tanks and pipe bombs exploding. So unfortunately you can't just shoot those areas a bunch of times and see it come off.

As for the Smoker, you will have dismemberment for each of the limbs and there is a head variation that was very nicely blended in. In the case of arm dismemberment the Smoker can even survive it.

There are some limitations to those mods that are to be expected. So you don't have the splatter around the stump\variation, and the dismemberment is entirely visual, so you will see the Tank grab a chunk of concrete with a stump, or the Smoker attack characters with a missing arm.

Still, it's crazy cool seeing this issue addressed by the modders. If you needed a reason to revisit the game, I think it's great for that, and hopefully we'll see mods for the remaining special infected.

If you come across them feel free to bug me about it in the comments either here or on the channel.