FireAxe

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FireAxe (formerly L4D2AddonAssistant) is an open-source GUI tool for managing Left 4 Dead 2 addons. It has the following features:

• Organize addons hierarchically through the concept of groups
• Addon tags management
• Local VPK files management
• Addon enablement state management
• VPK information display
• Workshop information display
• Download workshop items and collections
• Search the addons you want
• Addon problems display
• VPK priority management
• ...

This project is currently in early development. More features will be added in the future.

Getting Started

• Before starting, you need to have a directory where addons are stored.
• Open FireAxe and click the menu item "File->Open Directory" to open the directory.
• Click the menu item "File->Settings" and set the game path.
• If you have local VPK files, put them into the directory. Then click the menu item "File->Import" to import them.
• If you want workshop items, right click to open the context menu and click the menu item "New->Workshop Addon". Then write the item id. FireAxe will download files you need automatically.
• You can create some groups to organize addons.
• Enable the addons you want and then click the menu item "Operations->Push" to push the enablement state to the game.
• You can click the check button to keep the status up to date.