The Gunslinger mod is a masterpiece trapped inside a frustrating installation process. Once running, it’s one of the best weapon overhauls ever made for any game. But set aside an evening, follow a video guide step-by-step, and make backups of your clean CoP folder. If you succeed, you’ll never play vanilla CoP again.

Here’s a deep, technical, and user-experience-focused review of installing the for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat . 1. What Gunslinger Actually Is (Beyond the Hype) Gunslinger is not just a weapon pack. It’s a complete weapon handling overhaul that replaces animations, sounds, ballistics, reload mechanics, attachments, and even HUD elements. Think of it as Escape from Tarkov meets CoP , but built on the old X-Ray engine.