Weapon Customization

Weapon Customization is a custom system that can be found on most VVIP weapons in CrossFire, which allows players to change the appearance of a weapon either partially or completely based on their own preference.

Color Customization[]

Iris[]

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Color Customization (or Thousand Transform) is a perk of M4A1-S Prism Beast and M4A1-S Prism Beast Noble Gold (after being upgraded), which allows players to change the color of some parts of the weapon. There will be a color pack that is already available after purchasing the weapon. Players can save the design permanently and change it at any time.

Victor[]

Later then, Weapon Customization has been expanded to some Victor-classed weapons, available on AK47-Beast, Barrett M82A1-Born Beast, Desert Eagle-Born Beast, and M4A1-S Transformers; however, players will need to purchase two different color packs with fewer color options than the original palette. There are 20 colors available (with 1 default color at the top), only if the player has purchased both.

Alternate Skin[]

Besides the color-painting feature, players can bring a whole new look to the weapon by using Alternate Skin. The item simply changes the appearance of the weapon and retains all VVIP perks. Any weapons that had color customization will revert to the default ones when clicking the Alternate Skins tab.

It should be noted that some skin items will come with a completely new model, visual effect, or even animation to the weapon, but sometimes prevent players from attaching another VFX item (see the example of Gatling Gun-Infernal Dragon below). Dolls with not be affected by the change, however.

See also: Weapon Skin Grant System

Visual Effect[]

Visual Effect (or VFX) is essentially lights or sprites that display when doing an action with weapons, such as beast eyes, lightning, sparkling, or auras. In this system, players can change the VFX color using the corresponding item, and the VFX will be featured with a different color or even with a new effect in some cases.

Depending on each weapon, there will be various VFX color options, either single (for example: Blue, Green, Purple, Golden) or dual (for example: Orange-Purple, Red-Green), including unique VFX which can be obtained via CF Pass seasonally.

Additionally, this customization is also applied to Noble Gold weapons. Since many of them lack VFX by default, this system means adding one to them.

See also: Visual Effect

Doll[]

Doll is a decoration item that can be attached to the weapon. These dolls can be miniature models of bosses/characters, interaction light, or simply a medal, and they will be placed following the weapon's design, for example: the carrying handle of M4A1-VVIP, the dust cover of AK47-VVIP, or the scope of VVIP sniper rifles.

It should be noted that some dolls have special functions (mostly in Zombie Mode) and can only be activated by attaching to primary weapons, and if a weapon has already featured a doll by default (like M4A1-S Jewelry), this system allows players to replace the default one with any other owned dolls. Figure dolls can be seen in third-person view by other players, but this does not apply to the interaction light doll, however.

Initially, dolls could only be attached to VVIP primary weapons, but Noble Gold ones were later included. Later, this system was rolled out to many Supreme Anti-Zombie weapons and non-VVIP primary / secondary / melee weapons.

See also: Doll

Alternate Sound[]

Alternate Sound is a functional item that tweaks the weapon with new sounds, including the drawing, reloading, bolt-cycling, melee attack, or shooting.

In addition, the original and tweaked sounds for specific actions are also displayed at the same time, so players can compare the difference more easily.

Trivia[]

The doll's position on most weapons is pretty illogical. For example, dolls on M4A1-VVIPs are placed on the handle, which would make it hard to aim in real life.
Many of the weapon skin items in CF China eventually became their own variants when released to other CrossFire versions, meaning players can't simply spend a small amount of cash to afford the skin, but they would have to spin capsules instead. The main reason for this is to boost capsule sales, but mostly because other versions don't implement strong anti-modding measurements against game file editing, so players could simply do skin-mod to get free skins for their VVIPs.
In CF Philippines, only two Victor-class VVIP weapons can be color customized: the M4A1-S Transformers and AK47-Beast.
Ironically, in CF Vietnam, this system actually arrived before the Trade System, unlike other versions; therefore, players can see the preview of the weapon if customized, but they don't know where to get the materials. It is rumored that the Trade System has been tested for months, but it causes so many errors that the update got suspended, as it was announced to be updated during the 10th anniversary offline event, yet there is still no news about it, even after the publisher transition.
- A more logical reason has been rumored by players that the publisher VTC is trying to milk for money, as the merchandise was added in the December 2018 patch and was instantly put as prizes for spending cash events (some with hard conditions like owning certain weapons, etc). Currently, most weapon customization can only be acquired through events, either by buying packages, spending cash in-game, or winning a certain number of weapons, besides the ones that are available as rewards in Zombie Mode.
- Another reason is due to fear of exploitation, as VTC uses the same premium currency for all of its games, including CrossFire, so the publisher hesitates to introduce it.