Shout Out:
Check out workshop items by Hunter|AZR| . Out of the top 30 workshop items of all time, over 23% were made by him, taking ranks 2nd, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 23rd, and 27th. TWO out of the top five items! He's a good friend of mine, so I figured he deserves a shout out.

Description:
This collection is purposed much like in Insurency in that it attempts to be a pleasing blend of realism and entertainment, but while also providing scopes and features that improve the user's competitive preformance. There are a few features that you may think go too far one way or another in this balance (as it is built to my preferances), and if you happen to think this is the case you can always just unsubscibe to the single item or two that you dislike. The skins add cool guns and better textures; the scope mods are meant to improve effectivity and decrease hastle; and the sound alterations are intended to add greater immersion (give less of a toy-esque feel to the weapons). The high quality (as in closer to HD) and well-blended nature of this collection is aimed toward feeling real (in regards to immersion, not in regard to real-to-life accuarcy) while adding a cooler "filter" to the game's aesthetics.


Important Notes:
Some of these mods have FEATURES (id est, not the entire item, just parts of it) that do not work together with another mod on this list. BUT, where this happens, the mod subscribed to most recently will simply overule any of the prior subscribed mod's conflicting "features". It is for this very reason that the workshop items in this collection were ordered how they are (to hand-pick which features should have dominance). This can best be seen where one custom sight is used, but the sight's reticle is overwitten by a different item further down in the collection. To order them as "intended", DO NOT click "order alphabetically" or "by author", simply leave them in DEFAULT order, and subscribe to each item starting from the TOP of the list and working your way down. The player skin mods are all choices, pick 1 Security, 1 Insurgent, & 1 Resurgency/Multicam/Crysis (for "SV_Pure 0" enabled servers). The FAL, and the AKM are also choices, but I have them as backups in case one of the items needs to be updated at any point. The 1x reticles are also choices. The aimpoint/"full holo" scope skin is a choice. The player skin choices are ordered somewhat by general relation, but really for best effect you should look at each link before picking a skin. There are so many player skins because I tried to get skins for all purposes; there are skins for visibility, differentiating the two teams visually, and for various aesthetic themes (such as urban terrorist vs Swat, vetran Insurgents, higher quality vanilla skins, more militant Insurgents, etc). Easy to see character skin packs to use together are either SWAT or DEVGRU for security while using Tweaked Vanilla Insurgent Textures. Aside from those, I personally like the Predator, Dutch (added bonus for visibility), or enhanced vanilla skins for security, and Vetran Insurgents, Military Insurgents V3, or Scianyde's Insurgents for insurgents.

More "Technical" Notes:
Since the update that changed skins from per role to per armor-class, some light armor skins have stopped working, esp ones created by "✭(SRG) GΔMΞ 0VΞR✭". If you find a skin not working for light armor, simply look for a similar pack, and subscribe to it first and then the one for medium/heavy armor second. This is one of the reasons I have so many skins in the collection (packs that aren't updated regularly).
If the sounds don't work, use "SND_restart" in console. You can bind this for easy use by opening console with "~" and typing "bind J SND_restart", that way you only have to press "J" whenever you load into your first map of the day, and it stays until you quit the game.
if the HUD features are still vanilla, use "hud_reloadscheme" in console.
Right now hud_reloadscheme breaks the kit selection screen if you are using certain UI mods. I will remove this note when I'm sure that's been changed.