Go to Options, open the Keyboard tab, click Advanced... and then tick the "Fast weapon switch" option. This'll make switching instant when you press a number key or scroll.
As noted by Lysarion in the comments, the file to modify is hudlayout.res. Previously, this was found in the /tf/scripts folder in the team fortress 2 content GCF archive. But now that the game has been converted to a new file system via SteamPipe, it's now in the tf2_misc VPK archive which is stored in /tf in the installation folder.
Fortunately, GCFScape can open VPK archives just as with GCF archives. Open tf2_misc_dir.vpk in GCFScape and find the file in /root/scripts.
Extract and search the file, then find the following field:
HudDeathNotice
{
"fieldName" "HudDeathNotice"
// ...
"MaxDeathNotices" "4"
"IconScale" "0.35"
"LineHeight" "16"
"LineSpacing" "4"
"CornerRadius" "3"
"RightJustify" "1" // If 1, draw notices from the right
// ...
}
The HudDeathNotice field defines the appearance of the kill feed. You'll see at a glance the variable that tells the game how many items to display at most at any time:
"MaxDeathNotices" "4"
Change that to any value you want, then save the file.
You used to be able to simply place the file in the /tf/scripts folder in the game's installation folder. Now with the new file system, custom files are handled quite differently. This Steam KB article has all the info you need, but the simplest way is to open /tf/custom, create a folder with any name you want if you don't have one already, create a scripts folder inside that folder, then place the file in there. Then launch the game and you should see the change you made in-game.
There's a little caveat: hudlayout.res is subject to changes in game patches, which won't be reflected in the custom version of the file. You may have to repeat this procedure in case of any changes to the original file outside of this modification.
Best Answer
In your HUD folder there's a
hudlayout.resfile that's probably in thescriptsfolder. It contains all the details of where each HUD element should be, colors and other various preferences that you can change or play with.You're looking for something called
HudChatwhich should have associated xpos and ypos values. You can change these to modify the location where the chat panel shows up. Default values are the number of pixels from the left or top of the screen. Note that values such asc90andr50mean 90 pixels from the center and 50 pixels from the right, respectively.I'm not entirely sure what the killfeed is called but you may be able to get by modifying the chat panel only. If you really need to change both, back up your file and try modifying other panels that could be the killfeed - there's at least one called
DeathNoticethat might be the right panel.You can apply changes without restarting by running
hud_reloadschemein the console.