Holliday
Black Holliday — Holliday skins for Deadlock
This mod is my first attempt at replacing the skintone of a character, as well as creating an original hair mesh for a mod. This mod replaces Holliday's skintone or her skintone and her hairstyle, and each hairstyle included comes with its own hero portraits to reflect her current hairstyle. The user has two options for which hairstyle they'd like to use. The default hairstyle version is smaller in storage size, as it results in a simple recolor. The additional custom hairstyle was my attempt to provide her with more textured hair that tries to preserve her silhouette while also having more volume than is offered with characters such as Calico or Infernus. The custom hairstyle went through months of iteration and styles to minimize demand on the player's hardware while also maintaining the texture effect I wished to implement with a custom hairstyle, and this is only the one I felt most comfortable with releasing to accompany the model's debut. I am open to attempting and implementing more hairstyles for her, however unless I can come up with a more efficient way to implement them, the size of the download would double for each new hairstyle I'd be implementing. The default hair version is marked as v1 and the first custom hair version is marked as v2a. Both versions are available to be downloaded either separately under v1 or v2a, or together under blackhollidayallv1 for the c…
Compatibility
Model replacements are the first thing to break when Valve edits a skeleton, so re-check after each patch. It conflicts with any other mod replacing the same Holliday asset — two in the addons folder means whichever loads last wins, and the other one silently does nothing.
Is it safe
It is client-side: the file lives on your machine and other players see the default game. Cosmetic addons have not produced bans, but Deadlock is in active development and nothing about mods is officially supported. Keep a copy of the folder before a patch and remove it if the game stops launching.
Credit
Made by Strassboom and published on GameBanana. We index it here with a link back; the file, the licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) and the comment thread stay with the author. Credits
Frequently asked questions
How do I install Black Holliday?▾▴
.vpk into game/citadel/addons and name it pak01_dir.vpk. That folder only loads once gameinfo.gi lists it, which is a one-time edit — check the install guide.Is Black Holliday safe to install?▾▴
.vpk is a data archive, not a program, so it cannot execute code the way an installer can. The risk is provenance. This one has 322 installs, so a problem would have surfaced on its GameBanana thread. Mods with almost no downloads from accounts with no history have had none of that scrutiny.Will other players see this skin?▾▴
Can I run it alongside other mods?▾▴
pak01_dir.vpk and pak02_dir.vpk installed, pak01 wins and the other does nothing.Does it still work after the latest patch?▾▴
gameinfo.gi and remove your search paths, which stops every manually installed mod at once — redo that edit and they come back. Separately, model replacements break first when Valve edits a skeleton; recolours and HUD mods usually survive. The author posts updates on the GameBanana page.Where does the download come from?▾▴
How do I remove Black Holliday?▾▴
.vpk from game/citadel/addons, or toggle it off in the Deadlock Mod Manager library. Mods never overwrite game files, so nothing needs repairing afterwards.