Wraith
Nine Lives — Neon Cat Wraith — Wraith skins for Deadlock
Wraith's Card Trick cards become neon cats, her ability icons get a mean cat makeover, and her purple effects turn white. The card frames are gone, so the cats float on their own. What it changes: four suit cats + a joker cat: - ♣ happy cat with toe beans. - ♦ sleepy cat. - ♥ big-eyed cutie. - ♠ sly cat with a fang. - Joker: a fedora-wearing cat in Wraith's own style. Ability icons: - Card Trick: cards with a slit cat eye and bleeding claw marks. - Project Mind: a snarling cat head dashing with afterimages. - Full Auto: the claw-scratched tommy gun firing a cat-face blast. - Telekinesis: a clawed paw with a heart-shaped pad and an energy orb. Also: - Two-tone neon tubes. The outline is in the suit colour, the face is in a second colour, and the tubes have a white-hot core. A dark backing behind each cat keeps it readable on bright maps. - No card frames, no purple glow. The cats are 35% bigger than the original suit icons. - Applies both to the cards hovering next to Wraith and to the cards in flight. - Icons are clean solid shapes in the HUD when an ability is ready, and light up in neon on cooldown and in tooltips. - Purple in Wraith's ability and weapon effects turns white at about the same brightness. Other colours stay as they are. Compatibility: - Conflicts with other mods that replace `materials/particle/abilities/wraith/wraith_card_suit.vtex_c`, Wraith's ability icons (…
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 Wraith 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 kirukaya 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 Nine Lives — Neon Cat Wraith?▾▴
.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 Nine Lives — Neon Cat Wraith 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 14 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 Nine Lives — Neon Cat Wraith?▾▴
.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.