Venator
Red/Black/Silver Venator +Icons +Effects (8/2) — Venator skins for Deadlock
Recolors Venator with a darker, blackish vest and robe. The sleeves, waist cloth, and the inside of the lower robe are all a dark deep red. His gun, shotgun and crossbow all have a silver and slightly shiny coloring to the metal parts. The crossbow has a red string and wrapping on the loading handle. Additionally, his icons have been recolored. His select screen lighting, shop and post game portrait lighting, icons, and tagline have been recolored (the icons and 3 tags require this mod to have lowest number prio in your mod folder for these to change). Recolors his grenades particle effects to be orange. Recolors the snap trap with a silver color and its effects colored red. Recolors ira domini's non-blessed effects with a silver color scheme. Gutshot and the blessed particle effects remain unchanged.
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 Venator 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 godsend01 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 Red/Black/Silver Venator +Icons +Effects (8/2)?▾▴
.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 Red/Black/Silver Venator +Icons +Effects (8/2) 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 1,153 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 Red/Black/Silver Venator +Icons +Effects (8/2)?▾▴
.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.