Shotgun Heavy Melee SFX

Turns heavy melee into a shotgun. You hear the pump-action rack while a heavy winds up, and the blast fires the moment the heavy connects with an enemy hero. Works for every hero in the match, not just you.

What triggers what
- Heavy melee windup (anyone): shotgun rack (cocking). Enemy windups are louder, and louder still when that enemy is targeting you.
- Heavy melee landing on a hero (anyone): shotgun blast
- Light melee, minions, camps, sinners, Rejuvenator, walls: untouched (stock sounds)

How it works
Deadlock's sound system never tells the hit sound whether the melee was light or heavy, so this mod uses a timer instead: each windup stamps a clock and the attacker into a global sound variable, and the hit sound only fires the blast if that attacker's windup started within 1 second. NPC victims are muted through the game's own victim_is_npc flag. Sound files and sound-operator stacks only, no scripts or game logic.

Install
Deadlock Mod Manager: Add Mod, pick the .vpk, enable, launch.
Manual: rename to a free slot such as pak04_dir.vpk and drop it into Deadlock\game\citadel\addons.

Compatibility
Replaces soundevents/player.vsndevts and three sound stacks (citadel_core, citadel_perspective, citadel_hit_confirm). Any other mod that edits the same files will conflict; the lower pak number wins. Known quirk: if a heavy misses or gets parried and a light lands within 1 second, that light will blast once.

Changelog
v2: blasts on every hero's heavy (was: yours only), enemy windups louder, rack up / blast down for better balance in fights.

Credits
Shotgun recording from "Mossberg 590 A1 Shotgun Sound Effect (Loading and shooting)" by Sound Effects on YouTube, cut and re-timed for the game.