Old Damage Portraits

AI DISCLAIMER: this mod was made with AI assistance

Brings back the pre-2026 look of the damage portraits: the hero portraits that pop up in the upper middle of the screen when you hit someone with an ability. Red round portrait, a wide flat health bar under it with the player's name inside, like before the January 2026 update.

The colors, bar size and positions come straight from the old game files (August 2025 to January 2026).

Made for this request.

Patch-resistant

Only two stylesheets are replaced (hud_damage_impact, hero_badge). The top bar is not touched. No layouts, no scripts, so a game update cannot make it crash. At worst a changed stylesheet is overridden until the mod is rebuilt. If something looks off after a patch, report it in the Issues tab.

Install

1. Download the zip and extract olddamageportraits_dir.vpk.
2. Rename it to a free slot, e.g. pak12_dir.vpk (any pakNN number nothing else uses).
3. Put it in Steam/steamapps/common/Deadlock/game/citadel/addons.
4. Launch the game. Or just install it with a mod manager.

Notes

Only abilities tagged to show a damage portrait trigger the popup (most hero abilities and many items); gun and melee hits never did, before or now.