WhatsApp Lock - WhatsApp skins, sounds and ability

WhatsApp Lock turns the whole Deadlock roster into WhatsApp:

- Skins: every hero is recoloured WhatsApp green/teal and covered in WhatsApp
  logos. Bebop gets his own tuned version (only his paint is recoloured, the
  metal stays metal).
- Sounds: over 2,300 ability sounds are replaced. Hits and kills are the
  notification, casts are the whistle, explosions are a pile of notifications,
  and Bebop's ult plays the remix. Pings, kill confirm, chat and invite sounds
  are replaced too.
- Text (English only): abilities and items are renamed - Rallying Charge is
  WhatsApp Charge, Hyper Beam is WhatsApp Beam, "Rule, Ratannia!" is
  "Rule, WhatsApp!". Descriptions follow along: enemies are contacts, allies
  are group members, bullets are messages.

Downloads:
- WhatsApp Lock: all heroes, sounds and text.

Install: Deadlock Mod Manager, or put pak01_dir.vpk into game/citadel/addons
(rename it to any free number from pak01 to pak99).

Known issues:
- Replaces almost all ability audio cues. Joke mod, not for serious games.
- Logos are placed automatically; some are rotated, stretched or cut by seams.
- Viscous is not recoloured. A few dozen sounds keep their stock audio.
- Hero textures are 1024px to keep the download small.
- Conflicts with other hero skins, sound mods and localisation mods.
- Built for the 9 October 2026 game version; a game update may break it.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by WhatsApp, Meta, Google or Valve.


AI disclosure: this mod was built with AI assistance (Claude by Anthropic,
https://claude.com/claude-code). Claude wrote the scripts that recolour the
textures, stamp the logo, convert the sounds and rename the text. No generative
image, audio or voice model was used and nothing was trained on any dataset.

CREDITS  (rule R.23: must go in the Credits module under the Ownership tab, with
          links, and must include original artists/companies with rights)
  Mod / idea / testing ......... Lost_Phoeniix
  Build scripts ................ Claude (Anthropic) - https://claude.com/claude-code
  Original models, textures, sounds, text ... Valve (Deadlock)
  WhatsApp logo and notification sound ..... Meta / WhatsApp
  Android notification sound ............... Google
  "whatsapp remix full" .................... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlw5uDg4izI
  Whistle notification clip ................ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXXVS1RpoMI
  Notification meme clip ................... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2cFujfVD8