Kill Sound Enhancer

How to use

1. Install the mod: use your mod manager's 1-click install on kill_streak_sounds.zip, or put its pak48_dir.vpk in Deadlock\game\citadel\addons yourself. That's all you need for the VALORANT Prime kill sounds.
2. Want your own sounds? Download kill_sound_converter.zip with the normal Download button (not 1-click install: it isn't a mod, so a mod manager would install nothing from it).
3. Unzip it anywhere, for example to your Desktop, and open make_your_own\kill_sound_converter.exe.
4. Pick a sound for each row, then close Deadlock and click Install. It updates the mod you installed in step 1, wherever your mod manager put it. Start Deadlock and your sounds play.

You don't need kill_sound_converter_source.zip. It's the converter's source code, for anyone who wants to check or build it.

What it does

• Plays a kill sound on your own kills, one step higher for each kill in a streak.
• Kills 1 to 5 play sounds 1 to 5. Kill 6 and every kill after play sound 6.
• The streak resets when you die.
• Teammates' kills don't play it. The game's normal enemy-death sound is unchanged.
• It plays right away, on the game's UI sound channel, so Music Volume doesn't affect it.
• With the converter you can also change your hit sounds: Hit, Headshot and Killing blow (the hit that kills). Like the game's own, Headshot also plays when you get headshot, and Killing blow on trooper last hits. On a headshot the game plays the Hit sound with the Headshot sound on top, so set both to sounds that work together.

Using the converter

• Each row's list shows the MP3s in the sounds folder (make_your_own\sounds). The VALORANT Prime sounds are already there. Open sounds folder opens it, and new files show up in the list right away.
• Deadlock default keeps the game's own sound for that row.
• You can also drag an MP3 onto a row. It's copied into the sounds folder and picked.
• Play plays the sound at about the volume it will have in the game. Volume is a percentage of the normal level.
• It shows the sounds you have installed when you open it again.
• Restore Deadlock sounds sets every row back to the game's own sound.
• Save mod file saves the mod as a .vpk instead of installing it, if you'd rather add it through your mod manager yourself.
• MP3 only. Keep kill sounds short (2 to 4 seconds) and hit sounds very short (under half a second).

Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" the first time because the program isn't code-signed. Click More info, then Run anyway.

Installing by hand

Put pak48_dir.vpk in Deadlock\game\citadel\addons. If pak48_dir.vpk already exists, rename this one to any unused pakNN_dir.vpk.

Compatibility

Kill sounds replace soundevents/music.vsndevts, so they conflict with mods that change the game's music events. Each hit sound you set replaces the game's files for it (sounds/hit_indicators/damage_send_*). Rows left on Deadlock default replace nothing, so other hit sound mods still work there.

Credits

The VALORANT Prime sounds are from VALORANT, a game by Riot Games. Riot asks fan projects that use its sounds to include this notice:

Kill Sound Enhancer was created under Riot Games' "Legal Jibber Jabber" policy using assets owned by Riot Games. Riot Games does not endorse or sponsor this project.

This mod is free and non-commercial.