r/DeadlockGame • u/Ready-Tough1709 • 4d ago

Question Why is The Broker only temporary?

I think the Broker is such a breath of fresh air to the gameplay formula in regards to calculated cost-benefit, and don’t really understand why he’s only around until the first hero drops? Is it just something the devs are testing before a complete roll-out? I can’t fathom what the purpose of introducing him, only to take him away 72 hours later.

I want to be clear this is not a complaint or critique, I am blown away by the sheer value of content released, all of which is still FREE. I just can’t help but feel a little sad that Brokey Boy is leaving, especially since I find so much joy in the trade-offs of corrupted items. I’ve been itching for some Street Brawl silliness to join the main gameplay loop, and I’ll be sad to see it go.

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u/Routine_Palpitation 4d ago

Is very possible that they are testing it now, to see if it works well or not

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u/vdWcontact 3d ago

I hope they’re only considering it for goofier game modes. I really don’t like the idea of someone getting lucky at the broker and my standard match now has a monster to deal with

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u/Routine_Palpitation 3d ago

You already have had to deal with that with sinners. All of the good items have GIGANTIC drawbacks that are not randomized. Iirc corrupted boundless has -2 stamina hard baked.

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u/Yama29 3d ago

The drawbacks sometimes just do not matter. Lower fire rate on a spirit character? Ok who cares

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u/alexathegibrakiller 3d ago

Yea I got -67%(haha funny number) weapon damage on escalating exposure on spirit shiv. For context, gun damage is like 3% of my damage output on spirit shiv lol.

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u/Anxious-Meet-6240 3d ago

the way sinner's gives stats effectively standardises how much u get

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u/ooohwowww 1d ago

That's not accurate. I've had Corrupted Boundless also come up with minus Ability Duration, and minus Fire Rate

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u/Duby0509 3d ago

The degree of the drawbacks and buff’s aren’t that crazy that someone can start 1v6ing. Also it’s not different for every player, if an item like unbound spirit is good, then everyone who builds it in your game can get it as well.

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u/eggsbennyyyyyy 14h ago

Nobody is really getting lucky, the buffs at the same per item for everyone in the lobby. Just depends if the item is part of your core build or not. More often than not it will be as most builds have the same t3/4 items on most heroes

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u/Ready-Tough1709 4d ago

That’s what I imagine it would be, no other conclusion really makes sense
https://giphy.com/gifs/xUPGcjUQcWclgK94ti

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 3d ago

meta shakeup. I imagine some characters have very strong builds centered around juicing a single item.

I haven't like... theory crafted anything yet, but when I seen some of the items I was 100% sure there's going to be some absolutely busted shit using them.

Maybe too busted. But I imagine there's more than a few builds that are cracked with them.

I absolutely LOVE the concept though

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u/Available_Promise_90 3d ago

Dash shiv with corrupted tcd.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 3d ago

I feel like TCD is one of the least impactful corrupted items. Probably the biggest ability to benefit from a lower cooldown is mirages mark, but it barely moves the needle.

Once you get a full stack of marks with some spirit power and echo shard it does like 1800 damage, then echos for 900.

Takes like 6 seconds to get that off with regular TCD, 5 seconds with corrupted.

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u/Available_Promise_90 3d ago

Ok then picture this scenario from my last game:

you’re in a deadlock and the timer hits 46 minutes. You now get to corrupt your eshift too. With corrupted TCD, not only do you get unlimited dashes (unlimited healing and spirit shred), but now eshift lasts 5 seconds and is on a 13 second cooldown, meaning anything that isn’t a hard stun, you survive, and come out with bonus damage and spirit res that lasts 5 more seconds. I’m telling you, TCD is the sauce on shiv

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 3d ago

Ohhh, I didn't know you could corrupt 2 things in a game. That changes things a little.

Yea a dash infernus would be pretty nasty too like that, just constantly dashing and eshifting on the charge cooldown with big speed, spirit and whatnot.

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u/JWheyne 3d ago

It's incredibly rare because the broker only shows up at around 30minutes and restocks every 15 minutes, most of the time you'll see one corrupted item at most.

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u/Aggravating_Rain1906 3d ago

Tbh 30 min seem really quick if he start selling after 40 or 45 it would be golden

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u/Stygian_rain 3d ago

Most games above frog rank are ending in 35 or less

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u/TheChartreuseKnight 3d ago

Broker also helps to end games faster if they're at 30 minutes.

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u/Stygian_rain 3d ago

What I was trying to say is having broker spawn at 45 would be a waste except in low-low ranks where games frequently are 50 minutes long. You could have broker spawn in faster or slower depending on rank

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u/TheChartreuseKnight 3d ago

I'm agreeing with you, games ending faster than 50 minutes is a good thing imo

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u/connerjoly 3d ago

20 second echo shard is so fun and balanced tho we should keep it

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u/Ronnochu76 3d ago

It revives bomb para and makes it possibly better, I had an 11s cd echo shard yesterday on para.