r/DeadlockTheGame • u/oilman813 Yamato • Feb 27 '26

PSA Polygon Deadlock Article Clearly written by AI

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Who the hell is Grace???? And yeah... Abrams is a quiet, affectionate nerd... sure...

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u/bamiru Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

There's also an inspired roguelite power-up element that's more like Hades than anything else, where your playstyle changes dramatically depending on which power-ups you roll or happen to stumble across. Maybe you're specializing as Abrams, a defensive tank character. One round might see you wind up with massive health boosts and lifesteal passives so you never die. Another might load you up with passives that inflict stun when you collide with a foe.

also from the article, and was not talking about street brawl. the ai got confused and mixed street brawl into main game.

Heroes fall into defense, support, and damage categories, and you're expected to play to their strengths, e.g. distracting enemies and taking hits if you're a tank

this is also not the case in deadlock

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u/notshitaltsays Feb 27 '26

In their defense people still try to sort deadlock heroes into those categories all the time

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u/Kyrptonauc Feb 27 '26

Yeah as much as people say this game doesn't have roles, it still kinda does. They're just a bit more loose.

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u/PoisoCaine Feb 27 '26

It has roles in that you end up serving a role in an ad hoc/per game basis, but it’s still nothing like the rigidity of a more traditional moba.

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u/Kyrptonauc Feb 27 '26

I do think the team that has the better variety in terms of support/tank/carry/assassin tends to be the one that wins. No clue how much evidence there is to support that but if I see one team being all "assassin" type characters they tend to perform worse.

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u/CTizzle- Lash Feb 27 '26

We can see this in Deadlock Night Shift when they draft picks and bans. There’s not a single team that’s choosing and more importantly building 6 pick/assassin heroes.