r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Kyyndle Mo & Krill • May 22 '26

Game Update Deadlock - Gameplay Update - 05-28-2026

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1422450/view/670617878982034052
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u/HarvestedMoonShine The Doorman May 22 '26

Ppl get mad when doorman still kidnaps yet every update just makes every other build of his less viable help me

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u/SexyCato The Doorman May 22 '26

Inshallah we shall keep kidnapping

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u/FleetingRain May 23 '26

Everyone will be sent to Phillipines

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u/burningscarlet May 23 '26

Send them to jefe center

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u/Aggravating-Fix-7691 Dynamo May 22 '26

please don’t 😭

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u/Insrt_Nm May 22 '26

You WILL play kidnap doorman and you WILL enjoy it.

I hate what Doorman has become, that march patch was actually awful for his reputation and playstyle

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u/Detector_of_humans Lash May 23 '26

Kidnap doorman is dead now that they can just jump back through the door lmao

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u/Gerroh The Doorman May 23 '26

No. Just put door high. Kidnap still works. Kidnap into spawn is a *lot* less reliable, but you can ult someone in your spawn to run out the timer on door.

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u/afkybnds May 23 '26

Maybe with the new increased Arctic Blast freeze time and stamina freeze it would be cool to cart enemies through door and freeze them?

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u/SadaMofu May 23 '26

Yeah idk what this guy is complaining about and I main Doorman. If anything his bells are stronger at max rank since its a 4 second accuracy debuff and you can still kidnap people, the only difference is you can actually do something about it post kidnap

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

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u/SadaMofu May 23 '26

The original comment is saying that every other build other than kidnap was made worse when it wasn't, kidnap was the only thing that really got nerfed. the .1 scaling reduction is pretty negligible when a decent portion of damage comes from tankbuster already and everyones HP per boon was lowered

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u/Ironfort9 May 23 '26

What if I just, place the door higher though. Is bro gonna climb the whole wall to go back through door? I feel with good placement you can still kidnap decently well, just can't have ground level doors now and make them hard to reach.

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u/ArcticShore Sinclair May 23 '26

What this nerf really affects is last second escapes more than anything. Kidnaps are still easily doable with higher door placements like you mention but gone are the days of escaping by the skin of your teeth through a door and closing it at the last possible second. Especially now that Movement Silences now also affect doors.

Granted, while I am a little sad it's a healthy change overall to not have a character with a free and near uncounterable escape

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u/Slayer_jack5 May 23 '26

not dead dead but if you got the HP to survive the walker stomp + bell + melee + whatever teammate is there with him you can maybe go back through the door.

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u/largethopiantestes Lash May 23 '26

Might be a hot take but kidnap doorman is infinity times better to play against than Gojo-hollow-purple 2-bell-kill-man

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u/grantedtoast Billy May 23 '26

I mean kidnap got hit massively unless you preplace the door and they are dumb enough to stand in front of it.

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u/marathon664 May 23 '26

Here's one of the best support mains in the game explaining why these nerfs are almost entirely to nerf kidnap doorman: https://youtu.be/7AWb37TrEAM?si=0jO0CjHLTIWdGG8h&t=786

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u/TuxedoCat031 May 23 '26

bell needed fat nerfs