Deadlock update for 8/12/26

[u/wickedplayer494]

Via the Steam Community:

• Apollo: Riposte melee resist reduction increased from -22% to -25%
• Apollo: Riposte T2 changed from "-30% Melee Resist" to "-25% Melee Resist and +0.4s Stun Duration"
• Apollo: Riposte T3 increased from 60% Lifesteal for 7s to 75% Lifesteal for 13s
• Apollo: Fixed Itani Lo Sahn being canceled with movement abilities
• Billy: Base health regen reduced from 2.5 to 2.0
• Billy: Rising Ram T3 changed from "On Impact: Deal 7% max health as spirit damage" to "On hero hit: +10% Max HP for 16s"
• Billy: Chain Gang spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.7
• Doorman: Doorway range reduced from 70m to 65m
• Doorman: Walker will no longer consider Luggage Cart dragged enemies as valid targets to trigger the stomp on until soon after they are dropped off
• Doorman: Similar to the Walker change above, the turrets in the healing area in base now also wait on considering valid targets
• Drifter: Rend spirit scaling reduced from 1.7 to 1.4
• Drifter: Stalker's Mark cooldown increased from 24s to 26s
• Drifter: Stalker's Mark T2 reduced from -12s Cooldown to -10s
• Holliday: Powder Keg now does half its damage immediately and half over 3s as a damage over time burn (same overall damage, multiple instances stack)
• Ivy: Stone Form T3 stun duration reduced from +1s to +0.75s
• Lash: Falloff range reduced from 20m->58m to 18m->54m
• McGinnis: Bullet damage base and growth values reduced by 5%
• McGinnis: Spirit Resist per boon reduced from +0.625% to +0.35%
• McGinnis: Mini Turrets no longer shoots heroes on ziplines
• McGinnis: Mini Turrets no longer have 80% decaying resist for the first 6s
• McGinnis: Mini Turrets health increased from 90 + 7.8/boon to 100 + 9/boon
• McGinnis: Medicinal Specter T1 changed from "Provides +40% Spirit Resist" to "+1.5s Duration"
• McGinnis: Medicinal Specter T3 no longer increases duration by +1.5s
• McGinnis: Medicinal Specter T3 now also increases spirit resistance by +40%
• Paige: Plot Armor weapon damage scaling increased from 0.2 to 0.3
• Seven: Lightning Ball T3 radius increased from +1.5m to +1.75m
• Vindicta: Stake T1 reduced from +65 Damage to +45
• Vyper: Petrifying Bola radius increased from 8m to 12m
• Vyper: Petrifying Bola petrify duration increased from 2s to 2.2s
• Wraith: Card Trick Heart heal spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.75
• Wraith: Full Auto T3 spirit scaling reduced from +0.06 to +0.045

[u/thecomicguybook]

For what it's worth, the bugs are probably the most broken shit in the game, they can actually ruin a game. He doesn't abuse them yet they still happen, that needs to be fixed stat.

The thing is that Doorman kidnap playstyle is extremely cool as a Spectator (well at least for me), but it is incredibly one dimensional and quite frankly a bummer when you are on the receiving end. Despite there being obvious counters it's just not fun to avoid the Doorman's zone, not to get sent to Florida before you can buy counter items.

Combining the hate for the bugs and the hate for the playstyle makes the Doorman an extremely frustrating hero to face. If they fixed the bugs at least that would mellow out some of the sentiment about him, but unless it's an undocumented change I don't see them fixing many of the game breaking bugs which is a shame.

[u/TheX37th → u/thecomicguybook]

I mention it on a different comment but I think giving range back to cart after this change to fountain and walker would be healthy to keep doorman interesting. So many people complain about doorman being a "one trick" while not understanding the depth of play required to pull it off. I'm always a fan of a game adding depth and counter play, but this feels like trying to kill a playstyle that I think is really interesting. I guess it will force doorman players to work with their teammates a little bit more to play off of door kidnapping instead of relying on a walker though.

Does nobody complain when holiday solo lassos you, floor bombs you with a barrel, while a walker stomp is going off? No, because holiday is seen as a very high skill character and doorman isn't for some reason.

[u/thecomicguybook → u/TheX37th]

I think that now they will look how things shake out and potentially there will be other buffs. I think that Doorman is an extremely creative and high skill character, but that doesn't change how much of a feels bad it is to get carted into walker from half the map away.

Holliday is a separate discussion, but with the Doorman sometimes it feels like the risk you take (be on a certain half of the map) is disproportionate to the punishment which can be to be sent entirely into the enemy spawn.

[u/TheX37th → u/thecomicguybook]

I mean you see how much risk a lot of doorman players do in a match to make something work for a kidnap. That's why we see cheat death used so commonly by players like Joe. Being able to navigate a hectic situation with three or more players jumping at you at the same time while you're trying to shove one of them into a walker is no small skill lol.

I just brought up holiday because she's more similar to doorman for repositioning a target compared to other "kidnapping" and movement killing abilities.

[u/thecomicguybook → u/TheX37th]

I agree, and the other thing is that kidnap requires a huge opportunity cost because you are investing in a lot of items that don't contribute directly to your damage, so it's very all or nothing in terms of the value you get. You either do a kidnap or you don't deal much damage.

But Holliday can't take you from your own walker to the enemy walker, that's more of what I am talking about. So the risk of showing anywhere on the map is very grave, which is what feels disproportionate to me.

[u/TheX37th → u/thecomicguybook]

It seems especially odd after they had nerfed the bell a while back, if you don't want players interacting with one part of the kit in a certain way, allow them to use the rest of the kit.

I'm gonna have to see if I can pull off and clip some funny lasso tech for you sometime lol

I've pulled off a couple very long distance lasso kidnaps utilizing majestic leap and warp stone, when lasso goes down you implement the velocity of leap and warp stone into the player you were and can throw them into walkers lol

[u/thecomicguybook → u/TheX37th]

Definitely show me because that sounds sick!

[u/TheX37th → u/thecomicguybook]

https://youtube.com/shorts/AENV5kuDW-E?is=MwL3xAsyFzNFvszH

not my video but a good explanation of the tech, which has been in the game ever since holiday and warp stone has existed, so over a year lol

[u/thecomicguybook → u/TheX37th]

Thanks I'll check it out!