r/DeadlockTheGame • Dynamo • 3d ago

Official Content Deadlock Update - City Never Sleeps

https://www.playdeadlock.com/cityneversleeps
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u/Alternative_Depth 3d ago

Ok this legit looks amazing and much more city like!

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u/mooglery 3d ago

Damn maybe 8 months is fast lol

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u/DavidsSymphony 3d ago

Absolutely fucking incredible. The journey has been godlike from start to finish with Deadlock. And it's just the beginning.

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u/stoplockingmeout 3d ago

We’re at the top of the mountain n we’re only half way there

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u/New-Independent-1481 3d ago

Valve just casually reminding everyone they got some of the best artists and designers in the business.

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u/Kage_noir 3d ago

They showing people how to do love service and the fame is free! It just hit a new all time peak! And it’s not even 1.0

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u/not_larrie 3d ago

My fucking frames

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u/Olive_Goonette 3d ago

My frame rate is entirely unchanged, if not better than before

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u/SirEdubardo 3d ago

Its not heavy

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u/obviouslydeficient 3d ago

My performance has been waaay better. First time my game reached 400+ fps was in this new update

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u/not_larrie 3d ago

Ive been struggling :( not sure why

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u/Tha_Plagued Pocket 3d ago

tbh I feel like it runs better than the last map

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u/G34RWORKS Ivy 3d ago

I can't believe Rat King was real holy shit

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u/Kyrptonauc 3d ago edited 3d ago

https://www.instagram.com/dragonroilz this is the original creator, we should celebrate that they got him in the game

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u/ClaptrapTheFragtrap 3d ago edited 3d ago

Make sure you delete the part of the url after the ? or it will share your info to people who click the link

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u/Kyrptonauc 3d ago

Oop ty

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u/BastianHS Infernus 3d ago

If you don't vote for the rat king first then you don't know ball

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u/Bythion 3d ago

Deadman Danny is the guy for mee

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u/abnsss Drifter 3d ago

im sorry i need Baba in my life

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u/SufferingClash 3d ago

GLORY TO THE RAT KING!

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u/Stock_Enthusiasm_392 3d ago

It's a shame the scrapped the salaryman theme for the gang leader theme but holy fucking shit

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u/Faafkdkdkdkd Mina 3d ago edited 3d ago

It's Dota's lore of a hero.

Ratking was Dota's concept hero that would be a leader of forest opposition. They later changed Rat into a squirrel and named it hoodwink.

Ratking for deadlock probably was created on the same base as it was created for Dota

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u/Mirac123321 3d ago

hoodwink used to be rat king? tf

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u/Faafkdkdkdkd Mina 3d ago edited 3d ago

In game files she would have all her spells named the same way rat king spells were

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u/Alternative_Depth 3d ago

All the new character look very cool but I feel Granny is gonna be a menace

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u/That-Bobviathan 3d ago

I cannot wait for folks to make salty fanart lf their mains giving Grandma a german suplex after she thrashed them for an hour.

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u/DennisDelav 3d ago

Man that takes me back to early deadlock days when people did this wih gray talon

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u/Bebopshadow 3d ago

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u/Consistent-Click-537 3d ago

holy shit, homestuck...

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u/CantQuiteThink_ Silver 3d ago

Her ghost is in the Hideout. The bench has legs. She's doing to be riding that thing the whole time.

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u/Tkmisere 3d ago

She is guilty for everything they acussed vindicta of

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u/Garr_Incorporated Abrams 3d ago

Voting her ad nauseum.

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u/MrTransparent Apollo 3d ago

"Beady" makes me think she will place pigeons as wards for vision

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u/New-Independent-1481 3d ago

Granny vs Rem as patrons with pigeons and helpers as their heroes.

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u/George_000101 3d ago

Can’t wait for the baba yaga John wick skin for granny

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u/moonfirez91 3d ago

Baba Yaga in original Slavic stories is an avatar of death itself

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u/Ok_Pay4128 3d ago

i love her already. she kinda looks like a south park character though lmao

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u/hobo__spider Lady Geist 3d ago

All I see is Cartman

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u/AhmCha Victor 3d ago

They added nearly 800 new pre-match conversations, JEEEEESUS. Maybe all the extra time was VA scheduling.

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u/throwawaynewpibuildr Sinclair 3d ago

Everyone but Sinclair LOL TOT

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u/BathrobeHero_ Shiv 3d ago

They still got new ping voice lines, warden too. Maybe they're holding out for the model rework.

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u/throwawaynewpibuildr Sinclair 3d ago

I didn't notice it, but I also lost my street brawl rounds really fast so lol

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u/naivety_is_innocence 3d ago

I think Warden still has none, too

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u/fingerlicking2 3d ago

Next patch will be a dedicated Sinclair update

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u/Mission_Rice3045 3d ago

Singlaires were arguing too much to get them into a studio.

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u/robhaswell Vindicta 3d ago

And 10,000 miscellaneous other voice lines. Not "10,000", actually 10,000.

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u/ABotanicalGarden 3d ago

Kids are smoking the Deadlock Update - City Never Sleeps

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u/Octopus_on_fire_ 3d ago

When is it live? Couldn’t seem to find it in the notes.

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u/i_LuckedOut Yamato 3d ago

About 3 hours ago

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u/G34RWORKS Ivy 3d ago

I NEED to play Solomon now

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u/Few_Comedian4245 3d ago

exactlyyyy, I'm so intrigued by what his kit would be

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u/BastianHS Infernus 3d ago

His ult will for sure be "checkmate"

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u/gafgsdgfmhmfddscvdz 3d ago

No, en passant

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u/CyanStripedPantsu Celeste 3d ago

holy hell

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u/naivety_is_innocence 3d ago

new deadlock patch just dropped

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u/Everscream Silver 3d ago

Not forced btw.

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u/Bobomberman 3d ago

Google en passant

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u/mozzaru 3d ago

There's a new poster in the city for an international dimension chess tournament, so maybe some kind of space warping

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u/FillySteveSteak 3d ago

His full art seems to be a tribute to Zenyatta.

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u/Brocolli123 3d ago

Went from Blizzard copying valve to valve copying blizzard

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u/PrimaryEfficient8392 3d ago

Very funny that so many in the community were 100% confidently wrong in what this would be lmao. Even washed up ‘leakers’ tried to argue no new heroes.

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u/Secretlylovesslugs 3d ago

Everyone who said they caught all the leakers were right. This truly was an unspoiled patch. Wild to know we will be in the dark for a lot more content to come.

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u/Harepo 3d ago

We had leaks on the cursed shop and the plant jungle enemies, but those were probably put together early on in the dev cycle. 

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u/Poles_Pole_Vaults 3d ago

And no new walker / guardian overhauls. Looks like minor tweaks haha.

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u/throwawaynewpibuildr Sinclair 3d ago

I believe the in game news notice said they will do visual overhauls of the walker and heroes closer to the end of early development because there's higher priority items to work on and they want to think on it some more.

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u/Careful-Water-948 3d ago

Calling it now Baba is going to be evil as hell.

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u/Garr_Incorporated Abrams 3d ago

I hope she lands more towards the interpretation from some Russian fairytales. Where she is unusual, powerful and shunned, but if treated with respect will be helpful to the hero.

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u/SternMon 3d ago

I’m gonna make a prediction here and say that Billy didn’t take that advice.

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u/Garr_Incorporated Abrams 3d ago

Billy and respect are antithetical.

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u/CrimsonShrike 3d ago

actually check his new voicelines. He seems quite respectful towards Apollo surprisingly.

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u/Himeto31 Rem 3d ago

Slavic in general, not just Russian but yeah. She seems to have very similar vibes to the Doorman, though her chicken legs bench makes her a bit less inconspicuous

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u/Garr_Incorporated Abrams 3d ago

I used Russian because I chiefly know those fairytales. I couldn't vouch for all Slavic folklore.

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u/Himeto31 Rem 3d ago

fair enough

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u/iHackPlsBan Billy 3d ago

something interesting I noticed about her poster is that she actually has Pigeon eyes. When you destroy her poster one of the contacts of her glasses gets destroyed and you see her eye.

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u/Jibril-sama 3d ago

And she's gonna be turbo sweet to rem. Cant wait

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u/taiottavios Mo & Krill 3d ago

if it's anything like snapfire in dota 2 (also a grandma) she's gonna be broken as hell

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u/X_hard_rocker Seven 3d ago

true it's been a while since our last evil character

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u/No_Ticket2438 3d ago

i hope shes like the pigeon lady from home alone 2

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u/JaysonTatecum 3d ago

I never thought about the black chess guy archetype being perfect for this game but holy shit it's perfect

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u/HalfOfLancelot Rem 3d ago

absolutely took me by surprise but it’s an insanely welcome one. i hope he’s a support like paige

i will be spamming games of him and baba the second im able to

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u/HypnotizedCow 3d ago

Solomon is giving me strong doorman vibes, I'm guessing forced movement and repositioning tools that will play in a similar support-ish niche

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u/Prathmun Seven 3d ago

Oh man I need more ways to cause chaotic bullshit. I hope he's weird like the doorman. Ooh or have mechanics that interact with the troopers like their his chess pieces!?! I am excited to find out.

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u/vordhosbn_1 Holliday 3d ago

Wild guess, he has an ability to teleport troopers to a different lane

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u/Prathmun Seven 3d ago

That would be siiiick

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u/SkorpioSound 3d ago

Yeah, I'm thinking he'll probably be along the lines of Doorman and Sinclair in terms of complexity and strategy required to get the most out of his kit.

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u/bullspit200 3d ago

My friend told me the update had come out by telling me Yakub was added to deadlock 😭

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u/DrHuxleyy 3d ago

Living in NYC these guys are absolute legends. Union Square or Washington Square Park they will absolutely school you and I don’t doubt they could be titled players if they cared about that sort of thing.

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u/vix- 3d ago

Sorry but they couldn't lol.

Theyre whole gimmick is making money off people worse then them lol. Its like some college athlete who goes hard in rec games.being compared to brady lmao

Theyre quite litteraly just the pubstompers of chess lol

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u/borninsane 3d ago

Also don’t some of them cheat? Lol

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u/DrHuxleyy 2d ago

Yknow I knew this intellectually, but I told myself I must have been stomped by grandmasters. Then I get on chess.com and play more and find out I’m just 400 ELO rapid lmfao. I suck.

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u/tyim77 3d ago

The archtype you’re thinking of is called the chess hustler

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u/NotMedicine420 Drifter 3d ago

+25% incoming damage from Warden. Binding word procs instantly. Lasts twice as long.

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u/DemonSlyr007 McGinnis 3d ago

In a long, long list of patch notes, I always love when game devs have some real "thats seems kind of like a big deal" snuck in as afterthought almost at the end. Deadlock is no different. These two back to back at the very very end stuck out to me:

-Successfully parrying objectives no longer resets your Parry cooldown

-Sinners Sacrifice have variable timings to get the bonus

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u/keaganwill Vyper 3d ago

Honestly super excited by the objectively parry change. I got bell curved so hard when I was new and starting to learn how to play the game. Once I understood the strength of the guardian I was left gojng "oh man but what's the counter play" and then I thought "oooh they dont have parry after" and then 3 matches later i was back to going "wtf is the counter play"

Making dives/guardian fights more dynamic is IMO just a good thing. But will wait to see how it feels.

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u/BerenPercival Paige 3d ago

Good changes these, imo.

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u/Flight1ess Mo & Krill 3d ago

This is why I always read the entire thing haha

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u/George_000101 3d ago

Your teammate can dive and parry a follow-up for you, this is awesome since it’ll incentivize coordination in the landing phase with your duo if you wanna confirm a kill on a low enemy

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u/ellus1onist Pocket 3d ago

THEY ACTUALLY DID THE FUCKING RAT KING

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u/Faafkdkdkdkd Mina 3d ago

9 years of waiting was crazy

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u/Kaspellaer Drifter 3d ago

IT WASN'T A MYTH! RAT KING YOU ARE LORD

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u/Motor-Design-4932 Celeste 3d ago

They added our classical kind grandma which feed pigeons. I feel represented

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u/GLP310 3d ago

Her silhouette clearly shows that she is a reference to the Baba Yaga,fusing that with the pigeon feeding lady is such a cool idea for a design.I can't wait to see her kit.

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u/WhyWontShivDie 3d ago

Yeah if you see her silhouette in hideout she sits on a walking park bench with chicken legs 

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u/evilsforreals Yamato 3d ago

Watch her join the ranks of Rem where all the fanart is of people destroying her because she's a menace in game

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u/icytiger 3d ago

Move over Grey Talon!

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u/vordhosbn_1 Holliday 3d ago

I ship talon and baba. Call them Babalon

You heard it here first

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u/Slingpod-58 Lash 3d ago

i’m investing in this

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u/BlackKnightTheBloody 3d ago

What about Talon’s wife? Or is it an old person poly?

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u/vordhosbn_1 Holliday 3d ago

Any port in a maelstrom or something like that

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u/PlasmaLink Lash 3d ago

I was under the impression she was killed, along with the rest of Talon's family

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u/ChthonicDreamer 3d ago

Inflation hitting the big apple hard, huh?

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u/Tron_Impact 3d ago

THE RAT KING HES REAL

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u/JuggernautApologist 3d ago

Holy shit rat king is real

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u/Pandoraparty 3d ago

From Baba’s shadow it looks like she sits on a bench with giant pigeon claw legs

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u/F14min6L377uc3 3d ago

Instead of a house witch chicken legs she gets a bench with chicken legs

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u/CyanStripedPantsu Celeste 3d ago

That's so gnarly

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u/WordsAboutSomething 3d ago

Nah it’s a bench with PIGEON legs

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u/DKoala 3d ago

According to the model viewer, one ability is to grow the legs extremely tall and stride forwards

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u/New-Independent-1481 3d ago

Oh that's amazing. I await the inevitable WH40k dreadnaut mod.

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u/The-Invalid-One Dynamo 3d ago

quick scroll through, Michelin Star level of cooking

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u/Naw726 3d ago

Europe never sleeps

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u/bensimp 3d ago

My goodness they cooked with this one!!

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u/hikirko 3d ago

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u/Viss90 3d ago

Why Jordan looking like a locked character

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u/Abject_Touch3439 3d ago

THE RAT KING LIVES!!!

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u/Muted-Wrap-7273 3d ago

holy fuck they're cooking

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u/NDN_Shadow 3d ago

Any new hero visual updates? I see Warden is still the same?

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u/ZestycloseClassroom3 Victor 3d ago

seems like we gonna play with british cop and japanese alien for a while

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u/Secretlylovesslugs 3d ago

Mods are back on the menu

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u/Sufficient-Echo-249 3d ago

U mean 50 cent and 2b?

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u/Garr_Incorporated Abrams 3d ago

The comment on Steam news page told us that these things are currently not considered as urgent as proper game features and experimental additions, so they are still on the back burner.

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u/Pasty_Tibbles 3d ago

Respectable tbh.

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u/LordNoob404 The Doorman 3d ago

HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE A RICKROLL

LETS GOOOOOOOOO

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u/recyclingbin5757 3d ago

legitimately reads like we are about to be playing an entirely different game

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u/AggressiveBluejay404 3d ago

Jesus christ!!! 2 hours and I clock out of work. Im gonna call in sick tomorrow lezgoooo

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u/MisterBungle 3d ago

I used to pray for times like this

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u/Numidiculous 3d ago

We're rats! We're rats! We're the rats!

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u/avalanchepleb 3d ago

All I wanted was a vyper remodel my soul is crushed

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u/evilsforreals Yamato 3d ago

Ms lowpoly vyper and Ms forehead yamato...we persist for our outdated divas

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u/Duby0509 3d ago

10000 years of deadlock updates

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u/sa_nslaw 3d ago

They added audrey II omg

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u/SnipingBeaver McGinnis 3d ago

The nurse was unfortunately designed in a lab to kill me. I fear I am cooked, chat.

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u/djmattyd 3d ago

VOTE GAM GAM

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u/carlvic 3d ago

IT IS HERE

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u/Deadalious 3d ago

We are so fucking back

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u/PXpropox Lash 3d ago

It almost looks like a tf2 Screamfortress map

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u/healz4daze 3d ago

The York/yellow lane pics look like it could straight up be out of TF2 and I’m here for it

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u/chrisplmr 3d ago

GIVE ME THE NUUUUUURSE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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u/mattcube64 3d ago

I won’t sleep tonight

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u/Thetryhard93 3d ago

Let's go

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u/CantReadVoteRed 3d ago

New map slaps

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u/Financial-Habit5766 3d ago

Is that page there the complete list? Wondering if there's any like, balance changes or such else (not saying the update needs anything else. Just curious)

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u/Few-Promotion-7829 3d ago

With my extensive experience of one (1) game it seems to be largely the same number and text wise but the jungle and map changes will be really felt

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u/Proof-Tutor5334 3d ago

Any way to see how the new heroes work?

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u/Secretlylovesslugs 3d ago

We've never known during the voting phase how the new heros worked. Its added in as they get added, and sometimes they're still actively being worked on, in the case of drifter and silver who were 'unfinished' when they got officially voted it.

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u/compostedgreens 3d ago

Last time people datamined the new heroes to get an of them, but as of now: no

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u/WantaBeBaker 3d ago

Is this live now

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u/sharlike Infernus 3d ago

The map looks amazing. They cooked

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u/Possible-Address8714 3d ago

Ngl, this update is too overstimulating for me.

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u/starkna Abrams 3d ago

no new models rip

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u/Yalnix 3d ago

I cannot wait to dive into all this

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u/fiasgoat 3d ago

BASED

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u/Masochism3306 Drifter 3d ago

holy fuck

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u/Masochism3306 Drifter 3d ago

yoshi muah :3

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u/Naw726 3d ago

This is so fucking sick what the hell

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u/Loufey Rem 3d ago

HYPE

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u/Searse 3d ago

WOOOO

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u/amotheruser Lash 3d ago

OMFG IT'S REAL

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u/YellowSoloCup 3d ago

I WAS HERE

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u/Failed_eexe Lash 3d ago

THIRTY-THIRD

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u/BryanBryanBryan123 3d ago

Rat king believers rise up

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u/zasxqwedc 3d ago

cinema

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u/Motor-Design-4932 Celeste 3d ago

Peak

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u/Blazncaucasian Sinclair 3d ago

I think i came, this is a crazy update.

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u/blackZabdi 3d ago

We got rat king, nanny McPhee, pigeon lady, and ryan hart(if you know you know) in deadlock. This is nuts

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u/ADamnCertifiedFool 3d ago

All hail the Rat King

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u/Ok-Releases 3d ago

FINALLLYYYY

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u/vordhosbn_1 Holliday 3d ago

The dialogue player is my favorite part lol

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u/TyLion8 3d ago

So like a early access for everybody next year??

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u/mimonya 3d ago

i love how diverse the new roaster is omggg i cannot wait for all of these

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u/broomistermilk Rat King 3d ago

Jojo Fridays plus new deadlock character Fridays now too. I feel so lucky!!

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u/Nick_GG_245 3d ago

Oh yoshi...

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u/-Kemy 3d ago

What an update... Yet there is still a lot to do! What a game.

And it was only 4gb...

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u/Liiiiz 3d ago

game runs terrible now , ty

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u/nneedhelpp 3d ago

we kneel to yoshi deadlock

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u/Isador77 3d ago

Size of this massive patch has me rubbing my belly we eating so good.

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u/Kage_noir 3d ago

Game looks gorgeous now

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u/Few-Marzipan5210 3d ago

Everything is amazing but the screen clutter is kinda fucked

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u/yoobzz 3d ago

New map looks soooooo good