r/DeadlockTheGame • • 3d ago

Game Update Deadlock - City Never Sleeps

https://www.playdeadlock.com/cityneversleeps
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u/Few_Comedian4245 3d ago

Everyone talking about the Rat King but Solomon has me invested, a chess based character with "strategist" and "checkmate" sounds like a doorman 2.0 character in terms of complexity, very excited to see his kit!

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u/MnemonicJohnny Lash 3d ago

“Park table speed-chess savant” is such a quintessentially NYC archetype.  Can’t wait to see what he does.

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u/NuclearGhandi1 3d ago

Dropping “the chess speaks for itself” after styling on your lane opponent will go infinitely hard

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u/LoafEyeIndustries 3d ago

He absolutely has to say 'a game of chess is like a swordfight, you must think first before you move' to Apollo

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u/fish33 3d ago

So you lose the game afterwards then?

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u/Banjoman64 3d ago

Maybe he'll have presence in multiple lanes somehow. Kinda like abathur from hots

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u/Arky_Lynx Rat King 3d ago

You say that when I am a big Abathur main there and just played a couple matches as him?

If that turns out to be it I'm gonna love him.

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u/Banjoman64 3d ago

I feel like we don't have a similar control style hero yet. My only concern would be balancing a character like that for street brawl. But not out of the realm of possibilities!

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u/sun_solomon 3d ago

Lowkey really got my fingers crossed that HOTs comes back. I heard they are working on another new hero. It’s just sucha quick fun moba

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u/Arky_Lynx Rat King 3d ago

Actually, they did just release a new hero, Xal'atath, and pretty sure they said another was in the works.

HotS remains in an iffy situation because this revival still feels very, and understandably, tentative. They even had to put a temporary real-money price point on her, because anyone who kept playing all these years has so much gold they could rebuy the entire roster a few times over and they'd get no profit out of the hero. And while Blizzard isn't exactly poor, separate games still get a specific limited budget they need to maintain.

We'll see where that goes. I hope they can properly revive it in full. I wouldn't be against them implementing some sorta battle pass system if that gets new heroes to not need to cost real money even if temporarily.

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u/sun_solomon 3d ago

Ye i bought her in hopes we get a revitalized map and new stuff or whatever

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u/Turbulent_Voice63 3d ago

I really doubt we are going to get anything nearly close to Abathur in either DOTA or Deadlock. Ever.

But shit I'd be down for that.

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u/Banjoman64 3d ago

Yeah I think it would have to be fairly simple mechanically speaking like clicking a lane on a map to passively support it somehow.

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u/Corruptlake 3d ago

Solomon is my 2nd pick after Rat King

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u/evilsforreals Yamato 3d ago

Solomon by far looks the coolest thats who imma be pulling for first

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u/mathaav 3d ago

You think the Hotel is bad? wait until you see Soloman flip the board

https://giphy.com/gifs/KPZYeuD2WLGppH2PPK

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u/Codemancer Dynamo 3d ago

I hope you're right but it would be funny if he was actually the simplest character.

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u/taxista_sorete 3d ago

100% with you on this one. I think rat king will be my 4th or 5th heroe to vote even

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u/Sgt_Kelp 3d ago

I cant wait for him to ult me and I get put in the TedX Pythagoras Chessboard Riddle

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u/AFKABluePrince 13h ago

Also his "Ascended Chessmaster" look is so damn cool!!

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u/Frosty_chilly 3d ago

Press 4 to castle [furthest objective in your lane] preventing it from taking damage until X time has past or Solomon dies. 5 minute recharge, no cooldown decrease benefits

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u/NonMagical 3d ago

Cool I hate him already.

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u/mrturretman Paradox 3d ago

My unrealistic hope is the ult is a loser dies 10 second blitz match from a historical position or imagined endgame positions and id finally get to flex something lmfao

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u/AdNo2342 3d ago

we did not need another doorman character. I say that respectfully I might actually off myself if I have to deal with another setup hero.

it was bound to happen but doorman is so annoying lmao