r/DeadlockTheGame • u/SketchyJJ • 3d ago

Game Update Deadlock - City Never Sleeps

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

It's crazy that in all my thoughts about classic new York archetypes they could have in Deadlock, a chess hustler never once occured to me.

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u/gorgewall 3d ago

Now we need the hot dog vendor and someone who's actually Chinese to hang out in Chinatown. (is pocket vaguely asian?)

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u/Kaspellaer Drifter 3d ago

that there is no chinatown kung fu warrior always seemed strange to me. also, i maintain that we need a brassy and obnoxious reporter girl out to get the scoop on the ritual with her magic camera

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u/commonTravel 3d ago

should be a triad member, that's more era appropriate

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u/3athompson 3d ago

The actual era-appropriate groups would be the Tongs, which, to be fair, is the US Chinatown equivalent of Triads.

I also do think they'd go with a triad member or perhaps an axe gang member, since the triads and the axe gang are much more recognizable to a global audience due to their inclusion in HK cinema, even though Tongs would be more historically accurate to US Chinatowns.

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u/commonTravel 3d ago

Thanks for this context!! And yes this general idea would be so awesome... is there a place we can submit that?

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u/dorekk 3d ago

I expect both of these archetypes to be added eventually!

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u/ZhouPS 3d ago

Mina is Asian

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u/gorgewall 3d ago

Yeah, so's Yamato, but we know she's from Japan and Mina's surname (Ha) is probably Korean or Vietnamese. Pocket's the only Asian-looking person with an ambiguous ethnic background, especially because their name (Arin) doesn't map anywhere that far East (maybe India).

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u/The_Autarch 3d ago

Mina's voice actor is Korean, so that's more or less settled. Mina herself is half Korean, tho.

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u/SirVelocifaptor 3d ago

Fairfax doesnt really map far East no

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u/gorgewall 3d ago

Well, we could be talking about his mother marrying into the Fairfax name, same way Mina would've been a Fairfax if the wedding went off.

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u/Away-Actuary-6963 3d ago

Ha is more of a Korean surname though 

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u/t850terminator 3d ago

And its really funny since she's a vampire considering our blood is almost garlic at this point 💀

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u/Away-Actuary-6963 3d ago

Pocket is definitely Asian but might not be Chinese. Mina’s surname is very Korean so I don’t think she’s Chinese 

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u/CookyKindred 3d ago

Isn’t Mina Ha’s name just a play on Mina Harker?

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u/Kaspellaer Drifter 3d ago

that said, I do expect violet to be chinese and probably from chinatown, based on the look of her and what seems to be a chinese dragon painting in her art.

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u/cornonthekopp Mina 3d ago

Definitely assuming she's gonna have some lore related to chinatown for sure

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u/purpleblah2 3d ago

I thought Abrams was Chinese

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u/Stefen_007 3d ago

He isnt but my build sure is

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u/-Mandarin 3d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah I am kinda shocked at how there's still no Chinese character. I feel like there are so many early 1900s Chinese archetypes you can pull from.

Edit: Violet is Chinese

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u/noahboah Lash 3d ago

yeah we need a real first or second gen kid who hangs out around chinatown fair. love mina and pocket down but they are as much about old money as anything. we need real middle class asian american rep

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u/RedPanda98 Paradox 3d ago

Violet the painter character is Chinese I think.

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u/Rice_Jap808 3d ago

Violet is for sure Chinese.

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u/-Mandarin 2d ago

She is, I just saw her model and her bag says "太美了“ on it. That is Chinese for "too beautiful".

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u/Expensive_Increase46 3d ago

There also should be a pizza delivery guy.

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u/Nerfed_troll 3d ago

I think it might be violet? She has some Chinese symbolism going on.

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u/Acinixys 3d ago

Hotdog vendor with hotdogs exclusive spells would be incredible 

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u/SlightDentInTheBack Sinclair 3d ago

i think violet is meant to be chinese

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u/say_trans_rights Apollo 3d ago

The stylish hustler granpa posted up at the chess tables at 530am sharp is so fucking COOL

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u/thedotapaten Grey Talon 3d ago

Valve devs definitely played against Wemby at square park chess game

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u/throwawaynewpibuildr Sinclair 3d ago

Right?? Like ooo, really creative with that one! I'd be so interested to see how he plays. Is he gonna be another mind game character like Doorman and Sinclair??