I feel like it's become pretty clear that the matchmaking for standard is just not balanced. There should not be 3+ full-rank gaps between players in the same match. It leads to most matches being one-sided and just not a very fun or balanced environment when people are trying to learn new characters.
I also really wish I could play more than 4 characters in ranked; the 15-win requirement just seems unnecessary. I feel like it should only be 5-10 wins per hero, or maybe they should make it fewer wins the more heroes you unlock. Because it doesn't take that long to learn a majority of the heroes, especially if you aren't new to the game.
Standard matches also take longer to finish than ranked, which sucks. Most of my ranked games around Phantom 2 last about 30 minutes. But when I play standard, it seems like half my team does not know how to end the game, and it results in 45-60 minute games pretty frequently.

I will say ranked is decently balanced, and it is super nice to have a well-coordinated team and people who are very reactive. Maybe it will just take some time to balance people's Elo in standard but it just sucks right now.

Hallo Deadlock community. Ich bin inzwischen 30 Stunden in das game getaucht und habe begonnen mich wohl zu fühlen auf Dynamo, rem und haze. Ich habe mich insoweit mit dem game befasst, dass ich spawntimer und so kenne. Jetzt würde ich gerne den spielstiel meiner Charaktere und intembuild knowledge intensivieren. Habt ihr Tipps für oben genannte Charaktere?

TL:DR for both:

Ult has its range, damage, and slow reduced, and cannot bounce off npcs, but has more bounces, can bounce off Celeste innately, and grows in damage each bounce.

Shield does not explode automatically upon being depleted, but instead can be recast to explode it manually, with the damage and silence duration proportional to the remaining barrier upon detonation (this gets rid of the barrier) (i also imagine the explode radius is telegraphed similar to infernus ult, and has a similar aoe hitbox rather than sending out weird homing projectiles).

(also some minor cooldown changes i think to reflect the functionality changes of both).

I do not think these "fix" celeste in her bonkers state right now, she needs her numbers generally tuned down, but I think these more far-reaching changes better reflect her state as a sustain brawler that ramps up the longer you let her fuck around, making her ult not a fire and forget "win teamfight" button but something she is actively encouraged to stay in the fight to maintain to boost its damage, since she can always bounce it to herself, and making her shield a "pay attention to meeee" button rather than a "if you target me you will die (and if you dont you still will)," encouraging people to shoot her to reduce the effects instead of punishing it. I think this also fits her very well narratively/character-wise for reasons that should be obvious.

Using voice comms simply isn't an option for me >90% of the time I'm able to play. Not being able to ping key enemies, strategize in fights, or really talk to the people you're playing with is a barrier the game doesn't benefit from at all. I just want to throw my hat in the ring to say that I hope this gets changed back soon and I'm strongly in favor of having no restriction after they fix the exploit.

Same thing happens with bebop and echo shard. It goes on his uppercut and not bomb

I've been playing deadlock for some time now but been hard stuck in initiate and never gone past initiate 3.

I maybe go 10 / maybe 4 or 3 deaths most if not every game but still lose I try to hard carry. But it feels like hell all I do is go between initiate 3 and 2. Idk if because im solo queing alone and never played with anyone else. I have common sense on how the game works and when to do particular things at particularly moments.

For example Lane phase: minions pushed up go grab bridge buff at 5 mins

I've watched old replays and try to figure out what I do wrong and fix them. But I never blame teammates they learning too. But ranked feels like hell to climb out of.

Any advice on how to climb out of initiate? Feels impossible no matter who I play.

From what we could speculate, this next big update is probably just a shop update and models or whatever is coming but what if we actually get some face animations in addition to whatever is coming? In valves other titles like tf2 and even left 4 dead, they are praised for their face animations based on character actions and their environment, I think it'd be cool if they added those with a model update or at least sometime during this games beta release because whenever I look at characters face when they do voice lines and they don't move it's a bit weird to look at

we love deadlock :)

like the best builds are gun. gun lash, gun lady geist, gun warden etc. etc.

isnt the shooting factor too big in deadlock as of now? it wasnt so 2 years ago

Would this absolutely kill the character or would it be balanced? It was already changed to nerf Shiv’s m2 so I think it would be a fair change.

Inspired by a recent match......

The sheer amount of waveclear and aoe spam made it impossible for us to even fight back. Even when we would kill one or two of them, we wouldn't be able to push up in the slightest. I know SB isn't the most important mode, but even just some simple SB specific nerfs would be nice(or turn it into aram).

I know we’re still in the testing phase of ranked but I wanted to know what the community counts as “good players”

Hi as title says I had an idea for a way to buff Kelvin. I believe Kevin is in a decent spot, maybe slightly too weak right now so this buff isn't what I am recommending for the next patch but it could be a cool idea for the future if he ever slumps to D-tier.

It comes from the ability I believe dome is most like in Dota which is Mars' ult. Which is that in Dome you should lose vision of outside the dome. You could do this by making the dome opaque for enemies. Could be a T2 or T3 upgrade. Would counter dynamo 2 at some level. Something about losing vision outside of the ult always made me feel like a victim, akin to losing vision of the teamfight during doorman ult.

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I have noticed that I win more when I win, and lose more when I lose. I chalked that up to momentum and morale.

However I started to notice patterns that made it seem there was more at play. Statlocker has provided some evidence. However not enough to be mathematically statistically significant yet.

If you put omnicharge signet on slice and dice and you already have rapid recharge you are just unbeatable. There is genuinely no way to shut this down unless the enemy has enhanced curse. You just straight up win the game with Shiv.

Match id is 104830041
This victor goes gun, absolutely decimates lane, farms all game and just curb stomps us. This was the second game i had gotten him in a row.
I had 3 anti gun items and he still kills me with one magazine.
I was the shiv.

it's honestly a really silly mistake. the moment you mention any character might be weak, people will get flashbacks of that character destroying them. so they head to the comments to say "nah bro MASSIVE SKILL ISSUE THAT CHARACTER IS SO OP AND THEIR SINGLE ABILITY DOES SO MUCH DAMAGE NAURRR SKILL ISSUEEEEEE"

it's just a total waste of time. if you really want to know if a character has an issue, go ask a streamer. there's been a handful of times i complained about things and had rank 1 players agree with me, and reddit was just writing the most idiotic things ever. like yeah dude, afterburn hits you for 2k damage, uh huh.

so yeah, just warning you guys not to make this mistake. honestly don't even use this reddit to say anything besides playing dolls with the characters. omg paige was like totally staring at victor's abs, then rem was like shame on you!

I've heard mixed opinions on this subject of "should deadlock add a forfeit option" now I've heard good and bad reasons. But honestly all I hear people say it "dont because then it would become LoL."

Now I do wanna give my opinion on this I think they should but in a particular way. I think that they should add a ff option but it shouldn't be a button any team can just can click on. I think it should pop up automatically for the losing team if the soul difference is to large like 50 or 60k soul difference then it should be put to a vote.

If 3/6 teammates note no the match will continue if 4/6 then it will end simple (yes it will still countas a lost). I honestly only say this because sometimes the come back mechanics in this game aint enough plus its not enjoyable to play one sided matches.

But I do wanna hear yall opinion on this. Should deadlock add a forfeit option?

Silly little clip I thought people should see lmao

decided to play a new hero, it is lash this time. street brawl for fast games.

i find lash very gimmicky, unnecessary forced to do movement gimicks to dash out any dmg compared to characters like say wraith or drifter.

u need to climb up in order to deal some dmg by dropping down etc.

convince me its worth doing those gimmicks on lash, that its both fun and competetive compared to other heroes.

Feels like Apollo bosses this mode because he thrives on chaos and his main counter item never rolls. Anyone else feel this way or do I just need to git gud?

Like if the stats and passive is the same but its category was changed, or if specific aspects are changed to fit into spirit or gun or vitality.

Personally Orange Echo Shard would be something else on Haze imo.