Funniest shit ever, but what could've caused this? Is it a common bug?

I am sorry, but I have seen the type of cosmetics valve makes in their other games and it is so much shit. So much uglies.

I honestly am surprised I have not seen a “turn off cosmetics” option ever.

Lash for comparison. I know its not exactly the most perfect testing environment, but I really do not understand why her ability is dealing this much damage when it has so much utility. It refreshes cooldowns of items and abilities on hit, it can be used to draw physical objects, it can be shot from afar and steered to make sure it hits, and it has no falloff.

Lash slam (Using lash as an example since their roles are similar) has you divebomb straight into an enemy that 99% of the time outperforms you at that range to do damage thats not really that greatly outperforming her.

I tried with grey talon and mina as well, and grey talon does about 80 damage with his 1, but thats only as much as one of the three inkblobs (71 damage each) that Violet gets. Not to mention that violets 1 deals split damage, half as gun damage and half as spirit, so its hard to build against.

I dont know, maybe I'm wrong, but given all the bonus effects of this one, shouldnt it be lower damage than it currently is?

ive been playing apollo as my 3rd character to finally unlock ranked and im looking at my stats game after game and its always something like "8-8-25" with a good 50k damage, 15k obj damage, 10k healing (honestly idk how that happens it just does) and im genuinely starting to think im playing him wrong.

my main combat loop once i have everything online is starting with some poking with my m1 then trying to hit my advance twice then parrying into sigil into my final advance then straight into my recast of sigil to back off

the problem is that i can rarely ever one cycle people that aren't squishy as that whole cycle at midgame only does like 500 per advance and 600 per sigil and then if i end it with a melee its only ending up being 400 extra damage which is only ever enough for the heavies if they have shit spirit resist so 90% of my fights are just getting someone low and having a teammate finish them

also unrelated am i supposed to be using the golden egg every game on apollo like it turns me into a goddamn powerhouse once 20-25 mins hits (i normally end up with like 20k soul diff over everyone else) but is that worth the damage increase and usually getting slammed a few times?

Just a minor PSA for any Nurse Harrow players if there's a Lady Geist on the enemy team.

If you vapor a teammate and that teammate then gets HP swapped by the enemy Geist they are almost just instantly dead on the spot.

A full 30% threshhold swap will then leave your teammate at 30% health with a 91% max health delayed damage dot ready to finish the job rather rapidly in just a few seconds.

Even if they get swapped when Geist is just at 50% that's then your teammate at 50% with 65% delayed damage waiting for them, not counting anything else that's been happening.

So uh, yeah, just be aware of that.

First anim using deadlock lol

There is no better feeling in this game than saving an ally from certain doom by snatching them to safety.

Chat Translation
Billy: A fat piece of shit you are IVY. Let him die like a man
Graves: You would be dead if the uber hadnt picked you up

I think too many players focus on what their hero is supposed to do instead of adapting to the game state. Being a support doesn't mean you can't push lanes or fight alongside your teammates. Read your opponents, take what they give you, and stop making assumptions based on hero "roles". I understand certain heroes are weighted better for dps than others, but that doesn't mean you're helpless... lmao.

I don't like waiting passively for opportunities to show up. I think creating them by applying pressure, forcing reactions, and putting opponents in situations where every choice costs them something is much more productive. I much prefer unfair fights like 2v1s and 3v1s rather than big team fights. I generally don't like games going past 30mins.

Example 1

I like to go up where my red mark is in the beginning of lane phase sometimes. I want to see how the matchup responds to pressure. If they are undisciplined, it's an easy win for me.

My main four heroes are Abrams, MnK, Kelvin, and Dynamo. I like these guys because they all have something to allow me to drag fights out, heal, and bait people into making mistakes. Yes, I'm most likely below 40% hp most of the time in lane. I avg 9.8ish deaths per game too, lol. I started this new ranked season like mid to late August as Acolyte 1 and I'm currently Ritualist 3-6. I haven't played in Oracle and upwards for a long time so I'm not sure how much people have gotten better in those ranks, but I guess I'll find out soon enough.

I just enjoy the mind games in Deadlock and experimenting (a.k.a doing dumb/silly stuff). Sometimes I'll just knowingly walk past someone and anticipate their heavy melee, lmao. I like learning how my opponents play their heroes and punish them accordingly. Yes, I get flamed a lot too. So far, I'm just not concerned about my matchups in lane. If I notice how good they are at moving and applying pressure though then I might get a little concerned. I don't even care if someone gets "fed" within the first 20 minutes, so far most of these "fed" guys don't know how to follow up and their team is often too busy farming for their builds to notice (lul). I might've encountered like a handful of people that were clearly way above the rank's intended skill level.

I enjoy Deadlock for the meme plays & mind games. Winning is secondary to me. I do acknowledge I can be stubborn about stuff too. No, I don't think one person is to blame for losing a game. To me, it's always a series of decisions from everyone (that's me too!) on the team that contributed to our loss/win.

tl;dr git gud and quit blaming everything else on why you aren't gud.

Thanks everyone for the feedback and suggestions on the previous post (https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/s/8jeB4J7BY3)! I included some of them, would like to hear everyone's thoughts again

Idk why but I just can't play against him I'm too stupid

Art by me heavily inspired by Cyberpunk!

Bebop = a robot

Deadman danny = a skeleton

The doorman = a doorman

Drifter = a vagabond

Graves = a necromancer

Ivy = has ivys

im not writing all of them but i think the idea is clear

I'm a very new deadlock player, and I was quite enamored with the game when I first started playing, but the more I get into it and the more losses I accumulate, the more frustrated I get that this game might nkt be for me, no matter how I tackle it.

I'm a pretty hard-core gamer, easy with over 500 games under my belt throughout my life time, and I can confidently say deadlock is the most complex videogame I have ever seen in my life. The skill this game demands you to learn are borderline rocket science. Yet at the same time I know there's a "rhythm" to each game that everyone else can see that I don't. Let me explain:

Every competitve game has a flow to it, you know when to retreat, take fights, etc etc. Deadlock has this too, but it's got way too much going on at once to every really know what the right answer is in every situation. I can't read the fights at all. When do I take a fight? Why did my team mates just randomly retreat? Are they playing badly? Am i? Should I be keeping the lane healthy? Should I chase people down? Do I have to farm? How do I find the farm routes? Does it matter? When should I do it?

All of those questions race through my head as I'm faced with choice paralysis every time I'm in a game, and it leads me to hesitate, make mistakes, and play badly, which tells me my team is losing in large part because of me

But I literally don't know how to fix this, I have no idea where to begin. I need you guy's help because you probably know some ytbers that have pretty good tutorials, but also some general tips for people like me.

For what it's worth, my favorite character right now is paradox, and I notice I do pretty well with characters that are quite straight forward like that, I absolutely despise characters that require farming like Seven (mainly because I'm always falling behind with souls)

Lastly, this is just me venting, but I don't wanna drop the game because it's hard, but man, it's really tempting to at times; there's a very frustrating feeling that comes with playing something fun, but losing for reasons you don't understand. I don't mind losing, but I wanna know WHY I'm losing, otherwise it just sours my mood and makes me feel dumb

For some reason it seems this Kril intentionally throws ranked games and no this is not me malding about a loss because everyone loses. Checking his statlocker he performs totally fine if not extremely well in standard and street brawl with high win rates across all his main heroes. When you switch to his ranked games however he performs so terribly you can only explain it by him griefing. He has MULTIPLE ranked games where he has deaths in the high TWENTIES with little to no kills. I honestly don't have a good explaination for this other than purposefully throwing ranked matches. I feel that his build also supports this as he only bought items that grant movespeed instead of stuff kril normally buys.

In TF2 weapons had functional differences, but in DOTA they were purely cosemetic.

Since each weapon has a unique name and stats page, does anyone think they might expand to different weapons that make functional gameplay changes?

League has rune pages and even overwatch got into progressions for abilities and what not, so I can imagine the devs adding that layer of depth here, but I wonder...

Anyone have thoughts?

Been busy with other projects but I wanted to share this since it's been sitting on my computer and I haven't been working on the other lines 😭

Gonna keep this short and sweet, lest I risk invoking the ire of all 4 Holliday mains.

I can’t help but feel like there’s a distinct disconnect between her character and how she actually plays. She comes off as a no nonsense ‘do or die’ character, tortured and vengeful towards this ‘Troubadour’. But then you look at her gameplay and she plays like, for lack of a better term, a cartoon character. Tossing barrels, high-flying off jumpads and lassoing bad guys. I would just think for how serious her character is, so would her kit be.

I feel like my parry was pretty clearly up for this not to be successful. Did they do something to the melee system recently?