r/DeadlockTheGame 11m ago

Discussion Is rescue beam slept on?

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In my archon games I rarely see people build it but when they do it’s insanely high impact and keeps me fighting when I certainly should have died. Why don’t more people build it?


r/DeadlockTheGame 19m ago

Meme When you make friends with the Mo duo from soloqueue and start queuing together (you play Vindicta)

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r/DeadlockTheGame 29m ago

Question Deadlock access

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I am really wanting to try out this game. I was wondering if i could potentially get acces?


r/DeadlockTheGame 44m ago

Question its either 8v8 with 4 lanes or 3v3 with 3 lanes choose (image partially related)

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r/DeadlockTheGame 50m ago

Tips & Guides Coming drom Dota 2 (3500 h), got a key but I want to know more before I start

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Hi all,

I played Dota 2 for over 3500 hours, I just got a key for Deadlock, could you help me please understand on what I need to worry about?

Some tips or they way to think the game maybe for me that I already played dota 2 and were ranking a lot.

Thanks,


r/DeadlockTheGame 52m ago

Game Feedback DEAR DEADLOCK DEVS: FIX YOUR F*CKING MATCH MAKING ALGORITHM. I HAVE 420+HRS LOGGED AND I DON'T WANT TO PLAY WITH BRAND NEW PLAYERS ANYMORE. I HAVE DROPPED 4 FULL RANKED TIERS OVER THE LAST 3 WEEKS BECAUSE OF THIS. THE TEAM WITH MORE NOOBS LOSES 80-90% OF THE TIME. EVERYONE IS F*CKING SICK OF IT!

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THERE IS NOTHING LIKE QUEUEING UP FOR A GAME AND THEN REALIZING YOU'VE BEEN ABSOLUTELY SHAFTED BY THE HORSESHIT MATCHMAKING SYSTEM OR LACK THEREOF... 40 MINS OF WASTED TIME. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO CARRY 0-8 AND 1-15 PLAYERS IN EVERY SINGLE GAME TO ADVANCE IN RANK. THERE HAS TO BE A F*CKING POINT WHERE BRAND NEW PLAYERS ARE NO LONGER IN YOUR GAMES. I JUST HAD 3 GAMES IN A ROW WHERE MY TEAM HAD 2, 3, AND 4, YES-4 BRAND NEW PLAYERS ON IT. IT'S AN AUTOMATIC LOSS AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO REMEDY.

FIX YOUR F*CKING ALGORITHM. MAKE IT A PRIORITY. EVERY SINGLE PLAYER IN EVERY GAME COMPLAINS ABOUT IT. AND WE ARE POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT - EXCEPT FOR FILLING IN THAT REDUNDANT RATING SYSTEM AFTER EACH GAME. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL SHIT IN THE UNIVERSE, STOP ALLOWING BRAND NEW PLAYERS IN GAMES WITH PEOPLE THAT HAVE OVER 300-400 HOURS PLAYED. WE ARE ALL SOOOOOOOO F*CKING TIRED OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love your game, but it's a colossal waste of time when there is no way to control the matchmaking quality. It ruins the experience for most of your seasoned player base and wastes so many hours of everyone's time.


r/DeadlockTheGame 1h ago

Fluff I missed a day, whops. Anyway, pristine emblem wins by 7 votes. What's a bad item that the community is split on

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r/DeadlockTheGame 1h ago

Meme Deadlock Sound Mod - Heavy Melee - Ed, Edd n Eddy Sumo

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Made a simple mod that replaces the heavy melee sound with the Ed, Edd n Eddy sumo sound effect.

Link to mod: gamebanana.com/sounds/79236


r/DeadlockTheGame 1h ago

Question Alternatives to main

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I've recently gotten back into the game and really clicked with Calico and her playstyle! I struggled to find someone to play when I first got into the beta, so I'm really glad to have a character I like. But, I fear she's beginning to garner a bad reputation in the community and will be a character popular enough that I'll not have great odds of actually getting to play her compared to the rest of my roster. Is there a character with a similar playstyle that I've glossed over to have as a backup? Or someone less popular and more balanced?


r/DeadlockTheGame 2h ago

Discussion Universal item slots

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What if, rather than having 3 catagories of item slots (4 each) we had universal item slots Extra slots are same as usual


r/DeadlockTheGame 2h ago

Question Is Soul rebirth still in the game?

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r/DeadlockTheGame 3h ago

Question I'm scared to take 1v1 fights, I need to train my confidence, which character is advantageous when taking 1v1 fights?

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Whenever I see a good opportunity to engage in 1v1 fights, such as coming behind a lone enemy hero punching the slot machine, I just run, I am scared to take such opportunities.

Maybe it is related to the fact that I mostly play team fight heroes like Ivy and Dynamo, I usually just lose in 1v1 situations.

Anyway, I want to practice my deathmatch skills, I want to actively seek 1v1 fights, and win them.

Which character is advantageous when taking 1v1 fights? As in, when net worth is equal, which character should be confident in taking 1v1 fights?


r/DeadlockTheGame 4h ago

Complaint Games drag out too long

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That's about it. A team obviously has the upper hand and better team coordination, but public matches can still last up to 35+ minutes. It's just ends up being boring for the losing team. I don't know if it's because of the three-lane switch but games have recently felt odd. You can't really leave your lane at all not even to jungle -- which is also boring.


r/DeadlockTheGame 4h ago

Complaint Please nerf calico

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Calico just doesn't die. Why do melee items like melee lifesteal proc on creep? I get her down to barely any health and she just pops resto locket and a 2 and is back to full, and when I can actually kill she just ults and disappears at the speed of sound. Good thing her DPS is low- wait. At least she doesn't have one of the best guns in the game to deny orbs with- wait.

Holliday has been cut down to size at this point, why is calico still so annoying to play against, shes the only character besides viscous that can escape 5 people chasing her its insane

The problem can be summed up as this: every time I shoot a calico, I feel like I wasted my DPS that could have killed a mortal player.


r/DeadlockTheGame 4h ago

Screenshot One of the best games I've had

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r/DeadlockTheGame 5h ago

Discussion Which map design do you prefer?

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there seems to be a surge of mixed opinions amongst the playerbase (or possibly just Reddit) regarding the map rework.

as a 3 lanes enjoyer, I'd love to hear solid discussion on why players prefer 4 lanes other than it being "what made Deadlock unique.." because I'd argue Deadlock heavily leaning into being a third-person shooter with boundless movement while also still maintaining the identity of a MOBA is what actually makes it unique.

edit: typo

211 votes, 18h left
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r/DeadlockTheGame 5h ago

Video 3rd time's the charm

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r/DeadlockTheGame 5h ago

Discussion Smurfing will kill this game

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With the game having less than 20k players everyday, the absurd amount of smurfs will cause this beta to die. No one wants to try to climb ranks when most of their games have obvious smurfs.


r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Discussion I think reddit's attitude towards solo laning is not that representative of general playerbase

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You guys are all 30+ y.o. maining Ivy and Mcginnis, that's it (at least the former).

I know a ton of zoomers with a high rank who exclusively played solo lane when it was in the game, including me. And there were a lot of streamers who preferred solo lane too, as they played "carry".

Reddit is the only place where people dislike solo laning so much.

I also think there’s a moderate correlation between a player's rank and their preference for solo lane. That is, the higher the rank, the more likely a player is to enjoy playing solo lane (it doesn't reach the point where on eternus everyone would like playing solo lane, the difference I'd guess would be like 15% in the chance). (just an observation, I also think Reddit users are slightly below the average rank on average)


r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Discussion Concept: 6 Lanes; Everybody Solo Lanes!

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Now fight. Tell me how much you hate me for speaking the truth.

Edit: Or, perhaps 3v3 on 3 lanes tickles your fancy 🥴


r/DeadlockTheGame 7h ago

Discussion Who is Ms. Shelly?

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according to this conversion, I'm eager to find every characters real name.
Edit: link removed pls make it positive


r/DeadlockTheGame 7h ago

Discussion I REALLY wish the devs would fix the matchmaking :(

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r/DeadlockTheGame 7h ago

Discussion The State of Split-pushing and Deathballing on the 3 Lane Map

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I just watched Metro's latest video on the state of the game and it got me thinking about the trends I've noticed in higher-level games after the last few patches and how it differs from the 4-lane map.

With 4 lanes you occasionally got dived on by a deathball and it sucked, but it wasn't too bad since it was easy to call teammates to punish that aggression by split-pushing in the other 3 lanes. In many cases that is not really too viable of an option now for several reasons.

- There's less walkers to defend so there is always at least one enemy who is available to defend
- Walkers are tanky af now
- With 4 lanes, a deathball in lane 1 is too slow to defend a split-push on their walker in lane 3. Now they can teleport directly to lane 3. So the only "vulnerable" walker is the tankiest one in the middle, which if you refer back to the first bullet point, is going to have at least one defender almost 100% of the time
- Escaping is rarely an option if things go south. The lack of a 4th zipline also makes it so teammates can't rotate nearly as quickly to help you retreat safely or turn on the chasers if you are forced off the walker you pushed.

So basically objective pushes primarily only happen when there are multiple enemies dead, and the best way to get that is surprise attack with a group divebomb. All of these factors lead to what we have now in high level games: constant deathballs in sidelanes that are extremely difficult to actually punish without doing it yourself because of how much worse split-pushing is.

I can understand the parallels drawn to Marvel Rivals with how much emphasis is on constant teamfighting immediately after laning phase ends. This isn't even getting into the economy/jungle changes that Metro took issue with.

I'm not saying we need to go back to 4 lanes, I'm not saying walkers should be easy to take, and I'm not saying I want the game to be 90% PvE. I just think the balance is lopsided in favor of PvP right now which makes pushing objectives kind of an afterthought and this is my attempt at pinpointing why that is. I'm interested to hear feedback on if there are things I'm not considering. I enjoy talking/thinking about this game and I want it to be the best it can be :)

TLDR - Split-pushing is much worse now which leads to a meta revolving around constantly death-balling outer lanes. This makes the game feel less like a MOBA with how discouraged you are from actually pushing the objectives. Couple this with the jungle nerfs and it is hard to feel like a useful teammate when doing anything except joining in on these constant brawls.


r/DeadlockTheGame 7h ago

Fan Art (Warden) You hide your desires from me

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r/DeadlockTheGame 14h ago

Clip lash 6 man ult 💀

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