Deadlock is undergoing significant updates as it remains in Alpha, with the latest patch introducing extensive modifications to the map and in-game menus alongside numerous item adjustments. There’s much to absorb in this release.
Valve has officially transitioned to constant matchmaking queues, allowing players from all regions to access Deadlock at any time. This adjustment signifies a pivotal step towards a potential public release of the game.
This patch includes a general price reduction for 6300 soul items, major nerfs for Kelvin, a revamped minimap, and many other changes. While it may not be as extensive as the update from August 29, it comes close.
Note that the balance modifications are likely to create some shifts in gameplay dynamics.
Here are the detailed patch notes for Deadlock’s September 12 update:
Full Deadlock September 12 patch notes
Heroes
Abrams
- Fixed Seismic Impact getting stuck on ceilings in the mid-boss room
- Shoulder Charge turn rate slightly reduced
- Infernal Resilience decreased from 17% to 16%
- Shoulder Charge stun time reduced from 1s to 0.85s
Bebop
- Uppercut no longer roots the hero during cast time
- Can fire while jumping if the laser is already warmed up
- Reverted the change to make hook pierce allies/enemies
- Hook range reduced from 35m to 30m
- Hyper Beam now inflicts splash damage in a 5m radius where it connects on the ground, useful for flushing heroes out of cover in certain areas
Dynamo
- Rejuvenating Aurora remains active when stamina is depleted
- Rejuvenating Aurora T3 reduced from 4% to 3.8%
- Kinetic Pulse T1 slow reduced from 40% to 35%
- Quantum Entanglement cooldown increased from 11s to 12s
Gray Talon
- Fixed Charged Shot hitting targets behind walls
- Fixed Guided Owl dealing damage through structures
- Rain of Arrows Weapon Damage reduced from +7 to +4
- Rain of Arrows T2 Weapon Damage reduced from +7 to +5
- Bullet damage growth per boon increased from +1.46 to +1.8
- Guided Owl cooldown increased from 110s to 120s
Haze
- Fixed issues with Sleep Dagger hitting targets behind walls
Hell
- Base health reduced from 625 to 600
- Flame Dash slow resistance increased from 30% to 50%
Ivy
- Fixed control issues near walls while flying
- Air Drop silence and slow debuff duration reduced from 4.5s to 4s
Kelvin
- Arctic Beam fire rate slow decreased from 80% to 40%
- Arctic Beam movement slow decreased from 80% to 70%
- Objectives and Rejuvenator are invulnerable when under frozen shelter
- Ice Path and Arctic Beam can now be canceled by pressing the ability key again
Lady Geist
- Essence Bomb T3 damage increased from 22% to 26%
- Essence Bomb spirit scaling increased from 1.05 to 1.15
- Fixed a bug with Malice, preventing multiple blood shards from being absorbed by one hero
- Self Damage no longer consumes shields
Lash
- Ground Slam now allows directional turning during descent
- Bullet growth reduced from 1.15 to 0.9
- Ground Strike Damage spirit scaling increased from 0.78 to 0.85
- Ground Strike Damage Per Meter Spirit scaling increased from 0.045 to 0.05
McGinnis
- Medicinal Spectre radius reduced from 6m to 5m
- Medicinal Spectre radius now grows with Spirit Power (0.07)
- Cannot wall jump from Spectral Wall
- Spectral Wall min range reduced from 7m to 6m
- Spectral Wall duration reduced from 6s to 5s
- Heavy Barrage spirit scaling increased from 0.3 to 0.35
- Heavy Barrage min range reduced from 7m to 6m
- Mini Turrets bullet travel speed increased
Mo & Krill
- Camera now zooms out further when un-burrowing
- Can cast Scorn while using Combo
- Combo T2 reduced from +1s to +0.75s
Paradox
- Fixed Paradoxical Swap hitting targets behind walls
- Barrage amp per stack reduced from 7% to 6%
- Barrage slow reduced from 40% to 30%
- Added a brief lockout period on Flying Cloak to prevent accidental double clicks
Seven
- Base bullet resist reduced from 8% to 0%
- Bullet resist no longer scales with Boons
- Increased headshot damage reduction from 25% to 35%
- Storm Cloud damage reduced from 124 to 110
- Storm Cloud max radius reduced from 30m to 25m
- Storm Cloud cooldown reduced from 180s to 140s
- Storm Cloud audio is now clearer when cast
Shiv
- Fixed Serrated Knives hitting targets behind walls
- Slice and Dice damage reduced from 125 to 105
- Bloodletting Deferred Damage Cleared reduced from 50% to 40%
- Killing Blow Bonus Damage from Full Rage reduced from +25% to +20%
- Killing Blow T2 now also increases Rage Amp by +5%
Revenge
- Base bullet damage reduced from 14 to 13
- Stake T1 duration reduced from +0.75s to +0.5s
- Assassinate bonus gold now shared with assisters
- Crow Familiar reduces bullet armor by 6%
- Crow Familiar impact damage reduced from 50 to 40
- Crow Familiar impact damage spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.8
- Crow Familiar spirit power duration scaling reduced from 0.04 to 0.03
- Can now use stamina while flying for impulsive direction
- Space bar now requires an additional press while flying
- Assassinate deals 20% more damage when achieving a headshot
- Assassinate scope ends when stunned
Viscous
- Puddle Punch properly knocks players into the air within The Cube
- Addressed various camera issues
- Puddle Punch now telegraphs an effect before forming
- Base bullet damage reduced from 14 to 13
- Splatter damage reduced from 110 to 100
- Goo Ball turn rate slightly improved
- Goo Ball stun cooldown improved from 1.5s to 1.25s
- Fixed Puddle Punch piercing Unstoppable
Warden
- Bullet growth reduced from 1.31 to 1.2
- Alchemical Flask debuff duration reduced from 7s to 6s
- Alchemical Flask radius reduced from 7m to 6.5m
- Gains 50% bullet resistance during the 2s ultimate channel
Wraith
- Card Trick damage reduced from 100 to 80
- Card Trick spirit scaling increased from 1.2 to 1.5
- Card Trick projectiles spawn above the reticle rather than to the side
Yamato
- Ammo now scales with Spirit Power (0.15)
- Power Slash damage reduced from 170 to 160
- Grapple post cast duration reduced from 0.5 to 0.2
- Alt fire now functions correctly with conditional damage sources (point blank, pristine emblem, etc)
- Shadow Transformation bullet and spirit resistance reduced from 55% to 40%
- Can now interrupt Power Slash with parry
Items
Weapon Items
500 Souls:
- Headshot Booster: Bonus damage reduced from 45 to 40
- High-Velocity Mag: Weapon Damage reduced from 14% to 12%
- Restorative Shot: Healing from heroes increased from 35 to 40
- Restorative Shot: Healing from troopers increased from 10 to 15
- Hollow Point Round: Conditional Weapon Damage increased from 20% to 22%
- Rapid Rounds: Fire Rate reduced from 12% to 9%
- Rapid Rounds: No longer deducts -50 Max Health
1250 Souls:
- Active Reload: Lifesteal reduced from 22% to 20%
- Mystic Shot: Spirit damage now considers bullet falloff
- Mystic Shot: Cooldown reduced from 6s to 5s
- Berserker: Bullet Resist reduced from 8% to 7%
- Long Range: Bullet Shield increased from +90 to +140
- Melee Charge: Charge distance bonus moved to innate section
- Melee Charge: Passive now has an 8s cooldown
- Melee Charge: Bonus +20% Melee Damage when passive triggers
- Melee Charge: Now provides a UI indication when reload procs
- Soul Shredder Bullets: Weapon Damage increased from 6% to 7%
- Fleetfoot: Active move speed reduced from 4 to 3
- Fleetfoot: Cooldown reduced from 22s to 18s
- Fleetfoot: Health increased from +75 to +90
3000 Souls:
- Warpstone: Range reduced from 13m to 11m
- Heroic Aura: Active movement speed bonus reduced from 3 to 2
- Burst Fire: Now provides +70 Health
- Sharpshooter: Bullet Health increased from +175 to +200
- Hunter’s Aura: Bullet Resist reduction decreased from -10% to -9%
- Titanic Magazine: Bullet Resist increased from 15% to 18%
- Alchemical Fire: Spirit Power increased from +7 to +11
6200 Souls:
- Crippling Headshot: Debuff duration reduced from 5s to 4s
- Lucky Shot: Bonus Damage increased from 80% to 90%
- Glass Cannon: Max stacks increased from 5 to 7
- Silencer: Damage increased from 15% to 20%
- Frenzy: Linger duration increased from 4s to 6s
Vitality Items
500 Souls:
- Healing Rite: Now grants +3 Spirit Power
- Enduring Spirit: Spirit Lifesteal increased from 8% to 10%
- Melee Lifesteal: Melee damage reduced from 15% to 13%
1250 Souls:
- Health Nova: Now requires Healing Rite
- Health Nova: Now grants +4 Spirit Power
- Health Nova: Range reduced from 18m to 15m
- Divine Barrier: Bullet Shield shield reduced from 300 to 260
- Divine Barrier: Spirit Shield shield reduced from 300 to 260
3000 Souls:
- Rescue Beam: Heal reduced from 30% to 26%
- Rescue Beam: Cast range reduced from 45m to 36m
- Rescue Beam: No longer requires Healing Rite
- Fortitude: Lane troopers do not reset the passive regen timer
- Lifestrike: Melee damage reduced from 40% to 35%
- Majestic Leap: Cooldown reduced from 24s to 22s
- Metal Skin: Cooldown reduced from 22s to 20s
6200 Souls:
- Inhibitor: Fixed damage reduction on bullets not being properly calculated
- Colossus: Radius increased from 10m to 12m
- Colossus: Cooldown reduced from 45s to 35s
- Phantom Strike: Damage reduced from 150 to 75
- Phantom Strike: Spirit Power scaling reduced from 2 to 1
- Soul Rebirth: No longer grants 20% Weapon Damage
- Soul Rebirth: Cooldown Reduction decreased from 18% to 15%
- Unstoppable: Fixed issues preventing Disarm
Spirit Items
500 Souls:
- Spirit Strike: Melee damage reduced from 15% to 12%
- Spirit Strike: Debuff duration reduced from 13s to 11s
- Spirit Strike: Spirit Shield reduced from 100 to 80
- Spirit Strike: Regen reduced from 1 to 0.8
- Mystic Reach: Spirit Resist increased from 5% to 6%
- Mystic Reach: Ability Range increased from 15% to 16%
- Extra Spirit: Spirit increased from 8 to 9
- Ammo Scavenger: Neutral kills count as soul captures
- Ammo Scavenger: Buff duration increased from 35s to 40s
1250 Souls:
- Withering Whip: Fire Rate slow increased from 30% to 40%
- Slowing Hex: Projectile speed increased by 20%
- Quicksilver Reload: Damage increased from 50 to 65
3000 Souls:
- Surge of Power: Imbued ability now grants +10% Fire Rate (6s duration)
- Rapid Recharge: Now gains +12% Weapon Damage (T1 Extra Charge gives +6%)
- Improved Burst: Damage reduced from 10% of Max HP to 9%
- Improved Reach: Spirit Power increased from +6 to +8
- Torment Pulse: Health increased from +125 to +140
- Silence Glyph: Spirit Shield reduced from +200 to +150
6200 Souls:
- Echo Shard: Spirit Power increased from +8 to +12
Map Changes
Inner Lane Changes:
- New connections from the Shop to the front of the Department Store and New York Oracle buildings
- New veil added at the front opening toward the opposing side
- Cover barrier added in front of the opening with the veil
- Catwalk stairs in front of the Department Store and New York Oracle moved closer to the Mid
Base Changes:
- Walkway connection from outer lane exits to inner lane exits angled
- An overhang added below the Patron position
- Two juke closets added facing the Patron
Rope Changes:
- Exterior ropes removed from the Garage and Nightclub
- Replaced interior stairwells with ropes inside the Garage and Nightclub providing access to the 2nd floor and roof
Rooftop Changes:
- Apothecary and Imports rooftops raised to match heights of the Record Store and Comedy Club
- Removed rooftop details from unsafe roofs
- New rooftop details added to valid rooftops
General Changes/Misc
New Minimap:
- Base asset updated with new unique Hero Icons
- Neutral Camps now highlighted on buildings they occupy
- The Orange Lane (Orchard) is now the Green Lane (Greenwich)
Behavior System Introduced:
- Players may temporarily lose certain game capabilities, including Matchmaking, Voice Chat, Text Chat, Pausing, and Reporting. The tracking system is live, but penalties will be assessed after reviewing results.
- A low priority queue now exists. Players may enter by abandoning games or other misbehaviors and must complete a predetermined number of games to return to normal matchmaking.
- Frequent misreports will result in losing reporting privileges and possibly entering low priority.
Queue/Match Abandonment Adjustments:
- New solo-queued players will only match with other newcomers until achieving 4 wins
- The lane allocation setups of 1-1-2-2 and 2-2-1-1 are no longer possible
- A party of 6 players will not match against solo players, potentially leading to longer queue times for 6 stacks.
- 5 player party size is now disallowed
- AFK players will be automatically removed after several minutes
- Abandon Match dialog now provides clearer consequences for leaving
- An additional delay implemented on the Abandon Match click to prevent accidental triggers
UI/UX and General Clarity Updates:
- Custom hero-specific hotkeys added
- Bounce Pad graphics replaced with wind fan visuals that indicate travel path
- Visual updates to the Soul Urn with frog leg effects
- Orange zipline updated to green
- Space Bar no longer invalidates abilities, which can be canceled via repeated pressing
- Alternate Cast modes behaviors merged for efficiency
- UI hints added for Alternate Cast Button in specific cases
- Double Tap Alternate Cast timing slider implemented
- Press and Hold Alternate Cast required time slider introduced
- Sand Box orb practice area now tracks time in milliseconds
Scoreboard Updates:
- Scoreboard (TAB) features include
- Enables cursor mode
- Displays Scoreboard
- Damage Summary displayed
- Minimap ping and draw allowed
- Extra Info (ALT) no longer enables cursor mode
- Quick-upgrade Abilities (ALT+1, etc.) can be individually remapped
- Improves mapping ALT as an Alternate Cast button
- Displays additional HUD information (e.g., Zipline Speed Boost Cooldown) for planned expansion in future updates
Client Performance Enhancements:
- Game begins preloading the map upon client launch to reduce loading times for most users
Gameplay Modifications:
- Orbs favor the claimer over the denier when both impact closely
- Flex Slot moved from “First Walker” to “Two Walkers”
- All ability and item cooldowns increased by 6% globally
- Maximum respawn time adjusted to 35 minutes instead of 40 minutes
- T4 Items Cost reduced from 6300 to 6200
- Shield regeneration time reduced from 60 to 50 seconds
- Wall Jump activation has been streamlined for ease
- Wall Jump launch angle now adjustable to some extent
- Jump shooting lockout period decreased from 0.25s to 0.15s
- Souls from bosses are now distributed more evenly
- Rope climb speed increased from 13 to 14
- Taking non-dot damage on a rope slows movement by 30%
- Improved Heavy melee hit registration
- Mid Boss alert now triggers at 60% instead of 50%
- Walker beam maximum range (sticky portion after acquisition) reduced by 20% (50m to 40m)
- Successful Parry cooldown reduced from 0.5s to 0.25s
- Fixed conditional bonuses for Alt Fires not working properly
- Melee trooper hitbox has been enhanced
- Fixed Medic Troopers occasionally healing the Guardian boss
- Rectified issue with multiple heroes gaining power-ups by standing atop them before they spawn
- Fixed weapon reloading bug when exceeding max ammo during reload
Miscellaneous Changes and Fixes:
- Upgrade ability keys are now customizable (Default: ALT+1, ALT+2, etc.)
- Revised the Midboss low health roar for distinctiveness
- Added Maximum FPS sliders for Dashboard and In-Game
- Lifted Pause limit for hero testing, co-op bot matches, and tutorials
- Improved support for launching in secondary monitors
- Fixed scrolling issues with friends menu
- Resolved inability to invite offline users to parties
- Corrected positioning of invite tooltips in friends menu
- Updated Metal Skin effects
- Refined Seven’s Static Charge effects for clearer boundaries
- Aligned medic healing beam colors with other healing abilities
- Melee troopers no longer utilize a swipe effect, reducing noise
- Enhanced indicators for full active slots
- Improved Ice Dome to address performance issues
- Updated Torment effects visuals to decrease distractions
- Added sounds for Tesla and Toxic Bullets procs
- Adjusted opacity of Divine Barrier wings
- Reduced intensity of last hit status effects
- Updated sound effects for Echo Shard
- Introduced low ammo alerts
- Improved clarity for Seven’s casting and channeling sounds
- Changed colors of Refresher effects from green to purple
- Simplified Abram’s Seismic Impact state resolutions to minimize visual noise
- Updated sounds for Lady Geist’s Blood Bomb, Life Drain, Malice, and Soul Exchange
- Added impacts for Abram’s Shoulder Charge when it collides with walls
- Lowered gun arm during Abram’s jump animation for clearer reticle visibility
- Soul Jar return location effects now change color based on capture status.
- Revised Blood Bomb for better visibility in team fights
- Clarified visibility for heroes trapped in the Singularity
- Dimensions of distance field shadows and AO corrected behind cosmic veils
- Included sliders for FSR and FSR2 sharpness adjustments
- Updated voiceovers for Wraith, Grey Talon, and Infernus
- New visual effects for Walker AoE Stomp
- Adjusted Viscous Splatter visuals
- Revised casting and duration sounds for Silencer
- Introduced sounds for Rebirth channel and revive actions
- Added Infuser casting sound effects
- Fixed audio issues when switching between spectating targets
- Adjusted collision detection on shelves within Armory and Warehouse for better shot accuracy
- Changed front landing to replace with an electrical box in front of the Nursery and Market
- Fixed collision issues with breakable items outside the underground tunnel
- Eliminated leftover duplicate models, lights, and geometry
- Corrected signage replacements on rooftops for the Hotel and other areas
- Ensured rooftop details align correctly with new heights.
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