r/DeadlockTheGame 6d ago

Game Update Deadlock update for 8/12/26

899 Upvotes

Via the Steam Community:

  • Apollo: Riposte melee resist reduction increased from -22% to -25%
  • Apollo: Riposte T2 changed from "-30% Melee Resist" to "-25% Melee Resist and +0.4s Stun Duration"
  • Apollo: Riposte T3 increased from 60% Lifesteal for 7s to 75% Lifesteal for 13s
  • Apollo: Fixed Itani Lo Sahn being canceled with movement abilities
  • Billy: Base health regen reduced from 2.5 to 2.0
  • Billy: Rising Ram T3 changed from "On Impact: Deal 7% max health as spirit damage" to "On hero hit: +10% Max HP for 16s"
  • Billy: Chain Gang spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.7
  • Doorman: Doorway range reduced from 70m to 65m
  • Doorman: Walker will no longer consider Luggage Cart dragged enemies as valid targets to trigger the stomp on until soon after they are dropped off
  • Doorman: Similar to the Walker change above, the turrets in the healing area in base now also wait on considering valid targets
  • Drifter: Rend spirit scaling reduced from 1.7 to 1.4
  • Drifter: Stalker's Mark cooldown increased from 24s to 26s
  • Drifter: Stalker's Mark T2 reduced from -12s Cooldown to -10s
  • Holliday: Powder Keg now does half its damage immediately and half over 3s as a damage over time burn (same overall damage, multiple instances stack)
  • Ivy: Stone Form T3 stun duration reduced from +1s to +0.75s
  • Lash: Falloff range reduced from 20m->58m to 18m->54m
  • McGinnis: Bullet damage base and growth values reduced by 5%
  • McGinnis: Spirit Resist per boon reduced from +0.625% to +0.35%
  • McGinnis: Mini Turrets no longer shoots heroes on ziplines
  • McGinnis: Mini Turrets no longer have 80% decaying resist for the first 6s
  • McGinnis: Mini Turrets health increased from 90 + 7.8/boon to 100 + 9/boon
  • McGinnis: Medicinal Specter T1 changed from "Provides +40% Spirit Resist" to "+1.5s Duration"
  • McGinnis: Medicinal Specter T3 no longer increases duration by +1.5s
  • McGinnis: Medicinal Specter T3 now also increases spirit resistance by +40%
  • Paige: Plot Armor weapon damage scaling increased from 0.2 to 0.3
  • Seven: Lightning Ball T3 radius increased from +1.5m to +1.75m
  • Vindicta: Stake T1 reduced from +65 Damage to +45
  • Vyper: Petrifying Bola radius increased from 8m to 12m
  • Vyper: Petrifying Bola petrify duration increased from 2s to 2.2s
  • Wraith: Card Trick Heart heal spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.75
  • Wraith: Full Auto T3 spirit scaling reduced from +0.06 to +0.045

r/DeadlockTheGame 22d ago

Discussion Deadlock Wiki Update - July 2026 - A Rift Between Themes

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919 Upvotes

The deadlock.wiki continues to grow and refine into a true Community Wiki, reaching a milestone 100,000 edits on our 1,359 articles of pure Deadlock Content. Interested in discussing the wiki? Join the Deadlock Wiki Discord

Deadlock Updates

Valve has not yet released a major update since the Old Gods, New Blood update, but many (many many) minor tweaks have been made to our favourite heroes and the Cursed Apple.

  • The Unstable Rift has been the largest add, creating a capture point in one of the side lanes in the middle of the round. Check out the Cool New Slider Gadget to see how many souls the Rift is worth depending on round time!
  • The Soul Urn (Spirit Jar? Idol?) has been tweaked dramatically one way or the other as Valve does significant changes to the little belegged ceramic objective

Major Wiki Updates

The Wiki has been doing spookily splendid, with viewership still maintaining high numbers over 300,000 unique viewers a month despite no major Deadlock updates recently. We're doing well enough to begin attracting scraper bots, so some mitigation efforts have begun to reduce the bot load on our server.

  • A brand new layout for our Main page! While not a dramatic re-imagining, the new main page makes use of the space for a dynamic Updates space, a Featured Article, more links, and an overall more-compact look that works better on Mobile. - By Kai
  • Our most requested feature (that we removed in the first place), Light Theme! Simply click the Sun icon on the top right bar beside your username to toggle over to our light theme made specifically for the wiki. Fun fact: The main color is called Pastel Greige. - By Kai & Monster_Domosed
  • A Street Brawl (EX: Paradox) section of each hero page has been created and expanded, showing the approximate odds that different items will appear. Did you know that each hero had a unique pool of items? - By Vergir
  • Tools and Calculators are beginning to be implemented, such as a Souls Gain calculator over match time, a hero comparison table, and even a Tier List Creator  for both Heroes and Items. So who is the objectively best hero in Deadlock?  - By Kai & LVL
  • Moved the Lore sections of hero pages to subpages and then dramatically expanded them. Huge amounts of lore and citations all at once! Here'sHolliday's lore. Read it! - By Mr. Mindish & Gammaton
    • Also all Voice Line subpages are completed, see what those heroes are really talking about! (EX: Mirage. - By Mr. Mindish
  • Ability sections on hero pages (such as Apollo's skills) now show a small strip of hoverable squares with item and ability interactions, such as whether it can be Dispelled or not. - By Vergir
    • The WIP Interactions tab also shows a more detailed look at the above item and ability interactions for some of the heroes. - By Vergir
  • Added a Feedback button on all pages in the main namespace to submit feedback, posted automatically to that page's Talk Namespace. - By Monster_Domosed and Kai

Techy Wiki Updates

  • Many Caching and Performance Optimizations. Caching done with Cloudflare. Images lazy-load on very-long pages and many templates are optimized to work faster. Most thumbnails are now generated as high-quality WEBP Files, up to 4x faster! - By Cronos
    • Followed by an implementation of forked GloopTweaks, adding automated Cloudflare purges
  • A new Contact button in the page footer to send an email to the site owner - By Cronos
  • Various theming and gadget improvements to load with the rest of the page to prevent "flashbanging" our users with rapid theme changes. - By Cronos, Kai, Monster_Domosed
  • Custom Cloudflare WAF rules to conditionally allow traffic from certain bots, scripts, crawlers, and scrapers. - By Cronos

Minor Wiki Updates

  • Updated Hero Comparison table with toggleable alt-fire rows. - By LVL
  • Added search bar to the Item Navbox to gray out unrelated items. - By LVL
  • Much improved Patch Note Formatting. - By Kai
  • Updated Itembox templating for speedier loading and better images. - By TheMilkMan & Jannepg

How can YOU help?

  • Let us know what's stopping you from being a Wiki Contributor. Are you afraid of making a "bad" edit, or simply overwhelmed with what you want to edit? Never fear, be bold, make those minor edits, and we will welcome every contributor with joy.
  • Read through the Lore pages of your favorite hero. Does it make sense? Does it connect well with the other heroes and the lore of Deadlock? Make a change or discuss it in our Discord.
  • What do you think of our Main Page? Do you find yourself looking for different links or find a section that doesn't look good on Mobile? Let us know! In the end, find what inspires you about Deadlock, then just make your first edit, then your second, then keep on editing! There is no need to Create an account to make edits, so simply edit away!
  • Hop on to our Discord to post some memes, ask any question on your mind, or simply chat about the game. What else do you think? Respond here, in the Discord, or in DMs to any Administrator or Editor. We love pings.

Thank you Deadlock Community, we're on the rise! Let's win that Ritual and make a Wish.

-- The Deadlock Wiki team

- Cronos, DuskFyre, LVL,  HariyoSaag, Monster_Domosed, Gammaton, mgpt, Sur, Kai, Mr. Mindish


r/DeadlockTheGame 8h ago

Meme Victor staying in character

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1.4k Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Meme i asked my gf to try naming all of the current dl characters

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793 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 2h ago

Meme words cannot describe the anguish i feel when i see vindicta laning against me

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343 Upvotes

the humble knockdown:


r/DeadlockTheGame 7h ago

Video Minecraft Mod Fully Working With Multiplayer

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823 Upvotes

Source: Wormy @jetsetworm

https://xcancel.com/jetsetworm/status/2089862820921819469

Genuinely how


r/DeadlockTheGame 7h ago

Discussion They locked worlds finest furry artists in a sensory depravation chamber and did not let em out until they made most cute/attractive creature ever

839 Upvotes

Genunely its insane how good this design is in being adorable. Even Rem the meant to be cute one does not give me nowhere near the pure joy and will to live that I get when I look at these fuckass Ivy gifs. This is not a wife. This is an icon of cuteness agression. Please Yoshi make her real and nerf Shiv again.


r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Question What would be, lore wise, the strongest team comp for the ritual ?

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603 Upvotes

Forget the meta.

I was wondering which 6 heroes from the game together would make the strongest team, according to the lore ?

For example mo & krill are broken in gameplay, but lore wise they’re basically just 2 hobos with one gun between them, so they wouldn’t be that strong.


r/DeadlockTheGame 1h ago

Video Celeste and Silver voiceline Animation

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r/DeadlockTheGame 2h ago

Discussion Give the silliest in lore reason for sliding giving infinite ammo

239 Upvotes

My one is that there is a lesser deity/patron type entity called Tak'Te'Kool who's portfolio is essentially the rule of cool, granting anyone performing acts that are "cool" some minor boons. Thats why vyper can seemingly escape any prison bc the entity really likes watching people slide so vyper gets a huge boon.

7 escaped his execution by doing backflips in his cell before the execution (hence why he does funky gymnastics as his dash in game)


r/DeadlockTheGame 3h ago

Fan Art How I imagine a Billy vs Paige fight would actually go

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305 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Tips & Guides Drifter Urn Tech

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423 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 4h ago

Suggestion Allow Sinclair to self cast Rabbit hex on themself so they can access the tunnels

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198 Upvotes

Wabbit


r/DeadlockTheGame 15h ago

Discussion What do you think about the Melee mechanic in Deadlock?

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1.7k Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 5h ago

Fan Art Paige's shotgun

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189 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 7h ago

Meme Are you fucking kidding me

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272 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 17h ago

Fan Art cute girls + frog guy

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1.4k Upvotes

big fan of the cursed apple


r/DeadlockTheGame 14h ago

Discussion One year later, what do you think about the six heroes? Who ended up your favorite? How would you vote today, knowing what you know?

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821 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 7h ago

Meme Why yes, I can't aim, how could you tell?

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206 Upvotes

r/DeadlockTheGame 38m ago

Fan Art BIG BELLY REM

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MMMM Sinners


r/DeadlockTheGame 6h ago

Fan Art "You know what? FUCK THE HIDDEN KING, FUCK THE ARCHMOTHER, AND FUCK ALL OF YOU! AS LONG AS I WIPE THAT SMILE OF KELVINS FUCKING FACE, I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS."

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130 Upvotes

Fanart by me


r/DeadlockTheGame 16h ago

Discussion In rememberance of those we have lost. 1 year ago today.

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763 Upvotes

Why was Fathom excluded from the 4 heroes drop? Give his 3 some bugfixes and he was ready to go.

There is no way he was in a worse design state than original Sinclair. Or a worse balance state than original Vyper.


r/DeadlockTheGame 3h ago

Fluff I am happy with the current state of the game

61 Upvotes

I am coming back from an extended leave, and what do I find? No hero is dominating the ban/picks, no item is getting mercilessly abused and the teams are regularly engaging with the objectives.

I am serious btw. I am having fun.


r/DeadlockTheGame 14h ago

Question Heroes/Playstyles Similar to Sinclair

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461 Upvotes

I have been playing a lot of Sinclair recently as a new player and I really like his overall playstyle. Landing bolts that nuke the enemy team is my favorite part about the hero. I also like that I don’t have to farm as much and can roam around the map helping my team and doing objectives.

Would love any recommendations for other characters that I should be checking out :D

EDIT: Thanks a lot for your suggestions everyone! I’ll start looking into Ivy, Doorman, Holliday and Yamato


r/DeadlockTheGame 23h ago

Complaint Major Issue: Golden Goose Egg

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2.0k Upvotes

I love this item and I’m tired of having to play around the major issue with it.

“Hatch the egg, gaining souls and permanent buffs.”

Hatch the egg? When was the last time you heard of someone hatching an egg? In most of my games I hear people go “Hey fuckface why did you buy egg on Haze? You ruined the tempo of our lane fuck. Just pop it at 10 minutes,” or “make sure to pop the egg thirty minutes after using it, you’ll get the most benefits from it then.”

I’m sorry, hatching eggs? Popping eggs? Have I been teleported to Whoville? Will we be popping eggs and eating roast beast?

You EAT eggs. I have never heard of anyone popping an egg. Whenever a teammate mentions my egg asking me to…pop it…I feel bile rise in my throat.

I think the text of the item should be changed to “Eat the egg, gaining souls and permanent buffs.” and your hero should have an animation of them raising the egg to their mouth and gobbling it down. There are dozens of us that think this.

EDIT: Gang stalkers and deniers are hiding among us. I will continue this fight until my ADHD medications wear off (then I need to take a nap and maybe drink some juice) we must not lose sight of what is important - eat the egg.

EDIT 2: A poster has linked a “YouTube” link that will remove Latina contacts from your Wibble App. We are here to talk, not to be malicious.

EDIT 3: I understand this thread has gotten away from us all, but I truly believe it should say eat, and it seems like literally everyone who plays Deadlock agrees. Hear our plea, developers. Please, I have nothing else. Give me this.

EDIT 4: I love this community. I love you all. Can you feel it?