r/DeadlockTheGame

I have been playing rivals for a year now, my peak was celes 2 and played assassin type heroes ( blackpanther and ironfist on rivals, echo on overwatch), naturally i saw apollo and my brain went bazooka.

Played deadlock ( mainly apollo) for a day and i couldnt secure kills at all, i use oses7 build but still,i just die bf my enemy is even close to half hp.

In short, i would like some build that puts on Equal ground to my lobbies and some tips.

+ ( What is the purpose of heavy melee, does it stun? Does it deal more dmg than shooting ?)

Picture Source and Credit to: Man in Shadows, New York City - Holden Luntz Gallery

I am relatively new to the game and don't have a big feeling for the numbers, but i really like the utility abilities of certain heroes like bebops hook, paradox swap, Viscous puddle punch etc. and wanted to make a gun-focused support in that direction. Tell me what you think ^^

Bestest Present Ever!

My entire team left at 5:30 so it counted as a loss. Enemy team let me clipfarm a 1v6 lol. Thanks guys.

Gif source: https://www.tumblr.com/cyberturbine/805735077420138496/i-love-his-idle-animation?source=share

(I wasn't sure what flair to use)

the design is very human

citadel_camera_pitch_max "180"
citadel_camera_pitch_min "-180"

in convars.
i dont recommend higher values because it will confuse you how many "spins" you have done.

explanation: 180 + 180 gives you full 360 range, ie unlocks 182 degrees of freedom over default (89 both), which have your camera inverted. inverting camera also means your left and right are swapped, or, that you are using a different shoulder.
although all your controls are inverted too

jokes aside, we really should get a shoulder swap button at some point, and also r at least have a real slider for these values up to 120 or so. try it out, on characters that use verticality of the game it helps a lot - think of all the times your camera was locked while trying to look up.

I'm gonna make it clear first, I'm a Silver main. I think the nerfs she got were deserved to an extent but a bit overblown. The heal on kill removal was a bit much but fair but i think making a character who's power budget is entirely put into their ultimate then nerfing it so she's now basically never able to use it much feels a bit extra? i think most complaints is that in lane in Silver's ult is too strong and i agree, making it so early game she can't just W+M1 towards you and later she has to upgrade it to get it back to the old cooldown. Atleast that's what i think would help without just completely reworking her which sadly might be needed with how badly they've balanced her being a server admin or mid as hell
Feedback welcome!

I would like to start by saying that in the world of Deadlock, authoritarianism and totalitarianism are not just dreams, but a reality.

The biggest change in the world of Deadlock happened when the Maelstrom occurred in the year 1900. The supernatural is much older than that; we know now that vampires have been around for centuries and that the supernatural always existed, but not on a massive scale like after the Maelstrom, according to Warden’s lore. We also know that the Age of Empires never truly ended, because all of the world wars and many conflicts were prevented thanks to oracles. We know this because of Wrecker’s backstory:

“When the Maelstrom first hit New York, it didn’t just usher in a new age of mysticism to the world… it changed geopolitics. From CIA-employed seers identifying threats decades before they rise to power, to occult pacts made in smoky backrooms, countless wars and atrocities have been prevented that would otherwise have shaped history.”

Oracles in the world of Deadlock can basically see the future. We don’t know how they work or how much power one needs to see the future. We do know that Doorman can see five years into the future, so we don’t know how far ahead other oracles can see.

We also know that the Russian Empire fell during this time and became the Soviet Empire, and that Catherine the Great probably overthrew the Romanovs thanks to Raven’s backstory.

Then the Vatican gained power during this time. Before the Maelstrom, the Vatican had no sovereignty and the Pope declared himself a “prisoner of the Vatican,” so something equivalent to the Lateran Pacts must have happened. After that, the Vatican began sending people around the world to hunt supernatural monsters.

The USA gained two new states: South Ixian and Cadenza, an artificial island created by Fairfax. The USA is obviously the country in which Deadlock takes place, but it is actually kind of a mess in this timeline. Supernatural beasts became so common that organizations like the Baxter Society exist to hunt them. If the state deems you a threat to national security, they send the OSIC to kill you before you can do harm, or they simply send the CIA to kill you if you’re not a supernatural threat.

We also know that vampires hold some degree of power in the USA, as they are a protected species and hold titles like the Viscount of New York.

The Friends of Humanity in Deadlock are hard to equate to any real-life group. From Vindicta’s words, they are a “neo-Inquisition” and a “neo-political” group, which simply means “new.” The Friends of Humanity are not considered a threat to national security at this point, and we know this because of the lack of concern from people like Haze. We also know that Vindicta’s wish is not to destroy the Friends of Humanity entirely; she only wants to kill Hathorne. However, doing so would likely make things worse by galvanizing the group.

I personally like to say that the FoH are similar to the first or second Klan. We don’t know if they are spread across the nation or, like the first Klan, are mostly concentrated around supernatural-heavy areas. They are human supremacists who terrorize supernatural beings like Ixians. In the process, they kill Gray Talon’s son and daughter-in-law along with his grandchildren, gaining yet another enemy. We also know from the New York Oracle that anti-occult sentiment is on the rise, so Vindicta’s actions are only going to make things worse.

The supernatural beings of Deadlock are interesting. We know that in the USA, vampires are a protected species, while in other parts of the world they are hunted by Venators. Vampires predate the USA by centuries, as confirmed by Drifter’s dialogue about New Amsterdam (the old name of New York). Almost all vampires are wealthy, except for Drifter, of course.

Ixians are demon-like beings who hate the term “demon” because it is derogatory. They come from the extraplanar dimension of Ixia and exist in different colors. Most of them can control fire, if we go by Gray Talon’s backstory. They face a certain degree of discrimination in the world of Deadlock.

Werewolves are another case. We know that the lycan curse can be transmitted and that you can be born with it, thanks to conversations between Graves and Silver. We also know that they are hunted, and that silver is, as always, their weakness. Eating werewolf meat is apparently a new thing that there is an open question about whether it counts as cannibalism, according to the New York Oracle:

“Is eating werewolf meat cannibalism? We asked some of New York’s elite chefs to get their take on the new dining trend that’s taking Paris by storm.”

Unicorns, they're real and they get hunted so much that celested has to hide her true identity and obnoxious enought for haze to say in a tired way: "unicorns"

Militant alchemists are basically the preppers of this world, except that Warden is essentially the Batman of this setting.

This world is a mess. The old empires still exist, wielding artifacts that can see into the future with ease, and organizations that can kill you before you even do harm. Supernatural beings are hunted and in the case of werewolves, eaten by French people. Necromancers and liches exist, and worst of all, souls are treated as a form of energy or currency, thanks to a 15-year-old who “created a machine that refined the souls of the dead.”