Valve has just added 4 new Heroes to the game Deadlock: Holliday, Vyper, Calico, and The Magnificent Sinclair.

Even though Deadlock has yet to be officially announced by Valve, the game soared into the scene when the Alpha version became public to most players. While recent releases have shifted focus away from the third-person MOBA and hero shooter, four new characters are bringing players back.

The four fresh characters are Holliday, Vyper, Calico, and The Magnificent Sinclair, which long-time players may recognize from the game’s Hero Labs. This is a feature created by the Deadlock developers to test out concepts for different heroes before they’re officially added to the game.

Today's update adds four new heroes to matchmaking: Holliday, Vyper, Calico, and The Magnificent Sinclair.

Expanding our roster is one of our major goals in 2025. While some of these characters have a much higher degree of temporary art than usual, we are excited to see how they perform on the battlefield.

So who are the new faces you’ll be seeing on the streets of New York?

Armed with an heirloom revolver and a spirit lasso, Holliday's investigations have led her to New York... and when she finds the killer she's looking for she's bringing him in dead, not alive.

Holliday is from the Wild West and uses her trusty revolver to deal damage and dispense justice to ne’re-do-wells. If you’re playing this cowgirl, prepare to launch yourself around the map and explode waves of minions with rolling barrels.

• Powder Keg – Throw out an explosive barrel that arms after a short delay. Once armed, the barrel can be shot, meleed, launched, or detonated by another barrel to cause an explosion that deals ability damage.
• Bounce Pad – Place a bounce pad that can launch any hero. Upon landing, you’ll explode in an AoE, dealing ability damage.
• Crackshot – Your headshots deal additional weapon damage and inflict a slow. This ability can only occur every 20 seconds.
• Spirit Lasso – Throw your lasso to deal ability damage and stun the first enemy hit. You can then drag the enemy behind you for 2.5 seconds.

Did you know that when you slide your gun has infinite ammo? Vyper does. That’s why you’ll find her sliding around the battlefield spraying lead and poison.

Vyper is a slippery reptile that can slide around the map and poison his foes. While sliding in Deadlock, all heroes gain infinite ammo, making Vyper a fantastic choice for players looking to deal weapon damage:

• Screwjab Dagger – Throw a dagger that applies a fading slow and deals ability damage.
• Lethal Venom – Inject a target with venom, which deals damage after a delay. The damage is increased based on the target’s missing health.
• Slither – Vyper has increased slide distance, can slide up hills, and turns faster while sliding.
• Petrifying Bola – Throw a bola that, on a direct hit, deals ability damage and petrifies the target. Petrified enemies are turned into stone and can’t move for two seconds.

A feared assassin; Calico uses the shadows to her advantage, weaving in and out of combat to hunt down her enemies one by one. More importantly, you can possess her sphinx Ava and run around as a cat.

Calico is a stealthy assassin who travels around the map with her trusty feline companion. She is capable of dishing out a high amount of damage, and then slinking back into the shadows:

• Gloom Bombs – Throw a cluster of bombs that detonate after a delay, dealing ability damage.
• Leaping Slash – Dash forward and slice all enemies in a circle with melee damage, if the ability hits an enemy, restore a portion of health.
• Ava – Possess your cat, Ava, and become invisible and undetectable on the minimap for 20 seconds. During this period, attacking will break the invisibility.
• Return to Shadows – Instantly become untargetable, deal 150 ability damage, and gain movement speed. After three seconds, you’ll return from this state and deal another instance of ability damage.

Mystify your rivals with combat tricks so vexing that they won’t believe their eyes! Summon a spectral assistant, polymorph foes into rabbits, and turn the enemies own abilities against them! Impossible? Not for THE MAGNIFICENT SINCLAIR…

The Magnificent Sinclair is a strange magician who mystifies his opponents with curved projectiles, summoned assistants, and dastardly hexes. Sinclair can even use his enemies’ abilities against them:

• Vexing Bolt – Fire a bolt that deals ability damage and applies a fire rate slow. Recast the ability to make the bolt travel to your cursor location. If you have summoned a Spectral Assistant, it will also launch a Vexing Bolt.
• Spectral Assistant – Summon an Assistant at a targeted location. The Assistant attacks whenever you fire your weapon, dealing ability damage. You can reactivate the ability at any time to swap places with the Assistant.
• Rabbit Hex – Transform an enemy into a rabbit for a short duration. Rabbits are faster, but take 25 percent increased damage and can’t attack or use abilities.
• Audience Participation – Copy the ultimate of an enemy hero. Recasting the ability uses the copied ultimate.

While the announcement didn’t include any details about future balance patches for the game, it looks like the developers are still hard at work at making Deadlock a compelling experience.