Deadlock Patch Notes & Changelog - 10-07-2024

• Shadow Weave: Ambush Fire Rate reduced from +40% to +30%
• Fixed various cases where you could target/select units behind walls with abilities (like Yamato's Flying Strike)

Wraith:

• Card Trick Spirit scaling reduced from 1.5 to 1.2

• Respawn time at 20min reduced from 50s to 45s (was 40s previous patch)
• Zipline Boost cooldown reduced from 340s (5.6min) to 280s (4.6min)

Ivy:

• Kudzu Bomb damage spirit scaling reduced from 0.7 to 0.6
• Kudzu Bomb T3 damage reduced from +60 to +50
• Kudzu Bomb vertical radius is now a fixed 2m pancake shape instead of the full radius of the ability
• Air Drop explosion now respects line of sight

Mirage:

• Bullet radius reduced from 8 to 6
• Tornado time for victims to reach max height reduced from 0.3s to 0.2s
• Tornado lift duration reduced from 1.2s to 1.1s
• Fixed Tornado being castable while busy (such as while channeling Traveler)
• Djinn's Mark T1 now only applies the slow when the multiplier is 2x or higher
• Djinn's Mark damage is now treated as a DoT in terms of zipline rules (doesn't prevent ziplining or knock you off)
• Fixed Djinn's Mark applying bullet procs with Return Fire

Pocket:

• Fixed Mystic Reverb causing Affliction damage to be lethal
• Fixed certain player name lengths not being reportable

• Outer ziplines hero speed increased by 20% relative to inner lanes (same as troopers on outer lanes zipline being faster)
• Initial respawn reduced from 12s to 8s
• Urn now drops when teleporting with Mirage's Traveler
• Fixed Wraith Cards, Shiv Rage and lifesteal from increasing by shooting the shop

Mirage:

• Tornado lift duration reduced from 1.5s to 1.2s
• Tornado T1 bonus lift duration reduced from +0.5s to +0.4s
• Tornado base bullet evasion reduced from 30% to 25%
• Djinn's Mark T3 now also reduces Multiplier Cooldown by 0.5s

When a user is detected as cheating, during the game session the opponents will be given a choice between banning the user immediately and ending the match or turning the cheater into a frog for the rest of the game and then banning them afterwards. The system is set to conservative detection levels as we work on a v2 anti-cheat system that is more extensive. We will turn on the banning of users in a couple of days after the update is out. When a match is ended this way, the results will not count for other players.

• Added global quickcast support. You can now configure your abilities and/or items to be on quickcast mode globally. You can also customize each ability individually to be quickcast or not. This also supports grenade style abilities.

• Hero specific keybinds now say the ability name instead of ability 1-4.

• Added Zipline hotkey that can be independently bound from space/jump.

• Fixed per-hero keys not inheriting user-defined default keys properly.

• Added keybind indicator for hero-specific binds showing which keys have been bound for that hero.

• Added Custom Match play mode.

• Private lobbies now have an option to turn on cheats.

• Private lobbies now let you select the specific servers to use.

• Private lobbies now have an option to make the match publicly visible or private to only the players.

• Private lobbies now support post-game and replays properly.

• Private lobbies now allow picking specific lanes (solo and dual lane colors are displayed).

• Added a cheat report option in-game and post-game.

• Can now mute and report enemy players using ESC while in-game.

• Updated the game access invite UI to make it clear when users have been accepted. (In most cases, when we look into where a user said their friend wasn't accepted, the user was actually accepted but they never claimed the game on the Steam notifications side.)

• Added voice indicators for when players are speaking in party and team chat (green for party, white for team).

• Updated Player Card and action menu when clicking on a player in the friend list or ESC menu.

• Fixed Rich Presence for Steam and in-game friend lists.

• Party Code is now hidden when you enable Streamer Mode.

• Added Region indicator to the matches on the watch tab.

• Fixed search by MatchID not working for games that are live.

• Added Spectator Fog of War toggle (hotkeys available in settings).

• Added South Africa servers.

• Added Italian localization.

• Instead of showing the total number of favorites for each build, we now tag popular builds using a mix of both recent and historical usage so that newer builds are easier to find.

• Builds that haven't been updated in 30 days now have a distinct visual.

• General rendering performance improvements.

• Shadow quality improvements for higher shadow settings.

• Fixed issues with player outline rendering in FSR2.

• Fixed regression with saturation volumes outline not showing up.

• Displacement mapping no longer an official option and will likely be cut (it can be enabled with a ConVar after the game starts).

• Lighting improvements in map.

• Picking up a powerup will now list all the stats they modify in the HUD instead of a generic name like 'Casting' or 'Gun'.

• Spirit scaling is now always shown on the tooltips without needing to hold alt/tab.

• Updated Viscous icon to look more different from Dynamo.

• Added frosted shell effect on the rejuv crystal when Frozen Shelter is active.

• Music and Sound effects will now pause during game pause.

• Fixed Guardian trying to shoot people unsuccessfully behind cover.

• Fixed Quicksilver Reload bonus damage not working correctly with things like Scorn and Flog.

• Added timer sound to the last couple seconds of Flying Cloak.

• Wall Jumps now use better animations to communicate directionality.

• Fixed jumping between ziplines consuming stamina.

• Fixed Magic Reverb not getting increased bonus damage from damage amps.

• Improved preloading during queue time.

• Updated Killing Blow effects.

• Updated Lightning Ball effects to reduce some visual noise.

• Fixed some issues with Crimson Slash effect not appearing reliably.

• Viscous Puddle Punch will now show a red preview for when the punch is out of range but within 2x of the cast range.

• Fixed Ricochet not respecting LOS when picking the targets.

• No longer play low ammo sounds when firing while sliding.

• Fixed not being able to bind Reload to Mouse Wheel Up/Down.

• Minimap line colors now match the color of the hero drawing them.

• Fixed spectator keybinds not showing correctly.

• Updated Flying Strike effects to reduce some visual noise.

• Fixed Flex Slot unlock order not matching the usual order of unlocks.

• Updated Sleep Dagger projectile, impact and sleeping debuff visuals.

• Fixed imbue and active abilities dialog not responding to keybinds if your ability/item binds included a modifier key or were bound to the mouse wheel.

• Fixed Dynamo not playing an animation during the cast delay on Singularity.

• Updated bullet shield break effects.

• Updated Unstoppable effects to be clearer at cast time.

• Warp Stone: Casting while on the ground will no longer stop the player in place, will try to move forward along the ground instead.

• Warp Stone: Fixed cases of Warp Stone getting caught on geometry.

• Fixed various projectiles going through bosses (Wraith cards, Geist bombs, etc).

• Fixed Dash not always breaking breakables.

• Breakables will now wait to spawn if a player is in the way.

• Abrams now has a new custom heavy melee animation.

• Updated Haze VO.

• Fixed a bug where Kelvin desperation VO for Arctic Beam and Ice Path were flipped.

• Turned off a Shiv line where he referenced slowing down enemies when he wasn't actually doing so.

• Removed reason 31 of why Lash is better than Bebop and replaced it with reason 26 of why Lash is better than Bebop (fixed a bug with Lash's hero select lines).

• Replaced a Grey Talon select line to make his intentions more clear.

• Infernus will no longer appear in every bot match.

• Bots can now choose to play Lady Geist, Mirage, Shiv, and Warden.

• Fixed min/max falloff range displaying incorrectly on Weapon Stats Tooltip.

• Updated Rejuvenator buff effect.

• Updated wall bounce effects for Viscous in ball form.

• Added citadel_give_gold cheat command.

• Improved read on the connecting rope for Flying Strike and reduced visual obstruction of the ending slash.

• Music bug fixes for replay and spectating.

• Allow announcer lines for kill streaks and various hero lines to play while the player is in an active combat encounter.

• Timing critical music and sfx will pause and resume in response to game pause.

• Side lanes are now a little further apart from the middle lanes.

• Added a First Blood bonus bounty for the first kill each player gets. Grants 150 bonus souls.

• Lane setup is now always 1-2-2-1.

• Zipline Boost now starts on cooldown again.

• Trooper damage reduction from Guardians reduced from 35% to 28% (they die a little faster to Guardians now).

• Trooper share radius reduced (from allied hero to allied hero 50m -> 40m, from orb to allied hero 40m -> 35m).

• Reverted recent creep sharing duplication changes (back to how it was over a week ago, to see if it's still an issue with the other changes in this patch).

• Some latency-related calculation improvements that help orbs be a little less deny favored.

• Orbs now appear a little smaller to the enemy that is trying to deny them.

• Added a Soul Generator (like the one in hero sandbox) in the respawn area. Starts spawning orbs at 3 minutes. Each orb is worth 10 souls when shot. (Primary purpose for this is for cases when you are very close to an item purchase.)

• Fire Rate slows now stack diminishingly.

• Rejuv bonus creep HP increased from 50% to 70%.

• Rejuv bonus is no longer consumed for dead players, they have it on their next life now.

• Troopers no longer give half bounty when base guardians are destroyed for that lane.

• Killer to Assist bounty ratio reduced from 2.0 to 1.7 (slightly more to assists).

• Midgame respawn time increased a bit (reaches 50s at 20 min instead of 40s at 20 min).

• Teleporter delay reduced from 5s to 4s.

• Guardians now deal 10% more damage to players.

• Sinner's Sacrifice now grants a permanent golden statue bonus when it is killed.

• Fixed Sinner's Sacrifice sharing bounty to nearby allies.

• Added indicator on the HUD to help track your passive cooldown items when they are 1s from ready (headshot Booster, Medic Bullets, etc).

• Boon count increased from 11 to 14 (added to 16/18/20k).

• Non-Health boon bonuses rescaled over the 14 levels (same total as before).

• Aggressive crouch spamming within a very narrow window will now cause you to very briefly move progressively slower.

• Added Rejuv drop on a loop in the sandbox mode.

• Added infinite ammo option to sandbox ("No Reload").

• Fixed dashing downwards not destroying breakables.

• Silence now deselects your ability if you had it open when silenced.

• Monster Rounds: Bullet Resist vs NPCs reduced from 35% to 30%.

• High-Velocity Mag: Bullet Velocity reduced from +30% to +25%.

• Restorative Shot: Cooldown reduced from 6.2s to 5.5s.

• Hollow Point Ward: Spirit Shield increased from +85 to +95.

• Headshot Booster: Fire Rate reduced from +5% to +4%.

• Kinetic Dash: Fire Rate reduced from 25% to 20%.

• Kinetic Dash: Fire Rate max duration reduced from 8s to 7s.

• Berserker: Damage required per stack reduced from 110 to 100.

• Mystic Shot: Damage spirit scaling increased from 0.6 to 0.8.

• Melee Charge: Impact now increases your ammo for that mag instead of reloading (so if your ammo is 2/8, it becomes 10/8). Reloads you instantly if in the middle of a reload.

• Melee Charge: Cooldown increased from 8.5s to 10s.

• Intensifying Magazine: Max Weapon Damage reduced from 75% to 60%.

• Escalating Resilience: Fire Rate reduced from 14% to 12%.

• Headhunter: Now requires Headshot Booster.

• Headhunter: No longer grants +50% Bullet Velocity.

• Headhunter: Now grants +5% Fire Rate.

• Headhunter: Fixed not being affected by cooldown reduction.

• Pristine Emblem: Now requires High-Velocity Mag.

• Pristine Emblem: Now grants +35% Bullet Velocity.

• Titanic Magazine: Ammo increased from 100% to 120%.

• Sharpshooter: Fixed falloff reduction not working properly.

• Frenzy: Low HP Spirit Resist changed to Bullet Resist.

• Spiritual Overflow: Now grants +250 Bullet Shield.

• Silencer: Now grants +12 Spirit.

• Ricochet: Fire Rate reduced from 12% to 10%.

• Vampiric Burst: Fixed casting it interrupting sliding.

• Siphon Bullets: Moved to T4 Vitality.

• Shadow Weave: Now a T4 Weapon Item.

• Melee Lifesteal: Melee Damage reduced from 13% to 12%.

• Melee Lifesteal: Heal vs non-heroes reduced from 40% to 30%.

• Extra Stamina: Stamina Recovery increased from 10% to 14%.

• Restorative Locket: No longer requires max stacks to restore a stamina point.

• Divine Barrier: Bonus Health reduced from 75 to 50.

• Combat Barrier: Fire Rate while shielded reduced from 8% to 6%.

• Combat Barrier: Weapon Damage while shielded reduced from 28% to 25%.

• Combat Barrier: Bullet Shield increased from +300 to +325.

• Health Nova: Weapon Damage increased from 10% to 12%.

• Return Fire: While active grants +25% Bullet Resistance.

• Return Fire: Bullet Damage Returned reduced from 70% to 60%.

• Return Fire: No longer grants +7% Fire Rate.

• Return Fire: Spirit Power increased from +7 to +9.

• Return Fire: Fixed Ricochet'd bullets not returning the right amount of damage.

• Bullet Armor: Bullet Resist increased from 20% to 25%.

• Veil Walker: No longer grants +20% Fire Rate.

• Improved Bullet Armor: Bullet Resist increased from 45% to 50%.

• Fortitude: Bonus Health increased from 275 to 300.

• Lifestrike: Cooldown reduced from 5.25s to 5s.

• Lifestrike: Fixed proccing heal more than once when hitting multiple targets.

• Shadow Weave: Moved to T4 Weapon.

• Siphon Bullets: Now a T4 Vitality Item.

• Siphon Bullets: No longer grants +28% Weapon Damage.

• Siphon Bullets: Now grants +18% Bullet Resistance.

• Colossus: Slow radius increased from 12m to 14m.

• Soul Rebirth: Increases base respawn rate by +15s.

• Unstoppable: Can no longer be cast during channels.

• Ammo Scavenger:

  • Ammo reduced from 15% to 10%.
  • Health reduced from 60 to 40.
  • Duration reduced from 35s to 30s.
  • Max stacks reduced from 12 to 10.

• Spirit Strike: No longer grants +0.8 Health Regen.

• Mystic Reach:

  • Ability Range increased from 16% to 18%.
  • Now provides 6% Bullet Resist instead of 6% Spirit Resist.

• Withering Whip:

  • No longer grants +8% Fire Rate.
  • Spirit Power increased from +4 to +6.
  • Now grants +1 Sprint.
  • Cast range increased from 24m to 30m.
  • Fire Rate slow increased from 40% to 45%.

• Quicksilver Reload: No longer triggers if your ammo is at max value already.

• Decay:

  • Cooldown increased from 32s to 45s.
  • Cast range scaling reduced from 0.2 to 0.16.

• Improved Reach: Now provides 12% Bullet Resist instead of 12% Spirit Resist.

• Improved Spirit: Spirit Power increased from +21 to +23.

• Knockdown: Now causes enemies to fall down faster.

• Torment Pulse:

  • Health Bonus increased from 140 to 160.
  • Spirit Power damage scaling increased from 0.25 to 0.33.

• Rapid Recharge:

  • Faster Time Between Charges increased from +55% to +65%.
  • Cooldown Reduction For Charged Abilities increased from +25% to 30%.

• Magic Carpet: Fixed it consuming stamina when jumping off.

• Escalating Exposure: Fixed the bonus damage being reduced twice by resistance.

• Refresher:

  • Bullet Resist increased from 8% to 16%.
  • Spirit Resist reduced from 16% to 8%.

• Echo Shard: Now has a 0.3s cast delay (like Refresher).

• Abrams:

  • Infernal Resilience reduced from 16% to 15%.
  • Infernal Resilience T3 reduced from 9% to 8%.
  • Siphon Life spirit scaling increased from 0.2 to 0.3.
  • Fixed cases where Shoulder Charge was unexpectedly 'slamming' into walls and stairs.

• Bebop:

  • Hook range reduced from 30m to 25m.
  • Hyper Beam duration spirit scaling reduced from 0.08 to 0.06.

• Dynamo: Singularity radius reduced from 8m to 7m.

• Grey Talon:

  • Arrow cycle time reduced from 0.4s to 0.45s (overall DPS unchanged).
  • Rain of Arrows can be alternate-casted to remain near the ground.
  • Fixed air dash during Rain of Arrows going half the distance.
  • Guided Owl bonus spirit on death now has a 3s buffer window.
  • Guided Owl: very slight turn rate improvements.
  • Guided Owl radius increased from 12m to 13m.

• Haze:

  • Sleep Dagger hitbox reduced by 10%.
  • Fixed Refresher not working properly with Smoke Bomb.
  • Fixed some items that didn't proc before: Tesla Bullets, Lucky Shot, Mystic Shot.
  • Bullet Dance now more accurately shows who it is shooting.
  • Fixed Bullet Dance sometimes not obeying line of sight accurately.
  • Bullet Dance bullets are now affected by Time Wall.
  • Bullet Dance evasion reduced from 50% to 25%.
  • Bullet Dance fire rate reduced from 25% to 15%.

• Ivy:

  • Stone Form now works against airborne targets.
  • Kudzu Bomb T3 now also grants +2m Radius.
  • Kudzu Bomb spirit power scaling increased from 0.6 to 0.7.
  • Fixed clicking noise when flying while disarmed.
  • Fixed being able to Stone Form during the Take Flight animation to circumvent the vulnerable cast period.

• Kelvin:

  • Headshot bonus damage reduced by 20%.
  • Bullet damage growth reduced from 1.2 to 0.9.
  • Arctic Beam movement slow reduced from 70% to 50%.
  • Moving through breakables while on Ice Path now destroys them.

• Lady Geist:

  • Life Drain cooldown reduced from 42s to 30s.
  • Malice cooldown reduced from 6.25s to 6s.
  • Malice T1 improved from -2.75s Cooldown to -3s.
  • Fixed Life Drain not healing extra based on amplifications (like Soul Shredder and Malice stacks).
  • Sprint increased from 1 to 1.5.

• McGinnis:

  • Fixed looking up circumventing the min range on Wall and Barrage.
  • Can now cast parry to cancel your ult.
  • Fixed various issues with Spectral Wall indoors and near walls spawning the wrong number of segments.

• Mo & Krill:

  • Combo duration reduced from 2.75s to 2.5s.
  • Combo damage spirit scaling increased from 0.8 to 1.1.
  • Combo kill trigger now has a 3s buffer window to get credit.
  • Sand Blast T1 reduced from +1.5s to +1s.
  • Sand Blast range increased from 30m to 35m.
  • Burrow base speed increased from 3 to 4.
  • Burrow T3 speed reduced from +3 to +2.

• Paradox:

  • Pulse Grenade T3 now also grants +2% Damage Amp.
  • Fixed being unable to be damaged by multiple Time Walls.

• Pocket:

  • Affliction no longer goes through walls, now respects line of sight.
  • Barrage T3 reduced from +5% to +4%.

• Seven:

  • Static Charge stun duration reduced from 1.1 to 0.9.
  • Static Charge T3 reduced from 1.1 to 0.9.
  • Static Charge radius reduced from 6m to 5m.
  • Static Charge can now be alternate-casted on self (does not stun you).
  • Static Charge now respects line of sight.

• Seven:

  • Lightning Ball T3 now also gives +1m Radius.

• Shiv:

  • Slice and Dice T2 reduced from +85 to +75.
  • Killing Blow Rage buildup per spirit damage reduced from 0.02 to 0.013.
  • Killing Blow Rage drain rate increased from 0.3 to 0.35.
  • Killing Blow Full Rage Bonus Damage reduced from 20% to 15%.
  • Killing Blow T2 increased from 5% to 10%.

• Vindicta:

  • Gun cycle time increased from 0.19s to 0.22s (same overall DPS).
  • Stake: distance enemies are allowed to move increased from 6m to 8m.
  • Max Falloff reduced from 58m to 45m.
  • Fixed Flight ending if you touch the ground.
  • Low HP indication now also shows up while unscoped.
  • Assassinate Base damage reduced from 160 to 140.
  • Assassinate zoom level reduced a little bit.
  • Flight duration spirit scaling reduced from 0.2 to 0.15.

• Viscous:

  • The Cube cleanse is now part of the T2.
  • Puddle Punch enemy warning time increased from 0.35s to 0.45s.
  • Bullet Damage reduced from 13 to 12.
  • Can now use down dash during Goo Ball.
  • Fixed Phantom Strike not positioning you correctly when using it with your Goo Ball.
  • Splatter post cast delay reduced from 0.5s to 0.2s.

• Warden:

  • Binding Word escape range and escape time increased by 15%.
  • Last Stand spirit scaling increased from 0.9 to 1.2.

• Yamato:

  • Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.5 to 0.45.
  • Crimson Slash fire rate slow reduced from 30% to 20%.
  • Fixed various issues with Flying Strike pathing.
  • Shadow Transformation duration reduced from 5s to 4.5s.
  • Shadow Transformation T3 duration increased from +1.5s to +2s.
  • Shadow Transformation no longer provides unlimited ammo.

• Outer Lanes:

  • Middle of the map's outer lanes have been pushed further away from the inner lanes.

• New Connection:

  • Added a new path from the canal near the urn platforms through the Radio Station and Apartment buildings.

• Fish Market/Nursery Adjustments:
  • Reworked interior corridors to exit to the buildings sooner.
  • Added an interior room partition connecting Fish Market/Nursery to the Shops.
  • Moved the rope to the Fish Market/Nursery rooftop to the back of the building.
  • Removed the upper interior hallway connecting the rope to the rooftops.
  • Moved the truck from in front of the archway with the cosmic veil to the back of the Fish Market/Nursery.

• Redesigned Outer Lane Path:
  • Redesigned ziplines and trooper nodes for the path from Walker to Guardian on Amber Yellow and Sapphire Purple.

• New Interior Passage:
  • Added a new passage beside the Subway Entrance leading to the outer lanes.