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Deadlock 10-24-2024 Update (forums.playdeadlock.com)

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Big update as always. I'm interested in seeing the new cel shading on characters.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Glad they’re pushing urn as a comeback mechanic even more with the slightly easier deposit point.

Also changing the comeback benefit to only kicking in at a 8% soul gap makes sense, was kind of dumb that having a 1k difference had them kick in lol.

Lot of other changes too, haven’t had a chance to read them all.

[–] Mr_Reach 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Common Mo & Krell buff wins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

When i play against the mole: nerf that shit.

When i play as the mole: buff me daddy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Shiv nerf. Been waiting for that.

Interesting urn changes, there are now six drop off locations, which will change depending on what team is in the lead. Losing team will be able to drop it off closer to base, winning team has to take it towards enemy base.

Oh boy Paradox got a fun change. You can now increase the pulses on the time bomb by increasing ability duration. I got eight pulses totaling over 2000 damage (plus they apply damage amp stacks) by using superior duration+magic carpet (which is the only other item that gives ability duration for some reason).

Throw in a echo shard and range extension and you can make some zones enemies REALLY wont want to be in :D

Vindicta: Fire rate now scales with Spirit Power (0.14)

Vindicta is the new Grey Talon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like playing shiv, and i like the changes. Especially the knife hitbox was pretty obnoxious. And the nerf doesn't make him less fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Good!

He was a pain to play against for a while there, now it feels much more fair. He's still dangerous, but before you kinda had to make sure he was starving on souls right from the start, or he'd go completely out of control.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the removal of the soul sharing on the ult is a nerf to Vindicta overall, but we'll see. It's easier to counter one hero with big net worth than having it evenly spread across her whole team. At least in theory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you build a railgun Paradox and or do you build into the time bomb at all?

My playstyle on her is mind gaming people into standing somewhat still, for long enough to eat a bunch of time bomb pulses.

This duration change, along with the area growing with each pulse, added in the last big patch, now makes the time bomb utterly insane imo.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You're sleeping on truly insane damage potential.

With the buffs to time bomb, you can now get up to eight pulses out of it (improved duration+magic carpet). Improved range plus the T3 growth now makes is enormous. Throw in mystic slow, slowing hex, or mystic pulse to make it harder to get out of.

Escalating exposure stacks with the damage amp it already gives, and an echo shard lets you drop two for double damage or larger coverage. The pulse damage scales with spirit, of course.

And the damage amp it then provides on anyone hit with it means your gun and kinetic carbine are no joke either.

My problem with building into the carbine is that the damage never gets truly stupid. It scales with gun damage, but even when min-maxing that, it doesn't come close to what I've been able to achieve with the time bomb.

Hence I almost just use the carbine as yet another stun to make sure people eat the time bomb, along with strats like swapping people into narrow corridors.

Another trick that works way too often, is dropping the time bomb at your own feet, and then staying within its AOE while using a time wall to defend. Close range heroes that try stay close to you like shiv, yamato and abrams will have to eat a truly dumb amount of damage if they want to get anywhere near you.

Also, unlike kudzu bomb, the time bomb AOE is a sphere, and it works through walls. With the larger size, clever placements can do damage in ways people really don't expect. It's also an insane combo with anything that stops movement. Including enemy ults. When enemy seven ults I literally just drop a time bomb within range of him, and he basically has to choose between dying or stopping his ult so he can move. Same for an ulting haze or dynamo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lots of huge changes, not sure how I feel about some. I love the Urn adjustments toward being a better comeback mechanism, it was definitely more of a snowball mechanism before.

The changes to backdooring and to Walkers and Guardians I'm very on the fence about. It's very clear they want game speed to go down (and at least in my Emissary games they have definitely often been going 40+ minutes). Will be very interesting how it plays out, from the looks of it all your buildings will just fall apart after 14 minutes now. Also really encourages rat gameplay, splitpushing and suiciding objectives which I don't really enjoy.

Not surprised Shiv got the nerf bat, he was out of hand. Very surprised Infernus and McGinnis weren't nerfed harder, especially Infernus. For me personally I'm happy about the Mirage buffs as I spam him, I think the Spirit build will be actually good now.

Kinda sad to see Leap gutted even though it was clearly overpowered. There is something to be said for allowing items that are that fun to be a little broken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I agree with most buff and nerfs, ever for characters i don't like. But seeing a turret buff for ginny makes me question a lot of things.