Deadlock (New game from Steam - unannounced)

I assume, at least with the people on this forums, that the game is too fluctuating at the moment.. each little character release campaign has brought in sweeping changes to the visual style and ever-shifting game. Items, nerfs, buffs, etc.

Though, with the addition of streetbrawl; figured it'd get a little more attention.. maybe the PvE will be the big one for a lot of people. Risk of Rain 2(Hoppoo) devs have been on the project for a while now, refining movement and officially responsible for 2 heavy movement-based characters.

I play it quite a bit - just not a lot to discuss I suppose any more than we see MOBA discussion. My favorite characters right now are Dynamo, Venator, Doorman. Danny is probably after that, although for sure he's getting a nerf when they do a rebalance of all the new guys. In terms of the new characters:

1) Harrow's kit is odd - her 3 standard skills are ok (although her #2 is all but requires you overheal the characters it is used on or they might die), but her ult is insanely powerful. Especially at max rank - she's literally invuln to damage while ulting. She isn't immune to CC, though. But you have so little time to react that the only CC that works is if you are behind her or it is a super long range CC. Her ult is 100% getting a nerf. But if they nerf her ult, they need to give her some more offensive utility. In team fights, especially early, you can't really contribute much to a fight, but by late game you practically become a carry with your ult.

2) Violet is extremely powerful - her portrait skill has a really long range and in practice is extremely hard to avoid and her ult is extremely powerful (her ult is one of the few things that reliably counters Harrow's ult because the paint blocks it). I suspect she will get some nerfs

3) Danny is really fun to play as and frustrating as fuck to play against for the same reason: his airtime in his jetpack. If anything gets nerfed, it will probably be his jetpack/overheat dive #2

4) Solomon is one of those really high skill ceiling characters - if you can micromanage moving his chess pieces during a fight, he is extremely powerful because you can't destroy his chess pieces and some well placed bishops can do a shitload of damage and stuns. If he was to get some nerfs, it would probably be to the bishops

5) Baba doesn't seem too bad, except her goomba stomp spam that heals her. She can do that WAY too often, if anything gets nerfed it will probably be that

Ya, some characters are OP in street brawl but less so in normal mode and vice versa.

Danny is good in both, but he takes much longer to come online in normal mode and as a result, he can fall off quickly if he dies too much early/mid game and feeds the opposite side

These games need AI tutorial/coach. I thought I had seen something like that being done with COD/fortnite?

Doesn’t have that, but it does have the ability to browse people’s builds and some people add tutorial notes to their build explaining why you need something/what it does. It also makes the shop less overwhelming because it filters out anything not part of the build you selected

Cybsled said:

Doorman.

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Wtf happen to him, I basically left for a few months and he was on top before I left. I think they just added having the ability to reset his ult by like 80% if successful and he was on top of the world. He's literally on the bottom now, the actual lowest. I'm guessing kidnapman is the only way to play him now?

Feels like hes got the greytalon treatment.. I have most my hours on him, and they gutted him. I played him spirit when everyone was playing him gun.. back when you could two shot with his arrow but now hes "balanced" in the sense you kinda have to do all his abilities.

I never played him at release, so I don’t have context. He’s mostly spirit build in my experience. Kind of like drifter, he does well in 1v1 because you can blow up characters if you build and combo right

But in most games I mostly play him as sort of a flex support: take people out of the fight, setup short doorway paths so people can get the barrier from passing through, help chase down runners or punish people who over extend

Dynamo is my fav because he is a great support but has some teeth to his abilities from an offensive standpoint