Deadlock

It has, yeah.

So for anybody that, you know, has been sleeping under a rock or just hasn't been keeping up with Deadlock, basically, previously, Comeback was extremely overpowered.

It took a bit for people to kind of catch on.

And they also, like, to be fair, it wasn't that way when they introduced Rift.

So now...

They've essentially added socialism where you kind of just don't get those souls, right? It's like, okay, well, those souls get redistributed to your team.

And I think in general, Deadlock has done a lot of things to kind of try to distribute net worth more evenly across teams.

And I think it's very clear that... know they're fine with their having some sort of farm differential uh between heroes but they don't want there to be huge net worth differences within the same team as much as possible and i think that this is you know a lot of lessons they've learned from dota where it's like people don't really have fun just being the poverty squad that gets you know one shot by other heroes um so everybody wants to have some net worth everybody wants to have impact and so they've kind of done that and i know some people don't like that change because they feel like it's harder to carry games now and i i hear you i understand that perspective however i think long term it's like healthier for the game and i understand that even though it might make games harder to carry that is not how the game should be balanced the game should be balanced like it is a team game at the end of the day right like there should be television to it and that might make games harder to carry do you do still want there to be individual agency.

So it's a very new thing that I'm getting into.

I play Deadlock, which I haven't played in a bit, but I play Deadlock.

We have a whole like group of people of like...

I mean, all in all, it's around maybe 15 people who play Deadlock.

Right.

This server started by me and Viddy because we would play a lot together.

Yes.

OK.

I think I've paired my game, my exploration, my discovery has come down significantly.

I just spend most of my time playing D2R or Deadlock.

Now, that's it.

These are my two forever games.

I'm spending all my time in playing right.

And that, and that is a, that is a studio brand, right? or a publisher brand, but a studio brand at work right there.

Deadlock wouldn't be what Deadlock is if Valve hadn't put it out.

That's the power of a brand.

hello everyone and welcome to yet another episode of the bear pit your deadlock podcast now today We were kind of wondering, what do we talk about? You know, there's not really a lot going on in Deadlock, right? In fact, it's kind of the calm before the storm.

And we've made a few videos in the past where we talk about things that we wanted from the patch, etc.

But considering it's so close, we felt that it would be appropriate to talk about what we personally would want from the patch, as well as kind of the speculation that we've seen from the community or things that people want.

I'm excited.

Finally, I've been having...

Yesterday was a quote-unquote holiday in the US, so I just spent the entire day just playing Deadlock.

It was fantastic.

Over the weekend, I went to an anime convention with my partner, and it was great.

Yeah, updating the update.

And some things I want to talk about today are the update cycle that Deadlock has gone through as far as the time between updates.

As well as is this kind of something that's going to be viable long term? Why is this update taking longer than usual? The fact that Deadlock, is Deadlock really a playtest nowadays? Or is it like some sort of hybrid? And lastly, our reactions on the way that people like kind of reacted to the news, right? So our thoughts on the way the whole community handled the thing.

So anyway, welcome to the Deadlock podcast.

How are you doing, R-Cryptic?

i am fantastic i feel like every week recently i've been like oh i'm so busy like that's so much going on uh but this week's like also just no exception i'm incredibly busy um uh it's fun i've got a like a you know outside of deadlock i try to do some things every once in a while i have like an anime convention coming up this weekend uh my girlfriend and i are going i've been working on a cosplay for like a month and it's coming down to the wire it's still not done i have a lot of painting and stuff to do this week um But hopefully, hopefully it's ready for Saturday.

I'm definitely addicted right now because I'm just trying to improve and I'm in the BoxBox bootcamp.

you know i'm trying to be like i'm trying to win that right now i was rank one yesterday right now i'm ranked two in my uh division but i'm very close so like it's it's a it's a tight race um i think i can do it but it's not gonna be easy it's definitely harder than i thought um But yeah, I've been playing a ton of TFT.

But the story, it's been with me since 2017, and it's how I met a lot of my friends that I currently have.

But the other game that it's tied with is actually one I got into recently, Deadlock.

Is that the new Valve game?

Yeah, it's a sort of combination of League of Legends with Valorant with third person.

Anne Cran, if there was a game, old or new, that you would recommend to the audience, what game would that be?

It is a tie.

FF14, of course, but if I had to pick one, the two, Deadlock, or my personal favorite that I convinced Tony to put into the Game Olympics, Deadass Disco, because you all need to see what Johnny Disco zoomed with his life and see the high score Tony has, because that man scares me.

I'm really good at Disco.

Sarah, it made me think of like every once in a while in the meetings, on our Monday meetings, you mention you're still playing Valve's MOBA.

Deadlock?

Yeah, Deadlock.

Don't call it that.

Call it Deadlock.

I couldn't think of the name.

Everyone's playing Deadlock.

[laughs] How am I gonna stop playing?