Deadlock’s June 30 Patch Put The Boon Spreadsheet Right In The Notes

Valve’s June 30, 2026 Deadlock update did not just rebalance a few heroes and call it a night. It reworked the objective stack hard enough that the official notes included an embedded Boon reward table, which is how SirActionSlacks ended up posting the cleanest summary of the day: Deadlock devs were, in his words, ready to “release the google sheet in the update notes.”

That is the joke, and it is a good one. The verified version is slightly more precise: Valve did not publish a public Google Sheet link in the sources DramaLock reviewed. The official Minor Update – 06-30-2026 embeds a table image right after the line about the reworked Boon reward table. It looks like spreadsheet energy because the patch is spreadsheet energy.

The update was published through Steam on June 30 and mirrored in the official Deadlock changelog forum. SirActionSlacks posted his reaction later that same day, at about 17:55 UTC, attaching the screenshot that made the table the story instead of just one more dense patch-note block.

The mechanical headline is bigger than the meme. King of the Hill has been rethemed and renamed to Unstable Rift. It no longer needs an Urn delivery to start, it has a variable spawn window, and it now announces itself before spawning. Securing the Rift sends special Rift Troopers down the lane, with the number scaling upward for a trailing team.

The Urn is no longer the same shared objective wrapper around that fight. It is now its own runner objective again, spawning at the ends of the map and being delivered to the opposite side. The runner is no longer revealed, disarmed, or silenced, but also cannot parry. Deposit is immediate, and the reward is mainly runner-focused: the notes say it is worth 250 plus 70 per minute for the runner, with souls released as orbs if allies secure them.

That is already a lot. Then the general section hits the economy. The Boon reward table was reworked, health per boon went down, ultimate cooldowns were globally nerfed by 15 percent, Rejuvenator buff duration dropped, respawn ramp changed, Guardian and Walker bounties fell, and base kill money was reduced. If the May and June Urn patches were arguments about where teams should fight, this patch is also an argument about how much the game should pay them for winning.

The hero and item sections keep the worksheet feeling going. Mystic Shot cooldown went up, Toxic Bullets bleed went up, Scourge lost max-health DPS but gained spirit scaling, and Cursed Relic’s damage penalty got harsher. Hero changes touch a long list, including Apollo, Billy, Celeste, Drifter, Holliday, Mina, Paige, Rem, Seven, Shiv, Vindicta, Viscous, Vyper, and Warden.

The funny part is that Slacks’ post works because it points at something real. Deadlock’s patch notes have always been unusually exposed compared with many live-service games, but this one is especially naked about the math. Valve is not hiding behind “various economy adjustments.” It is showing players the reward table and the objective rules, then letting the community do the inevitable: argue over whether the table explains the game or proves the game has become tax preparation with zip lines.

There is a risk in that kind of transparency. The more numbers Valve shows, the more every match can become a referendum on whether the numbers are wrong. But for a playtest that has spent weeks arguing about Urn, deathball fights, comeback mechanics, and draft-shaped frustration, a visible table may be better than another mysterious objective rewrite.

The careful read is this: the June 30 update is not just “the Google Sheet patch.” It is a major objective and economy pass with a spreadsheet-shaped calling card. Slacks just gave everyone the headline before the patch discourse could bury it under 40 tabs.

Source Notes

• Valve on Steam, June 30, 2026: Minor Update – 06-30-2026.
• Official Deadlock forum mirror: 06-30-2026 Update.
• SirActionSlacks on X, June 30, 2026: reaction post about the patch-note table.