Deadlock Stories
MATCHMAKING
Valve Opened A Bad Team Comp Report Box, And Deadlock Players Immediately Asked For Draft
BALANCE
Slowing Bullets Is Getting Blamed For Turning Deadlock Gunfire Into Cheap Permanent Soft CC
COMP
The Deadlock vs Counter-Strike Comp Scene Question Ran Into The Watchability Problem Immediately
MATCHMAKING
The “Smart Matchmaking Creates Smurfs” Manifesto Is Deadlock Players Losing Patience With Hero MMR
COMMUNITY
Deadlock’s Endless Low Priority Thread Turned Into A Fight Over Reports, Weird Builds, And Griefing
STATS
Deadlock Player Count Claim Got Checked By The SteamDB Table
THE URN
Gun Rem Delivers Divine Justice To The Three-Stack That Would Not Stop Explaining Rem
MATCHMAKING
Deadlock’s New Matchmaking Patch Is Getting Blamed For Deranks, AFKs, And Instant Low-Priority Spirals
ANTI-CHEAT
Riot Vanguard Is Being Blamed For Crashing Deadlock And Locking Deadlock.exe
HOT TAKE
Deadlock’s Kernel Anti-Cheat Panic Was Really About What Other Games Were Already Doing To PCs
COMMUNITY
Deadlock’s “Playerbase Invasion” Discourse Got Uglier Fast After One Viral Anti-Trans Rant
ANALYSIS