Valve has just dropped a new Deadlock update ahead of its anticipated major overhaul, and it’s filled with item nerfs and hero balancing.
A new Deadlock update is here, and while it's still not the major content drop that we've been waiting for, it's likely to pretty dramatically shake up matches in the meantime. Valve has already said not to expect the next overhaul until "late September" at least, but rather than leaving the meta to stagnate, it instead dropped a big list of Deadlock patch notes filled with quite a few impactful changes to items, heroes, and core game mechanics. If you're a big Celeste, Lash, or Warden player, you might want to sit down for this one.
To start with, comeback mechanics have been nerfed slightly. Valve has always been a little coy on the exact values Deadlock uses to calculate how much to help out the team that's behind, but it appears to be taking precautions against players gaming the economy of the MOBA to their advantage. Until now, you've been handed a small count of bonus souls from both hero kill and Unstable Rift bounties if you're behind "even a very slight amount in net worth." That's been removed, and the overall value of comeback bounties across the board has been lowered in addition to that.
To prevent teams from carefully funneling all their souls into one carry hero while staying technically 'behind,' if a player is on the losing side but still personally above the opponents' average net worth, 70% of the comeback souls they earn will instead be handed to the poorest two players on their team, spreading the funds more evenly. Alongside all this, the max comeback resist bonus provided by Unstable Rift objectives has been changed from 35% to a scaling 10% + 1% per minute, meaning the first will be around 20%, with an upper cap of 40%.
Elsewhere in the economy, the bounty for Guardians has been boosted by 10%, and for Walkers by 5%, making pushing objectives more valuable, especially taking those nerfed comeback payouts into account. The share amount earned by nearby heroes for objective bounties has been reduced from 30% to 25%, which will again make it harder to push all your souls into one or two team members. The initial spawn and respawn timers for underground tunnels breakables have been extended from three to five minutes - sorry to tunnel farmers like Calico, Rem, and Mo.
On the mechanics side, parrying during a dash will now cancel your movement momentum, stopping you from safely running away. Using a parry pauses your reload, while getting stunned no longer restarts your entire reload but just pauses it instead. Valve has cut the effect of all movement slows in the game by 20%, and all ground dash slows by 10%, but slow effects now also apply 35% of their reduction to air drag, which will make them more effective at disrupting high-flying heroes like Celeste.
Both dashes and light melees will no longer pause your gun's cycle time (the gap between shots) - this applies across the board, but you'll notice it most on heroes with slower-firing weapons such as Silver or Abrams. Rounding out the general adjustments, the respawn time at the 20-minute mark specifically has been extended by three seconds, which will likely help ensure Midboss completions go more smoothly if you pull off a team wipe.
Beyond that, the rest of the patch notes dig into a heavy list of item and hero balance changes. Keep watch for notable nerfs to items that generate souls, including Trophy Collector and Golden Goose Egg. The Egg now also counts towards your character's net worth for comeback calculations, to avoid some of the recent shenanigans we've seen, and its damage penalty has gone up from 10% to 15%. Plated Armor gets a lot more consistent thanks to a bug fix ensuring it works against several notable sources of spirit damage that weren't being blocked correctly.
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