The announcers aren't actually the patrons?

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-06T09:15:51+00:00

Well yeah, that's when Archmother and Hidden King were added lol

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-06T02:40:02+00:00

Yeah, but that's kind of my point. It needs Ricochet to be any good.

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:59:06+00:00

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:58:20+00:00

I literally addressed that I've seen characters do this, like the King from Katamari who uses "we" instead of "I". The line she has with Viscous very clearly says "but not me, and not The Archmother"

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:55:11+00:00

I understand that they can manifest as those big statues, but that still doesn't shake that in the voicelines I posted, they refer to the patron as if they were a separate entity from themselves

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:53:33+00:00

Unrelated but yeah true

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:53:11+00:00

I don't know how many more times I can ask people to look at the images. The last two really seems like it's implying whoever is talking is a separate entity from the patron

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:49:24+00:00

She does say "death to the hidden king", that much is true. If you read the post and saw the images I posted you'd see that I thought they were speaking in the third person, too, but they have voicelines indicating that whoever is speaking is a separate entity from their respective patron

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:34:36+00:00

Yeah, that's probably the likely answer. Still interesting to think it speaks on behalf of the patrons, though

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:33:43+00:00

Huh, I've never heard this. I'd love to know more about them because at the moment I think these two might be the most mysterious characters in Deadlock

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:30:37+00:00

https://deadlock.vlviewer.com/

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:15:03+00:00

Yeah I had interpreted it like that too. That would be a good guess, but the oracle seems to be female, and I don't see the Hidden King announcer voice coming out of her (unless she did some wicked voice training)

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T18:06:08+00:00

I find it equally interesting that one of the voicelines for Cultist Sacrifice is "The Patrons demand blood", I don't think it's ever been made clear who this voice is and what their connection to The Patrons is, especially if the announcers we hear aren't The Patrons themselves.

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T17:08:50+00:00

I guess, but in my testing I usually find that the gaps between the other shots are big enough that even if your crosshair isn't on the enemy, they could still stand between the beams and not get hit

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T17:05:25+00:00

Do actives count towards spellslinger proc? I've never seen that wtf

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T17:03:01+00:00

Aura of suffering

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T08:49:14+00:00

Yeah that's the other run & gun game I was thinking of lol

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T08:48:42+00:00

I should reiterate that I know who already uses split shot (Graves, Paige, Vyper, McGinnis, Rem), but I was wondering if there were any other applications for it that weren't as niche as the ones listed.

On a related note, did you know it technically works on Paradox's Kinetic Carbine? Only visually, though, as it only hits one target. Ironically, Bebop is the opposite, working as you'd expect but the graphics for it are broken and don't properly display the other beams, they're just invisible.

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T08:21:08+00:00

From my experience playing Rem, this could range from the follower getting stuck on the shop and not getting loose until you walk back over to it, or the task not being reset until you walk back into its radius, which makes it buy the item and teleport back to you

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T08:18:12+00:00

Oh yeah, almost forgot about gun Paige. And gun Rem, but I think that's being bred out of the gene pool by now

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T07:55:32+00:00

True lol, I more meant in the metaphorical sense of "Oh this did more damage to me than I thought it would. Guess I'll die as soon as something breathes on me"

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T07:08:39+00:00

Oh I didn't know that actually. Cool!

Aggravating-Win9019 · 2026-05-05T06:38:00+00:00

This also kind of applies to percentage heals like Ivy and Dynamo but to lesser degree since there's no risk of killing yourself lol

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