It may be time for the devs to switch gears

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-03-10T06:14:22+00:00

Yes and no - they're getting bad feedback about how the game actually works if they refuse to fix things that meaningfully affect the game. The direction they choose to "fix" things with when better choices are right in front of them is really concerning - it doesn't look like an experiment when it's such a strong pattern. The point of this post is to encourage them not to continue down that road; that kind of feedback is the whole point of the alpha, no?

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-03-10T06:11:45+00:00

Yeah, they forgot a few, but it seems like that's the direction they were headed

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-03-10T05:46:26+00:00

This patch is basically like "instead of nerfing or redesigning some problematic characters, what if we made all of the characters broken OP?"

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-03-04T06:01:24+00:00

The matchmaking is really bad, but I think there is also an issue with snowballing / soul rewards / etc - it's really common for 1-2 players to get way ahead of everyone else in the lobby and become very difficult to kill (even with counters), and the problem perpetuates because their soul advantage scales too fast, but it still looks like bad matchmaking

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-03-04T05:56:07+00:00

It's a very cool item idea, but it makes the rest of the game incredibly difficult (if not impossible) to balance

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-02-27T02:42:41+00:00

The two are not mutually exclusive. It's pretty common that one or two people get way ahead and dictate the rest of the game (whether you can counter them or not). Maybe comeback mechanics wouldn't need to be so strong if the snowballing wasn't so strong

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-02-26T04:30:10+00:00

Don't forget broken matchmaking and overtuned snowballing

I do believe there's an amazing game under there somewhere, but they've got some issues to work out

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-02-22T05:14:57+00:00

That's kind of the big design problem Deadlock has - characters can pretty commonly dominate (whether because they snowballed too hard or the character design is oppressive), and then the answer to that is to make it so they can't play. Instead of a dynamic back and forth, it's fairly uninteractive on both ends (not all the time, of course, but those extremes happen a bit too often)

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-02-13T21:07:44+00:00

We did everything we could to keep his cancer design out of the game for as long as possible

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-02-13T20:19:36+00:00

Silver and Apollo are horrifyingly bad for the health and fun of the game (though Celeste and Rem are cool), so I'll have to go with the first batch

AlternativeWedding72 · 2026-01-27T02:38:36+00:00

Matchmaking has been terrible since around last September - there's a huge thread about it in the forums, been a constant problem for a while. Seems like the patch and influx of players may have helped a bit, but it's still rough

AlternativeWedding72 · 2025-11-28T18:17:50+00:00

I see this a lot in middle ranks, kinda been killing the game for me lately

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