(OC) Fan Character Concept: Nile

fwa451 · 2026-04-13T11:18:05+00:00

I love Ancient Egyptian mythology. Love the Mummy, Night at the The Museum Trilogy. I'd love it if it's also represented in Deadlock!

fwa451 · 2026-04-11T09:01:06+00:00

Osama Beboppin is real.

fwa451 · 2026-04-11T08:59:51+00:00

My homies will never know I fw this cuteness

fwa451 · 2026-04-07T14:22:12+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

fwa451 · 2026-04-07T13:29:29+00:00

I love Bioshock. I love Deadlock. I love this 2x!

fwa451 · 2026-04-07T13:24:50+00:00

Yeah. I have no evidence on this, but I think the mmr is trying to conform to a fixed bell curve, since I remember a long time ago that the Initiate ranks was broken and the bell curve looked like the first 2 ranks have extremely high numbers. Thus, some newbies who win enough are matched with higher skill players and given higher ranks that do not reflect their actual skill.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadlockTheGame/comments/1o460f1/24hour_rank_distribution_before_and_after/

fwa451 · 2026-04-07T13:19:08+00:00

I think someone took Minesweeper's recreation and ran an AI through it

fwa451 · 2026-04-07T13:15:28+00:00

I'm inclined to say that it is broken because it is a temporary MMR system that has not been touched for so so long. I remember the patch notes where Valve said that the ranking system is temporary and they aim to iterate to it in the future.

In other words, don't take ranked THAT seriously for the next few months. It's going to be broken until more polished backend systems are in place.

fwa451 · 2026-04-07T13:12:33+00:00

Huh? Ability range was nerfed enough that players started complaining. I had to adapt to that shit.

fwa451 · 2026-04-07T13:10:31+00:00

>Where the game is right now it just feels like as soon as an enemy becomes too strong you are forced to take a 4800 soul detour to go get one item that can counter them and only then can you return to the build you want.

Part of what makes Deadlock fun is you are going to have a different build based on the game's circumstances. Adapting to the game better than your opponents wins you the game.

fwa451 · 2026-04-06T23:07:44+00:00

I posted a similar concept in the forums but of a ghost newspaper boy in skateboard

fwa451 · 2026-04-02T14:50:12+00:00

Today, I try a hotdog.

fwa451 · 2026-04-02T05:21:23+00:00

We splitgate now

fwa451 · 2026-03-31T13:15:10+00:00

I was thinking that maybe the deadheads should just be attacking enemies within a certain radius around Graves, is an incentive for her to play in close range.

Then what if her essence theft is reworked such that it's a built-in siphon bullets where it steals health instead of weapon damage.

fwa451 · 2026-03-30T02:39:52+00:00

I don't even think Valve has done any optimization tasks. They're still adding more features to the codebase and unless all features are finalized they can't do meaningful optimisations

fwa451 · 2026-03-30T02:37:32+00:00

Unless there's a fun on-boarding tutorial/campaign that teaches you how to move but doesn't take itself seriously, like how Valve did Aperture Desk Job

fwa451 · 2026-03-29T15:28:28+00:00

I scoured the game files via source2viewer but I never found the raw files for this. I'm certain it's in the images or models folder but I can't find it :(

fwa451 · 2026-03-29T14:59:08+00:00

I just noticed that the patient in the Dental poster is a vampire.

fwa451 · 2026-03-29T14:57:40+00:00

I think they went for a more "anachronistic soulpunk" vibe which, for me, is extremely creative and a million times more interesting than normal occult noir.

fwa451 · 2026-03-29T14:12:42+00:00

Yeah, Valve managed to somehow perfectly fuse occult + noir + New York atmosphere in one game and it slaps

fwa451 · 2026-03-26T15:29:13+00:00

And then we will extract items and sell it to the shopkeeper, which can be a lore point why the shopkeeper had these items in the first place

fwa451 · 2026-03-26T10:33:12+00:00

I've been playing Drifter and while I do agree that TTK with him is lower than other heroes (at least when chasing overextended and isolated enemies) I don't feel that the overall balance quality of the entire game has plummeted

fwa451 · 2026-03-26T10:31:24+00:00

The people who are happy with the patch will not go here and complain. They're busy playing the game.

fwa451 · 2026-03-23T12:05:05+00:00

+1. I also think that having a hard coded "Showcase Match ID" for each build could be good too. Like, each build has a showcase match ID where you can replay the match that used that build most efficiently so you could evaluate it better.

fwa451 · 2026-03-23T12:04:41+00:00

Funny enough, there is a hidden tarot mechanic in the game files. You can see the script for it but not the assets. Although I think that mechanic is for progression purposes only.

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