Deadlock patch notes

• The Cursed Apple is ever changing, and these streets are nothing like you remember. A massive visual update to the map and neutrals, six new heroes, HUD updates, numerous quality-of-life additions, accessibility options, and more.
• Check out everything that's new at: https://www.playdeadlock.com/cityneversleeps
• We also wanted to take this opportunity to talk about where we are with the development of the game and what to look forward to in the future. Our team has been incredibly happy and surprised with how passionate and supportive the community has been the past couple of years; every day someone shares something cool they've seen from the community with the rest of the team, and we are thankful for the constant support and useful feedback, despite the game being unfinished. We think building a multiplayer game is very hard and risky, and the best way to minimize that risk to make sure that we are able to have it in players' hands from an early state to help us shape it and tell us what is fun and what isn't. So, we wanted to give you all more insight into what we've been focusing on internally, as part of developing this game with your help and guidance.
• After the Old Gods New Blood update, we felt that there was still a good amount of work we wanted to do on the core game itself before we moved onto more polish phases of the game development (like updating older hero artwork). Unlike previous updates where our efforts were more singularly focused on the key parts of that update, this year we've been working on several different things in parallel. A good number of those are things you can see in today's update. Some others are things we've been working on in the last few months alongside this update. This even includes things like progression and hero/hideout customizations, as we feel those are features we want to be able to adjust and significantly change based on feedback before the game is fully released. There are also other things we've been working on recently that are more speculative (as in we aren't 100% sure if they will be released or not based on how playtesting goes, though results so far have been promising) like large item redesigns/additions and alternate game modes that expand the scope of the game.
• Then there are other things like Midboss (both the model and the layout to a degree), Guardians and Walkers, which we do consider important but just haven't gotten to yet and will be focusing on for upcoming updates. On the other hand, things like hero remodels were in our heads as something we'd get to later, towards the end of early development, after other core aspects of the game were more fleshed out. That doesn't mean we don't think they are important by any means, just that they are more of a known quantity to us that don't necessarily need to be done earlier than other things. That being said, we will likely be gradually working on them in the near future for inclusion in upcoming updates alongside other work.
• We hope you will like this update. Thank you all for your continued support so far during development, and don't forget to Vote!

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• General
• Unstable Rift comeback resist max values now scale over the course of the game. Previously the max values were 35%. Now it is 10% + 1% per minute (around ~20% for the first one), with an upper limit of 40% at 30 minutes.
• Removed a fixed amount of extra bonus souls you would get for being behind even a very slightly amount in net worth for both hero kill bounties as well as Unstable Rift bounties (this had a larger impact on the early to mid game)
• Slightly reduced comeback bounties in general (this is in addition to the above change)
• A portion of the comeback souls earned by players above enemy teams average net worth is instead distributed via the tick gold system that is given to the lowest 2 players (70% of the extra comeback value goes to them)
• Guardian bounty increased by 10%
• Walker bounty increased by 5%
• Share for objectives bounty to nearby heroes reduced from 30% to 25% (the remaining gets split between all 6 players)
• Respawn Time at 20 minutes increased from 35s to 38s (does not affect the max values later on, just a little higher earlier)
• Using parry now pauses reloading
• Parrying while doing a regular dash will now cancel the dash (and momentum) and parry on the spot
• Getting stunned now pauses your reload rather than restarting it
• Breakables in the underground tunnels initial spawn time increased from 3m to 5m
• Breakables in the underground tunnels respawn rate increased from 3m to 5m
• All move slow values reduced by ~20% globally
• All ground dash slows reduced by ~10% globally
• Slows now also affect air drag by 35% of the slow value (convar citadel_enable_slows_affect_air_drag
• to toggle the slow drag behavior on and off)
• Dashes and light melee's no longer pause your gun's cycle time (this is a general change that affects high-cycle time weapons the most like Silver or Abrams)
• Items
• Weakening Headshot: Bullet Resist Reduction reduced from -13% to -12%
• Hollow Point: Bullet Resist Reduction increased from 9% to 10%
• Toxic Bullets: Spirit scaling increased from 0.005% to 0.006%
• Shadow Weave: Now builds from Sprint Boots
• Shadow Weave: Sprint speed increased from 1.5 to 2
• Shadow Weave: Cooldown reduced from 45s to 37s
• Cultist Sacrifice: Bounty reduced from 180% to 170%
• Ballistic Enchantment: Duration increased from 14s to 20s
• Spiritual Overflow: Buildup is 35% slower
• Spiritual Overflow: Spirit Power on proc reduced from 40 to 30
• Spiritual Overflow: Fire Rate reduced from 30% to 25%
• Restorative Locket: Heal per boon reduced from 0.5 to 0.45
• Restorative Locket: Stack range reduced from 35m to 32m
• Trophy Collector: Souls per minute reduced from 18 to 16
• Veil Walker: No longer builds from Sprint Boots
• Veil Walker: No longer grants +2 Sprint and +2 Out of Combat Regen (due to loss of component)
• Veil Walker: Movement speed bonus is now removed when the invisibility is removed
• Veil Walker: Spirit Power reduced from 10 to 6
• Fortitude: Max Health regen increased from 2% to 2.25%
• Lifestrike: Heal on Melee hit increased from 100+1.5 to 120+1.75
• Lifestrike: Melee hit heal increased from 30% to 35%
• Leech: Bullet and Spirit Lifesteal increased from 25% to 28%
• Plated Armor: Fixed on-hit damage prevention not blocking the following on-hit spirit damage effects: Mercurial Magnum, Vindicta's Flight, Wraith's Full Auto, and Tesla Bullets/Capacitor
• Diviner's Kevlar: Now grants +10% Ultimate Ability Cooldown Reduction
• Golden Goose Egg: Damage Penalty increased from -10% to -15%
• Golden Goose Egg: Stored souls now count towards net worth (affects comeback reward calculations)
• Golden Goose Egg: Souls per minute reduced from 90 to 80
• Slowing Hex: Cooldown increased from 27s to 29s
• Radiant Regeneration: Healing on Ability Cast per boon scaling reduced from 2 to 1.7
• Tankbuster: Current Health Bonus damage reduced from 8% to 7.5%
• Decay: DPS reduced by 25%
• Decay: Duration increased by 20%
• Mercurial Magnum: Base bullet damage scaling reduced from 0.49 to 0.38
• Mercurial Magnum: Base bullet damage reduced from 25% to 20%
• Focus Lens: Damage increased from 30% to 35%
• Focus Lens: Cast range increased from 20m to 25m
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• Radiant Regeneration: Heal on cast reduced from 70 to 65
• Restorative Locket: Spirit Resistance reduced from 10% to 8%

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• Doorman: Doorway range reduced from 70m to 65m
• Doorman: Walker will no longer consider Luggage Cart dragged enemies as valid targets to trigger the stomp on until soon after they are dropped off
• Doorman: Similar to the Walker change above, the turrets in the healing area in base now also wait on considering valid targets

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• This update includes a revamp to how the matchmaking system works, as well as the introduction of a new matchmaking mode. You can now choose to play in Standard Mode (unranked), or the new Ranked Mode introduced in this update.
• STANDARD MODE
• Standard mode provides a lower-stakes way to play Deadlock with friends, without worrying about adjustments your Rank. There are no restrictions on party size or skill spread. You can also play in this mode to practice heroes you are less familiar with, as the matchmaker will adjust the game it puts you in to account for your experience with that hero.
• RANKED MODE
• Ranked mode gives players a way to queue up for more competitive games against similarly-skilled players with higher stakes. Each season you'll be able to climb the Ranks and see how far you can go.
• UPDATED RANKS & BADGES:
• Each Rank has 6 Subranks within (I - VI).
• Obscurus (uncalibrated)
• Initiate
• Seeker
• Acolyte
• Sentinel
• Mystic
• Ritualist
• Emissary
• Oracle
• Phantom
• Ascendant
• Eternus
• ELIGIBILITY AND SEASONS:
• To be eligible to queue for Ranked Mode, you must have at least 60 wins in the Standard Mode. To ensure higher quality games, Ranked Mode expects that you have a solid understanding of the heroes you play in it, so the mode only allows you to pick heroes that you have won at least 15 games with in Standard Mode. You must have at least 3 heroes unlocked for Ranked to be able to have a valid sized roster to queue with.
• Ranked Mode has seasons, with the first season starting today and ending on October 7th, after which the following season will begin. At the conclusion of a season, the highest Rank you achieved will be permanently saved in your Rank history page. Future Rank seasons will likely have longer durations with splits in between (breaks within the season where Rank adjustments are made) as well as recency requirements on the heroes played.
• As the season starts, everyone will enter a calibration phase for 8 games. All players will have a soft reset of their prior Rank, maintaining some history of your previous performance relative to other players to help seed you initially into the calibration games. Players can only exit calibration at a max Rank of Oracle VI. You cannot be in a party during calibration matches.
• Ranked Mode will currently only allow for solo or duo parties. If you are in a duo party, both players must be at most 1 Rank away from each other (i.e. Mystic and Ritualist). However, Eternus players can only queue with another Eternus player as long as they are within 3 Subranks of each other. We recognize that the party size and rank spread limits might be too restrictive, but we wanted to start off this way and then adjust in the future as needed.
• A new Ranked Hub in the hideout includes all the information about the current and past Ranked seasons going forward, and allows you to access global leaderboards and your Rank history. You'll have an item in the hideout to commemorate your seasons highest rank achievement when the season is over.
• RANK POINTS:
• When you win or lose a game, you will see your Rank Points update with a visible progress bar after each match. Each win/loss will grant you +/- 250 points on average, though these numbers could vary slightly depending on the expectations the matchmaker had from that game or while on win streaks. To progress to the next Subrank, you need to collect 1000 Rank Points for each promotion. However, the final Subrank before moving to a new Rank (ie. Mystic VI ->Ritualist I) requires 2000 points. Once you reach Eternus I, there will no longer be a fixed amount of points needed to progress from one Subrank to the other as the thresholds will be dynamically updated daily to segment the Subranks on a percentile basis.
• There is also Rank loss protection when playing in Ranked. You have 5 games of loss protection when on the boundary of a full Rank (So if you are at Mystic I with 0 Rank points, you will maintain the Mystic badge until you lose 5 games before dropping to Sentinel). Similarly, when you are on a Subrank boundary, you have 2 games of loss protection (i.e. Mystic III with 0 Rank points will have 2 games of loss protection before dropping to Mystic II)
• ENTERING A MATCH AND HERO SELECTION:
• We think the ability to queue with a very specific hero in mind is an important and popular feature with most players. Even more so in Ranked, where it is critical that everyone has a good understanding of how to pilot their selected hero. By having hero selections done in advance of the game formation, we are able to utilize the matchmaker on the backend to mix and match players from the larger queue to meet everyone's preferences such that players are able to get the hero they want, while also allowing us the ability to create a reasonable team composition. As part of this update we've done some improvements on the matchmaker's ability to create solid team compositions. This is also something we expect to improve over time. As the player pool grows and as more heroes are released, the matchmaker will have more opportunities to create balanced matches with good team compositions while also increasing the chance you get the hero in your highest priority.
• However, we also recognize that even long term the matchmaker won't always be able to do a great job at this depending on who is in the queue at the specific time, especially at Ranks or regions where the queue is much thinner. As such, with this Ranked update we are introducing the ability to change your hero in the new pre-game phase.
• Once you enter a new Ranked Match, you will see a breakdown of the Ranks of all players in the game, you will then enter a pre-game waiting area where you can control your hero. During this time, you can choose to change your given hero to any other hero that hasn't been selected, as long as you have that hero unlocked for Ranked play. The primary purpose of this is to allow players a quick way to adjust their team's hero composition to make any improvements they see fit. This is not intended to be primarily a counter-picking feature, as much as just a quick way to improve your team's general hero composition, while still making it easy for players to have their preferred and most comfortable heroes in Ranked by default. As such, there isn't a live update of what heroes the enemy team is changing into (you will only see their initial hero composition). If you end up swapping into a hero that the enemy team happened to also swap into before you, you'll get an error and then be able to select a different hero. Otherwise you will be given that hero. Each player can only swap into a new hero once.
• You can also use the new pre-game waiting area to adjust your starting lanes. You won't be able to zipline swap after this. Pause will be disabled until 2 minutes after the game fully starts, so make sure to do any adjustments you want to either your roster or lanes during the new pre-game waiting area.
• Additionally in Ranked Mode, the total number of heroes banned in a given game is increased from 2 to 3 and the algorithm used has been improved.
• ABANDONS & PENALTIES
• You cannot queue for Ranked if you have any active sanctions on your account (low priority, comms bans, etc.).
• If a player abandons a game before 5 minutes, the game will be marked as safe to leave and voided for all players except the leaver and their party. The game will count as a loss for the leaver and their party, and the abandoning player will receive leaver penalties.
• If a player abandons a game after 5 minutes, that player will receive leaver penalties and their party will have the game count as a loss. Other players on the abandoning player's team will have their game voided and are safe to leave without punishments, however if they stay and win the game will be counted as a win. If all players on the abandoning team leave, the game will automatically end and be counted as a win for the opposing team.
• If you are on the opposing non-abandoning team, you will play the game out as normal. However, if a player on that team then abandons as well they will be penalized just like the first abandoning player/party, and the above rules kick in for the opposing team now as well. In this case, none of the remaining players on either team will have the game count as a loss, and you will only get a win if your team finishes and wins the game.
• Leaver penalties start with queue timeouts and escalate to increasing amounts of low priority games.
• LEADERBOARD
• This update includes a few changes to the requirements to appear on the leaderboards. For the global leaderboard, the game count requirement in the last 30 days has increased from 50 to 75. For the hero specific leaderboards, the game count requirement on that hero in the last 30 days has increased from 20 to 30. There is also a new requirement for hero specific leaderboards where you must have at least 100 lifetime wins on that hero to be considered.
• ROLLOUT
• This new system is live right now. However we expect the next week or so to be very rocky, as the Ranked matchmaking pool will start off very thin with most players not having the unlock requirements done yet. This will have a significant effect on queue times and match quality until things stabilize. It will also take some time for players to calibrate and move into the appropriate spots. We will be closely monitoring the matchmaker during this time, but we want players to be aware that both queue times, match quality and team composition quality will need some time to ramp up. Given the large rewrite involved with this update, we are also expecting that it will take a couple of days to iron out bugs.

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• General
• Stamina bucket 3 heroes (slowest) have their ground dash time increased from 0.7s to 0.72s and air dash time from 0.49s to 0.51s
• The Orb Spawners in base that give 10 souls on hit now split to nearby players on expire
• Fixed the party member / team mate audio volume slider for voice communications
• Items
• Crushing Fists: Max stacks stun duration increased from 0.5s to 0.75s
• Crushing Fists: Bullet Resist reduction increased from -4% to -5% per stack
• Cursed Relic: No longer has -14% Damage Output innate
• Cursed Relic: Now applies a -25% Damage Output debuff for the 3.25s duration
• Diviner's Kevlar: Spirit power increased from +35 to +40
• Echo Shard: Now has a 0.5s post-cast time
• Echo Shard: No longer grants +5% Fire Rate
• Echo Shard: Cooldown increased from 35s to 30s + the cooldown of the imbued ability
• Ethereal Shift: Cooldown increased from 35s to 37s
• Frenzy: Now has +10% Bullet Lifesteal as an innate
• Fury Trance: Active now grants +1m Move Speed
• Fury Trance: Active removes move speed penalty when shooting (like Fleetfoot)
• Lifestrike: When hitting a trooper and a hero at the same time, it now always prioritizes healing off the hero (same change for Melee Lifesteal)
• Mystic Shot: Cooldown reduced from 9s to 8s
• Mystic Shot: Spirit scaling reduced from 1.2 to 0.9
• Restorative Locket: Heal per boon increased from 0.32 to 0.5
• Scourge: No longer grants +17% Debuff Resist innate bonus
• Scourge: Active now grants +20% Debuff Resist (retroactive on application)
• Scourge: Max Health per second reduced from 2.5% to 2.3%
• Slowing Bullets: No longer grants +15% Weapon Damage
• Weighted Shots: Weapon Damage reduced from +40% to +30%
• Spiritual Overflow: Now provides a bonus +10% Spirit Lifesteal on proc
• Spiritual Overflow: Ability Duration reduced from +15% to +13%
• Spiritual Overflow: Fire Rate reduced from +32% to +30%
• Spirit Burn: No longer hits enemies in a 12m radius, only affects primary target now
• Spirit Burn: Changed from the cooldown being on the item to being target based
• Spirit Burn: Removed half cooldown against NPC
• Spirit Burn: Explosion damage reduced from 110 to 50
• Suppressor: Duration reduced from 5s to 4.5s
• Tankbuster: No longer procs off of items
• Heroes
• Doorman: Bullet damage rescaled from 26 + 1.19/boon to 24 + 1.25
• Doorman: Call Bell Charge Time increased from 6s to 7s
• Doorman: Doorway duration reduced from 20s to 15s
• Doorman: Doorway T1 duration increased from +15s to +20s
• Doorman: Doorway T3 range reduced from +45m to +40m
• Doorman: Luggage Cart damage reduced from 80 to 60
• Doorman: Luggage Cart T1 increased from +60 Damage to +80
• Doorman: Luggage Cart range reduced from 25m to 20m
• Doorman: Luggage Cart T2 increased from +20m Cast Range to +25m

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• Urn Runner sprint bonus reduced from +2m to 0 (trailing bonus reduced from +7m to +5m)
• Urn Runner move speed bonus reduced from +3.5m to +2m
• Urn Runner Stamina Recovery increased from +15% to +25%
• Urn talking frequency increased from every 8s to every 6s
• Urn talking sound distance increased (easier to hear a nearby Urn Runner)
• Unstable Rift warning time reduced from 25s to 20s
• Rift Troopers now have Spirit Resist (30/35/40/45%)
• Rift Troopers now have Melee Resistance (25%)
• Rift Troopers spawn interval increased from every 0.3s to 0.5s (spawns slightly more staggered)
• Unstable Rift comeback resist aura radius increased from 20m to 35m
• Rift Troopers max comeback count increased from 12 to 14
• Objectives bounty split for nearby heroes reduced from 40% to 30% (this means slightly more portion of the bounty is split team wide rather than towards an individual player)
• Scourge: Max Health Per Second reduced from 2.6% to 2.5%
• Doorman: Bullet damage rescaled from 29.26 + 1.1/boon to 26 + 1.19
• Doorman: Crit scaling reduced from -25% to -30%
• Doorman: Hotel Guest T3 increased from 13s Cooldown on Failure to Check Out to 15s

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• Urn / King of the Hill
• King of the Hill objective has been rethemed and renamed to "Unstable Rift"
• Unstable Rift no longer requires an Urn delivery to trigger the start of the event. It now has a variable start time of +/- 1 minute. There is a global announcement 25s before it spawns. 60s before that there is also an in-world only visual effect to let you know which lane it'll randomly spawn in.
• Unstable Rift spawn interval increased from every 6 minutes to every 7 minutes
• Unstable Rift comeback bonuses (resists in the area, extra comeback bounty, and trailing/leading team claiming timer) now all scale linearly based on the amount of NW they are trailing (scales from no bonus at 0% NW behind to full bonus at 15% NW behind)
• The team that secures the Unstable Rift now also has a wave of 5 Rift Troopers sent down from the rift location. When trailing, spawns up to 12 troopers instead (using the same linear ramp from 0% NW to -15% NW)
• Rift Troopers drop no souls when killed
• Rift Troopers spawn with 100% extra health and damage (they also look larger and have custom VFX). Their bonus health and damage grow slightly per event (first one is 100%, then 120%, 140%, etc)
• Any players in the Unstable Rift Zone are now revealed on the minimap
• Unstable Rift bounty increased by 35% (to account for the 35% loss with no urn runner bounty, overall objective bounty is unchanged)
• Unstable Rift no longer grants +1 permanent buff to each player (there is also no +3 buffs to the urn runner)
• Urn running is now its own objective. Spawns on either end of the map (where the previous neutral pickup locations were), and gets delivered to the opposite end. Spawns at 10/15/20/25/etc.
• Urn runner is no longer revealed and is not disarmed or silenced (going through a doorway or mirage teleport still drops it)
• Urn cannot be manually dropped. It gets dropped when you get hit with a light or heavy melee, are stunned or are killed. It stays where it drops and does not walk back home.
• Urn runner can no longer parry
• Urn bounty value starts decaying after 45s from being picked up. It drains gradually over another 45s and then the urn is removed when the bounty is empty.
• Urn is deposited immediately at the drop off point.
• Urn bounty when deposited is worth 250 + 70/min for just the urn runner. Still has the comeback bounty component. Upon deposit all of the souls are released as orbs into the air (if another ally secures the orbs, they share the bounty with the urn runner).
• Urn runner gets +4 permanent buffs on deposit
• Urn is now louder when it talks and is easier to hear by nearby enemies
• After 3 Minutes from spawn the Urn will start walking very slowly on his own towards the deposit location
• Urn runner's passive bonuses while holding it now scales based on how behind you are, rather than being on or off (same as the Unstable Rift 0%-15% NW linear scaling). Bonuses are the same as the previous urn runner bonuses.
• There are two debug commands you can use to test these out
• citadel_force_spawn_idol - This spawns the Urn
• citadel_koth_dev_test_spawn - This moves your hero and spawns the Unstable Rift in the early warning state then quickly transitions to the 25s broadcasted timer
• General
• Reworked Boon reward table
• Health per boon reduced by 5%
• All ultimate base and upgrade cooldowns nerfed by 15% (rounded to the nearest multiple of 5)
• Rejuv buff duration reduced from 4 minutes to 3
• Respawn ramp changed from 8-30s from 5-19m to 8-35s from 5-20m
• Guardian bounty reduced from 1500 to 1250
• Walker bounty reduced from 4000 to 3500
• First blood bounty reduced from 150 to 125
• Base kill bounty reduced from 250 to 200 (max is still 2200 at 40m)
• Trooper bounty rescaled from 116 + 1.16/m to 100 + 2/m (less before 20m, more after)
• Trooper bounty ratio in the deniable flying orb increased from 40% to 50%
• Minimum unsecured souls allowed to drop reduced from 150 to 50 + 5/min
• Dash Jump input window increased from 0.2s to 0.25s duration (start time: 0.3s to end time: 0.55s)
• Dash Jump distance increased from 18m to 19m
• Dash Jump vertical impulse increased from 400 to 425
• Jump Pads on top of the double sinner buildings have been removed
• Hovering an item in the shop now shows you a preview for your investment bars
• Street Brawl: No longer locks you out of getting off the zipline in the first few seconds
• Street Brawl: Increased item randomness a bit
• Street Brawl: Fixed Enhanced Sharpshooter and Enhanced Spiritual Overflow not maintaining the bonuses from their enhanced components
• Items
• Mystic Shot: Cooldown increased from 8s to 9s
• Toxic Bullets: Bleed damage increased from 1.7% to 1.9%
• Scourge: Max Health DPS reduced from 3.5% to 2.6%
• Scourge: Max Health DPS now scales with spirit power (0.0055)
• Cursed Relic: Damage Penalty increased from -10% to -14%
• Heroes
• Doorman: Doorway cooldown increased from 40s to 45s

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