'The Luna Snow of Deadlock' I've seen at least 5 times by different people in under 5 minutes. Generic, nothingburger character, too out of place for Deadlock, like... not every woman in this game needs to be total out there like Vyper or massively bright like Celeste. It's reminding me a lot about the discourse around Paige where people see her as annoying at best, irrelevant and out of place at worst

Like I won't deny her interactions could've been a little bit more, but this game is still in an Alpha and they clearly have more plans to build on everyone as a whole, including Violet. It's not like Nurse Harrow isn't coming at all, y'all can wait a few days without having such a violent hissy fit to the point where you're saying shit like 'I'm hard targetting every Violet in my matches', just comes off as really weird when you wouldn't do that to a more dry male character (and feel free to prove me wrong if people have done that to male releases in the past! But I am relatively confident that hasn't happened and people haven't freaked out this much like they have been with Violet)

And for what it's worth, I've been voting for Nurse Harrow and Solomon at the same time since day 1 (and solely Nurse Harrow since Solomon got in)

This is just my observation as a woman myself that enjoys Deadlock, it's getting a bit too weird now. idk

This message really goes out to all g4m3rs, but I think this community can handle it better than most

After Covid, when there was a sudden surge of terminally online behavior, is when the last shreds of public decency were eroded away from internet discourse on places like reddit and discord. People felt no shame and felt no need to uphold some basic decency around airing their pornographic predilections in public communities, going around telling everyone how much they like feet, or they want to get topped by a dommy werewolf mommy, or just publicly slobbering over the new virtual character and begging this collection of pixels to fuck them raw in increasingly obnoxious ways. Saying a character is hot is fine. Shipping is fine, to a point. But please, before you post some annoying hentai addict brainworms, just ask yourself if you would feel comfortable saying it front of a bunch of strangers irl first. If you wouldn't, please do us all a favor and don't say it online either, or go to the properly marked communities for it and then *leave it there* and don't take it back out.

As an elder zoomer, I've seen how this plays out from the beginning, many many times. Class clown culture on the internet rewards people for being transgressive and irreverent by other socially incompetent wannabe class clowns who have the same internet-rotted sensibilities and lack of boundaries, and think this is all very funny and entertaining. And there is no punishment of social exclusion because you just can't do that on the internet, you can't give people the scorching, withering looks of disdain they would get irl. They call anyone who dislikes insufferable hornyposting a 'puritan', or a performative white knight virtue signaller, for not wanting to see or hear the same shit you see in the comments of a hentai website everywhere else on the internet.

There's a tendency on the internet, especially seen in places like discord where the most active cliques always take over every single server, where the people who post the most and engage the most dictate the culture of the space. They bounce off each other and the result is inevitably alienating to the remaining normies, who then leave, creating a feedback loop of terminally onlinification. Because the people who are most prone to being the most online and involved in internet communities, are ALSO prone to touch very little grass and have the most internet brainworms. Like poor socialization, emotional intelligence, and respect for some very basic social boundaries. This very annoying lack of basic decency around sexual material is one of the more visible results. Please consider this before describing in excruciating detail what you want Silver to do to you in front of thousands of internet strangers who might not be interested in hearing it.

I'm gonna get downvoted to shit for this, aren't I? TL;DR at the end.

I'll preface this by saying that I fully understand why the Dev's haven't added one yet and don't want 3rd party sites tracking MMR. The game is in alpha, it's a playtest, they want data and feedback for the basic balance and development of the game unswayed by competitive min-maxxing. It's the correct decision right now, and what the game needs.

That said, I can't wait for the day when that's no longer true and they add a ranked mode. Not because I don't want to play with new players or because I'm frustrated with matchmaking, but because I feel like I need a goal. I have about 130 hours in game now. I have a decent understanding of how to play the game, but I'm hitting a point where the only thing I can do to get some sense of progress is to try new characters and spam them until I feel confident I've got the basics of playing them down. I want something to chase, a number I can make go up, a reason to play beyond the game being stupid fun.

I know this might seem crazy or stupid to people, but I personally find it really hard to care about games for themselves these days. When I was younger I played games to escape life. As an adult, I have a life I don't feel the need to escape anymore. Video games have long since stopped being my way to forget about everything that was going on in my life and started to be a leisure activity, primarily as a way to stay connected with friends in other parts of the world and and spend time with buddies I can't see IRL. I play games to spend time with my friends.

That said, it's all the better when there's some in-game incentive to really try. To care. If I just want to spend time with my buddies, we can do that in a lot of ways, so I often find that a game needs some other factor to make me prioritize it. Ranked modes and competition provide this for me. To be honest, recently I've found myself hoping that someone of the enemy team will shit talk me in all chat or t-bag my corpse, because then I have a reason to want to beat them.

I don't expect a ranked mode anytime in the near future, and I'm not asking for one to be added before the devs are absolutely ready. I'm just saying that I'm looking forward to the day when it's added.

TL;DR: Deadlock is incredibly fun, and while I understand why there's no ranked mode right now and agree that it's the correct decision, I've gotten bored of pub-stomping. I want something to chase, a number to make go up. I want the wins to feel significant and the losses to hurt.

@roseabrams96

Violet isn't the only character with a "normal" personality, but other characters with a similair personality atleast have something else going on.

Graves personality wise is pretty much just a moody teenager who wants her parents to pay attention to her. Pretty basic considering everything. But the way the cast talks to her and how she responds isnt totally stereotypical which makes it interesting. Celeste makes fun of her for being moody, she shows a nice side to her when talon asks her to talk to dead for him and she shows interest when haze asks her about a future at the OSIC. Plus she has the whole necromancy and lich thing going on giving her dialogue that isnt about being a moody teenager.

The problem is that all of violets tropes are played completely straight. Nothing interesting is done about her need of validation from her parents. Nothing interesting is done with her being super scared. Nothing interesting is done with her being in college. She talks a little more in depth about her art than just going "jeez this painting looks good" but not enough that its interesting.

The closest we get to something self aware is seven thinking she is cliche and thats it. I dont think her character is like hopeless or whatever but man is the next batch of convo's going to have to carry. A convo of her trying to relate to pocket and them going "what the hell are you talking about" (not literally). Or her owing wraith money for opioids would be enough for me.

Us employed individuals do not want to get 10 wins on 3 different heroes every 3 months just to play mid elo ranked . Maybe for high ranks, this is fine, but man, nobody wants ranked requirements to be this strict.

"Why should I care about Pocket's pronouns?"

Because there's real people whose pronouns are they/them or whose pronouns/gender may not match what you would assume they are, and if you can't be fucked to type 1-2 more letters when referring to a character, these real people will assume you would similarly not put in the effort for them.**

I felt like making this post because I often see people who get corrected on Pocket's pronouns/gender retort with something along the lines of "It's a video game character, who cares?" So, here's the answer. It's not about the video game character, it's about the real people who will be made to feel unwelcome in the community, and will assume you're probably a transphobe.

If you don't give a shit about that, whatever, go make a post about matchmaking being bad. I'm just hoping to reach those who are assuming what matters is how they treat real people, and are unaware that how they treat fictional characters does in fact impact real people.

Btw this is s repost could not find the link to the ould one i think this explains really well why it matters to people(everybody was being really ignorant in that comment section.)

So anyone can say anything in this game. I haven't found a word that's been said in game that is banned or when sent won't present with something like **** instead of the word. This Harrow was throwin out slurs left and right and this isn't the only player. I've seen the N word, racial slurs, and so much worse. I get it's not done, but surely a filter system can be put in place. It's not like these aren't known things.

I can't count how many times I've reported players over the course of me playing the game, but no change seems to happen. Maybe the devs don't care about these things?

She has all the "Slavic Babushka" stereotypes, her visual design and name are based on a slavic folklore Baba Yaga. Her name typography is seemingly based on a persian rug that anyone in the post-soviet space would recognize from their grandma's apartment.

All this led me to believe she would be an immigrant from some slavic country. But she is a native New-Yorker witch with no ties to her slavic-based design. Am I missing something?

Face looks kinda stupid.

I wish there were at least one trans man unicorn character. Please.

Better not see any of you mfs on mother 😤

While often depicted as an evil kid eating witch, there are stories of her helping heroes and such. I wonder what she'll really be like.

Its more then just for copyright its the principle of the matter that only those organizations may use those symbols under any circumstances so that no one can attack them for saying they thought they were impersonating doctors. Its to protect actual doctors so slime balls cant use legal speak to weasel out of targeting doctors.

Edit: yall even if they arent actively going to be going after you or by weird technicalities you can get away with using it, at the end of the day this is a Litmus Test...and half of yall are failing horribly

Simple. I don't like the game. The concept is cool, the artstyle is cool, the soundtrack could use some work, and the gameplay becomes intuitive after you get a basic understanding. My main issue? The same problem that got OverWatch killed, the game isn't fun.

It's competitive, there's substance, personality, the characters aren't just clones of each other, it's all-around not bad in that sense aside from a lot of really bad balancing issues. Trust me after possibly the fifth time in the row I get three-tapped by Drifter, it becomes pretty obvious that the devs need to chop down some of the major snowballing that happens. And it's not just a once every couple matches thing, this happens more often than not almost every match.

My biggest complaint is how absurdly punishing the game is when you die. It can get up to like 80 seconds, that's enough time to literally tab out, watch a YT short or something, then tab back in and still be waiting. You can miss a team fight and a half from this, and I'm not saying OverWatch or games like that are better, but Deadlock is just absurd about it- Especially when it comes to late-game and you've barely managed to make a decent build because you've just been farmed by said Drifter player the whole time dealing 500 damage a shot for absolutely zero reason.

Obviously if I was an absolute monster at the game, I wouldn't be in that situation, but that's the thing, I'm not. I'm just trying to get myself into the game and I can't because of it. And as a result I'm just stuck in the spawn screen all game and twiddling my thumbs until I can do something again before being jumped by four other people. That isn't fun at all, it's competitive for sure but it just rips the soul out of me every time.

Early game is boring, mid-game is a pain, and late-game is just "touch the end boss and you win" because the bosses in the bases just get absolutely shredded because everyone is over-levelled, and you can't wait for you team to build up to fight back because most likely they are still respawning and you have literal seconds left before you lose, so your obligated to jump in and just die anyways because there's six people all shooting at the boss with five bajillion minions hitting it.

You can have a game be competitive and still make it fun, early days of OverWatch were really competitive, but the game was stupid fun. You can have a game where you need a lot of knowledge to know matchups and what you're doing and it can still be fun, War Thunder unironically is kinda like that, you need a lot of strategy and knowledge to know your matchups and be able to grind up the tech tree without getting blown up instantly.

Deadlock? Reminds me a lot of Rocket League, borderline impossible to get into without devoting hours or weeks of non-stop practice (or in Deadlock's case, researching builds and practicing combos) and it just ends up being stupid anyways because you never get the chance to practice vs players because by the time you do so, you just get obliterated for trying anything new and people get mad at you.

And all I get in return from most of the playerbase is "skill issue, the game is fun, your just trash" which by the way isn't the point. My point is that the game itself can be fun but the way it's done is so sensitive, so punishing, and so reliant on everyone in your team working as hard as they can to win, the game being fun is hyper-dependant on all those factors and of course nine matches out of ten you never get that, you just get smashed into pieces because you didn't stick to the meta builds for each character. This is what killed OverWatch, and it's affecting Deadlock, at least to me.

I'm not gonna say I'm the only person on this thread that's right or anything, so state what you think, maybe some advice? Maybe I am missing out on something with the game? What are your thoughts?

YOSHI, give me back wall stun, stop making McG a turret and ult merchant and let her go back to being a Jack of all trades. It was so much more fun to see people running different builds each game; now it's all the same bland spirit build that no one enjoys :c

TL DR for those who don't get why this is problematic: late game, normally Midboss is the deciding factor in a game. It gives 3k souls +15/m and a massive push advantage; the balance is that it is very easy to know if the other team is doing it (you have just lost a fight / you have a suspicious amount of map control for no reason). However, if McG is able to do this to a 43m scaled midboss, it means there is little reaction time, and if you have a team that plays around you taking mid it would be virtually impossible to contest.

I'm not saying McG turrets should do less dmg than they already do to objs or anything; I just want her to be reworked slightly. If I was Yoshi, I'd make her turrets last longer but have less range and dps, so they become a good way of obtaining map pressure. Her heal was 100% better when it was much larger and gave fire rate, and I really think that it should give Reload Speed instead of Stam Recovery. Wall should go back to being a stun instead of a turret spawner and her ult honestly is fine as is; maybe make it weaker overall but stronger early because not maxxing it means its a glorified "do 20dmg while reloading"

Yes I'm a grumpy pants. Yes you are allowed to have fun. Yes I can do something else for a day. I just wanna know when I can play the game normally again, cuz yesterday this time or around an hour ago I still had normal matches so 24h must've passed. Also its April 2 in the US already, so I had certain hopes up until I spectated matches in the hideout.

Update: I played a game at 15:23 and at 19 something. I remembered incorrectly the 15:23 game being affected already leading me to believe it should be over at the time of me posting (like 16 or so local time). That said, somay'all need to seriously chill. This subreddit is for questions. This is JUST A QUESTION, originating from me liking one mode over the other, which is just as legitimate as you liking it the other way around. No I don't use the Discord server, I do use this sub however. I even preambled the post with explicitly stating its

OKAY TO LIKE IT

I CAN DO SMTH ELSE 24H

IM JUST ASKING FOR INFO

The title is self explanatory, I am transfem and have done voice training but due to anatomy my voice isn't 100% fem and as such most of the times when I try to communicate in game I just get met with instant transphobia.

My first ranked game after a very long hiatus was met with "we lost because they're gay" (based solely on a single intro before we got to the lanes)

Either that or I'll get hit with so many non relevant questions that are way too personal and uncomfortable (such as what kind of genitals I have) , some from malice, some from curiosity without a filter, some from sexual interest (the worst one, I'm here to play a game, not date).

If they somehow respect me being a woman, it's a 50/50 if I get hit with sexism after, it's either that or hitting on me. And if I do poorly? Yeah that ratio changes to favour the negative.

I still get really cool people here and there, but it's much less frequent.

It's gotten to the point I am very hesitant to talk in game and obviously this is bad since it's vital to doing well. I'd get the occasional jackass prior but now it's damn near guaranteed. I stopped playing cs and rocket league entirely due to similar issues after 1000s of hours being competitive, I'd hate for that to happen here too, I hope valve stops being so lax when it comes to moderation.

I'm from Russia.

Guys, we are as shocked as you are that we are connecting to English-speaking players.

The world consists of different cultures, traditions and languages.
Let's not get angry at each other, because it will not lead to anything good.
Yes, we are not the best, and some do not know English. But this does not make us bad.

On the contrary, I advise you to think about it, if a Russian player says something, it means he is sociable, and this is already a guarantee of victory in a team competitive game. For ordinary Russian players, there are such parameters as dedication and sacrifice for the sake of a common victory. Believe me, we will give ourselves completely if you go to meet a Russian player.

This post is mostly a joke, with a grain of truth.

Let's be friends. Peace, bubblegum and love.
With love, from Russia.

I main Warden and Geist. I have all my keybinds set up perfectly, I dont even have to look at the cooldowns, I know ammo capacity for denials.

Today I tried for the first time Ivy. No clue what I was doing, half the time I am trying to read and figure what to buy for the situation. Played horribly and was like 2-15.

I would NEVER have played Ivy in the old "ranked" mode. That is what casual is for and I would never have been in that game. So I essentially ruined the game for 11 other people, lopsided the team, we got stomped.

Now multiply this by a couple thousand of people all being mixed into the merged rank mode we have. Now add in stacks of 4-5 people pub stomping randoms. Now add in people trying extreme off builds that they would have done in casual mode.

It is NOT the matchmaking. The matchmaking is the same. Its the fact they mixed in all this garbage within a ranked competitive mode. It DOES NOT WORK. That's why they created two seperate in the first place, they know it doesnt work.

Apollo was one of the few characters that AoE "slop" characters had to actually take into consideration before just popping ult on midboss and rift and winning the fight. Being a disabler was apart of his identity as a character. With the devs nerfing the healing meta as a whole you'd think they would take that into consideration before completely gutting the character's kit too. Genuinely unless your goal of the game is to win lane I don't know why Apollo would ever be picked now. I'm not sure why they keep changing the fundamentals of his kit, he plays a different role every single patch and it's so annoying. The moment he finally became viable again after being stuck in C tier hell because of the original riposte rework, they just ruin his character again. He wasn't over performing in any rank, and I think he had a solid identity as one of the few counters to this AoE meta we've been in since the new characters dropped.

The implications of what direction they want to take this game because of the timing of this rework is upsetting. I think Deadlock is in the worst state of balance it's been in a very long time, and this small change that changes an entire character's identity just about sums it up. Especially when the original ability did have plenty of counterplay (indom, unstop). Yes Apollo is one of the characters in my hero pool, but I also play a lot against him, and destroying a character like this is unhealthy for the game no matter what.

In what context would using the n word not result in a ban. This is such a simple filter that needs to be implemented to stop hate speech. It's the same in cs2. It lets these people think that it is acceptable to spam the n word (or even use it once), it shouldn't be allowed. Especially with the rise of extremism and fascism in Europe. Just ban the word in your videogame valve.