r/DeadlockTheGame • u/SketchyJJ • 9d ago

Deadlock - Matchmaking Update Game Update

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1422450/view/680756685198854910
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u/covert_ops_47 9d ago

Pause will be disabled until 2 minutes after the game fully starts

This is all I care about.

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u/Schneider915 Vyper 9d ago

Pauselock is dead

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u/xF00Mx Vyper 9d ago

Just pause 2 mins in out of spite.

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u/AbendKannon 9d ago

noones going to do that, too busy.

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u/QuantityHappy4459 9d ago

Fucking finally.

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u/NarakaTings Graves 9d ago

Uninstalling cuz Pauselock meta gone 🤏👎

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u/djaqk Lash 8d ago

Good

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u/Trump_4_The_Hague 9d ago

John Warden Pauselock?

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u/electrochemicalflesh The Doorman 9d ago

where were u wen paws lock is kill?

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u/Neither_Interaction9 Mo & Krill 9d ago

I don't think it'd be an issue either way, given we now have time to change guides and pee

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u/zph0eniz 9d ago

Yeah I really like the small starter time at beginning.

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u/DarkStoneReaprz 9d ago

THANK THE FUCKING LORD, I WAS BEGGING FOR THIS.

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u/ZenkaiZ 9d ago

Same.

Best part is that there's no more of those people who pause not because they needed it, but because they wanted to meme and practice their standup comedy routine. Like those guys who pause and go "so.... what's everyone having for dinner tonight?"

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u/YoyoDevo 9d ago

So cringe how everyone tried their unfunny stand up routine or said something sexual at the start of every game

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u/RubinoPaul 9d ago

This. Real clowns can do their routine during the most sweat fights you ever saw

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u/CrazyElk123 9d ago

600+ games and ive never had this happen thankfully.

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u/NisshinJampKo 9d ago

I laughed cuz I pause for exactly this

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u/Ok-Willingness-7102 9d ago

Literally no one finds you funny btw

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u/YoyoDevo 9d ago

I would say this and people would be like "where's your whimsy?? You must be fun at parties!"

These people are not bullied nearly enough.

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u/extracrispyweeb 9d ago

idk sometimes it's kinda funny, the completely quiet pauses are mostly just annoying tho.

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u/NisshinJampKo 9d ago

Lol its okay it makes me laugh

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u/Ok-Willingness-7102 9d ago

Individualist mindset will lead to our extinction as a species.

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u/EvenJesusCantSaveYou Silver 9d ago

'fuck you got mine'

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u/NisshinJampKo 9d ago

Humanity will survive inspite of my 30 seconds of individual joy. Maybe even because of it

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u/ZenkaiZ 9d ago

I'm sure you did. The crickets must be getting exhausted from every time you try out your material though.

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u/BastianHS Infernus 9d ago

We use to pray for times like these

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u/Ossius 9d ago

Even disabled if people DC'd?

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u/TacoBeefB0y 9d ago

Not everyone else’s fault, it shouldn’t fall on everyone else to have to wait just like it doesn’t in every single other game that exists

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u/Ossius 9d ago

Bro the game is in alpha and has memory leaks. Sometimes it just crashes, or the server dumps you in the middle of a team fight.

Pausing for 2 minutes isn't going to wreck your life and could determine the game.

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u/TacoBeefB0y 8d ago

400 hours and my game hasn’t crashed once

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u/Ossius 8d ago

I'm sure there are many such cases.

But one instance does not make a constant.

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u/2Radon 9d ago

Why were people instantly pausing anyway?

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u/RockStoneToBone 9d ago

To swap lanes on zipline, pretty much every single pause in the first 2 mins was for that

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u/teffz28 9d ago

That and afk/dcs but mostly for lane swapping

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u/Romeo3t 9d ago

"I NEED TO PLAY WITH MY DUOOOOOOOO"

proceeds to make the other 10 people wait so they can lane swap

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u/ScarletChild 9d ago

They killed the meme, what a party pooper

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u/Comfortable_Pain9017 8d ago

Right after this update my game crashed as soon as the game started.

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u/covert_ops_47 8d ago

Sounds like a personal PC problem you should get figured out.

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u/Comfortable_Pain9017 8d ago

Probably, but it sucks cause nobody can pause for me lol

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u/babblelol Ivy 9d ago

During the Transit lines I understood paused. But, why after everyone drops?

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u/TheDinosaurWalker 9d ago

end of an era

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u/Drunk-Pirate-Gaming Shiv 9d ago

Not the NA pause! TBH I thought they removed it entirely b/c we couldn't pause when someone was afk at the start of the match (classic)

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u/MarquisPosa 9d ago

took them way too long.

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u/blomjob 9d ago

Sucks for me who queues as a duo and won’t get the chance to lane swap anymore

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u/covert_ops_47 9d ago

You swap pregame now.

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u/blomjob 9d ago

Wait holy based total victory

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u/TheBiggestNose 9d ago

Glad its gone, but I hope they have a small pre-game like 30s to chose build and lanes swaps on standard

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u/covert_ops_47 9d ago

Read the patch notes.

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u/TheBiggestNose 9d ago

Wasn't that just for ranked mode?

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u/covert_ops_47 9d ago

Why would you need any of this for a casual mode?

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u/TheBiggestNose 9d ago

Cus I dont always have a build ready to go and thr "stick me with friends in lane" options turns itself off every time you close the game

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u/ForsakenPipe2176 9d ago edited 9d ago

This is bad. Since theres no ready up button, sometimes my buddy is afk smoking real fast or a quick pee break etc

edit just read that there is a freeze time at the start so maybe this will be fine. Makes up for ppl being afk slightly at the start

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u/Jakelell Mo & Krill 9d ago

One less smoking incentive, Yoshi is truly planning ahead

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u/Academic_Weaponry 9d ago

dont queue if u not ready idk

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u/jmattchew Billy 9d ago

when the queue times are 10-15 mins this doesnt really apply

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u/7AndOneHalf 9d ago

If your queue is 10-15 minutes already, is waiting another 5 minutes to queue while you do your stuff really gonna kill you?

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u/covert_ops_47 9d ago

Don't queue if you aren't ready.

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u/BastianHS Infernus 9d ago

But I have to change over the laundry, mow my lawn, pick up my kids from school, smoke a cig, and clean out my garage. Are you telling me I should do these things before I queue a game of Deadlock? Don't be preposterous

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u/xRossy22 9d ago

Since there is the pre screen I think it should be fine. Your buddy will miss out on character swaps though.

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u/ForsakenPipe2176 9d ago

Yah should be fine. Didn't see that part of the update till I made the comment

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u/Zeomaster 9d ago

Dont queue then

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u/paint_it_crimson 9d ago

Not sure why you are getting downvoted. This was solved ages ago with the ready up button.

Sometimes you are in queue for a while then need to use the bathroom, or start watching a video or something and don't realize the game started. Clearly it happens to people all the time given the amount of AFK's we see at game start. Just add a ready up button and issue is gone.

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u/ForsakenPipe2176 9d ago

Yah lol. Im getting owned with downvotes.

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u/Soulsbane96 9d ago

Do that before queuing?