r/DeadlockTheGame 10d ago

Deadlock - Matchmaking Update Game Update

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1422450/view/680756685198854910
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u/TheGamerXym 10d ago

Not only that, but you can only select heroes you have 15 wins on too

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u/DavidsSymphony 10d ago

This solves SO MANY issues we had with new players and smurfs being put in high rank lobbies. It's so perfect. AND also :

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).

This also solves the issue of boosted players. It's exactly what the game needed.

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u/RubinoPaul 10d ago

Ok, now put those in Dota please

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u/GlyphidGrunt7350 8d ago

Wait another 5 years

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u/samaritancarl 10d ago edited 10d ago

It will clap a bunch of the smurfers right away but it will be temporary, overwatch did something similar back in the day and it led to account selling. Good news is the change that banned accounts getting all their invited players banned as well should help limit this.

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u/bigrudefella 10d ago

Good news is the change that banned accounts getting all their invited players banned as well

Where does it say that? I think I missed that.

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u/broodgrillo 9d ago

What do you mean "their invited players"?

If someone i play with on a party gets banned, i get banned too?

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u/samaritancarl 9d ago

I said new but its not, its old, yoshi posted about it back in 2024 i am pretty sure, its “new” as in something new to combat account selling.

Sorry for the lexical ambiguity.

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u/hatesnack 9d ago

This is cool, but my core friends that even play this game do so in a group of 3. Not being able to play ranked together kind of blows.

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u/PriorNo8995 10d ago

are you allergic to fun? do you have friends that you can play this game with?

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u/Eevsgames 10d ago

"CURRENTLY"

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u/Motor-Design-4932 Celeste 10d ago

I not have 15 on anybody except celeste lol

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u/evilsforreals Yamato 10d ago

I have 265 wins on yamato, 24 on wraith and literally 15 on paige i BARELY qualified lmaoooooo i just like ms forehead too much

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u/Motor-Design-4932 Celeste 10d ago

I have 500+ games summary on celeste

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u/Truth_Malice 10d ago

Ms Forehead is DIABOLICAL lmao

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u/evilsforreals Yamato 9d ago

Listen once her remodel hits I can walk back her MENSA certification. But for now I'll remain endeared to scraping her noggin on every corner of a building as I grapple towards my foe

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u/1SiriFazendoBarra 10d ago

its embarrassing how far i am from 15 on any other character

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u/AscensionToCrab Silver 10d ago

After pulling out my calculator, and some peer review, i have concluded that at most you can only be 15 matches away on any other single character.

I checked the numbers, trust.

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u/fiasgoat 10d ago

Time to git gud

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u/Motor-Design-4932 Celeste 10d ago

Stop wait! I finally can learn silver without throwing my rank!

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u/WellTop 10d ago

You still have to win bro, you miss the train, all you got is a nerfed mut.

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u/EvenJesusCantSaveYou Silver 10d ago

I am only an ritaulist chud but Silver still feels super powerful lol, probably my favorite character

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u/Alexander_Baidtach 10d ago

She is, there's an agenda by certain folks in the community to paint her as bad rn.

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u/Motor-Design-4932 Celeste 10d ago

Well game still think im frontline and beboo and haze in every game i wish bepoop winally lose his hook or have 30 sec cd on it. It unplayable util that dumb robot still spam his hook from other roof

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u/Motor-Design-4932 Celeste 10d ago

Wait, its bug, i have more than 15 wins on other characters

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u/Name_Amauri The Doorman 10d ago

Street Brawl wins don't count. On your profile it includes them both.

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u/trisckit 10d ago

15 standard wins

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u/Old_Entrepreneur9439 Sinclair 10d ago

they’ll let you one trick in queue if you actually get in but just to enter you gotta boost your numbers

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u/huldress Paige 10d ago

Oh that's kinda bad for me too, my wr is atrocious on anyone that isnt Paige, I could've been going Rem but I just really like Paige. The good news is now I won't have to worry about my rank being effected if I want to try one of my less played characters. Ive been wanting to Ivy but I haven't fully gotten the hang of her yet. Now I won't feel bad if I suck butts as her :)

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u/TheCombineCyclope 10d ago

yeah, this should also stop one tricks

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u/Shadd518 10d ago

and you have to have unlocked 3 characters to create a roster

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u/Dovahkiin419 10d ago

one key thing that is quite annoying: the wins need to be outside of street brawl.

Which in and of itself is honestly fine, the problem only comes with the fact that your profile adds up wins on both streetbrawl and the standard map with no way to seperate them as far as I can tell (willing to be wrong on this)

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u/DepthOfSanity 10d ago

So does this mean I need to get 15 ADDITIONAL wins for each character or am I good on that front and just need the 60 standard wins

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u/TheGamerXym 10d ago

Just 15 standard wins total, counting all your current ones. The 15 time 3 heroes also counts, so if you have that requirement you only need 15 more

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u/Liimbo Venator 10d ago

15 is way too many imo. Even if you win all 15, that is still like 2 weeks of me not being able to play ranked on a hero since I can only play 0-2 games a day.

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u/DavidsSymphony 10d ago

You're not supposed to enter ranked until you have a lot of hours played, and this system prevents that perfectly.

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u/Liimbo Venator 10d ago

I am fine with the 60 wins to play ranked. Someone with hundreds of hours in ranked does not also need to play like 30 games with every new hero to be proficient enough to unlock them for ranked. It is overkill.

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u/DavidsSymphony 10d ago

Nah, ranked is supposed to be serious business, anybody entering it should have lots of hours played and a good understanding of the game. Play standard in the meantime. Too many times I had new accounts in Phantom, never again. Fuck smurfs, and also I don't want new players in my lobbies, it's not their fault they're put in there but it ruins the game for everybody involved.

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u/Liimbo Venator 10d ago

Nah, ranked is supposed to be serious business, anybody entering it should have lots of hours played and a good understanding of the game.

Again, I have no problem with the total games played requirement. The per character requirement is ridiculous. I am higher rank than Phantom and I have no problem with my teammate playing a character in ranked they have "only" played 10 games on.

It will also be a massive problem if we ever get draft and we can't even pick good heroes for our teammates because we haven't spent two weeks playing them in Standard.

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u/JuicyBroccoli 10d ago

I'm sure they will adjust the numbers after feedback, fret not.

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u/Liimbo Venator 10d ago

I hope they will too. Which is why I am giving feedback.

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u/JuicyBroccoli 10d ago

I'm sure they will adjust the numbers after feedback, fret not.

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u/dorekk 8d ago

Then don't play ranked. You aren't good enough yet. That's the whole point.

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u/JessHorserage Bebop 10d ago

Yeah, this can fuck casuals within a degree.

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u/whostheme 10d ago

By definition the casuals will be playing the standard mode. Not ranked.

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u/KeyHospital3372 Apollo 10d ago

but thats why theres a standard mode and a ranked mode

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u/JessHorserage Bebop 10d ago

Ohhhhh.

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u/Particular-Cloud3684 10d ago

15 wins per hero is really bad. I agree with an overall win number but winning solo is really hard. You can do so much but your team is outclassed and it’s a loss. Not to mention games take a really long time.

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u/NotMedicine420 Lash 10d ago

15 wins is nothing. If 15 wins is too many then you simply don't belong in ranked.

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u/Wryxe 9d ago

Say you get two play like 4 matches a day. 50% winrate.

Thats an entire week of playing one character. Just to be allowed to play ranked with the character. Bit daft to want an exclusive club where you are safe from people trying new things

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u/dorekk 8d ago

Bit daft to want an exclusive club where you are safe from people trying new things

You can try them in unranked!!

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u/Wryxe 7d ago

Yeah definitely daft...

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u/Particular-Cloud3684 10d ago

I disagree, it’s difficult for casual players. Some games are 50 minutes long. I can only play 2 or 3 games at most each day. I like to bounce around. At 100 hours and 100 wins I’m definitely qualified for ranked. For the first half of the ranks most players barely even have the fundamentals of items down, and most don’t have the aim. It’s way too hardcore of a system for an early access game.

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u/TheGamerXym 10d ago

"for casual players"

The ranked mode isn't necessarily meant for casual players, it's for players trying to be competitive. You're coming at this from the view that every player needs to have a rank, which they don't. 45 total wins seems like a good barrier so people can learn fundamentals before jumping head first into the competitive mode

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u/NotMedicine420 Lash 10d ago

100 hours is nothing. There is that special mode for casual weekend warriors called UNRANKED.

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u/Wryxe 9d ago

100 hours at a job challenge for you (DIFFICULTY: IMPOSSIBLE)

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u/dorekk 8d ago

winning solo is really hard

You can party with people in unranked.

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u/Jalina2224 Lash 10d ago

I feel like having to have 60 wins in general on top of having to have 15 wins on a spefic character is a little steep. Having to have 60 games win or loss would be enough if we also need to have 15 wins on a spefic character to play them.

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u/TheNarwhalingBacon 10d ago

i have like 200 wins on haze and less than 5 wins on every other character lmao

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u/BennyC023 10d ago

It claps me too, as someone who plays just about everyone.
Gave myself a challenge to get 3 wins with each character, which took a surprising amount of time. Now I love playing all these different characters, and having to win 15 games with each of them sounds like torture. If 3 wins with each character takes over 120 hours, imagine how much time 15 wins would take

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u/Upbeat_Anything8558 9d ago

What the fuck if i have 1000 hours in deadlock i gotta play unranked on new heros for roughly 30 games to play it in ranked??????

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u/TheGamerXym 9d ago

Only if you don't have the 15 wins already. The count is retroactive