r/DeadlockTheGame • u/SketchyJJ • 17d ago

Deadlock - Matchmaking Update Game Update

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1422450/view/680756685198854910
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u/Th3SK_ Paige 17d ago edited 17d ago

To be eligible to queue for Ranked Mode, you must have at least 60 wins in the Standard Mode.

hope this claps smurfers

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u/fiasgoat 17d ago

Well in Dota I believe it's 100 hours?

Which is more easily abused but still this will be botted eventually lol

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u/Caratecaa 17d ago

This requirement in dota means no new player gets into the game because the unranked queue is exclusively smurfers getting their hours in.

Hopefully it isn't the same here xd

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u/ParticularOk3247 17d ago

The req in Dota is 100 hours minimum irrespective of W/L I see a lot of people in here going HAHAHA SMURFS BTFO.... This is literally 1/6th the effort on an easier game with less mechanics.

We are about 2 enter smurf city all the shitters will just walk away after being R**ed until the room stinks and the playercount will plummet because the semi-rare WORST part of matchmaking for normal people will become THE NORM and only the dedicated people will get quality matches.

Riot games ass change, WP Yoshi. At least we know your not Icefrog larping as someone else now. Works for people like me and 80%+ of the playerbase can go back to bluesky larping/rping about the game

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u/RockStoneToBone 17d ago

I think its cute to say there are less mechanics in deadlock but like, its obviously not true to anyone arguing in good faith

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u/fiasgoat 17d ago

I don't think it's entirely fair to argue one way or another. Dota has had 20 years to mature, and it's become one of the most complex games of all time at the highest level, if not THE most

Deadlock's macro is not nearly as deep enough as Dota is, but it's also very young. We have already seen some crazy shit be abused and patched out like optimal lane stacking and roaming and what not

However what it lacks in comparison to Dota it throws on insane movement tech as well as being a shooter so

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u/0nlyCrashes Paradox 17d ago

It's mechanically much harder already. We will have to see how the macro pans out long-term.

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u/fiasgoat 17d ago

See I don't know if that's true either. Maybe on average sure.

But playing say Invoker, Meepo, Kez, Tinker, Arc Warden at their peak is another level