Deadlock Update as of September 30, 2026: new heroes added, map changes, and UI improvements

List of Changes

New York Map

• The map has received a redesigned layout.
• Four new districts have been added: Theater, Chinatown, Ghost District, and Plaza.
• New locations have been added: Flooded Square and Chinatown Bell Tower.
• Sturdy crates containing bonus souls have been added; a powerful strike is required to open them.
• Containers with power-ups have been added.
• Healing snacks have been added—they’re hidden throughout the map and allow observant players to quickly restore their health.
• Added ventilation shafts that let you hide behind a steam curtain with your teammates to move unnoticed through the city streets. Provides invisibility and a small health recovery.

New Neutral Creatures

• Added Stage Hands, Crabbage Pots, Festival Spirit, Shrooms, and Underhands—each creature is found only in its own city district.

Broker

• You can trade your high-level items for their tainted versions.
• Although the exact time the Broker arrives varies, the first batch of items arrives in about 30 minutes.
• Additional tainted items can be obtained on average every 15 minutes after the first batch arrives.
• In each match, all tainted items are assigned random negative attributes from a predetermined set. The severity of negative and positive attributes varies slightly, but they are the same for all players in the match.

Heroes

• Six new heroes have been added: Nurse Harrow, Rat King, Violet, Baba, Solomon, and Deadman Danny. Players can influence the order in which heroes appear by voting in the prematch lobby.
• Starting October 2, two heroes will be released each week—on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Voting

• You’ll start earning priority tokens for playing as the new heroes.
• You’ll earn twice as many votes for your first win of the day.

Health Bar

• It’s now easier to see your teammates’ nicknames in the heat of battle.
• An ultimate indicator has been added.
• As you deal damage, you’ll see the enemy’s health bar decrease in real time.
• Stamina tracking and critical health information have been added.
• A total damage display feature has been added, which can be enabled in the settings.

HUD

• Added ally indicators.
• Improved visibility of stats.
• Added dynamic stat changes during battle.
• Changes to your stats are now displayed while shopping.
• Added display of ability charges and duration.
• Improved aiming mode.
• The event feed has been updated—you can now track important events during a match and the reasons for your deaths.
• Players now see the full reward for a target, as well as their personal share of the kill.

Store

• The kill feed, chat, and stats are now displayed while shopping.
• The Store uses player data to recommend the most popular items.
• Added the ability to filter stats to see only the ones you need.
• Search, focus, and scrolling have been improved.
• New settings and general navigation between tabs using keys 1–6 have been added.

Notifications and Communication

• The tag system has been redesigned.
• Interactive markers on the minimap have been enlarged.
• Added a circular wheel that lets you learn more about the heroes in your match.
• Detailed dynamic ability notifications have been added to track important cooldowns.
• Added a text input indicator.
• There are now many new objectives you can mark.
• Over 15,000 new notifications have been added.
• You can now mark items in the shop to let your teammates know you plan to buy them.
• Added the ability to share important information about enemies via notifications.
• If you mark a specific hero in a group of enemies on the minimap, the exact number of targets will be displayed.

Hero Voice Lines

• New hero lines have been added.
• The number of dialogues between new and existing characters has been increased to 1,500.
• Over 10,000 lines of dialogue not associated with tags have been added.
• A dialogue player has been added—now you can listen to lines from your favorite heroes.

Miscellaneous

• Added a praise counter.
• Fighter behavior, animations, and actions have been improved.
• Added names for lanes and areas on the minimap.
• Updated the rendering and visual effects of the smoke screens across the entire map.
• The parry cooldown is now displayed next to the crosshair.
• The mid-boss respawn timer is now displayed on the top bar.
• Custom lobbies can now accommodate up to 8 spectators.
• You can now zoom out to get a better view of your hero.
• When you receive a permanent buff, its type is displayed above your hero.

Visual Effects, Sound, and Control Settings

• Added the ability to change the color of enemy UI.
• A subtitle display feature has been added.
• Double-tapping the “Forward” key now allows you to continue moving without additional commands.
• An auto-jump feature has been added.
• An auto-fire feature has been added—your weapon will fire continuously without holding down the “Fire” key.
• Added the ability to reduce camera shake caused by hits, explosions, and other effects.

Advanced Tools

• Added the ability to record and replay bot actions.
• Added a detailed analysis of your actions against bots.
• A graph showing your movement speed in real time has been added.
• Added an indicator showing your damage per second and total damage.
• Added numerous settings to customize your hero’s status.
• Added the ability to enable and disable standard spawns during testing.
• Added a tool that lets you apply permanent buffs.
• Added the ability to lock the camera and focus it on a single hero.
• Added a feature to hide the interface.
• Added display of item types in the shop.
• Added detailed bot configuration options.
• Added a feature to force-spawn various targets, destructible objects, and enemies.
• Added the ability to kill and heal targets with the cursor.
• Added hotkeys for quickly switching actions.
• Added a feature to hide your character on the map.
• Added tooltips for all settings in the “Sandbox” for clearer results.
• The layout of the testing tools has been adjusted for convenience.
• Added a free purchase mode.
• The system shows where your weapon’s damage begins to decrease and where the stats reach their minimum.

Behavior and Complaints

• Report toxic or rule-breaking behavior during and after a match.
• You will now receive notifications when action is taken against a player you have reported.
• If a player you reported violates voice chat rules, they will be muted for the remainder of the match and receive a 30-day communication ban.

New User Settings

• Added a full display of your custom key bindings.
• Added the ability to copy crosshair and keybind settings as code to share them with other players.
• Added the ability to switch heroes while spectating or watching a replay.
• Added the ability to adjust camera dimness in the game settings.
• Added the ability to set custom values for health bars—you can now customize how health numbers, damage dealt, and other parameters are displayed.
• Improved crosshair preview.
• Certain settings now visually indicate when they have been changed from their default values.
• Speakers, headsets, and microphones that have been recently connected or disconnected are now immediately displayed in the settings menu.
• You can now configure many settings separately for each hero.
• Added automatic detection of users’ keyboard layouts.
• Users playing in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean can now use the IME system for text input.
• Added a feature to change the cursor size.
• Added support for assigning mouse wheel functions to keys that were previously reserved only for mouse buttons.
• Added a hero selector to the navigation panel.
• The menu now remembers your location between game sessions.
• Added a preview feature for image settings.
• Added the ability to save settings to the cloud.
• Added the ability to reset specific and all settings.
• Color selection and customization have been improved.

Other changes

• The engine code has been updated to the latest version of Source 2.
• Anti-cheat protection has been improved.
• Network prediction has been improved.
• Rendering speed has been improved.
• Audio performance has been improved.
• Localization has been updated and improved.
• Item images have been updated.
• New sound effects have been added for all light and heavy combat heroes.
• Abilities and items are now used instantly when the corresponding buttons are pressed.
• New sound effects have been added.
• Added music tracks for death, respawn, and kill streaks.
• Animations for older heroes have been updated.
• Fixed bugs related to Sinclair.
• Reworked the footstep sounds for Billy, Mina, the Wanderer, Silver, Victor, Venator, Apollo, Graves, Celeste, the Swiss Guard, Paige, and Drem.
• Added new shadows that cast straight down rather than through sunlight. This change improves performance and makes it easier to track enemies.
• Added options to remap the “Avoid Hero” command for players using a mouse without a middle button.
• In “Street Brawl” mode, after selecting items in the fifth round, you receive a corrupted item.
• Fixed bugs in “Street Fight” mode.
• Added new hit reaction effects.
• Successfully parrying targets no longer resets the cooldown.
• The time it takes to receive the bonus from “Sinner’s Sacrifice” now varies.
• Fixed bugs related to the Doorman.
• Improved the rules for fixing errors in in-game voice lines.
• Walkers no longer continue to fire fireballs after death.
• Fixed a bug where Yamato’s flying strike would not create a path to solid targets.
• Fixed a bug where holding down a modifier key—such as Ctrl to crouch—would prevent other key combinations from working.
• Fixed a bug where secondary keys required the same set of modifiers as primary keys.
• Bots now spawn facing the player.
• Graves can now destroy Venator’s traps with his weapon.
• The Strider’s attack and strike range indicator now appears as the player approaches.
• Fixed a bug where heroes or targets were not displayed on the mini-map for the Hidden King and Archmage when spectating a match.
• In “Sandbox” and “New York Exploration,” the first spawns on crates and neutral objectives occur after 5 seconds instead of 30.
• Various new objectives have been added to “Sandbox.”
• Added a new camera angle when observing the Guardian.
• Added support for Japanese text wrapping rules.
• Added localized hero logos for Korean.
• Added an option to embed the HUD for 21:9 aspect ratio gameplay.
• New settings now display an indicator until the notification about the new setting is closed.
• Added an icon to the sliders in the settings menu to indicate the default values for each option.
• Many other changes.