Valve Adds Six Heroes To Deadlock, Player Peak Passes 220,000
Deadlock is invite-only and early in development, so a 220,000 concurrent peak after a content update is a measure of how much demand sits behind a game Valve has not opened up.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
Valve released the "City Never Sleeps" update for Deadlock, adding six heroes, a reworked map, neutral creep changes, and a merchant NPC called The Broker. SteamDB recorded a peak concurrent player count above 220,000 after the update. The heroes arrive on a schedule: the first on October 2, then two every Tuesday and Friday at 2 PM Pacific Time, bringing the roster to 44.
The six new heroes are NURSE HARROW, RATKING, SOLOMON, DEADMAN DANNY, BABA, and VIOLET. Their implementation order is decided by player votes cast in-game, with votes from the winning team counted double and the day's first win also doubling votes. Players earn priority tokens based on their play.
The map, The Cursed Apple, takes New York City as its basis. Uptown, Times Square, Downtown, Central Park, the Stock Exchange, and Seaport Dock were reworked, and four explorable districts sit between the main streets.
- NURSE HARROW: wields a syringe-like gun
- RATKING: a giant rat wearing a crown
- SOLOMON: a strategist holding chess pieces
- DEADMAN DANNY: a corpse who handles explosives
- BABA: an old woman who uses curses
- VIOLET: fights with a paintbrush
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