Recent content by dbrinem

I have the opposite problem. I can't get my account to stop climbing in rank other than to stop playing. At some point the "skill" rating system decided I didn't belong in Seeker and starting to rapidly accelerate my rating all the way to Emissary even with an abysmal win rate of 20-30%. That's...

Try switching the Rendering option if you haven't already and want to try again. I recently discovered and reported on Direct3D 11 crashing my game very consistently and it stopped when I switched to Vulkan. https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/dx11-causing-bsod.122895/

71635220 The game currently does not provide a way to be matched with players of your own approximate skill level and that is a huge problem. The rating and matchmaking systems are broken and do not function towards that regard. If Deadlock were a fighting game with matchmaking this bad, it...

Deadlock has been frequently causing my PC to BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) forcing a restart of the entire system ever since the latest large update (03-25-2026). So far this has only occurred while the Rendering option was set to Direct3D 11 (-dx11) and has since stopped upon changing it to...

Concept: A gun item that triggers a substantial effect when the player fires the last bullet of their magazine and it hits an enemy hero. Ideas for the last bullet effect: extra weapon damage that is evenly distributed to all enemies around the enemy hit extra weapon damage to enemies on low...

66759553 66796417 Why the hell am I Emissary/Ritualist when I'm still new and learning the game? I am ruining games for my teammates because I am still new and trying heroes/builds for the first time. The experience levels my teammates expect of me is extremely high and the individual skill...

As a new player still learning the game, I can confirm this happens too. I keep getting boosted by smurfs and other players wildly better than me on my team, and it leads to me getting huge jumps in rating even though I'm still new and don't know what I'm doing. I've jumped from Alchemist to...