Cheat death sometimes doesn't save your life after update

[lavaboemer]

Since the recent small balance patch, I noticed that I sometimes immediately die when reaching 1 HP, even though my cheat death is off-cooldown. On top of this, after my death I notice that my cheat death did go on cooldown, despite not having triggered.


I assumed that perhaps the enemy had Curse, since that item can now remove cheat death, yet the enemy that killed me, or any of the other enemies, didn't Curse.

Here is the match id: 47668253
The Doormnan had Cheat Death, yet a few seconds after minute 44, they died by the hands of an Infernus withile their Cheat Death did nothing.

 

[Zaper]

This has happened in my games as well.

MatchID: 47671999 just after the 23:40 minute mark Doorman has cheat death and dies to mirage while cheat death doesn't save them.

Another example is MatchID: 47625070 Doorman dies to Infernus at the 30:39 minute mark with cheat death not saving them.

After testing it out in the sandbox, it seems that if toxic bullets does lethal damage it goes through the cheat death protection killing them instantly.

 

[lavaboemer]

I do remember the Infernus that bypassed the cheat death in the game I shared to also have toxic bullets, so that adds up

 

[weebstrangler]

View attachment Replay 2025-11-22 18-49-32.mp4

Toxic bullets was the Killing Blow in this clip of it happening to me as well. Definitely that's the culprit.


Sorry I can't be bothered to crop but it's at the end.

 

[weebstrangler]

Toxic Bullets is always lethal through Cheat Death

 

[deyoos]

Same, and toxic bullets never bypassed cheat death before this patch.

 

[weebstrangler]

Hypothetically even if this were caused by some complicated spaghetti code reason, it could be fixed in the short term simply by having the Dispel that Cheat Death provides, occurring in the server tick before the "death prevention" effect. Just remove the Toxic Bullets effect.

 

[astupidface12]

View attachment Deadlock 2025.11.26 - 02.40.53.04 (online-video-cutter.com).mp4
Look at the end, in the replay cheat death has gone to 60% cooldown or something like that. I rewatched replay 3 times, sometimes cheatdeath cooldown was not full.
This item is simple, funny, but always is broken, damn