Inverted philosophy for character design Q switch with shooting FEEL

[lukasm508]

Deadlock's shooting is polished and responsive, setting it apart from other hero shooters.

Melee options (light Q and heavy Q) feel clunky and secondary by comparison. Pure melee builds often underperform, as noted in community feedback.

Proposal: Design new heroes where melee is the primary focus – more fluid and satisfying than their guns. Light/heavy Q become deep, combo-driven kits with dashes, parries, and impactful feedback. Ranged weapons serve as poke or cleanup.

This:

• Serves dedicated melee fans (Abrams/Yamato players and beyond).
• Differentiates Deadlock in a shooter market.
• Counters ranged meta for better balance.

There are a lot of us that enjoy the meele of Cyberpunk 2077 Katana gameplay or other samurai esque titles (Dash strikes, leading into fluid couple of hit combos)

 

[asinar57]

if you want a character with a smoother melee-style playstyle play characters like calico, shiv or apollo. Obviously I’m not opposed to characters with combo style abilities and I’ve designed a few itself but the melee-parry rps system works best the way it’s implemented now, as a universal tertiary mechanic.