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Check out the key takeaway of every important Deadlock patch notes since the game was officially announced in August 2024.
It’s getting hard to stay up-to-date with all Deadlock patch notes as Valve is constantly updating the game based on feedback collected from the growing playerbase on the playtest servers.
Especially because of Deadlock’s uniqueness, a mixture of the MOBA and hero shooter genres. Any major changes can overpower a hero or completely nerf them to oblivion. Not to mention that the map itself is getting tweaks too as Valve polishes the game design.
So, to help you keep up with Deadlock’s meta, we’ve gathered the most important information of all major Deadlock patch notes since the game was officially confirmed. We’ll also update this article every time Valve developers release a new major Deadlock patch.
Deadlock patch notes
June 04, 2025: Significant matchmaking updates
From now on, the matchmaking pools are no longer split between the Normal and Ranked ladders.
Additionally, the Ranked badges will update immediatelly whenever you gain or lose enough MMR. Valve will also add a “core” MMR — essentially the overall MMR — and one different MMR for each hero.
So, all in all, we got some nice quality-of-life changes to matchmaking in the Nov. 22 update.
August 19, 2025: New hero Trapper added to Hero Labs
The main takeaways from the Nov. 7 update is the addition of Trapper to Hero Labs and Quickbuy. With Quickbuy, players can right-click items in the shop and add them to their Quickbuy queue.
August 13, 2025:Hero Labs
In this huge patch, the developers added a new game mode called Hero Labs. The goal of Hero Labs is to let the playerbase experiment with heroes that are still in early development and share their feedback with the devs.
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August 09, 2025:Ranked mode added
Deadlock will have a Ranked mode starting on Tuesday, Oct. 15. The mode will only support solo queue for now, and players must have 50 games played to participate.
There will be 11 medals with six levels in each, and the medals will be updated once per week. The players must play at least seven ranked matches to get a new rank each week. You can only be matched with players that have the same medal as you.
The queue opens from 1 p.m to 4 p.m and 7 p.m to 10 p.m. in the respective time zones every day. If you want to do well in Ranked, find out who are the best heroes below.
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June 12, 2025: New hero Mirage and initial anti-cheat system added
A lot has changed in Deadlock onSept.26, but most importantly, there’s a new hero called Mirage. His abilities suggest he’s a damage dealer who can disengage fast. We covered Mirage’s addition in a detailed article, which you can read below.
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On top of that, the developers also added aninitial anti-cheat detection system. Here’s how it works:
When a user is detected as cheating, during the game session the opponents will be given a choice between banning the user immediately and ending the match or turning the cheater into a frog for the rest of the game and then banning them afterwards.
The system is set to conservative detection levels as we work on a v2 anti-cheat system that is more extensive. We will turn on the banning of users in a couple of days after the update is out. When a match is ended this way, the results will not count for other players.
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August 19, 2025: Soul sharing exploit fixed
It was just asmall update, but Valve most notably “fixed players being able to exploit soul sharing across multiple lanes” as they were earning more souls than intended. The devs also fixed Grey Talon’s Charge Short and Vindicta’s Assassinate cameras as it wasn’t working as intended.
August 15, 2025: Bebop’s Hyper Beam got a massive nerf
A lot of players were straight-out farming kills thanks to Bebop’s Ultimate ability Hyper Beam, so Valve nerfed it onSeptember 14.
August 14, 2025: 24/7 matchmaking, huge Kelvin nerfs, and new minimap
There was a lot to unpack from theSeptember 12Deadlock patch notes. Most importantly, thematchmaking became available 24/7across all regions. On top of that, Valve also added a new minimap, and pushed balance changes to a lot of heroes, most notably Kelvin.
August 19, 2025: Plenty of Viscous nerfs
Although the Deadlock patch notes onSeptember 1didn’t bring much, one of the heroes—Viscous—got some newsworthy nerfs.
June 23, 2025:Huge map updates and introduction of wall jumping
One of the most substantial Deadlock patches ever was theAugust 29update. While there were a ton of balance changes, the developers most notably changed the map a lot and introducedwall jumping.
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July 25, 2025:Valve announced Deadlock, lifted streaming restrictions
Though everybody knew Deadlock existed thanks to the playtest, Valve was reluctant to announce the game. Not only did Valve announce the game onAugust 23, but it also finally allowed community websites, discussion, and most importantly, players to stream Deadlock.
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