Deadlock Patch Notes Tracker

27 May 2025 Balance adjustments and bug fixes for heroes, items, and game environment.

Buffs

Nerfs

Balances

New

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Heroes

Abrams

Abrams: Health growth per boon reduced from 81 to 78

Abrams: Infernal Resilience Damage Regenerated increased from 10% to 12%

Abrams: Infernal Resilience T3 increased from 5% to 6%

Abrams: Various network related fixed for Shoulder Charge

Abrams: Shoulder Charge wall stun from 0.85s to 0.6s

Abrams: Shoulder Charge T2 changed from -12s Cooldown to +0.45s Wall Stun

Abrams: Shoulder Charge T3 changed to -18s Cooldown

Abrams: Seismic Impact cooldown increased from 160s to 170s

Bebop

Bebop: Hyperbeam cooldown reduced from 130s to 110s

Bebop: Fixed some issues with lag compensation and Hook

Calico

Calico: Ammo increased from 9 to 10

Calico: Ava self slow on damage duration increased from 1.5s to 2s

Calico: Ava self slow on damage increased from -50% to -65%

Calico: Ava duration reduced from 15s to 14s

Calico: Ava T1 duration reduced from +20s to +14s

Calico: Ava recent damage window increased from 5s to 6s

Calico: Fixed Curse and stuns not interrupting Ava (similar to Ice Path and Flame Dash)

Grey Talon

Grey Talon: Spirit Snare radius increased from 6.2 to 6.5

Grey Talon: Guided Owl duration increased from 14s to 16s

Grey Talon: Guided Owl cooldown decreased from 127s to 125s

Grey Talon: Guided Owl T2 cooldown improved from -47s to -50s

Holliday

Holliday: Fixed some issues with lag compensation and Lasso

Holliday: Spirit Lasso cooldown increased from 100s to 105s

Holliday: Spirit Lasso T3 improved from -30s Cooldown to -35s

Infernus

Infernus: Afterburn headshot buildup rate improved by 10%

McGinnis

McGinnis: Fixed Turret bugs when thrown at the Patron Throne

Mo & Krill

Mo & Krill: Base gun damage increased from 2.6 to 2.7

Mo & Krill: Scorn spirit scaling increased from 0.39 to 0.42

Mo & Krill: Combo cooldown increased from 75s to 80s

Pocket

Pocket: Flying Cloak spirit damage scaling increased from 1.04 to 1.3

Seven

Seven: Fixed Health Regen being 3 instead of 1.5

Seven: Power Surge spirit scaling increased from 0.148 to 0.16

Seven: Storm Cloud DPS reduced from 120 to 115

Seven: Storm Cloud T3 reduced from +75 to +70

Seven: Storm Cloud spirit scaling increased from 0.65 to 0.7

Seven: Storm Cloud cooldown increased from 148s to 155s

Shiv

Shiv: Alt Fire base damage reduced by 15%

Shiv: Rage per weapon damage reduced by 10%

THE MAGNIFICENT SINCLAIR

Sinclair: Vexing Bolt radius increased from 3m to 3.5m

Sinclair: Vexing Bolt radius fixed to scale with radius increase now

Sinclair: Spectral Assistant T2 duration increased from +5s to +7s

Sinclair: Rabbit Hex cooldown reduced from 35s to 30s

Viscous

Viscous: Goo Ball duration reduced from 10s to 9s

Warden

Warden: Bullet damage per boon reduced from 0.74 to 0.6

Warden: Last Stand interrupt cooldown increased from 20s to 30s

Wraith

Wraith: Telekinesis duration reduced from 3s to 2.75s

Weapon Items

Restorative Shot

Restorative Shot: Now only procs when the center pellet hits (in the case of shotguns, like how Mystic Shot works)

Headshot Booster

Headshot Booster: Now requires the center pellet hit the head hitbox to count

Fleetfoot

Fleetfoot: Cooldown increased from 10s to 16s

Fleetfoot: Duration increased from 4s to 6s

Fleetfoot: No longer grants +125 Bonus Health

Fleetfoot: Now grants +10% Bullet Resistance

Fleetfoot: While active, you gain +40% Slow Resistance

Headhunter

Headhunter: Now requires the center pellet hit the head hitbox to count

Headhunter: Bonus Headshot Damage now scales with Boons rather than Spirit Power (5.0 per Boon)

Headhunter: Bonus Headshot Damage reduced from 100 to 75

Headhunter: Heal now scales with Boons rather than Spirit Power (0.1 per Boon)

Crippling Headshot

Crippling Headshot: No longer has a 3s cooldown

Crippling Headshot: Debuff duration reduced from 10s to 8s

Vitality Items

Healing Nova

Healing Nova: Now a T3 item

Healing Nova: Base heal increased from 260 to 325

Healing Nova: Heal now scales with Boons rather than Spirit Power (7 per Boon)

Healing Nova: Now grants +8 Spirit Power

Healing Nova: Cooldown reduced from 70s to 60s

Siphon Bullets

Siphon Bullets: Cooldown increased from 0.7s to 0.8s

Spirit Items

Superior Cooldown

Superior Cooldown: Cooldown Reduction reduced from 26% to 25%

Boundless Spirit

Boundless Spirit: Spirit % bonus increased from +10% to +13%

General Changes

- Breakable souls rescaled from 28.5 + 2.375/min to 23 + 2.6/min
- Trooper resistance near base reduced from 40% to 35%
- Added news kiosk structure in between Mid Lane Walker and base entrance
- Added wall partition structures outside of Outer Lane base entrances
- Improved lighting in Mid Boss area

Misc Changes

- Fixed a bug where Urn can be invisibly carried on the hero by throwing it in certain areas like the air vents
- Fixed Neutrals near the base gaining the 'near base' trooper resist
- Fixed shotguns with Express Shot instantly applying buildups
- Fixed various bugs with Siphon Bullets related to stat stealing and Capacitor/Debuff Remover.
- Tankbuster: Fixed various bugs when multiple abilities hit on the same frame
- Decay: Damage no longer procs item effects (like Affliction)
- Lightning Scroll: Fixed bugs when used with Refresher
- Mercurial Magnum: Fixed an interaction bug with Split Shot