Deadlock players convinced it\u2019s suffering from \u201cquick success\u201d ValveDeadlock\u2019s population explosion since Valve officially announced the MOBA has inevitably resulted in a proportionate rise in anti-social behavior. Affected by the prevalence of rage quitters, general toxicity, and cheating, legitimate players have been venting their frustrations on social media. Rather than accuse Valve of inaction, Deadlock\u2019s fledgling subreddit attributed the issues to unforeseen popularity. \u201cThis is Valve suffering from the quick success of Deadlock,\u201d one player said, stating their belief that \u201cToxic players and cheaters\u201d will be \u201cfiltered\u201d out by the game\u2019s report function. While Valve has already taken action to curb the prevalence of bad actors by handing out permanent bans, Deadlock, early in development as it is, likely doesn\u2019t have any automated review process in place to process reports. Experiences have devolved to such an extent for some, that they\u2019ve called on Valve to \u201crevoke access\u201d from anyone who repeatedly quits matches early. \u201cLast night I played six games with some friends. Five of the six ended in the enemy or my team leaving,\u201d another vented. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty out of control already,\u201d more lamented, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t know how you guys deal with any of this.\u201d Considering the quantity of similar discourse present in the thread, the issues accompanying Deadlock\u2019s ever-increasing player base are to be expected, to an extent. It\u2019s worth noting that, as a Closed Alpha, server instability is to be expected. Disconnects and crashes are common causes of people leaving matches prematurely, so not all can be attributed to intentional rage quitters. Valve hasn\u2019t indicated when it expects Deadlock to leave Alpha, but has been deploying sizable balance updates and improvements to overall gameplay. How those will affect the current meta remains to be seen, but you can check out our tier list to see which heroes are currently considered best of the bunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deadlock players convinced it\u2019s suffering from \u201cquick success\u201d ValveDeadlock\u2019s population explosion since Valve officially announced the MOBA has inevitably resulted in a proportionate rise in anti-social behavior. Affected by the prevalence of rage quitters, general toxicity, and cheating, legitimate players have been venting their frustrations on social media. Rather than accuse Valve of inaction, Deadlock\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}