Deadlock players reportedly perma-banned already for abusing pauses ValveValve has reportedly started handing permanent bans out to anyone found to be abusing Deadlock\u2019s pause feature. The MOBA, which remains in Closed Alpha, allows players to universally pause a match for 20 seconds. The system\u2019s intended use is to account for situations where teammates disconnect or leave, allowing time for the empty slot to be refilled. Footage of Twitch streamer ohnePixel discovering the function and then encouraging others to \u201ctake their pause\u201d to \u201ctilt the enemy team\u201d has already emerged online. Others have attributed their total account bans to misuse of the feature. How accurate these claims are isn\u2019t clear. The ban notice seen below doesn\u2019t specify the reasons for a teammate\u2019s permanent ban. Nevertheless, a heavily upvoted thread on Reddit discussing the development prompted many to share their own experiences. \u201cHad a close match the other night that ended up with the other team winning. They continually paused it for about five minutes during the Weakened Patron phase while we were wiped,\u201d one fan explained. Similar anecdotes of misuse were present, \u201cIn one of my games we were stomped. Already not fun but the winning team took turns pausing and unpausing as they killed our Patron,\u201d another added. Others suggested that the behavior could have an innocent explanation. \u201cI have some friends who play League of Legends. They regularly hit P [to pause] when trying to open the shop due to muscle memory. I had them change their shop button so it didn\u2019t happen.\u201d Pause features are commonplace in MOBAs. Valve\u2019s own Dota 2 has such a feature, though as is the case for any title still in development, how Deadlock functions could change dramatically before launch. Still undecided on which hero to main? Check out our tier list ranking every playable character as well as our build guides for S-tier picks like Pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deadlock players reportedly perma-banned already for abusing pauses ValveValve has reportedly started handing permanent bans out to anyone found to be abusing Deadlock\u2019s pause feature. The MOBA, which remains in Closed Alpha, allows players to universally pause a match for 20 seconds. The system\u2019s intended use is to account for situations where teammates disconnect or […]<\/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-79881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79881","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=79881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}