Huge Deadlock Update Propels Valve's MOBA Hero Shooter to the Top of the Steam Charts, Smashes Peak Concurrent Player Record

Valve has issued a huge update to its in-development MOBA hero shooter Deadlock , propelling it to the top of Steam’s most-played games chart. The update significantly updated the map, added six new heroes, new mobs, objectives, updated the HUD, healthbars, the Shop, and much more.

Valve has updated the Deadlock engine code to the latest version of Source 2, improved anti-cheat, prediction improvements, rendering performance, audio performance, item art, and added new SFX for all hero Heavy and Light Melee. There's loads more to this update, detailed on the Deadlock website .

Deadlock hit a concurrent peak of over 220,000 players overnight, smashing its all-time concurrent peak and making it the sixth most-played game on Steam last night. Deadlock remains in early development, and access is limited to friend invites via Valve’s playtesters, so the concurrent peak is truly impressive.

In a post on Steam , Valve issued an update on Deadlock development, and pointed to future updates. It said it’s working on large item redesigns and additions, and even alternate game modes “that expand the scope of the game,” although there’s no guarantee either makes it into the final launch version.

Other future updates will focus on Midboss (both the model and the layout to a degree), Guardians and Walkers, “which we do consider important but just haven't gotten to yet and will be focusing on.” Hero remodels sound like they will be done later in the process, but we might see some of that work in upcoming updates.

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