Valve reveals Deadlock’s massive “City Never Sleeps” update:
• Six new heroes: Nurse Harrow, Deadman Danny, Baba, Solomon, Rat King, and Violet.
• Players vote on release order. First hero arrives October 2, with two releasing weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays.
• Major map visual overhaul, featuring Broadway, Greenwich, York, and four districts: Theater, Chinatown, Haunted Lot, and Plaza.
• New “Haunts” replace existing neutrals with different creatures and behaviors.
• New Sunken Plaza and Bell Tower locations offer risky opportunities to collect rewards.
• Tough Crates, expanded permanent buffs, healing snacks, and Steam Vents that provide invisibility and regeneration.
• Limited-time merchant “The Broker” exchanges high-tier items for powerful Corrupted versions with randomized drawbacks.
• Redesigned health bars, clearer combat stats, ally indicators, and an expanded event feed.
• Shop upgrades add popular items based on live player data, stat filters, and improved build browsing.
• Reworked ping system with 15,000+ new and updated pings.
• 10,000+ additional non-ping voice lines, expanded pre-match conversations and a dialogue browser.
• Accessibility options include customizable subtitles, reduced camera shake, auto-move, auto-fire, and auto-mantle.
• Expanded testing tools introduce bot recording, combat logs, movement graphs and a DPS meter.
• Report-action notifications and 30-day comms bans for players found abusing communications.
• Shareable reticle/keybind settings, improved spectator tools, and support for eight spectators in custom lobbies.
• Updated Source 2 engine code, improved anti-cheat, networking, rendering, and audio performance.
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