Never going to be balanced.

[temporarily_here]

If 170k concurrent players for about a month was not enough data to at least progress the game forward -- even a tiny bit -- then I don't think any player count will. If anything since August the game has gotten fundamentally worse. Patch after patch of terrible changes. They literally ruined this wonderful game. It's just so disappointing man I keep coming back every two weeks to see if it's gotten better -- a miracle -- and nope. Just disappointment after disappointment. I guess I should just throw in the towel like the 140k people that have given up on this dumpster fire of a "game" -- feels like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ job.
Aside from that, the game will never hold a casual player base. Way too many moving variables for a casual to enjoy and competitively speaking the game is also struggles -- boring to watch. So... I don't see how they progress forward with this "game".
By the time it releases GTA6, BF6, and more triple A titles will have been released leaving Deadlock... dead. Corny? Maybe the hype of it being a new Valve PVP game was obscuring the reality of how terrible the game was... food for thought.

[SireFred]

Bros main got nerfed lmao

[Marchi]

INVITE PLIS!!!

[Smoke]

Originally posted by SireFred:

Bros main got nerfed lmao

Or, you know, the game is trash right now and doesn't value the players time at all. Every game has 1 or 2 players killing it acting like they don't belong while everyone else is negative getting their turds pushed in to their throats. You're going to be playing against the same sweaty nerds over and over pretty soon because nobody wants to play this dumpster fire the way it is right now.

[Zadabra]

It's ridiculous all the latest patches that have been applied to the game. From the beginning what was asked was to try to balance characters but what they are doing is buffing or nerfing the same characters constantly. Putting the game modes together was disastrous, each game is a roulette where you can get the worst team or the best to the point that the games can end in 20 or 25 minutes, all because listening the crybabies who did not want to wait to look for a match

[Gul Bjorn]

what if i told you that characters are balanced for the highest level of game play.

[Fangrilo]

Their intention for the public (closed?) beta was never to just balance characters here and there, they are still building the game, completely reworking characters, items and mechanics, not only to make it balanced but also fun to play and watch.
Even though it's a moba, which by now is a pretty well understood genre by Valve, this one is still pretty much the first of it's kind in how it plays. So that's why they need to collect that data, to understand how the changes they make will affect how the game is played by the players.

[LareBear]

Dude is on a brand new account, don't listen to this moron.