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2025

August 25

Valve has unveiled the Doorman, Deadlock's newest hero, whose abilities revolve around doors, luggage carts, and bells. His signature move, Doorway, operates similarly to the Portal gun, allowing players and most projectiles to travel between two linked doors. His ultimate ability transports enemies to a void hotel, where they must overcome a platforming challenge to get out.

Read more: Deadlock's latest character essentially wields a portal gun, and his ultimate sends foes to a void hotel where they face a platforming trial (PC Gamer)

March 19

Despite complete radio silence from Valve’s official channels—aside from the game’s Discord server—Deadlock has remained quiet since its initial reveal. Even so, it has consistently held the top spot on Steam’s Most Wishlisted games.

Read more: Deadlock From Valve Is Currently The Most Wished Game On Steam (9meters)

February 27

Deadlock has integrated NVIDIA Reflex, a feature designed to lower latency in competitive gaming. For players using GeForce RTX GPUs, this can cut latency by up to 45%.

Deadlock Adds NVIDIA Reflex, Reducing PC Latency By Up To 45% On GeForce RTX GPUs (Nvidia)

February 26

Over a month after its first major update, Deadlock introduced the most significant meta shift yet: the game’s original four-lane map was replaced with a traditional three-lane layout, aligning it more closely with other MOBAs like League of Legends and DOTA 2.

Read more: Deadlock Changes from Four Lanes to Three in New Major Update (Game8)

January 17

Deadlock’s first major update of the year brought four new heroes, available in a separate experimental queue where these temporary characters could be tested.

Read more: Deadlock just got four new heroes at once as Valve expands MOBA’s roster to 26 (PCGamesN)

January 8

As the new year began, the development team's community representative, known as Yoshi on Discord, announced that major updates would be spaced further apart. The goal is to deliver more substantial patches with longer development cycles to improve the overall process.

Read more: Deadlock updates will be a little bit more spaced out so Valve can improve our development process, but you can expect bigger major patches when they arrive (GamesRadar)

2024

October 3

A Deadlock developer shared on Twitter (X) how they used ChatGPT to assist with the game’s development, specifically uncovering an algorithm that was later implemented for matchmaking.

Read more: Deadlock Dev Uses ChatGPT to Help With Matchmaking Code (Game8)

August 27

After months of speculation, Valve officially acknowledged Deadlock by launching a public Steam store page. At the time, however, no formal announcements were made.

Read more: Deadlock, Valve’s Upcoming MOBA Shooter, Officially Revealed on Steam (Game8)