Deadlock

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Deadlock has been announced and is currently in development.
Watch this page, Steam News, or Steam Updates for more information.
Supported OS: Windows • Linux + SteamOS (See system requirements)

Notice: Currently multiplayer on Steam Deck is not supported yet.

Deadlock

Developer(s)

Valve Corporation

Publisher(s)

Valve Corporation

Series

TBA

Release date(s)

TBA

Genre(s)

Third-person shooter MOBA

Mode(s)

Multiplayer

Platform(s)

Windows, Linux

Engine

Source 2

Steam AppID

1422450

Written in

C++

Mod support

Unsuported

SDK

No SDK

System requirements

• Win 10, 11 or later
• Any Linux distros (latest recommended)
• CPU: TBA
• RAM: TBA
• Disk: TBA
• DirectX 11 or Vulkan capable

For details, see below

Distribution

Steam

Official website

Forums

Links

Steam Store page

Previous game

Counter-Strike 2 (by release date)
N/A (by series)

Next game

N/A

Deadlock is a upcoming 6v6 third-person hero-based MOBA shooter. It is known internally as "Project 8" and previously "Citadel".

Footage of the game was leaked to social media prior to Valve announcing the game. Later a private beta test was held with limited multiplayer at designated times. Players can give invites to their steam friends to participate in the beta. The beta has a dedicated Discord and forum only accessible to beta testers.

Valve has implemented a new security feature where if you are banned all accounts connected to you are banned as well from the beta.

Features

New features introduced in Deadlock including:

TAA anti-aliasing

A spatial anti-aliasing technique that combines information from past frames and the current frame, while also slightly jittering to smooth the current frame. It produces result similar to Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA), however, its main drawback is that it can cause ghosting and blurriness to the image, and creates motion blur when in motion, noticeable with lower framerate or resolution (Example here).

TAA can be enabled by enabling AMD FSR 2 upscaler.

AMD FSR 2

A open-source upscaling algorithms developed by AMD, which does not rely on machine learning and runs on traditional shading units, allowing it to work on any GPU vendors. FSR version 2.0 are temporal-based compared to 1.0.