Deadlock

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Deadlock has been announced and is currently in development.
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Supported OS: Windows (See system requirements)

Notice: Currently multiplayer on Steam Deck is not supported yet. Single player works fine however.

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

Engine

Source 2

Steam AppID

1422450

Written in

C++

Mod support

Unsupported

SDK

None

System requirements

• Win 10, 11 or later
• CPU: TBA
• RAM: TBA
• Disk: TBA
• Direct3D 11 or Vulkan-capable GPU
• 64-bit processor

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

All playable heroes as of 8/24/2024

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

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 results similar to Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) and is cheaper than both MSAA and SSAA, however, its main drawback is that it can cause ghosting and blurriness to the image, and creates motion blur when in motion, especially noticeable with a lower framerate or resolution (Example here).

TAA can be enabled by enabling AMD FSR 2 upscaler.

AMD FSR (1.0 and 2.0)

An open-source upscaling algorithm developed by AMD, which does not rely on machine learning and runs on traditional shading units, allowing it to work on any GPU vendor. FSR version 2.0 are temporal-based compared to 1.0. When the user chose to run the game on lower resolutions to improve performance, FSR will attempt to upscale and sharpening the image to make it less blurry on native monitor resolution.

Early Development Build "chain-ban"

If a player invites or is invited by a player that becomes banned from the game, they will be removed from the Early Development Build. It is unknown how far down the "chain" of invite association bans are given.

Distance Field Shadows and Reflections

Improved Cascade Shadowmaps