Valve's Deadlock Has A Super-Secret Invite-Only Alpha Different From The Known Invite-Only Alpha

Deadlock--the MOBA that Valve famously did not acknowledge after months of leaked footage, only to confirm its existence last summer--has been slowly inviting more and more players to its ongoing closed alpha test. However, it now seems as if there's an even more hidden alpha test, with even more limited invitations, after a streamer accidentally spilled the beans.YouTube streamer Deathy was livestreaming Deadlock on his YouTube channel, when he seems to have booted up the wrong version of the game. Instead of the alpha test viewers were used to, instead the game loaded up additional characters--a roster of 40 available characters as opposed to the standard alpha's 30 playable heroes--as well as updated designs for some of those 30 heroes.Slight Oversight from the Deathy Tierlist by u/UbiClown in DeadlockTheGame Some of the characters not found in the usual alpha test include a bellhop-themed character named Doorman, a reference to Mary Shelley's famous monster called Frank, and a character named Punkgoat whose art is a repeat of existing character Shiv. Deathy did end the stream and delete the archive when he realized his error, but screenshots still managed to hit the official Deadlock subreddit.Continue Reading at GameSpot

May 2, 2025 - 20:20
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Valve's Deadlock Has A Super-Secret Invite-Only Alpha Different From The Known Invite-Only Alpha

Deadlock--the MOBA that Valve famously did not acknowledge after months of leaked footage, only to confirm its existence last summer--has been slowly inviting more and more players to its ongoing closed alpha test. However, it now seems as if there's an even more hidden alpha test, with even more limited invitations, after a streamer accidentally spilled the beans.

YouTube streamer Deathy was livestreaming Deadlock on his YouTube channel, when he seems to have booted up the wrong version of the game. Instead of the alpha test viewers were used to, instead the game loaded up additional characters--a roster of 40 available characters as opposed to the standard alpha's 30 playable heroes--as well as updated designs for some of those 30 heroes.

Some of the characters not found in the usual alpha test include a bellhop-themed character named Doorman, a reference to Mary Shelley's famous monster called Frank, and a character named Punkgoat whose art is a repeat of existing character Shiv. Deathy did end the stream and delete the archive when he realized his error, but screenshots still managed to hit the official Deadlock subreddit.Continue Reading at GameSpot