[STEAM] Valve’s New Multiplayer Game Deadlock Lets You Turn Cheaters Into a Frog

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Valve has updated its new multiplayer game

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to let players turn cheaters into a frog.

Deadlock is a hero shooter that’s like a mash-up of all Valve’s previous games, including Team Fortress 2, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike. It’s in early development, with Valve updating all the time, which leads us to this week’s changes.

This week’s

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added a novel anti-cheat measure: turning a cheater into an in-game frog. If you spot a cheater in-game, you can either ban them or transform them for the rest of the match. Here’s the note in the patch notes:

• Added an initial Anti-Cheat detection system. When a user is detected as cheating, during the game session the opponents will be given a choice between banning the user immediately and ending the match or turning the cheater into a frog for the rest of the game and then banning them afterwards. The system is set to ************* detection levels as we work on a v2 anti-cheat system that is more extensive. We will turn on the banning of users in a couple of days after the update is out. When a match is ended this way, the results will not count for other players.

And here’s how it looks:

Guys do you ever get this weird glitch in deadlock

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— Poggu (@poggu__)

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According to ex-Counter-Strike developer Burton Johnsey, Valve built a system just like this for its legendary multiplayer shooter, codenamed '*** Surprise Mode,' but it turned cheaters into a chicken. Unfortunately it was never released.

Holy *****, they finally built codename “*** Surprise Mode”?!

When I worked on VAC, Rich and I designed this for CS but the cheater was a chicken.

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— BurtonJ (@sptonjohn)

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Deadlock isn’t properly released yet (it’s still invite only) but it’s already a big hit on Steam, where it’s usually in the top 10 most-played games. At the time of this article’s publication, Deadlock had an impressive 118,697 concurrent players on Valve’s platform.

This week’s patch introduced a new Deadlock hero called Mirage, and made several map, hero, and item changes. Valve has yet to announce a release date.

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