Latest / Dadlock — A Deadlock Podcast for the Rest of Us / New City Who Dis? Major Patch Update for Deadlock, City Never Sleeps!
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- 0:00All right, so it is actually the 30th of September,
- 0:05Wednesday, and guess what? We're recording DadLock.
- 0:09Welcome to DadLock. I'm your host OmniStar, and
- 0:12I'm joined by the ever -splendiferous Yarn. And
- 0:17Major Patch came out. Major. So should the kids
- 0:22hop in the van? Jump on in. Get in the van. We're
- 0:27going for a ride. Major Patch has arrived. The
- 0:35story about two men found themselves lost in
- 0:38the middle of the woods. They stumbled upon a
- 0:41cabin with a single PC, playing one whose two
- 0:47dads were never the same. Reporting for duty,
- 0:57I am Major Patch. And I am Lieutenant Snatch.
- 1:03What do you think? Looks okay. Looks like shit.
- 1:07I hate can I tell you I looked at the the forum
- 1:11and the number one like first post on this patch
- 1:14was like some guy being like You have to remove
- 1:17voice chat from the ranked or else. It'll never
- 1:19be a good game. Oh my god People won't stop being
- 1:23toxic to me my my own chill my own like there's
- 1:26three happiest days in my life and it's when
- 1:28this patch came out and the two days leading
- 1:32up to it and then Somewhere down the list on
- 1:34other days are my children being born. This is
- 1:37a married man with two kids. I mean, it's a pretty
- 1:42good looking patch. I think my kids would understand.
- 1:45I think they would get it. Yes, I would. So it's
- 1:50called The City Never Sleeps. And let's you want
- 1:54to just go down the list and talk about all the
- 1:56things? Well, I have one correction here, which
- 1:59is and I made this mistake earlier. It's actually
- 2:03called City Never Sleeps. Oh my God. It is not
- 2:07called The City Never Sleeps. All right, thank
- 2:09you. And it's even more importantly, I was also
- 2:11corrected about this too. It's also not called
- 2:14The City That Never Sleeps. Yeah, who corrected
- 2:18you? A podcast you listen to? Someone else that
- 2:22you listen to, a different podcast that's decided
- 2:24to be pedantic to you? Yes, pretty much. Yes,
- 2:28City Never Sleeps. City Never Sleeps. And, appropriately,
- 2:32set at night now. Everything's dark. Yes, yeah,
- 2:35pretty pretty cool. I think since the Early days
- 2:39of the beta or the whatever. This is the play
- 2:41test. It's just gotten darker and darker every
- 2:43major update Yeah, I don't I kind of almost wish
- 2:46it was like I know it's called city never sleeps
- 2:49literally So I find it like it'd be weird for
- 2:51it to be a day night cycle or something like
- 2:54that I do wonder if Because I was I was walking
- 2:57around the map and I was like, it's really dark
- 2:59Like it's like clearly nighttime and I wonder
- 3:01how that all because also all the characters
- 3:03look almost like a little too bright for how
- 3:05dark everything is. Yeah. But I mean, I mean,
- 3:08it helps you shoot them, right? It helps you
- 3:10get them kind of like contrast against the background,
- 3:12at least. Yeah. But we got we got the whole map
- 3:15is completely different. They I mean, it's the
- 3:18same structure, but they added just it's beautiful.
- 3:22It's they added like actual parts of the city.
- 3:25They changed all of the different sections of
- 3:28the map and all that stuff. Does it did anything
- 3:30jump out at you? Um, I mean, I think people online
- 3:35have seemed to I was sitting on Reddit earlier.
- 3:37People online seem to think that the Times Square
- 3:40sort of middle of blue location is a little bit
- 3:44ugly. Which I do. I like it. It's like this like,
- 3:49you know, little moving trucks underneath the
- 3:53thing. I mean, it's the thing that jumped out
- 3:56to me is it all feels very open. Everything feels
- 4:03very open Yeah, I mean the like Tim like so two
- 4:09things one is that cities are both beautiful
- 4:12and ugly, right? Yeah, sure and I feel like it
- 4:14hits that I mean, I don't know when I walked
- 4:16up the Times Square area I just was like I did
- 4:18the thing where I looked up everywhere and I
- 4:19was like, oh my god Wow Which is what I did when
- 4:23I went to real -time square and Moba to do that
- 4:26to me is it's pretty fucking cool Yeah. And actually,
- 4:30I'm almost going back on what I was saying before,
- 4:32because it's it's not all very open. It's it's
- 4:36like all very open until it's insanely congested.
- 4:39Right. And then and then there's like little
- 4:41nooks and crannies everywhere to like, you know,
- 4:44I mean, little homes. I was going to say the
- 4:45same thing. It's all these like these nice little
- 4:48nooks and crannies that feel like just so interesting.
- 4:51And I was walking around the map and I just got
- 4:52lost into. Like it and it it gives you a little
- 4:56a little bit of depth to get into map knowledge
- 4:58instead of just being like oh It's like one big
- 4:59open area who cares like you get you really got
- 5:01to know the map to like chase somebody now Which
- 5:03is like a very fun part of the concept to me
- 5:06and then just the personality that oozes out
- 5:09of every Area just feels so cool Yes, yes No,
- 5:15it's great. It does give you that like looking
- 5:17up a Times Square feeling and especially now
- 5:19that it's all so new to us And I think what also
- 5:26jumps out is that color wise, I think the lanes
- 5:31are a bit more associated with the actual color
- 5:34because something that used to happen to me a
- 5:35lot is you're getting chased. You start running
- 5:38in a direction away from the person trying to
- 5:41kill you. And then you realize you've run to
- 5:42the enemy side of the map. Yeah. Right. And I
- 5:45think they've done a little better with that
- 5:46in terms of like the blue side looks more blue.
- 5:49The fucking orange side looks more orange. Right.
- 5:52Yeah, I mean, there's definitely like there's
- 5:54like landmarks on either side that are different.
- 5:56Yes. So you know, even the lighting, like you're
- 5:58running up blue and you're running up orange
- 6:00and it's like there's just like a bit of a hue
- 6:02to things now heading orange. You know what I
- 6:04mean? Which is nice. You mean yellow? Whichever.
- 6:08Well, no, I'm thinking of like south side. Yes.
- 6:11Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see. But but that's true.
- 6:13Yellow to green as well. Like the yellow side
- 6:16is all that like foundry like in the yard. Yes.
- 6:20Yeah. And then the the green is all like very
- 6:21like You know, there's lots of trees and foliage.
- 6:25And the yellow side has like the seaport dock
- 6:28with all like the halogen lights and everything
- 6:29like that. Yes. Yeah. No, it looks great. And
- 6:33then they did the thing that we were talking
- 6:36about last time, which is that they changed all
- 6:38the camps. Yes. They did the camps like the right
- 6:43way. Yeah, I didn't think they were going to
- 6:45do as much of the camps as they did, to be honest.
- 6:48Not at all. And you know what? It looks I I checked
- 6:50out every single camp. I went to everyone. They
- 6:53each one. I just was like, oh, my God, this is
- 6:55so cool. Like I just I just I mean, I don't know
- 6:57if that just makes me like someone who's just
- 6:59like, guys, it's just so cool. But like every
- 7:02single camp I went down, like when I went to
- 7:03the gutter ghouls and they come out of the ground
- 7:05like the trash ones or whatever they're called
- 7:07and they come out of the ground and like they're
- 7:10like lifting themselves out of the grand and
- 7:11there's like their legs are there and they're
- 7:13all dirty wearing socks and stuff like that.
- 7:14I was like, this is. This is cool! No, it's fucking
- 7:17amazing, yeah. They have the stagehands, are
- 7:20probably my favorite ones, these little, yeah.
- 7:22Because the art masks are just amazing. Yeah,
- 7:25yeah. They're just amazing, dude. Like, everything
- 7:30looks so good. Some of them look a little less
- 7:33complex to have made than others, but like, they
- 7:36all look good. You know what I mean? Well, I'm
- 7:39curious if they made the map. Like if they squeezed
- 7:42in the map or if they just replaced everything
- 7:44because I remember there are some places where
- 7:46they've just added Stuff and removed old things,
- 7:50but I wonder because the map looks a little Different
- 7:55it looked like just looking at the the way that
- 7:57the map is it looks like it's been like all slanted
- 7:59a little bit It does it it does feel like a little
- 8:03shifted But I can't tell if it's just my imagination
- 8:05or not like Midland definitely feels like it
- 8:07curves way more things that are different. I
- 8:11can't really. I tried to figure it out earlier
- 8:14walking around, but I had no you don't have any
- 8:16frame of reference for like what's different.
- 8:17I did notice. Have you seen the menacing Statue
- 8:21of Liberty with the glowing eyes? I had I have
- 8:24not even looked at. I was too busy looking at
- 8:26the crab and the fucking other thing. And there's
- 8:28so many things. It's so many things. There's
- 8:30a menacing Statue of Liberty in the back that
- 8:32just has glowing eyes in the like far background
- 8:34of one of the lanes. It looks fucking sick. It
- 8:38looks awesome. Yeah, man, I'm glad to cuz like
- 8:42people had been fucking losing their goddamn
- 8:45minds the last couple that we I I was showing
- 8:48you the the discord yesterday was just like You
- 8:51know people ready to like sell their house I
- 8:54think it delivered. I they didn't they didn't
- 8:57do anything smaller Not not a I feel like there's
- 9:01some like certainly I thought maybe they just
- 9:03you know come out some new characters and Update
- 9:06a thing or two. This is a huge update massive
- 9:10Real hype. I just I went to go look at the Statue
- 9:14of Liberty, which is very menacing. It's almost
- 9:17giving me a little bit of like Ghostbusters.
- 9:20Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. What do you think?
- 9:23So a couple of other things that they were just
- 9:25going down, like kind of like the sheet on the
- 9:26website and stuff like that of like making sure
- 9:28that we hit everything here. But I mean, before
- 9:30we move on from locations, do you have any place
- 9:32that's like jumped out at you is something that
- 9:34you just think is a really cool location wise?
- 9:37Probably the. The place that I want to spend
- 9:39the most time so far is the Green Lane. I think
- 9:42that it just looks so fucking good. It's it's
- 9:47also because I think Yellow Lane didn't change,
- 9:49right? Yellow Lane looks like it was like, oh,
- 9:52it already had the boat. It already had some
- 9:53of this like they added that foundry area. They
- 9:56added the it's what is it? Fairfax foundry or
- 10:01something. I have to look at it. But and then
- 10:04so Seaport Dock was already there. Yeah. Old
- 10:06Fairfax factories. I think that yes, they also
- 10:10added the stock exchange. I mean, it's all beautiful.
- 10:15I haven't even looked at the stock exchange that
- 10:16much. It had that kind of like those like, I
- 10:20don't know what you call them, tickers or whatever.
- 10:22There's like televisions in there. Oh, yeah.
- 10:24Yeah, the tickers. Are you talking about the
- 10:26ones that run across with like all the information?
- 10:29Yes. Yeah. Back then, it was probably like actual
- 10:31like they had like the flap instead of the runners.
- 10:35Right. But um, yeah, I mean, Did you go into
- 10:40this location something that's jumps out is definitely
- 10:44that like weird fog area with the Have you seen
- 10:49this yet? There's like this purple fog that you
- 10:51go down into I didn't I didn't look into it too
- 10:54much I know you're talking about though. Yeah,
- 10:56dude, so that's got a whole thing like this.
- 10:58So when you go in there, you don't have stamina
- 11:01anymore. So it's like this huge risk reward of
- 11:04like you go in, you don't have stamina, you can't
- 11:07hear anything from outside of it. So you can
- 11:09jump. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in that area that
- 11:11used to just be kind of nothing with like the
- 11:14the bull statue. Yeah. So or maybe it was the
- 11:19diagonal side of that. But the two diagonal sides
- 11:21now kind of have their own things where it used
- 11:22to just be like a bunch of random camps and shit.
- 11:25That's awesome. Like all this stuff is so I'm
- 11:28so excited to like get in and play more. I wanted
- 11:30to play yesterday, but because I have a family
- 11:32with children, I had to I tried to shove them
- 11:35into the child hole in the back of my house and
- 11:37I locked them, but they got out and I had to
- 11:40take care of them or some bullshit. And you know,
- 11:42I love a trophy. I love if I had one. They came.
- 11:45I said, Daddy, please, we need dinner. And I
- 11:48said, here's your slot. And I splashed it on
- 11:50there and their trough. And they just I was like,
- 11:53you know what? I'll save that lock. I just picture
- 11:57you're like a big beetle and like your grub children
- 12:00are like trying to eat and you're like I Love
- 12:10being a dad I really do It's so fun The I love
- 12:17my children and you are all now my children as
- 12:20well. Just my creepy weird adult children The
- 12:23five people that listen to this podcast right
- 12:24now. Yes. Lawrence Fishburn from the number one
- 12:32listener. The other thing I noticed, so they
- 12:36added obviously a bunch of cosmetic stuff and
- 12:37then they also did, you know, new camps and all
- 12:40the stuff we talked about. They also did some
- 12:44functional things and some other cosmetic stuff.
- 12:47So like they changed all the containers and the
- 12:49way that everything looks like the buff containers
- 12:51and the little magazines and books that come
- 12:53out for each buff, which I think they look great.
- 12:56And then the strong crates that you have to heavy
- 12:58melee with more souls in them. Yeah, I do even
- 13:01more than that. You go. Well, I was going to
- 13:04say that I think that the do you do you have
- 13:07like a feeling about because like to me, some
- 13:09of the stuff like like the contrast of like the
- 13:11dark map and some of these things like looks
- 13:13so bright, like the piles of souls. And some
- 13:16of that stuff just looked like shockingly bright
- 13:18compared to the rest of the thing. And it kind
- 13:21of freaked me out a little bit visually when
- 13:22I was playing. Yeah. I think, again, it's like
- 13:26the contrast thing is helpful. I want to spend
- 13:29more time in the game, too, because I know about
- 13:30some of this stuff. But I haven't played. I only
- 13:32played two games yesterday. But I was going to
- 13:34say, you said all the boxes and stuff look so
- 13:36good. And the new whatever they're called, they
- 13:39look like urns, right? It's like the owl. Yeah,
- 13:42they give the little buffs. They also sound good.
- 13:46Like the crunchiness of like breaking these things
- 13:49is so good now It feels like you really like
- 13:50there's a little bit of bass to them now where
- 13:52they're used to just be like Kind of like a I
- 13:55don't know old sound effect of just glass breaking
- 13:59No, it's it looks great and and the all the buffs
- 14:04are having different like books or whatever they
- 14:05come out of the owl like it's just such a fun
- 14:07like Cute quirky thing. I love it, dude. I want
- 14:12to marry it The, uh, and then we have, now we
- 14:16have, uh, steam vents, uh, that you can hide
- 14:21in. Dude, it feels like a, it felt like more
- 14:24of a MOBA when I played. MOBA. A MOBA. MOBA.
- 14:31I don't know why that's so funny the way you
- 14:32said it. Honey, where's my MOBA, my MOBA phone?
- 14:35It felt like a MOBA. It felt like a MOBA. It
- 14:38felt like a MOBA. Sorry, are you trying to do
- 14:42a Donald Trump saying MOBA as that was going
- 14:43on? MOBA. I don't know. I love mobs more. I like
- 14:51them with extra bar more bar. And then moving
- 14:56on. Why was the best part of your up in applause?
- 15:01Why was the best part of your Trump when you
- 15:03said moving on the the broker? Yes. Yes. I have
- 15:11no feelings about him. It's Risk of Rain showing
- 15:16up once again inside my deadlock and I won't
- 15:18have it. Some roguelike shit. They said that's
- 15:22only happening for like... They said it's only
- 15:25going on for like a couple days until the new
- 15:27character comes out and so they're probably testing,
- 15:30I would think, because they have the item update
- 15:32coming eventually. They're likely just testing
- 15:34like, hey, are the lunar items from Risk of Rain
- 15:39like... So if you haven't played the game yet,
- 15:42it's like there's a positive aspect to this new
- 15:45broker, which is like a new shop, and there is
- 15:47a negative aspect. So like you might get, oh,
- 15:51your majestic leap now gives you like 400 extra
- 15:56health or shield, whatever. But then as a cost
- 15:59to it, it's like now your, I don't know, fire
- 16:02rate is like 25 % less, right? And they're all
- 16:05randomized. That's the part that I don't like
- 16:07if it was a if it was a trade off that you could
- 16:10initiate that was like very specific. I think
- 16:12that when you start getting the randomized bullshit,
- 16:13it's just like it removes the I mean, I'd be
- 16:16curious to see if they keep it long term, because
- 16:18I can't imagine winning a game or getting close
- 16:22to winning a game and then putting your item
- 16:24in here and then getting something that sucks.
- 16:27Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or just like being like,
- 16:29oh, they did the thing and they won the game
- 16:31because they got some busted as corrupted weapon
- 16:33or something. Sure. a dead that would not feel
- 16:35good in the long run. I mean, dude, it it makes
- 16:37sense. Like if you're playing, I don't know,
- 16:40silver or like some gun character, if if it's
- 16:44going to take away my spirit power, but I'm not
- 16:46really building into spirit anyways, it's like
- 16:49it's it's actually just all upside for the characters
- 16:51who aren't going like whatever the downside is
- 16:54will just be covered by the fact that they're
- 16:56not building into it anyways. Right. But that's
- 16:57not they they have no like it's not like they
- 17:00their skill allowed them to. It'll be like that
- 17:02they got lucky which is it at least in the game
- 17:05like this to me I don't want luck to be a determining
- 17:08factor in a major part of like oh I you know
- 17:12like someone they were literally losing and then
- 17:14they like got it like a busted corrupted weapon
- 17:16at a pure chance and now I'm gonna lose to someone
- 17:17who's less good at the game than me like Not
- 17:20to say that that is exactly what would happen,
- 17:22but it does feel a little bit like it's something
- 17:23that could happen My guess would be that they're
- 17:26trying to probably cover their ass for like The
- 17:31type of game that TF2 became was like a very
- 17:34try hard game. And also they have the same thing
- 17:36for Counter -Strike and like a lot of the games
- 17:38they do like this. So they're probably trying
- 17:40to because there was this, you know, there was
- 17:43this rumor for a while that they were going to
- 17:45have a PvE mode come out. Right. And they still
- 17:47might. So I mean, risk of rain, deadlock. You
- 17:50know what I mean? But so I think it's probably.
- 17:55If I had to guess, I'd say they would likely
- 17:57not keep it in the regular ranked mode, but they
- 17:59might put it in standard only. And they're only
- 18:02doing it until the character comes out anyways,
- 18:04right? So it's probably just testing. Yeah, they
- 18:06might just be testing a mechanic or an idea or
- 18:08something like that until they, you know, immediately
- 18:10getting information and data or something. Sure.
- 18:14I mean, it's still cool. I like the concept.
- 18:16I could just see it being more permanent if it
- 18:19was like, oh. These are the actual changes. And
- 18:21then it becomes game knowledge of being like,
- 18:23oh, if you bring it to the guy, he will make
- 18:25it better for this character. And it's like a
- 18:28not randomized change that I guess permanent.
- 18:31Yes. Just from like what I think is like, I mean,
- 18:34and also I don't I don't want it to be different
- 18:35for standard than ranked. Like they would be
- 18:37like standard games are already so silly and
- 18:40hard to win when it comes to people like actually
- 18:42getting someone who like you want to get a character
- 18:44into ranked and you're playing with some guy
- 18:45who's like. Um, you know, it's not just a meme
- 18:48build. It's a terrible meme build where I'm like
- 18:51only buying the worst items or something. Right.
- 18:54You have no chance of winning. And then you add
- 18:56in like a randomized garbage and it just becomes
- 18:58like a new slot mode. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I
- 19:04do think that you could just keep all this kind
- 19:07of stuff to street brawl. But like, but if they
- 19:09plan on making it like a real MOBA, right. I
- 19:11mean, Dota and. League probably have more than
- 19:15two modes or three modes, right? Yeah, I would
- 19:18say we're not. I can't imagine them facilitating
- 19:20another mode yet. Yeah, like with the with the
- 19:23workload they have, probably. Do you have anything
- 19:26else you want to say about the previous things
- 19:29we've talked about before we get into the next
- 19:31segment or next patch? I think maybe I wanted
- 19:39to mention that I feel a bit like. Because this
- 19:46this has more to do with the the map updating
- 19:49my computer Isn't like the greatest computer
- 19:54ever. I'm gonna buy a new computer soon. I'm
- 19:56getting I'm upgrading GPU and stuff. But like
- 19:59I have a 3060 and My computer has trouble Trouble
- 20:05running this patch Like I could I clean my computer
- 20:09out more. Yes, you know, is it the newest computer
- 20:12now, but like I don't know if it's the I don't
- 20:18know if they have like fog going on now or what's
- 20:20happening exactly volumetric or not, but it's
- 20:25tough, dude. I played the two games I played
- 20:27yesterday were, you know, I felt like I was much
- 20:33less able to show up to team fights and actually
- 20:36affect them because of just how shitty the computer
- 20:39was running. I'm sure they'll optimize. Before
- 20:43I was like, they should optimize. But now that
- 20:44I see that they change everything, I'm like,
- 20:46I can see why they didn't worry about optimizing
- 20:47shit when they were going to change every model
- 20:49in the game. Well, yeah. So I'm sure that now
- 20:53that they have this feels very like the final
- 20:55version of the first map that they're going to,
- 20:57you know, like do like an actual like version
- 20:59one release of. So I wouldn't be surprised if
- 21:01they now begin to start to optimize. I mean,
- 21:06it seems to me like just to kind of cap our map
- 21:10discussion here. I think that they'll probably
- 21:12come back in and do another pass on the mid boss
- 21:14because the mid boss is untouched. But I'm trying
- 21:18to think of other parts of the map that haven't
- 21:20been changed. It's like every part got changed.
- 21:24I think both of the bases are changed from the
- 21:27the patch before this one. Right. And then now
- 21:29almost every part of the map looks different
- 21:31except for like the fucking the boat area. Right.
- 21:34Yeah. I mean, who knows what the future holds.
- 21:38But I think this is for me. I'm like, it only
- 21:41goes up. It only goes up from here. Yep. I am,
- 21:44I literally was like looking at my budget being
- 21:46like, can I get a computer in the next month?
- 21:50You got to start a, like, I feel like the price
- 21:53of new computers right now is so high that like
- 21:55the cost of entry of playing, if this game doesn't
- 21:57get optimized eventually, like. No, Gabe Newell
- 22:00is working together with the computer companies
- 22:02to fuck games. We're going to put a chip in your
- 22:04brain. God damn it. Trump, he's back. You'll
- 22:07be able to be the Rat King. The what everyone
- 22:12wants to be is a to finally live their dream
- 22:14of being a dirty rat living in yes Occult New
- 22:18York by the way great segue into talking about
- 22:20characters. Yes, that's right. You've identified
- 22:22a great segue. What does he win? six new characters
- 22:26Donald Trump as a game show host contestant Show
- 22:31them what they win. I can't Dear listener, you
- 22:35might have identified. I cannot do a Donald Trump.
- 22:38I'll try No, I won't I Don't even want to I'm
- 22:46gonna spare more impressions What are the characters
- 22:50can I get into them? All right, let's another
- 22:54great segue let's talk about that's right characters
- 22:58the oh my god, oh My god, they look fucking sick
- 23:07Do you want to do you want to hit me with anyone?
- 23:10Hit me with one that jumped out at you right
- 23:12away that you love. And then maybe let's after
- 23:16that, we'll talk about if we have one that we
- 23:18don't like. OK. OK. The one that I think probably
- 23:22hits everyone in the face really quick is the
- 23:24Red King. Right. He's fucking here. He's the
- 23:27Red King. It's amazing. Rats. Outside of that,
- 23:33Solomon jumped out to me just being like, a cool
- 23:39like New York dude sitting on a, you know, park
- 23:43bench playing the playing chess. Like it looks
- 23:46like with this character sweep for a couple of
- 23:49these characters, they looked at like who is
- 23:52a guy or a woman or something like even Baba
- 23:54looks similar, like just someone you would see
- 23:56walking down the street in New York. You know
- 23:59what I mean? I could see that. The so you said
- 24:03Rat King and Solomon Maya. I like obviously wrecking.
- 24:06I think. Yep. I think the nurse hero, the design,
- 24:13maybe less thematically New York, but still like
- 24:15very time appropriate. But the design of that
- 24:18character looks fucking sick. The orange and
- 24:20the, you know, the outfit and the eyes and all
- 24:23that stuff. The high shoulders, the nurse ratchet,
- 24:26the. Yeah, well, like I really I was like, that's
- 24:28definitely be a John Deadlock. Oh, fuck, I did
- 24:30it. It's going to be a Omni Stark character.
- 24:34How can we never say my name and we have to take
- 24:37your name out of this three times in the episode?
- 24:39I know, okay. All I said was John Deadlock, that's
- 24:42all I said. John Deadlock. John Deadlock. So
- 24:47I will say, let's say our least favorite character
- 24:49on the count of three, are you ready? In terms
- 24:52of visual, we don't know what they play like,
- 24:54obviously. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Three,
- 24:56two, one. Violet. I thought you were gonna like
- 25:02say sucking any other character. I would have
- 25:04been like, you're wrong Well dead man, Danny's
- 25:06just like funny looking at very least Missing
- 25:10also. Yeah, and also there's a rumor right now
- 25:13that he is supposedly like the guy on the radio
- 25:18Deadlock. Yeah, so if he has like a radio show
- 25:21that would kind of fit in with his whole thing
- 25:27Deadman Danny on the radio. Deadman Danny, late
- 25:29nights. But yeah, Violet just looks, I mean,
- 25:33I'm sure it's good, whatever, but it looks a
- 25:35little bit like, I mean, the only thing that
- 25:38would revive my interest in this as a character
- 25:42is if she has some kind of like Splatoon mechanic.
- 25:46Yes. So I think that the character played could
- 25:49be really good. When I look at the character,
- 25:52it's visual. The picture they picked to me is
- 25:55not visually very striking. Sure. And I think
- 25:59that the name, the visuals, the concept is not
- 26:03being like communicated to me because right now
- 26:05I just I see there's like a little bit of like
- 26:07it seems like an Asian artist influence with
- 26:09like the coin in the back and the paintings and
- 26:11all that stuff. Yeah. But then there's like a
- 26:13they have a beret on. And then beyond that, they
- 26:16just have like, you know, a white shirt with
- 26:18a smock on. So it's like it's not jumping out
- 26:21at me. It's definitely still fitting into like
- 26:25the people you might see in Central Park thing
- 26:30where like shit like if you look in the picture
- 26:32she's like she's painting the city right and
- 26:35stuff and also we got to mention too she's hot
- 26:37I mean there's two there's three females in this
- 26:42two of them are pretty hot by the way emails
- 26:52are present there are human females but we don't
- 26:58know much about any of these characters, but
- 27:00I think that the visuals of this character tell
- 27:03you the least about her. Also, just less detailed
- 27:06character model and design. All the other characters,
- 27:10if you look at them, they have a lot going on.
- 27:12The only other character that I would say that
- 27:13is similar to that is Solomon. Solomon, I think,
- 27:18looks cool. He reminds me of Zillion for anyone
- 27:19who plays League of Legends. It's a very similar
- 27:21vibe, but the thing that I wonder from looking
- 27:25at it is that I don't get... He's like he's a
- 27:28magicky kind of, you know, maybe support character
- 27:32or something like that who's like chess themed,
- 27:33which is cool. But I think that that is a similar
- 27:36situation to Violet. I think less bad in the
- 27:39sense of like, I just don't get all these other
- 27:42characters. I can fully imagine between the keywords
- 27:44and the picture what they're going to be like,
- 27:46potentially. Solomon and Violet feel like the
- 27:48two where I'm kind of like, I don't really know
- 27:49what they're going to do. Like, I have no idea.
- 27:52I mean, dude, I look at Nurse Harrow and I think.
- 28:01She's gonna have a, you know, I'm forgetting
- 28:04the name of the character in Overwatch who has
- 28:05the like orbs she throws and red hair. Yeah,
- 28:09I'm getting a little bit of like a Moira with
- 28:10her where it's like she heals, but she hurts
- 28:13kind of a situation. Rat King, if he's anything
- 28:17but a fucking tank, I'll be really surprised.
- 28:21Solomon. Yeah, he's scrappy, so it feels like
- 28:23maybe he's got some kind of sustain. Yeah, and
- 28:25then. with Solomon, I'm like, I just have to
- 28:28assume he's gonna be in the world of like, utility,
- 28:33right? Can I, I just wanna say that, a thing
- 28:36to point out for previous characters, and I,
- 28:40obviously it's not all of them are like this,
- 28:42but as you know, every character in Deadlock
- 28:45usually carries some kind of gat on them. Yeah.
- 28:48So like, obviously, Nurse Herald's gonna have
- 28:50some kind of needle gun. Yeah, racking has bandoliers
- 28:53of bullets and stuff like that. So he's going
- 28:54to have some kind of weird rat gun. And then
- 28:56Danny looks like he has some kind of cannon thing
- 28:57in his hand. Yeah. But for the other three, like
- 29:00I can picture Violet on the Apollo slashes. Yeah.
- 29:02But is Baba pulling out a fucking gag? Just literally
- 29:06a piece straight out of her little like breadcrumb
- 29:08purse or whatever. Or is it going to be like
- 29:11magic or something? And then Solomon's another
- 29:12one is like, what's his weapon? What do you think
- 29:14his weapon is going to be? Well, let me move
- 29:17to Baba real quick, because I just had a thought
- 29:18on what her weapon would be. I bet you, Baba.
- 29:21is going to throw bread at the ground and then
- 29:23pigeons will attack you. That'd be sick. I think
- 29:26that would be great. But for Solomon, I mean,
- 29:28dude, he could literally just like my thought
- 29:31on him was that maybe he has like some kind of
- 29:35wider hitbox on like sending chess pieces in
- 29:39directions or something like that. Like maybe
- 29:40he's looking at the world like it's chess. So
- 29:42he's kind of like, you know, one of his things
- 29:44could be like sending a queen straight forward
- 29:47or sending something diagonally or so. I don't
- 29:49know. I hope, I mean, the way that his hands
- 29:53are in that kind of like Naruto thing, like he's
- 29:58doing like a Naruto hand signals. It looks a
- 30:01little bit like maybe he's going to be magic
- 30:03based more than like actually having a gun. It's
- 30:07called finger tutting. Yes, that's the one. Yeah.
- 30:11I'm not into that. I'm not into that kind of
- 30:12stuff. Finger dancing. Deadman Danny is just
- 30:18gonna shoot himself at people probably. I mean
- 30:21there's a character in League that's just speaking
- 30:23of Deadman Danny He looks reminds me of Tristana,
- 30:26which is a character. That's a yordle one of
- 30:28the short blue Creature people that they her
- 30:32whole shtick is that she has like a giant cannon
- 30:34that she shoots But she can also use it to like
- 30:35jetpack places and he definitely looks like he
- 30:38has some kind of flying jetpack situation I hope
- 30:40so dude. Yeah, I'm pretty excited and then obviously
- 30:44violet looks like I wouldn't be surprised if
- 30:45Violet like slashes or does like Kiriko style
- 30:48like, you know, draw stuff and then shoots it
- 30:50out or something. Sure. I mean, everybody in
- 30:54this game, this has been said on the Reddit many
- 30:56times, but like it's hard to make any like fully
- 31:00melee character because you have to you have
- 31:03to secure your souls in the laning phase. So
- 31:07it's like, can you really have a melee character?
- 31:10Maybe if they had a if they had a some kind of
- 31:13a dash that was on like an insanely low cooldown.
- 31:18And they would have to fix the the melee soul
- 31:22secure stuff because that's the I mean, there
- 31:25are so many times I may lay the soul in the air
- 31:27and I'm like, I guess I just don't get it. Denied.
- 31:31I mean, you could argue that I mean, Apollo and
- 31:33Drifter feel like they're supposed they're fully
- 31:35melee, but they have projectiles that come out
- 31:37of them. Like, I think that as long as every
- 31:38character just has that it's you know, like you
- 31:40don't have to change anything because like, sure.
- 31:42Who knows like what the but like I I'm I want
- 31:46to I'm curious like I wonder if they were gonna
- 31:47innovate with any of that stuff or it'll be the
- 31:49same or whatever because some of these characters
- 31:51look like they really could be Completely different,
- 31:53you know what I mean? Yeah No, everyone's so
- 31:57high on this stuff right now, but I can't wait
- 31:58till my YouTube algorithm in like four weeks
- 32:00is like Baba completely breaks the game. Yeah,
- 32:04every fucking person milking it forever They
- 32:07need to change violent literally unplayable.
- 32:10Yeah Or like everyone just, I mean, let's just
- 32:15talk about this. I know you said Violet is hot.
- 32:18I think she looks like a normal person and that
- 32:20is what I think about most people. To me, nurse
- 32:24Harrow, I want to step on her face. You think
- 32:26Baba and Violet are the same? I'd let Baba give
- 32:28me a little kiss and I'd drink whatever is in
- 32:30that concerning looking teacup that she has.
- 32:33She looks actually like my real life grandmother.
- 32:37I like her pigeons too. Yeah, the pigeon that
- 32:40by the way, the design of the pigeons is very
- 32:42good. Yeah, it reminds me in Teenage Mutant Ninja
- 32:44Turtles There's a pigeon character that I pigeon
- 32:46Pete reminds me of that. Um the thing I was gonna
- 32:50say was We obviously have to command our adoring
- 32:56ten fans to vote and obviously what's your what's
- 33:00your priority on voting? Let's talk So I think
- 33:03that it's like it just comes down to who's getting
- 33:05a vote after rat king. I think he's automatic
- 33:09It seems like whether or not I want him to be
- 33:12the first character, it's the same situation
- 33:15as Rem where it's like, we know what's going
- 33:17to fucking go first. After that, I want Solomon
- 33:22because I'm interested in what that gameplay
- 33:23is going to be like. I'm interested in the character.
- 33:28And then after that, probably I'm interested
- 33:30in Baba the most. Again, this isn't even for
- 33:34like character design stuff, because like, you
- 33:36know, you could make the argument that Nurse
- 33:37Harrow is like cooler than Baba or even Solomon.
- 33:41But like, I'm interested in what Solomon gameplay
- 33:44will be like. I'm also interested in what Baba
- 33:46gameplay will be like. Do you so let's let's
- 33:51I want to I want to rank this. Let's rank it
- 33:53here fine for the kids. I think to me, ranking
- 33:58one who's you say was your two Solomon. Solomon,
- 34:02I would say... Because he can 1v6 the enemy team,
- 34:08some people are calling him already Solo Man.
- 34:11Solo Man. Solomon, my favorite Pokemon. Or did
- 34:14you want... Solo Man. The... I would go Rat King
- 34:20and then Nurse Hero, but I think Solomon's pretty
- 34:23cool. I would put him up there for sure. And
- 34:24then somewhere, who would you put next, Deadman
- 34:26Danny or Baba? Baba then... Baba, then Harrow,
- 34:33then Dead Man Danny, then Violet. So from the
- 34:36top... You don't want to get stepped on by an
- 34:39evil mommy. Unless it's Baba, of course. An evil
- 34:43granny. And her pigeon tracks. She looks like
- 34:46she'd use your bones as a spell, but not step
- 34:49on you. I'll say this much, though. Could Baba
- 34:52have a second Baba Yaga form? Baba! I love Baba!
- 35:01I was in the bathroom with baba and she had a
- 35:04huge long Massive penis massive like a like a
- 35:10what did he say? It was like like an all the
- 35:12parma can The intro was you always say deadlock
- 35:19is a political podcast deadlock is a podcast
- 35:22a politics podcast Let's all right. So that's
- 35:26all the characters and obviously we told you
- 35:28had to vote behave accordingly And what do you
- 35:31so we're now we're getting to the thing that
- 35:33personally for me I actually don't like and I'm
- 35:36curious what you think about this. I don't like
- 35:38the new health bars Yeah I'll say that I think
- 35:43I like them. I wish that you could Go back to
- 35:47the old ones because I think in game It does
- 35:52the thing where as they gain more and more health
- 35:55you don't know that I really liked the how the
- 36:00other ones worked where it was like it added
- 36:01health to show you Oh No, like Abrams has like
- 36:05at a glance. You're like, I can't kill him. Whereas
- 36:08now it's like everyone's fucking health bar is
- 36:10the same size. I think by the way, we haven't
- 36:15even played enough. This is like such early impressions
- 36:17of the first impressions. No, no, nobody listening
- 36:20the Three people listening to this, huddling
- 36:23in a van down by the river, just going, oh, what
- 36:27is Yarn going to say about that? They're not
- 36:29going to, you know, they're not going to hold
- 36:31your feet to the fire and be like, actually,
- 36:33everybody loves it and we're going to kill you
- 36:36now. I want them to hold my feet to the fire.
- 36:38OK, it's a sharpening process. Iron sharpens
- 36:41iron. The camera that points out in front of
- 36:44Valve's headquarters is going to show you. getting
- 36:48lifted up off the ground by a very like several
- 36:51small cosplayers and then being burnt alive in
- 36:53the middle of the street as an appeasement for
- 36:56your fucking sacrilegious tone. Listen, brick
- 36:58sharpens brick. All right, brick sharpens brick.
- 37:02I mean, what are you in? I'm in dust. I'm in
- 37:05poop. Yeah. Valve told me to never play the game
- 37:09again. And I said, no, you cannot stop me. Yes.
- 37:12They didn't ban me. They just shame me every
- 37:14time I'm in. Well. When they try to burn me alive
- 37:17on that little camera, I will simply eat one
- 37:20of the new apples flying around the map and get
- 37:2325 health. He's losing it. That's how I live
- 37:30through it. You're in your deathbed. Having your
- 37:34like finding your life flashing for your. I need
- 37:36a little bad apple. I need a bad apple. I didn't
- 37:41like the UI. Yeah, I think. Yeah, I would. I
- 37:45would mod it out. to be honest with you. I don't
- 37:47know, would you mod it out? I might, we'll see.
- 37:49Dude, I'm afraid to mod anything nowadays because
- 37:52I can't fucking run the game anymore. I'm gonna
- 37:54be playing this, the next time me and you play
- 37:56together, I will be playing on my girlfriend's
- 37:58computer because it's much better than mine.
- 38:01Yeah, that sounds, I mean, I've seen, you talked
- 38:03about this last time, but I've seen how you play.
- 38:05That I helped her buy, by the way. Potato people.
- 38:09Well, yeah, it's rough. This is a large computer.
- 38:14This is a large section of the player base, is
- 38:16people who can't even run the game anymore. And
- 38:18just complain about it on Reddit. Well, that's
- 38:21definitely true, yes. Yeah, there are many, there
- 38:24are dozens of you. Go play CSGO or something
- 38:31and leave the deadlock to us people with real
- 38:35computers, right? They need to optimize the game
- 38:39I think everyone should be able to play it that
- 38:41has because I think you you easily meet the minimum
- 38:44requirements and you still can't That's what
- 38:46I'm saying a 30 and 16 gigabytes of RAM. I mean,
- 38:49come on, dude It becomes like a slideshow at
- 38:51the end of the game for you. Yeah, I've seen
- 38:52it. Yeah, it's painful It at the beginning of
- 38:55the game runs nice and smooth and then the second
- 38:58seven Pops and pops an alt in a you know, the
- 39:01enemy base 700 souls leaving their bodies at
- 39:04once slideshow Yeah, it's rough. The second everyone's
- 39:09popping their ult at the end, and the archmothers
- 39:11dancing or whatever. Chug, chug city. Rough stuff.
- 39:15I think we can skip a lot of the, there's a lot
- 39:18of visual changes to the HUD and UI and all that
- 39:20stuff besides that item emblems, the map, obviously,
- 39:23a bunch of things like that. I don't know, is
- 39:24there anything from that you want to talk about?
- 39:26Because to me, I think we'll see it in the game,
- 39:28and we'll kind of have more feelings about it
- 39:30as we go. I mean, as I scroll down, the thing
- 39:33that this little, I mean, yeah, dude, it's all.
- 39:36It most of this stuff is just all fucking good.
- 39:39The I will say the item shop now is a little
- 39:43bit like, I can't tell if it's better or worse,
- 39:46or if it's just different. And it annoys me right
- 39:48now, because I can't immediately find what I
- 39:50want. I needed a knockdown really quick. A couple
- 39:54days ago, or well, just yesterday. And, you know,
- 39:58just anger filled my brain because I was like,
- 40:00where is it? The they wasn't say the like some
- 40:08of the changes that they made visually to Like
- 40:11shop and everything like I think they look really
- 40:13really good, but I will say there's a part of
- 40:15me that I just want this stuff to be like super
- 40:19clear what I'm doing and like I think it's still
- 40:22clear it is different, but I think it's still
- 40:24clear, but I do I do think with some of these
- 40:28changes where I'm like they're they're adding
- 40:29more stuff and I'm like worried that it's gonna
- 40:31start to like the event feed and all that stuff
- 40:33like I'm Okay, I'll say this much of the things
- 40:37they've added. I think the popular items section
- 40:41is huge. Because when I moved, when I first opened
- 40:44up, me and you played League together twice or
- 40:46something. And I'm not a league player at all.
- 40:50And when I opened up the shop in that game, it
- 40:53was like getting hit in the head with a hammer.
- 40:56Like, just a horrible experience. I feel like
- 41:02deadlock is doing a little better with that where
- 41:03it's like, Oh, here are the, like, it makes it
- 41:06very obvious. There's a tab on the left side
- 41:08that just has a big thumbs up on it. You click
- 41:11that and it's just, it's not a build ready, but
- 41:13it's like, you can pick stuff from that and just
- 41:16pretty much do okay, right? And they're basing
- 41:19it on the most popular, like algorithmically
- 41:22found, you know, most popular things bought on
- 41:26each character, which just makes sense. They
- 41:28basically, they've gotten rid of the need for
- 41:30one of those like track lock builds. And now
- 41:33you just have them right there. You know? Yes.
- 41:36I mean, we'll see what I wonder what, you know,
- 41:38if that'll change what the build top builds are
- 41:42looking like if they kind of exclude that stuff
- 41:44or if they like my point is like, are they going
- 41:47to take whatever is the most popular, literally,
- 41:50or are they picking out and putting the default
- 41:52stuff right of like, this is what people should
- 41:54be buying or are they doing what people are actually
- 41:56buying? Yes. Yeah. because sometimes what people
- 42:00are actually buying, if you don't know the game,
- 42:02you're going to be like, what? Why would I buy
- 42:03that? Well, maybe they should do a little. Maybe
- 42:06they should do a little both then. Right. We'll
- 42:09see. And then they they changed. You know, they
- 42:13changed a bunch of little things and buffs and
- 42:15things, little visual changes. Yeah. Waste things
- 42:18are represented. But the one of the things I
- 42:20noticed that's kind of buried. And also, by the
- 42:22way, new voice line, like 10 ,000 new voice lines
- 42:25and also crazy. and the dialogue player. So we'll
- 42:28have to dig into that at some point. But in the
- 42:31accessibility features, they added an option
- 42:33for auto move, auto fire and auto mantle, which
- 42:36I think is cool accessibility wise. But I wonder
- 42:38if any of those will be exploited in any way.
- 42:40Wait, I did not know about this auto mantle auto
- 42:43move. Yeah, it's in the accessibility features.
- 42:49It's for the auto fire. It's literally like you
- 42:51if you turn it on and you hit the M1, you fire
- 42:54and you hit M1 again, you stop. And the auto
- 42:57mental you automatically. Yeah, I, yeah, I wonder
- 43:02how that I mean, I don't think that would probably
- 43:04be, dude, who knows, who knows, somebody's gonna
- 43:07sit in a, in a practice range and do this for
- 43:1112 hours today, probably and figure out if it's
- 43:13broken or not. So yeah, the new in the next death
- 43:16or deadlock video that comes up, it's just gonna
- 43:18be somebody being like auto mental is broken
- 43:21on auto mental shoots you across the level in
- 43:24one second. Yeah. The and then, yeah, just a
- 43:28bunch of like stuff in the custom like lobby
- 43:31stuff and all that, which looks good. I mean,
- 43:33quality of life things, lots of things in the
- 43:38settings and menus that you can change now. And
- 43:41they changed like the sandbox stuff a little
- 43:44bit to make it easier for testing stuff out,
- 43:45which I think is good. Dude, I will say I think
- 43:49auto move is actually I didn't listen to anything
- 43:51you just said. Sorry. I do think double tap.
- 43:55No. I think I do think me double tap to move
- 43:59forward is huge. I think every one of these games
- 44:02where there's any amount of like counterstrike
- 44:04probably doesn't need it because you're inching
- 44:06forward right but when I whenever I'm playing
- 44:08like a battle royale type game or a game like
- 44:12this that has a big enough map where I'm like
- 44:13I might be looking at the shop and not wanting
- 44:16to hold W Like it's nice. I always have like
- 44:20in a fortnight type game I always have an auto
- 44:22run button ready right so that I can just be
- 44:25like Oh, let me look at my items while I'm moving
- 44:28Yep, I find in this game. I'm just holding W
- 44:31all the time while I'm in shop I Could see I
- 44:35mean I don't I have that's never been a thing
- 44:37that I'd want but I can imagine somebody Will
- 44:39you have seven fingers on each hand? I'm no,
- 44:43I'm just not an invalid. The they did they got
- 44:47improved anti -cheat, it says here. So they'll
- 44:49finally be able to ban you for playing top heavy
- 44:51page mod. What about bottom heavy page mod? No,
- 44:55that's a lab. All right. Well, then that's fine.
- 44:58We can't have everything we want. We got for
- 45:00all the people in defeat. There's new footstep
- 45:02sounds. Yeah. Nice. And they removed they removed
- 45:06Sinclair from the game finally. So, um, please.
- 45:12But yeah, I mean, everything else looks good.
- 45:14I didn't see anything else that really looked
- 45:17good. You didn't mention, and this is very important
- 45:20for people like me. I'm squinting my eyes, tell
- 45:21me. There's a keybind map now. So you can see
- 45:25the keyboard map. Every key that's bound, every
- 45:31key that's not, for individual characters, they've
- 45:33gone full, full autismo. And I love it, I can't
- 45:39wait. I can't wait to look at every character.
- 45:41Ruin your game. Every button. For listeners that
- 45:44don't know, and that would be everyone because
- 45:46we've never talked about it. I love to get in
- 45:49there and just like, you know, my my crouch button
- 45:52is shift. My my my dash button is left mouse
- 45:57like side button. And that's just the beginning,
- 46:00my friends. Yeah, yeah, you're literally you.
- 46:04He he binds his everything for every character
- 46:07individually and then. A month later, it goes,
- 46:09yeah, actually went back to the default because
- 46:11because I was having a headache. Yeah. Yeah.
- 46:15Yeah. But I mean, I I think that all the changes
- 46:18are good. We'll have to play it more and come
- 46:20back with more thoughts and whatnot. But I'm
- 46:22excited. I feel like it was worth it. Yeah. I
- 46:26mean, I'm happier than I was before the patch.
- 46:30It's nice, dude. I think it lived up to the hype.
- 46:32I think I do think validated and we get that.
- 46:37Meme of the very enamored looking viper that
- 46:40I love. Oh, yeah. Beautiful. Super, super worth.
- 46:45All right. Well, that's that's everything for
- 46:46the patch. Is there any last patch comments you
- 46:49want to make? Yarn Dad? I have to imagine that
- 46:54Yarn Dad is canonically not my name, by the way.
- 46:57But just yarn. But they must just sit on Reddit
- 47:02for these ideas, right? Because so many of them
- 47:04seem to just come from the discord and read it.
- 47:07Like well, that's right. We have to ascend in
- 47:10our in our fledgling fan base needs to ascend
- 47:12to have our more Larger mustaches on lash. Yes
- 47:16bigger mustache. I want seven to have a thick
- 47:19juicy ass Great ask me that claps. Can we that?
- 47:24Yeah hundred percent. Can we get a clavicular
- 47:27mod for lash? No I mean it's clavicular skin.
- 47:32Sorry You've obviously read the news. I don't
- 47:37think we want to play. Well, yeah, that's true.
- 47:39You don't need to put that in the game. I mean,
- 47:41but if there was anybody who was going to be
- 47:43a look smacker in this game, who would it be?
- 47:46At this point in history, in real American history,
- 47:49like, I don't know, who was the most attractive
- 47:51person? Babe Ruth? I don't know. Yeah, pretty
- 47:54much. Babe Ruth. Look at that girthy. Look at
- 47:57that girthy guy out there huffing and puffing.
- 48:00running around in the field. Smoking a pack of
- 48:02cigarettes and eating a chocolate bar while he's
- 48:04running the base. Yeah. This is back when you
- 48:06could sound ha on the radio and that would be
- 48:07enough. Yes, that's true. Like, wow, he's such
- 48:10a sultry voice. World War II happening right
- 48:14in your ears. I have no idea. He smokes every
- 48:16day and consumes lots of cured meats. Yeah. Salty,
- 48:20cured meat. We used to call it the hard Irish
- 48:23belly. That's a new item, obviously, in the store,
- 48:29the hard Irish belly. What's the stat line on
- 48:33that hard Irish belly? It's just plated armor.
- 48:35Yeah, okay, fair enough. Yeah. All right, well,
- 48:40let us move into our next segment. Hit me. Deadlock
- 48:45lore. Deadlock lore. Deadlock lore, do you want
- 48:49some more? Of course, it's not a chore. Yes.
- 48:54Would you like to spin the deadlock lore wheels?
- 48:58Yeah, 100%, yeah. All right, I'll - Rip it! There
- 49:00it goes. No, you've got to make the sound We
- 49:06can't afford we can't afford a real wheel right
- 49:11so you got to make the sound with your mouth
- 49:12when you do it, okay, I mean Hold on Omni. Can
- 49:16you come over here for a second? Please come
- 49:20here for a second I thought you were gonna make
- 49:27the noise. I do want me to make the noise. We
- 49:30talked about this, dude We didn't talk about
- 49:32this. I'm just saying, I'm just saying we're
- 49:36low on budget. So if I say spin the wheel or
- 49:38you can say you want me to spin the wheel, like
- 49:40I'll spin it for you. Okay. All right. If you,
- 49:42if I say you spin the wheel and you make the
- 49:44noise. All right. Okay. All right. Do you want
- 49:47to kiss real quick? Yep. All right. Spinning
- 49:50the wheel. I'm not gonna lie, I totally forgot.
- 50:07When you did that, I was like, who's gonna pick
- 50:09it? I was like, shit, that's me. In the future,
- 50:11I should spin the wheel. What do you think that
- 50:16this giant, bubbly, headed ass professor man
- 50:20is his lord? Oh wait, are we talking about, you
- 50:24cut, I didn't hear what you said, dynamo? Dynamo.
- 50:27Dynamo. What is the lord of dynamo? Dynamo. The
- 50:31more we're doing this sort of improv, exercise
- 50:34in deadlocks character lore, I'm realizing that
- 50:37pretty much every one of these characters is
- 50:40sort of a Freaky Friday necromancy situation,
- 50:46where, like, for instance, if I had to guess,
- 50:49an important part of this is that I have not
- 50:51looked up any of these characters, I've just
- 50:53taken in what I've taken in by playing the game.
- 50:56So he seems like a tenured professor who I would
- 51:03cast as John Goodman, probably. Disregard the
- 51:10voice lines in the game. Recast John Goodman.
- 51:16Oh, it's the second time you brought up John
- 51:17Goodman. Is it? Yep. You talked about Roseanne
- 51:22last time with... That's right. Yeah, you're
- 51:24right. All right. Never mind, never mind. Cut
- 51:26all this. John Candy. He and kids look up these
- 51:33actors. They deserve a little recognition So
- 51:37John Candy, he's a tenure professor He had a
- 51:44bit of a workplace romance with a with a beautiful
- 51:49young woman who Everything was great there Except
- 51:55that she's a witch All right. This sounds like
- 51:59I'm a real red pill kind of guy, doesn't it?
- 52:01She's a witch And she turns him into not just
- 52:06any robot, she turns him into a project they
- 52:08had been working on together before he cheated
- 52:11on her. A robot project they were working on
- 52:15together. And then the two of them embroiled
- 52:20in a lover's quarrel. She attaches his soul,
- 52:26not in much of a Freaky Friday way, but more
- 52:29of a more of a full metal more of a full metal
- 52:36alchemist. More in a Monday in Monday kind of
- 52:41way. I don't get the reference, but let's move
- 52:44on. And so now he's living out his days as Dynamo,
- 52:52the quantum Lee entangled soul with no joy left
- 52:58in his life. I may have had entangled soul flanderer.
- 53:04Yes. I may have added a couple of character details
- 53:07that weren't really there. But dude, I think
- 53:09that's probably pretty close. I just want to
- 53:14say that if I was making up your story, he definitely
- 53:16would have done the thing that all professors
- 53:18do, apparently. And when they do scandals, which
- 53:21is sleep with a student. So I was trying to go
- 53:25a little past that, because that was the first
- 53:28inclination in my brain of just all cliches.
- 53:33I was like. stretch a little further from the
- 53:36lowest hanging fruit. In Minecraft, you don't
- 53:39walk past the diamond to go get some coal. Okay,
- 53:41that's what I'm saying. You get the diamond.
- 53:43You just go to the coal. Just pick it up. Yeah.
- 53:46Well, I think you were surprisingly close. Dynamo
- 53:49doesn't have a lot of lore. He has two paragraphs,
- 53:53and you basically got most of it, minus the cheating
- 53:56on a witch part. Okay. As a scientist, Professor
- 53:59Dynamo, which, by the way, weird name. Weird
- 54:01last name to have. So that's not his new robot
- 54:03name. That's just his regular guy name. Yeah.
- 54:05Regular. Yeah. That's his government name. Yeah.
- 54:08This is a Dr. Strange situation where you're
- 54:10like, what? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Dennis Dynamo. No,
- 54:14Professor Dynamo always had an inquisitive mind.
- 54:17So when a rift in space and time opened up in
- 54:19Central Park, he was first on the scene to investigate.
- 54:22And while he expected such a majestic site to
- 54:24be life changing. He was thinking more in a metaphorical
- 54:28way, as opposed to having his body atomized and
- 54:30reduced to a tiny dying star. But while his body
- 54:34is gone, his spirit and lust for knowledge lives
- 54:37on. A tenured professor at Columbia College,
- 54:40Dynamo looks to learn more about his condition
- 54:42while maintaining his class load. After all,
- 54:44he has future minds to inspire. That's it. That's
- 54:49all the lore. It is. Let me read. Sorry, I'm
- 54:53going to go back and through this and try to
- 54:54figure. He opened. when a rift in space and time
- 54:58opened up in Central Park and he was first on
- 55:00scene to investigate and While he expected such
- 55:03a man just excited to be life -changing. He was
- 55:05thinking more in a metaphorical way as opposed
- 55:06to having his body atomized that is I mean for
- 55:11a professor to go to be the first what first
- 55:13up Professor first one to show up to on the scene
- 55:15to a black hole opening up and then also he's
- 55:18a professor But he's surprised that the black
- 55:21hole atomized him I, I, this needs to be changed
- 55:26immediately to he did an experiment and then
- 55:29got fucked up. Cause that's always what I, that's
- 55:31what I thought it was going to be. I thought
- 55:33he was like some crazy college professor who
- 55:35did, you know, he's like, come on, you know,
- 55:37Marty, let's go turn on the space and time and
- 55:40rift machine. And then he fell in and he, he
- 55:43was like, Oh shit, I, I'm a singularity now.
- 55:46Fuck. And then somehow. You know, maybe a partner
- 55:49or someone. How did he get if he's turned into
- 55:51a dying star, who the fuck was like, oh, I'll
- 55:53put you into a container and help you. Well,
- 55:56this is why they need the, you know, yarn the
- 55:58script doctor here. The witch is perfect. The
- 56:03poor person that wrote this. Go ahead. I feel
- 56:06bad that we're shitting on this and clearly placeholder
- 56:08text. So of a fat bald man, Dr. Manhattan himself.
- 56:15And now he's. And by the way, and then they put
- 56:19him into a fat bald robot body. I mean, they
- 56:23could have given him anybody. Oh, hey, look,
- 56:26it's it's Professor Dynamo. Oh, I could say I
- 56:32had a hero sub and I just I'm so excited about
- 56:34did you hear those are rifted space and time
- 56:36open up in Central Park? No one else is going
- 56:38there. And i'm gonna go there right now. Bye.
- 56:41I wish me. Well, the kids don't listen. They
- 56:43don't even see him They're just scrolling on
- 56:45their phone They scrape his astral fucking remains
- 56:48off the ground and they're like, oh he's still
- 56:50alive. He's a star Let's put him in a suit where
- 56:51he's fat and bald still so he can And give him
- 56:54a stupid fucking bow tie They made him look like
- 56:59fat tucker girls Well now now you know mo about
- 57:06dynamo Is that real? No. My God, I was going
- 57:13to say somehow that was worse than the whole
- 57:16thing. And this is this is a I just want to say
- 57:20that we've we've discussed about like Dynamo's
- 57:24body and what does it look like and like what
- 57:26parts of it are connected to what things and
- 57:28whatever. Yes, I will say his design of his model
- 57:32is very cool. Oh, it's I think that I imagine
- 57:34they'll rectify the Lord to make it. Makes sense.
- 57:37But I and I love his his melee being his big
- 57:40fat belly that he so good. Yeah. There's a there's
- 57:43a great short or tick tock, whatever, going around.
- 57:48It's like, why does every fat character in a
- 57:52fighting game do this? And it's like they're
- 57:54like he like stands all weird and then he still
- 57:56slaps his belly. And it's like Dynamo definitely
- 57:58falls into that. We're all about body acceptance
- 58:00on the deadlock, you know, series of products.
- 58:05And It's just, it's funny, but also again, we
- 58:10can reach a little further from the lowest of
- 58:13hanging fruit and go to the next one. I know
- 58:16that Valve will never be brave enough to give
- 58:17him a skin, that is him as a human being, where
- 58:20he's just a fat bald academic nerd. But somebody
- 58:24needs to mod this immediately. Get on it now!
- 58:27Stat! I would love it. Nipples out, stains on
- 58:30his shirt. I want him to have his belly poking
- 58:32out. Yeah. and then just feel like divorce papers
- 58:37in his back pocket. You know what, this man,
- 58:38I can tell he's got the body of a dad. Dadimo.
- 58:43Yes, yes, 100%. He's got the body of a sumo wrestler
- 58:47dad. A sumo wrestler dad. This man clearly eats
- 58:50a lot of cheese and beets. That's all I'm saying
- 58:51before he turned in. And by the way, I know that
- 58:53he's in the pursuit of knowledge, but like, you
- 58:55don't get that big. First of all, you don't put
- 58:57a person who's not fat into a body that looks
- 58:59like that. I feel like they'd be offended. Second
- 59:01thing. You don't get that big without eating
- 59:03a lot of food. And that person, regardless of
- 59:05what he was into, besides science, he would also
- 59:07be into food. So we need some voice lines where
- 59:09he's like, I miss eating hoagies. I guarantee
- 59:12you the writer. So I was a dungeon master for
- 59:14something where I was using a voice that was
- 59:16later deemed offensive. And I tried to... This
- 59:20is not what I thought you were going to say.
- 59:22No, but this is going to come back around. And
- 59:24so what I did was I magically made a reason for
- 59:27that character to have that voice. And I feel
- 59:29like that's what they're going to do with this.
- 59:31They're going to say, the writer for this Dynamo
- 59:34thing is going to be like, no, no, no, you don't
- 59:35understand. He has to be that circular because
- 59:37of the black hole. It's the black hole that makes
- 59:39him the shape that he is. Not the fact that we
- 59:42just want to laugh at a fat man. That's there's
- 59:44nothing to do with it. But again, we are about
- 59:48body acceptance. We love Dynamo. Please do the
- 59:50voice, actually. Dynamo's voice? No, do the voice
- 59:53you got in trouble for. No. It's basically that
- 1:00:00voice, 100 % that voice, but gliding. Now I know
- 1:00:03everything about it, because I looked it up.
- 1:00:04I want to know the lore reason why someone has
- 1:00:06to talk like that. So the character's name is
- 1:00:13Polypupilpus. OK, now I'm good. That's enough.
- 1:00:18Yeah, yeah. Wow. All right, well, moving on.
- 1:00:24Talk about... Giving you the wheel of a dungeon
- 1:00:29campaign in the D &D is a dangerous thing. They
- 1:00:31never should have done it. They never should
- 1:00:32have done it. All right. Let's do it. You want
- 1:00:37to do a little bit of Dead or Locked? Do you
- 1:00:38want to play a little Dead or Locked? Let's go.
- 1:00:39Hit me. All right. You want to introduce it again
- 1:00:42for the people who are joining us for the first
- 1:00:43time? Yeah. You've heard of McGuinness. You may
- 1:00:49be heard of McGunness. But let's get into McGunness.
- 1:00:52Dead or locked. It's a game of, what was it?
- 1:00:56It's a game of - Who do you want to kill? Or
- 1:00:59who do you want to lock lips with? Yes, that's
- 1:01:01right. It's a fuck -mary -kill, but we've gotten
- 1:01:03rid of marrying? Yes, and it's all about fucking
- 1:01:07and killing. It's about kissing on the lips.
- 1:01:11It's about kissing? It's about a gentle kiss
- 1:01:13on the lips, or who you would want to kill, which
- 1:01:15seems like an extreme - Who do you want dead,
- 1:01:17and who do you want to lock lips with? Eventually,
- 1:01:20when we get to Dead Man Danny, which we shouldn't
- 1:01:22do new characters yet, but when we get to this,
- 1:01:24he's already dead. What do we do about that?
- 1:01:26Huh? Like, I think you get stuck into kissing
- 1:01:29him, no? Necro -feely good about that. Necro
- 1:01:35-feely yum. Necro feels good, man. So dumb. I
- 1:01:43am going to pick, I'm going to spin the wheel
- 1:01:45this time and I will provide the sound effects.
- 1:01:54We have Hayes and Rem. Hayes and Rem. Dead or
- 1:01:59locked. Now, it comes to my attention that I
- 1:02:03usually do the answering portion of this as though
- 1:02:06you were the game show host. Would you like to
- 1:02:08weigh in on it? Sure. Yeah, yeah. Hit me. This
- 1:02:11is easy. I don't think I... So here's a question.
- 1:02:17I don't think I could kill Hayes. Not that I'd
- 1:02:19want to. But like is this saying that they are
- 1:02:24like we push a button and they die immediately
- 1:02:26Or am I having to like fear for my life and fight
- 1:02:28haze and like a fist to fist? I know you have
- 1:02:30say you have to win a fight Yeah, okay. Well,
- 1:02:34let's just be honest here. I was never gonna
- 1:02:36pick Rem for a kiss because he has a beak He
- 1:02:38looks very cute and I'd kiss him on the head,
- 1:02:40but I would not kiss him on the lips Yeah, so
- 1:02:42I'm gonna just I was experimenting with the concept
- 1:02:45but at the end of the day I am gonna kiss haze.
- 1:02:49I do feel like even though I'm thinking about
- 1:02:51fighting her would be terrible. I also think
- 1:02:53about kissing her, she might kill me. But that's
- 1:02:57certainly how I feel about it. Does Hayes canonically
- 1:03:00have lips anyways? Yeah, I think so. If you look
- 1:03:04at the character model, like in the game, definitely
- 1:03:06like the bottom part of her head is not mist,
- 1:03:09shadowy mist. OK. And I think she has voice lines
- 1:03:12about drinking beer and stuff like that. She
- 1:03:14just seems cool. Packing heat. It's more that
- 1:03:19I don't think I find her dangerous and scary
- 1:03:23I mean this is a really a question of You know
- 1:03:29Zoo Ophelia versus just kissing a human woman,
- 1:03:33so I feel like this one's pretty easy, right?
- 1:03:36Or is she like cuz she's wearing a mask that
- 1:03:38like a what's her whole thing. She's like a time
- 1:03:41cop or something We don't know the Lord because
- 1:03:43we haven't done it yet for the show, but yeah,
- 1:03:46but I heard there's something she's an assassin
- 1:03:49was there's some cool voice line she has about
- 1:03:51like like when you're a Sandman you have to Put
- 1:03:55Sandman or say it's something like that. And
- 1:03:58um, she's part of some special division of Operatives
- 1:04:01called the Sandman Sandman or whatever. Yes,
- 1:04:03but there I don't know what that has to do with
- 1:04:05her Why the way she looked? Oh, no, I just remembered
- 1:04:08it said it's a Freddy Krueger thing, right? Yeah,
- 1:04:11she's like, oh yeah, she's like a dream assassin.
- 1:04:14Yes, yeah, she's an inception FBI agent or some
- 1:04:17shit. Yeah, my hesitance to kiss her is mostly
- 1:04:20out of fear. I think I could kiss Rem and be
- 1:04:22like, oh, he's so cute, but he has a beak again,
- 1:04:25which I think would be not fun to kiss. I think
- 1:04:28he would bite my lips off and then laugh about
- 1:04:30it. Whereas Hayes at least has a human face of
- 1:04:35some kind. Yes. But I would worry about living
- 1:04:39through that encounter is what I would say. Yeah.
- 1:04:42So you kind of because you can't kill her, she
- 1:04:44would kill you. You're kind of forced into kissing
- 1:04:47is what you're saying. And just praying for my
- 1:04:49life. Yeah. I'm praying for your life. Yeah.
- 1:04:50She might still kill you even if you kiss her.
- 1:04:53I mean, we don't have to kiss on the lips. Rem
- 1:04:56could get a little kiss on the head, I think.
- 1:04:58But that's but that still leaves you dead with
- 1:05:00the Hayes situation. And it would not be romantic
- 1:05:03or sexual in any way. Be clear. Yeah, and and
- 1:05:05and it has to be so therefore you can't kiss
- 1:05:08Rem Lock lips with a haze And kill the adorable
- 1:05:15little rim and I'm sorry to people who are listening
- 1:05:17who are yelling at me I mean you yeah, I was
- 1:05:19gonna say killing Rem is never gonna be a popular
- 1:05:21answer I think yeah, I'm gonna get now I'm getting
- 1:05:23hoisted in front of the headquarters on the camera
- 1:05:25and they're ripping my they're quartering me
- 1:05:27and with horses drawing and quartering me They
- 1:05:30actually gave deserve it that valve apparently
- 1:05:33gave like a swag bag to one of those people Yeah,
- 1:05:37all you have to do is just go out there and show
- 1:05:38ass and they just Picture they're all just looking
- 1:05:42at the camera. It's just been like show it Yeah,
- 1:05:46they're just gonna go out there and twerk really
- 1:05:48hard and they give you all the stuff They give
- 1:05:50you the keys to the game and say here you go
- 1:05:54Yeah, do you have a do would you concur with
- 1:05:56my debtor locks? I think it's probably the only
- 1:06:00option, because if you have to wrestle a gun
- 1:06:03from or two guns, duallys from Hayes's hands,
- 1:06:07it's a losing situation. Now, if it was just
- 1:06:10a trolley problem, I think probably I don't know,
- 1:06:14dude, Hayes is probably hot. You know, objectively,
- 1:06:19personality and character is incredibly high.
- 1:06:21Yes. So it's like more like. Yeah, something
- 1:06:24intimidating going on there. Yes We should have
- 1:06:27a guest eventually who isn't just like a like
- 1:06:29a you know I was gonna say a straight dude. Yeah,
- 1:06:33I was getting like You know, I'm mostly straight.
- 1:06:36I think that you are somewhere in between I don't
- 1:06:39want to speak for you, but I do in between I'm
- 1:06:43in between these two deadlock characters getting
- 1:06:45I think you're gonna say in between us set of
- 1:06:48nuts We know that you like to kiss my own krill
- 1:06:53I like to kiss paradox. Yeah, that's what we
- 1:06:56did learn. Yeah. No, but I figure out our sexuality
- 1:06:58from that. But it is just easy. It's always like
- 1:07:02a beautiful woman or a, you know, an ancestral
- 1:07:06space horror. And it's like we will get more
- 1:07:11creative next time. I'll pick some weird split
- 1:07:14the difference. We will run out of these actually.
- 1:07:16And then we and then we don't have to do that
- 1:07:17anymore. Right. And then you send us your pictures.
- 1:07:20Dear listener. And we decide whether or not you
- 1:07:23need to get kissed on the lips or killed. And
- 1:07:26everyone will love that. And we won't get in
- 1:07:27trouble for that at all. And people will just
- 1:07:29send in pictures of their cats and dogs anyway.
- 1:07:32I mean, I would say it's like Kill Mary Fuck
- 1:07:36With Pets is not a game. It's just it's just
- 1:07:39more RAM, basically. Yeah. Yeah. Just send us
- 1:07:42pictures of RAM that you think are very kissable.
- 1:07:44And our email is dadlock .podcast .gmail .com
- 1:07:48and like and follow and subscribe. Let's move
- 1:07:53on to the next little bit of here, what we wanna
- 1:07:56talk about, but what have you been playing? What
- 1:07:58have you been doing outside of Deadlock? What
- 1:07:59have I been doing? Watching Lanterns with my
- 1:08:03girlfriend, playing Magic the Gathering. I mean,
- 1:08:07doesn't every dad eventually fall in love with
- 1:08:11Magic the Gathering? I think that's the only
- 1:08:12way. All the other games. Glad you've come around.
- 1:08:14Yeah, all the other games, you gotta do so much
- 1:08:16clicking, you gotta do so much aiming. Not magic
- 1:08:21the gathering you just you can just have a cup
- 1:08:24of coffee stare into the wall, you know sadly
- 1:08:30The true sport of all dads is doing exactly dissociating
- 1:08:35on a chair I mean, it's it's honestly more active
- 1:08:38than what most dads do because I think in you
- 1:08:40know, I'm 36 when I was a kid most dads Their
- 1:08:46pastime was just to passively watch sports, which
- 1:08:49there's nothing wrong with but to be engaged
- 1:08:53in a game, a game of magic. I mean, that's something.
- 1:08:58So you're saying that you're falling asleep in
- 1:08:59a chair and instead of watching golf on a far
- 1:09:01away TV, you just have the phone in your hand
- 1:09:04playing magic, but you're not really paying attention.
- 1:09:05I'm laying in bed with my girlfriend. She's asleep.
- 1:09:08She's like she's turning over. She's like, what
- 1:09:11are you doing? Why are you? And I'm like, I've
- 1:09:13almost got my graveyard back on the board. So,
- 1:09:18yeah, but a little bit of magic. What else am
- 1:09:21I playing? Not really a lot just like deadlock
- 1:09:25because I don't have that that much gaming time
- 1:09:28though. I either play one or the other and then
- 1:09:31um Yeah lanterns. We just watched the Watchmen
- 1:09:35show which was fucking incredible I wasn't sold
- 1:09:38on it from the first episode, but as it kept
- 1:09:40going it gained steam and oh Boy, that shit's
- 1:09:44good. I I even I watched a present Curtis the
- 1:09:49spin -off of Rick and Morty. I'm like 10 episodes
- 1:09:54or seven maybe episodes in and it's a it's obviously
- 1:09:57a very different show. But actually that was
- 1:09:59what makes it good and different. And it's to
- 1:10:02me much better than the newer seasons of Rick
- 1:10:04and Morty. It's like funny. It's got great cast.
- 1:10:07There's lots of like fun guest actors. The premise
- 1:10:09is hilarious and stupid. It's very low, low stakes,
- 1:10:13not like world building stuff. They're like having
- 1:10:16goof gaff fun. Very dead. Dead comedy. I love
- 1:10:22it. I want to watch it. I will It's a it's got
- 1:10:26the David Cross is a character in it He's obviously
- 1:10:29always very funny But his for some reason I just
- 1:10:32hear his voice and even though what the character
- 1:10:33saying isn't even that funny I just it gets me.
- 1:10:35Yeah in a special place. He's great and I want
- 1:10:39you to get me in my special place. I always will
- 1:10:44Since our listeners might not all be 30 mid 30s
- 1:10:50late 30s old white men. What are your suggestions,
- 1:10:56dear listener? If you're listening on YouTube,
- 1:10:57leave them in the fucking lower extremities of
- 1:11:01the page. He's so old, he doesn't know what comments
- 1:11:05are. What are they going to do? You write the
- 1:11:07words and the message. You post your messages.
- 1:11:09Leave it on the down part of the page. Send me
- 1:11:12a transcript. Give me a telegram. Send me a pigeon
- 1:11:16with a pay with comment. Alright. Well, like
- 1:11:21always, a dad never says goodbye. No. So we'll
- 1:11:26be right back. We gotta go get some stuff at
- 1:11:29the store. I gotta get the hot dog grease and
- 1:11:32some bun fluid. And you come and yarn? I gotta
- 1:11:36grab a carton of milk and a pack of milk. I need
- 1:11:43a gallon of heavy cream and a whole lemon. I
- 1:11:46fucked my joke up because I was gonna say a gallon
- 1:11:49of cigarettes and a carton of milk, but I fucked
- 1:11:51it up so quickly. I'm gonna go get black and
- 1:11:54milds and milds and blacks and then I'm gonna
- 1:11:56get harshers and whites. And then I'm gonna smoke
- 1:11:58both together and pass out on the side of the
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