Today’s update adds four new heroes to matchmaking: Holliday, Vyper, Calico, and The Magnificent Sinclair.
Expanding our roster is one of our major goals in 2025. While some of these characters have a much higher degree of temporary art than usual, we are excited to see how they perform on the battlefield.
So who are the new faces you’ll be seeing on the streets of New York?
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HOLLIDAY
Armed with an heirloom revolver and a spirit lasso, Holliday’s investigations have led her to New York… and when she finds the killer she’s looking for she’s bringing him in dead, not alive.
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VYPER
Did you know that when you slide your gun has infinite ammo? Vyper does. That’s why you’ll find her sliding around the battlefield spraying lead and poison.
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THE MAGNIFICENT SINCLAIR
Mystify your rivals with combat tricks so vexing that they won’t believe their eyes! Summon a spectral assistant, polymorph foes into rabbits, and turn the enemies own abilities against them! Impossible? Not for THE MAGNIFICENT SINCLAIR…
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CALICO
A feared assassin; Calico uses the shadows to her advantage, weaving in and out of combat to hunt down her enemies one by one. More importantly, you can possess her sphinx Ava and run around as a cat.
This update also marks the conclusion of the Winter Event. Players who participated in it will have a record of their achievements on their profile page.
Calico wasn’t what I thought. The 3 (turn into Cat) won’t work if you get shot until 5 sec after which makes it pretty useless. The other 3 moves are strong but feel clunky to me. Surprisingly Holliday is the one I think I may add as my 3rd chooses but haven’t actually played her in a match yet
I want to like the game so bad but it runs like shit on linux. I installed windows to play at a lan party and tried it out. Runs perfectly. in the main menu the shaders compile so much faster too.
either linux gaming still isn’t there yet or valve just forgot how to make games
Damn that’s sad to hear since I want to move over to Linux and will be doing to when they stop supporting windows 10.
With the game still being a play test I’m hoping they’ll try to optimize it better on Linux for the full release.
Same here. I’m hopeful because it’s valve but looking at other devs and publishers I feel like they’re just gonna do what they do. Pump out unoptimized crap…
It was about time we got some new heroes, fingers crossed this is the shot in the arm the game needed. As someone who hasn’t played a single minute of Hero Labs I can’t wait to explore these.
A little bit miffed about the way Sinclair’s ult works. Having it behave like Rubick’s (can copy any ability, but will only copy whatever the target most recently used) would be both more fun, balanced and introduce a higher skill ceiling to it. Clutch Rubick reaction-steals are always hype and I could see the same being true for competitive Deadlock.
And of course this happens on the weekend I’m without a GPU due to having to RMA it.
RIP. I can’t really play matchmaking thanks to my WiFi being shite ATM :(
Wow, theyre just dropping these characters into the game? I thought they were a ways off, especially magician (now sinclair). Nice to see some more variety.
Glad to see they dropped new hero’s finally. I think it’s what the game needed to draw more players back and I know it sounded like hero labs was pretty dead so think they might as well just drop the hero’s into matchmaking and balance them that way, it is still technically a play test after all.
I never played hero labs so pretty excited to try out the new hero’s!
Might need to try calico, turning into a cat and healing a ton looks hella fun especially since the other abilities looks strong.
Sinclair looks like he’ll be a high skill ceiling character. Turning enemies into rabbits is pretty funny too.
