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Worst Character Ever Edition

>Latest patch:
https://www.playdeadlock.com/cityneversleeps

>Steam Page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1422450/

>Where to leave feedback and report bugs:
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/

>How do I git in?
Post your Steam profile and ask. You need to accept a friend request to be invited, so don't be a sperg.

>How do I git gud?
Do the tutorial, get a feel for each hero in sandbox mode, explore public item builds, watch replays. Playing a Hero for the first time will put you into a lower rank game*, so don't worry about it too much.

Additional Resources:
>Unofficial Wiki
https://deadlock.wiki/
>Collection of useful character builds
https://deadlockmeta.com/
>New Player Guide
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lMBE7Nli_sVJ42d-kPHjF3MBaXZdIM46gNJQC_fMGMU/
>Advanced Movement Guide
https://www.dlmovement.wiki/
>Unofficial Stat Tracker (Unreliable due to API rate limits)
https://statlocker.gg/
https://tracklock.gg/
https://deadlock-api.com/
>Unofficial Competitive News
https://edl.gg/
https://www.deadfrag.com/
>Unofficial Voiceline Viewer
https://deadlock.vlviewer.com/

Threadlocked: >>584718165
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VIOLET WON
CHUDS LOST
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https://fixvx.com/Evrenrw1/status/2111226480634270025
they stole from the rizzler himself
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They should rework her ult immediately. It's mega boring, especially for an art hero.
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threadly reminder
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>>584726168
It's a foid character and I am still revising it.
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>>584726984
What are scabs and what is a picket line?
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Man Violet is really lame.
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Been long enough, is violet /dlg/ approved?
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>>584726803
Characters that don't pass need to be looked at
writing is nosediving
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>>584726903
We always wanted +25 spirit circle chud
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>>584727063
Yes
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Why is every fucking asian woman the same
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>>584726862
>>584726428
>Harrow comes last
>Violet is far and away the more humiliated of the two because of how utterly godawful her design and voice is
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>it's violet
LOL
>it's not invoker
LMAO
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3 ranked matches, 3 turbo feeding retards
All on the enemy team btw lol
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>>584726984
thats so cringe
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>>584726865
>they don't even allow her to look damaged in any way
Holy shit, I thought solomon damaged portrait was fine and even cool because it represents him losing a game of chess, but this one has no excuse, and paired with everything else paints a very grim picture about where the game is heading
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>>584726862
SO true
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>>584727069
Pockets father is literally trying to kill him.
>1 desperation/motivation
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Whew, good time to take a break from Deadlock
Game is in the toilet right now.
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>>584727042
Scabs are people who come in to work while the regulars are on strike
A picket line is a line of people who are on strike trying to prevent people from entering the business they're striking
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>>584727102
Probably because Asian culture is all the same shit
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>>584727069
whats even violets motivation? I don't really get it, how does she have magical art shit, the only other "normal" people are Lash and Holliday.
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>>584727069
Why doesn't Billy get the delusional retard bonus?
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TALK ABOUT HER KIT YOU FUCKING RETARDS!
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uhhhh we were supposed to be invoker, sisters...
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We could have had a cool Chinese character, but we got a gay Chinese-American character instead. Shitty troonbait character.
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Come to think of it, Neither Solomon the Nigger nor Violet the Chink Whore are given ANY explanation for their powers. Baba is a witch, Danny is a resurrected corpse selling products, Rat King was created by the Maelstrom, Harrow is supposedly an angel, but these two? They just happen to use magic I guess?
>>584726984
DUUUUUDE LIKE I'M SO DEEP I'M TOTALLY AN ARTIST LIKE DUDE WEED DUDE MEANING OF LIFE DUUUUDE
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>>584724703
>violet so shit even yurifags reject her
valve has lost the sauce
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>>584726474
Valve could easily have kept the "wildly succesful for her age" part even as is and just changed the closing paragraph to the fact that she made some sort of pact for success as a kid and now it's coming time to collect.

Hell, copy Shadowrun's Yama Kings for Chinese flavor and do the 13 years of good fortune and then it fucking eats your soul. She can keep the tired student act as she's been harried by a demon thingy and she has a reason to be in the ritual to wish herself free repost
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>>584727262
its boring
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>>584727262
She has the worst ult in the game and the worst movement ability in the game
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>>584727102
Hyper-conformist gender in the hyper-conformist culture
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>>584727262
Somehow not enough painting for a game that adores movement when Solomon's kit is batshit wild.
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>>584727262
Why? It's boring and overtuned.
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What, specifically about Violet is so egregious compared to Billy or Paige, no, seriously? Why are you all so mad? College students did drugs and went to political rallies, retards. Hint, they had rent to pay too.
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Oh boy now the thread's gonna get derailed into culture war shit
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>>584727210
Based man of the people Billy beating and killing likely poor people who want to make money and can't afford to stop working
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>>584727262
just wait a couple days for all the tourists to leave
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>>584727417
What's wrong with Paige?

>College students did drugs and went to political rallies, retards. Hint, they had rent to pay too.
Rent in the 50s was like 50 bucks a month.
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>>584727102
No wonder Asian Americans are so fucked in the head.
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>Full ride to prestigious art school
>Prodigy
>Set for fame and success
>Has actual art superpowers

why the FUCK would she bother with the ritual
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>>584727456
Off topic but it's wild how you can't walk into a community for a game or show you're into and not see them nowadays.
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>>584727323
>Hell, copy Shadowrun's Yama Kings for Chinese flavor and do the 13 years of good fortune and then it fucking eats your soul. She can keep the tired student act as she's been harried by a demon thingy and she has a reason to be in the ritual to wish herself free
That would just be geist all over again but would still be miles better than what we got
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>>584727417
>Graves
Retard that's called out as retarded
>Billy
Retard that's called out as retarded
>Paige
Retard that's called out as retarded
>Mina
Cunt that's called out as a cunt
>Violet
Retarded cunt that everyone huffs the farts of and is always right
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>>584727175
Pocket is bitch ass faggot with HIV
At most he deserves 3 but he still doesn't pass
>>584727261
You might be right
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>>584726903
turn still life into her ult, give it a disable during the channel instead of only after and give her a new 3 instead
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>>584726984
kinda based. this is what people were complaining about?
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>take about her kit
I don't even want to try her kit. Character this dogshit both in design and writing would not be worth playing even if it felt like a 100% WR blowjob
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>>584727456
>the tourists
So true, sister. All the REAL oldfags that started playing during New Blood LOVE Violet.
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>Violet is a zooGODDESS
BASED
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>>584727262
the drawing is cool and uhh gun violet could be something?
her 2 exists
the drawing thing is fun and permanant buffs are gonna stack hard
ult exists
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>Play well
>Get some good ults
>Start using my mic now that I'm confident (Useful info only, no clogging comms)
>Get no commends
Waah waah everyone hates me
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>>584727530
Because her parents disapprove. This is one big therapy session for the Asian female writer of this character. She is lashing out that despite working at Valve as a character writer, she has not earned her parents' respect because they wanted a doctor.
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>Violet gets free low cooldown knockdown that also gives her permanent buffs
>Also gets infinite slide
>Also gets LoS breaker that can tank ults
>Also gets giga damage gun

I told you Baba and Violet is going to make release Victor and Celeste Blush
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I’m gonna be real, I was really pulling for Harrow, but you wanna know what? Violet fucking rules, she’s like just a girl and I love it, her kit seems killer and I’m excited to try it out in actual games. I’ll live with Harrow last
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VIOLET
SINCE MOVING TO AMERICA, YOU HAVE BEEN GLANCING AT BLONDE WHITE WOMEN WITH ENVY, CURSING YOUR HERITAGE AND YELLOW SKIN
COMPLETE THE RITUAL, AND THE ARCHMOTHER WILL OPEN YOUR THIRD EYELID
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A lot of talentless faggots in this thread
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Rem kneecapped the stakes even worse than Violet, but he at least had unique gameplay. What does Violet even do?
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>>584727530
You don't understand, she doesn't get enough attention. AND her parents don't want her to waste her life. AND...
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>>584727456
I hate these dumb troons bitching about Violet
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I'M NEW, WHERE DID MY MODS GO... I CAN'T LOOK AT HAZE'S UGLY FACE LET ME OUTTT. IT CHANGED THE CAMERA ANGLE, MODDERS SAVE ME
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JUST MAKE VIOLET AN OVERLY AMBITIOUS SOULLESS ARTIST WILLING TO DO ANYTHING TO MAKE A MASTERPIECE

SHE HAS DEAD BLACK EYES
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>>584727530
She hates her parents (who funded her education)
She wants to prove herself (to nobody)
And get exposure (By killing random people for a demigod with nobody watching)
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>>584727641
Before I commend you here for good work to make you feel better I have to know: are you a tranny?
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>>584727530
so what does she want? I don't understand her motivations for wanting to join a ritual for killing with glowies, serial killers, etc.
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>If you just dot your lines and dont actually connect the paint it counts as all separate pieces they have to break individually

Hahahahhaa
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>Violet needs 5 skills instead of 4 because............ she just does!
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>>584724432
>you are just racist
ok and?
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>>584727641
nona people are rude as hell in this game
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>>584727262
>ice path but you can't fly
that's your movement ability?
pathetic
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>>584727262
Her m2 is cool
Her 3 is cancer and is gonna get nerfed to the ground
The rest is boring
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>>584727765
LOL
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>>584727069
Numbers are still wrong on multiple characters. Not wrong about the absolute nosedive the writing is taking however.
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>>584727729
Valve seems to have moved away from needing a reason to join the ritual. All of the new roster heroes don't even have a reason to join, other than for fun.
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>>584727729
She wants to be NOTICED(by white boys)
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>>584727530
>Afraid of dying a failure
>Does a ritual with a 50% chance of killing her while still not accomplished
Valve writing strikes again
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violet will be playable once they make mute and bimbofication mods for her
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Harrow won't be any different and will be in the ritual because she's worried about everyone in it and isn't actually an angel in disguise.
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>>584727585
yeah duuude its so based like she got high ddue liek me XD
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>>584727662
>The Hidden King promises you aalll the white bois you could ever date, Violet.
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>>584727765
Enjoy breaking these, I tested it and they all counted as separate ink spots
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>>584727816
You can infinite slide with it so that already makes it better
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>>584727576
>Pocket is bitch ass faggot with HIV
letting hatred of his kit and tranny memes cloud your judgement. He's living in a sewer with trained killers hunting him, he is extremely desperate.
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>I'm going to get le exposure... by summoning an Outer God to take over the city... also I'm already successful and talented so I don't need it anyway
What the fuck
They could've just made her a failed artist that desperately wants to do the ritual to find success
If she's already successful what the fuck is the point
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>>584727674
Rem at least is some kind of lost dream demon from another dimension that's meant to feel out of place
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someone remake this with violet
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I don't think a character release has depressed me so much before. I wasn't looking forward to her, I knew she'd be bland but actually reading her lines, her backstory, and so on it's just filled me with dread for the future of the game

I used to be so optimistic about the game's future back in 2024 but the writing has just gotten worse and worse. And this patch is full of new lows. Seeing something like Violet get past all the devs and playtesters and get released, it's not gonna get better
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>>584727925
she has a single line about getting high, yes. this CANT be what the thousands of posts today were complaining about though
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VIOLET, WE UNDERSTAND YOU
SUMMON THE HIDDEN KING, AND ALL THE DOGS YOU DESIRE ARE YOURS
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>>584727262
Even more boring than her character
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>>584727951
>>584727765
This literally happened to me in Streetshit Brawl.
I couldn't move because she just kept spamming it. How are Violets breaking the charge system?
She dotted lined me like 40 times with 2 charges it must be an exploit
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>>584727641
voice train you stupid tranny
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>>584727848
characters that pass 5 really don't deserve attention on this chart, unless you disagree that you do, focus on niggas with lower score
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>>584728017
>>584727053
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>>584728017
bro >>584727053
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>>584727996
Ahem, she doesn't FEEL sucessful.
Honestly it'd have made more sense if she was wishing that her parents were dead or something equally self centered/retarded
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>>584727662
>AND THE ARCHMOTHER WILL OPEN YOUR THIRD EYELID
kek
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>>584728057
>>584727951
It's an exploit that lets you break up the painting into multiple lines per charge. No I'm not telling you how it's done because I'm using it to stomp babies in brawl right now.
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>>584727530
>why the FUCK would she bother with the ritual
For the same reason Mayli did what she did
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>>584710062
are u me?
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>>584727975
turn radius is not good enough for active use in combat and teammates aren't smart enough to take advantage of it
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Rat King
>Wants to conquer Long Island to make a kingdom for rats and downtrodden hybrids
Baba
>Wants to revive Soho Cohen
Danny
>I want to make a wish for mr fairfax so he'll promote me
Violet
>UMMM IN ALREADY RICH AND FAMOUS SO IM JUST HERE FOR THE FUNSIES TEEHEE

God what a dogshit character
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>Worst voice actress, can barely understand her
>Worst voicelines
>no lore
>shitty abilities
>abilities have 2 colors only despite her entire gimmick being a painter
>cutesy character with abilities that don't make sense in relation to the setting
>is her role a mage? a frontliner? a support?
Fuck this character
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>>584728068
>>584728093
kino, we're just on the same wave length
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>>584727262
There's literally nothing to talk about. She can draw walls and bridges, but outside of that it's literally nothing special at all.
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>Asian of Chink flavor
>artist
>gooner
>hates her parents
>takes on a risky job to get back at them
[Rem voice] Uuuh guuuys...
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>people keep calling Violet chinese
>She is japanese.
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>>584728131
>>584728057
>>584727765
worst character ever. shits cancer they NEED to fix her. they NEED to castrate her.
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bros my violet painted this in the sky what does it mean? is it some sort of signal?
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>>584728169
Unironically could've been saved if they made her Invoker.
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>>584728015
I know you're just biased against Violet if you're defending Rem of all characters
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>Could've easily just used the starving artist angle to justify her existence in the ritual
>Instead shes very well off, has no debts, and is a god tier artist, giving her no motivation to be here

what the fuck are these writers smoking....CIGARETTES?
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>Violet targets me with stun
>I break line of sight, still get stunned
>Gets one permanent buff for stunning me
>She can do that from half a lane away
??????????
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>uhhh, she's rich and famous why the fuck isn't she happy? What an entitled whore!

/v/ once again proving they are no better than boomers and how badly they need therapy.
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>>584728218
>needs her green card
japanese wouldn't be an illegal immigrant
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>>584727996
it's PURE Mary Sue shit is it not?
>nooo my self insert can't be a failure that needs a wish to succeed. She's proud but also humble! And honest!
>then why is she here
>just to show everyone how great she is!
>why does she need to do that if she's already in a super prestigious art school already painting good pieces (and she knows it!) according to solomon
Yeah this bitch is gonna kill people and potential take away someone's life saving wish just for some press
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>>584728269
>Made her uglier for no reason
?
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>>584727530
>Full ride to art school
>Whining about student debt
Wow
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>get buttraped in standard because of exploitcucks violets trapping me in a never ending maze of ink
FUARK!!
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>>584728269
Give her back her eyebags cowards
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>>584728218
>All of her clothing is chinese
>Is a Jap
WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUCK
>>
>game takes place in a time period and city where artists, particularly immigrant artists, did what they did out of desperation and a need to hustle, not a cozy educational career path
>did not have the luxury of casual attitudes about their art, frequently compromised on their personal wants or values artistically, to put food on their table
>all of this of course was not conducive to well-balanced social behavior, they were often abrasive, and erratic workaholics

Putting aside the lameness of post 1970s art student cliches, this shit is a major disservice to the real lives lived by immigrant artists in New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Imagine if Violet was manically perfectionist? Imagine if those hundreds of lines about her sketches bounced between violently self-deprecating and moderately satisfied? What if she rejected the feel-good advice of Solomon and Baba as the vapid mumblings of people who don't understand art? What if she had any rough edges or corners at fucking all?
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>>584728269
Actual downgrade. Left makes her look like a badder bitch.
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>>584728218
お前はバカなホモだ
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>>584728168
That's literally Apollo, too.
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>>584728321
also she smokes weed and goes to political rallies just like me!
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>>584728269
>ruined the design
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>>584728275
it takes just over a second of breaking line of sight to completely cancel the ability. try doing more than dashing past a pillar
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>>584728054
isn't that the same wish as Paige's? is that allowed can she even do that?
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>>584727102
Because (non SE) asians are considered honorary whites but still want to be oppressed
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>>584728405
Yeah but Apollo's an alien nigger with a warlord dad so at least he has a reason
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>>584728218
her poster literally says xie xie
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WHY IS SHE TALENTED AND A GOOD ARTIST
This entire fucking character would be instantly redeemed had she been a total fucking failure of an artist. But NOOO SHE IS SO HECKING TALENTED
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>>584728017
This is not the original.
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>>584728321
As if new writers (unless there are same writers they just got brain cancer that made them retarded) forgot that ritual is both a big deal and implies releasing potential lowkey evil to world and murder of at least 6 people
If they don't want to bother with it at least make ritual annual or something
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>>584728464
So literally Turning Red. I swear, Asian American women literally cannot write anything different.
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>>584728026
Nah it's just one shitter, I don't see anyone maining her desu. She's all around just a bad character that doesn't really add anything of value.
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>turning red
trannyslop
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>apollo
>baba
>graves
>infernus
>m&k
>paige
>rem
>silver
>solomon
>violet

Why would any of these people risk their lives to participate in a ritual where half of the participants are guaranteed to die? Do any of them actually have a motivation that they're willing to go that far for in-story?
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>>584728269
>Literal downgrade
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FOR YOUR 16TH BIRTHDAY, YOUR DEADBEAT FATHER GOT YOU A MERCEDES S-CLASS INSTEAD OF THE G-WAGON YOU SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED

SUMMON ME, AND YOU SHALL HAVE YOUR REVENGE
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>>584728258
Can't really do that, cause League's art hero is already Invoker.
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>>584728405
Apollo is an elite fencer who wants his country to be allowed into the Olympics because his dad is Saddam Hussein. It's a fucking hilarious motive
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>>584728218
shes 1940s occupied china brainwashed by japanese propaganda and is taught in a jap school.
or maybe taiwan, it was a colony that time.
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Violet's wish is to see her parents die a slow and painful death
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Violet Cheng ruins a movement shooter
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>>584728213
>Fairfax does pay... right?
>I have RENT and STUDENT LOANS after all
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Loving your tears btw ^-^
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>>584728269
whoever did this doesn't understand character design at fucking all
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>>584728349
Genuinely there's something wrong with this character.
Like they did not actually communicate with each other at any point.
She's successful but needs exposure. She has a full ride but has debt. She's in the ritual to prove herself but is already proven. She hates her parents and goes to therapy but has no reason to be unhappy.
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>I CARE ABOUT LE QUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTES!!!!!!!!
Why do you do this? You should play characters based entirely on moveset. I turn off voice lines when I play the game because I'm not a fat retard who cares about "le lore".
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>>584727069
Your ratings for
>Apollo
>Danny
>Graves (no retard hat?)
>Lash
>Pocket
>Sinclair
Are too low.
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>>584728642
If it was she'd actually be based.
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>>584728695
>filename
poor bait
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>>584728606
K,b,c.
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>>584728715
BASED AS FUCK
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There were like a million ways to do the "artist joins the ritual" and not make it this retarded

Even if they went with this angle they write her like she's not a complete psycho. Someone joining the ritual for such a banal reason would naturally come off as a complete nut willing to kill people for pretty much no reason

But nope, she is "le nice and snarky activist!" too. This really is "I want my self insert in the ritual so they can't be evil, they can't stupid, they can't be a failure, and they also don't NEED the ritual either :)"
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>>584728603
Silver's life is such a mess and she's such a hopeless wreck she's resulting in the ritual as a way to fix her shit and she's using the only asset she's ever had, her absurd werewolf strength, the same thing she uses to be a bounty hunter which is, again, the only thing she's ever managed to accomplish.
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>>584728619
Icefrog originally made Invoker. He can do whatever the fuck he wants.
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>>584728715
wow ur so cool
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>>584728715
holy based. fuck loretrannies
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>>584728517
She should have been one of those artists who's always talking about their art but never actually working on it
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>>584728269
I need to cum inside her until my prostate cramps and I pass out
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>>584728715
Truth nuke.
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>>584728826
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>>584728517
Self insert pet character for an Asian American chick working at Valve and makes a fortune but her family is still disappointed because she didn't become a doctor and fucks white guys, now she'll show them!
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>>584728603
Based off the lore, Solomon more than likely can see the future and has uncanny knowledge about some of the characters. He actually threatens to use his wish to cancel Seven's in the story because he wants to protect New York.
Silver and M&K have nothing to lose and everything to gain by participating.
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>>584728826
She sounds just like my sister. And yes, my sister fucked off to Portland, married a white dude, and they are child-free.
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Do we think the intense negative reaction to Violet will actually lead to anything? Or is she too much of a pet selfinsert oc?
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>>584728715
BTW I main Bridget in Strive
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>>584728603
Graves at least is doing it because she's being groomed by an ancient lich who's making her do it and will probably steal her wish to get their body and power back
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>>584728715
MEGA TRVKLEAR NVKLEAR BOMBA!!
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>danny's jetpack feels awkward as shit to use
alright so should i just ignore it besides the overheat or what
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>not Invoker
>not Hwei
>no stances
>no extra abilities
>doesn't have multiple paintbrushes
>doesn't paint bamboo
>doesn't summon a tiger
>doesn't summon a crane
>has no yokai
>no Looney Toons bullshit
>isn't associated with the occult at all
>has no explanation for her abilities
>has no reason to participate in the Ritual
>generic Asian-American backstory
>sounds entirely unenthused and petulant
>anachronistic whining about debt and therapy
>degenerate
>1 just buffs your m1
>3 is just a stun
>ult is just a curtain that does a hundred bullshit with no visuals or unique mechanics
>can draw stuff
OH?
>just makes walls
Oh.
>2 makes a slip n' slide
Cool...

So, odds on her being made by former Blizzard developers?
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>>584728789
billy bat is a fun manga, everything is great until after the 9/11 arc, should've used the covid conspiracy to keep it going.
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>>584727417
More or less this >>584727573
Granted we only have a slice of voice lines done and more will be coming in the future
But so far things don't look good at all
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>finally get Violet
>this is my team
There goes my token, t-thanks.
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>>584728715
this guy actually plays the game
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>>584728967
>Or is she too much of a pet selfinsert oc?
It's this. If Valve genuinely were capable of giving a fuck, they would've told the writer 'no' right from the get go.
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>>584728967
nothing will happen.
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>>584728967
Voice-acting and writing are not things that can realistically change. Models/designs are easy to tweak. But writing has ego attached to it, and existing voiceacting is a massive sunk-cost. You dont just throw away 2000 voicelines you already recorded.
So no, we are stuck with this turd.
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>>584728937
embarrassing
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>>584728967
Wraith and Paige have been awful chungus characters since forever and in every new dialogue Valve adds for them the writers double down
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>young conventionally attractive prodigy freelance business genius celebrity
>only character flaw is having impostor syndrome
>secretly a devil-may-care rebel
>motive for doing the ritual is to get attention
>no lore explanation for abilities

character generated in a lab to be unlikeable
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>>584728715
BUIH BUH BUH BUHx BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUHx BUH BAAAAAAAAXAAXAAAAAAAXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A SED
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>>584728715
Fuck you, adderall addict.
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>>584728715
>You should play characters based entirely on moveset
Problem is that is boring as shit too.
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>violetkeks are so desperate theyre pretending they never cared about the lore or characters
grim
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>>584729092
Valve said, "okay, this is your therapy session character to let your parents know how you feel about them, so we're going to make her hot so that she's not totally hated".
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>>584729148
Let a nigga forget to press CTRL V in peace.
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Could've gotten a paint demon or a bizarre artist but instead this is the blandest shit possible.
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>>584728715
The moveset is ground AoE my guy
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>>584728967
>>584729092

i dont think any bitching will change violets writing
HOWEVER i do think this might make them revise future character interaction she has
also theyre never going to release another hero "like" her again kek
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>>584728721
Lash is pretty much normal level headed person, safe the narcissism, which is why he gets two blue hats both for retardation and delusion
So he actualy does pass, as blue caps are more intepretable as "depends" rather than +1 point
And if character passes, such as danny and sinclair there is no real issue
Pocket is too much "don't want to hurt anybody" type of fag, so his motivation can carry him, but imo at most to 3 points
Apollo might deserve blue cap or more red points, but definitely not yellow
Graves might deserve cap I guess
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>>584726984
It's actually crazy to watch the game die in real time
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her 3 just feels like a worse seven stun. imagine seven's stun except you need to keep los and can't do anything while it's charging up. so easy to break los
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>>584728826
Asian women need to stay out of writing and go back to just being lust objects. This is genuinely embarrassing.
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>4chan thinks that money and status are the sole things that make a person happy.
>4chan proving yet again they are no better than their narcissistic boomer parents that they do nothing but bitch about.
>4chan lacking any sense of self awareness of how fucked they are in the head and think their childhoods where normal and that it's everyone else who is the problem.
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>>584728603
Apollo and Baba make sense.
Graves is probably being gaslit.
Infernus and M&K reasonably wouldn't go that far.
Paige and Rem are desperate and clueless of what they're getting into.
Silver hates herself and either succeeds or gets put out of her self imposed misery, so its a win-win.
Solomon seems pretty stupid, but the idea of him just being their to make sure nobody wishes for anything too cataclysmic is fine enough.
Violet is unsalvageable.
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>>584728715
BASED
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With Violet they should have gone the Dean McCoppin route made her a mad painter archetype who lashes out at you over her art
This character angle of "Ooooh, but i'm such a misunderstood art college girlie who goes to a therapist and has family problems and smoke weed" just doesn't work. This character is exactly what those people complaining about Celeste being a self-insert thought Celeste was, genuinely go back to the drawing board because this ain't it
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Will Paradox's MASSIVE thighs survive her model update?
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>>584727452
I love Billy the Rebel who fights on the side of conventional populist politics
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>>584729246
Pockets killstreak line show him loving the shit out of murdering people.
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i like playing graves. do i build her for her m1 or skulls? pls advise
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Ignoring the token "bad" people (Drifter, Seven, Lash etc.)
Name me two "good" Deadlock heroes that dislike each other. Can't stand the other, have antagonistic voicelines and shit.
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>>584729312
t. took a break from talking about dog dicks to write this
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>>584729312
Violet isn't even old enough to be in the "money doesn't make you happy" phase of life. Bitch is literally still in school.
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>get off work
>harrow lost
goddamn it
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>>584729195
>>584729229
So stop crying about her "LE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!" and just say her moveset is boring
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Hmmmm, something is missing....
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>Danny is kino
>Baba is kino
>Rat King is kino
>Solomon is too nuch of a gary stu magical negro but otherwise fine
>Violet is pure cringe

Eh. I'll take it.
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>BASED KEKARO TRUTHNUKE every 30 seconds
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>>584729356
skulls, gun graves got killed a long time ago
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>>584729312
>4chan is a singular entity
>bike cuck reaction image
excellent bait good sir, take a reddit gold!
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>Rat King
Pre nerf Warden with a teamfight ultimate
>Baba
Celeste/Shiv but they were more blatant about what a spirit tank does
>Solomon
Paige with a turret
>Deadman Danny
Gun Lash
>Violet
Kelvin but you trade most of his utility for nukes
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>>584729356
if you're in deep bricklow build skulls, otherwise 2 and 4
m1 is not good sadly
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I could be sounding people rn
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Erm... what the fuck happened to all those brushes?
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>>584728967
Silver got a slight visual touches after getting shredded by an entirely different subreddit.
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>>584728603
>half of the participants are guaranteed to die?
Can you retards stop making shit up?
You yourself posted Silver so you should know this: When Silver kills Abrams she literally says https://cdn.deadlock.wiki/Werewolf_kill_atlas_05.mp3
Like come the fuck on. There's a bunch of lines like this
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>>584729312
Mina Ha has a better explanation for participating even if she is a shallow, rich bitch. There's nothing to Violet, quite literally nothing.
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>>584729196
It's funny seeing it all go from
>Well her design might be boring but she's going to have a super cool backstory and super cool kit
To
>Why do you care about characterization in a moba just shut up and play the game
Those people are very much caught with their pants down and are embarrassed about being wrong about something they were smug and adamant about
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>>584729420
>>584729456
thank you yes, i am not even high enough to play ranked yet
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If Harrow is cringe like this I think I may genuinely uninstall forever.

yesterday I was in love with this game and now I'm depressed and ashamed. That's how bad Violet is
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>>584727262
I actually think her kit is pretty cool. The boon leech thing is very weird but the painting into stun is cool.
Her ult looks very nice but ultimately seems pointless, it's like 300 damage at 4 items to walk right out of it.

Retards keep trying to play her like Graves or some shit but she's very clearly a wonky backline support character.
The unfortunate reality is that her design is so fucking lame that her kit isn't even worth mentioning
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>>584729521
>you will address me as Nurse Harrow
No, she's already peak.
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>>584729415
He blew you loretrannies out.
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>>584729462
The way she looks at me is making my small and pathetic 12 inch cock leak precum...
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>>584729521
See you in a month
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>>584729358
iirc Holliday has a few
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>oh fuck, my pet character has terrible writing and keeps getting new assholes torn online
>shitshitshit what do I do
>*ahem*
>actually WE (yes, ALL of us) never cared about the characters anyway if you care for anything except kit you're a cuck
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>>584728389
yeah but dude theres like, no ethical consumption under capitalism :) lets get high and fuck animal people :DDD
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>m1 guntank
>spirit aoeslop
>spirit aoeslop
>spirit aoeslop
>spirit aoeslop
I'm so tired, bros. Rat King is the only one that unironically brought something new to the game, and he's supposed to be THE reddit hero...
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>>584728603
>half of the participants are guaranteed to die
Which is why multiple characters have conversations about what their plan is if their side loses, right?
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>>584729358
name all the "good" deadlock heroes
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>>584727262
she is incredibly overpowered, so the normal for new heroes
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>>584729617
ratking is for trannies who suck at the game doe
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>>584729617
Rat is gun aoeslop bro, who are you kidding
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>>584729628
Dont bother
Im convinced these guys dont even play the fucking game, or they exclusively play Jeet Brawl and never hear any lines.
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>>584729671
weird way to say danny
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They should make Violet genuinely ambitious

Like borderline evil ambitious

Why does she need therapy when killing someone?
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>>584727069
you are retarded, autistic and don't understand human motivation or deadlock universe.
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>>584729708
except danny is complete garbage
ratking is braindead easy
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>>584728389
>What if she had any rough edges or corners at fucking all?
Sorry bro she's rich and successful and talented and magical and wants to summon Cthlhu because her mom made her learn piano
No she doesn't get called out about this except one token fourth wall breaking jab by 7>>584729735
>They should make Violet genuinely ambitious
>Like borderline evil ambitious
That's Grimstroke and he's actually cool so we can't have that
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>>584729521
The worst part for me is I don't even want to play any of these fucking characters. They're all so fucking braindead and boring. Solomon was the only one I thought would be cool but despite being the fucking chess grandmaster, he has 0 strategy besides spam all your abilities on someone at once.

Violet to me is the most interesting gameplay wise but she's definitely not a carry type, so no matter how many insane paint barriers or slip'n'slides you put up you will never win unless your team knows how to play
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>>584729246
Danny is a 5 in violence and Sinclair is a 5 in desperation (only the patrons can fulfill their magical divorce).
I swear there was something about Lash being in debt.
Apollo is a demonic warrior aristocrat who is inheriting a developing hell kingdom in the middle of a war. He doesn't "need" the wish, but he's pompous enough to think he can have it.
Graves is doing whatever her lich groomer tells her to do because she's a lonely moron. It's the lich who wants the deal with the patrons.
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>violets death sounds
ryona chads won
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I am wageslaving and cannot play
Would it be possible to make a script or something that instantly writes whatever you want with the paint
I want to bodyblock people with a giant spurdo drawing
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They can fix Violet by gradually giving her more psychopathic and deranged lines that show her current face is a facade and she has an actual (evil) wish.
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>>584726903
but it's extremely synergistic with her kit doe
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>I AM HONORED TO BE YOUR PATRON VIOLET
holy shit, this character
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>>584726903
Terrible writing aside, I like her kit. EXCEPT for the ult. I was actually surprised at how boring it was compared to the rest.
>>584726862
Chuds were the ones voting Violet.
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>let's make a detective character but instead of just a guy, let's make him partially descended from the 9th circle of hell and his latest case is this fucked up book
>let's make a femme fatalle to pair up with the detective, but actually let's make her really old and having only kept her good looks by tricking a soul sucking demon to live in her arm
>let's make a magician character since that'd fit right into the setting but wait, why keep it simple when we can make it a mannequin piloted by a dead married couple, who now hate eachother and wants to get divorced
>now... let's make an artist character who can kill people with her paint brush and twist is... she hates her parents and has to pay for art school
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>>584727130
who else would play violet
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>>584729617
hard carry Harrow will save us
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>>584729531
>it's like 300 damage at 4 items to walk right out of it.
it's a paradox wall the size of midboss and it also blocks vision
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>>584729521
Same. Last time I felt like that was when Paige was added but compared to Violet she's closer to a Lash tier masterpiece.
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I'll fix her.
>Her parents are dead / don't exist anymore and she has a deranged wish to bring them back and be a happy family and pretends they're still alive
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>>584729845
Bullshit. I don't believe you. She's JUST an art student. Magic aside she has no claim to fame that a patron would give a shit about
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>>584729861
I don't think anybody disliked Jhin
League is shit but he's fine.
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>>584729521
I know you're shitposting (or delusional if you think you can quit) but I am legitimately heartbroken by just how awful of a character Violet is. To know I will never again experience a version of Deadlock pre-Violet gives me a feeling similar to drifting apart from a childhood friend.
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>the patron that has been brought into the world and manifested into godhood is TOTALLY going to let the people who were fighting on behalf of their mortal enemy go and live out their hecking chungus wholesomearino lives!!
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>>584729845
Okay you genuinely don't even play the game if you think that line is bad
The patrons always glaze the heroes because they want them to fucking summon them
Are you retarded? Do you think the Patron genuinely thinks Vyper is beautiful or Lash is amazing?
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>>584729861
This guy is actually the sickest character in MOBA history. Too bad Arcane 2 will ruin him.
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>>584729851
I gotta admit, the writing of these new characters is taking a giant nosedive
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How much joe chuck do I have to watch to get good at doorman?
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>>584727102
its just a side effect of the vast majority of them all being born and raised in california.
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>>584729861
He's based and I wish he was in Dota.
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viiiioooooleeettt summon the hidden king and he will procure the purple OG
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>>584729945
That's a real line in the game. She got Patrons sucking her off like she's Drifter.
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>>584729960
>Do you think the Patron genuinely thinks Vyper is beautiful or Lash is amazing?
You don't?
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We need a character that throws eggs, flutter kicks, and eats people like Yoshi. That would be cool I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yij_4q0P2t0
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so violet is the new urn grabber? she can cross the map in a single turbo goo slide if you place it right
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>>584729861
Why?

Everyone loves Jhin.
He's like the no.1lol hero dotards want.
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>danny is the best character lorewise by far
>he's shit
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>>584730003
You'll improve at doorman by NOT watching him. Watching him to be good at doorman is like watching metro to be good at wraith.
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They're calling Violet the new Jhin
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>>584728715
>You should play characters based entirely on moveset
You sound like a bugman. These aren't games, they're VIDEO games. Both matter.
>I turn off voice lines when I play the game because I'm not a fat retard who cares about "le lore".
Yes, I'm sure you play cute girls for the stats, we all believe you...

>>584728263
NTA but Rem is cute, has mostly fun and unique abilities, is a familiar, has a reason to participate in the Ritual and has lots of funny dialogue.
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>>584728425
I mean Vyper and Infernus and Silver all have the same wish (a shitload of money) so yes
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>>584730139
Who's they
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Not gonna lie. Violet is so fucking breathy, I think the voice actor is an actual land whale.
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>>584729960
They are
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The fact that the first line of Violet's backstory has to announce she's an immigrant speaks volumes, when we've already had multiple other non-New Yorkers who's backstories never even mentioned it
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>>584730193
Me and Jhin
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>>584729957
I hate being a dramatic bitch but I've seen this exact same cycle hit like three different in development games I've grown attached to
>rough draft thats a solid base for fun game
>slowly build on it with good update after update
>gets more and more popular until the original people are the minority
>the new horde demands that they be catered to
>its a business so they cater to them
>quality falls off a fucking cliff
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>>584730139
Who's they. Even Reddit is shitting on Violet's characterization.
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>>584729861
Jhin was made back when Riot still created actually cool and creative characters
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>>584729823
With sinclair it could be right, just with new characters some stuff gets dumber in retrospect, like how gray talon looks for who exactly killed his demonmutts, so why she doesn't just ask graves so she talked with corpses of his son and grandkids so they just identify the nigga that did it?
red 5 for danny might be justified
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So wins the dogfight between Vinny and Danny?
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I wouldn't be cool enough to hang out with Violet and Billy after class... Billy would shit talk me and Violet would laugh as he did it...
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>>584727323
That'd be cool.
I'd say "give feedback" in their discord and such, but I feel like "lore criticisms" get dog piled by the twitter weirdos that started playing (reading the wiki) within the past year.
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>>584729913
I think we're in complete agreement. I remember moaning about REM too and while my feelings haven't changed they feel muted to what I feel regarding Violet.
>>584729957
I used to dream about what Deadlock was gonna be based on what it was in 2024. It's fresh and gritty setting, it's sharp but grounded writing. I genuinely feel quite sad seeing such a bad character release and know this isn't something being half baked or WIP but simply a display of the direction we're going
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>valves been pozzed by leftoid writers and devs

im so sick of this new age religion and their proselytizing
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>>584728715
HOLY BASED
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Violet is a necessary evil. Her skin sales will keep this game afloat for years
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>mildred
>lenny
>hank
what's up with these writers name dropping random ass people
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>>584730082
>>584730214
Thanks for confirming you don't actually play the game.
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>>584730358
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>>584730338
THE CANDYMAN IS STARTING HIS GREAT WORK
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>>584730271
To be fair they did add lines with GT and graves asking for that in this update
But muh revenge comes first and whatnot
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>>584730338
Lenny is Celeste's retarded friend who got her in to this mess. If you didn't know who he is before this update you just never payed attention to anything Celeste said
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wait wtf was the poster about then? I thought she was gonna transform
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>>584730225
>>584730139
>>584729861
lol nobody plays this 2014 unc champ anymore we play Hwei now
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>>584727868
I really hope this changes.
The world/lore was actually one of the things that drew me to the game initially.
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Give Violet the same exact personality she has right now, but have her be a serial killer. Everyone likes her, she's cringe and extremely normal, and she's psychotic and has a psychotic wish
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>everyone fumbles in lane
>several killstreaks on their side (hidden king)
>lash teammate DCs for 6-ish minutes
>several instances of running in to 1v6 and dying
>consistently ahead of us in both souls and kill count
>but we win because they lost the parry-melee rejuvenator coinflip twice and we able to drop patron and finish
the more i play the more i question this games comeback mechanics and midboss as a whole
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>>584730296
>I used to dream about what Deadlock was gonna be based on what it was in 2024. It's fresh and gritty setting, it's sharp but grounded writing. I genuinely feel quite sad seeing such a bad character release and know this isn't something being half baked or WIP but simply a display of the direction we're going
Fandom does this. Deadlock is increasingly tailored for Twitter and Discord fandom spaces. Those people don't care about the actual setting or its coherence, they want a sandbox to play pretend with "their" pet pandering characters and have memes/art/shipping/porn etc. The fandom spectre is suffocating Deadlock and the biggest mistake of the open beta.
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>>584730338
>>lenny
>>hank
Hello newfag
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>remove every line mentioning her parents, therapy, or college (especially student loans)
>change her lines about protesting/political activism to make her an obvious grifter/poser/virtue signaler
>change her patron wish to be for fame and fortune (which she pretends is just so she has a platform to "make some real change" or some shit)
>make her a heroin addict instead of a pothead
basically, make her a female john lennon
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>>584730425
If we didn't know before, we definitely know now since everyone else seems to know Lenny, too.
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>>584728695
>^-^
oh god, is that the pedophile dogwhistle from /s4s/? Violettroons really are a lost cause
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>>584730338
YOU MUST STOP THE TAX AUDITOR
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>>584727262
>TALK ABOUT HER KIT

>1.3s stun

melee violet will be a thing kek. also has graves melee bait with rebuttal
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TRUST

THEY CAN STILL ADD HERO INTERACTIONS THAT RECONTEXTUALIZE VIOLET

LIKE HOW KELVIN BECAME THE THING
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>even Twitter is shitting on Violet's writing and saying she doesn't fit in the game
I hope the devs see the pushback and rethink how haphazardly they are shitting on the lore.
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>violet can't bring down flyers because her stun freezes them in mid-air
dumb
>>
Hear me out, new characters are so fucking ass both in kits and writing is because they were cooked up with no real playtesting for 9 months
Now that we back on better schedule (for real)
Damage might be not beyond repair
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>>584728349
I didn't even think about that lmao.
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GT is actually so useless no mobility shit damage no hp. just fling out birds and hope they get there in time to get a kill and get a measly +8 spirit power holy fuck buffs when
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Violet makes Mina look like the most interesting character in the whole world
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>>584728715
>Gameplaytroons when their character is a giganigger sheboon with a 18" long horse cock and shitting dick nipples and chainguns replacing both her arms and legs (she collects disability)
>Yo this shit is fire I just play for the gameplay haha
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I'm thinking i'm gonna be playing celeste, paige, mina, silver and violet and report every chud in my games.
nothing personal but no one wants you in our game anymore.
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The Baxter Society has your order number
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>>584729959
Realistically I don't think the Patron would bother hunting down their enemies, since most characters aren't trying to stop the other side as much as they're just desperate for a wish. They'd probably just start trying to make deals with the losers in order to get them on their side via a contract. This adds up with more powerful characters worrying about what comes after, and less powerful characters worrying about surviving the aftermath.
The exception would be characters like Warden and Venator, who explicitly do want to stop the Patron, which would make them a threat that needs to be dealt with.
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What is the counter to plated armor?
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>>584730457
>hannibal type hero that paints with his victim's blood and internals
>joined the ritual to create the ultimate masterpiece
Done. Hire me now, Valve.
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>>584730502
celeste and her carny buddies are popular local acts just like how the sinclairs have a magic show poster in the theater
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>>584730598
Mina is actually extremely nuanced and only seems one dimensional on the surface until you hear her conversations.
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>>584730619
Yeah, I'd just mod the game to not look like that
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>>584730658
shoot more bullets
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LOSING A 5V6 FUCKKKKK
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Spiderman would have been a better choice than violet, at least he's a New Yorker
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>>584730658
APR
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>>584730457
literally this all they have to do is add lines that imply she murdered her parents and is just a freak
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They should buff return fire and convert plated armour into anti-spirit.
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I am disappointed at the lack of drawn penises as a legitimate combat tactic
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VIOLET
SUMMON THE ARCHMOTHER, AND YOUR PUSSY WILL BE ROTATED TO THE RIGHT WAY
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>>584730704
So the character does matter alongside the kit, huh?
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>>584729034
Imagine if Hotpoo made her.
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>>584730557
>THEY CAN STILL ADD HERO INTERACTIONS THAT RECONTEXTUALIZE VIOLET
That is true but dear god they have their work cut out for them
>LIKE HOW KELVIN BECAME THE THING
Technically incorrect as people just theorized that he's a The Thing like being
It could also be he's suffered from such an intense bout of amnesia that his personality is rewritten and thus he is literally no longer the same person as he was before
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>>584730757
Tobey's Spiderman is the only accurate NYer, the rest of them are so removed from being a NYer they live in a different world.
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>>584730619
LMFAAOOO
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>>584730820
All games should be featureless gray blobs
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>>584730807
Ya know I used to actually think they were sideways until I was like fourteen
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>danny and ivy
>4v6 challenge?
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>>584730807
>*VYPER
Ftfy
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>>584730301
Valve was like that before the words were even invented. Half-Life 2 (2004) is about a white guy who gets routinely rescued by a strong, independent mystery mutt chick whose impossibly nice black amputee genius scientist father is being manipulated by an evil white woman who's actually working for an evil white man. Team Fortress 2 (2007) turned the Scottish character into a black guy and Portal (2007) has you play as another mystery meat chick. L4D2 (2009) was hastily rushed out after L4D and half the cast was black. And when converting Dota to Dota 2 (2013) they had a rule that whenever changing a character to obfuscate their Warcraft origins, if they kept them human, they made them some kind of mystery meat - including turning a racist white knight man on a horse into a horseless black chick.

Valve has always been this way and the only reason they aren't worse is because they practically stopped making games so they missed the woke peak.
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Forget movement techs I can't get the hang of crouching with left CTRL since I'm fairly new to pc gaming like, trying to do a strafing slide to the left is a fucking nightmare. Is this just something that I have to get used to over time?
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>>584730964
How miserable is your life
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>>584730932
The cloaca has to stay horizontal, it's a rule
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>vipers sloppy seconds
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Pocket does actually have a potential little sister, and it looks like she's actually more loved than Pocket. I was just talking out of my ass when I made that post.
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>>584730457
Easy fix to Violet, don't have to change any of her current lines.
She keeps talking about her parents but they're dead. She killed them.
All of her "problems" are imaginary and lies to other people either to goad for sympathy or feed her superiority.
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>>584729861
>"We designed Jhin to trick mage players into playing ADC"
His kit and his character are amazing
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How hard is Yoshi seething at one of his writers right now lmao
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>>584730964
The worst part is that you are 100% serious too.
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I keep seeing all these streamer tier list saying Graves is bottom tier, but she still has a high win rate in the top ranks.
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>>584731048
At least this one of her very few actually-about-art quotes is referencing a goated artist
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>>584730336
The game was super popular without her, Valve has no use for money and skins did nothing for TF2. Valve employees are all millionaires and they work on what they want, when they want. Cosmetics are almost entirely made by the community and Valve just takes a cut and looks the other way.

>>584731028
>>584731089
I am also 100% right. Tell me one way in which I'm wrong.
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This game aint for me how the fuck we lost a with a player more fucking morons
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>>584730557
IN HERE
I AM THING
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>>584731036
Based. She should also lay an egg on my chest.
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>>584731048
soon
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>>584727868
>Rat King

Perfectly legitimate

>Danny

Not exactly legitimate, but no less legitimate than McGinnis.

>Baba

Willing to give her some benefit of the doubt, we know she's hiding a lot of information behind her funny old pidgeon lady guise, so her otherwise simple reason likely has some layers to it. My main problem with it is that even as an excuse it's contradictory - she doesn't like that the ritual is disrupting life in her home city, so... She's joining it? Even as a cover story it is nonsensical.

>Solomon

Genuinely just kind of random, the best I can think of is he is trying to be a mediator (like his biblical namesake) he wants to control the outcome of the ritual by siding with individuals whose reasons he finds agreeable or believes he can use his own wish to curtail to end up with the world at least no worse off than it is.

>Violet

Fucking retarded.
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I'd just like to remind everyone that while Violet is bad, it can still get worse
At least she isn't the wheelchair bound R6 operative that completely undermines the setting
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>>584730993
You need to build the muscle memory, it becomes way easier afterwards. Problems start again when you're trying to do shit like Vyper sliding. Gotta unironically build up finger endurance for spamming CTRL with your pinky.
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>>584730904
the mons pubis still throws me for a loop
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>>584731071
You have no idea about the sheer level of toxic positivity modern devs have. Absolutely nothing is changing, and nobody is getting reprimanded for anything.
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>>584731125
Pubstomper, in high level play people have the macro to punish her, but in any given random game she'll eat minimum 2 walkers and apply a shit ton of pressure no matter how badly she does
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>violet killed her parents
kino, valve hire these men
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Played 5 games for the update and lost 4 come the fuck on
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>>584731194
>Genuinely just kind of random, the best I can think of is he is trying to be a mediator (like his biblical namesake) he wants to control the outcome
ALLAH please don't let the magic negro be our Arc Warden, I beg you.
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>>584731071
Why would he give a shit? No one is gonna care about this in a week lmao
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>>584731216
I know things can get worse, things can always get worse, but that doesn't make things any better.
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>>584731216
Okay but the R6 operative controls robots, so you're just being mad for the sake of it.
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Rat King is still broken lol
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>>584730993
You can rebind it if it's that bad, pick a different key or get a mouse with some side buttons and use those.
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>>584731194
both baba and solomon are in because people like seven and drifter are called. we just don't know if they are called by the patrons openly, but it makes perfect sense for someone like solomon to join in out of caution
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>>584731216
>wheelchair bound R6 operative
qrd?
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It's really easy to tie heroes to magic and the occult in this world yet they decided to just roll with "huh she's an artist".
Makes me think of pre attitude era WWE, where the gimmicks just turned to mundane shit, like cooks, lawyers, baseball player and all wrestling for no reason.
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>>584730457
>>584730689
She already wants to paint with Viscous' goo, and Haze suspects she's a Chinese asset.
I don't get why everyone's so fuckin salty about Violet, she's fine
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I just want to remind everyone that NA voraciously voted for the 500 IQ negro but tried to stop the cute Asian girl from getting in.
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hilarious that deadlock got their own luna snow
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Imply the pain is actually red because it's blood.
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>>584731405
There's an excess of culture warriors and tourists here, right now. It'll die down in a few weeks
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>>584730587
Your supposed to build him as a 1 spam bot also use your mouse to shoot the spirit arrow so it procs mystic shot
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Why is this general so low IQ?
You people don't pay any attention to the story yet speak so authoritatively.
Actual sub 90 IQ subhumans.
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>>584730993
I'll be real dawg, rebind crouch to right click before anything else.
Having it on left control by default is a trick they use to punish you. You crouch more than you need to alt-fire or zoom (just put that on ctrl) unless you're on Shiv
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>>584731405
She is not fine. She's incredibly dull and has no character.
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>>584731401
Is it even hard to keep in mind
"oh yeah, this character is going to fucking kill people"
They just keep focused on how quirky and unique their kit will be
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>>584731447
But a chess playing magical nigger that flies around is really funny. His moveset is also funny.
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>>584731194
>Solomon
I genuinely don't mind if Solomon's is relative to whom else is in the ritual

It's somewhat reflective of both chess and logic. He's black so he moves second, reacting to their opening. Baba's isn't great but if I had to guess it seems hers is interested in stopping the ritual a la warden as she talks about previous summoning events as disasters

Danny is pretty much an agent of Fairfax. He's about as legit as Haze or the Venator
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>even the deadlock subreddit is shitting on the dialogue
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>>584731447
chess is based tho
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>>584731405
She's not fine until we see more, but they don't record 2000 lines of cringe dialogue because there's potential here.
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Where is the nude violet skin
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>>584731368
Neurodivergent special forces operator who controls robots cause his legs are useless. Siege has an actual tranny and a space aline lady and Snake so he is not somehow the dumbest inclusion
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>>584731405
She is every asian-american stereotype rollled into one, presented as is with zero twists. She is talented, a good artist, talks like a 2026 teenager complaining about student debt and rent, has zero reason to be in the ritual, and her only single flaw is "impostor syndrome".
She is basically a Riot Games character.
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>>584731447
Ain't nothing wrong with Solomon, he's chill
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>violets stun has a 25m range, 32m range with expansion and is only blocked by line of sight
why is no one talking about how insane her retarded kit is
or are we still whining for the next few hours or so
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>>584731515
Sorey we don't we don't like your OC, Chin Chan
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>>584731515
this isn’t fucking shakespeare bro, it’s not that deep. If it seems like retarded shit it probably is.
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>>584731495
I've been playing since 2024 and violet is insanely cringe
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>>584731309
Them controlling robots is the thing that undermines the setting, retard
There's 2 things wrong with it
If we can develop robots that are so articulate that they can move and fight exactly like a human, then why are we risking our limited pool of highly trained and skilled operatives sending them out on field missions instead of having them train drone pilots?
It also undermines itself because if we can develop robots that are so articulate that they can move and fight exactly like a human, then why not use the same technology to give the poor woman new legs so she can serve again? That would be good representation.
Instead we get bad disability representation that completely undermines the premise of the setting.
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>>584731447
He has a funny Jamaican accent so its cool
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I'm so humiliated every match
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>>584731719
She is genuinely so atrocious in terms of character that people don't even want to discuss how overpowered and broken she is lol
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>>584731151
>skins did nothing for TF2

Well that’s just a lie lol
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>It's not too late, Solomon. With the Hidden King at your side, your values can be the foundation of a new golden age!
>You fight for the well-being of others, Solomon. Summon the Hidden King, and you can make New York a sanctuary for all who deserve it.

What does he actually want?
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>>584731447
If the final result of Solomon and Violet as characters mean anything NA was right
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>>584731871
gibs
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>>584731636
Usually takes a week
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>>584731680
The problem is PANDERING. Violet is a very obvious pandering character, to be relatable self insert bait for Twitter fandom troglodytes. It's fanservice and terrible fanservice at that. When you fall in the pandering chasm it's hard to get out.
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>>584731871
With how all the new characters scare the Patrons so much, Warden seems almost comically pointless.
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>>584730186
hmm I suppose you're right actually
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>>584731834
She did jackshit in the 4 games I played with her, and she also lost all 4
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>>584731779
That's fine, and there is legitimate criticism to voice.
Just look at what the thread was like when Solomon came out and tell me there aren't /v/niggers or culture warriors here.
>>584731719
The tether breaks the moment you LoS her, it's not as good as it sounds, and the stun is unaffected by gravity so it doesn't even fuck over flyers (the one archetype that can't access LoS)
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>>584731309
>These are the kinds of people unironically defending Violet
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>>584731515
We’re playing the game bro, I don’t care about the story.
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>>584728389
she does kind of sexist in that regard , like just give her giant tits and this would be the type of non character that would make feminist seethe and stuff.

>>584731457
its karma for deadlock players making fun of luna snow , that chinise man simp for luna is so strong was so strong he reincarnated her into deadlock and her wish is to make deadlock rivals.
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>>584731834
Who cares, they can tweak her skills later, they will never change her dogshit character, so we are permanently stuck with this shit now.
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>>584731871
whyte people to die
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>>584731216
>things can get worse
We say that every patch and it gets worse every patch
>Urgh Billy doesn't really fit and is cringe. Paige is bland and doesn't fit the tone well
>it could be worse. At least theyre [xyz]!
>Urgh Graves talks like a modern teenager and REM doesn't fit the alternate history setting at all, he's just a magic toddler!
>she's meant to be a cringe teenager and he's meant to NOT fit in, at least they're [xyz]. It could be worse!
>Jesus Violet is the worst thing they've added
>AT LEAST SHE'S NOT A TRANNY IN A WHEELCHAIR IT COULD BE WORSE
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>>584731956
That was also the case with Baba who is probably the most broken character in the game atm next to Rat King and Celeste.
She has a MUCH higher winrate than most of the cast did on release, by the way.
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>aiyah bingbong white people!
I actually despise this character jesus christ
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>>584731250
You act as if they didnt completely fucking scrap Neon Prime
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>>584732013
It actually started with Paige btw
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Hmm yes I will paint dicks on cooldown
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>>584731405
>I don't get why everyone's so fuckin salty about Violet, she's fine
Because she's boring. It's that simple
There's literally nothing interesting going on with her besides maybe being an illegal immigrant due to not having her green card yet
And this is before we enter the discussion of her dialogue and how she's written which is also not great
She's just a massive disappointment all around
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Billy was the last good character
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>>584731943
Who is "scaring" the Patrons, exactly?
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>>584731871
To kill all (other) black people.
Yakub didn't come this far to lose.
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>>584732075
this but dog dicks specifically
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So far we got a Rat that also wants to annex US land, a park grandma, a park grandpa, a normal ass art student, and an undying corporate simp. In their attempt to be quirky and creative they created some of the most bland and uninteresting characters to ever grace a videogame. Harrow better be amazing.
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CAN'T SEE SHIT WITH THIS BITCH'S ULT UP
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>>584732042
You just KNOW she has a white bf and hates Asian men
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>>584732075
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>>584732051
That was then. Valve is done scrapping shit for this game. We are like 2 major updates away from public beta (release).
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>>584732060
I know. And back then any criticism was met with "it's an attractive woman! SORRY YOURE GAY!!!"
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>>584731871
I think he's trying to just guide the outcome in general to stop the world from getting too fucked up. He's using his wish in conjunction with everyone elses wish based on what he thinks is needed.
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>>584726984
extremely cringe
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yoshi is crying because everyone is being mean to violet... stop the hate...
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Have people forgotten that it isn't actually the Patrons speaking to us during the game and its just their heralds? Or am the only one who knows?
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I don't give a shit about Violet, throw her in the bin. I want the leaked spider.
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i do think rat king was a hit tho, baba is really bland considering her gimmick fsr and violet is horrible lol
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>>584732042
yeah that’s actually fucking awful
imagine the fallout if someone acknowledged Wraith’s blackness in any way
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>>584732143
They wanted more New York characters, but they made them far too bland. At the very least, give us more than vagueposting. Even the 2024 characters that had vague stories had an idea of where their character trajectory was headed, but these new characters seem completely static. Like, once the ritual is over, they will go back to their normal lives as if nothing happened.
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I want apology letters from all Violet fags in by sunday
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>>584728263
>art student with daddy issues (forma de Asian woman #26380)
>dream demon that was made by CIA glowies on accident trying to go home while his glowie mom feels conflicted between her duty as an agent and her duty as a mother

These are not even remotely the same.
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Is anyone else getting the weird "healing needles" popping up on their screen?
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>>584727417
Billy and Paige were criticized as well back then. However they feel godlike compared to Violet.
Billy has a goat head. Paige is a bibliomancer - whatever the hell this is (at least there is an explanation for her powers). Violet has 0 links to occult or supernatural.
Billy is kind of a fucktard and most of the cast rightfully shits on him. This makes for funny conversations. Paige has that mystery about her missing brother. Violet doesn't have a fun personality or any mysteries. Her problems are very mundane.
Billy is a punk, an anarchist. Paige is an endearing nerd, she reminds you of someone like Velma. Violet is a cute art student, I wouldn't call that an interesting archetype.
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will they add the pest exterminator who didn't even have a wish he was just stuck in the middle of the ritaul because of a shift , back.

it would be fun if that was a type of character that was forced into it rather than willfully joining.

did he ever really existed?
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>>584732042
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>>584732042
>Kill Line on Wraith
>Yeesh, that black jiggering spook was getting too close for comfort!
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>>584732149
>billy
>shiv
>abrams
That's 2/3 white dudes
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>>584731871
He wants to win because he doesn't want the worse guys to win
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It happens to all hero shooters, i don't know why people think Valve would be different.
New characters always get less and less grounded as the patch comes, and gameplay wise they also tend to get pushed back, unless their design merge perfectly with the core gameplay.
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Retards cream themselves like this game has some unique hero kits when everything you see in this game has all been done in other mobas
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>>584731719
She's got some dumb shit with her kit, like a few bugs I've found already
>rapidly changing direction for her 1 projectile causes it to apply a negative velocity, to the point you can make it go backwards, or just stand still
>her 2 has no duration, if you just rapidly spin your character it'll spin for as long as you feel like.
Neither of these are particularly useful, like her 2 can't hit the same person more than once. But painting with her 1 seems like it's going to immediately be fucked, not to mention that her kit is just quite strong disregarding whatever buggy shit it'll produce
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>>584732228
Supposedly it's patrons speaking through someone by possessing or something
Otherwise it makes little sense how they know so much, read minds and shit
Plus VA, no way any usual person would talk like that naturally
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>>584732278
That's 100% it. For Seven, Kelvin, Grey Talon, etc It is one of the, if not, most important day of their lives. For these new characters. It's a Tuesday.
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violet would actually be a better character if they made her extremely racist
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By far the biggest problem is that Violet has no reason to participate in the ritual. Baba and Yakub can be reasoned with via vagueposting, they're powerful mages, it's New York, whatever. Why the fuck is Violet here? She isn't desperate. She isn't a demon hunter. She isn't a mass murderer. She isn't ambitious at all, she's already successful.
Is the actual, unironic explanation, muh imposter syndrome? This is retarded.
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Solomons accent is to goofy
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>>584732281
I like her kit I ain't apologizing for shit
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I don't think it's possible to have a team more cancerous than this.
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>>584732253
tell me more anon.
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>>584732353
you're thinking of trapper and he was beyond based
BRING HIM BACK
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friday, october 16th, 2026
the day deadlock died
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>>584731871
He's a wannabe philosopher with impossibly utopian ideals that he can't achieve on his own. That's why he's so desperate to preach to others, since its the only way he feels like he can change anything.
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>>584732485
>no dynamo/lash/paige/solomon
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>>584732327
Paige is at least an anxious shy nerd but one who has been raised on tales of heroism, and now that she has a personal crisis she's built up her courage to try and do something heroic herself. Of all the characters who are in over their head doing the ritual she seems to be the only one to properly acknowledge that she's not made for this.
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>>584727262
My initial impression for the skill 1 alt fire is you just paint a ramp in front of you for instant highground+cover


I haven’t been able to play but if she can buy headshot items this will be very op in lane
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Eskay says she resonates very much with Violet growing up as an Asian woman in America
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>>584732459
asian women only know how to write one character
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>>584732042
>Paige more neurotic than Violet
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>>584732528
two more weeks
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>>584732374
I tried to point this exact shit out to the discord trannies only to realize that none of them had eaten breakfast this morning.
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Violet wants that werewussy so bad holy shit she's thursty
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She's too squishy and easy to kill
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>>584732485
wrong, replace venator for mohammed & kareem
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>>584727262
Should've had Grimstroke's ult and Dark Portrait
Rifts already spawn black candlemen, imagine if her skill would make black ink copies of enemies
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not even the target audience is happy man
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She can block the big walker laser
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>>584732546
Violet literally said she's nervous and threw up to Baba, so she's scared shitless as well. She's just better at hiding it.
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>asian artists on twitter dont like her
lel
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>asian girl artist prodigy with nothing negative about her except she hates her parents

This might be the most self insert character Valve has ever made
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violet? more like LEGEND OF THE ASSLESS WOMAN
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>walks at the enemy base
>kills it
>enemies come to stop me
>kill them too
was this a fucking bot game
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>>584732459
If you've known art student in real life, many of them will do some down right retarded shit for exposure. Her goal is actually the most consistent thing about her character and makes the most sense, the entire city will see what she can do. I do think they should have made her way more egotistical though
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>>584732620
If it wasn't obvious enough that she's some artist's self insert.
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>>584732608
dilate
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You voted for this plank instead of THE biggest bust in Deadlock
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DUDE WEED LMAO
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so can we track down asian artists that work for valve and find out who fucked who? ill be doing so
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>>584732042
undeniable proof the playerbase is full of basedboys and trannies
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Baba is still broken.
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>>584732620
she's a slut for dogs of course she wants werewolf silver
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>>584732731
Is anybody even watching the ritual
I don't see cameras or reporters
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Seven is so fucking cool...
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>game takes place in new York
>no real ass hood nigga character
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>>584732731
>the entire city will see what she can do
Summon a demon god?????
Again, this exposure thing would work if she were a failed desperate artist. But no, she's a worldwide phenomenon, her art is in the biggest New York galleries. What the fuck is the point?
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>>584732620
Another patch another yuribait character for men who want to be women?
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GET RID OF THE THERAPY
GET RID OF THE DRAMA WITH HER PARENTS

KEEP HER AN ART SCHOOL STUDENT
KEEP HER CRINGE SHIT ATTITUDE

BUT MAKE HER VIOLENTLY AMBITIOUS AND UTTERLY OBSESSED WITH MAKING A MASTERPIECE THAT SHE LOSES SIGHT OF HER OWN ART
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>>584731447
Chess negro is at least funny, Violet is just boring and generic and is already mogged by the other asian girl, Mina
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>>584732571
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>>584732731
We don't get a sense that she tried to do anything beforehand to make a name for herself. Even Seven said that she wastes her talents doing nothing with it to instill a sense of anything in others.

So for her to go from 0 to 100 with the ritual feels contrived. At least if she talked about all the weird shit she did to try to get noticed in the art world, we can understand why she's in the ritual.
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>>584732620
She wants to fuck everybody
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>>584732353
He'd be a really good foil for Rat King as well
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>>584732787
meds
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>>584731515
Epstine and Trump have totally broke people's minds.
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what if my self-insert was in the game aaaaaand seven thought she was SUPER cool?
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>>584732042
>She's like me if I was black and more criminal
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>>584732928
How will she react to walking in on Billy fucking Vyper
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>>584732928
billy bros we won
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>>584731943
>Wardens all shtick is hes mastered the ability to shield his mind from the patrons
>all these recent characters are all uber genius elder gods larping as people and the patrons have to vaguepost at them

Deadlock lost the plot
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>>584728715
TRVUCLEAR BVMB
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HERRO DEADROCK
I JOIN YOU NOW YES??
I ASIAN, I SO SAD, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE EVERYTHING
SO RONERY
I GET HIGH, I BISEXUAL
YOU ENJOY ME OK??
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>>584732265
>she's like me if I was black and washed my chicken in the sink
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>>584732681
she's even good at hiding her emotions...what a prodigy...
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>>584732846
It would kind of be hard to not notice the flying skeleton man dropping napalm bombs on an old black guy who just summoned a giant chess piece in Greenwich
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>>584731515
>moba
>story

The 19th amendment was a mistake
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she should have just been Billy 2
Every single person hates her but she doesnt notice
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You can do so many things with a painter occultist
Have it so she needs more and more souls to paint
Have it so she wants to create the ultimate masterpiece and needs to do the ritual for it
Have it so she killed her parents and used their blood as paint
Have it so she poured all her soul into her masterpieces and is now a walking husk and needs to take souls from others
Do fucking anything except Asian American therapy labubu matcha tiger parent trauma
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With how shit some of the new characters have been I'm really scared of what they're going to do when they start remodelling older characters
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At least we're not alone. I was scared everywhere else would be going "OMG VIOLET IS SO COOL SHE SMOKES WEED WITH BILLY AND OWNS SEVEN BADASS #ARTIST"
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>>584733067
>doesnt mention PARENTS TOO STRICTU once
fake news
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ
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Violet unironically saved the game.

The reaction to her writing is so negative that Yoshi is 100% paying attention now so that they'll never push it this hard again.
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>>584733197
OH NO!
NOTTO RIKE DIS!!
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>>584733139
Some Hex Painter doing Dorian Gray shit or some King In Yellow schizo would have been good.
But they want to get them fanarts and retweets from transbians artists.
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>>584733038
>>584731943
I thought wardens point was more so closer to someone like bilvo , is not like he is more powerfull than anyone normal , he is just one of the few characters that can't be charmed by the patrons schemes and is extremly straight foward about wanting to kill them .
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Where are the solomon nerfs?
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>"waaah forced immigration"
Literally only voice line referencing it is Haze implying her being suspicious of her being a chinese spy
>"waah doesn't belong"
Yeah, New York has never had liberal art students.

She's kinda shit, but only because her painting abilites don't have any world-building behind them and they didn't really bother doing anything ambitious or interesting with her abilities. Especially her ult FX is mid as fuck. She similar to Paige, except Paige has the occult book shop background to justify her magicks. Violet could've been written to mention some lines about how higher grade Art industry integrated magicks into the painting process in the decades after the maelstrom, but guess Valve was too lazy for that this time.
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Violet's backstory should be that she's a massive failure DESPITE having magic powers.
It would make her joining the ritual to get recognition actually make sense.
Instead
>Um ackshully I'm already successful I just have imposter syndrome
no fuck off
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>>584733236
I’m afraid this self insert is some intern Yoshi is banging and it will result in a doubledown


I also think leaving it apolitical would have mitigated 90% of this
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>Violet but she is literally obsessed with the Patrons due to eldritch mindrape and just came here to paint them when they get summoned in their full forms
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>>584733236
I doubt it. I bet he's filtering out all the complaints.
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>>584733185
there was no chance this went over well honestly, people have been clowning on luna snow for this exact reason for months
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>>584733378
hire this man
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>>584733318
>Literally only voice line referencing it is Haze implying her being suspicious of her being a chinese spy
When she kills Haze she says something about getting her green card
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She's just like me if I was black and rage twerked all over instagram
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>>584732928
Did she enter the ritual while ovulating
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>>584733378
insane how many ways they could have done an artist character that a dozen anons instantly come up with better ideas than "uhhh I want some clout, but not wishing for it, I just want the nonexistant people watching the ritual to see me kill people and then think 'wow those pictures were neat'"
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I got banned in reddit for posting Violet kneeing Nurse Harrow (George Floyd style) while they get to post Charlie Kirk memes? WTF.
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>>584733185
Drifter would be encouraging like that ngl
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I don't play this game and probably won't ever since I don't have a proper PC.

But I think Ivy is the best character in this game.
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>>584732435
her 1 projectiles have no damage fall-off but sometimes fizzle mid-air for no reason, possibly a bug.
her 1 walls can block entrances to midboss and break line-of-sight with lash ult
you can surf across the entire map with your 2 if you're good at it which has rotation potential.
her 3 is objectively her strongest part of her kit since she can cancel shit like seven/bebop/mcginnis/rem/ivy ult from far away
her 4 is just midboss contest slop but those are always good.
overall a solid kit but its a bit janky and her overall damage output isn't that impresses imo. im expecting a baba situation where shes F tier because no one knows how she works then a boost to maybe B or A tier once people figure her shit out.
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>>584733471
Wraith twerks?
Link??
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>playing violet
>enemy bebop starts ulting me
>dash to a corner, crouch, and draw a wall around myself
>it just blocks it
This hero is fucking great
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>>584733378
I know what you play.
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>>584733532
>>584733528
>>584733552
>>584733471
>>584733461
>>584733449
>>584733410
>>584733375
>>584733375
Say sorry.
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How do you even manage to write a character with zero motivation and zero fucking flaws? I feel like even I as someone who never wrote anything seriously would stumble into one of these at least.
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>>584733528
Close, but Vyper and Seven are better.
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FUUUUUUCK SHE REALLY WAS MEANT TO BE INVOKER

WE GOT FUCKING ROBBED
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This game needs more edgy heroes, more brown women with large secondary sexual characteristics and less fucking deathball
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>>584733631
You ever seen an Asian American woman?
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>>584733582

I'M SORRY BILLY-CHAMA PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Why not just do the classical obsessed artist trope?
Violet wants to summon the patron because she wants to see the true form of the patron and use it as her otherworldly muse for her work. You can even rope it into her cringe imposter syndrome by having her escape "conventional art" to capture "the truth"
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how is it that Silver has 10 times the characterization compared to violet
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>>584732671
when are projecting troons ever happy? >>584733019
sit down in cuck chair.
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>>584733582
He's so fucking cool
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>>584733646
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Why does the matchmaker set up games like this?
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>>584733646
they realized her primary demographic would be low IQ waifutards so had to dumb her down
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>>584733709
10x1 is 10 I suppose
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>>584732459
4chan is almost comically buck broken over the idea of a borderline normie falling for misguided route of betterment.

Literally the entire joke of Violet is that she doesn't need the wish at all but is so god damn insecure about being perfect that she can't see that her parents are pieces of shit and that she has actual friends and talent.

That's literally the entire theme of Deadlock, all the characters are retarded niggers who think they are taking the easy way out to solve their problems when in reality the patrons clearly have little intention of actually granting their wish, or at most will give them the monkey's paw version of it.
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I think I don't like NYC people if they're all obnoxious like this.
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>>584733410
And has Marvel Rival's dev team tackled the problem at all or did they just continue as usual?
>>584733582
Beginning of the end. The writing has been on a steady decline ever since

Herolabs heroes may look like dogwater but they were written on par with the original cast. It's why people still talk about Wrecker and Raven etc.
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>>584733631
The West Coast.
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Basically how Violet feels
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>>584733709
Silver was bad on release but she's okay with the implication that she spiraled out of control after trying and failing to do something noble
I don't see Violet getting that same glow up without completely overhauling her character somehow
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what could have been
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>>584733582
Billy-sama I will never doubt you again you are literally che guevarra reborn...
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>>584733185
There's been quite a bit of pushback, even some people evaluating whether certain characters belong in the game at all with their motives, it's nice to see people being more constructive considering the game tends to have a toxic positivity issue
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>>584733139
It's crazy that we still dont have a straight up Occultist guy in the Occult game.
Like where's the normal ass dude performing rituals using ancient tools and obscure languages
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Violet feels like a bad mixture of pcoket and Kelvin to me, sure you can burst people but pocket does it way better with a gazillion escapes. Sure you can use her for area denial and slowing enemy heros but Kelvin does it way better while being a giga rapist with way more hp.
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>>584733582
I want to ride him while holding his horns.
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Danny's best sales pitch was him selling me on Wrecker
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>>584733752
>that she can't see that her parents are pieces of shit
uh no if you read her dialogue she pretty clearly never shuts up about that
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>>584733646
her ult feels like a last minute addition so that wouldn't surprise me
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>>584733631
You can't give a character no flaws and no motivation by mistake.
You have to do it on purpose.
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>>584733752
Yes, that's the literal characterization we're all criticizing. The writer behind this character is projecting her feelings of inadequacy, because even though she made it as a Valve writer, her parents likely still don't view her with the same prestige as her other siblings that are doctors/lawyers/executives.

So she channels this into the fact that she is the bestest most awesomest person who succeeds, yet her parents don't acknowledge it, so she hates them and wishes them dead.
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>>584731182
Vipers usually give live birth anon
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Continuing to ask for votes when there's just one choice left seems like a real humiliation ritual for harrowsisters
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"Generate a Deadlock character concept and abilities"

SELVEDGE — “The Last Fitting”
An original fan hero: a haunted funeral tailor’s mannequin.
I checked the existing roster and all six announced City Never Sleeps heroes. Selvedge isn’t among them; his design draws on Deadlock’s supernatural New York setting and its mix of ordinary occupations with occult horror. All Characters
For decades, a funeral tailor fitted burial suits on the same mannequin. Every garment left something behind: a regret, a promise, an unfinished wish. Eventually, the mannequin stepped down from its stand.
Now Selvedge dresses the dead—and occasionally arranges appointments for the living. He enters the ritual hoping a Patron can untangle the hundreds of voices inside him and give him an identity of his own.
Appearance: Blank stitched linen face, wooden fingers, oversized plum coat, measuring-tape scarf, and a hollow torso held together by spectral thread. Painfully polite; constantly adjusting other people’s collars.
Weapon: The Seam Ripper, a modified sewing machine firing rapid bursts of heavy needles.
Proposed abilities:
- Hemline: Place two needle anchors to create a spectral tripwire. Crossing enemies take damage and become briefly slowed.
- Taken In: Stitch an enemy to a nearby surface. Moving away stretches the thread until it snaps for damage; destroying the anchor safely releases them.
- Loose Thread: Unravel into a flying ribbon, then reform a short distance away, leaving an empty coat decoy.
- Final Fitting: Cast a giant pattern of stitches across an area. After a visible windup, the threads tighten, dragging enemies toward its center. Destroying its anchors opens escape routes.
Voice line: “Hold still. I’d hate to take your measurements twice.”
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>>584727069
I left some feedback on the forum to this effect that probably won't ever be read by anyone, but its really stark comparing the original 19 character lineup and all the characters added pre-6 Heroes to everything that has come since when you look at both their capability or experience with doing violence and their motive or desperation driving them to participate. Feels like we're really going the League route with just having whoever be a part of the match rather than a more focused and believable cast of people on the fringes of society.
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>>584733709
to be fair we're setting the bar really low here if we're using Violet as the baseline
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>>584733646
No fucking way. What a travesty.
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>>584733752
>Violet is that she doesn't need the wish at all but is so god damn insecure about being perfect that she can't see that her parents are pieces of shit and that she has actual friends and talent
We're talking about an occultist ritual to summon an outer god
Once again, you could swap in Grimstroke completely unchanged and his backstory would fit the setting way, way more
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>>584733752
NOTHING indicates Violet is meant to be satirical/on the nose.
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Harrow being last is unironically a good thing. Imagine having the final character be this disappointing flop bitch
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>>584733762
New Yorkers are famously all rude obnoxious assholes
Have you even stepped foot in america? Everyone knows this, this is just a cultural fact that any child who grew up in america innately understands
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>>584732731
That's the issue, her characterization is all over the place. If she came off as egotistical no one would complain about her having an egotistical wish. But she has the temperament of plain white rice.
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>>584732731
I'm already bored of the posts respond to Violet's retarded writing with
>heh art/art student do be like dat
stfu, idiot
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>>584733983
that's true I guess but it still sucks
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>>584733939
>I'd rather redeem this than Violet
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>>584733854
>bottom drawing.

what if she is a secret fucked up eldrich being, in disguise , that seems to be a trend for this characters batch at least.
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>Chayna
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>>584733646
Don't really understand why they didn't just do 5 characters and keep her in the oven.
She seems unfinished as a character and as a kit
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>>584729617
we get it, you've only played Overwatch and Marvel Rivals and still think Deadlock is a hero shooter.
Adapt or leave faggot
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>>584728665
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>>584727530
>actively courting Billy
she's retarded
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Uh oh bros, I'm finding Violet kinda fun
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>>584733516
Saint Floyd and Saint Kirk hero when? (they are 1 single hero)
1: Change Form. Switch between Floyd (a melee specialist with goods movement) and Kirk (a squishy gunner). After you switch you temporarily gain bonus damage.
2: Matyrdom. Instantly dies. If you are Floyd, summon a horde of melee protesters to swarm the enemies. If you are Kirk, your wife (a powerful creep with a gun) is summoned. You revive faster after.
3: Sacred Rite. As Floyd, disable a target in melee range and cause them to drop their soul orb. As Kirk, it's a long range channeled disable as he debates the opponent (also turn them towards him).
4: Saintdom. Only usable while dead. Instantly revive yourself for 20s. Kirk gains a pair of angel wings and can fly during this time. Floyd is empowered with an aura of fentanyl, which causes sleep build up in nearby enemies. Your death counter still ticks down as you are in this mode.
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>so whats your ult
>i make a ring of +25 spirit power

Wow, impressive!
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>>584733752
Violetfag this argument fell flat the first time you tried it, you're really still going with this? Do you enjoy being humiliated repeatedly?
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>>584733939
>literally better than violet
ahahaha
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>>584734052
>that seems to be a trend for this characters batch at least.
And it's fucking stupid and makes characters like Doorman and Warden less special/interesting
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FIX MODS ALREADY
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>From Invoker to +25 spirit power circle
At least the Invoker kit will be attached to a cool character when it arrives now
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>>584733582
I'm sorry for William-san
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>>584733983
Honestly, as a Harrow chad, you might be right

I think I would have uninstalled right then and there if this was the last hero drop and it was this hot fresh turd
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I voted for violet like 30 times because I thought she'd transform like in her poster. It would've been really cool.
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>>584733762
AY IM WALKIN HEA
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>>584734091
thank you M.Sc in Physics for letting me read this image name
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>>584733882
Like, ride him, or *ride* him?
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How do I get a violet gf?
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>>584733532
Her 1 walls can also just block minion waves, so you can herd a push if you want, they also just sorta turn off towers if you paint them right on it, they can block the projectile from the walker without deactivating it so you can get damage for free
her 3 has a target range, but no actual range - you can't outdistance it, have to LOS to break it - she can parry while channeling her 3 but it interrupts it
her 4 seems useful for damage if you have people who can pull/push, Baba 1, Abrams charge, Lash throwing people into it, Vortex web, it hits pretty hard if you can get someone through more than one segment but she can't really do that herself
I've really enjoyed playing her, but I'm not good, I've got no illusions on if she'll be good or not, just that she's janky and will probably get some bug fixes like making minions ignore her walls/be able to break them, the weird shit with her 1 projectiles fizzling/reversing, her walls interacting with the objectives probably at all
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>>584726984
Can we bitch on the forums enough to get this cringe stuff rewritten? It’s so toothless and gay now. Dude DRUGS is the gayest
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>>584734149
I only just got bunnysuit Graves working...
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>People will see me killing people and want to hire me for my art
What? You don't commission a killer to draw you a picture nigga
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wew lad i don't think i shoulda joined this fuckin ritual
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Got banned again for saying that my cock tastes like the asshole of someone's dog.
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>>584734126
Valve should replace it with the demon painting.
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>>584733939
Unironically a cool concept
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>>584733965
>Once again, you could swap in Grimstroke completely unchanged and his backstory would fit the setting way, way more
Deadlock desperately needs some lower level murderer characters. Sure you have niggas like Drifter and Seven that totally killed a bunch of people and it's spooky as hell, but please add some guy that murdered named characters.
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>he wasnt taught ancient greek
lmaoing at your life
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>>584734126
>+25 spirit power
That's Kelvin on his ice path lmao
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>>584733939
Mogged Violet
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>>584734153
>the invoker of this game is a warlock of wall street
KINO. MAKE IT HAPPEN, VALVE.
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>>584734238
Become rich and start attending bougie art parties.
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So who was it going around claiming violet was going to be like invoker?
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>>584734126
Walking into that shit is like 1/4th your health as a squishy, man.
>>584734046
>>584734140
>>584734270
>>584734307
Good morning sirs
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>>584733885
Want this nigga like you don't believe
We need some just fucked up monster guy who doesn't act faux poetic ever.
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>>584734223
Ride him from the front.
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>>584734238
Skin color?
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>>584734141
not if the doorman and warden humble her in the character interaction , TRUST.

I am all in on violet stocks.
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I hate Violet’s thick accent.
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>>584734370
the joke is that saarslop is better than violet
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Paige face remodel incoming. It looks like they're reworking the models to have facial animation and making the bodies under their clothes make more sense, probably for skins.
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>>584734126
Genuinely Violet's ult is the thing that pisses me off most about her
It's pointless. It's a literally pointless addition to the game.
I will never, ever be excited or scared that a fucking Violet ult is going off
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>>584711805

Somewhere in San Francisco, this inspired a wasian woman to finally write her vent blogpost about being bullied over her lunchbox's smell back in middleschool.
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>>584734153
I'd really like the Invoker character to be a musician.
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>>584733885
old valve wouldve put this guy in
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>>584734435
Who is worse her or solomon?
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>>584734447
There's nothing wrong with her kit, tho.
>>584734476
sex
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man what the fuck, her default no expansion ult covers an entire rift, was rift just not annoying enough already
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>>584734476
Where can I find a stacked womanlet like her
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If the original draft was Invoker, why not just leave her in the oven until you could actually do it?
I don't think anybody would be seething that this batch is only 5 heroes if you just say one needs more work before it's ready.
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>>584733318

Its actually baffling how easy it is to add some flavor to a character like this in a setting with the occult everywhere

Just make something up about how she really wanted to show off for some art gallery and used enchanted paints she got from some shady corner shop and the paint came alive and killed a bunch of people at the viewing and made her a pariah

Instead we get 'I am so quirky and I LOVE to smoke weed and play burnout revenge for the PS2'
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>Violet's serial killer backstory is revealed in Doorman quotes (she killed her parents)

Would you accept this?
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>>584733903
Do we even know who any of the writers are?

Has anyone confirmed who has written for which character?

It's absolutly retarded that everyone is getting upset over her not having a "valid reason" for joining when barely any of the other characters have a valid reason for joining either.

Danny has even less of a reason to join but everyone seems to be ok with him joining to give the billion dollar company that doesn't give a shit about him more money.
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>liberal arts major character that has to make sure you know she does drugs and hates religion
>oh and shes sooooo horny for women
brave.
daring.
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>>584732185
Cute girls ruin every game they are in. Every single criticism doesn't matter anymore because waifutards and coomers will disregard all of it. The billion dollar industry that is gacha shit is literally built on this.

Hope you enjoyed deadlock while you could.
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqkvTAWJ1jc
Harrowfags... actually cool edit though.
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>still no canonical rapist hero who threatens everyone with rape
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>>584733939
I actually like this and it would fit the theme.
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>>584734560
>her kit
we're talking about her design, are you the "i only care about gameplay i mute all the voices and want everyone to be a featureless gray blob"?
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They killed sinclair for this btw
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>>584734604
>Danny has even less of a reason to join but everyone seems to be ok with him joining to give the billion dollar company that doesn't give a shit about him more money.
thats just art imitating life.
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>>584734597
Sort of. It'll make her not a sore thumb but still the voicelines she has are atrocious.
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>>584734660
>a-actually i was talking about her design, nevermind the fact that the image i replied to had only three sentences of lore
Concession accepted, sir.
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>>584733631
It's surprisingly fucking hard.
I've made over 45 unique characters for my fighting game project and each one has their ups and downs without feeling forced or flawless.
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>>584734604
Violet is literally every Asian American woman's foray into the arts. If the Valve writer isn't an Asian American woman, then they must have been inspired by the multitude of writings or shows that depicts it.
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>>584734604
Steve Jaros is doing some of the worldbuilding at least
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>>584734628
I really really like his Danny video. I've watched it a dozen times already
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Is there a lore reason why Danny is a skeleton?
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>>584733752
Even assuming you're correct about the point of the characterization it does not change the fact that it doesn't fit the setting at all and is really fucking boring.
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>figured out how to ice-skate around the entire map with her 2
ok im having fun now :)
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>>584727102
they just made a whole show about it too
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will Violet join Paige in her daily dog sex sessions, or will she try to eat them instead?
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>>584734660
You're replying to Violetfag, he's made it his life's mission to defend a boring character apparently.
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>>584734238
get a big handsome german shepherd
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>>584734126
It's an aoe Paradox wall that you can't get out of.
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>>584734604
>when barely any of the other characters have a valid reason for joining either.
This has been an ever growing issue for the last few major updates, most of the early heroes have very clear goals, with each of these new batches of 6 I don't even think half of them have a strong motivation
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>>584733903
>most awesomest person who succeeds
she is clearly written to be real, real fucking stupid. She's friends with Billy. It is damning of her in character that she is participating in the ritual when she clearly doesn't need to, she is scared for her life and is so wrapped up in proving her parents wrong and escaping their control that she still doesn't see that trying so hard is still letting them dictate her life. These are not A+ superstar yass queen slay descriptors, they're descriptors of a fucking idiot - the sheltered and gifted school child who hits the wall of real life. The other characters -at best- treat her like Rem, a child that needs to be looked after. This is the same shit people pull with movies that follow bad people, they think them even being a character is somehow the same as the material extolling their values.
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i genuinely don't understand the violet malding lol
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>>584734597
At least it'd be mildly entertaining that she acts like a spoiled brat that hates her parents but actually murdered them
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>>584734604
His schizophrenia revealed it in a dream, tho
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>>584727262
Her 1 scales stupidly well.
Her 2 is a crazy good mobility option to get your entire team out of Patron fight after first phase.
Her 3 is fully aids and you can't do shit against it. Not sure how balanced her drawings are to collect.
Her 4 is kinda useless.

Nerf her 3, buff her 4, give a sliiight overall nerf and she'll be fine.
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>>584734794
it's covered by his NDA with Fairfax, so no, not yet at least
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>>584734794
because he's a deadman
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>>584734884
how about how she talks of student debt but her bio says she has full tuition nigger
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>>584734874
wdym this update litetally sanewashed Billy and made him a heckin chungus
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>claims she worked out her parental issues in therapy
>still seething about it and shits on others for having parent issues
What's her fucking problem?
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Unironically killing the game type hero
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>>584727102
I guess because they're raised to be as boring and conforming as possible, but then they become adults living in an individualistic western culture so want to express themselves, but they have absolutely nothing to draw from so they pump out the same boring shit.
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>>584735000
She's didn't work it out.
The writer is still mad at their parents and forgot the self insert was supposed to be over it.
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Its pretty obvious that Valve saw the insane popularity and success of Mina and wanted to test the water if they could just shit out generic asian women for $$$
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Violet is especially baffling because the rest of the heroes in this update have been decent to great

So where the FUCK did this writing come from?
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anyone else found it out that velvet and harrow were the last ones?
it's usually the coomer bait that gets picked first
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>>584729321
Isn't Apollo's wish to have Ixia be part of the Olympics? What would that even do
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>>584734794
Presumably extensive extreme testing of Fairfax prototypes
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>>584735000
She's almost a perfect hypocrite bitch character if anyone in the game acknowledged it
But they don't
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>>584734820
she is absolutely joining, at first she was interested for access to up close and hands on, real, live references for her pieces but over time the exposure to such beautiful and musky cocks and her handling of them made her want more
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>be me
>play Danny for the first time
>most fun I've had in the game
>command grab a Rem and pop him like a grape
>fly up killing a Drifter trying to kill a low page
>crash into a baba and burn her to death and start flying again
>vindicta shoots me for most of my life
>dive bomb around a corner
>live
>go to sleep
>wake up
>buffs
genuinely i might be a convert. about to have my first game on today.
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I don't understand why she has paint superpowers. her backstory is just that she went to REGULAR art school.

What even is her motivation? She joins a super dangerous ritual where you summon a demon and have to kill 6 other people to do fucking what?
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>Slide into fight
>Paint a wall? I guess
>Press 1 and shoot a bit of damage
>Use your ult that does nothing

or I could play mina and delete someones health bar by pressing 1

not quite clicking what this character is supposed to do
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>>584735000
>virtue signals about therapy being usefull dispite all behavior to the countrary

checks out
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>>584734874
Violetfag... when are you gonna get the hint? When literally every single person you interact with rejects your fanfiction, do you really not stop and think that you might be wrong? Not even hesitate a little bit?
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>>584733854
I gotta respect that one user who made that entire infograph of Violet being some demon only to post themselves as a clown
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>>584735080
but Valve isn't making any money out of the game yet
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>>584735000
>Hearing that third box in her whispy accent
OOOOF
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>>584734794
When your job is being a stress test engineer its much easier to put a skeleton back together than a body
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>>584735000
Oh fucking god is this real?
This is the worst line I've ever fucking seen
This belongs in the fucking Saints Row reboot
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There's nobody
I can rerate to
Feer rike a bird in a cage
It's kinda sirry
But not rearry
Because it's firring my body with rage

I'm the smartest, most crever, most phisicarry fit
But nobody else seems to rearize it
When I change the world maybe they'll notice me

But until then, I'rr just be ronery
Rittre ronery, poor rittre me

I'm so ronery
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>>584733646
>possibility that she was meant to be an Invoker-like hero but instead of Invoker's key combinations it's based on the actual paintstrokes (order + direction) or the shape
>shit was either too janky/buggy to implement or too hard for fags to even use at all, but the whole drawing gimmick was kept
What's the chances of this being the case
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>>584735106
Faggot furries scale better
4chanman danny deserved second spot
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>>584735000
If this conversation were actually in the game people would be 5% less negative about her, she's obviously in the wrong here and is overtly hypocritical. All her current conversations are too positive except for 2/3 of Seven's and of all characters Rem's.
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>>584735102
Genuinely wondering if Violet was seperately by other people or by another company. I'm baffled. Even chess negro wasn't close to this cringe
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>amazing design
>amazing personality
>amazing kit
Violet detractors got raped & gaped
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>>584728826
What's the issue with parents making their kids play an instrument? Is she going to complain about having to go to school or do chores?
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>>584735106
Can you imagine how bad the doom would be if we got Violet first and she was like this
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>>584729617
gun danny is more fun
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>>584735157
Her backstory says that she "understands" that it doesn't matter how good you are or how talented you are. It's who you know and being at the right place at the right time. So she's joining the ritual to basically get her name out there.

Really stupid with no real motivation.
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>>584734794
My assumption is
>Was a test pilot for fairfax who died at some point in the past
>In the afterlife was given some kind of offer to literally sell his soul to Fairfax in exchange for coming back
>whatever deal it had probably came with a bunch of clauses over his own autonomy (many of the times he is praising fairfax it feels like he is immediately cutting in to talk about how great he thinks he is)
Maybe his wish will be secretly to terminate that contract and let him finally die for good
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>>584735239
>twitter filename
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>>584734884
It’s a self insert of an insufferable person that everyone knows
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>>584734820
>>584734840
>mfw I see someone shoehorn a comment about their beastiality fetish into the thread for the 8th time tonight
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>>584735102
aside from Danny the other 3 heroes dont have that good of writing either
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>>584734604
Most characters either have a decent selfish reason for joining or are some combination of violent and powerful that they think they can easily walk away with the prize. As for Danny specifically, he is literally a delusional shill, his reason for joining the Ritual is just to get a promotion. He's in the same vein as MoKrill where he's just retarded. I think having the occasional character that's in the ritual just because they're dumb is fine, but I agree that it feels like the people who have dumb motivations to join the ritual is starting to slowly overtake the ones who actually have a good reason to be participating.
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>>584735000
Her character is a fucking mess.
Likely a mix of multiple writers not communicating, at least one of which was putting their stuff through ChatGPT.
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>>584733543
https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=18916109
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>>584735246
I wish my parents made me play an intrument. Then I wouldn't be a loser learning basic piano in my mid 20s
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>>584735230
Nah, bomboclat negrosson is maybe ~15% better, his va is just good
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>>584735000
>that's because I worked out my shit in therapy

Fire whichever intern wrote this crap
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>>584735102
Writing was already showing cracks in Old Gods New Blood update.
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>>584735262
Or he's just a corporate shill that loves Fairfax's cock so much he willingly signed a contract to come back and work for them out of pure love for the game.
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>>584735239
t. the raped
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would violet draw satire of muhammad, potentially getting beheaded in a fatwa
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>>584735171
different asshole, though I know you'll struggle to believe
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>>584735212
Chinese people replace the r's with l's, git gud at racism
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>>584733752
You're a fucking retard.
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>>584735239
the only one that's excusable is the kit being okay.
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>>584735340
Learning new things doesn't make you a loser you retarded faggot
Be nice to yourself
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I WANT EVERY VIOLETFAG RAPED BY TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>584733646
you're kidding me
her current kit feels awkward as fuck, we lost chinkvoker for this?
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Why does parry just sometimes not work against Baba's stomp?
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>>584735239
we'll be here for you when the denial stage ends, violetfag
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>"I'm voting Violet because she makes my dick hard so she's the based 4chan pick over the hag!!"
>lesbian leftist immigrant that goes to rallies, does drugs and is 'le quirky reddit chungus' personified
no refunds btw
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Her kit requires creativity. You're just not creative enough to play her. Switch to Wraith since you're metro tier player
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>>584735302
I wonder if Mo and Krill being recontexualized as Pocket's two dads makes it so that they are joining to keep him safe. Pocket's character is the only one where he seems required to be in the ritual in an official Deadlock lore capacity, as it sets in motion a lot of other plot threads.
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>Lesbian chinese hero
>meanwhile they ban every kind of homosex potrayal in china, to the point of rewriting Arcane when it's played there
shamefur dispray
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>>584735285
it's more fun than talking about this travesty of a new character
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>>584735000
>Therapy
Wasn't 50s therapy for women lobotomy? lol
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>>584735386
I'd be happy either way honestly. He's one of the few good characters we've gotten recently
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>I will get my name out as an artist
>By participating in a death ritual and slopping black ink everywhere
Nigga I want to commission an artist for their work, not how well they kill people
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>>584735262
Given his cartoonish attitude towards fairfax, my guess is that he is being animated by some fairfax magic so they save costs on hiring real testers. He doesn't seem like a rational entity.
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>>584733646
Don't worry, the Invoker of this game will be Cadence and her songs
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>>584734884
It's just Trump derangement syndrome.

>Is that an art student?
>Who is ASIAN???
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP IT! WOKE WOKE WOKE!
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How come I never see Drifter mains use Veil Walker and Shadow Weave? I've been playing him like a stealth character and it's been working like a charm just suddenly appearing and ulting out of the blue.
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>>584735340
>Mid 20s
Don't be hard on yourself, you have a ton of time to practice and many famous musicians started when they were in their 40s/50s
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>Ratking
based
>Baba
boring
>Solo
Funny memes, but eh
>Danny
Fun
>Violet
boring
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>>584735447
You know I would do that if I wasn't afraid of contracting Aids, Lice ,or some other terrible disease/affliction from the type of people that actually voted violet.
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Violet would be indian if she was truly woke.
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They made 4 characters already that have the exact same faces and builds (pocket, mina, boho, violet). Someone should really tell the hapa fetishist san francisco intern to stop designing characters that are based on herself or their girlfriend. The only new characters with interesting designs right now is solomon and nurse narrow
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I didn’t even vote for her but this is the most annoying and obnoxious the community has ever fucking been. It’s nothing but whine whine whine whine fucking whine whine whine. Who the fuck cares if she has boring lore compared to the rest of the cast just please shut the fuck up.
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>>584733980
Seven does call her a cliche
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>icefrog took one look at what the writers were cooking up (absolute dogshit) with Violet and told them to remake her kit within the week or else they're fired
Icefrog may be retarded but he's not retarded enough to waste his magnus opus on this chink.
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>>584733646
It's fine. They realized she sucked. You'll get cooler invoker later.
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>>584735403
>though I know you'll struggle to believe
PROTIP: Next time don't include this bit.
It genuinely makes you look more suspicious, not less. Acknowledging it shows that you're thinking about it, and the most likely explanation for why you're thinking about it is that you did it.
Though, the fact that you expect us to believe that multiple people are promoting the same bad fanfiction is very funny.
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>Violet haters still coping
Lmao
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Why are you idiots mad she isnt invoker?

You SHOULD be happy that shenisnt invoker
Imaginenif invoker was stuck on writing this dogshit
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>>584735631
>ratking not boring
Actually based, so many midwits turn their nose up at shit that's simple but fun
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>>584735470
It has to be a direct hit on your character with the legs melee hitbox. You can't parry the shockwave. I'm also pretty sure since it does both melee and spirit, the parry only blocks the melee damage.
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>>584735670
>>584732895
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>>584727069
Isn't Warden much more motivated than 2? He fights like a man possessed
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>>584735781
>>584735781
>>584735781
>>584735781
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>>584735702
This fanart has more personality than her actual character.
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>>584735549
When the FUCK are we getting a female Ixian
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>>584733646
qrd? I just started playing deadlock a few weeks ago
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>>584735581
you must be getting matched with some weird fuckin drifters. especially nowadays, spirit drifter is what most are playing and the entire playstyle is indeed to jumpscare rend someones face off, shadow weave is in like all the top builds
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>Map is almost complete
>Some characters still need remodels
How much longer til release? Because either they release another wave of heroes on release or before release.
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>>584733646
I would probably still hate her, but I think I would at least respect her supporters if she released like that
Her current kit has 1.5 good abilities
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>>584733646
Violetfags don't have the brain capacity for all that
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>>584735761
You can parry the shockwave. If you're not parrying her then you either did it too late or too early, or you weren't in the shockwave. Baba can fake out parries by meleeing from an IAD or a high jump to have the melee come out earlier/later than you might expect.
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songs to play while playing violet?
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>>584733939
A living mannequin/puppeteer is already something that a bunch of people want and for good reason, but he feels a bit too close to Victor. Still better than Violet.
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>>584733646
>WE GOT FUCKING ROBBED
No. We were saved, anon.
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>>584735557
Listen up violetbro. You're making the same posts over and over. I'm a socialist with a black girlfriend and she sucks ass I'm sorry.
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>>584735000
Personally I'd be completely fine with her being an absolute hypocrite when it comes to her parental issues and having "worked them out"
It'd actually give the character some depth and something to work with
But what I can't stand is how, besides a single line with Seven, nobody's really calling her out on either it, or being really vapid with her reasoning for being there
>I'm scared about dying a failure as an artist
Bitch you are in college and also already a prodigy so you are worried over nothing
If she was a shitty or struggling artist okay then I can get on board, but there's zero reason to be worried about that when you've already had art displayed in a foundational institute for the future of America's perception of art
Oh but you're worried about dying a failure
You've already SUCCEEDED
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>>584728560
I was excited for her potential kit personally.
The drawing is really cool. The slide is fun. But that is actually it unfortunately.
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>>584733646
>you would apparently have to draw the shapes out
cool on paper
being forced to draw animals and shit mid-fight would've sucked ass though
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>>584735696
I imagine multiple people might promote it because it's how the character is written. But as always, here we are in the traditionally pointless back and forth about samefagging that nobody can prove. It's easy to believe that others parroting the exact same thing you're saying are different people, you know they're different people. I gather that yeah, there's a high degree of salt regarding Violet, there's definitely a bunch of people who are very vitriolic about it. I don't think I'm going to pretend that you're all the same guy saying the same shit as I imagine you've been doing for like 5 hours now.
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>>584734310
>warlock of wall street
Actually fucking sick.
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>>584735285
damn didn't know it brought you so much joy anon, I'm glad
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>people think you'd have to draw shapes if she was invoker
Get ready to learn traditional chinese
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Is the R34 any good at least?
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>>584735549
All I want is for Cadence to have that Charm ability people found in the datamine so I can seduce people then punch them in the face
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>>584734604
Your argument is that the character writing has been getting lazier and lazier, which makes it ok for Violet to have no reason at all because the game sucks and no one even cares any more. You're a living parody.
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>>584735737
Honestly Rat King is the only hero from this patch that feels like it fits with the rest of the cast, in terms of kit and personality. The other characters are creative but overcomplicated and gimmicky. And the more complicated and gimmicky you make a character the more you sacrifice the fundamentals, and they end up feeling less satisfying. Baba for example feels like absolute shit without her 1, she is so reliant on her spirit stealing gimmick.
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>>584733296
>he is just one of the few characters that can't be charmed by the patrons schemes and is extremly straight foward about wanting to kill them
Why would the Patrons even let him participate in the Ritual then? Seems kind of pointless and suicidal
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>watching people cope and try to make her more interesting that she actually is
you voted for your dozenth asian generational trauma character now man up and take her boring ass
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>>584729861
Jhin’s forced smile talking through gritted, bitter teeth when he says,”Smile, everyone is watching!” Is so, so good. My favorite line in the entire game. You can hear his seething authority.
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>>584736205
Shit I'd play Arx Fatalis while playing Deadlock, patch her back to that Yoshi

>>584736405
I need him to find a different fucking word than crumbum to use sometimes
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>>584735102
baba and solomon's writing are terrible too tho
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>>584736223
see for yourself
Forz_Art
https://files.catbox.moe/w19ra8.gif
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>>584736742
why is he doing that to scout
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>>584736742
i voted for this btw
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>>584729861
why, he's the best character in a shit game
if Violet were even half the character Jhin is she'd be at least decent
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>>584735102
Probably written by an Asian American woman
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Wasted priority token on unscored match greatt
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What if told you guys that I’m trans and grind deadlock for at least about 8 hours every single day?
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You people were way off the mark when it came to predicting Violets popularity. So you're obviously wrong about your criticism of her as well, not every character on the roster needs to be over the top.
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>>584737270
How cracked is your Celeste?
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What's her win rate?
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The attempts at damage control and deflection is hilarious here
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>>584737270
I'm trans and play deadlock for only about an hour every day because I'm employed sadly.
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>>584737270
we know Violetsister
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>>584737270
pocketmain...
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>>584735102
Rat is simple, but he's got good delivery and is a perfectly reasonable character.
I had some doubts about Danny being a legit reddit science character, but he outdid my expectations and is a really fun corporate war criminal.
Baba and Solomon aren't good, but they're still miles better than Violet.
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>>584735493
she is extremely easy to play and is new hero overpowered
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>>584736742
I second this >>584736854
Any more, but with someone from the roster?
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>>584735493
>draws penises on the midboss entrances
>enemy can't get in to try and steal rejuv
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>>584737795
I don't think there's a lot of (documented) porn of her out there in general yet, you're gonna have to wait a few days for it to inevitably build up some more



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