Overview
- Valve released the City Never Sleeps update on Tuesday, driving a surge in players that third‑party tracker SteamDB reported as a new concurrent peak of about 228,000.
- The patch remaps Deadlock into themed districts and redesigns lane neutrals as new creatures called Haunts, including examples like disembodied hand specimens, walking trash‑bag ghouls and book‑stack spirits.
- Six new heroes were revealed — Nurse Harrow, Rat King, Solomon, Deadman Danny, Baba and Violet — and players can vote in‑game to choose which heroes arrive first with two heroes released per week starting Friday.
- The update adds more than 10,000 non‑ping voice lines, a reworked ping and comms system, clearer HUD and shop displays, and expanded accessibility options such as custom UI colors, subtitles and auto‑movement/fire settings.
- Deadlock remains invite‑only and Valve says core systems like progression and hero/hideout customization are still under active development, meaning features and balance may change as the team collects player feedback.