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Elie Gould

'We are experimenting with a different approach': Valve finally adds ranked play to Deadlock, and the countdown for the first match starts now

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Deadlock's been receiving loads of fantastic patches recently, and heroes get buffed and nerfed so quickly that a real meta hasn't even formed yet. However, the latest update is probably the game's biggest so far because we've finally got ranked play. 

"We've been experimenting with a different approach to ranked during early development, we expect to iterate on it in the future," a Valve developer known as Yoshi says in a blog post. "The focus of this mode will be on concentrating players into specific time windows where they can opt into games where the primary focus is game quality." 

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