Deadlock–the MOBA that Valve famously did not acknowledge after months of leaked footage, only to confirm its existence last summer–has been slowly inviting more and more players to its ongoing closed alpha test. However, it now seems as if there’s an even more hidden alpha test, with even more limited invitations, after a streamer accidentally spilled the beans.
YouTube streamer Deathy was livestreaming Deadlock on his YouTube channel, when he seems to have booted up the wrong version of the game. Instead of the alpha test viewers were used to, instead the game loaded up additional characters–a roster of 40 available characters as opposed to the standard alpha’s 30 playable heroes–as well as updated designs for some of those 30 heroes.
Some of the characters not found in the usual alpha test include a bellhop-themed character named Doorman, a reference to Mary Shelley’s famous monster called Frank, and a character named Punkgoat whose art is a repeat of existing character Shiv. Deathy did end the stream and delete the archive when he realized his error, but screenshots still managed to hit the official Deadlock subreddit.
Deadlock is a 6v6 multiplayer shooter and MOBA–“multiplayer online battle arena”–game developed by Valve. The official Steam page says that the game is “in early development with lots of temporary art and experimental gameplay” and that “access is currently limited to friend invite via playtesters.”
