Deadlock Patch Notes: June 30, 2026

Urn running is now its own objective: the Urn spawns at either end of the map (the old neutral-pickup spots) at 10/15/20/25/… minutes and is delivered to the opposite end.

The Urn runner is no longer revealed, disarmed, or silenced (going through a doorway or a Mirage teleport still drops the Urn).

They can no longer parry.

Their passive holding bonuses now scale with how far behind their team is (the same 0%–15% net-worth ramp as the Unstable Rift) instead of being on or off; the bonuses themselves are unchanged.

The Urn is now louder when it talks and easier for nearby enemies to hear.

It can no longer be manually dropped — it drops when the runner takes a light or heavy melee, is stunned, or dies, and it stays where it lands instead of walking back home.

Its bounty starts decaying 45s after pickup, draining over the next 45s; the Urn is removed once the bounty empties.

3 minutes after spawning, the Urn starts walking very slowly toward the deposit point on its own.

Deposits are now instant at the drop-off, worth 250 + 70/min to the runner alone (the comeback bounty still applies); on deposit all the souls burst out as orbs, and an ally who secures them shares the bounty with the runner.

The runner also gains +4 permanent buffs on deposit.

King of the Hill has been rethemed and renamed to "Unstable Rift".

No longer requires an Urn delivery to start — it now spawns on its own variable timer (±1 minute), with an in-world-only effect showing which lane it will randomly spawn in 60s before the global countdown.

Spawn interval increased from every 6 minutes to every 7 minutes.

Players inside the rift zone are now revealed on the minimap.

Comeback bonuses (resists in the area, extra comeback bounty, and the claim timer) now scale linearly with net-worth deficit — no bonus at 0% behind, full bonus at 15% behind.

The securing team now also sends a wave of 5 Rift Troopers down from the rift location — up to 12 when trailing, on the same 0% to −15% net-worth ramp.

They spawn with +100% health and damage (looking larger, with custom VFX), and the bonus grows slightly each event — 100%, then 120%, 140%, and so on.

They drop no souls when killed.

Bounty increased by 35% to offset the removed urn-runner bounty — overall objective bounty is unchanged.

No longer grants +1 permanent buff to each player (nor +3 to the urn runner).

Jump Pads on top of the double sinner buildings have been removed.

No longer locks you out of getting off the zipline in the first few seconds.

Increased item randomness a bit.

Fixed Enhanced Sharpshooter and Enhanced Spiritual Overflow not keeping the bonuses from their enhanced components.