Gameplay Update - 05-22-2026
- - Cold Front: Radius reduced from 12m to 10m
- - Cold Front: Damage height increased from 5m to 7m
Deadlock / Balance intelligence
Deadlock Cold Front
Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.
Observed win rate
48.78%
Wins ÷ purchase observations
Purchase observations
2,234,795
API matches field
Players in sample
579,832
API players field
Average buy time
11.5m
Minutes into a match
Sample: 2026-09-17 through 2026-10-16 UTC · Normal mode, ranked + unranked, all ranks. Retrieved . Deadlock API. Observed matches only; not the entire player population. Refreshes hourly; upstream item statistics may be cached for six hours.
Item statistics are observational. Winning players buy different items, and later purchases select for longer matches. Do not interpret purchase win rate as the causal effect of buying this item.
The paper trail
Cold Front patch history
Every explicitly attributed change found in the 26 available archive entries. This is the available archive, not a claim of complete lifetime coverage. Linked-only announcements may omit change text.
Gameplay Update - 04-30-2026
- - Cold Front: Damage Height increased from 3.5m to 5m