Valve Deadlock’s Dual Secret Alpha Builds Revealed
May 2, 2025, 1:20 pm
Reports confirm that Valve’s MOBA, Deadlock, is undergoing not one but two invite‐only alpha tests. One build is the widely acknowledged closed alpha, while a hush-hush, even more exclusive version has been quietly rolled out to a select group of players, intensifying speculation among fans.
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…
Valve's MOBA hero shooter Deadlock is still in an invite-only testing phase, as the company continues to develop and iterate. But a recent livestream mix-up looks like it revealed the existence of a second, even more exclusive playtest with some unseen characters and redesigns.
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