It's time for Deadlock to introduce an arachnophobia setting because its newest hero can unleash 'a wave of spectral spiders' onto enemies

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Loads of new heroes have been introduced toDeadlock’sHero Labs over the last few weeks, includingSlork, Holliday, and Viper,but the most recent addition could be the game’s most controversial—because his entire kit revolves around creepy crawlies that people aren’t typically that fond of.

There’s already a ton of crowd control in Deadlock, and almost every hero has some way of stunning, trapping, or slowing enemies. For example, Grey Talon can deploy an immobiliser that confines opponents and then slows them down, and Seven’s Static Charge ability can stun enemies for 0.9 seconds. So Trapper getting two crowd-control abilities out of four isn’t unusual, especially as MOBAs tend to include a lot of crowd control anyway.

Arachnophobia settings are a growing trend in videogames—they’ll pop up just about anywhere a spider does. Recently,Call of Duty: Black Ops 6introduced an arachnophobia setting for Zombies, which just left the giant undead spidersas disembodied floating hunks of flesh.But other games have more quirky solutions to this phobia—like Lethal Company, which willreplace spiders with the actual word spider.

Other than hordes of arachnids and loads of crowd control, therecent Deadlock updateintroduced tons of new features and changes. There are plenty of hero reworks, some item and weapon fixes, a few new building redesigns not that dissimilar to thework done on the Baroness Hotel during the Halloween patch, new private lobbies in the Hero Labs, and the addition of Quickbuy that lets players “right-click items in the shop to add them to your Quickbuy queue,” one of the developersYoshi says. “When you return to the shop, you will automatically purchase the items you can afford in your set order.”

Obviously, you can check out all of these changes for yourself, including trying out the new hero in the Hero Labs—just try to be kind to any enemies or teammates who dislike spiders.

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