Deadlock patch — 1 July 2026
Build 6611, 6612
The Deadlock patch of 1 July 2026 changed 0 heroes and 0 items, with 16 individual stat changes in total.
Valve's notes
- Shiv: Alt Fire ammo cost reduced from 5 to 4 - Shiv: Weapon now has fixed pellet spread - Shiv: Slice and Dice is now back to doing spirit damage and reducing Spirit Resistance from enemies - Shiv: Slice and Dice damage increased from 60 to 75 - Shiv: Killing Blow T3 reduced from +10% Enemy Health Threshold to +8%
Quoted from Valve's Steam news post.
Changes are computed by diffing the game files between builds 6611 and 6612. A change is only labelled a buff or a nerf where the stat has an unambiguous direction — a longer duration, for example, can be either, so it is reported as a change without a judgement.