Cheater Frog is an anti-cheat mechanic in Deadlock.

Cheater frog portrait
Abrams in the "Cheater's Choice" pop-up

Overview

When the game's anti-cheat algorithm identifies a player as a cheater, a pop-up appears to the other players to choose between banning the player immediately or turning them into a frog before banning. The frog is unable to perform any actions besides moving and jumping. The match also becomes free to leave and the result is not counted for matchmaking.

Trivia

References

  1. 2024-09-26 - @BurtonJ on X - "Holy crap, they finally built codename “FU Surprise Mode”?! When I worked on VAC, Rich and I designed this for CS but the cheater was a chicken."