Hideout

Overview

Music

“

I'd like to go home.

— Rem

The main area of the Hideout.

The Hideout is a personal, interactive hub that functions as the main menu and social area in Deadlock. Within this space, players can freely move around, prepare for matches, and invite friends to join them. Various terminals located throughout the Hideout provide access to the game's core menus, including Play, Watch, and Learn.

For training, the Hideout includes a dedicated practice range called The Atrium, designed for testing hero movement and abilities without a loading screen. Players can access the more extensive Sandbox mode through a Teleporter found within this practice area, or through the Play menu.

Overview

The Hideout serves as an immersive replacement for traditional 2D menus, with players loading into this space upon launching the game. The environment is a grand, multi-level manor room with an opulent, gothic atmosphere, featuring a large fireplace, an extensive library, and towering windows that offer a view of The Cursed Apple at dusk. This polished main hall stands in contrast to the adjoining Atrium, which has a more raw, industrial design.

Layout

Players spawn in the center of the main hall.

• Directly in front is the Play Terminal, which serves as the room's focal point.
• To the right is the Learn to Play Terminal, situated in a cozy library nook by a fireplace.
• To the left is the Ranked Terminal and a path that leads towards the Shop & Atrium.
• In the back-right corner of the room is a separate viewing lounge that houses the Watch Terminal.

A large, ornate staircase dominates the back of the room, leading to an upper balcony. The left side of the balcony is a furnished trophy room, while the right side is an undeveloped storage area filled with crates and sandbags.

Functional Areas

The main functionalities of the game are accessed through distinct stations scattered around the room. Interacting with a terminal opens a full-screen UI menu.

Play Terminal

Located in the center of the room, the Play Terminal is the primary station for matchmaking. It appears as a circular table surrounded by a glowing green summoning circle. Interacting with it opens the "Select Play Mode" menu, which includes options for:

• Deadlock: Standard player-vs-player matches.
• Ranked: Ranked player-vs-player matches.
• Street Brawl: Quick-paced 4v4 battle.
• Bot Match: Play against AI bots, either privately or with other players.
• Sandbox Mode: A comprehensive training mode with advanced tools.
• Explore NYC: A mode to freely explore the map.
• Custom Match: Create private lobbies with custom rules.

Learn to Play Terminal

Situated in the library area to the right of the main hall, this terminal is a book resting on a stand in front of an armchair. Interacting with it provides access to the game's Basic Tutorial. This is also accessible from the Play Terminal for new players.

Watch Terminal

Found in a back room, the Watch Terminal consists of a vintage film projector aimed at a screen. This station is used to access the replay and spectator system, allowing players to watch live matches or search for a specific match by its ID.

News Terminal

The news terminal is a corner under the stairs with newspapers, magazines and a mystic personal computer powered by candles and using an Ouija planchette as a mouse. Interacting with the terminal shows news about recent updates published on Steam.

Ranked Terminal

The ranked terminal is near the entrance to the Shop & Practice Space. The frame in the wall shows the player's current rank. The chalkboard shows the player's current rank or placement progress, as well as various chalk drawings, and the player's performance in their most recent ranked match. Interacting with it shows the player's rank, ranked match history, hero progress for ranked, and leaderboards.

Vote Terminal

Located where the Ranked Terminal now stands, the Vote Terminal was a wooden ballot box that allowed the community to influence which hero would be released next. Interacting with it opened the "Who's Next?" menu, where players could cast their votes. Players earned one vote for every match played, and an on-screen timer indicated when the next hero unlock was scheduled. Casting a vote also added stickers to the walls:

• Six New Heroes: "Eye Voted" stickers
• Old Gods, New Blood: Stickers depicting the face of the hero voted for

Shop & Atrium

The antechamber containing The Curiosity Shop.

To the left of the main hall is an open doorway leading to a two-part training area.

The Curiosity Shop

The antechamber to the practice range features a fully-stocked counter for The Curiosity Shop. While players can access the item shop at any time with a dedicated keybind.

The Atrium

The main practice area is a large, industrial-looking room with scaffolding and graffiti. It is designed for basic ability and damage testing.

• Bots: The range contains one friendly and one enemy bot. These bots are static and do not perform any actions, serving as simple targets.
• Training Tools:
  • A large, red-buttoned machine allows players to toggle fast cooldowns and infinite stamina by meleeing it.
  • When in a party, a crystal appears that allows players to swap teams.
• Teleporter to Sandbox: At the back of the range is a teleporter that allows players to instantly load into the full Sandbox mode for more advanced training options.
• Animals: The Atrium has a cat and a flying owl. The cat chases the ball, as well as Calico in Ava's form, the laser pointer from Vindicta's rifle, heroes turned into rabbits by Sinclair's Rabbit Hex, The Doorman's Call Bell, and Viscous in Goo Ball form.
  • Kicking the ball into the teleporter 3 times will spawn a rabbit. The rabbit has the same behavior as the cat. If the cat and the rabbit come into proximity of each other, and aren't already chasing one of the aforementioned objects, the cat will chase the rabbit around the room.
  • Shooting the owl makes it disappear and spawns a new owl, as well as a second one, increasing the number of owls by one every time all owls are shot. It also shows a counter of how many owls were shot by the player in the current session.

Customization

Winter 2025 Souvenir

The Hideout is planned to be customizable with items unlocked by the player. The first two unlockables are:

• A snow globe above the fireplace for players who engaged in the Winter 2024 event challenges.
• A Merry Midtown Mayhem Souvenir for players who participated in the Winter 2025 event.

Status

The Hideout has a unique Rich Presence status for each hero that appears for friends and players in a party in the main menu, as well as on the Steam friends menu.

Rich Presence Status

Hero	Status	Notes
Abrams	Investigating the Hideout
Apollo	Striving Towards Perfection in the Hideout
Bebop	Ignoring Lash in the Hideout
Billy	Ranting in the Hideout
Calico	Playing With Ava in the Hideout
Celeste	Cleaning Up Glitter in the Hideout
The Doorman	At Your Service in the Hideout
Drifter	Prowling in the Hideout
Dynamo	Pontificating in the Hideout
Graves	Playing With The Dead in the Hideout
Grey Talon	Mourning in the Hideout
Haze	Sleep Walking in the Hideout
Holliday	Solving Mysteries in the Hideout
Infernus	Mixing Drinks in the Hideout
Ivy	Wishing the Arroyos were in the Hideout
Kelvin	Chilling in the Hideout
Lady Geist	Being Fabulous in the Hideout
Lash	Thinking About Lash in the Hideout
McGinnis	Tinkering in the Hideout
Mina	Grabbing a bite in the Hideout
Mirage	Dreaming of Wyoming in the Hideout
Mo & Krill	Relaxing in the Hideout	Default status
Paige	Reading in the Hideout
Paradox	Scheming in the Hideout
Pocket	Sulking in the Hideout
Rem	Having Sweet Dreams in the Hideout
Seven	Plotting in the Hideout
Shiv	Playing With Knives in the Hideout
Silver	Figuring Out What Happened Last Night in the Hideout
Sinclair	Working Magic in the Hideout
Venator	Blessing Ammunition in the Hideout
Victor	Brooding in the Hideout
Vindicta	Brooding in the Hideout
Viscous	Wishing the Hideout was The Cube
Vyper	Making Pruno in the Hideout
Warden	Training in the Hideout
Wraith	Gambling in the Hideout
Yamato	Reminiscing in the Hideout

Gallery

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  Hideout window view (title screen)
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  Chalk doodle 01
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  Chalk doodle 02
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  Chalk doodle 03
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  Chalk doodle 04
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  Chalk doodle 07
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  Chalk doodle 08
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  Chalk doodle 09
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  If the last game was won
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  If the last game was lost
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  When the player has rank protection
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Trivia

• Shadowy silhouettes of Billy, The Doorman, Drifter, Mina, Paige, and Victor could be seen throughout the Hideout before their release during the Six New Heroes update. Similarly, shadowy silhouettes of Apollo, Celeste, Graves, Rem, Silver and Venator could be seen throughout the Hideout before their release during the Old Gods, New Blood update.
  • On 20th January 2026, the Old Gods, New Blood update's heroes were teased with various objects scattered around the Hideout (such as Apollo's sword, Rem's pillow and Venator's thurible).
• The clock, located above the elevator in the hideout, displays the player's local system time while playing solo. However, upon joining a party, it switches to reflect the local time in New York City, New York (EST/EDT), the real life location of The Cursed Apple. The clock also flashes and dings every 60 seconds. On the hour, it also chimes to match the current hour.