Long sticky tongue in cheek

Valve instituted a fairytale punishment for cheaters in its unreleased laney shooterDeadlockyesterday.

Cheaters will now be turned into frogs, provided the other players in the match vote for it.

We will turn on the banning of users in a couple of days after the update is out."

A cheater is turned into a frog on the streets of Deadlock.

Valve have sincerecognised it as extant, which is nice of them.

Part of me wonders if a froggy punishment isn’t a littletoofunny.

But there’s hope some will be annoyed when that brief moment of novelty wears off.

There are some changes to map layout, for example.

And plenty of the playable heroes get altered.

Bebop’s hook range has been reduced from 30m to 25m.

Dynamo’s “Singularity” radius has been lowered from 8m to 7m.

Look, I’ll be honest, I haven’t played the game.

I don’t know what these words mean.

But they’re probably important to some absolute Dynamo freak out there.

it’s possible for you to play Deadlock yourself, though.

But only if you’re invited to playtest by someone who already has access.

Don’t worry about me, I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy.

I’ll sort myself out.