Deadlock from Valve has an amusing new anti-cheat system turning cheaters into frogs

Valve are continuing to build up Deadlock, their fancy new third-person MOBA, with the introduction of a new anti-cheat system that's quite hilarious.

The update launched yesterday noted an "initial Anti-Cheat detection system". It comes with a fun feature that allows players to either ban the detected cheater instantly and end the match, or turn the cheater into a frog for the rest of the game and then ban them after.

Valve devs say this new system is "set to conservative detection levels" while they work on an improved version 2 anti-cheat system that will be "more extensive". You also now have a cheat report option both in-game and post-game, with the main anti-cheat system to go live "in a couple of days".

Apart from that, this update was a reasonably big one too. This update has added in a new hero, Mirage:

Plus there's also now a Custom Match mode and private lobbies got expanded with new options like enabling cheats, selecting the server, make the match public or private, supports post-game and replays and allows for picking a lane.

There's also performance improvements, expanded servers into South Africa, an Italian localization, voice indicators for speaking players, various bug fixes and numerous tweaks to the gameplay.

Deadlock is free to play, and runs on Linux via Proton. You still need to be invited to play.

You can follow it on the Steam page.