{"id":1457111,"date":"2026-01-10T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BiEiWDECLMcYEn957tDAGA"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:24:30","slug":"deadlock-dev-teases-the-community-over-its-favorite-hero-that-was-briefly-tested-and-removed-we-made-delicious-stock-out-of-his-bones-and-meats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/deadlock-dev-teases-the-community-over-its-favorite-hero-that-was-briefly-tested-and-removed-we-made-delicious-stock-out-of-his-bones-and-meats\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadlock dev teases the community over its favorite hero that was briefly tested and removed: &#8216;We made delicious stock out of his bones and meats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>You might remember Slork. He featured in a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/slork\/\">PC Gamer article<\/a> with the headline &#8220;Slork,&#8221; and the strapline, &#8220;Slork.&#8221; Everyone had a good time slorkin&#8217; it back then, and the unfinished hero quickly turned heads with his ridiculous name and experimental, stealthy playstyle. That being said, I have bad news, #SlorkNation: Valve has melted Slork&#8217;s wet, slippery body into Sunday dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Let me back up. Slork was a hero concept first accessible via console commands in Deadlock&#8217;s private test. He was later added to the hero labs, a feature where characters with placeholder art could be used to queue up for normal games during scheduled hours, assuming you had a certain number of games under your belt. At this point, Slork had been renamed to the decidedly less hilarious Fathom.<\/p>\n<p>Deadlock has spent the last year <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/moba\/state-of-deadlock-2026\/\">shifting forms<\/a> like the MOBA version of an Animorph, and the hero labs mode was removed as the game became increasingly polished and all play was subsumed into a single ranked queue. Four of the eight hero labs characters were added to Deadlock&#8217;s core roster permanently. The others, including Fathom, were simply removed.<\/p>\n<p>That brings us to now, a moment wherein the Deadlock community is in a stir over the next major update. Various leaks and rumors have surfaced all over social media about the next several heroes, but Slork fans have noticed Slork&#8217;s absence from these rumors.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Slork&#8217;s status on the Deadlock discord, developer Duncan &#8220;Hopoo&#8221; Drummond(yes, the same Hopoo of Risk of Rain fame, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/moba\/one-of-the-co-creators-of-risk-of-rain-is-now-working-on-deadlock\/\">he works on Deadlock now<\/a>) gave a grisly reply: &#8220;We made a delicious stock out of his bones and meats.&#8221; The reply was shared in a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DeadlockTheGame\/comments\/1q6m00j\/theyre_laughing_they_murdered_my_boy_and_theyre\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit thread<\/a> from user ginger6616 titled, &#8220;They\u2019re laughing\u2026 they murdered my boy and they\u2019re laughing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Hopoo was informed he was being cruel, he doubled down: &#8220;7 hours,&#8221; came the cooking instruction for Slork&#8217;s now-extinct bones and meats. He quickly added that this was not a release window for the patch, just a cold acknowledgment that Slork was stewed for the better part of a day.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, if you&#8217;ve been waiting to see Slork (or Fathom) make it into Deadlock proper, it&#8217;s never been more over for you. He&#8217;s gone; you have my condolences.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"e42adacf-6d62-4fdc-b078-78a136f198e5\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/deadlock-dev-teases-the-community-over-its-favorite-hero-that-was-briefly-tested-and-removed-we-made-delicious-stock-out-of-his-bones-and-meats.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"e42adacf-6d62-4fdc-b078-78a136f198e5\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/moba\/deadlock-dev-teases-the-community-over-its-favorite-hero-that-was-briefly-tested-and-removed-we-made-delicious-stock-out-of-his-bones-and-meats\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember Slork. He featured in a PC Gamer article with the headline &#8220;Slork,&#8221; and the strapline, &#8220;Slork.&#8221; Everyone had a good time slorkin&#8217; it back then, and the unfinished hero quickly turned heads with his ridiculous name and experimental, stealthy playstyle. That being said, I have bad news, #SlorkNation: Valve has melted Slork&#8217;s wet, slippery body into Sunday dinner. Let me back up. Slork was a hero concept first accessible via console commands in Deadlock&#8217;s private test. He was later added to the hero labs, a feature where characters with placeholder art could be used to queue up for normal games during scheduled hours, assuming you had a certain number of games under your belt. At this point, Slork had been renamed to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/deadlock-dev-teases-the-community-over-its-favorite-hero-that-was-briefly-tested-and-removed-we-made-delicious-stock-out-of-his-bones-and-meats\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1457112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,490],"class_list":["post-1457111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-moba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deadlock dev teases the community over its favorite hero that was briefly tested and removed: &#039;We made delicious stock out of his bones and meats&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You might remember Slork. 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