{"id":959470,"date":"2026-01-02T19:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aAE3aTb6247nXzMmFgXrDg"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:25:19","slug":"chaotic-scamp-hijacks-deadlocks-official-discord-bot-announces-a-fake-shutdown-immediately-accuses-mods-of-lying-and-plunges-chat-into-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/chaotic-scamp-hijacks-deadlocks-official-discord-bot-announces-a-fake-shutdown-immediately-accuses-mods-of-lying-and-plunges-chat-into-anarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaotic scamp hijacks Deadlock&#8217;s official Discord bot, announces a fake shutdown, immediately accuses mods of lying, and plunges chat into anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Deadlock&#8217;s been doing rather well\u2014having lost about 30 hours to it myself over the past month, I&#8217;ve been having a pretty dang good time weaponizing my misspent youth in MOBAs gone by and wilding out about its <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/moba\/deadlock-s-lanes-are-utterly-fascinating-when-it-comes-to-moba-design-and-it-s-because-of-its-shooter-elements-not-in-spite-of-them\/\">spectacular map design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the game has a 24 hour peak of over 130,000 even in an invite-only test build\u2014which is none too shabby, putting it over fully-released contemporaries like Helldivers 2. In other words, it&#8217;s the new hotness. Which made it all the more ripe for some agent of chaos to waltz into the game&#8217;s Discord server and cause anarchy earlier today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mass panic broke out in the Deadlock official discord as someone exploited a bot to say that Deadlock was shutting down tomorrow in the the official announcements channel pic.twitter.com\/UWxrMiqzd4<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1831861768349741272\">September 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\" ><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DeadlockTheGame\/comments\/1fa2v9g\/longest_2_minutes_of_my_life\">Longest 2 minutes of my life<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DeadlockTheGame\">r\/DeadlockTheGame<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embed.redditmedia.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The message, posted by the server&#8217;s Carl bot (affectionately renamed Bebop, after the game&#8217;s terrifying version of Dota 2&#8217;s Pudge\u2014a robot that can hook enemies, slap a bomb on them, then knock them into next week) was dismissed a couple of minutes later by server mod Yoshi: &#8220;Some bot exploit was used to post that,&#8221; they explained.<\/p>\n<p>The rogue hacker, searching their presumably immeasurable mind palace for a retort that would further scupper Deadlock&#8217;s reputation and send the entire Discord into disrepair, reached into their 296-step plan to sink Valve&#8217;s newborn project and, in a masterstroke, replied: &#8220;(he&#8217;s lying)&#8221;. A bold move.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Deadlock&#8217;s not going anywhere. The bot in question, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/carl.gg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carl<\/a>, is widely used in a lot of Discord servers\u2014and while it&#8217;s a versatile little buddy, its customizability can also lead to moments like these. For instance, if you&#8217;ve got your permissions set wrong, any Joe Shmuck could use the !echo command to make the bot output a message to a specific channel. It&#8217;s not clear which devious means of deception were used, but I can see plenty of oopsies waiting to happen just shifting through its <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.carl.gg\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documentation page<\/a> alone.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway\u2014while the post itself was deleted, thanks to the month name in the Reddit embed above I was able to determine that the date of the incident was 1:58 am BST (Poland is one hour ahead of us Brits). Scrolling up to the exact moment the server exploded took a while, with dozens of Discord messages flooding every minute of the archives. Here&#8217;s a few snippets from the #deadlock-chat channel in the immediate aftermath:<\/p>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery inline-layout\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-wrap\" style=\"display:flex; flex-flow:row nowrap;\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 1 of 3<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:502px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:136.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"UQ63b3qHw9VsiRH3mzueg9\" name=\"Deadlock Panic\" alt=\"A series of screenshots from the Deadlock Discord server expressing panic over the fake shutdown of the game.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/chaotic-scamp-hijacks-deadlocks-official-discord-bot-announces-a-fake-shutdown-immediately-accuses-mods-of-lying-and-plunges-chat-into-anarchy.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"686\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Valve (Deadlock Discord server).)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 2 of 3<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:467px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:155.67%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"MgNydVNiDwQjnt3oUjcKg9\" name=\"Deadlock Panic\" alt=\"A series of screenshots from the Deadlock Discord server expressing panic over the fake shutdown of the game.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/chaotic-scamp-hijacks-deadlocks-official-discord-bot-announces-a-fake-shutdown-immediately-accuses-mods-of-lying-and-plunges-chat-into-anarchy-1.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"727\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Valve (Deadlock Discord server).)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 3 of 3<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:581px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:110.84%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"FQBSCUiUrE6oEqthM5rPg9\" name=\"Deadlock Panic\" alt=\"A series of screenshots from the Deadlock Discord server expressing panic over the fake shutdown of the game.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/chaotic-scamp-hijacks-deadlocks-official-discord-bot-announces-a-fake-shutdown-immediately-accuses-mods-of-lying-and-plunges-chat-into-anarchy-2.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"644\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Valve (Deadlock Discord server).)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This has, naturally, also been fertile ground for the other mischief-makers to sow further chaos via the medium of shitposting. Here&#8217;s a few of my favourites, which I picked up simply by typing &#8220;Shutdown&#8221; in Discord&#8217;s chat search function:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I mean Deadlock blatantly infringes on multiple IPs, of course Sony is shutting them down. I have an Insider friend that says Nintendo and Microsoft will be joining Sony in a lawsuit.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Gabe Newell asked Yoshi why his game wasn&#8217;t generating at least $1m USD in net profits per month by now then shut it down. All dev resources are now being diverted to Ricochet 2.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;BRO IMAGINE GETTING ACCESS TO THAT AND USING IT TO POST SOME GENERIC &#8216;WE ARE SHUTTING DOWN&#8217; MESSAGE. BIGGEST FUMBLE OF ALL TIME. YOU COULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT LICKING BALLS.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Deadlock is shutting down to contain the spread of Vindicta feet fans.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Guess bebop needs nerfs next patch,&#8221; Yoshi would later joke, about an hour afterwards, in between further nonsense gifs of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/moba\/deadlock-s-best-girl-is-judging-by-the-fanart-a-scrunkly-gargoyle-with-a-flat-cap-and-severe-back-issues-who-is-genuinely-an-absolute-sweetheart\/\">fan favourite Ivy<\/a> busting it down, gargoyle style. Whoever this roustabout is, they&#8217;ve successfully achieved absolute pandemonium.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/moba\/chaotic-scamp-hijacks-deadlock-s-official-discord-bot-announces-a-fake-shutdown-immediately-accuses-mods-of-lying-plunges-chat-into-anarchy\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadlock&#8217;s been doing rather well\u2014having lost about 30 hours to it myself over the past month, I&#8217;ve been having a pretty dang good time weaponizing my misspent youth in MOBAs gone by and wilding out about its spectacular map design. At the time of writing, the game has a 24 hour peak of over 130,000 even in an invite-only test build\u2014which is none too shabby, putting it over fully-released contemporaries like Helldivers 2. In other words, it&#8217;s the new hotness. Which made it all the more ripe for some agent of chaos to waltz into the game&#8217;s Discord server and cause anarchy earlier today. Mass panic broke out in the Deadlock official discord as someone exploited a bot to say that Deadlock was shutting down&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/chaotic-scamp-hijacks-deadlocks-official-discord-bot-announces-a-fake-shutdown-immediately-accuses-mods-of-lying-and-plunges-chat-into-anarchy\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":959471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,490],"class_list":["post-959470","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>Chaotic scamp hijacks Deadlock&#039;s official Discord bot, announces a fake shutdown, 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