Frequently asked questions
Everything about checking and reporting Deadlock cheaters, smurfs and griefers — how trust seals, risk scores and the community tribunal work.
Deadlock Watch is a community-run overwatch and reporting platform for the game Deadlock. You can look up any player to see ban history, behavior, rank and community verdicts, report suspected cheaters or griefers, and let a community tribunal review the evidence and issue a Trusted or Untrusted verdict.
No. Deadlock Watch is an independent, community-run project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Valve Corporation. Verdicts and risk scores reflect community review and automated heuristics, not official Valve action.
Search for the player by their SteamID or Steam profile URL, or paste a Match ID to scan a whole lobby. Each player gets a risk panel with a cheater and smurf likelihood based on public data such as Steam bans, aim accuracy versus rank norms, account age, playtime and rank progression, plus any community verdicts.
Sign in with Steam, open the report form, and provide the Match ID, the accused player's SteamID, the offense type and a short description. You can add a video link and timestamps as evidence. Your report is then reviewed anonymously by the community tribunal.
No. The risk scores, trust seals and Autoflag entries are automated, community-generated estimates from public data — a guide for a closer look, not proof. A score backed by several corroborating signals is more reliable than one weak signal, which is why each estimate also shows how many signals it is based on and a confidence level.
It means the community tribunal has reviewed at least one case and reached a cheating verdict, so the available evidence strongly points to cheating. It is a community assessment of likelihood, not a legal finding or an official Valve ban.
The Autoflag board lists players the system automatically flagged as high-risk while analyzing profiles and match lobbies — for example due to Steam bans, abnormal aim or strong risk signals. These are automated heuristics, not proof; open a profile to review the evidence yourself.
Approved watchers judge reports anonymously. Each case collects votes until it reaches quorum, then a verdict is issued. Votes are weighted by the watcher's rank-based Elo, so more accurate judges carry more weight, which keeps verdicts fair.
Apply through the watcher application. Players who meet the minimum Deadlock playtime requirement are approved automatically; others are queued for manual review. Watchers vote on anonymized cases and build a judging Elo over time.
Identity and ban data come from Steam via the Steam Web API; match history, per-hero performance, rank and MMR come from community Deadlock data sources. Deadlock Watch caches only publicly available data and refreshes it periodically.
Sign in and use the opt-out on your dashboard. This hides your public profile and immediately deletes your cached external data. For any other privacy request you can open a support ticket; see the Privacy Policy for details.
Yes. Deadlock Watch is free, runs no advertising and does not sell data — it collects only what the service needs to function.
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