r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Trashy-Guy • 12d ago

Discussion Viscous' strange writing direction.

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Has anybody else noticed that Viscous seems overtly childish in the new voice lines?

I'm not sure if it's the direction that the voice actor has been given, the lack of sound edits that the older lines had (from what I've heard, the current lines aren't yet finished edit-wise), the writing or all of it as a whole.

Viscous's writing direction has shifted from the friendly yet determined emissary of The Deep, willing to put the goal of defeating The Adversary before everything else. (e. g. him saying that The Djinn's problems are less serious than The Deep's.)... To a second grader. It's a fun line, one of many the update added, but it often feels like an outlier in an otherwise solid character.

Viscous is an emissary, a political figure of the Deep with a message and ambition first, and a goo ball that studies the customs of the surface, second, not a baby.

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u/KILLJOYZZZ 12d ago

has he not always been a silly psychic sea anemone

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u/Mindless-Produce4091 The Doorman 12d ago

Not actually, i mean it's referenced in the lore text but not in any voicelines and one of the in dev models has him as a tiny Cthulu creature controlling a goo body, so it's not set in stone.