You might remember Slork. He featured in a PC Gamer article with the headline “Slork,” and the strapline, “Slork.” Everyone had a good time slorkin’ 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’s wet, slippery body into Sunday dinner.
Let me back up. Slork was a hero concept first accessible via console commands in Deadlock’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.
When asked about Slork’s status on the Deadlock discord, developer Duncan “Hopoo” Drummond(yes, the same Hopoo of Risk of Rain fame, he works on Deadlock now) gave a grisly reply: “We made a delicious stock out of his bones and meats.” The reply was shared in a Reddit thread from user ginger6616 titled, “They’re laughing… they murdered my boy and they’re laughing.”
