Quickcast is a crucial feature that’s present in most modern MOBAs, but it’s yet to be officially introduced in Valve’s Deadlock. Luckily, there’s still a way for players to enable quickcast in Deadlock, and it takes no more than a few seconds to set up.
With the official reveal of Deadlock in August 2023, Valve sent shockwaves throughout the multiplayer gaming community. Shortly after the closed alpha of the game went live, it managed to captivate the hearts of millions of players, with prominent streamers like Shroud claiming that Deadlock is “the best third-person shooter” they’ve ever played.
However, despite Deadlock rapidly gaining traction over the past few weeks, it’s important to note that the title is still in its early alpha phase. As a result, some important features like ’Quickcast’ are still missing from the game.
What is Quickcast in Deadlock?
For the uninitiated, quickcast in Deadlock (or any MOBA) enables players to use their abilities and items with a single keyboard tap. If your Quickcast is disabled, you will need to confirm your ability and item usage with a left-mouse button, which is the default setting in Valve’s Deadlock.
Enabling quickcast in Deadlock can save you precious milliseconds during combat which can often cause a significant difference in heated teamfights. For instance, game-changing items like ‘Silence Glyph’ and ‘Curse’ will be thrown instantaneously if you have quickcast enabled, giving your enemies almost no time to react.
How To Enable Quickcast in Deadlock?
While there’s no in-game setting to enable quickcast in Deadlock, it’s still extremely easy to set up.
Below, we’ve listed all the steps you need to follow to enable quickcast in Valve’s Deadlock:
- Go to your Steam Library.
- Right-click Deadlock and go to ‘Properties’.
- Under ‘Launch Options’, type in ‘-exec autoexec’.
- Go to ‘Installed Files’ and hit ‘Browse’.
- Go to Game > Citadel > Cfg.
- Create a new text file and name it ‘autoexec.cfg’.
- Open the file with Notepad.
- Type in the following commands:
- bind v “+in_item4;+attack;-in_item4;-attack”
- bind c “+in_item3;+attack;-in_item3;-attack”
- bind x “+in_item2;+attack;-in_item2;-attack”
- bind z “+in_item1;+attack;-in_item1;-attack”
- bind 1 “+in_ability1;+attack;-in_ability1;-attack”
- bind 2 “+in_ability2;+attack;-in_ability2;-attack”
- bind 3 “+in_ability3;+attack;-in_ability3;-attack”
- bind 4 “+in_ability4;+attack;-in_ability4;-attack”
- Save and exit.
- Launch Deadlock.
- Unbind all items and abilities (or else they will override the quickcast keys).
And that’s it! Now you have successfully set all your abilities and items to quickcast in Deadlock.
If you wish to remove quickcast from one of your abilities, you can do so by assigning a keybind to the respective ability from the in-game settings. This will override your autoexec and let you confirm your ability or item usage manually. This can be helpful for abilities that have an AoE impact radius like Lady Geist’s grenade.
Is Quickcast Bannable in Deadlock?
Don’t worry, you won’t get banned for using quickcast in Deadlock. In fact, the devs behind Deadlock have confirmed that they plan to include quickcast to Deadlock in a future update.
However, using any form of macro to automatically use your abilities and items might be bannable in Deadlock.
