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Deadlock Modders Are Shipping an Entire UI Through the Game's Subtitle System Because Valve Hasn't Built a Modding API Yet
Deadworks published an engineering write-up, surfaced on r/programming (59 upvotes), on delivering mod UI to players by abusing the subtitle rendering path — a workaround forced by Deadlock currently having neither VAC nor Workshop support. Commenters read it as an interim arrangement Valve is tacitly allowing while it decides what modding APIs should look like, learning from what modders build under constraint. It is a clean case study in shipping a product surface through whatever channel the platform actually exposes rather than waiting for the sanctioned one.
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