Deadlocked

**Deadlocked** is the twenty-first extra level of *Just Shapes & Beats* and the forty-seventh level overall.

## Description

It is unlocked in the Playlist dashing 5000 times in total during challenge runs.

## Layout

### Phase 1

The level starts off with three lasers, each which release three squares after firing. Then, three rows of quad shooters  appear in fives, first on the bottom of the level, then at the top finishing off with in the center. The level repeats the attack to the rhythm of the song as the beat picks up.

When the BPM speeds up, the rate of the lasers firing increases. All of the lasers will only shoot out three pink squares from the left or right side of the level.

### Phase 2

More quad shooters appear, each of them 'exploding' releasing eight squares to the sync of the beat. Interestingly, the only appear in five different places (near the bottom-left, bottom-right, top-left, top-right and the middle). Halfway through Phase Two, the lasers and the rows of quad shooters return.

### Phase 3

The laser and quad shooters disappear, and small square projectiles start raining from the right. The screen also starts scrolling. Shortly after, the lasers return, and will attack you for almost the rest of the level (until somewhere in the middle of Phase Four).

Quad shooters in rows of four appear at the top and bottom twice, along with four more and bursting squares in the corners of the screen. Four quad shooters appear from the bottom of the screen, then shortly after, 4 quad shooters appear in the corners of the screen, the screen stops scrolling then they burst more squares.

### Final Phase

After the third and last checkpoint, the screen starts to scroll again, 4 quad shooters appear from the top, then at the bottom, then at the top. After that, the 'corner shooters' reappear, the screen starts to scroll again.

The screen resumes scrolling after they burst. The 4 quad shooter attack pattern from the previous phase fires. Soon after, more quad shooters reappear at the top, middle and bottom of the screen in rows of 3 or 5.

About one-thirds of the way through the final phase, the attacks change back to the quad-shooter pattern in phase two. Due to the scrolling screen, these quad-shooters seem to appear in random places - however, they appear in the exact same pattern as phase two.

In the final attack, the screen stops scrolling and a quad shooter appears at the middle of the screen, shooting squares in four different directions while rotating clockwise. It disappears then immediately reappears to fire counterclockwise. The level ends soon after.

## Hardcore Mode Changes

### Phase 1

* Eight square projectiles fire instead of three
	+ These projectiles will also now move much faster
* Six quad-shooters appear on the bottom instead of three
* Three more quad-shooters appear in the middle of the phase
* Three extra quad-shooters appear at the top when three appear on the bottom

### Phase 2

* The rotating quad-shooters fire twenty squares instead of eight

### Phase 3

* There are more square particles raining down

### Final Phase

* The clockwise and counterclockwise quad shooters near the end of Phase 4 now appear simultaneously
* One of the quad shooters is stationary - the other still rotates counterclockwise.
	+ The counterclockwise quad shooter persists throughout the entire phase - the stationary shooter vanishes halfway through.

## Trivia

* This is the first level to introduce the artist "F-777" (Aka Jesse Valentine) to the game's soundtrack and is one of two composed by them, the other being Airborne Robots.
* The soundtrack is also used in three different games: *Geometry Dash*, *Project Arrhythmia* and *Rolling sky.*
	+ Berzerk Studio have stated in their Discord server that they had no prior knowledge that the song was used in any of these games.