How to Unlock Flex Slots in Deadlock
What are Flex Item Slots?
In Deadlock, you start the game with 12 item slots:
4 for Weapon Items (related to you upgrading your gun)
4 for Vitality Items (related to upgrading your health, resistances, and overall survivability)
4 for Spirit Items (related to you upgrading your abilities)
However, by accomplishing certain objectives throughout a match, you can unlock 4 Flex Slots.
Flex Slots can be filled with any mix of Weapon, Vitality, and Spirit Items
How to Unlock Flex Item Slots
By highlighting the Flex Slot from a Shop, you can see the different objectives required.
The four objectives that unlock Flex Slots are (in order of difficulty):
Destroy 2 enemy Walkers
Destroy all enemy Guardians
Destroy all enemy Walkers
1 Shrine and 2 Base Guardians
References:
A Guardian is the first "turret" in a lane.
A Walker is the seconds "turret" in a lane.
And lastly, a Shrine is one of the two structures that keeps a Patron alive. It's very similar to the "Inhibitor" from League of Legends.