Played my first round two days ago, got flamed for being bad at the game. 10/10 League experience would play again.
You need to have 12500 hours experience in the game before you are allowed to play the game.
Sounds like an entry-level job
I love Deadlock, but I am worried about a hyper competitive scene being a big part of it. I’m happy exploring mechanics without being flamed.
Is this game actually good or just hyped up because it’s a valve game?
The new mix of moba and fps elements is handled really well. You’ve got to be good at shooting and building your character over time, which leaves a shitload of space for interesting gameplay. Positioning, planning, adapting, experimenting, it’s all here and the game is early beta. There were puzzle games before Portal, and there were shooters before this game. Deadlock is extremely well made like portal so far, and I’m excited to see where it goes.
The game does what its trying to do excellently, and knowing Valve it’ll continue to improve until release. If you like MOBAs and you like good shooter mechanics, you’ll most likely enjoy this game.
It’s just a moba but
first3rd person, it’s no TF2 that’s for sure…Oh, an FPS, groundbreaking. Hard pass.
It seems like a great game for those with the time and dedication to learn it.
I’m not one of those people. This game takes a lot from DOTA and will demand an extensive knowledge of the map, characters, builds, and items to start to get good at it, and I just don’t care to spend the time to learn it all.
I know nobody asked, but I really wish more MOBAs like HOTS did well. I love HOTS for how approachable it was in comparison to the others. I’m at the point where if I play a moba and there’s an item shop: I’m out. In every case I’ve seen an item shop the optimal usage of it is to build your characters stats to counter your expected build of the other team’s build - and that is a LOT of added complexity I just don’t want to deal with, especially because it requires so much knowledge and people with more time than you will flame you if you don’t know it.
I’m a little confused. Deadlock is a 3rd person MOBA in a sea of MOBAs. Concord is a 3rd person hero shooter in a sea of hero shooters. Seems to me like this is Valve magic, even though ex-Destiny devs worked on Concord.
I’m not planning on playing either one due to my lack of good Internet, I just find it a bit strange.
The sea of MOBA in question:
- LoL
- Dota
- Smite
- errr…
And of those, Smite is the only real comparison.
I only really hate Smite for being the reason Tribes: Ascend was killed.
Tribes 3 is pretty similar if you haven’t played it yet you should.
Holler for Predecessor, the spiritual successor to Paragon.
We having fun out here, jump in, the waters fine!
Since the first two have approximately 6.5 billion people playing them at any given time, I’d still call it a sea.
To note also, is that in addition to Valve magic Deadlock is created by Icefrog - the lead developer and designer behind Dota 2 (and DotA: All-stars for years before that). You can see his fingerprints all over Deadlock, and despite it clearly being at the alpha stage you can still see he knows intimately what makes a good MOBA tick.
Valve has the resources and incentive to take years and years making something fun with no worry about profitability. Steam is their product, the games Valve releases on Steam are just reasons to spend money on their platform.
Valve’s ‘magic’ is play testing something to the point it’s a polished experience that people keep coming back to. They put in the work to see how their game plays, and adapt where they feel it’s needed. If Sony did near the play testing on Concord that Valve did on Deadlock, I’d bet their game would be pretty fun too.
And if it doesn’t work you’ll never see it.
Artifact says hello.
That Valve magic is monopoly and nostalgia.
How tf is this a monopoly? There are other mobas you can buy, even on their own store. And if you meant steam, that’s also not a monopoly, there are lots of other stores. Most just suck and are not even beginning to understand why steam has its standing.
understand why steam has its standing.
Because they forced people who bought physical copies to download a proprietary launcher?
People forget that Valve was the first major player to do this.
G*mers get upset when you bring it up
I wasn’t a fan. It’s still too much like a moba to break through genres. I am curious if it will eat into Dota’s fan base, or bring more people?
As someone who was interested in dota2 but found it too daunting to figure out, I’ve been brought in myself. I’m loving deadlocked so far.
honestly didn’t like this game much, it’s very DotA and i didn’t really like DotA
I don’t like Dota either. I always liked League for being quick and snappy. That said, Riot/Tencent are evil sons of bitches so I won’t go back ever.
Its so freaking good. I been having a blast playing it and so has my son.
