Not sure where the official announcement of this happened, but videos and discussions of the game are now finally allowed. The game is still invite-only, but expect to start seeing it all over the place now. Popular streamers are already jumping into it.

  • Chris
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    2511 months ago

    Deadlock eh, never heard of it. Seems to be a valve Overwatch?

    • @simple@lemm.eeOP
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      11 months ago

      It’s dota 2 if it were a very competitive 3rd person shooter. More of a MOBA than a hero shooter, and it’s very complex. Also I’ve been playing it for a month, AMA I guess

      • drphungky
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        511 months ago

        Everyone calling it a shooter MOBA is right, but more basically: It’s Smite. It’s just Smite, but good. I played the Smite 2 alpha and it was very lame, no verticality, gunplay felt bad. Deadlock has an original theme, gunplay feels tight, and there is clearly a huge skill ceiling. I don’t know if it’s 100% yet, which tracks cuz it’s an alpha, but it’s already better than Smite and I have faith they’ll make it better.

    • MentalEdge
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      No. More a third person Battleborn, actually. Or Dota with guns. It has items, ability leveling, hero leveling, lanes, NPCS, all the MOBA things.

      And no, Battleborn never played like Overwatch.

        • MentalEdge
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          It’s not for everyone, but it has fit surprisingly well into the Battleborn-shaped hole in my heart.

        • @kautau@lemmy.world
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          711 months ago

          Yeah I’m for new games and hopefully people love it but “hero shooter” and “moba” definitely aren’t categories I’m looking for in new games, the market is flooded with them. Hopefully valve can stand out

        • MentalEdge
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          311 months ago

          Deadlock or Battleborn?

          I’d say yes. But you do have to figure out how to apply the MOBA way of thinking. How to stack the stats of items, abilities and leveling up, into doing a shitload of damage without dying.

          That applied to Battelborn, and it does in Deadlock, too.

    • @Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world
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      -511 months ago

      I think Overwatch is kind of dog shit and would take that game over Deadlock every time. May as well just skip the shooter and play DOTA.