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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.

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[–] Chocrates 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Chocrates 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Yup, it's very fun.

[–] cowfodder 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ask you anything? Can I have an invite?

[–] kautau 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[email protected]

Somebody posted that community, maybe invites there

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It is like Overwatch and Leaguen of Legends/Heroes of the Storm had a baby.

It is a FPS MOBA.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not an FPS, but a 3rd person shooter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Close enough :P

[–] drphungky 5 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] kautau 7 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I really wanted battleborn to succeed on release even though it was just kind of flawed from a design standpoint. I kind of gave up on competitive fps games since then though.

With how chaotic the fights look like and how high the ttk looks to be, is the game still fun at lower-mid skill levels?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I was specifically asking how Deadlock felt.

I've played quite a bit of MOBA's before, coincidentally the other big third person ones Smite and Paragon, so I've got a decent feel for builds and macroplay and I'm not necessarily worried about those aspects.

I grew up as a console gamer but exclusively play on PC now so I've found for fps games I have trouble competing because my aim isn't as great.

[–] Nosavingthrow -5 points 3 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.