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
Is this game actually good or just hyped up because it’s a valve game?
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…I thought it was third person?
True, i was zooming in so often I forgot it was 3rd person 😅
Yeah, I mean where’s all the hats?
I mean pre-hat TF2…
I have prior MOBA experience and played Deadlock for around 50 hours already, and it’s a good game IMO. Of course, it’s not perfect and I do have a couple issues with it but it kinda deserves the hype.
I personally didn’t care for it. I invited a few friends and after a couple of days, they couldn’t get into it either.
In my opinion it is hyped up. It is okay but not bigger than the Beatles.
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.
Are you me? Thats how I feel. It’s like a moba that’s fun.
It’s a moba that’s more than clicking fucking endlessly on a map. Like in Starcraft, the speed of your clicks can make or break you.
It’s genuinely like an extensions of Team Fortress 2/Overwatch, except they’ve moved the core gameplay onto the MOBA model.
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.
HOTS is actually an amazing MOBA for people who don’t like MOBAs in that it eschews overlong matches (usual like 20 min), it has simplified itemization, decreased emphasis on perfectly farming your lane, etc. Definitely better game than people give credit for.
The store is simple, though. It has archetypal builds (or whatever they are called), like “cooldown reduction item”, “life steal item”, etc. I think the hardest part will be memorizing yet another set of heroes to play decently against them.
It’s pretty fun, but its very much a MOBA. Matches usually take too long(30+ min), csing/laning is not really enjoyable (to me). The potential for massive power differentials based on items and balance. The shooting mechanics are pretty simplistic, though seeing how the game actually works (as a MOBA) that is probably a good thing.
It will be good probably for people who are already fans of traditional MOBAs with these elements. I’ll play occasionally with my friends. Needs more heroes
honestly didn’t like this game much, it’s very DotA and i didn’t really like DotA
I’ve never tried DotA, but did play Heroes of the Storm quite a bit when it wasn’t on life support yet. Deadlock, on the other hand, I tried for 45 minutes and am now fairly certain it’s got nothing to offer me.
I don’t think I’ll leave OW2 for this, purely because I’m super casual and only play unranked/MH.
I’m glad that is coming out and people are having fun though.
Yeah I wouldn’t. It’s not really the same kind of game ultimately, and the time investment you need to grasp it can be a lot, even for someone like me who played DOTA and shooters way too much.
If you can get into it though, it’s a real banger so far.
Try Marvel Rivals (out on December 6th). It reminded me of OW1, but also OW2, of course.
If anyone is not sick of having to invite people, I’d love an invite.
I’ll admit I’m curious. If a friend of mine invited me I’d try it, but I worry my flick shooting isn’t good enough. I was always better at overwatch since it involved characters that could be played well without good shooting ability.
Its so freaking good. I been having a blast playing it and so has my son.
Been interesting watching streamers quitting their current games to jump immediately onto Deadlock, some even in tears pretending to be doing anything more than abandoning the communities that built them for anything other than the dollar signs they have in their eyes.
Imagine someone actually feeling bittersweet about moving on to something new for fun and/or for the benefit of their career.
Literally why does the Internet have to be filled with “they can’t possibly just be good people making a decision that isn’t inconsequential, FAKE” comments like this?
Personally, I don’t care as don’t follow streamers myself. But seems like the right thing to do is to not abandon the people that built you up to begin with because something shinier shows up. Make a transition over time to something new, sure. But when it’s sudden like this, it’s hard to see it any other way.
So it is not about the personality of the streamer but the games they play?
It’s both for me. Example: I like Grubby and his WC3 content, never watched him playing Dota as it doesn’t pique my interest. I don’t watch ToD’s WC3 streams because I cannot stand his personality.
But neither is there an obligation for anyone to provide the content I enjoy nor am I obligated to watch content of anyone that I don’t enjoy.
Depends on the streamer, I guess. Personality probably matters more to those that are variety streamers - people that play many different games at any given point with a large general audience and probably less important for those that specialize in a specific game that has a built-in community of people interested in that game.
Artists and performers need the freedom to be able to chase viable opportunities that excite them. You’re watching them for their passion after all. If they get paid better to do it, great. This is their job, after all.
streamers don’t owe playing a single game forever to their viewers. If you like the streamer you can follow them to another game, or you can find someone else to watch. It’d be very strange to expect someone to play to not play the game they enjoy most just because you subscribe to them on twitch, especially when you can stop subscribing whenever.
… What? Dedicated streamers is a bizarre concept, playing different games is normal and good
That’s weird. The dollar signs come from the community do they not?
New game = new community = new dollar signs, I suppose.
