Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games
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That's cool and all, so when can us peasant play the game?
You need an invite? There's whole steam forums dedicated to it.
I stopped playing it after a week tho, not my style (although I think that goes for all IceFrog-esque games for me lol)
Really? I'm rarely on steam forums or communities. I just see kids drawing which made me not go back to them.
I'll check it thank you.
Ehh, if you haven't gotten into it this far then I'd suggest waiting until release. Deadlock is still incomplete and has such radical balance changes each update that it's hard to tell what's going on. Most of the people playing right now have been playing since early access started, so you'll have a hard time finding players that are bad at it for now.
I think it's more accurate to say you'll have a hard time finding players who don't know what's going on. The average player is very bad still.
If you can't find an invite there I can probably sort you out.
The trending stuff is always going to be art or trading related tbh, just use the searchbar
It's a profoundly amazing game and amazingly innovative for a moba imo.
I'd like to try it in first person. Third person fucking sucks for shooters.
I thought so too at first, but I actually don't think the movement aspect of Deadlock would feel as good in first person.
It would, at least with the initial cast. I don't know if they have added any movement creep kind of stuff since.
Overwatch had hyper mobile characters and worked well, even with its low FOV (it really needed higher FOV).
nah
see: Gunz: the duel
yah
see: quake, team fortress, overwatch
3rd person is for selling skins.
Well Deadlock didn't officially launch yet.
GAAS is a scam even if you simp the billionaire making it.
Hard disagree. Both Dota and CS2 are truly f2p, you get the same experience wether you buy stuff or choose not to. Of course the gambling stuff is predator, but the games themselves are great and actually free. You just want to buy a hat cause it's fun.
Two good games as a service doesn’t excuse the huge rotten pile of GAAS scams.
Two shiny red apples in a pile of compost still makes it a heap of shit.
Sure. But you claimed that Valves games are scams. And they aren't and neither will be Deadlock.
But but but…. I don’t care who it is making and selling them, games as a service is toxic to players and anti consumer. TF2 normalized and opened the door to a lot of the shit that turned into loot boxes with its micro transactions for keys to get better weapons and cosmetics.
GAAS are scams, even if some of them might behave and don’t shit all over the living room floor.
Well it's not GAAS(yet), it has 0 mtx so far.
Not all of them.
Gaas is the best model for online competitive games. Best value for developers and players.
pass, I'll wait another ten years for their next game
I forgot about that game. What was it again? Some sort of shooter moba?
And it still looks uninteresting.
I mean, whether or not it looks interesting to you, it's still pulling in tens of thousands of players on a daily basis, and it hasn't even had a public release yet. Seems like it's doing just fine.
So are other MOBAs. Doesn't stop them from being crap.
Hey, do you wanna bet that the people who can't stop playing this are the same people who are generally stuck to MOBAs?
No, It's the children who are wrong!
What is your favorite genre?
RTS, RPG, Space Sims. Whatever Helldivers 2 is, maybe... I only played one game like that.