I’m a dota 2 veteran, 6k hours or something embarrassing like that, but it’s been me and my friends primary outlet of hanging out for forever and it’s a lovely game.
Got invited to deadlock, wasn’t that interested but wanted to have a go anyway. Damn, it actually goes kinda hard? Character designs are awesome, i like the moba elements (I could see how you wouldn’t be if you don’t have a background in them tho), the controls feel great, etc.
I guess i was just surprised by how much I enjoyed playing it despite being pretty bad at it and having no idea how to evaluate items.
Thoughts?
I didn’t care for it. Very much ‘skill issue’, but all the games I’ve played so far against people has felt like I lost the game in the first 10 minutes, and then had to endure 30 minutes of getting my balls stepped on for the game to end, since there’s no surrender option, and didn’t feel like there’s any ‘comeback’ mechanics, but also the winning team feels like it takes a while to actually secure victory.
Compared to League of Legends (which I haven’t played in years, but did rack up many hours back in college), where a) you can surrender, and more importantly b) its possible to win quite quickly, both from just being ahead, but also from doing a cheeky ‘backdoor’.
Deadlock, it feels like the ‘securing victory’ route requiring minions, and also just being a multistage affair with mandatory wait periods in between, just makes it feel like a slog, both being on the winning or losing side.
I had no interest in playing but my brother got an invite so i thought fuck it send me one lets see what its like. I played for a few hours and it seemed pretty good. Gonna give it a go with friends next but i wasn’t expecting to play what i had played. I guess valve can take the most tired ideas and make them feel interesting and tight to play, it makes me wonder if artefact was actually any good
Artifact was 100% good. I’ve played MTG at a competitive level and artifact had some really interesting ideas and gorgeous art/lore. I genuinely think it didn’t deserve to flop. Games were just a tad too long and exhausting, so it got tiring to play quickly
Omg I honestly thought I was the only person in the world with this take lol. Great card game, imo it was only the monetisation that killed it
never bet against icefrog
i don’t know how best to describe it but valve’s balancing and design philosophy is just fun, it doesn’t have this sort of sanitised feel to it that say riot or blizzard have with their games where things have to be ‘fair’
I havent really kept tabs on Deadlock but from everything I have heard and seen…it seems Valve is cooking. This has the shot to become really big.
Played a match last night and I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t really love it either - I think it’s a bit more MOBA than I’d like, I would prefer a slightly smaller map and no soul collection/denial mechanic in exchange for some additional hero shooter elements like more basic attack archetypes (e.g rocket launcher, flamethrower, pickaxe).
Battleborne. I just want Battleborne back.
