'This game is going to easily—and I mean easily—take over': Major streamers, early fans, and esports players share their Deadlock hype after Valve opens the floodgates

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'This game is going to easily—and I mean easily—take over': Major streamers, early fans, and esports players share their Deadlock hype after Valve opens the floodgates
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Is this game actually good or just hyped up because it's a valve game?

It's just a moba but first 3rd 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 😅

Oh, an FPS, groundbreaking. Hard pass.

I'd be keen on it if it was just an action/shooter and wasn't a moba 😅

Maybe we're just not the target audience?

extremely hyped up. it's made by Valve, and lead by the legendary Icefrog, and it feels just like his previous game - Dota 2, just in shooter arena.

I've been watching some streams and it seems good. A couple friends who have played are into it. There's definitely a good portion of hype from it being Valve though.

In the article there's a testimony from someone who doesn't normally like shooters being into this game. That actually kind of speaks to me, but I'm convinced that's because the general public still doesn't have access to the game yet. Once people start getting crazy competitive on this, it won't be fun anymore.

I have 30h in the game now. It's worth the hype.

The new mix of moba and fps elements is handled really well. You've got to be good at shooting and building your character over time, which leaves a shitload of space for interesting gameplay. Positioning, planning, adapting, experimenting, it's all here and the game is early beta. There were puzzle games before Portal, and there were shooters before this game. Deadlock is extremely well made like portal so far, and I'm excited to see where it goes.

Overhyped, I played about 30 hours and it's just a boring lane phase that you either win or lose within 5mins. There's no coming back from losing a lane. Then it's a boring mid game where you either enjoy pushing other lanes after winning yours or just get stomped if you lost it. Late is just a mess. There's no strategy, map gameplay is mediocre, champion gameplay is okay but less interesting than other MOBAs with less skills and plays involved. And again, if you have a bad first 5 minutes of the game and fall behind farm then just go play another game cause it's just gets even more boring.

if you have a bad first 5 minutes of the game and fall behind farm then just go play another game cause it’s just gets even more boring.

I thought that was basically the genre definition of MOBA.

It is, but the snowballing is higher in this game. You back once during early lane and there goes your first turret.