Thoughts on the actual game?

[The_Professor]

any original opinion thoughts on this super original never before seen game concept before? Aside from the begging for invites or begging for friends, dying to see the f2p ultra skins CSGO is long game plan for the latest gaben profit machine, hbu?

[Phonics Wright]

it's something that feels fresh, which I can get behind. Not for me, though

[Acorlei]

From its current position, it's very much a rough gem that still needs cut and polish. For those who enjoy MOBAs, they're very much likely to enjoy Deadlock. However, there are a number of character changes that need to be completed to make it feel fleshed out and balanced.

In the game's current state, there are definitely a number of characters that stand out as being the best of the best, those being McGinnis and Haze. Infernus is also high up there. These beginner friendly characters are there to teach the very basics of the game, and using Valve's suggested guide can make them powerful, but if you REALLY learn the items, they become straight up BROKEN.

Meanwhile, characters like Abrams and Kelvin seem rather underwhelming. Abrams has a revolver, but he's firing snakeshot out of the damn thing; his bullet damage is extremely low, so unless you get LH and secure your souls, you're going to get shredded in early game. Kelvin, on the flip side, has a fairly decent early game weapon and his ice beam/grenades are good to disable enemy heroes. However, as soon as you get to late game, you're essentially nothing more than a glorified support, as your damage falls off greatly.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm no expert on the game by any means, these are just my experiences. The game is definitely going to have a rough break-in period while Valve is in active development. The art is gonna look all sorts of wack, and there's going to be minimal lore.

As the game progresses though, we're going to see its popularity rise up, and may see it become less of a MOBA, and more of a Hero Shooter with MOBA aspects. However, we need to see more active discussion about the game... and not SPAM THE FORUMS WITH DEADLOCK INVITES.


Also, Jacob Lash is an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Heavy disguised as scout]

Can't play it until it is optimized

[Garou]

to much ui clutter feels kinda depressing with the grey tone and characters are meh

[Alpharius]

SBI detected.

[Random]

This is the kind of moba I am willing to play, I hate LoL and Dota2 but this I'm 100% fine with.

[MistahBurp]

I'm convinced Abrams has some underlying tank modifier. That character takes no dmg and can just commando pro you to death and just take it. Big stank

[Cat]

Originally posted by Alpha-087:

SBI detected.

I'll wait for reviews or if they update that sbi group.

[Data]

Bump as it's actually of value and not spam

[BEEP!]

Well I for one don't really like PVP in general and I've never liked MOBAs and I actually like the game a good bit.

[SodaDrinker69]

i'm not a moba player so it's not grabbing me, and you should take my thoughts with a grain of salt because of this. but i think you should be able to optionally reorder which keys are bound to which abilities. i understand that there are conventions that have to be stuck to, so the ult goes on the fourth key, but i keep pressing 3 when i want to use the ult on characters with a passive by mistake. it feels very unnatural to me that 1, 2, and 4 are the keys you press to use your abilities on characters with only 3 active abilities.

[Data]

Originally posted by SodaDrinker69:

i'm not a moba player so it's not grabbing me, and you should take my thoughts with a grain of salt because of this. but i think you should be able to optionally reorder which keys are bound to which abilities. i understand that there are conventions that have to be stuck to, so the ult goes on the fourth key, but i keep pressing 3 when i want to use the ult on characters with a passive by mistake. it feels very unnatural to me that 1, 2, and 4 are the keys you press to use your abilities on characters with only 3 active abilities.

I too had to reorder things. Never understood the use of 1, 2, 3, 4... In games where you are in direct control of movement

[Data]

A thread like this needs to be pinned or something until they deal with the spam bots

[Phantom Limb]

Originally posted by Data:

A thread like this needs to be pinned or something until they deal with the spam bots

True.

[カミナ]

Art style and characters are unattractive and uninteresting (minus blue feet girl).

Gameplay feels weak, map is bland and samey looking. Not sold on the rails.

Gunplay is very flaccid and weak feeling. Guns lack oomph and feel unsatisfying to use, time to kill being very high contributes to this. The core loop of CSing also feels unsatisfying and I don't like the orb and deny mechanic.

I don't know that MOBAs and shooters mix well. At least not like this.