Deadlock Beta Reviews

[HavocTheMushroom]

Since you're not allowed to post reviews yet, here's mine to any interested. Let me know what you think so far too.

[NOT RECOMMENDED]
77 hours played at time of review

So. It's just another MOBA, except this time by Valve. In it's current state (Beta) it's an unbalanced, meta-heavy cluster**** of a shooter with too many characters able to dominate the game if they get ahead in the first 2 minutes of the match. When you get lucky with teammates and get the lead, great! You crush the other team into the dirt. If you or your teammate gets rocked 1 or 2 times at the start of the game, you lose! Enjoy the next 30 minutes of struggling, and inevitable defeat. I've been on both sides, and neither is very rewarding or fun after the first one or two times. Only half the cast is viable for higher level play and only one side can have each character. Abrams, Warden, and Grey Talon all on the other team? You're likely already screwed.

If this does happen and you get pushed back, you can try to farm and level up to catch up. Without levels, you might as well shooting nerf darts at the other guy. Except that to farm, you need to be able to get to farming spots. To get there, you need to push up. Except if you push up, you get bodied by whoever is higher level then you, then they steal the farm (putting them even higher above you). The most popular argument I hear is:
"Play with the team! You'll make a comeback just stay together!"
95% of the time, you still get crushed, just crushed together. The strong get stronger, and the weak get weaker. There's the rare exceptions, but very few and far between. To summarize, bad enough start or not enough levels means you lose.

Anyway. They might take a couple more years to fix it, then comes skins and microtransactions. Just because it's Valve doesn't mean it's good, and this one's a miss so far.

[opAw←G]

That is what I love the most about MOBA's, the "struggle" when your team is losing/behind. It just makes me want to try harder and gitgud every match and I don't really get disheartened when I lose a bad match, I just move on to the next game. I play in Asia and the language barrier here is also a struggle, most of my team mates are either from Japan, South Korea, China etc. but I still enjoy playing it even if when we don't understand each other.

[moon]

Half the roster will prob be forgotten when the game comes out and valve finds thier fan favorites they can buff the ♥♥♥♥ out of and give skins every patch much like how riot does with league. given how evey single game im laning against warden hes prob gonna be the main one... god CS died for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[JPCC]

My review: Too many hackers already, don't waste your time.

[HavocTheMushroom]

Originally posted by MooN:

god CS died for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

yeah...I miss :GO too

Originally posted by JPCC:

My review: Too many hackers already, don't waste your time.

Now this I haven't encountered, which I figure is due to it being a beta. What kind of cheaters have you seen?

[Schizm]

Game isn't as extreme as you think when it comes to getting ahead, well... It is but it isn't.

See the problem is with Mobas is counters and counter picking certain heroes are just going to dominate others and thats the nature of the beast. But other mobas have ways to combat this mainly with a pick ban phase or specific lane comps that are normalized that prevent this from happening or lessen its effects.

Typically your not going to send a pos 1 in dota to the off lane and your not going to have an ADC in the top lane in League.

But right now since everything is just random. 6 random ass heroes vs 6 other random ass heroes in a random ass lane. Unless you draft a good team comp and people are willing to swap, games are just extremely skewed one way or another.

I'm currently in like Phantom 2 in ranked and its starting to get to the point where winning 9/10 is base on who gets the most CC. If you have Lash, Dynamo, Infernus you are going to win simply because your team fight is just so much stronger.

[Fuxleep]

Solid game, poor balance changes, full of cheaters. The game had better balance and was more fun in the first few weeks of open testing.
145hrs on record

[Beldr]

Originally posted by MooN:

Half the roster will prob be forgotten when the game comes out and valve finds thier fan favorites they can buff the ♥♥♥♥ out of and give skins every patch much like how riot does with league. given how evey single game im laning against warden hes prob gonna be the main one... god CS died for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Why the ♥♥♥♥ you comparing it with League and not with dota 2? you know the moba that valve has?