6mo ago

Valve lifts NDA on Deadlock, streaming and talking about the game is now allowed.

Not sure where the official announcement of this happened, but videos and discussions of the game are now finally allowed. The game is still invite-only, but expect to start seeing it all over the place now. Popular streamers are already jumping into it.

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Having the game streamed by all these huge channels before it's even officially announced is kinda crazy. Everyone wants to play Valve's "secret game" of course, so it's free marketing. Pretty clever.
- Valve doing their Valve thing.
  
  So Valve specializes in controlling the rate of release?

There may be more people watching Deadlock than there are watching and playing Concord today based on available data and reasonable extrapolation. Valve continues to market in a unique way that works.
- Concord is dead on arrival. Kind of a shame, the game looked a bit interesting but being $40 and having very generic art this was bound to happen. Deadlock is in a whole other league.
  
  Agreed. Why would they force you to pay 40 in a genre already overpopulated and most of them are free.
  
  Honestly, paying for a (primarily) multiplayer game isn't a problem for me. I actually might prefer it when you look at Overwatch vs Overwatch 2. But I wasn't about to sign up for a playstation account to play my Steam game.
- I mean, I did not even know a game called Concord exists.
- It's likely that Concord's lifetime peak will be lower than Deadlock's closed beta peak

If you play or want to play: !deadlock@sopuli.xyz
- Thank you for that

Deadlock eh, never heard of it. Seems to be a valve Overwatch?
- It's dota 2 if it were a very competitive 3rd person shooter. More of a MOBA than a hero shooter, and it's very complex. Also I've been playing it for a month, AMA I guess
  
  Do you like it?
  
  Ask you anything? Can I have an invite?
- It is like Overwatch and Leaguen of Legends/Heroes of the Storm had a baby.
  It is a FPS MOBA.
  
  Not an FPS, but a 3rd person shooter.
  
  Everyone calling it a shooter MOBA is right, but more basically: It's Smite. It's just Smite, but good. I played the Smite 2 alpha and it was very lame, no verticality, gunplay felt bad. Deadlock has an original theme, gunplay feels tight, and there is clearly a huge skill ceiling. I don't know if it's 100% yet, which tracks cuz it's an alpha, but it's already better than Smite and I have faith they'll make it better.
- No. More a third person Battleborn, actually. Or Dota with guns. It has items, ability leveling, hero leveling, lanes, NPCS, all the MOBA things.
  And no, Battleborn never played like Overwatch.
  
  moba things?
  pass
  
  I really wanted battleborn to succeed on release even though it was just kind of flawed from a design standpoint. I kind of gave up on competitive fps games since then though.
  With how chaotic the fights look like and how high the ttk looks to be, is the game still fun at lower-mid skill levels?
- I think Overwatch is kind of dog shit and would take that game over Deadlock every time. May as well just skip the shooter and play DOTA.

Just fyi, I saw this posted in the announcements channel of their Discord server that you can join from the game's main menu.

Announcement was on Discord

They already reviewed it on The Verge a few weeks ago after the NDA expired.
- Said reviewer actually got permabanned from the game for posting that article
  
  Yeah, was just joking that this isn’t new and Valve were being dicks for enforcing a nonexistent NDA.

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