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?

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think this vibe is basically because the game used to be a half life game. It was originally intended to be set as a war between criminals and the Combine or something like that then got reskinned. Several character designs haven’t changed at all since it was Citadel.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      When the first leaks got out and I saw they literally just made one of the characters an old silver haired Native American archer guy I immediately assumed “oh this is their no effort early alpha placeholder before they make the real archer character, clearly” because I just assumed that at this point Valve clearly would have more creativity and basic cultural sensitivity to not just make their characters 100% lazy stereotypes.

      They’ve managed to be behind Overwatch on this kind of shit, and that’s despite Overwatch making the ability to climb walls a genetic trait of Japanese people.