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New Details on Valve's New Game 'Deadlock' - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As already leaked, the game is a 6v6 third-person hero-based shooter. Heroes include magicians, robots, creatures, humans, and more. There are currently 19 different heroes, each with different abilities and playstyles that you’d come to expect from a MOBA including ranged, healers, tanks, assassins, etc.

Players have described the game to me as being very similar to DOTA in terms of its gameplay loop and mechanics. This includes killing enemies and creeps to get the in-game currency of “souls,” which allows you to buy items to make your hero stronger. According to sources, both creeps and enemies will spawn a soul upon death, which floats up and away when they die.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (11 children)

considering valve abandoned the last two games they made (artifact and dota underlords) I don't see this going any better

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently valve doesn't really assign teams to certain projects. People can work on what projects they like and things organically get people behind them if they are looking good or interesting.

This means games that do get completed are often really good and ones that weren't looking good fizzle out.

It's an interesting approach for sure. I think it makes sense rather than steaming ahead with a bad game. On the flip side what could be an interesting product may die out.

It's happened several times to half life 3 apparently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

They had to suspend that policy for HL: Alyx though.

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