What’s Valve Going to Do About Deadlock?

Just a quick and dirty video about my thoughts on Valve's new Hero Shooter.

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LEMMiNO - Nocturnal
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Yup...

[P-Bean]

Deadlock is on the steam store, though invites are still limit.

[buggerofallhell]

To anyone who thinks its a team shooter its not its moba with fps elements

[kingkrool]

I think Valve is trying to avoid the shit show that was CS2's release. rather than releasing the game now and fixing it later, they're slowly adding and fixing things and making sure the game is functional before public release.

[s_callahan]

i got it yesterday and am excited to try it :3

unlike cs2s limited test deadlock is actually being treated as unfinished so ig they learned, AND tf2s bots are gone so i don't really have an issue.

[Mrln]

You are now allowed to stream deadlock

It was an announcement on the discord today

[BUMMY]

I never played MOBAs, with Deadlock being my exposure to the genre. It feels weird playing a fighting game where the main focus is not the objective but through increasing your player stats and whatnot, so I really feel like I was out of my league especially when I encounter veteran DOTA players.

...e-especially when I encounter veteran DOTA players...

[lylghost]

This game is literally one of the most popular game on steam right now ranked 62nd, with invite only access basically. Just release it already.

[heypistolero]

Just got an invite, had no idea what the hell it was so I googled it

[Tyretes]

they know what they're doing.
they purposely let the keys spread and get uncontrollable amount of people to playtest the game. afterall, they already expected what would happen if they did that - and it happened to be this.

[CircusQueen]

if valve is so against people sharing footage why did they make it so any joe schmoe get access to the game? I didn't even have to do anything.

[Krispo]

The characters have at least 10% of the charisma that the characters from the Golden Age of Valve had?

[gmanplaysgames]

With the sheer number of overhyped AAA titles that have released as half-baked, unfinished, buggy messes as of late, I think Valve is wise to do things this way. Let people come see what you're working on so you can get feedback but keep it well away from the media machine until it's ready for release. Better to let people that actually play games regularly have a crack at it in private so you can tweak and refine it, than let some dipshit games journalist that can't beat a tutorial level give the game bad publicity before it's even done, or for them to hype it up as the next big thing only for it to fail to meet expectations.

[obi]

What are you yapping about, little bro.

The way they placed themselves and the non-release of this "playtest" is working great for them, if you think this was some sort of oversight, you are one of those people who buys ringtones for their phone - They're testing all their facilities, including stresstesting their servers etc, they are able to claim and delete all the videos that leak, ban all the russians who stream it on twitch, etc, etc.

Like, seriously, are you implying they oopsied the "invite friends to this playtest" button in there and then forget they could patched it out for several days?

[LemonsGrabbed]

did anyone else see that deadlocks intro sounds like the jaws theme? did they copy jaws