Deadlock - An FPS MOBA by Valve.

[True Boss of this Gym]

Once you get a decent grasp at the game, you realize how painfully average of a character Bebop is. Bomb/Beam build are a meme compared to something more consistent like Gunbop.

 

[Arturo]

Haven't played in a while but it seems like they recently nerfed Mirage's stacking dot which sucks, he's the most fun to play. I'm a fan of the map change, I thought 4 lanes was too much but I did get used to it so it was weird going into the new map and exploring how much tighter the game feels.

Also is it just me or did it lose it's New York vibe with the map change? It doesn't feel like it's consistent the way the 4 lane map was...

 

[Forrest Gump]

I'm a fan of the map change, I thought 4 lanes was too much but I did get used to it so it was weird going into the new map and exploring how much tighter the game feels.

It was actually the opposite for me, 4 lanes felt way too disorienting in the first few hours I've played.
It took me a lot less to learn the 3 lane map, it's faster to rotate to fights ad it also encourages skirmishes in general which makes matches more fun. It's still bullshit they removed the cross-map teleporters tho.

Also is it just me or did it lose it's New York vibe with the map change?

The smaller map feels like it has less detail than before, I do agree.

 

[sassblassted]

Haven't played in a while but it seems like they recently nerfed Mirage's stacking dot which sucks, he's the most fun to play. I'm a fan of the map change, I thought 4 lanes was too much but I did get used to it so it was weird going into the new map and exploring how much tighter the game feels.

Also is it just me or did it lose it's New York vibe with the map change? It doesn't feel like it's consistent the way the 4 lane map was...

It's a lot more open for sure, which unfortunately takes a lot out of the whole "crowded megacity"-vibe. Still a big fan of the 4 to 3 lane approach, though, even if it would be better if they just shrunk it by like 15-20%

The smaller map feels like it has less detail than before, I do agree.

They definitely rushed out the new map. There's several spots with open backfaces in the meshes and a lot of it is just plain unfinished. Maybe it's just to keep the hype up? Either way the "unfinished" parts don't bother me too much tbh.

 

[dltzk]

A content creator leaked the private build that was rumored of existing. People are suspecting a update happens later today (Highly unlikely).

 

[True Boss of this Gym]

Mcginnis changes designs so fucking often it's annoying. Compare her model to her icon to her visual novel design to her new look in this leaked build. I know it's a game that's heavy in alpha but can they just decide on a design for her already?

 

[A Shi Piao Teapot]

A content creator leaked the private build that was rumored of existing. People are suspecting a update happens later today (Highly unlikely).

>all that extra shit
>yamato
WHERE'S THE REDESIGN YOSHI? WHERE IS IT?

 

[dltzk]

>all that extra shit
>yamato
WHERE'S THE REDESIGN YOSHI? WHERE IS IT?

They did a vyper remodel, so they must have just not made a portrait for it at all. I’ll wait for more leaks from this private build to come out.

 

[dltzk]

I feel as if they made the characters just way to cute. I thought McGinnis was supposed to be a grease monkey? All of these new characters I'm seeing are just way to overly attractive, its strange. I think what we had was fine with ugly characters. Now the game is starting to look like every other generic hero shooter/moba slop, just seems like the characters are designed to have porn made of them. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

 

[dltzk]

I forgot to post this: https://streamable.com/ldyxds
Its the new haze model.

 

[Ambient Occlusion]

Not a huge fan of some of those redesigns.

I see they're playing into furfags and making Ivy look more "uwu cute." Also Lady Geist looking a lot younger when her older look was a lot more interesting imo. All the new male characters look too much like sexy Tumblr bad boys now. Frank and Drifter look like they're from some gay monster dating game. Compare their designs to Warden and Lash and you can see the shift in direction. Pretty disappointing.

 

[my penis is on fire]

Valve suddenly remembered that the supermajority of MOBA players are chinese

 

[Belvedere]

I feel as if they made the characters just way to cute. I thought McGinnis was supposed to be a grease monkey? All of these new characters I'm seeing are just way to overly attractive, its strange. I think what we had was fine with ugly characters. Now the game is starting to look like every other generic hero shooter/moba slop, just seems like the characters are designed to have porn made of them. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Not a huge fan of some of those redesigns.

I see they're playing into furfags and making Ivy look more "uwu cute." Also Lady Geist looking a lot younger when her older look was a lot more interesting imo. All the new male characters look too much like sexy Tumblr bad boys now. Frank and Drifter look like they're from some gay monster dating game. Compare their designs to Warden and Lash and you can see the shift in direction. Pretty disappointing.

Can you blame them though? If anything Concord's failure and Marvel Rival's success completely vindicated the importance of having an appealing and yes, sexy cast of characters to attract an audience. People will want to invest time playing as such characters and buy cosmetics, merchandising and there will be an incentive for fan creations to be made which is basically free advertising for the game.

There is a reason gatchas make money hand-over-fist and it isn't precisely because their depth of gameplay.

Nobody wanted to play the diverse body-positive horror show that was the cast of Concord, and already people are predicting that Bungie's Marathon is going to be death-on-arrival because the character designs and the environments range from boring to hideous.

I can only see the "glow up" of the characters in Deadlock as a good thing as a way to attract more of an audience once it goes public, if that is also accompanied by good gameplay mechanics and depth in its meta, then even better as people will find more than the aesthetics as a reason to stay and invest their time learning the game.

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

It's funny, you guys think Valve is going too far with the new redesigns and to me they still look like some HR busy work is still filtering all of them.

I took a look at McGinnis and the first thing my mind associated it with was this:

Maybe it's just my foreign brain being tired of the american imperialists trying to impose their culture on the world and get me to suck tranny dick for years that has just given up and is now rejecting anything that follows the same mold (Aka the CalArts effect) but I'd like to think my dislike for american media megacorps has reached a zenith and I can no longer look at anything in the AAA market without trying to subconciously justify my hatred for it.

 

[NoReturn]

It's funny, you guys think Valve is going too far with the new redesigns and to me they still look like some HR busy work is still filtering all of them.

I took a look at McGinnis and the first thing my mind associated it with was this:

Maybe it's just my foreign brain being tired of the american imperialists trying to impose their culture on the world and get me to suck tranny dick for years that has just given up and is now rejecting anything that follows the same mold (Aka the CalArts effect) but I'd like to think my dislike for american media megacorps has reached a zenith and I can no longer look at anything in the AAA market without trying to subconciously justify my hatred for it.

Just give her an Aubrey Ramirez hat instead.

 

[dltzk]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1422450/view/524216645064852902?l=english

New patch out.

 

[Übertroon]

I feel as if they made the characters just way to cute. I thought McGinnis was supposed to be a grease monkey? All of these new characters I'm seeing are just way to overly attractive, its strange. I think what we had was fine with ugly characters. Now the game is starting to look like every other generic hero shooter/moba slop, just seems like the characters are designed to have porn made of them. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

True, old Ivy became popular because it was a monstrous creature with an upbeat personality, but now it's just a big rat with wings

 

[The Cock Carousel]

If you are playing this patch
Get Counter Spell every game.
Gay Talon doing 1200 dmg owls? Seven spamming stuns? Bebop being gay and double bombing?
Just parry it and walk away unharmed.

 

[A Shi Piao Teapot]

New patch has been fun. I've only used a few of the new items but Trophy Hunter is so good for support characters, and counterspell is great for tons of CC and big damage abilities.
I had a bit of success with Blood Tribute on Vyper too, except the few times I forget to turn it off.

 

[sassblassted]

loving the new icons, even if it's gonna be a fucking nightmare to rewire my brain to associate the new ones with their old counterpart.
Also, can't wait to try ridiculous all-gun-no-vitality builds and feed like a retard.