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Rumor: First Details revealed for Valve's next Game, Deadlock
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
Half-Life 3... confirmed?
Jinzo Prime
Gold Member
LazyParrot
Member
CS:GO, DOTA 2 and TF2 are pretty much the only F2P live service games I ever spent significant amounts of time on, so I don't particularly mind them making another one.
makaveli60
Member
Ah, another wonderful, never before seen unique game from the creators of Half-Life
Lucifers Beard
Member
Artifact wasn't exactly a hit and CS2 was a bit of a downgrade when I played it near launch.
Hudo
Member
I mean, Half-Life: Alyx was cool. This however, is ... I dunno what to say.
I am sure there will be plenty of people who will like this, unfortunately...
It's just not what I want from Valve. I feel it's a massive waste of their talents to do some multiplayer-focused mtx/live-service shit. But oh well..
Bert Big Balls
Member
Loved Overwatch until it got royally fucking ruined. This actually sounds interesting IMO.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Not what I’d want see from Valve, but I won’t write it off without looking at it either.
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MiguelItUp
Member
Exactly. Artifact was one of the biggest failures, and it was Valve's. They had marketing all over Steam, and no one cared. They shut it down fairly fast too.No one is perfect:
REALLY hoping Deadlock is solid and successful. Alyx was/is great, and CS2 continues to improve though cheating is still screwed. So, at least there's some kind of hope.
Zheph
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It doesn't look bad but it looks a lot like the competition
Dr. Suchong
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iHaunter
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Paragon came back as Predecessor. You can play it right now:
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Piggoro
Member
I don't know man. I was always expecting something new, something special from Valve. The leaked screenshots and game description look super uninspired to me. Like Valoverantwatch at home.Looks like shit but that dont matter. Icefrog is behind this and im enjoying people in this thread so gleefully signing themselves up for a crow dinner
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Jinzo Prime
Gold Member
I acrually got it for free during one of Epic's giveaways. It looks great, but I'm not a moba gamer so its not really into it.
ozz ex machina
Member
My main concern with this is if it is going to have a clear identity or not. We only know leaks so far so it's not fair for me to judge anything yet. But from what I have read I suspect this game will try to be too many different things and nothing to everyone.
For example - I value mechanical movement/aiming skill above all else, things you see in CS, quake, TF2 (competitive shooters for grown ups). Is this game going to appeal to me? Or is it for the moba fans who value strategy, copying meta builds and having a spell do most of the mechanical work for you beyond basic micro/positioning/teamwork. From my experience games that try to combine these elements are just a hot mess - overwatch, valorant, insert other generic shooter with moba abilities/ultimates.
The game will get a lot of exposure purely because it's valve. It's one of those things, if this exact product came out and was made by a startup with next to no marketing. Would it die on release? Probably. But I hope it's good.
For example - I value mechanical movement/aiming skill above all else, things you see in CS, quake, TF2 (competitive shooters for grown ups). Is this game going to appeal to me? Or is it for the moba fans who value strategy, copying meta builds and having a spell do most of the mechanical work for you beyond basic micro/positioning/teamwork. From my experience games that try to combine these elements are just a hot mess - overwatch, valorant, insert other generic shooter with moba abilities/ultimates.
The game will get a lot of exposure purely because it's valve. It's one of those things, if this exact product came out and was made by a startup with next to no marketing. Would it die on release? Probably. But I hope it's good.
LostDonkey
Member
Sounds wank
MrRenegade
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Seems like all their online games do not bring in ENOUGH revenue... This is typical Gabe Newell shit. I swim in money, but my 10 acre swimming pool is not big enough. I vividly remember when GN said that he doesn't like games where people cannot experience EVERY art/sounds/assets they created and that's shit. Even Warren Spector joined the discussion saying, that's not a problem, and came with Deus Ex as a prime example, but of course GN didn't like that. So don't expect anything single player like from Valve, just things that take your time.
Ton of new footage, it looks pretty far along tbh.
Not sure how sold I am on the style, looks like there's a bit much going on. Some of the UI stuff reminds me of Persona which, while cool stylistically, can be distracting in this type of a game.
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P:axMagellanic
Member
The spastic shit that people play nowadays.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
The Smite 2 devs can't be happy about this. This is as 3rd person MOBA as you can get.
Griffon
Member
Yep, there I agree with you.
Good hero shooters are extremely rare, and since OW2 shat the bed, there's a huge gap where Valve could fit in.
In theory this is a good plan, but then... there's the footage... it looks like total ass sadly (not just because it's an alpha, the art direction is dreadful too).
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