Valve's lifted the restrictions on discussing its not-so-secret shooter MOBA.
  • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    It seems like a great game for those with the time and dedication to learn it.

    I’m not one of those people. This game takes a lot from DOTA and will demand an extensive knowledge of the map, characters, builds, and items to start to get good at it, and I just don’t care to spend the time to learn it all.

    I know nobody asked, but I really wish more MOBAs like HOTS did well. I love HOTS for how approachable it was in comparison to the others. I’m at the point where if I play a moba and there’s an item shop: I’m out. In every case I’ve seen an item shop the optimal usage of it is to build your characters stats to counter your expected build of the other team’s build - and that is a LOT of added complexity I just don’t want to deal with, especially because it requires so much knowledge and people with more time than you will flame you if you don’t know it.

  • tamiya_tt02@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    8 months ago

    I’m a little confused. Deadlock is a 3rd person MOBA in a sea of MOBAs. Concord is a 3rd person hero shooter in a sea of hero shooters. Seems to me like this is Valve magic, even though ex-Destiny devs worked on Concord.

    I’m not planning on playing either one due to my lack of good Internet, I just find it a bit strange.

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      Valve’s ‘magic’ is play testing something to the point it’s a polished experience that people keep coming back to. They put in the work to see how their game plays, and adapt where they feel it’s needed. If Sony did near the play testing on Concord that Valve did on Deadlock, I’d bet their game would be pretty fun too.

    • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Valve has the resources and incentive to take years and years making something fun with no worry about profitability. Steam is their product, the games Valve releases on Steam are just reasons to spend money on their platform.

      • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        LMAO!!! I just found Tim Sweeney’s Lemmy account. 🤪

        Try competing for the customers ya cunt!

    • sibannac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      You can, it requires a startup command: “steamdeck=0 %command%”

      Put that, without quotes in the game properties. You can start the game without it, but matchmaking is blocked.

  • Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    I’ll admit I’m curious. If a friend of mine invited me I’d try it, but I worry my flick shooting isn’t good enough. I was always better at overwatch since it involved characters that could be played well without good shooting ability.

    • KombatWombat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      There is very little flicking, certainly less than Overwatch. Time to kill being much higher, longer sightlines, more predictable movement and third person means it really isn’t twitchy. Shooting most characters’ guns probably feels closer to Orisa’s or Sombra’s than anyone else.

      I’ve felt the same way about Overwatch as you, and I’m enjoying Deadlock much more lately. I would give it a shot.

      • Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Hmm okay, high TTK makes me more interested. I was a big fan of sombra too. I’ll def give it a chance when I get access.