New Details on Valve's New Game 'Deadlock'
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Insider Gaming has been given new details on Valve's new game named Deadlock, which is believed to be released sometime in 2025.

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.

  • farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    241·
    6 months ago

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

    • simple@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      191·
      6 months ago

      Well, artifact was dead from the start and underlords was more of a spinoff chasing a fad. What we know about Deadlock is that they’re putting a lot of resources into it, and it sounds like it would be really popular with the MOBA crowd.

      • Defaced@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        There were many factors that went into the failure of artifact, gameplay was not one of them and is still solid to this day. The biggest problem was the monetization, and not really the monetization itself, but the timing of monetization. Hearthstone conditioned people to want free cards and earn free rewards by playing the game, artifact was a digital representation of a physical card game where you could literally build decks for like $10 and enjoy it, the allure of free low quality shit will always overshadow high quality paid content and it’s just fucking sad. Now look at hearthstone, a shit husk of a game it once was.

    • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      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.