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Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha

steamdb.info/app/1422450/charts/

Valve keeping up with the trend of “worst kept secrets”. You need an invite to join the alpha but since everyone who owns it can refer their friends, it spread very quickly.

I’ve been playing it the past few days and it’s honestly very fun. Still a bit rough around the edges (especially in terms of balance) since it’s in early access, but it has serious potential to be dota 2 levels of popular.

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress. Nobody is allowed to share footage or screenshots, but obviously with so many playing there’s a ton of leaks out there.

Picture of 12k player peak on steamcharts
TheEighthDoctor ,

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Virkkunen ,
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Valve keeping up with the trend of "worst kept secrets"

Well it's very intentional I believe. You can invite an unlimited number of friends and there's no NDA or anything, they just casually ask you to not share details about the game since it's still a work in progress and in alpha, despite it looking like mostly finished to be fair. Characters are fully voiced and nothing really screams placeholder content, and most updates are regarding "balancing" and mechanic changes, just trying out what's best.

bionicjoey ,

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress

So like SMITE?

TheCreeperFace ,
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from the 1 video I saw more like Paladins with Smite item shop

simple OP ,

Not really, SMITE is a moba that happens to be 3rd person, Deadlock actually plays like a 3rd person shooter that needs proper aiming and headshots and a much faster pace.

bionicjoey ,

I see. This is probably a pretty niche reference nowadays, but is it more similar to Monday Night Combat? That was an actual shooter IIRC and had moba mechanics like lanes and creeps.

Virkkunen ,
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It's actually closer to Battleborn. Like the other commenter said, it's more of a third person shooter with MOBA elements. There's focus on movement (you can dash, double jump, crouch slide, some characters fly), headshots and distance change the damage and melee/parry are just a button, while every character has guns as their man attack means. For the moba elements, it changes a bit since there's 4 lanes and it's a 6x6.

ludicolo ,

Been playing it, it’s actually really fun!

catloaf ,

I will give you one (1) good vibe in exchange for an invitation

qooqie ,

Icefrog is an extremely talented dev so this game is for sure to be real fun. I trust in the frog as a life long dota player

catloaf ,

I’d like to give it a try. Anyone got an invite?

doodledup ,

They are trying to build hype. The leaks are intentional and expected.

gibmiser ,

Hype trains a comin

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