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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
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.

themusicman ,

The release notes don’t mention it much, but the map detailing and art is getting massive improvements in each update

ouch ,

Hello it’s your long time Linux friend!

ivanafterall ,
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Cousin, hello! Want to play Deadlock!? We play like two cousins in American sitcom!

Minnels ,

Looking for new friends with benefits. If you know what I mean.

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry, I only date people with Deadlock invitations to share.

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

doodledup ,

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

gibmiser ,

Hype trains a comin

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