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Valve lifts NDA on Deadlock, streaming and talking about the game is now allowed.

Not sure where the official announcement of this happened, but videos and discussions of the game are now finally allowed. The game is still invite-only, but expect to start seeing it all over the place now. Popular streamers are already jumping into it.

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dormedas ,

There may be more people watching Deadlock than there are watching and playing Concord today based on available data and reasonable extrapolation. Valve continues to market in a unique way that works.

ngwoo ,

It’s likely that Concord’s lifetime peak will be lower than Deadlock’s closed beta peak

simple OP , (edited )

Concord is dead on arrival. Kind of a shame, the game looked a bit interesting but being $40 and having very generic art this was bound to happen. Deadlock is in a whole other league.

Phegan ,

Agreed. Why would they force you to pay 40 in a genre already overpopulated and most of them are free.

Katana314 ,

It’s basically impossible to increase the price tag on a game like that, and if you go free, the design pivots to a lot of abusive monetization systems. People run into that at the 10th hour of any free game.

It might be failing for a lot of reasons - I don’t think that one is necessarily their mistake though.

ltxrtquq ,

Honestly, paying for a (primarily) multiplayer game isn’t a problem for me. I actually might prefer it when you look at Overwatch vs Overwatch 2. But I wasn’t about to sign up for a playstation account to play my Steam game.

sneezycat ,
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You’re talking like ow2 isn’t literally the same game. I paid for ow1 and can’t go back to it.

Chocrates ,

Deadlock eh, never heard of it. Seems to be a valve Overwatch?

MentalEdge ,
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No. More a third person Battleborn, actually. Or Dota with guns. It has items, ability leveling, hero leveling, lanes, NPCS, all the MOBA things.

And no, Battleborn never played like Overwatch.

100 ,

moba things?

pass

MentalEdge ,
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It’s not for everyone, but it has fit surprisingly well into the Battleborn-shaped hole in my heart.

kautau ,

Yeah I’m for new games and hopefully people love it but “hero shooter” and “moba” definitely aren’t categories I’m looking for in new games, the market is flooded with them. Hopefully valve can stand out

InquisitiveApathy ,

I really wanted battleborn to succeed on release even though it was just kind of flawed from a design standpoint. I kind of gave up on competitive fps games since then though.

With how chaotic the fights look like and how high the ttk looks to be, is the game still fun at lower-mid skill levels?

MentalEdge ,
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Deadlock or Battleborn?

I’d say yes. But you do have to figure out how to apply the MOBA way of thinking. How to stack the stats of items, abilities and leveling up, into doing a shitload of damage without dying.

That applied to Battelborn, and it does in Deadlock, too.

InquisitiveApathy ,

I was specifically asking how Deadlock felt.

I’ve played quite a bit of MOBA’s before, coincidentally the other big third person ones Smite and Paragon, so I’ve got a decent feel for builds and macroplay and I’m not necessarily worried about those aspects.

I grew up as a console gamer but exclusively play on PC now so I’ve found for fps games I have trouble competing because my aim isn’t as great.

simple OP ,

It’s dota 2 if it were a very competitive 3rd person shooter. More of a MOBA than a hero shooter, and it’s very complex. Also I’ve been playing it for a month, AMA I guess

Chocrates ,

Do you like it?

simple OP ,

Yup, it’s very fun.

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    xploit ,

    There’s already some toxic muppets getting banned from matchmaking as well as rage quiters…not a whole lot but I have come across them in the week or so that I’ve played.

    There are a few people who do want to coordinate or even use VC, more than the above, but not a whole lot

    cowfodder ,

    Ask you anything? Can I have an invite?

    kautau ,

    !deadlock

    Somebody posted that community, maybe invites there

    snooggums ,
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    It is like Overwatch and Leaguen of Legends/Heroes of the Storm had a baby.

    It is a FPS MOBA.

    Codilingus ,

    Not an FPS, but a 3rd person shooter.

    snooggums ,
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    Close enough :P

    Nosavingthrow ,

    I think Overwatch is kind of dog shit and would take that game over Deadlock every time. May as well just skip the shooter and play DOTA.

    deegeese ,

    They already reviewed it on The Verge a few weeks ago after the NDA expired.

    simple OP ,

    Said reviewer actually got permabanned from the game for posting that article

    deegeese ,

    Yeah, was just joking that this isn’t new and Valve were being dicks for enforcing a nonexistent NDA.

    dustyData , (edited )

    There was a very direct terms of service “Don’t share info”. But The Verge are notoriously awful journalists. It’s like they have no clue of what basic decent journalism entails and confuse good reporting with being trolling assholes. There’s a reason they were the only idiots who broke it and got rightly burned at the stake for it. I bet the guy wasn’t even looking at the screen when he spammed the ESC key at the game. Just because it wasn’t 100 pages of legalese doesn’t mean they weren’t bound by it, clicking ESC instead of the button OK means nothing in legal terms. And just using the software means you agree to the explicit and implicit terms of service that come with the software as long as it isn’t something blatantly illegal. They were assholes and received the consequences of their actions. And that’s that.

    deegeese ,

    LOL defender of the EULA

    Glide ,

    Simplify the situation to lol defending the EULA all you want, but “I’m not bound by your NDA because I pressed ESC instead of clicking okay” is the kind of thing I expect a spoiled 14 year old to say while wearing a shit eating grin.

    Act unprofessionally in a professional industry and you get dragged by professionals. And rightly so.

    NewNewAccount ,

    You’re not good at this.

    Eggyhead ,

    So people need to be bound by EULAs that they don’t click to agree?

    The guy hit esc to back out and the game launched anyway. Love it or hate it, whoever screwed up, it wasn’t the verge.

    dustyData , (edited )

    If someone ask you for a ride and you tell them not to roll down the window and they say “lol, nope” and still get on the car. They can’t be mad if you stop the car and tell them to get out when they roll down the window laughing hysterically at your face. Pressing escape means nothing in this case. The Verge’s writer was acting stupid on purpose. This is like kids who think that crossing their fingers behind their back means they aren’t bound to a promise. It is wishful thinking.

    Add: oh, and BTW, there’s a reason almost all terms of service start with “By using this software you agree to…” the legal fact is using the service not clicking on the agree button. That’s just legal ammunition that companies use to prove on court that the user was aware of the legal contract. EULAs uset to be sheets of paper on a cardboard box along side CDs. No one had to click on an agree button. By buying and using the software, those were the terms you agreed to. Almost all contracts include that sort of language because the use is the fact that supports the legal contract. Law is just leaving facts and agreements on paper, facts overrule legalese, that is actually the basis used by courts to dismiss enforcement of EULAs. Like how signers aren’t legally bound to fulfill irrational or unachievable agreements, or language intentionally obtuse or ambiguous.

    leftzero ,

    So people need to be bound by EULAs that they don’t click to agree?

    People…? No. And whether they clicked to agree or not should be irrelevant; EULAs should be unenforceable.

    Journalists and their employers…? Neither… but then developers don’t have any obligation to provide them with review copies in the future either.

    In an industry that depends on mutual goodwill, trust, and agreement, bypassing the implied NDA was completely legal… but profoundly stupid, disingenuous, and unprofessional.

    The Verge decided to burn bridges it had probably taken decades to build, for the sake of one single article. It was their right and prerogative to do it, nothing illegal about it, they had no obligation to follow the EULA.

    But Valve has no obligation to let them play their invite-only beta either, or to provide them with review copies in the future, and neither has any other developer.

    We’ll see how it works out for the Verge in the future.

    ObsidianZed ,

    Just fyi, I saw this posted in the announcements channel of their Discord server that you can join from the game’s main menu.

    Coelacanth ,
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    Having the game streamed by all these huge channels before it’s even officially announced is kinda crazy. Everyone wants to play Valve’s “secret game” of course, so it’s free marketing. Pretty clever.

    doodledup ,

    Valve doing their Valve thing.

    MentalEdge , (edited )
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    If you play or want to play: !deadlock

    snekerpimp ,

    Thank you for that

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