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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I wish Deadlock was a PvE. Being PvP with some ai bots sprinkled in between it'll just be same rage inducing crap as all PvPs.

[–] priapus 8 points 1 month ago

Its a competitive shooter/moba, basically none of the game would remain if it was transitioned into a PvE game.

There arent AI bots sprinkled in, there's just troopers and jungle camps, which either dont move or walk in a straight line down their lane. They aren't meant to be a challenge, theyre just tools for gaining souls and creating map pressure.

PvP is only rage inducing when you let it be. Mute whiny people and just enjoy yourself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's designed from the ground up as a competitive multiplayer experience. A pve version would be an extremely different game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You see, this community just really hates PvP for some reason. Apparently playing games with other people rather than with yourself is an inconceivable concept to some. Unless it‘s coop that is. And I too love a good coop experience but PvP is quite literally the mother of all game types so it‘s strange to see how much hate it gets in this particular corner of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

PvE Deadlock already exists—it's called Risk of Rain 2.

The two games actually have a decently similar feel and it's no surprise that Valve eventually hired some of the RoR2 devs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

pretty sure there will be a bot mode if the games comes out, or you guys bully the devs enough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the game is a moba, the pve sections are there to facilitate pvp play, like farming and map control.

id be pretty down for a coop pve shooter in the style of the old hero sieges from wc3 though: fighting off waves and waves of creeps until you get strong enough to push into their base while defending key objectives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love the concept of tower defense games where you essentially deal with waves of stronger and stronger enemies. Or Killing Floor with same concept, but in form of first person shooter. Games like this are super fun and entirely devoid of stupid sweaty pros that fuck up every PvP game ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Here's hoping KF3 doesn't suck (unfortunately the odds don't look too good currently)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

you know I generally do not like pvp but I would not mind something like shadowbane resurfacing. With the city building and minimal rewarding of pvp it was not bad despite the fact that once you left the gates of one of the three safe npc cities you had snipers galore. Yeah most player cities were dicks but there was a few guilds that actually tried to make something for people to visit (of course then they got player griefers coming in to)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Yikes that was written poorly. Author flips back and forth between Deadlock and Deathlock.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I didn't like the game, not my kind of play. Glad others love it though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Still boggles my mind Valve's first game they've made in forever isn't made for / compatible with the Deck.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know I'm an old head, but I fall all of these games (Deadlock, Apex Legends, Overwatch, whatever) to be fun for about two hours and then I'm sated.

I genuinely wish I understood the appeal because so many people seem to get so much joy from them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have fun popping into them every once and a while to play with friends, but it's very rare for them to stick. Usually it's a "Let's play one or two matches" and then we go back to our usual thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's probably the key. While I'm blessed in that I have friends in my life, I don't really have any gamer friends so it's also just me vs randoms in these scenarios

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would‘ve played the hell out of a new Team Fortress but I‘m completely burned out from MOBAs personally. Invite-Only is also something I deeply reject as a concept no matter the reason.

[–] capybeby 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Good game but it was way to buggy and performance was terrible any one confirm if it's any better?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's much better performance wise now, but you better have a good internet connection because at the first sign of a dropped package the whole thing breaks down...

[–] priapus 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its in alpha so I'd expect it to be buggy for a while. Performance for me is pretty much the same as it was a few months ago, but I never had any issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Performance is utterly trash atm until you win matches at which point your shifted to priority servers. It still suffers from incredible amount of cheaters tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

How is this news? This is always the case if a game has a public play test, even if the public play test isn’t open. There is always a play test with smaller exclusive group with a much newer version. And above that there is an even smaller group who plays the latest nightly builds, those play testers are in-house employees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love this game it needs to come out. Currently they don't let you play on the steam deck in gaming mode. It just won't let you queue up which sucks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can run it with "SteamDeck=0 %command%" in the launch options

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh shit! Thank you so much

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I lost all interest in this when you had to go out of your way to try and get invited.

Gross marketing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What are you talking about? It's not even released yet. It'll be free for all when it releases.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

top secret hust-hot-DOA-garbage-hush