• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    Have you tried it? Genuine question, since we’re free to talk about it I’d love to hear why you think it’s mediocre, so far all the talk is always hype so I’m eager for some less positive takes.

    • arefx@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      I have 125hrs and it’s amazing fun, has a high skill ceiling, isn’t an overwatch clone or anything remotely like that game.

      It’s a moba first third person shooter second. Basically dota with guns, or (a better) smite with a y axis (flying around, climbing, high spots, low spots) and guns.

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      Preface that it is an early alpha build and everything can change.

      Yes, I have played it. It is literally just a moba. It feels like they took Dota and slapped 5% of an fps to it. The matches can be way too long, and it suffers from the snowballing effect that if you don’t get a good start, it is really hard to be effective. If you are 10 mins in a match and getting outplayed, you probably arent going to enjoy the remaining 20-30 mins. If you took Dota and modded it with 1st person controls, you’d be almost there with this game.

      There is some good. The vertical elements do help, and the jungle aspects, along with destroyables, do help somewhat to make up lost ground in your build. The art design is pretty good for being alpha, and I do enjoy the map. There are lots of crisscross paths and hidden areas. There are also some map mechanics that are fresh, like 1 way viewable smoke screens.

      If you don’t like mobas, I’d almost guarantee you won’t like this. It’s not a new, genre defining experience, and it doesn’t pull enough fps features to make it different. 4/10 as it sits.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        Oh interesting, so it’s not at all like early Overwatch 1 which was way more FPS and was only compared to a MOBA because of the comparatively mild focus on abilities?

        That’s both good and bad to hear, but yeah, sounds like overall it has a long long way to go.

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

      Is Dota 2 with some shooter mechanics. If you like Dota 2 you probably like it, if you prefer a moba like LoL maybe you’ll not like it.

      I played a couple of matches and to me the match go for too long.

            • arefx@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              4 months ago

              Have you played it? I have. I like LoL, I like deadlock.

              • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                4 months ago

                Have you played it?

                Yes

                I played a couple of matches and to me the match go for too long.

                And I said:

                maybe you’ll not like it.

                If you like dota2 and LoL ok, if you like dota2 ok, if you like LoL and don’t like dota2(like most league players) I find really difficult to like deadlock.

                I played league since s2 and a played some Dota2(+80hrish), the things that I don’t like in dota2 is present on deadlock, for example, like I said before, the length of the matches is too long for me.

                • arefx@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  4 months ago

                  You must be in low elo, high tier matches are 25-35 min long, I haven’t played a match over 37minute in weeks.

                  Lower elo players have been complaining about long games because a lot of new moba players aren’t playing objectives

                  • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    4 months ago

                    I was low elo in dota2 and above average in league(diamond).

                    The data of the average match length in league is 30min in low elo and 25 in high elo, the dota2 high tier matches with 35min IS TOO LONG. In dota2 I played a lot of matches with +40min, without counting the time paused(I can’t even remember if the paused time is counted in the match time).

                    Besides in league we can forfeit a match and a lot of fuckup matches end with 20min, in dota2 this doesn’t happen.

        • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          4 months ago

          Because is played more like dota 2 than league and so far as I know league players don’t like much how dota 2 is played.