The new mix of moba and fps elements is handled really well. You've got to be good at shooting and building your character over time, which leaves a shitload of space for interesting gameplay. Positioning, planning, adapting, experimenting, it's all here and the game is early beta.
There were puzzle games before Portal, and there were shooters before this game. Deadlock is extremely well made like portal so far, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
My immediate emotional reaction is to dunk on you. Boo hoo, a company won't make a game you want.
But you're missing the valve you grew up with, and gaming is worse off now. Multiplayer games with subscription models and microtransactions have become the default, and we all feel it.
For me Deadlock has great characters, lore, new interesting mechanics, and only surface level similarities with DOTA. I'm not upset about it really. Just happy Valve is making anything again. Maybe I'm worn down, but so many big companies take but shits everyday I'm just happy to see one building good shit. (And it's free!)
When this happens again the outrage will be less, and they will be more willing to dunk on these people. Can you imagine your close family or friends killed and a ToS blocking justice for the killers?
SPRAY UP BOIII
Honestly love bidet. Get one nerds