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We played Valve’s secret new shooter: Deadlock (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It’s like Overwatch, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 all baked into a pie.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A new shooter from valve? Hell yeah!!

a hero shooter

Oh. Never mind then.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I absolutely get where you're coming from, but to be fair Team Fortress is basically a hero shooter as well, except that there can be multiples of the same "hero" on the battlefield at the same time. Or - and I'm genuinely asking because I haven't played "hero shooters" in that long - am I missing a core distinction of hero shooters?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I was thinking something more in line with a narrative story-based shooter like half life. TF2 and other competitive shooter arena games were never really my thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love valve (as much as I can love any company anyway) and I'd like to try deadlock at some point if given the opportunity, but hero shooters are not for everyone, give me a single player story any day

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

*cries in Half Life 3

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So a class shooter?

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

Same thing, innit, the only difference is the plot

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

TF2 is a class based team deathmatch FPS. One class, one character.

In hero shooters you have multiple characters with different abilities that make them distinct from each other, yet all can conform to a certain class type and role.

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

Someone has never played a round of highlander.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's barely a hero shooter - it's just a MOBA