For those who don’t know, you can play for free if you get an invite, and the Deadlock discord has an entire channel for getting invites. I got one within ten minutes of asking.
The game is superb. Great gameplay, great art direction, great writing. If you like hero shooters you need to give this one a try.
It’s both! They took all the game structure of a MOBA - the creep waves, the lanes, the towers, the upgrades - and paired that with the movement and gameplay design of a hero shooter.
In practice, I lean more on calling it the latter, because it feels a lot more like a hero shooter in how it plays, despite having so many recognizable MOBA elements.
Where it really breaks the MOBA mold is in the hero design. There aren’t really any fixed roles, and the meta has remained relatively fluid. You don’t have things like a designated jungler, tank, AD carry, any of that sort of thing. Builds are quite flexible and most characters can be built in a number of different ways.
For those who don’t know, you can play for free if you get an invite, and the Deadlock discord has an entire channel for getting invites. I got one within ten minutes of asking.
The game is superb. Great gameplay, great art direction, great writing. If you like hero shooters you need to give this one a try.
Even before the discord, I put my friend code in a comment here and got an invite the next day (and it only got scraped by 1 bot)
I thought it was supposed to be a MOBA?
It’s both! They took all the game structure of a MOBA - the creep waves, the lanes, the towers, the upgrades - and paired that with the movement and gameplay design of a hero shooter.
In practice, I lean more on calling it the latter, because it feels a lot more like a hero shooter in how it plays, despite having so many recognizable MOBA elements.
Where it really breaks the MOBA mold is in the hero design. There aren’t really any fixed roles, and the meta has remained relatively fluid. You don’t have things like a designated jungler, tank, AD carry, any of that sort of thing. Builds are quite flexible and most characters can be built in a number of different ways.
its steam forums are literally nothing but posts for giving invites