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Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 4 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/charts/

Valve keeping up with the trend of "worst kept secrets". You need an invite to join the alpha but since everyone who owns it can refer their friends, it spread very quickly.

I've been playing it the past few days and it's honestly very fun. Still a bit rough around the edges (especially in terms of balance) since it's in early access, but it has serious potential to be dota 2 levels of popular.

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress. Nobody is allowed to share footage or screenshots, but obviously with so many playing there's a ton of leaks out there.

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[-] Adelphius@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I know everyone here is already just asking for invites, but if anyone is feeling gracious, I would much appreciate one too.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/adelphius/

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[-] ooo@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Bit late here, but looking for an invite! Have wanted to try a game like this for a while

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[-] Winbombs@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Man I sure do love DOTA 2 and Team Fortress 2. I have thousands of hours in these games. This sounds amazing.

[-] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If anyone would be so generous my dms are open

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[-] ouch@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Hello it's your long time Linux friend!

[-] Darb@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

If your still sending invites: https://steamcommunity.com/id/AGearBeast or my friend code 117707877 Thanks.

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[-] anus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Would love a DM with an invite! 🙂

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[-] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

There's quite a lot that can be gleaned from the depots for the game on steamdb: https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/depots/

I don't know if this information is already public but here are a couple of quick inferences I made by looking a the files. I'm not overly familiar with Valve's intellectual properties so I don't recognize any specific characters or franchises.

There's likely a hero named Yamato who has the abilities:

Shadow Form
Power Stance
Infinity Slash
Healing Slash
Flying Strike

There's a lot more hero information but that's the top one in the depots.

The game might be called "Citadel", or it may have just been called that internally at Valve. The reason I suspect that is because of there appears to be a game folder called "citadel" which appears to be the main game folder.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The game was called citadel and was half life themed, they dropped that for neon prime and made it Sci fi, they then dropped that aesthetic changed the name to deadlock and went to a supernatural early to mid 1900s NYC noir aesthetic. A lot of the files still use the citadel name, but it's just leftover and means nothing anymore.

125hrs in the game over the last 6 weeks, it's great.