My Deadlock Review 700+ Hours Later

I've spent the last few weeks grinding Deadlock like an absolute degenerate and with this video I wanted to talk a bit about why I find this game so addicting. We'll also try to answer the question (to the best of our abilities) if Deadlock will really become "the next big thing" like a lot people seem to think.
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[@dualrotorhelicopter]

One thing I think you forgot to really mention: Deadlock is pulling people in from every category of game. Traditional MOBA players are hooked, Valorant and CS players are hooked, Overwatch and Paladins players are hooked, and even players of my main game, a dead Battle Royale, are hooked. This game is so addictive that people would abandon what they're good at just to try their hand at this amazing experience.

[@griffeminie1697]

What is this battle royale ur talking about? Realm royale?

[@demolisherman1763]

I’m a tf2 player and I’m here as well

[@thegrowingdarkness1377]

This is entirely the most exciting point of this game. Its fascinating to see the category on twitch and see players from different background

[@doublechez4428]

Cod sweats are hooked, including me😂

[@blasstois]

It is so funny coming from non moba games and getting YELLED at. "What are you doing!?" Like, I am learning a new game haha.

[@sadpee7710]

i gotta say, a group of russian people doing a group call *in-game* and employing some confusing strategy, is a valve MOBA staple. it's a good sign of life for the game.

[@TactiSmolKoko]

you wouldn't EVER see that in a modern dota or LoL game

[@beiggo21]

@@TactiSmolKoko I could make a bet that you would easily see that in dota 2 but not in LoL. Valve games pull more russians towards them and LoL kinda just pushes them to their own region.

[@xtalnight]

yes cs, dota, half live is veery populair in russia, im from russia. i played lol but since 2013 i played dota 2 and i didnt know LOL even existed ahah) hopefully i noticed valorant. good game.

[@DoSOfRedRiver]

I am not sure if this is some sort of irony or whatever, but guys at the end of the video did not discussed any sort of strategy, rather moms of each other...

[@REQEEN17]

Ты прав!

[@2manygamestoplay]

Yep, Deadlock is the first game in many many years that has completely absorbed me.

[@baconomelette9437]

I keep playing this game. When I am not playing this game, I think about playing Deadlock. Even when I am sleeping, I dream of Deadlock. Deadlock is love, Deadlock is life.

[@TheSubieFan]

Im actually surprised i dreamt of deadlock last night as well totally crazy

[@phazer_6469]

get help dawg, this ain't healthy.

[@aliexacute3930]

Some people call it addiction, I call it dedication

[@Trigamer64]

Dude I can’t stress this enough: THANK YOU for your editing style. A lot of videos like this tend to bother me when they don’t put relevant footage up when talking about specific game moments that come up. But this and your Abrams guide were such a nice watch cus of how you build these videos! Thanks for the dubs btw your build kicks ass

[@iLuminoTV]

Dont forget to take care of urself aswell, ur joy in the game will only increase, so will the YT channel.

[@nielagi5029]

Yeah, just gym 1 hour and game 12 hours

[@lifeofrjh]

@@nielagi5029 Everyone's endgame

[@antoniosottomayor6252]

Progression wise the hidden MMR is actually starting to kick my ass. I have no clue what actual mmr I'm at, but now I'm getting perfect lash laners that never miss a soul. And somehow still winning after Laning phase. It's definitely more sweaty though

[@DaPark3]

Yeah i can def feel the hidden mmr... my queue times are no longer instant and each game is usually at least 30 mins or longer now. People are getting better, it makes learning a new character esp difficult

[@NomiDerBeste]

if they hit everything but can't find a proper strategy or team play maybe they're cheaters though

[@brianpancotto8829]

just how games get when they are out for a bit, there are potentially 4000 people who have over 1000 hours in the game already and with new players/casual players dwindling and overall player base decreasing games at any point of the day are filled with players who have hundreds of hours.

[@antoniosottomayor6252]

@@NomiDerBeste nah this specific case he was playing very well we got lucky on some team fights at the end. But he has ganks down very well. It was outer lane and he had a lot of pressure on mid lanes I ended up being 0 5 0 by the end of Laning. It was trauma inducing

[@NomiDerBeste]

@@antoniosottomayor6252 haha, you can only learn from it :)

[@fireheartclan]

I feel like the player retention part of deadlock is the natural progression of its lifetime. Its still holding upwards of 40k on the off hours, which is more then enough to support it and odds are in the future once more competitive forms are made and maybe even an item trading market. They game will be able to hold steady, and stay alive for quite a long time.

[@phazer_6469]

I can't lie it took forever to get my friends into cuz we haven't spent money on games ever but we needed up spend 5$ to unlimit our accounts (In my country closer to 7.6$ cuz of how steam wallets work) so once the limited account restriction is lifted I imagine there's gonna be a massive surge in player numbers

[@brown9671]

@@phazer_6469 theyre most likely not going to remove that restriction because most people who have steam have spent 5 dollars on it before, its honestly a very low bar to pass.

[@holyfrog7692]

never stop dunking on metro 🔥🔥🔥

[@Tripas350]

I genuinely never heard about this dude until I saw him mentioned in the Abrams guide, but he seems to be an absolute shitstain of a human being. So yeah, now I'd genuinely watch a full Brad video of nothing but "Metro being extremely salty and toxic because he can't accept the fact that anything is his fault".

[@658cfelix]

This game is going to be here for many years to come. If dota 2 and cs are any examples , then we should expect a ton of love from the devs for as long as the game is available

[@IAm-zo1bo]

U sure about cs?

[@theowainwright7406]

@@IAm-zo1boit’s obvious the valve devs like doing new stuff, and they are allowed to work on whatever they want within the company. So I see this game getting way more love than some 20 year old boring stuff like cs

[@IAm-zo1bo]

@theowainwright7406 hey man don't call cs boring. And also that game is the biggest game on steam that makes them a lot of money, so it's a very dick move to ignore them

[@CCG175]

Cs2 is only around 2 or 4 years old😭​@@theowainwright7406

[@benjamintenhaken8662]

As someone who has spent 10493 hours in DOTA 2 and 4859 hours in Teamfortress 2, I immediately felt at home in Deadlock. You immediately realise that Dota Brain Icefrog is involved in the development of Deadlock. Considering that the game is still in its early stages, it already feels pretty playable. It's fun to play with friends. From my point of view, Deadlock definitely has a lot of potential.

[@sadpee7710]

when i see clips of your movement in deadlocked it gives me the same feeling as when watching people do crazy parkour at the top of a skyscraper

[@bossbrozork3022]

also you may have noticed but if you don't, the game makes sure to not have more than 1 character each in other words: there can't be two sevens, bebops and dynamos. (Atlest from the footage i have seen)

[@Jeb3112]

I wish you were streaming this. That would pay for your groceries bro! And please hurry up with the Abrams guide!

[@TheOnlyMrTransparent]

The Abrams guide is already out!

[@pixelmaster98]

@@TheOnlyMrTransparent watch the video, he announced another Abrams guide.

[@Jeb3112]

@@pixelmaster98 that's why I said hurry bro....

[@Jeb3112]

@@TheOnlyMrTransparent it's old the game moves fast

[@pixelmaster98]

@@Jeb3112 I'm not your bro, dude. Also, I didn't reply to you, but to the other guy.

[@Dircamonster]

man i really really hope you continue to release character guides for the whole roster as time goes on, your abrams guide was exactly the style of video i love and i learned so much about how to play as and against him, so i really truly hope to see more of those in the future

[@themostselfishman]

Loving Deadlock and your play. Appreciate you man and wish you and the game the best.

[@liovox]

Couldnt finish the video, as i started it just before i needed to start work, but just want you to know you’re one of the best Deadlock personalities out there. Fantastic editing and thoughtful gameplay. These videos have helped me become my friend group de-facto team captain more than anything else (other than practicing the game myself, of course)

[@JYMBO]

They REALLY need to split up EU servers, even if it's just EU West & East, currently getting nothing but Russians all day every day which makes communication & teamwork so much more difficult, i understand there's a million languages in EU but the further East you go the less inclined they are to use english.

[@firion666]

Russians have their own server, they just use VPN

[@slowmodo]

Yeah everyone else seems to default to english, at least at first if they don't know where everyone is from, but as soon as you hit the slavic countries they straight up do not care.

[@DJTempa]

They should be placed into oceanic servers but yes most people seem to be russian even when playing from the UK

[@bonafikam]

Very true, I mute every russian in my game, I wish they weren't in my games

[@lukkkasz323]

I'm getting so many russians I'm now currently marked as a RU region player on Tracklock, even though I'm almost always matched on Stockholm servers with 90% russians.

[@fps_scotland3429]

I've never filled the hole in my gaming library left by HOTS until now. I can't wait to see how it grows.

[@jmesporlas]

I think a thematic map like the seasons will be a positive change. Like same map, layout but with different assets. Would help retain casuals at least.

[@n_core]

That would be awesome, but I think the dev has confirmed that the game would have multiple maps, so you're not gonna play the same map over and over again.

[@asghargodzila]

dont worry there will be map changes every year. just like dota. but let them finish the game and add more heroes first.those are more important. there should not be much changes in the map untill release but after first year u will see it. as what u can expect from map changes, there will be diffrent jubgle placements. new rotes. new objectives. and more places to do specific stuff depending on new mechanics.

[@KittyPlaysVideos]

EXCELLENT VIDEOS! I am so excited to try Deadlock :D

[@100levelz]

Loved this video ❤ For me I've put a lot of hours in over the last 2 weeks and I really can't see myself going away from this game any time soon, it's got me hooked hard and I haven't felt this way about a game in a long time

[@benjamindempsey34]

Just wanted to give a big thank you. You’re one of the first content creators I started watching when I got into deadlock. Not sure if your Abrams build is the best build or not but what I can tell you is that I’ve by far had the most success with him when using it. Looking forward to the new guide!

[@GREG_WHEREISTHEMAYO]

I thing I love is that even though some of the characters who are better as support they still end up being really good at damage

[@ProAFKGuy]

great video! deadlock is GAS! literally the exact game I have been wanting for a long time, I plan to keep playing for a long time.

[@thegamingworld100]

Deadlock will for sure become an esport

[@Caspeaon]

Oh one hundred percent. It’ll definitely be at least another year probably two until the games in a state for that to happen though which is good imo.

[@jenkinsuu]

7:19 that play was unbelievably sexy dude holy shit

[@A_Non_Moose]

As an Abrams main I can say with absolute objectivity that the best thing to do is make more Abram's guides.

[@LiamWarlord]

The really striking thing for me is how full of depth and surprise this game is. Ex: Ive had times where while playing as gheist 3-4 players will jump on me. I'll think "There's no way I'm getting out of this," and then ill heal like maniac, kill 2 heros, and still slip out!

[@worminfestedgaming]

I agree with almost everything, but shiv can definitely be considered a true tank character too. Abrams and shiv are the only charracters with damage reduction built into their kit

[@MarcoStyle]

Shiv doesn't have any form of crowd control though, he feels more like a backline dive hero.

[@worminfestedgaming]

@@MarcoStyle that's fair, I generally build shiv as a tanky melee hero like a lot of people build Abrams but you are right he feels more like a tanky assassin instead of a traditional tank

[@rivetace]

I've seen tank Viscous work effectively.

[@LiamWarlord]

What about tank gheist

[@MarcoStyle]

@@LiamWarlord my wife is a geist main and wont let me try it.

[@Drew_HBK]

I was waiting for a new video and was wondering why 😂

[@dekina1198]

I personally always liked being a jack of all trades in games, the problem always is ther nobody likes it when you aren't in a specific roll. In deadlock it kinda works with Seven and infernus. Seven can slow, stun, reduce spirit resist and has a potential teamfight carring ult. So with the right items he can do "everything" Infernus isn't that much the case but with the right items he can do it also kinda good. Slow on 1, engage with flame dash + ult, 3 for dot, reduce spirit damage. With inhibitor you reduce their damage even more and with ricocchet you can spread it. With leech and resistence items you can also become very tanky!

[@hoop6725]

I feel the same way about Kelvin that you do for Abrams. I feel like no other character really slots into the pure support role quite like Kelvin, and so I have almost zero interest in other characters. When I do branch out and play Mo and Krill, Dynamo, Viscous, etc. I just play them as damage dealers, and typically have a lot less fun, even when I do well. Very frustrating because I have a friend with thousands of hours in DOTA 2 who constantly plays with me, but shames me for "maining" and tells me I'll never be good until I learn how to play the whole roster. I simply don't want to play characters like Wraith, Infernus, etc. It's not that I disagree with him, but that I don't have fun playing them. Really hoping we get more characters who naturally fill that support shaped void in the cast, because gun Dynamo and spirit Ivy really are just better than whatever support build you might try to force.

[@gregortheoverlander4122]

I'm pretty high rank in overwatch. Have been gm. I think you described why tank works in ow pretty decently. It is true that because the game is about 1 objective at any given time, everyone is forced to go through a tank in some way. Tanks either take advantage of the fact that you have to touch point and kill/force cooldowns of those that DON'T want to be on point. IE: Ball and Doomfist don't really want to hold point, but they usually go for people rotating to point. While characters like Rein or Orisa will stop people from getting to point or stop them from going to a position to fight for point optimally or can just force the point themselves. The biggest difference, imo is the multiple points. If you were forced to fight over one objective like in overwatch, tanky characters would be far more powerful. But in deadlock there are a dozen viable things that every member of a team can be doing at any one time. You just aren't forced to "get through" the tank. Therefore the idea of tank is a lot more fluid. Tanking in deadlock is more about engaging imo. Which IS similar to overwatch, but the way you engage is very different and you can tank without being a fat boy with a lot of hp.

[@KoolAidManOG]

Solid explanation. The thing he misses because he hasn't played OW is that the different modes don't have a cart, but they do all force fights around changing objectives. Same intent either way!

[@TotalTonix]

I've had some fun playing MOBAs with friends over the last decade, but my love has always been with shooters and this game is the PERFECT amount of both for me right now. Really hoping we don't see power creep become an issue with the game in the future.

[@JDonaldBin]

yo, big overwatch nerd here, i coach that game and our concepts of peel and zoning are extremely hero specific, and not tied to role. they're also incredibly abstract. I agree that it doesnt transfer perfectly but some abilities like paradox wall and mo kril unburrow are almost 1-to-1 mirrors of abilities that we assign that macro function in overwatch. I think there's a LOT of potential for deliberate isolation and peel in deadlock, at least in fights, and we just havent really started to explore it yet. In ow it took a good year or two for those ideas to get fleshed out, and i think that's gonna be true for deadlock too. hope u see this and find it interesting!

[@matthewedge8333]

i think deadlock is here to stay. it may not be “the next big thing” but its going to have a massive loyal community

[@HowIin]

UPDATED ABRAMS GUIDE YEAHHHH. Im legit happy you're pivoting towards that. Great game, by the way! I'm confident in the long term success of the game. You gotta remember, unlike your previous interests this is a game made by Valve. They're talented, stable long term, they aren't a public company, and they have a proven excellent track record with DotA 2.

[@putz.]

we found a new addiction my man :)

[@claymeistereu]

I'd love a video with your kind of quality that explains each hero, the basics of playing and countering them both.

[@BoomstickBoyz]

Nice to see a proper in-depth "Guide" to a character, rather than a "build" video. This video covers everything that someone wanting to learn Abrams might want - what's the best way to use your abilities, what's the most valuable thing you can do at different stages of the game, what things should you look out for that will pose a problem for you, and how do you mitigate those. You also include a fully reasoned build, talking about the purpose of each item in the build, and why you included each item. Too many videos just say "This build does loads of damage. Do this build order for abilities and items, and go crazy", without including how to best apply them in the context of a real game. Great video. Liked and subbed.

[@advicescorner3175]

18:53 so funny listening to their argument as a russian. Some things never change.

[@balbalofficial8212]

Can you please roughly translate what they're saying? I'm curious now

[@kylegonegamer34]

That office clip was golden

[@Conker208]

Been here since Halo Wars & just wanna say im glad you've grown to half million subs.

[@s1umpy372]

As someone who remembers metro from his raging in overwatch im glad you are taking advantage of his deadlock rage

[@Jorfik]

Mo & Krill would be more of a tank if they weren't 75% head hitbox

[@DoctorNerf]

Being able to hold my attention without 1 single progression mechanism is vrazy work. This game is basically my perfect game. I'm 15 years deep into playing multiplayer shooters, I'm 8 years deep into playing LoL. This game is basically just hand designed for players like me.

[@ItsKaysick]

I personally only have 84 hours, but I still learn a lot each day playing the game and that's what makes it very fun to me. I'm able to queue as a bunch of characters I enjoy and let the game decide, try different builds to see what I enjoy, learn better routes via movement and jungle timers. The item shop is fun to figure out what counters specific characters and what works with the characters I play. I've never really enjoyed MOBAs that much, but it's really fun.

[@marcos340loko]

About the OW part (12:50 give or take) you're half right. DPS in OW can flank and snipe a bit more freely than on Deadlock, where some heroes/characters (in OW) HAVE to play that style to gain value. OW is solely focused on the PvP aspect since there is no Minions/NPCs.

[@tavish1658]

10:12 Kelvin and Ivy were not nerfed just because they were considered strong, but because they got way more out of their respective builds compared to every other hero in the game. Kelvin would gun people down just 8-10 minutes into the game, dealing a thousand damage or more in a few seconds with his gun alone. Same story with Ivy, who would just spam Kudzu bombs everywhere, covering entire lanes and dealing around 70% of her total damage with one ability.

[@vtgare]

You've just described how they were too strong at the same time as claiming that it's not why they were nerfed lol. I get your point about them stepping out of their role, but there are characters like Shiv that can build anything (melee, gun, spirit) and Valve has done nothing to prevent that.

[@bballer3712]

I’m near 200 hours and having an absolute blast but I agree with your point that it will decline likely because others (and maybe myself) will fall off before main release. The constant updates have kept the games refreshing tbh, but I do hope they end up adding a Joust/3v3 game mode simply to have a change of literal pace in the game. With regular matches taking anywhere from 30-50 mins, a shorter game mode would be personally nice for when I get on discord and the fellas are 10 mins into a game lol

[@J-2121]

Is there a Metro cameo in the next Abrams guide? He is becoming a staple in your videos and i love it

[@skave7228]

I love the fact it dos not have side content for now. To game modes, no monetisation or anything. Just the game. That is really rare recently, even more in multiplayer games. I don't expect it to stay this way but I'll enjoy it for as long as I can.

[@battlerifle8642]

This was a great video, Brad Garlinghouse. I'll be looking forward to more deadlock videos from my favorite youtuber, Brad Garlinghouse.

[@Zathren]

Can't wait to play this freaking game. Hope it's out in the next two years.

[@Justin-lr6yf]

You know you can play it now yeah? Or are you just waiting

[@aussiebatman4290]

​@@Justin-lr6yfYou can play it if you have a friend who can invite you to playtest. Want to friend me on steam and i'll send you an invite?

[@sledgehammer5033]

i discovered you because of the division 2 retrospective and now that i'm playing deadlock you're here

[@Dean.0h]

That mid fight into ult into parry into capture was awesome.

[@michaelhood2312]

I love this game, I've gotten just over a 100 hours in just over a month of playing. I agree with everything you said this game is just all around enjoyable and I feel like I've gotten to get in in the "next big thing".

[@NeillMcAttack]

Not a single Dota reference in the whole video.... Did you play heroes of the storm and never Dota?? I wonder because a lot of the stuff you mentioned about heroes being able to build many ways is similar in Dota!?

[@yaroslavcoloskov6357]

the whole segment about heroes being different in this moba compared to others just shows that he indeed never played DOTA, cause everything he has to say in that like 10 min window is literally how DOTA works, and considering icefrog copypaste'ed a lot of stuff from it into deadlock, Marco clearly doesn't know anything about DOTA outside of maybe it's name

[@travelerschosen5250]

Man I Love you bro, you were the best of the best destiny 2 content creator. Still watching your older D2 Vids. Keep up the good work bro, happy you are enjoying yourself.

[@ZBO-fp3xp]

7:40 outer wilds mentioned

[@artyy3742]

how is he so based?

[@moedadalan]

i ❤️ the outer wilds fanbase

[@thirstisr34l]

Yea I love this game. Hoping more of my friends will see the potential even while it is still early.

[@grzyruth9205]

I also love how Deadlock feels so fresh, not just because of its mechanics, but also the setting and art. Not a lot of games go with occult noir besides like, Skullgirls or something.

[@mckenziecatface]

I'd really love a keybind video from you. I have a hard time setting everything up with all the items, abilities, and different movement as well from mobas. Thanks for the videos!

[@locki_dos]

As someone who hates mobas; deadlock pulled me

[@doublechez4428]

Same

[@EvilCat573]

I discovered this game three days ago, and it's already a true obsession. I finally got a full night's sleep, and am now raring to go get destroyed by people who actually know how to play! No words I can say will do justice to how much I love this game.

[@venganza2092]

I miss the division so much...The survive DLC is the peak experience.

[@ag0n1an]

Enjoying your content there Brotherini, keep it up!

[@ZivineYT]

Marco: “The only real tank is abrams” Life Steal Lady Geist: “Am I joke to you?”

[@artdirectorgiraffe1003]

Deadlock consumed me for a few weeks there it 100% has a magic that a lot of other games lack as someone who played a ton of Overwatch I think Deadlock at this point has way more pull, it's been so fun I hope it keeps growing.

[@fistrexx]

For me deadlock perfectly solves the issues i had with games like tf2, overwatch and lol, in tf2 and ow2 i never liked the game modes like pushing the cart, capture the flag or whatever and lol became too sweaty for me with every champion able to one shot each other. Deadlock just hits the sweet spot with game mode i like and combat based on exchange of combos instead of one shoting enemy from the bush

[@sedaw3261]

Metro: "You're terrible at the game. Uninstall." Teammate: "You're 1 fckn 7!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@patrickwehrstein8693]

Saw this game when my laptop went bye bye (about one and a half months ago) and only have my new PC now for 5 days. Already locked in 20+ hours in this game and I swear it's so good. And I agree with your points. Especially the goofy one, even in my twenty hours as a very serious competetive player, I accidentily created moments that made me and my friends laugh out loud. And it's crazy to me how good this game feels. Tho I currently struggle to be efficient on the map at all, cause my League of Legends brain isn't braining well for this game, I love every game. I really hope this sticks cause I am having a blast I've not had with a game since years.

[@lumdagoat]

I enjoyed the video today. I've been addicted to deadlock too and have put around 100 hours in the past 3 weeks or so. I really like this game and I think the goofy parts are what holds it together. I am kinda worried about the future of this game because it seems the community is interested in forcing a large esports/competetive environment before valve has the chance to really flesh things out. I saw a post on twitter about creating a collegiate deadlock league which feels kinda ridiculous currently. I hope deadlock will still be popular casually and keep its goofy parts if it does blow up as an esport. Looking forward to your next Abrams guide 💯

[@vinny2315]

Commenting for the algorithm so a fellow addict can keep at it

[@Epidemic_CS2]

The fact it’s a game by valve gives me confidence it will trend up. I’m having tons of fun and the movement depth / baseline skill expression is the main issue I had with league. The movement mechanics are good enough to gap players worse than you even if they’re up a bit of souls. I love a lot of the decision making they did for the fundamentals of this moba

[@NateAlyn]

Dude I fully understand. I am 300 hours in and its the only game I want to actually be good at. It is so fun. I even changed my entire KZbin channel to center around it lmao

[@nevernicolle]

Seeing the way you play abrams keeps me content fighting bots; truly this game has something for everyone

[@ExoPham]

I absolutely love your content regardless of the game. I've been watching you since your Destiny videos, and your videos still have the same earnest value to them. I love the way you explain things and there's such a high tier of quality put into your videos. Maybe it's your voice, too. You're very easy to listen to and I actively want to know what you have to say.

[@Snorehog]

Thanks for this video. I've played a lot of Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch with my group, and tried to introduce them to this game but they didn't get it and bounced off and I didn't understand why really. You described some of the things I appreciate so much about Deadlock really well, e.g. the characters are not stuck in tank/support/dps like in HotS. I def think this is less complex than Dota 2, and a bit more than HotS and Overwatch, but deep games are so much fun once you get over that initial learning! I also hope with more players the matchmaking gets better so you can introduce friends without them then getting matched around your rank. It is not fun as a beginner to get wrecked in lane in this game...

[@doolioart3314]

From my experience with about 10 people who abandoned it, it was exclusively the "feelsright" factor. This I mean on a very fundamental level, not as in "wow I did an insane play and now I feel good". I know people who quite literally despise OW, who hop on it every now and then just to headshot someone a couple of times, for example and that aspect can't be marred by end game result, someone trolling or even a general dislike of the entire game, characters and mechanics. All those reasons of course are important, which is why they fire it up once every three months for an hour, but they still do it. Every single person I know, about ten of them, who bounced off when it comes to Deadlock, did it because of lack of that. Some of them even played for like 200+ hours and got very good at even advanced stuff, some for 10. But, it was unanimous when I asked them. And it also doesn't have anything to do with where the game is in the development stage either, so it's not some polish thing. That particular type of reason people bounce off is tricky because it can't be offset by objectively good things such as, whatever, good MM, role popularity discrepancy being alleviated by archetypes being flexible, enjoyable loop and so on. It's too fundamental of a thing, it's like a lizard brain level of feedback. None of them left because of the learning curve or the concept of the game or anything like that either. As I mentioned, it was unanimous, which I actually never saw happen with them. I am kinda playing it, but I feel the same looming presence of it and who knows what future brings in my own case.

[@Snorehog]

@@doolioart3314 interesting! Yes, they are probably looking for it with help of players and feedback. Hard to make ”new” things

[@GREG_WHEREISTHEMAYO]

Mo&Krill is absolutely a tank. His scorn heals soooo much and if he is played right he is very difficult to kill

[@WipeoutSG]

I totally agree, i actually have to stop myself playing the game and do real life things, which i havent had since Overwatch 1 came out and i was trying to compete in amateur tournaments. I love the game, i rage at it sometimes but thats all part of the love haha Keep the vids coming though, you've been too quiet the last week or so and i need Deadlock content to watch on my lunch break haha

[@LVK33]

been playing for a little over a month now and i gotta say this game has me by the balls lmao i love everything about it and its so refreshing that the game is constantly updated literally multiple updates every single day which cant be said about games like overwatch or fortnite. also seems like the devs care about balance and make sensible decisions with it instead of not listening to community members and going the blizzard route with it by basically telling their player base " we know better than you we are the devs" i cant wait to see where this game goes and im here for the long haul!!

[@BlueWafer]

It's in closed ALPHA, it's normal to have lots of updates as it's literally getting developed as you play

[@spankyjeffro5320]

But they DO know better than you, they ARE the devs. You're not a dev, you have no game dev expertise, nor do you know how games are developed in general. YOU are a nobody. Why should anyone listen to you?

[@benjamindempsey34]

Game hasn’t hooked me like this in a long time. Was primarily a console gamer until the day I got my deadlock invite.

[@KindOldRaven]

Game seems to be going in the right direction. I just hope Valve keeps evolving this. I'm planning on diving in soon as well. Also: your videos on Deadlock are *great* so I hope you keep on keeping on. I wouldn't worry about the player drop off at this point - it's natural. Hell we should take a look at DOTA 2 and CSGO's early time player numbers, especially CSGO is a bit of a exception that proves the rule kinda deal. People generally love the game, but there's always an initial burst of players that try it out due to hype, realize that they can't stand MOBA-ish games and back off after a bit. It's the slow *growth* up until launch that Valve should be aiming for imho :p Just like they did with CS back then.

[@dimin6866]

Deadlock is the first to get my attention since the division, Happy to see you are enjoying it to :)

[@jaybird8706]

Just hit the 100 hour mark in the game. I haven't put this many hours in game this quick in a long time. The lack of progression system is something I sort of enjoy. There is no pressure to play and there is nothing to look at when I open the game. I just click the play button and play the game. Its great.

[@cutebrute925]

Seeing Marco’s 89 hours in 2 weeks to my 59 hours in the same time: I have rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.

[@DaPark3]

Cant wait for ranked to come out today! Really interested in how they manage a rank system that uses percentiles over points

[@musicjunkie.]

Ever since playing pre nerf Top Tree Dawn in Destiny I’ve been waiting for a good competitive movement shooter. I haven’t been this hooked by a game in a while and I think the mini game of movement tech during the “boring PvE” parts of matches can keep the game fun for 1000s of hours and gives this game good staying potential in the gaming space

Yess! upgraded abrams guide! You are my fav deadlock youtuber! And i was playing abrams before even watching you and you opened my third eye without the Patreons help. Now i wanna double down on abrams. i think the game is hella fun and even tho valve tends to treat their existing games in a bad way (like cs and tf, as a cs2 player mainly im very annoyed, im hoping its because just like this game is more fun to play, its also more fun for the whole company to work on...), they might have a keen eye on mobas. Deadlock is the future of mobas. They are cooking here, im optimistic!

Once they release the game from closed alpha or whatever this is, theres gonna be more content (at least I hope, the only content in cs2 is a cashgrab update, we still dont even have achievements lol) I'm also hoping they will do something with counter strike once deadlock is in a somewhat finished state but if we're being honest the way they can keep it alive is by never really finishing it...

[@Caspeaon]

Yeah this is my first MOBA and immediately I could tell I was gonna love this game. I don’t think it’ll ever reach like league levels of popularity, but it has everything it needs to be successful, not everything needs to redefine the genre to be good, although I think deadlock does do that. Not that I have a lot of moba experience to pull from. The only thing I think the game really needs is more fleshed out lore, a good progression system, and a regular release schedule of heroes and maps/gamemodes.

[@Invisible_Walker]

It would be super interesting if they made a mode where it's just 1v1 or 2v2 lanes and when you take their guardian you win lol. Would be really cool to see as I actually love the lane phase for the most part in this game

[@ninzuh]

The Division (only the first one) will always be my favorite game of all time. The dz was the most unique PvP I have ever seen and the build crafting was so fun. That game in its peak was the most fun I have ever had playing a video game.

[@Sharkwellington]

I played about 2,000 hours of Dota 2 before quitting 10 years ago. I love the MOBA formula, but cannot deal with the toxicity. I had to give up the genre for the sake of my own mental health. You touch on this with the section where you talk about there not being hard roles, but they did a lot of other smart things to prevent toxicity as well. Picking 3 heroes before queuing means there are no arguments between 2 people who want the same character. Assigning lanes before the match starts means nobody fights over where to go. The lanes are much more symmetrical as well as being an even number, and as a result there's no such thing as "mid or feed". Souls are shared between nearby heroes so there is no such thing as "stealing farm". Text chat is way at the top of the screen and thus is much easier to ignore. It's just so great how much thought went into preventing the god-awful salt mine experience present in so many other teamwork-based games. Game developers really need to start thinking about how to design their games for flawed human beings and put in these kinds of clever guard rails that proactively prevent the situation, instead of just giving the reactive option to report and say that's good enough.

[@uhzxyl]

Struggling to make content? Easy fix. Stream! Please stream! I'm here for the deadlock guides and content but I'm also here for you as a person. Stream deadlock and I'm sure loads of people like myself will want to watch and tune in to see you play.

[@RiderOfKarma]

I went in thinking I was not going to like Deadlock at all, but I actually lived it right away. Really engrossing gameplay loop.

[@Kwambomb23]

It keeps you thinking keeps you sharp ya know

[@damienreaper1639]

ExOW player that moved to Deadlock here. Man I wish the part where you said "tanks and healers get value because dps stays close to them" is true XD So many dps spam need healing when they're across the map behind 4 walls lmaoooo There is a "frontline" and "backline" but it's constantly moving and shifting so much due to the objective, map design and hero specific abilities that it becomes rather hard to pin point. OW is really distinct in that regard. That being said, I love the vid! Keep it up!

[@emperorceegle]

Your perspective is interesting with what 2 games you compare it too. See I love the game because I love overwatch and smite, and even though the gameplay is more like the division compared to OW, I like the "hero" aspect of the game, lots of unique characters with unique abilities and alright balancing so far and I can't stand OW anymore so I'm just so happy this game is doing well I really love it 😢