Sneaky Deadlock Preview

We played Valve’s secret new shooter, Deadlock on The Verge spills beans about Valve's testing of a project called Deadlock on Steam that's gotten tongues wagging. The post notes the author is not under an NDA, but it apparently sparked some backlash, causing the outlet to be banned from the test. The report includes a video and here are some of the beans it spills:
It’s a 6-on-6 shooter, like the original Overwatch, where your team of heroes attempts to dominate a map by slowly wearing down the opposing team and pushing them back. But you’re also leading an army of NPC grunts down four different lanes to destroy the opposing team’s stationary defenses, a little like Dota 2 or other MOBA games.

There’s no downtime. It’s a constant war between your team’s Troopers (the grunts) and the enemy team’s Troopers, which keep respawning and advancing on enemy positions, wave after wave. But they can’t break through unless the human-powered heroes lend them a hand with powerful weapons, abilities, and upgrades.