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.