Valve Corporation (V-Company) has finally publicly acknowledged the existence of Deadlock, a hero shooter they have been secretly developing, and the game has been added to Steam.

Deadlock is a 6v6 shooter game with gameplay similar to Overwatch, where players need to fight off their opponents and advance their own NPC lanes to capture the map. In addition, the game has a MOBA element, where players have to direct NPC minions through four different routes to destroy opponents' defenses, similar to games like Dota 2.

Although Deadlock is still in the early stages of development, it has already attracted the attention of a large number of players.

New Hero Shooting?

Deadlock is said to have been a spin-off of the Half-Life franchise and has changed its codename several times during development, including Shadowline, Neon Prime, Citadel, and The Seven Hour War, among others.

Currently, Deadlock's Steam store page has been made public, but the exact release date has not yet been announced. The game has been allowed to be streamed, many streamers are already streaming the game, and the admin Yoshi in the official Discord chat channel has confirmed that the ban on public discussion of the game has been lifted.

Currently, the game is only accessible by invitation, but judging by SteamDB's data, it has a sizable current player base.

Good seedlings for esports

Judging from the current information, Deadlock has a high level of confrontation and full strategy, and has attracted a lot of attention and participation from players at this stage.

Deadlock offers multiple heroes with unique skills and combat styles, and this hero variety adds to the game's strategic depth, providing a rich tactical mix and spectacle for esports matches. With MOBA elements similar to Dota 2 added to the game, such as clearing creeps, denying and pushing lanes, the game is not just a simple shooting confrontation, but also includes aspects of strategy and resource management.

What's more, Deadlock is developed by Valve, which means that the game has a strong backing and quality assurance, and Valve has the experience and resources in the esports field to support the esports of Deadlock.

But some players have expressed concerns. Some players said that Deadlock's combination of shooting, MOBA and other elements is too difficult for ordinary players, and the game mechanics are very complex, which may make it another niche "high-end game" rather than an esports game.

"V Club has gone from multiplayer games like Dota 2 to CS2 to TF2. Over the years, the design ideas have been roughly as follows: unify resources, limit resources, and increase the use of resources. The FS club in the industry also takes a similar approach when designing soul games, and souls are used not only to add points, but also to upgrade weapons. The result of this approach is to simplify the cost of understanding the game, lower the barrier to entry, fewer acquisition channels, but more places to use, increase the player's decision-making control, and the rest is to optimize the revenue value of each operation within a reasonable range. To sum up, I think this game will still be very complicated, and the audience may not be large, so the default is to start with a violent death, and I would be surprised if it has a certain number of players. A player who has experienced Deadlock in depth said.

It's not set off yet, and the plug-in has arrived

Like all sizable competitive PVP games, Deadlock has suffered a lot of hacking. With the same VAC technology used in Dota 2 and CS2 as in V Society, this has raised concerns about the current state of cheating - which may mean that cheats that work in CS2 will still work here.

In the official announcement, it claims that it is already working on a more effective anti-cheat system, and currently hopes that users will report it more, and they will actively deal with it.

According to foreign media Dexerto, a number of closed beta players have reported cheating on the Reddit discussion board of "Deadlock", including character reuse of skills and infinite hanging.

Cheats are devastating for competitive gaming, and if V doesn't address this issue properly, Deadlock's esports ambitions will be even more difficult to achieve.

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