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.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    246·
    4 months ago

    Somebody needs to tell the games team that they make their own operating system. This is Windows-only. WTF.

    • Thunderphenol@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      It’s really not? You can play it perfectly fine on linux. Performs great for me with 0 issues so far.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        4 months ago

        It’s really not?

        The quality of Proton is not the point, the point is that they’re not dogfooding their own platform.

        You guys making the same comments over and over again. I can literally paste previous replies because nobody of you cares to actually read.

        • Thunderphenol@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          That’s because I don’t understand your point. You complain about it being only for windows yet push away their efforts of bringing windows games to linux (which is proton). So indeed, the quality of proton is very much the point as it dictates the quality of the game on linux to a general extent.

          Not to mention that this IS an early development build, I would say that its perfectly reasonable for them to only make the early builds for windows since that is where a majority of the play testers are likely to be (not to mention that linux -> windows tools don’t exist unless you want to game on WSL2).

          So what are you trying to complain about? The fact that they aren’t exclusively pandering for steam deck users? If that is the case, I must admit that it’s very childish to just expect that and I hate other companies for making this the norm.

          • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            4 months ago

            All of their games have native Linux builds. So if this one doesn’t support Linux out of the box, his opinion is quite valid.

            • Thunderphenol@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              4 months ago

              It’s not out of the box though is it? Considering that this is a game that hasn’t even been revealed to the world in the first place.

    • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      4 months ago

      I expected this from the start once proton was introduced, just not from Valve themselves… Welp. It’s now inevitable.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        I expected this from the start once proton was introduced, just not from Valve themselves… Welp. It’s now inevitable.

        Clueless people act as if Proton was like Java, a “write once, run everywhere” environment…🙄

        • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          4 months ago

          Not sure what you mean here with your sarcasm. Proton means that developers can just write games for Windows and expect to make that version compatible with Linux with minimal changes as opposed to making a native Linux version.

          As a developer myself, I know that it doesn’t make sense for a developer in most cases to write a Linux version and support it when the Linux user base is tiny by comparison. It happened with OS/2 and it can happen again. Not to mention Linux game developer tooling pales in comparison to Windows with DirectX.

          • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            4 months ago

            Proton means that developers can just write games for Windows and expect to make that version compatible with Linux with minimal changes as opposed to making a native Linux version.

            SteamOS is Valve’s own OS. Steam Linux Runtime is Valve’s own development target. Steam Deck is Valve’s on hardware. It’s a stable platform that doesn’t move constantly like chasing Windows compatibility through reverse engineering. Win32 is not Java, Proton is not OpenJDK. Windows games on Proton break constantly. The only way into the future is proper SteamOS versions, not buggy afterthoughts.

            As a developer myself, I know that it doesn’t make sense for a developer in most cases to write a Linux version and support it when the Linux user base is tiny by comparison. It happened with OS/2 and it can happen again.

            Steam Deck is not OS/2. Steam Deck is more like a video game console and needs to be treated like one with proper ports instead of broken shit like CS2, especially for Valve’s own games. Portal on Nintendo Switch works better than CS2 on Steam Deck because it’s a proper port, not an afterthought.

            Stop repeating the same false arguments to me over and over again, as repeating those would make them right. If anyone of you would ever be put in charge of PlayStation, that entire business would collapse within months.

            Not to mention Linux game developer tooling pales in comparison to Windows with DirectX.

            Maybe Valve should improve that for their own platform then instead of relying of tools by a hostile competitor. It’s just dumb.

  • Wilzax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    I vow to invite everyone from this thread if I receive an invite myself. https://steamcommunity.com/id/Wilzax/

    Edit: added every friend code or profile link I could find under this post. Quick links are single-use so I couldn’t add those.

    Game invites take an unknown number of hours to reach your account once sent. They seem to go out in waves. Happy gaming everyone!

  • archer@lemmy.mlEnglish
    81·
    4 months ago

    I’d love to get an invite, too. Thank you very much.

  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    Icefrog is an extremely talented dev so this game is for sure to be real fun. I trust in the frog as a life long dota player