Curious what the Half-Life and Dota 2 maker’s been up to?
    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      How intense is the item/upgrade shop? Like, is it gonna take me months to master or are most upgrades fairly straightforward?

      • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        The upgrades do seem pretty straightforward as far as wording, but I didn’t fully understand how some of the “spirit” ones worked, so I might look it up elsewhere before I play again. I just bought the “recommended” items, but I also kept getting demolished, so maybe I need to branch out.

      • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        It’s not too daunting. It has the same guide system as dota so you can just pick a build someone else made and follow it to learn them. It also has a lot of voice lines to help with reacting to item effects, like the item with an active that makes you invulnerable to bullets makes heroes say a “I can’t shoot them” or “don’t waste your ammo” voice line.

      • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        4 months ago

        I would invite all of y’all that I could, but I don’t feel comfortable putting my steam name out there on lemmy for privacy reasons. Sorry =(

        • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          4 months ago

          It doesn’t work anyway, valve patched it so you need to be friends for 30 days minimum

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3517·
    4 months ago

    I wish valve could sued the mf instead of just banning him. The game ask to not divulge and the mf publish a article to farm some internet clicks, come on man.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
      302·
      4 months ago

      And I’m not under NDA. I have signed no contracts and made no verbal agreements; I haven’t even clicked through a EULA.

      This message does pop up when I launch Deadlock, but I didn’t click “OK”; instead, I hit the Escape key and watched it disappear.

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
          33·
          4 months ago

          why wouldn’t it be an agreement tho? like sure it’s not an EULA, but it’s asking you to do something before allowing you into the game

          • jwelch55@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            4 months ago

            They could have worded it differently, but they didn’t. It doesn’t ask, it doesn’t have any confirmation or agreement language. It literally just says ‘do not share anything about the game with anyone’ with an ‘ok’ prompt.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      131·
      4 months ago

      Why though? They get free advertising and by banning him they showed everyone else that they will follow through on banning if they share information so it stays contained.

      • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
        73·
        4 months ago

        Did they want the free advertising now in the alpha? I don’t think so

        • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          4 months ago

          Honestly, I think Valve is just kind of doing a soft release/announcement and are trying to build up hype slowly like this. If they were really worried about leaks they wouldn’t have given anybody in it unlimited free invites to send to anyone.

          • LinyosT@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            It wouldn’t surprise me if this was a way to avoid typical launch day server issues either.

            Rather than have everyone dumped into their servers as once, they let things ramp up.

            Though that could be giving too much credit considering it’s in alpha. Aloha would suggest its still far from release, probably too early to bother stress test the servers or w/e.

          • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
            22·
            4 months ago

            Fair enough, but there is a possibility that the unlimited invites was not intentional hahahaha. Valve also do some oopsie doodle

  • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    just got an invite for this, not sure if I want to bother though since hero shooters aren’t my bag.

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    “Secret” is a bit of a stretch. The playtest was offered to nearly all longtime Steam users. If it’s meant to be a secret, someone at Valve is getting fired.