Valve's latest game Deadlock continues rising up the most-played games ranking on Steam, despite it being invite-only and the developers continue expanding it. As a reminder, Linux players need Proton and you may also need a quick fix to stop it crashing.
In the last 24 hours it hit a peak player count of 106,447 putting it higher than Rust, Call of Duty, Stardew Valley, War Thunder and other usually very popular games. Clearly, Valve's idea for it is working and it seems a lot of people are fully coming around to enjoying and appreciating the design.
Source: SteamDB
As long as the player numbers keep up, it seems like Valve may well be onto truly the next big thing here. Still, the biggest test of course is when it's fully opened up but it's incredibly promising to see.
The design keeps changing too, only in the last update the developers added in wall jumping. So that's in addition to dashing, double-jumping, mantling over things and sliding too. Valve also added in some ropes to certain builds too so you can quickly climb up, and you can shoot while hanging on the ropes too.
One thing that I really struggled with early on while learning Deadlock, and to some extend I still struggle a bit with now, is to not treat it like a shooter. Yes, it has guns (and finger-guns), but it's a MOBA like Dota 2 more than it is a hero shooter. Your guns aren't even particularly good and deal pretty low damage, a lot of the time they're just to get health down a bit for your abilities, or to finish someone off.
You can follow Deadlock on Steam. You'll have to find an invite from someone to access it.
Have you been playing Deadlock? Be sure to let me know what you think to Valve's latest in-development game in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: morbiusI tried to play again, this time with Vulkan renderer. Well, it compiled the shaders for only about an hour, then the game started. After about 15 minutes in the hero practice session, the game crashed. I started it again and again it tried to compile shaders, but I skipped that. The game started and then again crashed in hero practice mode.
This thing is not stable, as least on my Ubuntu. Rebinding ability keys to my mouse buttons didn't seem to work. I did however like the feel and the movement of the game, perhaps I will like it one day, when a better client comes out.
Have you tried to check this https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/deadlock-from-valve-may-need-this-quick-fix-on-linux/
Quoting: BogomipsQuoting: morbiusI tried to play again, this time with Vulkan renderer. Well, it compiled the shaders for only about an hour, then the game started. After about 15 minutes in the hero practice session, the game crashed. I started it again and again it tried to compile shaders, but I skipped that. The game started and then again crashed in hero practice mode.
This thing is not stable, as least on my Ubuntu. Rebinding ability keys to my mouse buttons didn't seem to work. I did however like the feel and the movement of the game, perhaps I will like it one day, when a better client comes out.
Have you tried to check this https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/deadlock-from-valve-may-need-this-quick-fix-on-linux/
No, this used to be a problem on older Ubuntu versions, 24.04 has max_map_count set high.
ThatSpoonyBard Sep 2
Quoting: 1xokQuoting: mindplagueWould love an invite too if someone is willing to share.
You can add me on steam (aka ToysRsus).
The account has sent me a friend request. After I added him, a second account contacted me and then tried to phish me.
The account has set its profile to private and has not posted anything else.
I have reported the corresponding steam accounts to Valve. And set my Steam profile to private for now. No one has ever tried to phish me on steam. Until today. I was too gullible.
So watch out. I have the impression that there are scammers around.
EDIT: I am not 100% sure about the mindplague account. This account did not try to scam me. The fact that the fraud attempt coincided with it's friend request could also have been a coincidence.
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