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We played Valve’s secret new shooter: Deadlock (www.theverge.com)
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It’s like Overwatch, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 all baked into a pie.

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[–] CTDummy@lemm.ee 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

And I’m not under NDA. I have signed no contracts, 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.

I’m not a lawyer but I sure hope the writer of this checked with a lawyer before posting because that does not sound right.

Edit: Thank you Vodulas for pointing out this update appended to the article.

Update, August 12th: Turns out Valve was not fine with me trying Deadlock with friends; I’ve been banned from matchmaking! Oh well. Please feel free to make fun of me in the comments!

[–] powerofm@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Looks like anyone who has access can invite their steam friends, so I guess it's like closed beta? Seems weird to have something soft-launch with zero announcements. The design also looks very rudimentary. Im

[–] CTDummy@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’m-

RIP. Taken out by Valve legal team already, everyone bail.

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

It's a closed alpha test claiming everything is placeholder content and could/will change while they flesh out the design, hence why they don't want you to share anything.

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