Quit World of Warcraft recently Because I couldn’t justify the subscription anymore. It’s been really hard to find a game to put time into and keep my attention. I tried OverWatch 2 but that game is hot fecal matter. Stardew Valley is fun for a little while, all my friends quit though And that’s who I played with. Team fortress is good I guess as well, gets repetitive though. And that game is old as heck…

So I’m like hey, you know what? I’ll try deadlocked, this new early access valve game. Holy crap this is actually fun! It’s like Dota or League of Legends, mixed with OverWatch. Some of the characters even mimic some of the exact mechanics of the game, for example one of the characters has an ultimate ability where you spin around in circles dealing damage to everything, like they copied it off of reaper in OverWatch. But hey, I’m not really complaining, who cares right?

Valve honestly makes some of the best games ever, every time I play one it’s a banger that gets my attention for thousands of hours and this one has been so damn fun. I’m surprised more people aren’t playing it, it’s just crazy how fun it is and how addictive it is.

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    1 month ago

    I’m struggling to enjoy it. Some matches can be enjoyable but more often than not I find it a dull slog.

    Theres nothing more boring than being stuck in a game for another 20 minutes when it’s well and truly clear you’ve been getting your arses kicked the previous 20.

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      Theres nothing more boring than being stuck in a game for another 20 minutes when it’s well and truly clear you’ve been getting your arses kicked the previous 20.

      To be fair, you don’t have to do anything. You can hang back if you think the match is a loss or just farm lane and let them win once you think it’s over. This is also how League and Dota seem to work outside competitive, people will just give up if they smell a loss coming.

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          Dota does too but its fairly hidden and requires unanimous agreement. That said, Dota is far less snowbally, so unlike League or Deadlock, it rarely makes sense to forfet very early.

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    It’s single player, but have you tried Baldur’s Gate 3 yet? I have around 400 hours in the game. It’s probably the best game I’ve ever played.

    Pro tip: use a controller. The experience is much better with a controller.

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    1 month ago

    I enjoyed Overwatch. League of Legends always feels awful to play. Deadlock feels way more like League of Legends than Overwatch to me.

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      Have you played OverWatch recently? That game is a disaster. So damn boring and monetized to hell. They barely put any effort into it anymore. I’m pretty sure they have abandoned it or are about to because they realize that the community is done with them. At least with League, they have a lot of buy-in with the community and very loyal community that generally approves of what they’re doing

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        By “Overwatch” I meant the original Overwatch. I stopped playing shortly before Overwatch 2 came out and I never played Overwatch 2.

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          Ohh fair point. I should have done that too honestly. I bought the first one. I should have stopped after they ended it

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    It doesn’t have skins or ranks. Nothing to hook the addicts into the LiVe SeRvIcE. Just pure fun for the sake of it.

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      I mean, it will have those once the game is officially released.

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      It’s still early access… Valve literally invented the hats economy, you’re insane if you think they aren’t going to add microtransactions to the game 🙄

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        Ok and? I never said they wouldn’t. The game is clearly early access hence the lack of monetization.

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      Honest question, what’s with the weird URL? I’m new to Lemmy so might be confused I guess by how things work

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        It’s a different server (instance?) of Lemmy. Lemmy isn’t centralized, it’s a bunch of different servers that talk to each other (federated).