DeadlyFatalis

@RohanGod_ But I'd argue you need to consider how difficult it is in both winning and losing situations. Otherwise, Tic Tac Toe from your argument is an immensely difficult game, because it's impossible to win from a losing position.

@DeadlyFatalis well yeah ofc? the point is that the easier it is to play from a losing position, the less punishing the game is overall and the easier it is

League of Legends is a lot harder than Deadlock. In fact, I no longer think it’s comparable. I don’t think it CAN be comparable with Deadlock’s current systems. That’s not to say that DL is an easy game at all bt! I still think Deadlock’s mechanical ceiling COMPLETELY blows League’s out of the water, and the macro aspect isn’t too far behind League’s either. However, n of that matters when the game holds your hand by injecting a gold-hack onto your account as a reward for getting your back absolutely blown out in lane. My sudden jump in opinion between games comes down to literally 1 factor. Punishment. In LoL, snowballing and the ability to 1v9 carry off of winning lane has been massively toned down over the years. It’s actually basically nonexistent today compared to 10 seasons ago, where you’d land 2 solokills on good wavestates toplane and be 4 levels up on the lobby 10 minutes later. However, there’s still a significant degree of punishment you’ll face from making stupid mistakes in lane. Make consecutive mistakes in lane and you can outright ruin your entire game, nearly irreparably. Deadlock in it’s current state is basically the polar opposite lol. Sometimes, you can actually die 4-5+ times in lane and only be marginally behind (sometimes even if your team gets the comeback urns) 10 minutes later. I think it’s a combination of comeback mechanics being WAY too strong and a lack of a 3rd neutral objective. Obviously, it’s also cause of a general lack of coordination resulting in more throws, but this is an unfixable problem. Welcome to solo queue ladders in team based games 😭 I still think Deadlock’s mechanical ceiling COMPLETELY blows League’s out of the water, and the macro aspect isn’t too far behind League’s either. None of that matters when the game holds your hand by injecting a gold-hack onto your account as a reward for getting your back blown out in lane. I also do think the souls system makes snowball very tricky to balance, since gold and exp are combined into 1 resource. Making snowball a tiny bit higher can tip the scales and make mid-game demons (Mina Celeste Yamato Apollo etc) completely thanos exodia overpowered, they are already strong af LMAO. I’d honestly like to see a non-money related neutral objective (LoL dragon soul equivalent) put into DL before nerfing comeback souls. OBVIOUS DISCLAIMER: All of this is subject to change since DL still isn’t complete. But, as of now, I just don’t think DL is punishing enough to compare to LoL in difficulty.

@RohanGod_ So if those comeback mechanics are applied against you, it makes it that much harder to win. You're not always benefitting from the comeback factor, if you're winning, you need to overcome it, and have to be better than roided out opponents. Does that not require skill?

@DeadlyFatalis yes you absolutely can? league has gold + obj shutdowns and you get exponentially more exp for killing someone higher leveled than you it's not about believing anything, deadlock's comeback mechanics are just that strong? that's not really a debatable topic lol

@RohanGod_ But then it's just as I said initially, if you make a mistake in Deadlock, your opponent gets "roided out" comeback mechanics, is that not punishing? If it's easier to win while losing, that also must mean it's easier to lose while winning.

@DeadlyFatalis not necessarily, depends on a combination of how badly + when you mess up. even if you're giga-ahead, if you fuck up and die on a bad timer you can definitely solo lose the game, the comeback mechanics in league definitely aren't weak - they just arent roided out like DL

@RohanGod_ The comeback mechanics are the punishment. You can't throw a soul/gold lead in LoL the same way you can throw in Deadlock. If you believe the comeback mechanics are are strong as you say, then that is the punishment when you make a mistake that you shouldn't be making.

@RohanGod_ Doesn't the opposite apply when winning? If you're winning in LoL, even if you mess up, the comeback mechanics are weak, so you're going to still win. You need to be perfect in DL while winning, because the comeback mechanics are so strong that small mistakes risk losing.

@ryandangeremma @d1mitreuzz @AlJR86 @xonebros I'm saying all the information is readily available. You can watch and consume as much or as little as you need to make a decision. It's not like we're back in the 90s where information about games were scarce and reviews were the only way to gather information.

@d1mitreuzz @DeadlyFatalis @AlJR86 @xonebros You watched an entire playthrough of a four hour game in order to determine whether or not you wanted to then buy it and play it while also reading various reviews too. Do you realize how stupid that sounds?

“Who cares?” is the disconnect. Gamers care because review scores shape perception, buying decisions, and which games get taken seriously. It is not about one IGN score. It is about players feeling like the media keeps dismissing games they love, then acting surprised and treating gamers like we’re crazy when we notice.

@d1mitreuzz @ryandangeremma @AlJR86 @xonebros Is it? You can watch the entire game on YouTube and you would hopefully know yourself well enough to determine if this is something that would interest you or not.

@ryandangeremma @AlJR86 @xonebros Kinda hard to determine whether the game is worth playing, when all the reviews are a glazefest

@hiSwaps It's an item design that been in Dota for over a decade. You can buy Silence Wave (which you might have been buying anyways) pop indomitable and still ult, and you just made the enemy waste 6400 souls.

Muting this, the rest of deadlocktwt reared their heads and I grow bored of reading the same reply for the 30th time. They lowk just made an auto-counterspell its not that deep <3

Yoshi actually huffs paint thinner, Mo and Krill are genuinely useless now

@JuzuLive It's essentially just porting over items from Dota. Linkens sphere in Dota can block a targeted spell every 14 seconds, and has been in the game for over a decade.

I feel like each patch notes will be directly aimed towards making the game easier, like indomitable item automatically canceling any cc is kinda lame items like counterspell/dispel magic requires you to use them mid-game right before the disaster, but indomitable just does it for you, regardless being t4 item, i still find it lame when I started playing deadlock, I immediately loved the game due to it's complexity and learning curve, especially when most game-devs nowadays purposely cater to casuals, I really don't want deadlock to become a casual type of game where most X items/heroes just easily does it for you

@BLZBLUaz Wait for a new game to come out like Invincible or Avatar. There's still people who will be good at the game due to legacy skill that carries over, but it's as close to an level playing field as it gets.

guys what's the fg that has the most noobs like. never played a fighting game ever im their life level of noob

@NamiFootjob At around level 17-18ish you'll be able to unlock something called Palace of the Dead. You can get a sample of what the job will be like to play at level 50 through it.

not sure if i like the combat in this game

@Redheadeddead @IHateNYT Plenty. How many people do you see on twitter immediately going to ask Grok insanely simple questions that could've easily been a Google search? People go see the doctor for things they can treat themselves all the time.

@IHateNYT What grown ass adult with a headache doesn’t try Tylenol, Motrin, excedrin etc before going to the dr?! The assumption is if you have a MD you’re a genius and infallible and if you’re sick it’s your fault and you’re too dumb to even know to take Motrin. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Some doctors really do seem to get a kick out of telling people that they can’t have prescriptions & need to take on OTC medicines that already didn’t work

@Nemninq @sakiomii @chrchie Is it? You're expecting this person to not reply based on information from 2026, when the conversation took place in 2021. How do you expect them to do that?

@DeadlyFatalis @sakiomii @chrchie No shit, Sherlock..

back when i didnt realize he was sliding in every small vtubers dms including mine 😭 i feel like he got off on the power imbalance with small vtubers that already admired him and thought he cud get away with anything bc vtubers r more private

@Nemninq @sakiomii @chrchie It's a thought in hindsight. People didn't think this about him until the recent drama. Now people are looking at messages he's sent and seeing it recontezualized.

@sakiomii @chrchie If you having thought like that in the first place why still replying.. You know he wants to 'sex' ( this is your thoughts ) why not just not reply?? You know it's weird for yourself and now you want to include yourself in this parade.

@agente_b7 @starsuper64 They literally got paid with in game rewards if they won, of course they mobilized to do it. You really saying if a company said, vote in this poll and if we win I'll credit your account in game with $20 you wouldn't do it? It's a no brainer if you play the game.

@starsuper64 Never underestimate gacha fans and their definitely not unhealthy and cringe obsession

Case in point:

@Ayanarinashi @zerunus @Acegoesgaming51 Unfortunately this choice might have the consequence of doing the opposite of what you intended. Bad actors can screenshot this without context, and frame you as saying Bao has bad opinions.

@Ayanarinashi @zerunus @Acegoesgaming51 If you just said "aged like wine" everyone would know what you mean and you wouldn't have to have these conversations. There's going to be people who aren't going to read it carefully and believe you think Bao is wrong despite everything that's happened because of that choice.

@ab_ch2 @juiceetin A race after considering the stats and the money is worth ~40 random stats. G1s especially with epithets are worth a lot more. A training needs to be really good to be worth it over racing.

@juiceetin Is 30+ races absolutely necessary in this scenario? I see that even though I’m hitting S/S+ ranks, I’m not capping my stats…

first shop and I think I should buy only the grilled carrots and nothing else 🤔

@DeadlockAnon Great everyone reports them and they go into low priority and need to win a bunch of games before they can join the regular queue again. It's problem that's already been solved and implemented in Dota 2 for over a decade.

Lots of people asking for surrender because muh bad teammates and not enough people asking for surrender because of the alarming number of people who readily admit they're throwing 2 minutes into a match

@DieChanc3 @CyroosTethering Once the first mark is applied, it has infinite range to get the next marks, so after an initial skirmish, you can run back let ricochet build up marks from safety and press 3 to blow up the team. The fantasy is blowing up an entire team and instantly turning a fight.

@CyroosTethering I feel like the amount of time you gotta shoot to explode someone with the marks is the same as other other m1's, it's just their guns don't backload all of the dmg. (assuming the game is balanced and other factors that I can't squeeze in a tweet)

Can someone explain what the power fantasy is supposed to be on this hero other than intense, crippling boredom