i think valve should keep making deadlock and balancing it as some big moba shooter nobody seems passionate about and announce a release date for a new singleplayer shooter and then suddenly wow heres an actually good singleplayer game with some unnamed protagonist and guns you can pick up and memorable characters and i guess it has a moba shooter multiplayer queue. free to play. and maybe they can charge like 15 bux for the campaign

free advice for the multi quadrillion dollar company that runs steam

  • Poogona [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    For a while dota 2 had a pve roguelike game mode that was legitimately pretty fun, though valve keeps doing this thing where they make the fun temporary mode ballbustingly hard which I think kinda kills it for the majority of players

    I don't foresee a single player game mode tbh but I think finding ways to tell a personal story across your many matches of a multiplayer pvp game is unexplored territory that valve could break new ground in. Maybe a hub similar to games like Hades, with NPCs who have comments about wins and losses or particular feats you pulled off.

    • 12022081631 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 days ago

      this was a very satisfying post to read since you opened with a big "too true, too true" and closed with a concept for an excellent format that we probably wont get for freaking ages

      i personally have been really wanting pve dota, i think ive made like seventeen comments about it. that desire must have partially come from the aghs lab and siltbreaker experiences

      wraith night kicked ass tho

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    2 days ago

    Maybe email it to Gabe as a suggestion since he likes getting emails from random gamers.

    gaben@valvesoftware.com

    • 12022081631 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 days ago

      i already spent my gabe juice today asking him to be added to deadlock as a character (he said yes) but thanks for the recommendation

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        2 days ago

        Let me know if you get put in so I can complain about it being an OP character played by scrubs and tryhards, and should be nerves for balance

        • 12022081631 [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 days ago

          "this meta dominated chiefly by clown characters is pitiable" -deadlock players after im done with em

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    It would be very funny for the tedious repetitive MOBA trash to actually be some sort of a disguise hiding a game I'd actually play.