FPS. I actually haven’t liked a single MOBA before I tried Deadlock, I’ve always thought they were too punishing and needed tons of knowledge while combat was weirdly slow paced until the late game. Deadlock fixes these problems for me just by being always fun to play, and you can kind of get away with just following a popular build and shooting enemies without really understanding what you’re doing.

Both, actually.

I played Dota 2 a bunch back in the day, and struggled with FPS games. Eventually I got enough of Dota and moved onto other games, eventually finding my FPS home first with Tribes Ascend, then later with Titanfall 2. Tribes was when aiming and moving truly clicked for me and I started seeing results in terms of my skill improving.

From there, I found and adored Battleborn, somewhat enjoyed Overwatch, played a good bit of Apex with one friend…

Battleborn shutting down was horrible, but Deadlock has now realized the kind of game that is truly and completely “for me”. It implements a collection of mechanics that is just pure crack imo. The movement system especially is 😘👌 for my titanfall playing ass.

Video game generalist

From fighting games (Tekken) and fps (Apex, Titanfall 2).

Didn’t know this game was a moba before booting it up (I have never liked mobas)😅

So yeah, I was a bit skeptical in the beginning. However, given that Deadlock was a completely new IP, and it having a 3rd person movement shooter aspect to it. I decided to give it a go.

I’m glad I did, because Deadlock has become one of my favourite games this year.

FPS for the most part, though I’ve played Dota. I find Deadlock much easier to approach as an FPS. Something about Dota just felt like I was playing with one hand tied behind my back. I could not, for the life of me, get proficient at jungling, but here it makes a lot more sense to me. Last hitting feels more intuitive to me. I think the spirit orb mechanic is fantastic as a skill game against your lane opponent.

Been playing fps and rts all my life but about 2 years ago some friends convinced me to play League.

I see Deadlock as a fun shooter with League like mechanics.

Just like league my team has terrible mental and ints to fall behind on CS and all caps type or scream into their mic.

Just like CoD the other team is a 6 stack of Joewo moment kings and my team is eating glue while saying the most wild shit.

Deadlock is 10/10

I played Dota about a decade ago when I got a closed beta invitation but a few years later switched to just watching it. I have more fun watching Dota than playing it, but I do still like it. I also play a lot of shooters and action RPGs, plus a big grab bag of indie games.

I know in the popular conversation, everyone compares Deadlock to Smite or Paragon, but my view is that it’s a lot more like SMNC, which also leaned hard on third-person shooter combat like Deadlock while still having the prototypical MOBA setup. From this perspective, I find it kind of funny to hear people marvel that the TPS+MOBA gameplay concept is so fresh. I’m just thinking, “where were you a decade ago to play SMNC?” The biggest thing I miss about SMNC was the “sports on TV” theme. Super underrated aesthetic in gaming. I guess occult noir is, too.

It’s funny how Dota this game really is. Players come from outside Dota and go “whoa, this is so crazy,” but all the Dota players go “yeah, Dota has long had that.” In-game community build guides, the item design philosophy, the large amounts of disables. I was watching Dota streamers try the game for the first time and they get top souls despite still having to read tooltips.

I have a pretty extensive Dota background behind me, but I quit years ago because I noticed I wasn’t really having a good return in terms of fun/hour. This is really the first MOBA I’ve played since then - though I’ve kept watching Dota esports.

I played FPS multiplayer years ago (Unreal Tournament '99, TF2 and Planetside 2 primarily) but I have definitely not kept it up, sticking mostly to single player and story heavy games as I’ve gotten older. This is the first competitive game I’ve played in years, so between skill atrophy and getting older, twitch aim is definitely my number one weakness in Deadlock. I hope I’ll be able to either get better at it or at least perform well enough to be good enough to feel like I can have fun playing it, as the movement and mechanics of the game are addicting as hell.

For me both, I first played a lot of League of Legends and later started playing Overwatch.

While playing the game I notice (or can guess) what background enemies have. Some people are really skilled at shooting but can easily be out rotated and tunnel vision on fighting. I won one game as Wraith while being 1/9, but I just focused on Objectiles while everyone else was just fighting. People with MOBA experience seem to be more aware about objectives and rotations.

FPS, I tried dota 2 once and was immediately overwhelmed by the learn to play section and uninstalled it.

Grew up with FPS games, but also have a few hundred hours on Dota 2. So far I find the movement much more intuitive than Dota ever was, and the community is far more good natured at this point as well. Loving it so far.

If I had to pick, I’d say FPS. I tend to not like point and click gameplay, so the only MOBA I ever enjoyed before deadlock was Paragon. I’ve always understood the basics of MOBAs but LoL and Dota were just never for me.

But I’m also not huge into FPS games. There has to be some form of ridiculousness to a shooter for me to like it.

Deadlock brings some of that. I think the newness is leaving match making for people who would be in what ever tier I exist in a weird place of either being rolled or rolling most of the time. But that will get better.

Started with fps in 93, then mobas in 04, love them both, still suck at both