Valve—the company behind Half-Life and Steam—is working on a new game likely named Deadlock . It’s probably a third-person team-based hero-shooter with MOBA and tower defence elements. And people are playing it right now via a closed and private beta.
However, some of those same people have started leaking footage of the yet-unannounced game online, and the reaction has been...
mixed, to say the least. We’ve known about Deadlock for years now, based on leaks and datamined information from other Valve games. The project was likely codenamed Citadel and was at one point known internally as Neon Prime.
It likely started development some time in 2018, and has gone through a lot of changes according to previous leaks , though it was always an online team-based shooter with DOTA-like elements. At one point, it was reportedly going to be set in the Half-Life universe , but that seems to have changed, as shown in the recently leaked gameplay. So what is Deadlock today? Well, based on gameplay and screenshots from the closed alpha test, Deadlock will be a hero-based online third-person shooter featuring maps with MOBA-like lanes, mobs to kill, and Bioshock Infinite -like rails that you can grind around to get to areas quickly.
LEAK: Gameplay of Valve’s upcoming 6v6 4-Lane 3rd-Person Shooter MOBA— “Deadlock,” formerly “Neon Prime.” 19+ heroes are currently playable in the Closed BETA. pic.
twitter.com/GKG8FCUZVU In the alpha test footage that has leaked online, it see.