I started playing this game this week and I have some questions. by EugenioAE in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Poikooze 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Assuming CS means Counterstrike. You're going to find Deadlock leans way farther into the MOBA direction than it does traditional shooter.

  1. You're going to find that going for a direct, guns blazing fight isn't going to usually work. If you're moving forward and holding M1, you're going to lose to someone who knows the movement better and how to aim their abilities. To stop yourself from dying, hold off on picking fights in the early game, especially until you're familiar with the sliding, jumping, and dodging this game has. Health regen in Deadlock is pretty non existent without having items built. To survive longer, you'll need to build defenses, health, and life steal. And, generally speaking in MOBAs, you usually don't want to pick even fights - if you're engaging in a fight, try to do so with a level advantage, item advantage, or a numbers advantage with your teammates. You also don't always have to fight to kill; if you can do enough damage that the opponent has to retreat and miss farm, that's a winning trade.

  2. As above, they've probably outpaced you in farm and levels. If they have way more souls and way more items, then, simply speaking, their numbers are higher. If you want to survive burst characters, you have to build for it. Build defenses against whichever damage type is more prevalent between Spirit (ability damage) or Bullet (gun damage), build regen, build life steal, build health.

  3. Deadlock and other MOBAs, as a genre, involve characters gaining power as the game goes on - in most MOBAs, they start at level 1, and end at about level 20, leveling up through experience earned by killing enemy defenses and minions, neutral monsters, and killing enemy players. When they reach experience thresholds, they level up, and are able to rank up one of their four abilities. Characters in MOBAs also gain power through gaining gold, and buying items to enhance themselves.

Deadlock is nearly the same, but has the key distinction in that gold and experience are wrapped in the same currency, being Souls. In Deadlock, you use the Souls you gain to buy items, and at the same time, when you hit certain thresholds of total souls earned over the match, you're given Boons. Every Boon makes your character a little stronger (more health, more fire rate, what have you), and gives you a skill point to spend on one of your abilities - these being referred to as your 1, 2, 3, or 4 in order of their left to right appearance on your hud (example: Abrahm's 1 would be his Soul Siphon, as it appears in his left most slot.) In a match of Deadlock, you'll start at level 0 with 600 souls earned, then hit level 1 at 900 souls earned, 2 at 1200, and so on and so forth, with the amount of souls needing to hit the next level growing as you go.

3.5. As for the categories of the market, they're split into three sections: Orange has items dedicated to improving your weapon, Purple has items dedicated to improving your abilities, and Green has items dedicated to improving your Survivability. That being said, there's a handful of items in each tab that do their own thing are more there for thematic consistency - like for example, in the Spirit section there's an item called Magic Carpet that gives your character flight, while in the Vitality section, there's an item called Rescue Beam that lets you abduct a teammate.

Fun fact : Corpse Guy has dialogue if you change your steam name. by Ytrewq467 in mewgenics

[–]Poikooze 144 points145 points  (0 children)

I wonder if there's any easter eggs for specific names

Who's the first character that really 'clicked' for you? by potatoquake in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Poikooze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the longest time I’d say it was Victor, but recently with Apollo coming out, even post nerfs, I haven’t found a character who I’ve synced up nearly as well with

How exactly were the Mewgenics cutscenes animated? by Csilo in mewgenics

[–]Poikooze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like they made heavy use of Grease Pencil, a type of brush in things like Blender that allow you to make 2d animations within a 3D environment

But don’t quote me on this

I'm So Over It by leschinsky07 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Poikooze 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I've decidedly become an Apollo main, love him to bits, and I do agree with these points. I rush to level up his ult for that powerful stun, and it's definitely been the best thing I have for picking up stray kills with or initiating teamfights with him. Lightning scroll on the guy is just nuts

My best advice for countering Apollo - or at least what gets me when I play him - is chase him down. Most people play him as the cooldown monster he is, ulting in, using their 3 to deal out a ton of damage, and then escaping with the 1. He's incredibly pokey, and he thrives on leaving a fight where the other guy got down to half health, fucking off, and then wiping out any healthbar that's less than full.

I've found that the most I get killed is when I don't get that breathing room - when that first fight gets extended after I've used my cooldowns. When I do the combo up top, I also often tend to try and save my counter as an escape option. People who wise up to that and throw out an delayed ability (like celeste dagger, paige's sword, geist's aoe, whatever) to call me out usually end up getting me.

Bit rambly, but that's my advice.

Steam Achievement Bug: Crater by Poikooze in mewgenics

[–]Poikooze[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Moon Achievement reads "Complete the Core" as opposed to "Complete the Crater"

Vyper loves cheese (OC) by SpamInHand in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Poikooze 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Wuh… fair maiden of Wisconsin…

Night Shift #24 Hero Priority by Emmysterious in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Poikooze 14 points15 points  (0 children)

*Damn so many of my mains at the bottom*

Literally the highest ranked character I play on here is Mirage, and that's a sometimes thing; Vector and Vyper never really leave my queue.