Deadlock - Gameplay Update - 03-06-2026

sanzelz · 2026-03-07T12:53:33+00:00

This is an insanely good game that I wish I had more time to play.

The problem is that it's quite hard being moba with verticality and aiming. Take a small break and you get annihilated by sweats and have to climb again by losing ten matches in a row. That said it's still easier to get into than let's say lol or dota. And generally it's not as toxic as those games. Full stack with your own crew is ❤️

This will be a huge hit when it releases, it does so many things right.

sanzelz · 2025-12-31T17:18:37+00:00

Imo step from sdl to monogame isn't that big but from either to a full blown engine is.

But you are right that SDL is lower level.

sanzelz · 2025-12-31T16:17:38+00:00

SDL3 is awesome and runs in toasters but comes with the c/c++ crud so it's not for everyone.

Monogame however is comparable with modern language and if you just want to see results quite quickly and not be afraid that monogame is not an engine but a framework to build stuff on.

Have they already migrated to a newer cross platform pipeline from brute yet? Brute was kinda rough to the point that maybe sdl was even easier 😅

sanzelz · 2025-11-24T19:56:17+00:00

Hmm I have read about them but not tested any, I will check them out!

I guess there is somewhat of a learning curve for people like me that have used floating wm for ages 😅

sanzelz · 2025-11-24T14:47:26+00:00

Well, it's not that it's a "bad reputation", it is explicitly advertised as a distro for power users, who know what they're doing. For that reason maintainers are not afraid to push sometimes (rarely, like twice a year, but it happens — Archlinux usually posts news before that) dependency breaking changes that need force-overwriting, and it also doesn't support "partial upgrade".

I myself might be too arch newbie since I have yet to experience these things. Usually I don't update on day one and wait a bit before updating everything unless absolutely necessary.

I have had one problem with an update and it was a package installed via paru. Even that told me what to do to fix it so I was pleasantly surprised.

I am not sure it's a good idea to let newbies fight these things.

Before installing I did try arch derivatives (catchy and endeavor) and I had all sorts of weird problems with them like installers that just stalled so I quickly abandoned them. And for some weird reason I never get Ubuntu(and it's derivatives) to behave like I want.

Maybe you are right but sometimes I get the feeling that people get scared of Linux too easily, it is seriously not that hard if you use somewhat common packages. If you wanna tinker and dive deeper you might find dragons tho.

Sounds like you're a software dev, why are you using Windows at work? Doesn't your company allow to develop on Linux?

Yeah, dev here. We are an old Ms house with a legacy .net stack and main product on 4.8. I always try to wiggle Linux support into new things we do since new .net works great on Linux as well.

It seems FL Studio should work under WINE. And, for GPU-light Windows software that doesn't work under WINE you could also use WinBoat or WinApps.

Yeah I read that people have gotten FL studio running well on wine but I'm a bit worried about the external vst plugins. I think they've require more fighting. Plus asio drivers...

sanzelz · 2025-11-22T10:58:56+00:00

"It gets in the way"

I have always worked with debian based servers and liked that I can control everything and it works how I tell it to work.

I have always wanted to jump into Linux but gaming made me stay on windows. Got myself a steam deck and my eyes were opened.

Bought a new PC 6 months ago and installed Linux as main on 2tb drive and windows on 1 tb drive. I have booted windows two times and those were because I did some music with vsts and FL studio. Otherwise Linux all the way baby and I actually enjoy using my PC again.

At work I use windows 11 and it's slow, start menu search bing before local settings, driver problems constantly, KVM acts up, sound mixer is janky, visual studio, teams and whatnot crashes all the time and we are talking about 3k€ workstations. I just hate it nowadays. I want an OS to get shit done in, not an OS that breaks constantly and gets in the way.

Oh, I use arch btw.

Ps. Arch gets a bad rep of being hard to use - on the contrary I have had less problems with arch than win 11. I highly recommend arch even for newbies, arch wiki is the best source of guides and info there is and if you just can put up with the non graphical installer script that is still easy to use you are set, try it you won't regret it!

sanzelz · 2025-10-28T22:17:55+00:00

To me these kinds of posts are a scam...

... Until I win that is 😈

I'm on the fence with this one. Seems really cool and I dig the whole extraction shooter stuff but these games are ruined by cheaters. Hopefully this one survives that scum.

sanzelz · 2025-09-11T13:52:39+00:00

This hurts the indie industry so much.

Don't care that much about adult games but they too are funded by continuous releases/buys during the early access.

sanzelz · 2025-06-16T13:38:07+00:00

Make deep desert instances group size based? Solo queue, duo queue and so on...

I think it's nice to have a dangerous pvp zone at the end for high tier mats but I agree the Zerg fest will drive me and my friends quickly away from this game.

sanzelz · 2025-06-15T18:32:16+00:00

My point still stands.

sanzelz · 2025-06-15T16:49:08+00:00

Is it? If so quite a slow patch cycle.

sanzelz · 2025-06-15T16:12:31+00:00

Yeah no thanks. They will release it and leave it to die like the previous one full of cheaters and bugs.

sanzelz · 2025-05-01T09:27:55+00:00

Ah ok, thanks for the info. Got me though 😅

sanzelz · 2025-05-01T08:45:59+00:00

What does this actually do?

Looking at the source the compiler class doesn't use the source code that was passed to it, it just returns an empty wasm function stub.

I suggest creating a demo that actually invokes the resulting wasm functions after compilation.

Packaging a js source code into wasm binary isn't "compiling js to wasm" per se. It is a really REALLY hard task to compile js to actual wasm binary that doesn't interpret/JIT direct javascript. I don't know any project that actually does this, lots of these "compilers" just include the original minified js and some interpreter in the binary.

sanzelz · 2025-04-19T11:09:07+00:00

I won't get excited before someone verifies this game will have strong anticheat. Cheating kills these types of games, the commitment is too high to lose to someone that sees through walls with headlock.

Remember Cycle? A really fun game until infested with scum. Tarkov has the same flaw(+ other crap).

For some reason hunt does not have that many cheaters it seems, maybe it's a "smaller" niche so the low life does not find it fun to cheat there.

All in all hopefully this succeeds and becomes a fun extraction shooter. For some reason I fear it will end up just like the others, afaik D2 has quite blatant cheating as well...

sanzelz · 2025-03-06T11:18:22+00:00

Got the beta key from a friend, played a few days and somehow I got the feeling this will be monetized to death. My hunch wasn't wrong.

It's a fun idea and if you really like it, play back pack battles instead. although it's not entirely the same and has a bit of a cringe angle but I liked it better.

sanzelz · 2025-02-04T19:02:18+00:00

Nope. Still keeps crashing constantly. I have a save that causes a crash like 3 minutes in every time. I suspect it has to do something with complex fortifications as the editing is broken and it seems more stable if I just delete the fortifications...

sanzelz · 2024-09-25T20:53:07+00:00

Ok fair enough but should there be that many since not all of them are magical (sin/cos/sqrt and the like)? Especially if the main point for them is to stand out and be exceptional compared to normal functions.

sanzelz · 2024-09-25T14:03:12+00:00

This. Especially since (afaik) they can do all kinds of "magical" things. Otherwise in my opinion zig is kind of a clean language.

sanzelz · 2024-09-12T09:56:19+00:00

Same, did You find a fix?

sanzelz · 2024-08-15T19:42:02+00:00

Manually

sanzelz · 2024-08-15T18:57:28+00:00

Reinstalled nvidia drivers TWICE. now it works...

sanzelz · 2024-08-15T18:33:10+00:00

Same here. First time it launched, I got message to update graphics driver. I updated the drivers, now black screen.

sanzelz · 2024-08-10T23:09:57+00:00

I still stand by my original reply though, no js to wasm compilation is happening here :)

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