Online games news Tedious Retro Gamer, 11-09-2024
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New Valve shooter Deadlock, which is nowhere near being published yet, is already infested with cheaters. Well, colour me surprised!
Valve, a company behind Steam and some games, surprised their audience by silently starting their new game, a hero shooter called Deadlock. So far, it is in an alpha stage of development, but it is already available to the public by "invite-only" scheme (which in practice means it is public).
Even though there are far, far, far too many hero shooters on the market already, Deadlock managed to gather over 160,000 concurrent users. And as they say, "where there are people, there are cheaters". Oh yes, Deadlock already is infested by blatant cheaters, who use wallhacks, bend the trajectories of the bullets, etc. Which brings the interesting question - why??? It is an alpha game, there are no rankings, there is absolutely no point in cheating at this stage, unless your goal is to win one of several thousands of matches that being played in a game that is formally not even public yet.
And it raises another interesting question - what exactly Valve is gonna do about that? Their record of fighting cheaters is not exactly spotless (yes, I’m talking about Team Fortress 2), it does not seem like they learned anything from their past and now their new game has the same problem with cheaters even before it went into open beta stage.
Is this gonna be another Team Forteress 2? Will it die even before the premiere? We shall see, but taking under consideration how little publishers actually do to stop cheating in their games, I’m not an optimist regarding Deadlock.
10-10-2024
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