Valve hasn't confirmed or denied it yet, but all signs point to its next game being a hero shooter called. I've seen some screenshots and a short video of a tutorial, and I've gotten a look at some of the game's characters. My thoughts rest somewhere between"huh" and"meh." I guess in the Year Of Our Gabe 2024, a third-person 6v6 shooter with MOBA lanes just doesn't excite me.
I am interested in one thing about Deadlock, though: movies. If Valve makes little animated features for all those new characters like it did for Team Fortress 2, I'll be there with popcorn.movie, an animated short introducing us to TF2's Heavy, or"Heavy Weapons Guy" as he calls himself. The short video filled us in on details the game itself couldn't: his minigun was called Sascha, she costs, and he gets enraged when other people touch her.
Valve's TF2 movies were so good that when Blizzard made its own version of TF2 it also made its own version of TF2's movies, and now that Valve looks like it's making its own version of Overwatch, I expect the tradition to continue. With 19 characters shown so far in the leak, there's plenty of fodder for some new short films. I'm ready. Bring 'em on.