<ul><li>Deadlock, Valve’s MOBA shooter, is challenging to grasp even for experienced players.</li><li>It's already a vast tangle of interplaying abilities, items, strats, and often unspoken rules, of the kind that even experienced gankists will take hundreds of hours to learn.</li><li>To test whether Deadlock is easier to comprehend as a team sport, four players joined forces.</li><li>The strict third-person view makes it difficult to figure out how matches are progressing.</li><li>The UI is clumsy, elements like the health bar are placed in wrong places</li><li>Players feel a lack of consistent rules and logic in the game.</li><li>Players need hundreds of hours of practice to get a hold of where a match is going and what their role in it should be.</li><li>The game being an experiment still needs to figure out the better onboarding process.</li><li>Deadlock's new direction for the MOBA genre is genuinely exciting.</li><li>It is a long-term investment and may take time for beginners to get a hold of the game's intricacies.</li></ul>

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