Deadlock is, as players have quickly observed, more MOBA than shooter. But, as someone who sank about 2,000 hours into Dota 2 (though it’s been a minute, I stopped in 2019), I can confidently say that its shooter mechanics are still a huge part of what makes it so fascinating: And that’s because its lanes, which are very MOBA-like in nature, are utterly transformed by the fact you can run and gun in them… Read more.