Thread 718241319

>20 years later
>still no replacement exists

Why is this?

>>718241319 (OP)
It was supposed to be deadlock wasn't it? Nah, I'm not learning all that shit for some wack ass characters

good things don't need to be replaced

hero shooters veer too far away from the class-based shooter core, and place too much focus on teamwork

>>718241467
No, Deadlock is supposed to be the replacement for Dota but with an original IP instead of Blizzard's sloppy seconds.

Because the gaming industry died in the mid 2010s and it has yet to recover

>>718241319 (OP)
Counter-Strike 2
Overwatch 2
Fortnite
Valorant
Apex Legends
Call of Duty
The Finals
Halo Infinite
Destiny 2
Tarkov
Marvel Rivals
Rainbow Six Siege
PUBG
Marathon
Fragpunk
Fairgame$
Battlefield 6

>>718241319 (OP)
all its true competitors crashed and burned while TF2 was in its prime, now that TF2 is at the end of its rope there's no one left to scrape ideas from that bucket
>>718242236
not even the same genre

I wish overwatch was good

>>718242236
only one of these games has both a class system and non-miniscule team sizes and it's not even out yet

>>718241319 (OP)
Marvel Rivals has been a pretty good replacement, I haven't looked back.

>>718242394
it is good, the problem is the playerbase.

>>718242315
Dirty Bomb still has about 100 people playing, at least in Europe. I can get into a server within a minute, it's not dead if you want to play it.

>>718242914
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>>718241319 (OP)
Because multiplayer games aren't fucking fun anymore, simple as

>>718241319 (OP)
If this game goes public in the 2100s it will be the chess of class shooters.

It's fun and casual with timeless graphics and a high skill ceiling while still having new players able to contribute to a win. Competitive is lame and misses the point of the game.

>>718241467
>>718241972
What the fuck ever happened to Deadlock anyway? One day it was the only thing people were talking about, and now its fucking gone.

>>718242315
I miss dirty bomb

>>718241319 (OP)
every other shooter fucks up and adds a bunch of SMGs/ARs. These weapons aren't fun, but since they are almost always the best option, everyone always uses them. So every other shooter isn't fun.
Half the TF2 cast has a shotgun, and even the syringe gun and flamethrower got unlocks that turn them more shotgun-like (crossbow, dragons fury)

>>718242236
>Counter-Strike 2
>Fortnite
>Tarkov
>Call of Duty
>Valorant
>Halo Infinite
>PUBG
>Marathon
>Fragpunk
>Fairgame$
>Battlefield 6
>Apex Legends
not even the same genre
>Overwatch 2
>Marvel Rivals
hero shooters not class based
>The Finals
>Rainbow Six Siege
>Destiny 2
These are the only ones remotely comparable as they have different classes with modular loadouts but they're still extremely different from TF2

>>718242236
>Marathon
>Fragpunk
>Fairgame$
i never even heard of any of these games

>>718244795
valve time, game's updating about as slow as it possibly could
plus at launch a lot of players tried it out because it was made by valve, and got turned off when it wasn't finished and only technically a shooter

>>718246484
one's the bungie failure that stole art from a tranny
and two are concord-tier failures just waiting to plop onto the market like stillborn horse fetuses

>>718242236
>Fairgame$
anon...

>>718246161
Explain how heavy is the easiest, most fun, and most pub-stompy class then.

Even against good players I preform better as a heavy than any other class.

T. 2000 hours in the game

>>718247323
But miniguns are dogshit in every other game

>>718247323
>Explain how heavy is the easiest, most fun, and most pub-stompy class then.
quite literally the least played class in tf2 by a large margin

>>718247706
probably because you are pretty much a stationary target as soon as you spin up making you a sitting duck for any sniper or spy

>>718247915
engie is stationary and he gets played more

>>718247915
Even in a sniper-dominated map like Harvest, you can do well as a heavy by sticking near the central barn. You can obliterate anyone who comes close and most snipers are way too scared to push that far up to challenge you.
Almost every map in the game has an area like this that you can utterly lock down as decent heavy.

Also what I mean by "decent" is good enough to get accused of cheating on a semi-regular basis. Anything less is shitter tier.

>>718248507
all I know is that I quit Heavy after 4 deaths because I get buttfucked by spies or snipers, usually before I even get to an area with close combat