The former Twitch star, DrDisrespect, is developing his own vertical shooter with DEADROP: On October 24th, he showcased the game in a live stream on YouTube. Although he tried to demonstrate how great the vertical shooter is and how much fun it is, at one point, the DrDisrespect we know came out.
What kind of game is this?
- Before becoming an influencer and professional mustache bearer, DrDisrespect worked as a map designer for Call of Duty. Because he has been disappointed by gaming in recent years (and because one can never have enough money), he is currently developing DEADROP, his own shooter with a team.
- The game is still in an early production phase and is expected to be an extraction shooter: The games revolve around collecting loot and bringing it to safety. If you die, all the nice loot you’ve fought for until then is gone.
- The special feature of DEADROP: It is supposed to be a vertical shooter. The map goes up, with elevators and ladders, making the combat arena look like a building under construction with many floors. You often shoot down or up. If you know DrDisrespect, you also know, how important audio design is to him: One needs to be able to hear enemies.
DrDisrespect fails at a zipline
This was the bug: DrDisrespect saw an enemy on the “Proving Ground: Atrium” map on a floor opposite him and devised a plan to coolly hang onto a zipline and then glide through the air shooting wildly, taking out the villain.
He should have noticed that the plan was a bit shaky, as the “Interact” logo with the zipline was blinking unsteadily and kept disappearing.
As he tried to grab the zipline, the 41-year-old had to watch as his character desperately grasped for the line but failed to catch it.
To the doctor’s dismay, his character helplessly fell several meters down and died miserably on impact. “Self-Termination,” the game reported coolly.
This is how DrDisrespect reacted: He seemed to remain calm at first, scratched his nose, but then bellowed at the top of his lungs: “Grab it, grab it.”
If you know DrDisrespect, you know that after such an outburst, he usually cannot calm down and will rant for minutes about the “incompetent developers”, discussing in a rant how gaming in general and the shooter genre in particular is going to the dogs, that everything is terrible and he will uninstall the game immediately, never touch it again, and demand a personal apology from the developers.
But because DEADROP is his own game, the story went differently this time: DrDisrespect shouted a bit more to himself but calmed down quickly, got some kills, and even praised the game, saying it was simply fantastic.
DEADROP tailored to DrDisrespect and his fans
How does the game feel? One can believe DrDisrespect when he says that the game brings him joy: It’s exactly the kind of game he loves. He can snipe, shoot up close, set traps, and listen for enemies.
It seems to be a game that makes you understand why DrDisrespect built it or had it built.
How the shooter performs “in the wild” and whether it will be a hit is hard to say right now. However, DEADROP is obviously designed to appeal specifically to DrDisrespect’s target audience: It also looks like a real game in contrast to games introduced by the German Twitch streamer MontanaBlack.
In the community, they are already joking: The poor programmer responsible for the zipline must have watched the stream with a very uneasy feeling.
We reported on DrDisrespect’s company in 2022. Even though they have such a great figurehead and frontman, there are also obvious problems with such “dream jobs”:
