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Why didn't the Vandal have a self-revive? Are they stupid?
Why did this game flop so hard?
>>735066346man this looks horrible
Kinoludo gameplay!
I honestly can't tell if this is truly desperate attempts at viral marketing or haters role playing as desperate fanboys but either way threads dont need to die for this garbage.
>>735066346>>735066676
>>735066691This shit is at 18k players now and queue times on some servers can be more than 30 min... so its desperate marketing
>>735066346Destiny 2 pvp looks so good in comparison right now.
>>735066746False
How do you go from Destiny to THAT?
>>735066346Why even have the down stab mechanic?
Someone post the basedygun image
>>735066346the nortubel of bungie
>>735066676Lmao, that autoaim.
>>735066872If you aren't playing with autoaim you are gimping yourself
>>735066839Because if you sneak up on people, you don't want to tell the whole lobby you are there.Also its really good for dispatching bots.
>>735066346So is this cyberpunk Lego halo?
Tell your handlers to go f2p and add coomer skins and I'll play.
>>735066839It makes you recover shield
this game is so ugly
>>735067072If it had lower polycount and lower resolution textures, it'd be kino
>>735067072It's a mixed bagThis screenshot looks good imo
>>735067072Pic unrelated??
I was in queue for 7 mins before I decided to stop. I guess I’ll play when they release the new map. But I saw it requires level 25 and I’m not there yet…
>>735067173Mentally ill freak, why would you make that up?
>>735066346>>735066676Dying to one hit thermal sniper with first-shot advantage and large open maps would instantly make me not want to play this game anymore if I had it. I'm high skill, it's just that why deal with annoying deaths like that when I can play a better game with more fun gunfights
>>735066804Shut up, monkey.
>>735067072has to be the worst artstyle ever conceived
looks like fucking roblox lmao
>>735067173bruh no one's even going to get to play it when it comes out lmao, I'd bet 90% of the people who own it aren't lvl25 yet
>>735067254>Dying to one hit thermal sniper Snipers never one shot unless you have no shield
It would've worked as AA shooter from smaller studio a moderate budget nobody would've cared nearly as much and most people would've praised the distinct art style
>>735067173Post your steam playtime
>>735066816What the fuck do you mean?Shotgun spamming around corners, that's destiny pvp alright.
>>735066346>Square shotgunkek
nice frags runner we need to tap in together online in cryo archives when that drops
>>735066676Wait this game has mixed inputs?BAHAAHAHH now even playing when it goes free
>>735066346I got an epilesy attack from this and I'm not even epilectic.
>wait til cyro archive drops! it’ll boost player counts!>lvl 25, all factions unlockedhahahahaha what a joke. the jornos won’t even be able to review it. i guess shroud and the sweats will have a blast!
Why do niggas play all these retarded shootersjust play tf2 like a normal person
>>735066572Aesthetics and the Bungie name mean nothing in an oversaturated and competitive market combined with a paid admission fee.
>>735066346A shotgun and sniper wallhack Meta. Bungy started with the worst meta imaginable and the streamers can't complain because it would look bad. Good kek
extraction shooter designed to be a hardcore experience>special abilities>thermals everywhere>aim assistLol gaming in 2026 sure is something.
>>735067601This.There are already great multiplayer shooters out there, why waste time on live service garbage?
>>735066346What is the appeal here? It looks like a generic extraction shooter with a garish paint job.
>>735067647>Muh shotgun OP try not being deaf
>>735066346k
After playing MARATHON for 70 hours I can confirm the major arguments used by the bandwagon to trash the game are false!> "PvP is too rare" - I get 1-5 fights per match, averaging around 2 fights per game>"It's Concord 3" - Solid niche audience that returns day by day, also hit top sellers list on steam>"The AI is too difficult" - Literally you're just bad at shootersMARATHON is good and those who want to see it fail didn't play it, and rarely point at valid criticism!Instead they rally around some claims of being on a moral high ground or spam steamcharts!A lot of the MARATHON hate online is in bad faith!
Yesterday the peak was at 62k playersPlayer count is already starting to climb
>faggy shotgun>thermal sniper>controller aimbot>rat nigger game modeno thanks
>shotgun cartridges are squareWhy?
>>735066346please tell me the sound effects are straight out of panic on funkotron
>>735066346After not being anticipated for Marathon at all… I cannot put the game down now. Been a long time since I’ve been addicted to a multiplayer FPS ( Siege was the last one ) and Marathon really just hits a great balance between arena shooter and extraction shooter for me. The map design is truly fantastic and I can’t wait to see what’s in store for Cryo Archive.
>>735066346you type like a tranny. i fell for the bait and replied but it feels good saying tranny i know you hate it deep down
>>735066804Ah yes, it's lowerBLAST STATUS: BROKEN
>>735068182The servers are on maintenance
>>735068182Is this game just completely and utterly dead outside of NA? This is sad
I don't really care for this game but modern UIs like the one it's using are truly abominable.>but everything is useful info?You don't need it, this is peak feature bloat but for your visuals. You don't need to show what 3 weapons I currently have permanently on screen. Auto show when I change and auto hide it 1 second after if you must.Yes, this isn't even the worst offender.
>>735068070Who the fuck is saying pvp is too rare? The maps are tiny, it's way too common if anything with people playing it like a death match hero shooter instead of an extraction shooter. Half the map sprints to the first gunfire it can hear.
>>735068207No)
>>735068287>You don't need ityes you do> but modern UIs like the one it's using are truly abominable.no it's very good, you are parroting retarded journalists btw
>>735068243>Is this game just completely and utterly dead outside of NA?Pretty much, EU, ASIA, SA, can't and won't play rn
>>735068287>You don't need to show what 3 weapons I currently have permanently on screen.yes you do, I could end up swapping them 6 or 7 times in a single match
>>735068287It's hilarious how you didn't even play the game and you think you can tell what ingfo the player needs or does not
>>735067586>all factions unlockedthat's easy though, you don't even have to extract for any of those missions
The beautiful thing about live service sloppa is that I don't play it anyway so even if this is successful it doesn't affect me in any way, I will simply move on to the next flop to laugh at
>>735068243Eu prime time is pretty lively, I dont think I had ques over 1~ min during that time.
every run on outpost i get matched with people who just bee line to the same giga contested area and we die to someone who enters after us. Is Perimeter the only map that isn't just giga aids to play?
>>735067294So those clips where people are getting one-tapped aren't actually one-taps according to you?I heard the claymores can one-tap too. It's easy enough to watch where you step, but it's not like you can 3 peek them either idk...I do love a strong double barrel, but those two quick shots are effectively a one-tap with how quick they are too, so Idk if I believe your claim.despite my love for it, in a game like this? kinda cancer.
>>735068474>So those clips where people are getting one-tapped aren't actually one-taps according to you?Not a single one tap has a shield break icon>I heard the claymores can one-tap too.also wrong
>>735068415oh you think so? i’d really like to know the percentage of players that have unlocked sekiguchi
>>735066572Grifting off Halo was already done with the bad Halos. Grifting off Destiny lol lmao supported by its marketing and sunk cost time investments
>>735067945What is>stands still>invisible for extra cherry on top>not moving whatsoever to ensure no sound heard, right in two-tap range before>BLAM BLAM>'simply outskilled bro, gg no re'yeah, sounds cancer
>>735068629I don't play hero shooters or whatever this calls itself, but it seems kinda stupid to have a dude who can be invisible when there's an extraction point everyone HAS to go to that you can just camp
>>735067294you are trying to make it sound legit but a thermal sniper parked 100 metres away looking at a gunfight is the winner in the end
>>735068070>uses greentext wronggo back tourist, no one's buying your obvious grift. LURK MOAR!!!!
>>735068679>>735068148>>735068070Given the greentext fail and the reddit spacing, I'd posit this is the same redditor
>>735068746He also said "after not being anticipated", it's some thirdie hired to shill for 3 cents an hour
>>735068629>I'm so fucking clueless that a random player can stand still and camp a corner with an invisibility skill that lasts 10 secondsskill issue
>>735066346Sorry but I'm not paying money for a F2P game.
>>735067586You can hit 25 in a day.
>>735068534Yeah, but the shotgun still effectively one-taps in that clip, and I can verify that in the vid with a high degree of certainty.If you're in solo and someone was camping it and he isn't a retard who misses his shot (or has a controller auto-aiming it) your just dead>>735068629this>>735068663Yeah it's fucking retarded alright, and the fact you could be in solo and just die to a pernicious extract camper who's too patient for his own health is just never not going to be annoyingyou get two-tapped by a shotgun in fart raiders too if their aim is decent, but the difference is there's still a pump-action in between on that weapon, so your afforded an action.
>>735068827>what is activating the skill when you hear them approach while already camping (hopefulyl, at LEAST there's an activation sound that isn't too quiet)>what is just good ol' blending in and sitting still in cqc range, around a corner, etc.the patient shotgun camper will win if he's patient enough
>>735068904>Yeah, but the shotgun still effectively one-taps in that clip,no they don't>If you're in solo and someone was campingif you are in solo and someone manages to get to you with a shotgun you deserve to lose, let alone you going to them
>>735067254>im high skillwhat’s your peak rank in any competitive game? the sniper with thermals can be bullshit but it never instadowns you with 1 shot.
>>735068837>if you no life, poop sock, and play super well and efficiently you can hit level 25 in 15-20 hoursfuck you
>>735068976Eternus in deadlock rn, Masters back when I played Poopex Fartgends
>>735069028Oh last year soloqed to Celestial in Fartvel Rivals just to prove a point that it's easy and the game sux big timethen dropped it bc it was ass ofc. The balance in that game is just so retarded- all the worst parts of Overwatch times 11
Blasthavers... why havent they announced a single sales milestone...
>>735068827Actually that was the enemy's skill issue, since he clearly missed and sucks, doesn't help the TTK is aidsWhy does every clip look the fucking same? is there ANY sauce in this game?
>>735068827Its funny, because I am playing mostly an assassin, and its hilarious how OP it is once you figure out what you are supposed to do.Sniper+wstr is a menace. Add the "get heat while standing still" implant and you are a fucking alpha rat. The rat of all rats. You can climb up on the highest point, go invis, and just stand there for 20-30 seconds, completely invisible, just looking for a headshot with the sniper.
>>735069102They don't want to be seen as a bully. Throwing out massive sales numbers would only intimidate other devs.
>>735067387Square shells stack better.
>>735066346The gameplay is too similar to gaypex legendas the more you look at it, that's disgusting for an extraction shooter.This game is too fast paced, the shotguns are overpowered with no counterplay (every single time). God it makes me mad at how they ruined the game that existed in the betas, absolute dogshit generic gameplay now. Hope it crashes and burns.
>>735069417>This game is too fast pacedIs it that much different compared to something like tarkov? I get the movement in marathon is faster, but every tarkov clip I have seen it was instant kills, and whoever shot first won.
>>735069771all the tarkov clips I've seen are of streamers abusing what I assume to be movement tech and arcane hitbox knowledge that makes it look like the game is bugging out
>>735069771It makes people not even interact with each other, nobody uses proximity voice except to complain when you kill them.Marathon is just a game where you're on a treadmill chasing a carrot, doing busy work that has zero meaning.Tarkov is also stupid because TTK is non-existent. One shot one kill, and you spend all game peeking corners, hiding behind trees and looking through your lens. Riveting gameplay.
>>735066572they charged 40 for something people wouldn't play for free
>>735067540>mixed inputsWhat does that mean?
>>735069998Don't forget they shoved so much MTX in the game that even most loyal Bungie shills revolted against it
>>735066346Why are games like this and Arc raiders ugly on purpouse?Like sure it's well made but the artstyle is some 80s nostalgia bait for millenials or strapping an old dvd player to a latex suit.
>>735069406They stole the Coachman from Starfield. That's the level of creative bankruptcy bungle is on.
>>735070079I thought the same about both games before I played them. You're right about Marathon, but wrong about Arc.
>>735069998As compared to ARC, a game people will pay 40 dollars for simply bc it has more to do than killing players and peeking corners. Helps that all the loot has uses you're actually happy to keep it for.
>>735066572zoomercore artstyle
>>735070069Arc also wins here bc, though it has a Cosmetic shop, the game gives you a LOT of premium currency for free with your purchase for doing your projects, raider decks, and events, so you never feel the need to pay unless you really want it all.And the devs don't seem to mind since they've made so much money off the $40 that they don't need to keep grubbing youMaybe the secret is just making a good PAID MP game that people actually want to buy
>>735068301It depends. In trio queue, you will be fighting 100%. In solo or as a Rook, not a guarantee at all.
>>735068287I would actually argue that Marathon's UI doesn't have enough info. Consumables' descriptions are incomplete, and you need to mouse over an implant or a weapon mod to know what it does.
>>735069985I have a 3 strike system. First 3 matches of the day I use prox chat, which inevitably fails, then I kill on sight.I will respond if you engage in voice tho. I assume most are just on console without headsets.
>>735070238>Helps that all the loot has uses you're actually happy to keep it for.Like what? Genuine question, I haven't played Arc Raiders.
ESCAPE WILL MAKE ME CUM
>>735070570Everything turns into something you can craft into something else, just is something you craft into something useful, is worth money, is needed for a quest or project, or can be used in-raid as makeshift tools/weapons as well. Stuff like heals, gadgets, guns, etc.Basically, you'll always be thinking "oh I want this bc there's something I want to craft or do with it" at all times. The game has a blueprint system wherein you find BPs for most of the items and weapons in the game, so it's fun getting them all and having the sandbox open to you.picrel's my current BPs total since last wipe
>>735069145>sauceshut the fuck up nigger
>>735070717ownedI'll take that as a no
>>735070693Yeah, that does sound pretty good. I hope Bungie adds something like this. Right now, the closest thing to that Marathon has is bartering, where you can exchange salvage for consumables and equipment.
>>735070693The bartering does that to a degree, but I really hoped that marathons blueprints would have worked the same way. I got some really good ones, but they are all just credit based.
>>735069145>is there ANY sauce in this game?The soundtrack is great.
>>735066872it's so bad even pro mnk players switched to controller because you are at a massive disadvantage without it
>>735068070IM HAVIN' A BLAST!
>>735071030The best part is that the crafting and quest/project systems are only one layer- the game has a lot of variety in terms of social interactions, Hostile PvP, Robot hunting, just fucking around with the fun physics or schemeing a playstyleFriendly chungus or uber rape pvp lobbiesI GENUINELY used to be a hater bc of this >>735070301 but I wasn't aware of how genuinely good willed Embark was going to be with the game. The 40$ tag helpedI don't mean to shill, but I do recommend it. Every month they're adding something substantial too as things are now. Another new arc enemy next week and in a month a new expedition and a Shadow of the Colossus like Mega fuck you nigger rape arc enemy on top of a new map and likely new guns with it n shiet
>>735066676I guess the reason why trannies are so comfortable with playing shooters like BF6 with aimbots and then pretend that they aren't is because they got used to playing shooters with built-in aimbot like this and Apex for example.
>>735071047that honestly sucks bro, I really did not like the looting when I played the slam so I didn't buyI hate that icons can be the same for things that do different shitThe redditors are a special breed with how they say the game and loot is meaningful and hug each other over it, yet you tell me shit like this
>>735066676why does every map in this game look like a halo forge map?
>>735070040you can play on controller and have autoaim play the game for you
>>735066346Wow this looks abysmal. Slow with no movement standing around in tiny little areas Young people would shit in their pants if asked to play quake mp. I mean even doom mp is insanely more skilled than what was just shown here
>>735066346literally looks like shit I don't think any normal person who doesn't want to become a streamer or is underage could enjoy this trash.
Chances they will get rid of the valorant retard and fix the game(as far as technically possible with the direction taken)?
>>735068148>After not being anticipated for MarathonGood morning
Bungie wanted to make a single player fps with like 30 people from the original Halo team still there using the IP from one of the very first games that tried to have an immersive story Lmao good thing corporate knows better because the game Bungie wanted to make only would have sold 15 or 20 million copies. I would have bought it like it was an obligation. Literal zero interest in this though >>735070693Is this what people play multiplayer games to do now? Lmao
>>735068070I will say the AI can be pretty relentless, I fought one of the invisible commander dudes with a cloak and he wiped my full party effortlessly. Admittedly we were all on free kits.
>>735071194Alright. If Marathon dies, I might try it.
>>735071349Can't be fixed. It's conceptually invalid/no reason to exist. People don't want to spend their time doing this.
>>735066346That shield vignette is fucking awful, who the fuck approved that.
>>735066572I mean, it looks like apex but worse and not even f2p.
>>735071535Strip the shell base models of their special abilities, give everyone the option to use either the hook or slide(why would you take that), remove skins and instead let people adjust the looks of the shells by replacin pieces with different looking parts while keeping the general theme of the shell in tact.
>>735071657I don't think you get it See >>735071445What's extra fucking hilarious is the next half life or halo type single player fps with cultural impact will probably come out of China. As well as the next relevant multiplayer one!When corporations are fully in charge like what happened with this game, you get the same thing Japan does. Slow march into total irrelevance, repeatedly retreading the same vomitous shit nobody wants.
>>735071457I don't think it's going to DIE anytime soon ofc, people are being obscenely hyperbolic, you'll be able to find players, but if you can gel with the more PvE focused gameplay of Arc, and like the spectacle of killing giant fuckhuge robots with a lobby, you'll probably get some fun out of it, so you'll get your money's worth.If you do get into it sooner than later, it'd probably be mad fun. I'd consider playin' with ya
>>735071723I would have prefered that but we aren't looking at a game that can still be turned into an immersive singleplayer, at best a more immersive extraction shooter instead of a hero shooter with optional extraction part. Whoever is giving the calls clearly demands that there is a relative focus on "esports" pvp.
>>735071730It is literally already dead. It will eos within 2 years. Being able to find a game is irrelevant. It has no cultural relevance, doesn't do a single new thing qand isn't more fun than anything that came before so why would you play itYou get old. Don't waste your time
>>735066572it's more crazy to think how much they have to pay shroud and that peanut faggot to keep playing this trash.
>>735071445>Bungie wanted to make a single player fps with like 30 people from the original Halo team still there using the IP from one of the very first games that tried to have an immersive story Source: your ass
>>735071849>tune into gingy's stream for the tournament twitch drops and walk away>return for the last 10 minutes>some guy talking super loud and annoying>it's the peanut faggotMan how the fuck can that guy earn money with streaming?
>>735071920>Man how the fuck can that guy earn money with streaming?They are fabricated shills you retard.
>>735071920>Man how the fuck can that guy earn money with streaming?>haha funny peanut>haha funny loudbecause kids are dumb
>>735071959You only get to be a paid shill if you have an audience already, nigger.
>>735071828This is true, I think ARC is way more novel and actually changes the genre its in. Marathon just does the usual, and worse desu.I'd rather chill on Arc for all the things Marathon does can still be done in Arc
It's such a shame about the aesthetics because if the gun's didn't look like literal legos and the color vomit fontslop dogshit wasn't everywhere I would genuinely be interested in trying this.>halo and destiny both have detailed, realistic hard/fantasy scifi aesthetics>very successful games>forget all that, what we need is a troon-coded Ikea showroom acid trip look for our new gameabsolute fucking retards
>>735071920he pays less for botted views than he earns from using them
>>735072036>can't comprehend these streamer are build upholy fuck you're so gullible
>>735072172Some might be, others just lucked into gathering an audience.
>>735066839You don't waste ammoYou get shields backYou need it for contractsIt's silentIt's fun
>>735066572People are burned out of extraction shooters.
>>735072208the majority of these new streamers are all build up you retard, shroud obviously not still gets paid to shill all these new shooters.
>>735070238Arc Raiders is trash and it's hilarious how Marathon fixes every single of its issuesArc Raiders>You frequently spawn in front of pves, leading to frequent gimped runs>Pvp must be "fair and balanced" so good armor is fucking useless against grey weapons>You engage in "non consensual" PVP you get thrown into the chuddies matchmaking que>Game specifically never asks or tries to pit players against, by design. Developers keep fucking over PVPers because the casual fambase of "comfy" trannoids and dad gamers want to treat the game as casual Helldivers 2>Wide as fuck maps with lots of pointless runningMarathon>Fixed safe spawns>Shields matter, sponsored kits are gimped against paid loadouts>Game wants players to kill each other and not trust anybody but direct que>Focused maps with pvp deathmatch style of sprawling design, each zone is a macro Rainbow 6 siege zone
>>735067601Don't you have a Deadlock thread to have a melty in?
>>735066751Yeah. I don't know how they made something worse than just a 1 to 1 copy.
>>735072250People like Arc, not extraction shootersthere's a difference
>>735072261sure thing ranjesh
>>735066346the marathon lore is unironically cool as fuck it's weird that they made halo instead of this series way back when
>>735067173Marathon still looks worse than destiny pvp, but man I get 10 minute loading times in tarkov on SSD to this day.
>>735067265At least it has a distinctive art style. I prefer this over just looking generic.
>>735072261Arc makes a lot more sense when you realize it's Helldivers 3, that's how most of the playerbase interacts with it, that's where the focus is, that's what the balance is centered around, and it's more fun than way. Marathon has the opposite problem where solo queue sucks because runners never ever spontaneously cooperate, it's always a battle royale shoot on sight affair.
>>735072261>>You engage in "non consensual" PVP you get thrown into the chuddies matchmaking queWhat's the problem with this again? Tired of your getting owned by the sweatoids and want no challenge at all?
>>735068474You young bucks got it good. Back in the good ol' days in destiny a full-juice shotgun could one-shot you from 10+ meters, and those things had 5-8 shells in the tube.
>>735072261>>You frequently spawn in front of pves, leading to frequent gimped runsKill them? what does this mean>>Pvp must be "fair and balanced" so good armor is fucking useless against grey weaponsFixed. They nerfed the OP greys. Medium and Heavy Shields give you a significant advantage over freekiggers>>You engage in "non consensual" PVP you get thrown into the chuddies matchmaking queMixed lobbies exist, it's a spectrum, and it's event, map, and duo/trio/solo dependent too>>Game specifically never asks or tries to pit players against, by design. Developers keep fucking over PVPers because the casual fambase of "comfy" trannoids and dad gamers want to treat the game as casual Helldivers 2What reason more a reason do you need then to STEAL all the fully upgraded guns and loot someone else has? PvPers need less justification anyway bc they just like killing>>Wide as fuck maps with lots of pointless runningPlay Stella, or Buried cityMarathon>Shields matter, sponsored kits are gimped against paid loadouts*dies in two shotgun shells and a sniper bullet to the head>Focused maps with pvp deathmatch style of sprawling design, each zone is a macro Rainbow 6 siege zoneThen why not skip the middleman and just play a more Deathmatchy PvP style game? Why should I play this over Tf2 or Deadlock or Battlefield?Arc has more that justifies me playing it besides those games, Marathon does not.
>>735068575Objectively, destiny does the best when it's struggling and the worst when it's selling. See the pattern: every good expansion that sells well is immediately followed by a good will cash-in in the form of the most rancid, low-effort dogshit expansion you have ever seen.
>>735072261Marathon's maps are complete dogshit, m8. I don't know what else to tell you. It feels like they were trying to do everything except for an extraction shooter with this.More people simply have more fun playing Arc, the way the PvPvE dynamic works is more appealing, and it's more pleasant to look at than Marathon. And if anyone is craving a super cereal sweaty game, they can go play other extraction shooters that are either cheaper or free, or just other shooters if plain team deathmatch is what they want. It's not like Arc is their only competition.
>>735072695>And if anyone is craving a super cereal sweaty game, they can go play other extraction shooters that are either cheaper or free, or just other shooters if plain team deathmatch is what they want.yeah that's what I'm saying lmaoIf Marathon's Thrust is just that it's more 'PvP centric, more deathmatch'Then why don't I play a game where the pacing fits what I want, and I don't have to lose shit for doing it?Arc is fun bc it has it all, and the sandbox is cool to fuck around in.
>>735066691What if I just like the game?
tick tock casuals
>>735072695nta but>steamcharts poster is a fucking retard who defends 5 tick server connections, empty maps with 8 year long loot animations, and all the same issues as marathon + more>go play other extraction shootersnigger what fucking other extraction shooters? nobody plays tarkov NOBODY the extract 'genre' (the we didn't want to make a full game genre) is like 4 games and 1 of them duckov is offline kek
>>735073065The only good game related to this genre is Arc, related bc it's either the only good one, or just a different genre.That's how bad classical extract games are.The main progenitor of it made you pay real money for stash space lmao
>>735066346>Double barrel cant shot both barrels at same timeShit game.
>>735073065truth is nobody fucking likes extraction shit. Arc is a success cause the extraction shit is optional.extraction is just a br with way longer downtimes
>>735073065I'm not defending shit, I'm just pointing out basic facts. I see people constantly compare Arc to Marathon, when the latter is far closer to other existing games in the genre, especially their FPS and more hostile nature.If the genre is so intrinsically bad and/or unpopular, that's Bungie's problem. They're the ones who decided on this route.
>>735072261Arc Raiders and Marathon are very different games. The social element in Arc Raiders is WAY stronger. Marathon is way more about just shooting things.There have been 0 cases in Marathon where shouting "friendly friendly friendly!" has resulted in people not shooting you.
To date there are no good extraction shooters
this game should have been literally anything else but a fucking extraction shooter
>>735074216>There have been 0 cases in Marathon where shouting "friendly friendly friendly!" has resulted in people not shooting you.So far I've had ONE case in solos where I teamed up with someone, I told him "if you shoot me you're gay"
>>735071730It's just that I already have many other games to play, one of which is Deadlock. I don't have it in me to play 2 live service games at once.
>>735072260I don't watch any streams as of late, but I have seen the peanut guy ages ago and he was literally a nobody streamer with a sub 100 views. He literally just spammed his way to a viewership.
>>735067072lol god this shit is retarded. whoever put this together and thought "ya that's good" needs to be executed holy shit
>>735075745The visual style of Marathon is by far its strongest point.
Unironically having a blast. Lots of concerned trolls in here making mountains out of molehills.
>>735071252Don't insult Forge like that.
I think the game is fine but the art style is mega retarded and probably killed the game long term. If every character looked like based Rook then there'd be no problem. Instead they're all gay moth robots with lips.
>>735066572zoomers hate anything that doesnt look realistic.
>>735066572
>>735072695>Marathon's maps are complete dogshit,Thanks for your take, retard that didn't play Marathon>>735072261Only objective truths here >>735072652>>Shields matter, sponsored kits are gimped against paid loadouts >*dies in two shotgun shells and a sniper bullet to the head Wrong. That's Arc Raiders lol
>>735074782Git gud
The music is pretty good, I enjoy listening to it.
>nu-bungie
>>735070238>has more to do than killing players and peeking cornersMarathon will when Cryo Archive comes out, but I have to wonder if it'll even work in this game because nearly everyone is playing as a KOS psycho so far like it's a BR or death match. I'm not sure how "raid like" content can function in that environment when everyone is just desperately trying to prove they're not an Arc Raiders carebear or whatever the fuck.
>>735066346God this looks fucking awful.When they first put out teaser trailers for this I thought it could have an interesting art style, but the actual game looks like they took Battlebit and threw a bunch of neon flashing shit on the screen
>>735077846the teaser looked nice because it was a simple sci-fi aesthetics with a few accents colors, the actual game is only bright over saturated "accent" colors, it breaks the basic rules of design
>>735077490bungie's name is a punchline of a rape joke btw you should like them for that reason alone
>>735067072someone insane would keep latching onto the same points and repeat themselves over and over for months
>>735067945Terminals in Marathon were cool pragmatic interfaces integrated into the vast mechanical structure of the ship.Nu-Mara has smartphones with 25 year old deviant art interfaces.So fucking lame.
>>735066572For me it's the visuals and extraction genre
>>735078043god I fucking hate xxtraction shooters
>>735071920That sounds exactly like pewdiepie. It's what kids want.
>they're still seething and humiliated because the game is thriving
Now that we have more data I've extended the chart to keep track of the progress towards CCU reaching zero (this probably won't happen). Interestingly the Twitch streamer event combined with the weekend actually bumped the CCU and briefly reversed the trend. Next weekend will be very telling as to how much of that came from the Twitch tournament. If weekly numbers follow the ongoing trend I can adjust the weekend to be an outlier, even better if it is consistently repeated. This weekend bump extended the time to reach zero by about 11 days but I still expect it to settle into the 20,000's in about a month's time. Without some major new content to draw in new users this is where the CCU should stay. Even then I wouldn't expect to see a bump above 40-45,000 and a steady drop back down to the 20's.
>>735069013>15-20 hoursSo... you can do it like a normal human being in like a week? 10 days? Doesn't seem that much time to me
>>735077846That teaser trailer was basically false advertising.
>>735077532The game has a big ass gun covering 30% of the monitor. If the players don't use them it's just a walking simulator.>have loot>other players want loot>you will never encounter the other players again >shoot other player>keep loot and acquire more lootHow is it not the obvious choice?
>>735078043So this is what blast having is like...
Please Bungie!! Add an armor or fucking shield modification system!
>>735066676What's bungie's logic to put a scope in game that makes the entire map, distance and smoke useless? Not even in tarkov thermal scopes are this broken. Doesn't help that the game looks like a lego set but still.
>>735066804False how, snoy?
Should the TTK be raised?
Why the fuck did they up the player count per map AND the gun volume since server slam? Who the fuck is Bungie listening to?
>>735078474please don't waste your time with this shitthere's no point tracking the player numbers anymore. it probably sold 1/4 of what they needed it to, there's no point tracking player retention at this stage. unless the game's player numbers magically increase by 300k, Bungie's fate is sealed.
>>735078843They patched it to be closer range but Dire Marsh is a map that has minimal cover between buildings and grass that's invalidated by thermals. The fact that most of the story mission contracts require you to go there is also ass
>>735078918Higher tier shields and weapons should be stronger. Not Tarkov tier where a premium kit makes you a tank, but the gulf between free kits and premium loot should be widened. You're basically losing nothing from just running MIDA free kit and looting health items from enemies.
>>735078996It definitely hasn't done what they wanted it to do, but I'm curious about two things: how accurately can I model the trend and what steps will Bungie and Sony take to reverse the trend.
>>735066346This shit looks slower than Halo CE
>>735079093It's frankly dumb destroyer has the exact same hp as thief
>>735067540I was actually interested in trying the game until I just learned this, ain't no fucking way in hell I'm going through this shit again>t. multi master apex legends player until the aimbots took over the game and ruined it
>>735079187If you don't intend to play, what's the point in observing a game's patch notes
>>735067646>still trying to pretend there is anything aesthetic about laundrycupboardcorelmfao
>>735079267mental illness
>>735079232And Vandal has somehow the second worst mobility despite being the mobile class, apparently.That Valorant faggot has to go.
>>735079187seriously.. stop fucking tracking the numbers on this game. you're not helping anything.
>>735066346it looks so lame.I'm not impressed at all.
>>735079267I love watching the decision making process, especially with thousands of people involved in a project that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and years of work. I've worked in non-gaming related industry and when a process isn't working, what people do and why they do it is something I find fascinating to observe.
I was going to buy it cause I am depressed but if I have to wait longer than 2 minutes to find a match, the game sucks and is broken
Slopathon or Maraslop?
>>735079424Well I do hope they actually fucking balance the game some because level based and vault value based matchmaking is frankly assPlus the audio and such. There's a lot of 'easy' qol changes Bungie can do but they just seem to want to make this a battle royale since there's literally no upside to just sitting out with cheap snipers and shotties and just hunting down other players rather than doing objectives or bosses
>>735079567*Downside
>>735066346That legitimately looks like a laser-tag arena
Are these bots?>He's corner camping with a shotgun! What should we do?!>Charge the corner...AGAIN!!!!>One guy manages to flank>Dies doing nothing
This strong colors looks like a mature version of splatoon
/vee/ I need help, I've been looking at some gameplay of the game and it actually looks kinda FunAlso, I really really like the cybercore artstyle. Am I compromised with the woke mind virus? I want to take the plunge but I don't want to pay 40 dollars for a game that will be pushed into death within the next week.What do I do?
>>735078474Very interesting, thanks anon.
Am I overthinking things when it comes to sidearms? I see they take up 4 slots instead of 8 and by nature of them being sidearms I just assume they're weaker than long-guns.
>>735078474Kek it's like a shitcoin. Will never hit 70k again
>>735079886It's fairly forgiving for an extraction shooter (you get tons of free loot via leveling and codex) but unless you have friends, a lot of runs will be rather unfun as you have know clue what you're doing and looking forShell and gun balance are also kind of fucky and Dire Marsh is pure miseryI'd recommend playing a bit, refund if you don't like it, and just seeing how it is by season 2
>>735067072The aesthetic, if you can even call it that, is sanitized corporate LazerZone
>>735078474>Game drops to 0 players in a month What sort of retarded graph is this compared to every other major multiplayer shooter release that didn't end with outright shutdown
>>735080019Ok, thanks. I almost completely forgot that this game existed, and was burned pretty bad with RE9. After hearing all of the constant praise that the people here kept masturbating it with. I couldn't even really push myself to finish the game. And This is coming from someone who even plays majority singleplayer games.
>>735067342Nah. Destiny is Titan shoulder-slamming around corners.
>>735079886I mean, what advice do you want?I'm playing it, it's fun, I'd say it's worth the money, but I don't know your financial situation.Considering that Marathon is the original Bungie setting and how much lore and worldbuilding they've released for it for the past few years, it's unlikely they'll abandon it, there's plans to revive it as a setting, so who knows.They'll probably do a free weekend or something soon, it's not worth buying to refund because the first hour is just tutorials.
>>735080315The tutorial is literally just 10 minutes and teaches you jack shit
>>735079886It's fun. It gets a lot of things right for an extraction shooter. People seething on /v/ fall into the following camps>Already hated Bungie anyways>Already hated extraction shooters anyways>Arc Raider babbiesI initially didn't like the art style but it grows on you (the later maps look way better than the starting map)
>>735080364It's all tutorials until you do the first couple of CyAc contracts and get at least the first 3 factions unlocked, there's a new player Perimeter queue for a reason.
>>735080158It will fall to 10-30k like hunt showdown because it's literally hunt showdown but with shit art style and more pointless tedium Now that would not be a concern if they hadn't blown $300 million dollars on this shit. That's a big problem. That's too costly to keep the servers up without any return from the cash shop.
>>735080486>It's gonna shut down any minute !1!1!They'd shutter destiny 1 before that retard
How is it with playing with random trios in the game?Is it like with arc raiders where sometimes you can get really good teammates that just help you dominate the instance? Or are they almost always just retards. Some of the best fun I have in these types of games are just playing with random people old school style.
>>735080301It hasn't been skullfort and OEM spam since like...2021...
>>735066346>the two other guys didn't jump the wall and knife rape you >duuuh lets funnel down the hall>third guy realizes his mistake too lateVandal sliding then stabbing someone in the cock has been working really well for me
>>735080657It's acceptable until like level 25-ish where you can't realistically can't play freekits anymore since it's based on a combo of vault value and season level
>>735080657The latter. Most of the people who know what they're doing and don't have friends to team with go solo
>>735079886If you can tolerate dying a lot in various bullshit ways it can be funI’ve had runs where I lost huge amounts of loot and wanted to drop itI’ve had runs where I became a loot millionaire tooIt’s a pretty forgiving game and gives out free kits if you’re broke The balance can feel broken against better equipped players, but I’ve killed many blue and purple shield players just be not playing like a fool with the free weapon you getThey give a precision rifle? Get elevation and distance and go for headshots Get given an SMG? Push them or wait from them to get close and empty the magazine The ttk is very low, even for high tier shields
>>735080019>a lot of runs will be rather unfun as you have know clue what you're doing and looking forread nigga readEverything is written down, every quest objective details where the thing you have to find is, every mat describes where it's found and can be tracked. Literally just read and hover your cursor over stuff.>Shell and gun balance are also kind of fucky and Dire Marsh is pure miseryI think the balance is pretty good, the only thing that's really op is snipers on dire marsh (just use cover). The wstr shotty is strong too but it has _no_ range and you could argue the knife is almost as good.>>735079886It's a great game of you're not afraid of pvp. They're releasing a new map soon so I don't think it'll be dying just yet. It's not a blockbuster but the people who like it love it.
>>735080657I've had really good luck filling random players into my team. Maybe 1/5 is a liability, 4/5 are good.I've also had good luck just using my mic and talking to other teams. Of course your mileage may vary.
>>735080854>Implying reading will save you from Nona's and Vulcan's quests
>>735072237Glory kills were not fun in doom 2016, I fail to see how they can be fun here.
>>735080747>stack melee damage with knife fight core and arachne upgrade tree>can down a purple shield opponent in 2 stabs It’s fun to play like an actual assassin creeping up behind players busy looting instead of camping a corner with a wstr
>>735080962Assassination and domination animations have been a thing for a while in multiplayer bro
>>735080657>Is it like with arc raiders where sometimes you can get really good teammates that just help you dominate the instance?I'll tell you my most memorable event from the server test.>lost a few games in a row>a bit letdown but hey it's just the sacred thermodynamics of violence >spawn in>greeted by a teammate with a thick slavic accent>"bro, are you afraid to fight?">noWe fully cleaned 4 lobbies after that. Not even hunting, just getting into a fight and the whole lobby 3rd, 4th, 5th partying us. We skinned them all.>>735080760I'm level 35+ and this is just not real.
Just look at that. Bangie so desperate for make their online bigger, they put the lowest price for China market. They want China players do much. At the same time they banned Russian mob. Why are they so retarded?
>>735081249I thought Russians were banned from most payment systems anyways
>>735080948Vulcan quests are okNona's quest are bullshit because running out of time is a legitimate concern as you go through the whole fucking mapThe best quests are Mida, Traxus and CyAcme
>>735081142>hear some tard stomping around up stairs>creep under the stairs below him>open the door then hide again>runs down to check the door>jump scare the retard then stab him to deathsnipers will never understand the thrill of watching someone panic as you sink a blade into their ribs
Reminder to play Thief as much as you can before they nerf her bros>Better recon from her drone than the class literally named Recon>Rare loot wall hacks on a 20 second cooldown>Better mobility than Vandal with her hookshot>You can put claymores on Drones>YOU CAN PUT CLAYMORES ON DRONES
>>735067072
>>735081358Isn't 90% of the story in MIDA's and Traxus's quests so far
>>735081413Fuck you, Thiefcucks
>>735081571Sekiguchi's quests are also very important
>>735066572OP already posted the reason
>>735081647I'm going to wait for you to extract and strip all your loot in the last 5 seconds when you literally can't even move. And there's nothing you can do about it.
>>735081647catch
>>735081914if they remove the FPV drone bomb I am going to be upset
>>735080625Destiny 1 and 2 can survive, frozen in time, if Bungie is shut down. The question is what Sony will do with Bungie and less with what they'll do with Bungie's games.
>>735066346I have shooty pewpew fatigue
>>735081413
>>735082172I don't think Destiny is that profitable an ip at this point
>>735082172Lmao so you were just a huttburt destiny fag the whole time
>>735082369I agree, desu. I think there were probably points in Destiny's life as a franchise where it was a profit generator for Bungie, but if you look at it overall from the first day they started working on Destiny 1 to today, it's probably a net negative for Bungie.>>735082394What are you talking about? The post you linked was my first in the thread.
Arc Raiders is the superior game with the superior gunplay. Anyone calling it boring are exposing themselves as pussies who get stuck in the daycare lobbies with the middle aged single dads and 40 year old gamer girl hags because theyre absolute crybaby shitters that have a melty when they come across an absolute serial killer chad like me.
>>735079982They're actually amazing, they don't have great range compared to long guns but inside compounds you're rarely shooting more than 20m so that has no impact and you're just left with precision rifle damage at half the recoil and with usable hipfire accuracy. Given the choice between a Hardline and any of the pistols I'd take the pistol 9 times out of 10.
>>735082302Is that supposed to be a blasian character
Were there any good fps reboots of old franchises? Even Doom 2016 felt kind of less like Doom than Painkiller or serious Sam.Marathon 2026 feels weird because while the og marathon was rather mediocre, 2026 doesn't have the famous dual wielding or alt fire functions the og had
>>735082653>High stakes loot extraction game where getting the drop on the enemy is very important>Third person cameraAutomatic failure. You aren't a chad when you hid behind a wall and use an invisible periscope to see everything and not expose yourself at all. There is a reason that game is full of PVE shitters
>>735082903>You aren't a chad when you hid behind a wall and use an invisible periscope to see everything and not expose yourself at all.i love how every attempt at shitting on this game is an obvious projectioni never rat, and i enjoy obliterating shitters like you and hearing you squeal as i extinguish you from my lobby
>>735078043Reminds me of how I camped in the storage room of the north-east DCON in the Perimeter after finishing my contract. Another runner showed up only once, but didn't enter the building. I ended up extracting the last.
>>735083145>Who cares that this unfair mechanic exists, I don't use it personallyThird person has no place in PvP. Especially no place in high-stakes single-life PvP. I'm glad you dunk on middle aged gamer dads, that's the target demographic for Arc Raiders though.
>>735082653>third personmmm nyoEven Embark themselves know pvpfags don't matter
>>735078918Only a little bit, maybe.
>>735080486hunt showdown doesn't reset your progress so they keep players simply because a lot return even after taking a break, nobody that decides to take a break from marathon is ever going to return after they forcefully reset your account.
>>735072374What is it?If its just>its not as hardcore, by which I mean it isnt permanent kosThen thats retarded
>>735082653Yup. Idk why anyone says the movement is slow in arc raiders. It certainly feels faster than Marathon that's for sure. There is a handful of movement techs with the rolling and sliding. The meta is a bit gay with the shotguns being rape machines but that will get nerfed soon(tm). Meanwhile in marathon, even with two levels in the sprint bar, it still feels like I get out of stamina very quickly and have to wait forever for it to cool down.You're right, anyone who complains about PvE lobbies exposes themselves as a shitter who only wants to shoot unsuspecting people in the back.
>>735083294>>735083264More proof that Marathon is a daycare for filtered Raiders that got their shit pushed in
>>735083264>I'm glad you dunk on middle aged gamer dadsThat is projection. There are clearly different lobbies based on aggression, gear and skill. If you play like a pussy, you get dad lobbies. Play like a Chad you get sweaty streamer lobbies.
>implying /v/ isn't a daycare for filtered retards who don't even play the games they talk aboutI shiggy diggy
>>735082653
>>735080657You are more likely to get sentient team mates on harder maps. But even if you load into the match and see the default shield on one of your teammates, you can still tardwangle him.
>>735083454>Play like a chad>Thurd person shooterYou still don't see the contradiction do you?
>>735066572I don't like niggers and trannies
>>735082653I love when bungie fags talk about gunplay and when you look at it its just piles and piles of aim assist and bullet magnetism. The bullets in their games literally curve mid air to their targets. Its not good gunplay, you just couldnt hit a shot in any game that doesnt aim for you.
>>735082172Doing some basic math it's probably completely over for bungie unless sony decides they need the studio. If we assume that there are 100k unique monthly users on marathon for the next year every single one of them would need to spend $60 to break even with a 50 dev team. Bungie can't be fucking around being activists anymore they need to remodel the guns and characters to sell cosmetics. They need a $5 monthly cosmetic currency subscription. If sony keeps a team on marathon they should ditch the bungie brand entirely and make some cheap style revisions. I just can't see anything with that name on it succeeding after creating so much animosity with customers.
>>735083609
>>735083772Yeah, it's literally just perfected feel good participation trophy gunplay for human cattle.
>>735083804When people started posting this image in Deadlock threads, I realized how retarded people who post it are.
>>735083403Marathon is a quarantine ward for PVPers who got their asses kicked in the other, existing extraction PVP games and wanted somewhere to punch down and bully casualfags. This is also why the player count is decreasing.>>735083781I don't think there's any way Marathon could ever become a profitable game. It would need another few years of developer time to make the game PVE friendly, then you would need a NMS style reversal of public sentiment followed by a slow crawl back up to relevancy and good numbers. I don't see Sony giving Bungie another five years to do that.
>>735083609You gotta turn the LMG shield on man, it's free health
>>735066751OK let's not go crazy now.
>>735083951The only other games competing with marathon are Arc raiders, a way more casual and PVE focused game, and Tarkov, a game that is so riddled with cheaters it's basically unplayable.
>>735084058I didn't even realize it was off.
>>735066572Built in twinking
one of the things I've noticed about this game's userbase is their weird commitment to making sure the green line doesn't go down. Some of these dudes from reddit are legit leaving their game running over night for the last week, and that behavior is so pathetic and desperate.
>>735084146It's as equally as pathetic as those who watch steam charts like they're the stock market though.
>>735084114If Arc's a competitor, then so is Hunt and maybe Duckov. The PVP extraction genre is a really shallow pool and I have no idea why Bungie would bet their company on it coming through to save them.
>>735084114>Arc raiders, a way more casual and PVE focused gamewhich game has the nonstop bulletsponge robot squads spawning out of thin air every minute on your location? And Arc Raiders is the PVE focused one? LMAO, keep projecting shitter.
>>735084326It is
>>735084326You are not supposed to fight every bot you see. Also, it's very much possible to clear certain areas of UESC (Hauler), but some are meant to be more heavily guarded. Also, you are not supposed to take them all on. They barely drop any loot. They are meant to drain your resources.>And Arc Raiders is the PVE focused one?Yes. Both thematically and in gameplay.
>>735082653Wait there's girls playing this? Think I could get a gf?
>>735066346fuck this game looks sick
As soon as this first season ends and it force wipes everyone they're going to lose half their remaining players.
>>735079292"aesthetic" isn't just an adjective you retarded zoomer
>>735083609this HUD is total ass, i cannot believe people think this is passable for playing against other humans. at least in cruelty squad the ugliness is the point.
>>735084326Even Bungie themselves confirmed that the UESC bots are just there to add friction and make noise to attract other players. You can evade and ignore them even if they aggro on you. Compared to Arc Raiders where PVE is the main event and the PVP is literally optional.It's okay to enjoy PvP in a PvE focused game. But don't be an uppity little faggot about it
>>735084540>Wait there's girls playing this?Yes, just make sure you play like an absolute bitch not shooting anyone in every game you're in for like 10 games in a row and you'll have all the lonely post-menopausal 30 something year old e-hags in your lobbies. But they're usually being orbited by 1 or 2 simps.
>>735066676>Literal Aim-bot level aim assist on controller.
>>735071849What the fuck is this AI schizophrenia?
>>735084725The pink overlay is only active for the duration of the Destroyer's primary ability. I do agree that it gets in the way.
>>735083860Did your cluttered UI get a pop up telling you what to think?
>>735084326>hich game has the nonstop bulletsponge robot squads spawning out of thin air every minute on your location?lmao what? the enemies in marathon are way more bullet spongey. the only bullet spongey enemies in arc are the big giga arc. the drones and balls have weak spots.
>>735085345reading comprehension
>>735068070kek copypasta
>>735066346I’ve played a lot of shooters, and as a feminine-presenting player desu it’s often a struggle.In most games, when I get matched with men, the complaints start almost immediately. I've heard it all the "get back to the kitchen" jokes, being told we lost because of me, or being called a bad player just because I'm a woman. But Marathon has been a completely different, guysIn every single match I’ve played with random trios or duos, I haven’t had a single issue people have been incredibly kind and helpful aaand the teamwork feels genuine.When I need a repair kit, someone drops it; when I need a shield, they’ve got my back. And the best part is that it doesn’t feel like they’re doing it because I’m a woman it feels like they’re doing it because they actually want the trio to function correctly so we can all extract safely.The community feels genuinely welcoming to everyone, and for me, it’s the perfect environment.Ngl I’m obsessedI play every single day whenever I can. I love this game and I love this community.Ty guys!
>>735066872This is what they all mean by "good gunplay" by the way. It's literally ALL controller babies praising the computer for playing the game for them so they can focus their entire 30IQ capacity on holding both triggers to awesome
>>735066346lego ass guns lol
>>735066816>how do you go from baby's first fps 2 to baby's first fps 3?
>>735066816It's immensely better than the kitchen sink art style of destiny
>>735067072It looks very realistic, it even has the little detail of the other side of the room being muddled by fog
>take Marathon's setting and themes of transhumanism and amp it up into cyberpunk SOMA I'm genuinely interested.
>>735067123It's neither of those, it's the AAA gaming workflow, where the guy making the building, the guys making each environmental prop in them, the guys making each interactable, the ones making enemies etc. are all different people that barely talk and they never cross-reference their work and understand the broader art direction of the actual game, not the concept art. The art style has large swathes of low detail with little pockets of high detail. The artists do that. But when you put it all together it's just a busy mess because everything has that little detail and they're fighting each other. To execute it properly there needs to be understanding between artists which assets are the "canvas", and which are the "detail"
>>735086865Wdym, I rarely see this cohesive an artstyle outside of kojimbo or ice pick lodge games
>new record daily low of around 17.8k>currently tracking 1.1k under thursday 12 mar at 1600 utc>cryo archive has level and item requirements that 90% of the already small player base do not meet>rumored that cryo archive has a targeted 20% exfil rate for those that actually reach itoof
It's so baffling that they made a sequel to a series of games about weird lore and storytelling in a genre where you literally cannot spend a second doing any lore searching because you're too busy stressing and watching your six since you can get ambushed at any timeJust truly boggles the mind. I'd love to.be in a meeting where that shit gets approved
>>735087075>Do not meetIt's pretty much impossible to die from UESC unless you get flanked by a bunch of ghosts and you have grey shields The shittiest CyAc freekitter is still more dangerous than 99% of PvE
>>735087152>Lore searching It's mainly in the codex and cutscenes tho ?
>>735087152I do think it's kinda lame the outpost museum's interactive exhibits are really cool but you wouldn't want to activate them
>>735087152what about tarkov story system?
>>735084636if you think there is any discernible "aesthetic" to maraflop you belong in a mental institution
>>735087152>Do 20 shitty fetch quests>WOAH RUNNER THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE WATER OF TAI CENU IM NOT SURE WHAT IT IS>Do another shitty 20 fetch quests>HI I AM SCIENTIST DR SHELLY AND THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG HERE VERY WRONG BUT SOMETHING HAS GONE EXTREMELY WRONG AND VERY WRONG>Do another shitty 20 fetch quests>THANK YOU RUNNER I AM STARTING TO PIECE TOGETHER WHAT HAPPENED AT THAI KENU PLEASE GO BACK AND INVESTIGATE WHAT WENT WRONG
>>735085726Tits or fuck off
>>735086426You wont find what you seek.Its a sweaty tdm with fat downtimes and gearfear.I woudnt recommend.You should just wait a month till its free to play.
>>735069145>is there ANY sauce in this gamewipipo don season dey vidya...
>>735071849>he's not playing the VWHCKK Crusnare Kings expansion in Master Duel right nowlmaoing at ur life
>>735088012I read it as "Crusware Kings" and thought about what kind of -ware would supplement the crusades
>>735087152The original game had terminal lore between levels, and this game has the exact same between runsNewfaggot larper
>>735087186do not meet the criteria to get i to the new map anon, not do not meet each other
>>735066346>another fps slop clone
>>735066346damn this shit flushin' frfr
>>735086960The artstyle is consistent, but the assets are not consistent with each other to fulfill that artstyle.
I just came across a YouTube video of the " solo player experience that's been missed by critics" and it's an omega rat explaining how he hoards his cheese. Probably still honeymooning, whatever. Hasn't the loot already been debunked as basically impotent?It's a 2 tap shotty meta with thermal sniper. The exhaust cope is quite funny.
im actually glad they got that little bump on the weekendit makes this 15k drop even funnier
>>735091864That's a fair assessment
>>735086426You would be better served just reading a book instead of this tdm slop. Or wait for the GiTs reboot to drop.Also SOMA already is cyberpunk, and it's sequel/spiritually successor ONTOS is coming out and it probably wont be a murderhobo simulator.
>>735092632I don't like walking simulators and Gibson's works past Neuromancer is shit. I guess I'll just play Synthetik since NeoTokyo is dead and wait for season 2 of Marathon if it's any better
>>735093259Then don't play safe mode in SOMA It's supposed to be a horror game.
>>735066572Its the same gunplay algorithm we are all used to. We need to become ai itself to escape the boring crawfishtooty we have become so accustomed to.
>>735093473I don't like horror games that just make you run away and jerk off in a closet until the bad man leaves, it's lame
>>735086426It's a great game
>>735093583They added safe mode just for you then.
>>735087152It's the same exact narration based on terminal entries, schizo
>>735093745Anon, I don't like survival horror where I'm helpless. It's why I didn't like any of the Amnesia games yet I'm fine with Signalis and Alien Isolation. Hell, you could even fight back in fucking Cosmology of Kyoto! I'm just not a fan of just running from an obese man in a costume
>>735066346Yes, that is a Durandal quote.
>>735066346damn this shit looks bad, reminds me of this shit
>>735093937It's more like a freak show with some puzzles. If you do not like horror, survival, walking Sims, or puzzles? Then yes. I guess you will not like SOMA.
>>735093701fuck it looks incredible, too bad it's going the way of concord but slower
>>735093701cool skybox, whats the plot, whos the main character and whos the villain>there isn't anycarry on then
>>735066346>characters do the exact same down and crawling animation as every other game right nowWhy even allow you to be downed and be able to be revived in a hard-core extraction shooter?
>>735094718You might be interested in star citizen then
>>735095246it's current implementation is a weird relic from Gears of War that never went away. Yeah you could revive dead people in Battlefield but thats not quite the same thing.
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>>735088572>>735093863the original was released on a 1.44MB floppy disk, they had no choice but to use text terminals for lore dropsnot everything has to stay the same as 30 years ago out of some sense of nostalgiafagging
>>735095253what's the buy-in for star citizen? Also, have they worked on their optimization. It's great for some people but i was priced out really fast.
>>735095246Since its team based and designed around people playing in a trio.
>>735079886marathon is dying but it wont die before the endgame map drops so you have a good 3 weeks atleast until bungie starts to be cannibalised by sony and more layoffs are announced
>>735095190>whats the plotHumans (presumably) find alien artifacts, create true AI, it sometimes goes rogue, they make a spaceship to go to a promising new planet, lose all contact with the ship, a bunch of factions all send their ships to the same planet to see what's up (this is very abridged versin of events that happened across centuries)>whos the main character(You)>and whos the villainAyys and rogue AIs
>>735096035shut up bitch lmao its gonna be around for a while
I think we're just gonna have to make a Marathon spiritual successor ourselves, /v/.
>my team goes to a building for a contract while I'm behind>they run into a full trio>they die>grapple hook through the window and blast two of them with my shotgun>knife the third one to death while he was busy looting >revive my team>exfilthat's why you heal before looting after a fight
>>735096158bungie hasnt announced even 1 million sales yet, why would they keep spending money on servers if they dont make any money?
>>735095190>whats the plotEarth/Mars government + sponsor corps sent a colony ship to a distant star systemThe colony was established, but then contact was lostEarth/Mars government sent an autonomous investigation (no FTL)Sponsor corps sent youYour goal is to scavenge the dead colony for resources and evidenceThey keep your mind in the cloud, so you can't die>whos the main characterYou.>whos the villainIn your mission's context, the Earth/Mars government and other players.
>>735096386>crew revives>zero
https://files.catbox.moe/b5d8fk.mp4Is this what playing Arc Raiders is like?
>>735096094that's not a story, thats lore, which is a completely separate thing from plot.
>>735096669It sounds unbelievable, but it happened.I get horrific lag spikes which is why I was behind in the first place, but I did clear the room, I did hold E on the magic tablet, and they did respawn. Maybe lag was so shit they had already self rezed by the time it resynced
>>735067308An entire library of shit takes
>>735068446A foundation built on troonium
>>735095758>muh technical limitationsfaggot
>>735094190jesus fuck how do people play shit like this
>>735096669>and then this happenedkek
most played first person extraction shooter on steam, still going strong. you love to see it
>>735098181Isn't there one you're forgetting?
>>735066572They raped the game like how they raped destinyBungie will be raped soon enough
>>735098219He said first person so that doesnt include arc raiders chuddy
>>735098181>he thinks this 50k peak at best will last foreverit will drop to tarkov levels in a couple months
>>735066346>bungie game>shotgun aping is as strong as everlmao
>>735096669I found out in practice that elimination revives don't count.
>>735098181>still going strong>only been out for a week>but has still managed to lose 30% of its players since releaseYou might need to change your definition for 'going strong', anon
>>735098506Huh? So it only counts if you're downed, not killed?
>>735098593Seems so.
>>735081249>At the same time they banned Russian mobIf they wanted to attract Russians you'd make the game free to play.
>>735081249>At the same time they banned Russian mob.Like that ever stopped me, lol. You can't buy Helldivers 2 here ,either, you know?
>>735067072This looks awesome. I would immediately play Marathon if it was a single player game.
>>735072903then you play it with your bros? is /v/ so off course that you need to be told this shit?
>>735081325This, and I think it's illegal for US businesses to knowingly do business with Russia right now or something. That's why Atomic Heart was released through a company in Cyprus, I think
>got the best lootsee you later suckers
>>735066676that webm gave me a headache
>>735099293What the hell, did we meme blast havers into reality?
>>735066676thermal already caught a nerf since this also anyone who gets mad at this webm never watch apex legends gameplay lmao
>>735066572blast levels are too high for normies
>>735066662omg this so much, only real gamers will get this, r/gaming represent!
>>735067072i genuinely like the way this looks, sue me
>>735066662>InShotcan't afford a computer?
>>735066572People don't like bungie anymore and extraction shooters are disliked by the general public, arc only succeeded because of the heavy pve push and I honestly hardly believe it will sustain a healthy playerbase for 5 or 10 years.
https://youtu.be/lR1mFMh9PgYhttps://youtu.be/VH_RCO9gw0QYou can really feel those hundreds of millions of dollars spent on this game when you watch the cinematics.
>>735089062>desperately trying not to laughdis nigga be alright
>>735066572ArcRaiders was already the New Exctraction shooter of the season.
>>735099864>not linking the Alberto Mielgo short film
>>735066572its legitimately too hard for most peoplegetting into pinwheel alone is like a doom 2 level where you gotta hunt keycards and most people can't even figure out where to get them most of the time
>>735067123>complete shit would suddenly be good if it were heckin LOW POLY like my soi reddit itchio indie games!!!!
>>735076831peak woke>economic literacy0
>>735066872>>735066924>>735071107>>735086045daily reminder that mouse used to have the same level of aim stickyness in 2025's beta but EVERYONE (read: faggot twitch cucks) bitched it was "too aimbotty" and now you need a literal aimbot to compete with controllersgood job bungie listening to actual retardshere's how it looked:https://youtu.be/FA7syMnKtGE?t=115
>>735100491Can we stop pretending you can play shooters on a fucking controller in 20+6+2000 AD?
>>735100612you can**when the game aims for you like in metroid \ destiny \ marathon
>>735066676>>735066872>>735086045jesus christ
The IGN review will not come out until 3 weeks after the game released. When the average player count will have fallen by more than 50%.Who thought this was a good idea? Why would they make reviewers wait to put out their scores? Just pay them for 7 or 8 out of 10 reviews like usual. They hurt themsevles with the embargo bullshit.
>>735102279Bungie isn't making anyone do anything, technically. The review sites are voluntarily choosing to delay their review because Bungie asked them to.But if you read between the lines, it seems like a case of these journo sites not wanting to piss off Sony and lose future press access by putting out their reviews before Bungie would like.
>>735102472>voluntarily choosing to delay their review because Bungie asked them to.this is some Darth Vader type shit we all know it.
>>735066572Personally, I have no interest in anything Bungie makes if it isn't the original Halo trilogy.
>>735102578I think it's probably closer to Gamergate type 'journo friend circle' shit than anything else. The chuds are laughing at Marathon, and most journalists on these shit sites are sjw/woke retards, so by working with or helping Bungie, they're fighting back against the chuds.
>>735099371it's been a thing since the betahttps://wzstats.gg/marathon/items/cores/blast-off
>>735102683I'm pretty sure only those "chuds" care for culture war shit because they plaster this shit in everything. When all you have is a hammer and such.
>>735102683Of course. And with only 2 consoles left in the race that means you better keep getting those behind the scenes studio interviews with Nintendo and Sony or your business is over.
>>735102683So both sides are retarded then? Grim.
>>735102472>big developer asks journalist to do something>journalists don't do it>journalists are no longer given access to developer's content or materialthis is why games journalism is so incestuous, so controlled by what the journalists should be objectively reporting about. you either suck dick or you don't get access.
>>735102990Always have been.
>>735102578it's unprecedented but probably justified internally because it would own the chuds willing this game to fail.
>>735103108When the 'chuds' are mainly third world grifters spamming shit on youtube and twitter for engagement bait, i kinda do hope they'd win
>>735102846No, but board tourists mistake /v/ laughing at woke designs for that. If you ever look at any of the ResetEra or Reddit threads, they're commonly seething about how the chuds are laughing at the game and this and that.>>735102873I'm sure that's a factor too>>735102990/v/ just wants to be entertained and have good vidya. The journos and that circle resent vidya and the majority of gamers, so it's more them circling the wagons to protect themselves. Remember the 'Gamers are over' shit? That mood on their side never went away.>>735103064Games journalism has only ever been an extension of marketing, and that goes back to the start of the industry. It's also not something exclusive to gaming.
>>735103173modern /v/ has terrible taste in vidya considering how much of this board is shitted up by gachas, mobas, and shitty rpgmaker games. I really don't give a shit about being part of some 'movement' because that's gay as fuck
>>735103147thirdies are one thing but Bungie is as shitty of a company as Ubisoft and deserves to fail at this point.
Imagine your game is so bad that the biggest fps streamer gets bullied off stream when he does a promo #ad (peanut). Imagine you do drops streams and you go from 30k to 6k viewers now that you're playing marathon (Shroud)I don't need anyone to tell me that people just aren't interested. My main gripe is I look at the game and it's like they wanted to get away with using the base 3d template and not adding textures or anything. Marathon looks like the early UE5 stages you would make in the unreal tournament map maker.
>>735103654 Streamers are gay and I wish Bungie would stop catering to these faggots and actually fix their matchmaking and audio
>>735066572people don't like ugly things, that's all
>>735098181>hunt trending upits literally the better version of marathon.>tarkov steam chartlol LAMO even tarkov has its own launcher and its player count is 50-60k daily every fucking day. 150k+ when its near a wipe.
>>735079567>vault value and loot based matchmakingVro you've got to be kidding me lmao that is SO lame... I'd rather deal with Arc's abmm bc at least the matchmaking isn't arbitraily deciding what potential loot people will have, so you always might have the chance to kill people with valuable stuff or stumble on it from a corpse.
>>735079748What are you planning on doin with that banana youn lady?
>>735066572I didn't hear about it or play it. The simulation makes it so everything I like blows up and gets super popular while everything else is void. It's because I have a soul and the soulless npcs desperately flock to anything a soul does.
Marathon is legitimately the best multiplayer FPS to release in years but casuals and algorithm driven engagement bait rule the market too hard for anything half decent to gain traction these days.
>>735107296>the best multiplayer FPS in yearsIt's just Destiny 2 PVP with a fresh coat of (ugly) paint, bro. There's nothing new about it beside the weird art style.
>>735107296you cant even lean lmao
>>735107381It plays very little like D2 PVP.TTK is lower and it's not full of damage abilities, along with pretty different movement. D2 PVP was mostly just about aiming and shooting first, whereas Marathon is almost entirely positioning to a degree you see in essentially no other game.
>>735107617I meant mostly in terms of mechanics and feel. Marathon is just D2 PVP with a much lower TTK. It's the same kind of moving and shooting since the engine and underlying systems are just ported over from Destiny.
>>735107296Its a barebone mp shooter with only 4 maps
>>735067265So quickly they forget...
>>735067308"Morgan Park" has to be Alan Smithee for clickbait games journalism; there's no way a literate person could be so consistently wrong
>>735083641Just because your a nigger who only plays CoD and cant chad it up in 3rd person doesn't mean others can'tJust admit your retarded and BLACK
>>735096386>eliminationsSo it's another little soibaby game where you can't say "kill".
>>735107748Yeah so it's a different game that plays differently.>lower TTKReally a meme, especially with higher shields and given how many fights involve one player retreating to heal.
>>735066346>bog standard modern console shooter slop design that hasn't evolved 20 years
>>735085726Reposted from: Reddit
>>735108305It makes more sense to assume it's being done intentionally for clickbait to drive engagement. Journo sites are dying left and right these days.>>735108661I'm saying if you open the hood it's just Destiny 2 PVP with lower TTK. And every single webm I've seen in these threads, from shills and actual anons just playing it, show how fast you go from fighting to dead. Maybe higher shields are a higher player level thing, but the majority of fights seem to end decisively and quickly.
>>735100612You can, you're just going to be shit at it. If retards insist on picking an objectively worse input method let them get objectively worse results instead of coddling
>>735100491I mean they're right. Putting aimbot in the game ruins it. But removibg it for only half the players also ruins it
>>735103654i kind of like where they're going with the design. the whole aesthetic of 3d-printed weapons, semiconductor fabs, high-containment labs, sticking out like a sore thumb in a natural landscape. but they do go overboard with it in some places
>>735076932Ar has 0 1-shot weapons
>>735066572Because PLAGIARISM_WILL_MAKE_ME_A_GOD!
>>735077846Battlebit looks better
>>735109621This is one of the major reasons the game had such bad PR at the start, but I wonder how much it would have actually impacted sales.I bet more people would have tried Marathon if it weren't for the scandals, but then you could also say the scandals were the reason they delayed the game instead of launching against Arc. (And if it launched against Arc, I bet it would've gotten really killed.)
>>735109315>But removibg it for only half the players also ruins itthat's why you get external hacks and put aimbot back for mouse, now we're even>but I'll get bannedlollmaogood luck detecting external hardware aimbot that doesn't write into memory
>>735070040You can use KBM and controller at the same time. Plugging in the controller and having it fire over the mouse gives you controllers insane auto-aim crutch/aimhax.It's why shooters on PC are dead and buried. Nobody wants to play against someone that nail you from across the map with legally sanctioned cheats.
>>735078918No, lowered
>>735078380>thriving>Slowly but surely bleeding players>Hasn't been stable playercounts ever>Lost 30K players within 2 weeks>"Thriving"Ok, Shill-kun.
>>735082369It never has been. Why do you think Activision finally threw in the towel before they got bought out by Microslop and sold Bungle?
>>735096512>whos the main characterMain character is likely the same main character throughout the entire series, Durandal. You are a faceless puppet doing his bidding.
For any lore experts, what IS Tau Ceti? My little recollection of playing Marathon 2 was that the Marathon did not reach it's destination before the Phfor attacked it, right?
>>735111710Marathon did reach it, it's just Durandal then had a meltie and sent out a signal trying to find help it reach godhood. The Pfor were the ones that heard it, so they came and fucked up both Marathon and the colony.
>>735112112Oh okay, that clears stuff up, thank you. I need to go back through and play all of the original games, I'm enjoying this one a lot.
>>735111710tau ceti is the star of that system, which exists IRL and you can see it in the night skytau cet IV is the planet where they put the colony of the marathon expedition, it actually reached it and they stablished the colony, the problem is that durandal went rampant and realized that his biggest issue in life was the death of the universe so to find a way to escape that he unironically called the pfhor in the hopes of stealing one of their ships and travel around the universe to find a solution only to realize the universe is the hand of the player, which he never accounted for
>>735075521I play Deadlock AND Arc, they're my two go tos, though I feel your sentiment, couldn't do moreIf you want to add, I'd be down to play either
>>735066572Bungie has spent like the past 8 years going out of their way to piss off as many of their fans as they could, now they have no fans and nobody likes them anymore.
>>735108612kills aren't kills until you wipe out a team, you can down and kill other players and they can still be brought back by their teammates
thieffags btfo
>>735074782Yeah I would've liked to see what they would have done if it was a more regular shooter
>>735108612You aren't even killing anything though as nothing is even alive. Bunch of robots made of metal and a bunch of runners made of silk all with a "consciousness" backed up somewhere on a server.Likely the on marathon ship itself. With all these "AIs" that you are doing missions for actually just fragments of Durandal.
