If you were put in charge of the Marathon team at Bungie, what would you do to save the game? Keep in mind it’s about to fall below 10k players on Steam for the first time ever
>>736150708It’s unsalvagable. Nothing they can do. Maybe use the left over budget to build a Time Machine and add a singleplayer and pve mode
>>736150708Every time you extract you get sex minigame with one of the cyber girls, you beat the cryo complier and you get interactive post-sex bed cuddling minigame with extensive dialog options fueled by sentient AI that really loves you
>>736150708It's a good game but it's hard to expand because it's anti casual retard and requires friends. Solo play is too hard for casuals and that's what the PS5 audience wants as they don't talk on mics. PC streamers are sweats and blast through all the content which zoomers can just watch on YouTube.
>>736150887We get it you have porn induced autogynephilia. Go ack or whatever you guys do
Trying way too hard nigga.
>claim Bungie was just kidding and this isn't the full game, only a small part of it>release the single player campaign along with the multiplayer mode with classic shit like capture the flag and deathmatch>extraction mode is just one of many multiplayer modes>since you are technically the company that made Halo, put its old multiplayer maps on Marathon too>include shit like the Forge so people can have fun doing their own shitAny day now, they can't be so stupid to put that much money on an extraction shooter
>>736150956It's not what I want, I'm just pitching what will resonate with the playerbase
>>736150916Seemed like a bad business decision to make a high budget game that filters 90% of people and has an extremely polarizing art style
>>736150708All in on making it a coop pve game
>>736151051Both the artstyle and gameplay are laser focused on appealing to me so I'm stoked they made such a game. If I wanted to get aroused over my favorite company's revenue and mass appeal I'd become a gacha fan.
>>736151051>main forum for game discussion is the Marathon subreddit >any criticisms or complaints were hand waved and told they were causal, git gud, etc>as a result game has terrible player retention and is now in a death spiral Lol
>>736150708If I were "in charge" I'd be in a high enough position that I could take my golden parachute, as everyone else at Bungie in a similar position have already done.
>>736151051I like the art, I think once you get people into the game you can bring them around to that. They've just spent too much time and money making too little content and then charged $40 because of Sony when they need as many people as possible playing as it's designed as a team game. When you see streamers like Shroud play it, that isn't the experience 80% of players are having. They are getting btfo and solo is just something thrown on at the last minute. It's a mystery how it took so long and American developers are on too much money. Needs to be F2P or at least free on PS+
>>736151163Sadly your gay tranny game is about to die though :/ it’ll be at Highguard numbers by mid April
>>736150708As someone who enjoys the game:More bigger maps. Reduce the teams spawning on dire marsh by 1.Allow duos only - they are testing this.Introduce a singles only mode.More enemy variety, not just UESC robots.I would like randomised events to occur on each map, theres a corpo war over the colony so I want to see Sekuguchi events happening, maybe all the UESC robots shut down for a session etc. Anything to add further variety to the maps.More runner shells and further customisation of these shells, not just skins which is shit.
>>736150708I’m not interested in an extraction at all. If I was going to play one I would play Arc, it sounds interesting. But this game has nothing appealing to it, no singleplayer, no story, no traditional multiplayer, no PvE mode.
>>736151561>no storyIncorrect, actually. Ignoring the logs and terminals, there's so much environmental storytelling in the middle of a high stakes multiplayer map you won't get to see most of it because you'll be busy not dying
>>736151561Marathon has a story told through quests, just like Arc Raiders. The gist is you're investigating why the UESC colony population just disappeared and now it's a legal grey zone for other corpos to raid, loot, and also investigate. Prior to the disappearence of the population, weird shit was happening like anomalies, people just floating and exploding, an infection is spreading and rampant AIs.All your other concerns are legit however, but Arc is no different.
>>736150708>If you were put in charge of the Marathon team at Bungie, what would you do to save the game?Double the pay to IGN, PCGamer and Kotaku for better review scores.
>>7361522799/10s across the board, you lost etc.
>>736151051worked for Nikita however
It's honestly so easy, all they need to do is add more modes. 40 bucks for 4 maps and nothing but the extraction griefer gamemode is a comical proposition even if the game was objectively the best game ever made it would still be niche as fuck. It needs casual PvP modes, it needs a good singleplayer experience whatever form that takes, it needs a separate PvE activity.Bungie will refuse to do it even on pain of actual death though because they're autistic retards about their Vision™ and loathe the possibility of anyone having fun with their game outside of their hyper-specific intended experience. There's ni hope for this turd and it's solely Bungie's hubris to blame
Game just needed SBMM.
>>736150708Why try to save it? Just scrap it and make a nice deck building roguelike with AI generated cards.
>>736152709There already is. Matchmaking depends on your vault value and season level.
I think you'd need to probably redesign the entire game if you wanted to really change the playercounts but for stuff you could do quickly I think I'd add some heavily scripted and restricted PvE tutorial missions for each of the maps, where you just get boxed into one or maybe two PoIs and forced to go through the major map events like opening a secured box and a tox room, deactivating a lockdown and getting into Pinwheel.
>>736150708Can sexsave this game? Nothing about this game is sexy tho
>>736150708Make every shell a big titty bitch
>>736150887>turbowoke bungie is so desperate for players they even shill towards gooner incel chuds nowL-fucking-MAO
>>73615070820 hour single player campaign.Some sort of co op pve mode that gamer dads can grind for dress ups or something.Boob sliders.
>>736150708>If you were put in charge of the Marathon team at Bungie, what would you do to save the game?free to play with rotating shells, a choice of two for 24hoursseason pass is the new way to buy the game, all shells and regular season pass crapsolo queues for for all mapsscrap ranked as it currently is, have all matches be ranked just like deadlock. big loot + exfil = gain small rp, kill a higher ranked runner gain rp, get killed by a lower rank runner lose rp etchave three big maps dire marsh, outpost and cryo rotating at all times like hunt showdown, you don't pick the map you wanna play. select contract and gear after map selection has been revealed add a new map and evolve the rest every season, only 3 maps rotating per season though. old ones can return the following season or wheneverfree to play + rotating ranked maps means everyone is in the same pool, except for solos and trios - queues will be fast
>>736150887sexo
>>736154127>free to play with rotating shells, a choice of two for 24hours>season pass is the new way to buy the game, all shells and regular season pass crapSo turn it in to a nexon game from 2004?
>>736151017I think art style is absolute ass but I liked the gunplay during server slam, don't care for extraction slop but I would pay them $30 for team death match and CTF modes if they added em
>>736155131>season pass is the new way to buy the game, all shells and regular season pass crapThat's how Destiny works too
>>736150708>Remove all male characters>Make all female characters attractive.>Make all female characters barefoot. >Rework foot models to be in highest quality. >Only avaliable foot cosmetics are toe rings and ankle bracelets. >Give Player option to make camera look close to feet.Game saved.
>>736153520But even then they're still doing it wrong, because that guy is a yuritroon who desperately wants to be one of the ugly characters, and much like the game, most people aren't into it.
fuck it, start making crossovers like all the other live service slop, it works out for them
>>736155475>not making them all lolisMiss me
>>736157694Also make them lolis.
>>736157694>>736157808I will be forwarding this idea to Bungie.
>>736150708>turn the extraction into a pvp gamemode for zoomies to play>recreate the whole game to be like destiny but better>make all the female characters even more hot>cover all the male faces, especially triage >fire all the trannys from bungie>hire white guys who are good at story making and level design>game is savedthats all they had to do
>>736150708I’d make it singleplayer first since it seems like the LiveService era is dead.
>>736150708It's fotm performative social purchasing. It cannot be fixed and it is not broken. It's doing exactly what it was designed by social engineers to do, and it is quite profitable. You have to understand; this isn't about being genuinely entertained or impressed by a piece of media. This is about virtue signaling. By buying this game and waxing on about what a blast you are having you are effectively dog whistling that you are a part of the "good guys" to your perceived social in groups (which is especially egregious in a place like 4chan where you can't win brownie points). If someone asks you if you are interested in or playing the new marathon game, they aren't asking if you like the game or if you think it's a good game. They are shit testing you, if you like the game, you are one of the good guys, if you criticize the game or simply aren't interested you are one of the bad guys. This is how most media has been for almost 20 years across all forms. This game will be forgotten within in a month, nobody will remember it existed, it won't be discussed except as a perceived historic political victory by both sides, it's a run of the mill, bland, inoffensive multiplayer shooter that's garnered a bunch of manufactured controversies specifically to attract the left/right consumer crowd. There's absolutely nothing substantial to discuss about it, but that's not the point. The point is showing your political affiliation through purchasing and performative praising or through hyperbolic criticism, until the next product comes out and the cycle repeats. It's the same on all sides of the political spectrum; the system is about giving you head pats for being the good guy. How do you stay the good guy? How do you stay one of the cool kids? Buy the next game or else you're a [political slur]. Consume more products.
>>736160397>everyone that enjoys the pvp of marathon is a left leaning progressive not true
>>736150708- Completely overhaul graphics so that instead of eye-searing primary color splotches you have actual nice things to look at- Remove multiplayer from the game completely. The game is now a single player game with a story focused campaign- Just kidding, you can't save this shit
>>736160397You're genuinely mentally ill.
>>736160742>if you criticize the game or simply aren't interested you are one of the bad guys
>>736161120Nah, pretty sure he's right.You best start believing in culture wars, you've been in the middle of one since 2015.
>>736161120>Buy the next game or else you're a [political slur]
If youre gonna make a trend-hopping game, you need to keep in mind that you need to make a game for the FUTURE market and not the CURRENT oneIf you spend six years making a slop extraction shooter because they were exploding, people will be tired of it because they spent the previous three-four years spammed with extraction shooters and now they are spammed with the ones that took too long to develop and almost instantly die outIts the same shit as Dusk released, when people started spamming the most creatively bankrupt "boomer shooters" ever chasing success, and by the time many of these were finished it was an automatic flopthis problem can be preemptively avoided by actually coming up with your own game
For me it’s that it’s a hero shooter. What’s the point of telling me I’m a disconnected consciousness in a disposable shell if each shell is basically a quirk chungus character anyways? I want full runner customization. Team balance would still be possible with basic communication, and no runner silhouette is iconic enough to be discernible from a distance anyways. Make the extraction shooter free for all an opened ended forever game mode, and make a single player campaign that actually integrates all the excellent lore you only ever discover in fucking text logs. Combine them both by having other solo runners invade your world like dark souls. Nothing about the style needs to change if you want brown and bloom there’s already lots of games for you.
>>736160397>none of you actually like the game, it's all a woke jew trans conspiracy, I only have culture war sewage in my skull so it must be true for everyone too!Meds NYOW
>>736161656It's true though. No one, not a single human, actually likes Marathon. People just pretend to because they've made it a battle in the culture war.
>>736161437That had more to do with Dusk being fun because it took inspiration from Quake (the only good boomer shooter) while a lot of the others were shit because they took inspiration from doom (slop)
>>736161726>xkcd beer comic Empathy disorders are a often sign of autism
>>736150708I'd put SIVA in it to make all the Destiny retards consume the slop
>>736161141only young retards think that way, culture warrior thought process
>>736161927>How do you stay one of the cool kids?
>>736150708Easy parts:>Increase the player HP by 25% to give the average person a bit more time to react to getting shot.>Increase enemy damage by 25% accordingly since they are already pretty easy.>Add unique icons for core/implant/chip mod effects so that they could be distinguished at a glance.>Add a firing range, a small simulation map where you can shoot every gun you've found while using any mods you've found, and also do some combat simulation.Hard part:>+1 map between Dire Marsh and Outpost, too many contracts go to Dire Marsh.>Abolish the hero shell system. Let the player make custom shells by looting/buying abilities, traits, and maybe cosmetics, while keeping the existing shells as faction sponsored presets. Don't touch the Rook.>Remove/reduce the stat increase upgrade tree nodes, those are really boring. Make them into perks you can put a limited amount of into shells or something.
>>736162746nice ideas
>>736162746Oh, and forgot to add:>Matchmaking based on skill instead of season level or vault value. Both of those almost passively increase as you play the game and have jack shit to do with how good you are at PvP. I'm 50 hours and I have no chance of beating someone who spent his childhood playing Halo because I've spent mine playing Minecraft
