I need you to convince me to not buy this thing because I’m about to. I have had zero interest in it and the extraction genre other than Helldivers but I need something new to play for a bit. Is it just filled with sweatys at this point or can a casual gamer like myself get some type of fun out of it? Any pure PVE stuff?
>>742393583Buy Splatoon 3 instead
>>742393583Buy Splatoon Raiders instead.
Play Planetside 2, its free, and better
>>742393583bro the game almost got a below 7k peak today, its dying and fast. feel free to waste your money though
you need tarkov in your life
>>742393583it's fun for about 10 hours and then you get to the level where it's only sweats and if you aren't immediately going full pvp tryhard mode the second you spawn in, you will have a bad time. if you don't have two friends to play with, don't even bother
>>742393583Yes the core progression is tied to leveling factions which is PvE aside from a few objectives where you specifically have to kill runners, but it counts if someone in your squad does too. You will run into PvP eventually but it's possible to do a run without seeing anyone at all
>>742393583It plays better than the previous Marathon games at least
>>742393583>I need you to convince me to not buy this thingQueue times are getting looooong. Pretty soon it'll be unplayable out of peak hours.
>>742394882/v/ is too casual for tarkov
>>742393583Game is gonna be dead soon, player count is steadily dropping and is down like 85% from the peak>does it have pure PVE modesthey’re adding one at the end of July but by that point the game will probably have lost another 1k players and even less will be playing the PvP mode
>>742393583It's going to be free to play by the end of the summer, and even then it won't be worth downloading.
>>742393583Buy Skyrim instead
>>742393583>filledits not filled at all, EoS soon
>>742393583if you play first person shooters with a controller on a console it's probably fine, be sure to turn off crossplay
>>742393583It’ll either be free or 75% off by the end of the summer, just wait until a sale and try it for a weekend. It’s one of those quirky niche games you play for a few days or a week and then drop it after you get tired of getting ganked
Buy it on friday you'll be sucked in all weekend.
>>742393583If you're even considering it you're too retarded to help so whatever go ahead.
>>742393583Its going to be f2p in like a month
>>742393583First of all, if you live in Australia or Oceania, just move on. Second, I would suggest you hold out on getting it until the midseason update, 22nd of July, that's when it's getting a proper PvE mode.>I have had zero interest in it and the extraction genre other than Helldivers but I need something new to play for a bit.There are a lot less controversial and more successful games out there. Chances are that you'll just bounce off of this game since it's terrible at onboarding (something Bungie games are a known for, apparently).>Is it just filled with sweatys at this point or can a casual gamer like myself get some type of fun out of it?You shouldn't be getting into the sweats territory for a while, matchmaking is level based. Also, despite what some people say, solo is perfectly viable now. There is also a mode where every team enters the match with a free kit, which decently levels the playing field, but also removed a chunk of the extraction shooter experience, aka using the gear you've found previously.>Any pure PVE stuff?Not until the 22nd of July. There was a mode where a single team enters a match alone, and then Rooks (solo freekit only hero) start joining, and the only exfil point was the final one that spawns when the match timer runs out, but that was effectively a pure PvE mode since Rooks had no incentive to join a match where they would have to 1v3 a team that had more time to loot the map than them for the chance to exfil.TL;DR Buy at your own risk.
>>742397791>>742398117>>742401560Fanfiction.
>>742401560it was already f2p for a week and it didn't do anything for it
What are the queue times like these days?
>>742393583it is 100% sweaties and you will have a bad time>t. free week survivor with 40hrs and full cradle, lvl 76wait for the next season wipe and the further price drop, joining mid season is a death sentence
>>742401996Like less than 5 minutes in NAIt's impossible to get a game in the Pacific tho unless you wait like 12 minutes and it's usually full of cheating chinks
>>742393583It's going to go Fee to Pee within the year.
All these marathon haters just want you to play their shitty slop instead (splatoon? Lol tendies man…)
>>742393583your money would be better spent on an onlyfans addiction
>>742393583You missed out on 2 intances of sponsored survival PvPlite (only one team on map + some Rooks). Just wait 3 weeks for Vault Raids to hit, then come back and ask the question.
>>742393583Wait, Helldivers is an extraction shooter? Isn't it just a shoot-some-alien-niggers coop thing with a strategic meta? wtf even is an extraction shooter then?
>>742406328Technically. You drop in, do some objectives, collect resources that you need to extract to properly claim, activate an exfiltration beacon and defend it, and then leave. Although you don't even need to survive to complete the mission.
>>742393583>Is it just filled with sweatys at this pointno>Any pure PVE stuff?no
>>742393583>I need you to convince me to not buy this thing because I’m about toThe game is not going to survive long. The player numbers keep dropping lower and lower. At this point there's literally a new low every day.
Make a hardcore Game for a niche GenreWhat can go wrong?
>>742396467Marathon is too hardcore for Tarkov players
>>742393583A fool and his money are soon parted.
>>742393583It's fun, I like it. Kino setting and aesthetic that's wasted on pure PvP though.
THE RAPED
>>7424089922 more weeks, right?
>>742410874>2 more weeks, right?Well, considering that Bungie skipped the usual maintenance and have been completely radio silent, we might unironically hear about even more mass layoffs in 2 weeks, yes.
>Peak went down by 400 againOh wow it's so fucking grim.
>>742411941This isn't the first time a weekly update didn't happen.>we might unironically hear about even more mass layoffs in 2 weeksThat's a ridiculous premise.
>>742393583>casual gamerAbsolutely not. Stay the fuck away. This is for dedicated teams of people who live PVP enough that they are ok >>742412435Given the state of the industry? Sony side cuts are very possible.
>>742406328No. Not in the sense that most people are using it. You drop, you fight, you extract. Extraction shooter usually means something like a BR or mutiplayer shooter with persistent gear. You start with gear made from your inventory. You must extract with your gear and whatever you loot to put it back in your inventory.
>>742393583"PVE extraction" is the gayest retarded fucking cope I have ever readNigger just play starfield or borderlands if you want to mediocre looter game
it wont go EoS but it will just be like strinova
Whats up with marathon threads appearing 1-2 times a day for the last 3 days? bungie employees working overtime to try and keep the company alive?
>>742413135It's Kurpa Hosk. They outsource this shit.
>>742393583buy it because you indecisive subhuman deserve to get scammed
>>742393583Solos as a stealth shooter is incredible. Its Metal Gear Online, Sir you are being hunted and Halo Reach in a blender.But honestly trios with randos is dogshit, mmo ninja looters and gun and ball gamers coming together to make something dumber and more selfish than either.If you want a stealth shooter creeping around DA ZONE being csi finding out what the fuck happened while looting like an american soldier in afghanistan go nuts. If you want a team shooter you better have two friends or you are in for a world of doodoo.
>>742413135Can you name another multiplayer pvp game that even came out in the last quarter? shits quiet mang.
>>742413135One reason why you know it's astroturf is that the vg general dissapeared for a full day and nobody fucking noticed or cared.
>>742393583Play Deadlock instead it's free
>>742414012Solo doesn't even let you in the best map of the game.
>>742412787What's the budget for Strinova? Surely it isn't 250 million dollars
>>742412787strinova has it's own launcher and it's on epic too
>>742414330>Trials of Osiris but its just blue corridors made of recylced shit from the cancelled Clovis Bray pitch for Destiny 3 from 2021Perimeter 2.0 will wipe the floor with that esports sloppa.
>>742393583i actually want to play this since even the people who hate the artstyle and extraction genre admit that the shooting is very fun, butt the game's population is dying off so fast that i think i won't be able to find any matches in my region since i don't live in NA so RIP bungiehopefully they'll make it F2P or $10 USD as a last ditch effort to bump the numbers up
>>742393583It's good but expect to die alot.Well worth it imo.PvE coming next month.
It's literally the best shooter of all time. Best game I've played since vanilla WoW. Doing the Compiler(raid boss) felt the exact same as doing Algalon nearly 20 years ago.
>>742393583Questions like these belongs on marathon general in /vg/ whats up with the blatant shill campaign for marathon in the last 4 days.
>>742412435>That's a ridiculous premise.It's not, if you know what's going on at Bungie. When Sony acquired them for $3.6 billion, about $1.2-$1.5 billion was set aside as a "retention incentive" bonus to get employees to stay with the company. That fund was set for 4 years. Sony acquired Bungie on July 15, 2022. In 13 days we'll be at July 15th, 2026.There's a very real chance that a ton of the studio has decided to just cash in on that and then leave afterwards, which would explain why there's a complete radio silence.
>>742393583I genuinely don't understand this mindset. You have zero interest in the genre as a whole, but you are considering playing it for literally no other reason than "you need something new to play."Genuinely an alien line of thinking that my brain cannot process. I can understand wanting to play something new for the sake of the novelty of trying something new, I can understand wanting to do something that you find unappealing as a challenge to yourself, but just...spending your time and money on something you already know you are going to dislike to the point where you are actively soliciting people telling you not to do it for no other reason than I dunno, you have heard that it exists? Why Marathon specifically?Do you not like, examine what makes games you like, and try to find other games like it? Why is the first thing you are defaulting to a game that you already know you wouldn't like? Why not literally any other game that you believe might have some appeal to it?I hope that this helps you understand why you shouldn't buy it.
>>742414976they had two free periods plus server tests. If you cared, you should have tried it. They'll probably do it start of next season too.
>>742414976If you solely want to play because of the shooting part, then just play Apex Legends instead. That's what Bungie tried to ape in terms of gameplay.
>>742415180>troonslop is the best slop since vanilla troonslopplay real video games
>>742414976>i think i won't be able to find any matches in my region since i don't live in NAMatchmaking is relatively fast in Europe as well. But if you aren't there, either, then yeah, too bad.
>>742393583The people worrying about sweats are, themselves, sweats. I play this game drunk af and have fun. Do a few runs with pubbies and friend the ones with mics+chill and then run invite-only run with them for the rest of the night. This is a friendslop dressed up as hardcore serious game.
>>742416654Aren't you getting your ass rammed in by the super teams this season? Especially on cryo?
>>742415365you know you're gonna die in ukraine right?
>>742415309I sort of get it. I was never interested in extraction shooters, but Marathon drew my attention with its art style, and I ended up liking it.>>742415365I think you triggered a bot with that image, lmao.
>>742416869I only play Perimeter and Marsh. I played Outpost I think once.
>>742415309>I can understand wanting to play something new for the sake of the novelty of trying something new,You get it, you just wrote the rest of the post because?
>>742417438>Not playing the best map
>>742416869There are no super teams in this game, you're just a pussy. Any purple team can get raped by free kits if you like the challenge.
>>742417512anon just discovered chuds like to huff their own farts because they got no one else irl that would ever listen to them
>10 hours thread>not even 80 repliesThe absolute state of marathon.
>>742393583Only genuine goycattle play shit like this, it’s hysterical that “people” are unironically even discussing playing such a gay fucking game
>>742393583>I need something new to playThere are literally millions of other games.
>>742417621>goycattle making fun of anyoneYour very existence is pure gayness
This game is full of mentally stunted destiny players
>>742417537>crutch pistol>crutch nade>still goes downembarrassing
>>742393583Dead game.
>>742417847bro you're ugly, stupid and will never have a gf
how come vee 4chan is a casual comfyfag board? is it because you're all too proud to use aim trainers or look up guides? why is being 'tryhard' a bad thing? is the bully tulpa in your head going to post soijaks at you if you 'practice' for videogames?
>>742394882tarkov doesnt respect your time. >2 mins to load into menu>10 minutes to build a loadout>5 mins to matchmake>10 mins of walking to get to the action area of the map>30 seconds of combat>20 mins of limping to the exit>2 mins to load back to the main menumeanwhile every mission in tarkov is built to be an RNG grind to keep streamers and influencers playing
>>742417967Wiping 2 teams
>>742393583Shits either going to be free or $20 next month just wait at this point if you really care
>>742418187>why is being 'tryhard' a bad thing?It's not, if it's in a real competitive game. Being a tryhard in a shitty ass dead Bungie game is just sad.
>>742393583That depends are you an ally or not?
>>742419059>Mobile reddit screenshot
>>742410874Unironically yeah, the game is almost at the point where the playerbase can't sustain itself, 2 more weeks but for real.
>>742412787>strinovaliterally whomst'd've?
>>742420858sure thing pal>>742418187washed out retarded millennials have taken over after the mutt elections and refuse to go back to R*ddit
>>742415351Lmao it plays nothing like apex
Blasthavers status?
>>742403960>less than 5 minutesI can't imagine ADD addled zoomies tolerate waiting more than 60 seconds for anything, let alone up to five minutes.
>>742408992>the daily low is now within distance of falling beneath 2kWhat the FUCK happened in the last week? It was almost twice that the last time I checked.>>742410874I know you're being a smarmy cunt shill, but the numbers are dropping faster than they were a week ago. With the next big patch not for a month, we're entering uncharted waters with these low numbers.
>>742393583As a casual you cannot have fun with it, it's dead for that reason. You're better off playing any other extraction shooter.
>>742426526grim
>>742426391>What the FUCK happened in the last week? It was almost twice that the last time I checked.It's all a combination of the current fanbase having shifted their rhetoric to "yeah the game is not good, but don't worry, it will be fixed in season 5" now + Bungie layoffs + season 2 being a big disappointment + more layoffs looming in the shadows + radio silence from Bungie.
