Attention, Runners.Tau Ceti I/v/ is off limits. The planet, its colony, the Marathon and all connected resources are property of the Unified Earth Space Council.Under UESC law, (You) are trespassing here and have been marked as an enemy of the state. Theft or data harvesting from this protected system will be met with force.Final warning. Surrender or face extermination
The CHADathon comeback has to be studied!
God this game is pure Cinemahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii7KWBOy9cs
>>744567182So the secret UESC Faction and Contracts was a lie?
>>744567441That's probably for when the Phor break again into Tau Ceti.Currently 90% of UESC real infantry, ships and clankers are busy containing the Phor
s3 will make or break this game and I don't think they'll put in the workimagine doing the same boring shit quests for a third time, or second even
>>744567182Marathon is so kino
>>744567569>I don't think they'll put in the workThey probably will. I don't think anyone at Bungie is delusional enough to believe that underdelivery isn't synonymous with death (or even regular delivery). Not after half of the studio getting axed and Ziegler leaving. Hell, they have extended season 2 by 3 weeks.>imagine doing the same boring shit quests for a third time, or second evenThere will most likely be new priority contracts. One of the few things we know about season 3 are changes to early game and contracts. Besides, it would be supremely, profoundly, irredeemably retarded to not advance the story for 2 seasons in a row in a game that was explicitly advertised to have the story progress from season to season. Not having new story contracts in season 2 contributed to the drop in played numbers.
>dead game
>>744568192What contributed to the drop in played numbers is that there is nothing here for the casual player. This experimental pve mode is the closest and it’s so half baked and ass.
>>744568304>What contributed to the drop in played numbers is that there is nothing here for the casual playergood>This experimental pve mode is the closest and it’s so half baked and ass.It's just boring because pve is boring in general
>>744568420You are part of the problem.
>>744568304I disagree, mostly. Sponsored Survival was there. It sucked, but it was casual. But the consequences of it have ruined the standard mode experience for casuals who weren't willing to grind it for a gold loot. By week of season 2, the average vault value was the same as in the weeks 11-12 of season 2, in Bungie's own words.
>>744568628Good
>>744568692>>744568718…you guys do realise this game is dead because there is nothing for casuals, right? I mean, aside from the usual hardcore unemployed /v/ larp, you can’t seriously not see it, right? This attitude is just hammering more nails into the coffin.
>>744568848You are confusing me (>>744568692). What is your idea of something for casuals?
>>744567569Quests? There's quests in extraction shooters?
>>744568848define "dead"
Don't you have a dead game to attend to?
>>744569034A game with billions spent to make that has Marathon’s player numbers that are steadily declining.
>>7445690506 months and counting
>>744569179sure thing
>>744569009Yes, it's a common feature.
>>744567182I played the shit out of Pathways into Darkness and Marathon as a kid and I'm tempted to buy this game for the lore but I don't wanna play with other people.
>>744570223Even assuming that Marathon will get engoodened and stay afloat, which is far from a certainty, I doubt that it will ever be playable fully though solo PvE. This website is a stylized dump of the whole Marathon codex, which is where most of the lore is. It's only missing the faction liaison dialog.https://codex.cyberacme.systems/
>>744570223grow a pair
dear god.LOWER THAN TORTANIC
>>744570764Class for your upcoming assignment, this doesn't has to be studiedThank you
>>744570927>this doesn't has to be studiedu okay rajesh?
>>744571569It's not in the curriculum to be studied. It's not in the course parameters. It's not in the lessons materials. It's not included in the class programme.So you don't need to include it with your work assignment. Actually there will be points deductions if you do.Looking forward to productive and inspiring discussions going forward!
>>744571902how's the weather in New Delhi?
>>744571902You're not even making sense. Is this a bot?
>>744572041bots can actually spell, unlike indians
>>744567182Is this related in any way to the original Marathon? Didn't Halo become the spiritual successor to it?
>>744572156>Is this related in any way to the original Marathon?yes>Didn't Halo become the spiritual successor to it?No, Halo is just Marathon without the cool UESC lore and questionable morality of the protagonist actions.It's literally a neutered version of it
>>744572232Even the designs in Halo are much less industrial and cyberpunk and more of a sleek mass effect style military sci-fi
>>744572232>>744572020Cryo Archive is so brutal
>>744567280BLASTING OF!!!
play a real game tranny loser
>>744572846>BLASTING OF!!!SAARR do the sneedful
>>744572232I thought halo was supposed to be part of the Marathon universe back in the day
>>744572846Anon NO!
>>744567569they've already more or less said season three is season two all over again but with overgrown perimeter instead of night marsh. There's a PvE mode but if it even gets new VA I'll eat my own ass. They seem like they're just incapable of making content for this game
>>744572232>questionable morality of the protagonist actionsSaving a colony then saving the universe is morally questionable?
>>744567182>Marathon was schizokino about aliens and AI>uh what if we brought it back but without aliens or AI>also its a genre thats literally incapable of telling a storyBRILLIANT!!!
>>744573652They don't want to set a bad precedent with what to expect :^)
I dont really get the "its not for casuals" its not for casuals that want to have everything like the destiny plebs. Yes even the halfe retard kevin could almost do everything there. BUT marathon is perfectly fine for having a few rounds of fun even if your a casual with a few hours to play, you just have to accept that you wont kill the compiler (now you even can in the babymode). Hell even i extracted just once from normal cryo and i have maybe 10h per week. Today every retard want to be able to complete hard games 100% otherwise its le hardcore game... Stupid questmarker handholding aera
>>744574391This wouldn't have been that much of a problem is there was more content in Marathon. But Cryo Archive is:>25% of maps in the game>The best map in the game, both visually and in terms of level design>Advertised at the pinnacle of the gameIt's not bonus content, it's the ending.
>>744574754Ive seen opinion shift evenI think more people like Outpost now than Cryo and I agree
>>744574754They solved this tona extens with the babymode. i really liked that one because the map is so fucking good
>>744574391>(now you even can in the babymode)>>744573853Somebody didn't play Infinite
>>744573919I'm kind of curious to play the original Marathon now after completing Halo
>>744578140Prepare for confusing level design and annoying puzzles. And looking at the map more than you look at the spaces you are walking though.
Bruh, /v/ doesn't even remember Marathon anymore, it's literally death by apathy which Bungie spoke about
>>744568848>giving a fuck about casulsKek>bbbut the game will die without us i mean them2 more weeks surely
>>744574391<5% of destiny players ever did a single raid. Even now when the game is dead and the raids are so easy that you can just pop super and the boss dies the raid is still too much of an ask for people. You got no friends you've go no charisma and you're so nervous you can't handle calling oracles out in vog even 12 years later..... but you still bought all the expansions and played all the seasons. mind blowing how little some people interacted with Destiny, but entirely unsurprising when they tried to shift their players into a much more demanding and way more unforgiving game. they developed their players to be the hugest pussies ever and failed. 95% of destiny players played the game like it was halo with a glide. they never fucked with mods on their armor or did anything past the easiest difficulty, and if it wasn't matchmade they never did it at all. I do not know what the fuck bungie were hoping for from this game.
Why is shillmygame having a melty over reality? Xe needs to seek salvation as finality approaches
>>744567182this game is going to get shut down isnt itthe player numbers are as bad as destiny 2s are when they said they almost had to EoS
>>744582303we all hope so
>>744582303Season 3 will probably be their last final push to see if they can make it work since season 2 was massively underwhelming even though it had a f2p weekendI imagine season 3 will have another f2p week in order to get a pve audience which people will play. Although even so at most I think they will only get 30-35k on launch because people really dont like marathons art style, music, or characters compared to destiny so they are most likely not gonna get the destiny audience nor will they get a fundamental pve audience
>>744568420>It's just boring because pve is boring in generalBad excuse considering games like destiny, helldivers, Isaac, warframe are doing good despite being "boring" try again xister
>>744582474do you think they have too much pride to just go back to destiny
>>744582474Yeah look at Dark and Darker. After a certain point everyone has already tried the game and wont come back to it, f2p or not. DnD has had their latest season release and with several well-known streamers playing it. Think at most they got was a 10k bump A f2p game only getting 10k. Think will be the same for Marathon, S3 will probably be even lower than S2 f2p week
>>744582650There's a combination of malice from both sony and bungie about destiny and I think they will never go back to it. Destiny will get the bloodborne treatment and remain unused forever.>>744582724>S3 will probably be even lower than S2 f2p weekIm a little subjective about that because I think there is actually more content coming to marathon than there was in season 2. Season 2 offered map but dark, masked shell, and paypig skins to slop up. S3 will probably have what was previously stated + the pve mode which people will out of proportion like its never been done before kinda advertising and then people will realize its shit and unfinished with bungie making tweets like "passing feedback along the team, any input is appreciated. Expect a better experience in a year or so" kinda response like they always do. I think it will get a bigger launch but have a bigger downfall once people realize there is literally nothing of value
>>744583093S3 will be the end of this game if they can't turn it aroundI'm not saying there won't be an s4, but it will be in vain
>>744582338Why?
>>744573919>>uh what if we brought it back but without aliens or AIThere are more AIs in the new Marathon, though. On top of the 3 ship AIs (of which only Durandal is alive), there are also the 8 colony AIs. A Spht Compiler is already there as a boss, and more will most likely come later.
>>744583093It's going to launch lower than s2, vault breakers made everyone realize that the pve in this game sucks ass and there's no way they magically fixed that. If they removed all pvp from the normal maps I'd come back just to finish the contracts but that's about it from me dog the game is obviously not going to make it so I'm not going to waste time on it. The launch of the game is the best it will ever be
>>744585723>pve in this game sucks assI'm so fucking tired of their endlessly respawning robots and they made their behavior too fucking annoying along with them being sponges
>>744586019I actually like how the enemies are rebalanced in solo VB.
>>744587153To be trivially easy so everything short of a shield, grenadier or commander bot dies in one headshot with the magnum?
The comeback?Studied.The lightning?Bottled.A blast?Having.
thigh sex with recon
>>744587464Without changes to bot mechanics and expansion of the roster, yes. I'd obviously want them to be more interesting, but this is a good crutch, and I think it should be implemented to regular solo.
>do nothing>win
>>744587675turk roaches killed Crysis 4 for this piece of shit, they won nothing
>>744588453Crysis 2 and 3 already sucked dick, Crytek won
why does everything visually about this game look like it's made for trannies?
>>744588798Because you are obsessed.
Marathon chose Tau Ceti IV.System Shock 2 chose Tau Ceti V.why
>>744590330Tau Ceti is a G-class star relatively nearby.
>>744590330Viable exoplanet star system
