Reddit’s havin’ a blast™ edition Game Info:>COME ON AND SLAMhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3065800/Marathon/>Marathon Game Home Pagehttps://www.marathonthegame.com/>Reveal Cinematichttps://youtu.be/fvbEnWLRo1s [Open]>New Gameplay Trailershttps://youtu.be/hWwXSb7dlnQ [Open]https://youtu.be/MXhQbF7TlbA [Open]>New Gameplay Footagehttps://youtu.be/ToVHiqE_S5k [Open]https://youtu.be/l5JXX0KZioI [Open]>The Entire History of Marathonhttps://youtu.be/yu7uN6-lNhk [Open]>Play the Original Marathon for Freehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2398450/Classic_Marathon/Databases:https://tauceti.world/https://tauceti.gg/https://marathonmeta.gg/News:>SERVER SLAM BEGINS FEBRUARY 26https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon-server-slam>CHEATERS BANNED FOREVER NO SECOND CHANCES, LOOT WILL BE RETURNED TO AFFECTED USERShttps://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathonsecurity>NEW OST TRACKShttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m7VJ7MwzXPMN7xwF-c24YlpWEsJXj65AIPrevious Thread: >>558688576
what kilt this game?
>>558754089why my peeanus weenus of course haha
Why can't we view the models.I want to see plastic girl ass.
How we slamming, slambros?
>>558754089>kiltA Runner Scottsman would be a funny class if they worked in the warrior and/or bagpipe themes well... assuming the game survives after launch.
I've been playing this a bunch today, and while I like the IDEA of Marathon the game is fucking bizarre currently, total clusterfuck.>movement in bursts is incredibly quick, but you overheat constantly trying to move around the map>TTK is absurdly low, gear may fix that but then you get a situation where streamer premades with top gear endlessly farm people or solos>actually schizophrenic design with free kits and then Rook, literally what is the point of Rook existing? a noob trap to funnel kills to premade streamer teams?>impossible to tell what you're looting due to bad inventory design, quick management is impossible, can't even tell what collectibles are, forced to just blindly grab and go>doing any map events solo is a death sentence>later mission objective's are blatantly not designed for solos>weird lack of world interactivity and details>virtually no lore or worldbuilding??? how the fuck did they miss this, looking through the codex there's barely fucking anything here, I thought we would get fully interactive terminals at least but no>no hub area, no empty map playthroughs for familiarization, no range to try out mods and guns>extreme stash limit, forced to start selling shit after 2-3 runsAll in all, very strange! Not sure what Bungie was thinking, currently as it is player retention is going to by abysmal, and I'm basically the perfect demographic for this game saying that. What gets me is the PVE here is actually really good, the UESC bots are actually terrifying, especially the cloaking ones. They could have made an extended extraction shooter with this and it would have sold.
>teammate rushes head first into a fight>see someone flanking him>down the fag to save my retard>his teammate comes flying around the corner and downs me the milisecond before I can align my crosshair>both teammates struggle to get him and he finally suicides on me with a nade>they sit on my box finally figuring out how to res me>I have no meds, no ammo no guns and all my shit taken by my own teammates>alt+f4>uninstall>refund
Cheeseburger
I was hyped but game won't run for me so I'm happy to see everyone shitting on it. This motivated me to buy Arc Raiders instead.
Why should I not kit out with lmgs every single time
It really feels like some of the shells should not have access to certain weapon classes. Yes let the stealth assassin with a hit and run flanking toolkit use the LMG from stealth.
I genuinely have no idea what the fuck they were going for with Marathon. It's such a weird, sterile, identity-less game. I think the real shame is that I really like the bungie aesthetic and think some of the visual design and world building are pretty cool. Especially the guns, they managed to make blocky plastic futuristic guns cool. Idk maybe they'll fix it over the next few years but I highly doubt it. What a massive fucking L for Sony.
What is even the point of ever entering a map with gear?>go into map with free daily kit, no worries about losses, can find enough stuff in the world or kill other people to take their shit>go into any map with gear, get instakilled by 500 bots spawning on top of you when the map starts (real thing that can happen in Dire Marsh if you spawn in the center) or some stealthed corner camper who gets the drop on you, lose everythingdoubly so when trying to complete some of the insane crossmap missions
>general didn't even last a day before dyingBleak, some might even say grim.
>losing to RE9 and League of Legendsyeah shelved after 1 month confirmed
I haven't seen a single friendly player encounter in this game, which is extremely baffling when you consider that there are multiple world events and shit.
BAAAAARE THEM........ LITTUL RUNNER
Halo demo will have more content than the full release Marathon
But are you ready to take the next step, in the Full Version of Marathon?
How do I kill uesc commanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD-oF-SYuNc
>3 maps+1 that will be absolute hell for solos (aka the majority of people)>barely any loot>whoever engages with the bots first is probably the person who will be first to die due to being unaware, damaged, and resource depleted>no lore>no fucking lore in a marathon gamethese guys wrote the Books of Sorrow in Destiny yet couldn't be assed to hire a fucking writer for this shit. go into the codex and look at what we have for unlocks, there's barely any lore and it's bare bones as fuck.
Yhwach won.
>>558754782It might undergo that phenomenon where it's very confusing at first, especially during test builds with limited gear/time, but then after actual release people eventually really start understanding and being good at it. I've seen this happen with numerous games. Either way, no skin off my back, we'll just have to see.
you guys are actually playing this game?
>>558758103I did read a post saying that this game has more systems depth and is geared more towards endgame builds than the competitors. So perhaps more longevity for those who buy in.
Maranons, anyone used Recon successfully? I feel like she's complete ass>the spider explodes after a few seconds, no way to set up traps, cooldown too long to use it for checking corners and such>the wallhack's cd lasts half the raid>when you activate it the enemy can see the pulses so they see where you're coming from just like you see them>the passives don't even work in solos
>>558759195I think by design the game is meant to take players on a long-term "zero to hero" journey: more advanced, alien threats and the military-grade gear to take them on, as people expect from the Marathon setting. Can Bungie actually hold on long enough to get there? To be determined. I don't know enough about what funding they have to stay afloat, even after all the lay-offs.
You know when a game is good and you're not insecure about what online retards have to say when this starts to get posted.
>posting in marathons 3rd and final gen
>>558759459Just use gunfire as your wallhacks
>numbers still falling>ARC's just started rising>we might see ARC (4 months old, $40) hit double the players Marathon (brand new, totally free) is getting
WE'RE GOING BACK UP!
>>558759930Yeah but what's the point of her kit then? Even Triage is good in solos
>>558759459Her kit is straight dookie. All of her abilities can only realistically be used when you encounter another team, if you use them before engagement you're basically killing your own team due to her ult visually being seen across map and if there's another Recon they get a prompt you're being pingedYou only use the Spider to flush out players or when you've knocked out another player and they're in crawl state and can't directly kill them yourself because you're getting suppressed by alliesThe funny thing is, is that there are two grenades you can get from Mida that are literally her kit, scan grenade does her alt and there's a Tom Clancy division grenade that rolls around briefly going to closes target so her entire kit and class is redundent
>>558760685>Tom Clancy division grenade that rolls around briefly going to closes targetWell to be fair the spider can actually go quite far and has decent pathing, my only gripe(s) is that it self-destructs and the cooldown is so long. It should be one or the other.
>>558760887I forget what faction it is but you get a passive any time you loot there's a chance to gain kit cd reduction. And yeah the spider bot bathing is hilarious it can climb latter'sIf you have blood marks on the ground and throw the spider at them it'll chase down who's bleeding/got hit
game is pretty aight, good potential imowould be a lot more fun if i had friends to queue with though
>>558761173>If you have blood marks on the ground and throw the spider at them it'll chase down who's bleeding/got hitDamn that's sick. Recon is still ass because her ult is bad, I think I'll stick to Triage for solos
>>558759716I've seen that format used for games that had flaws, that bled players and that really should've been better at launch... but this is a test build. On top of that, just tell devs what to improve. We really should be past the point of wasting time insulting something. Give useful feedback or go do something far more fun. Friends to talk to, game backlogs to clear, etc.
>>558755046Murica' future looks grim.
>>558757603The lore is in the codex?
>>558755020my teammates just stole my backpack and weapons tooclosed the game and I don't see myself logging on ever again
>>558763042you get your stuff back in mail if they extractreads as "they got you your borrowed shit back"
Now that the dust has settled, what's your verdict?
>>558763101so what happens, the items get duped or the items they stole gets taken out of their backpacks and returned to me? never got to that part because I was basically revived naked without mods, weapon stock, no meds and loot gone which made me close the game on the fucking spot
>>558763335I assume it gets taken out
>>558763307It's too heavy on pvp with very little compelling pve. The audience seems split between people who think this and another group that thinks there is not nearly enough pvp. The steamdb chart going from 140k to 40k suggests the majority thinks flop.
>>558763406ok well it's something I guess. if the items get returned anyway my box shouldn't even be accessible in the first place. everyone loses that way, especially me now being left with nothing in the run and hoping my team can extract with the shit they stole from me in the first place.
40 dollar entry barrier can't come soon enough holy shit there are some genuine fucking subhumans on this game rn. Just had some retard stand there looting after we killed one guy and were fighting the rest of his team. We both go down, this nigger is still just standing there rummaging. Then he fucking pops his ult (invis nigger ofc) just to walk to my bag in the smoke, right next to the 2 other players, and try to start looting me.
>>558763735Thats just normal extraction shooter players, this game is fucking dead>play a game and think I'm progressing>murdered at exfilcool game
>>558763735the game is nowhere near worth $40
I've not really had a chance to play much but is there really no way to quickly compare guns/mods? Is looting just really clunky?
>>558763830You can get to extract? There is so much twitchy pvp combat I never managed it.
>>558764271barely
>>558764090There's not even way to strip mods or unload the gun. The game has good bones but I really can't imagine they'll fix all of the UX in time for release. If they delayed by a couple weeks I wouldn't even ba mad.
God I wish they got rid of 99% of implants
>>558764341I could have swore you could take off mods, maybe it was on the inspect screen?
>>558764341>The game has good bonesWhat bones are you liking?
This game needs a PvE mode
I kinda wish that shields were at least blue for standard
>Get paired with two triages>Neither one throws me a drone for the whole 20 minute runwhy is this such a consistent thing with Triage players what the fuck is wrong with you all
These game devs always do this shit, they do this little private beta tests, and then months later there are all these issues when the majority come on board. The early game TTK is fucked in this game. Some Anon before said worse than Call of Duty and he/she was right. Every time man.
>>558765714it's lifeline from apex all over again
>>558765737Yeah I don't get how you are supposed to have a cool fire fight if you just die in less than a second from who knows where
>>558765714crew fill is on by default so chances are you're paired with subhumans who can't figure out the UI
>>558765813One of the heroes has a shield that is a genuine death sentence if you try use it.
>check reddit to see some other opinions>"This game is great and I love it">click the post>FUCKING FINALLY WE GET TARKOV BUT FOR CONSOLES HOLY SHITlmfao
>>558765737I don't play cod but yeah it's way too fast. First to shoot wins every time. It's schizophrenic game design experience in general. I don't really understand how they got to this point after several internal playtests and invited streams. Devs these days are beyond fucking retarded in the way they playtest. They barely even changed anything beyond the lighting since the alpha everyone was talking shit about 10 months ago.
>>558766272yeah somehow all the praise is just coming from console players
>>558766376That explains a lot.>>558766281I once shot someone but he didn't die in two hits from my starter gear so he got me on the reload.
>>558765841It shocks me just how *bad* some of these people are.>get paired with level 6 player as level 18>zoomie dudebro cadence>”bruh I just wanna pvp bruh, it’s so hard to find people bruh”>yeah no shit we’re on perimeter>”oh there’s another map bruh?”>see his selected contract>Welcome to Tau Ceti 1/2>how the fuck is that even possible>”oh shit dude I’m down huahhuah”>before I could even comprehend how someone could get to level 6 without doing the first contract he’s run 250m away from me and the afk player and died to another teamI shudder to think how they can function on a day to day basis
>>558766376>go check>>AS A PS5 DAD>>AS A DAD THAT GREW UP ON HALO
>>558766573You find it hard to find pvp on perimeter? I find it within the first two minutes.
>>558766739Perimeter can be really swingy; either you get into loads of fights because people rotate into the same spot (station, hauler or south relay) or you can go a while without bumping into anyone. I mostly said it cause there’s less players in a game on perimeter compared to dire marshMore players = more teams = more fights
>>558766665the cope is crazy>its a new genre for console players>most of the time when I exfil and spectate my teammates they die to the NPCs>give it time for everyone to get used to it and figure out how to play>right now its highly likely a majority of players aren't even extracting
this shit sucks ass
The community for this game is already trash. Helped a guy fight robots and he killed me immediately. Arc Raiders has actually people that actually use prox chat and don't just KoS
>>558767028As a fun aside it looks like legacy steel and sorcery released and died last month.
>CE Tactical Sidearm>Magnum MCI see what they did there
99% of the complaints would be remedied if they made blue shields the default This is basically just halo reach: poverty edition
>>558767257blue shields are 150?
>>558767202They only added proximity chat after arc raiders, so keep in mind, they wanted this to be a hardcore pvp game, saw the money arc raiders made, and added solo queues and proximity chat and using emotes ingame
>>558767257idk about other people but thats what I wanted, Halo but an extraction shooter, but its like you always have 1 health or something
>>558767345If you play solo queue 90% of abilities become useless.
In *** ******* there is no question whether I'm being shot at by players or by Arc in that game. In this game I don't know what the fuck is shooting at me half the time
>>558767450They also did enemies right so I can accurately assess how threatening something isAnd they drop stuff to recharge your shieldsfuck marathon
>>558757603>lore dumps in a test buildFeels like that'd just be spoiling stuff they'd rather have people find out after launch
>>558767771lol
>>558766376>>558766665>>558767028I played this on PS5 and I don't know how you could enjoy it. The UI is not optimized for console one bit and it's even clunkier navigating with a controller versus a mouse.
>>558767771>launch50% chance this game gets an emergency free to play mode.
>>558766281For light reference, Black Ops 7’s TTK is about 0.4 seconds with a typical round the corner assault rifle ADS battle. Here in Marathon, I’ve seen three instances in the past 30 minutes of people at full health with one or two shields going down in what feels like 0.25 seconds.
>>558767249Considering Destiny got crossover content I'm sure Marathon will if it manages to keep going
>>558768073lmao that's ridiculousI did kill a guy in two shots in a run but I couldn't tell if he was low shield/hp because there's no feedback on that, unlike in apex, where the character glows in accordance with their shield level on hit.every time I've died so far I feel like I had no chance of shooting back in time or even getting to cover because getting shot at apparently also means you lose the right to run.
I have to wonder if everyone complaining about the TTK is just bad and frustrated at the game desu. I often go 5 or 6 games before I get downed, and it works great since you can be a credible and real threat even to a whole team as a solo. It makes me wonder if people just think because they have special powers and “shields” that they should be allowed to tank a whole assault rifle mag>You should ALWAYS be sticking to cover>You should always be topping up your health bars>The closer you are to the enemy the more likely you are to die instantly to stuff that feels bullshit>Headshots do matterIf you use the magnum or repeater and you land headshots on the enemy you can kill them even if they get the jump on you. Stop acting like you’re super man just cause you can slide fast or dash in the air. Use your fucking ears and listen for the obvious as fuck footsteps and gunfire and sound effects. Everyone just sounds so incapable, and instead of thinking>”wow, maybe I just need to improve”It’s instead just>”wow, I’m bad at this game, which means there’s something wrong with it”
>>558768525I'd rather play a good game
>>558766573enjoying having nobody to play with because you would rather slither around the map looting chests like a grimey jewish sewer rat searching for his shekels instead of shooting guns like you're supposed to do in a fps game. yeah im a zoomer who wants to engage in an actual battle. come rape me
>>558768525i'm just tired of low TTK in almost every fucking game which encourages stealth and infofagging
Fighting AI is incredibly frustrating. Your health is already low, but they’re spamming grenades and can rush you, melee you, pick you off easy in tight spaces.
>>558768525I think Halo and Destiny already have really good TTK with their shield mechanics.
This has all the same problems as DMZ, Arc, Delta Force. All these games are the same.
>>558768525I prefer shooter games where I'm allowed to move around and fix my mistakes on the fly. The fucking destroyer has a shield that was advertised as a way to quickly defend yourself against an attacker. Can't pull it up in time as a reaction to unexpected damage. Can't properly shield teammates because it's the width of a door. Can't even use it to deal damage back or place it down so I can shoot back. I'm supposed to just stand there and wait for them to quickly dissipate my shit if I get it up in time? Even if they break it or have to reload, my gun gets pulled out so slowly they just kill me anyway. Everything is so clunky and shit honestly. The more I think about it the more I hate it. I preordered and already refunded. >they are listening to feedback thoughCan't fix the myriad of problems with one week to go. They fucked up and should have listened harder in time.
>>558768525It's just fucking dogshit design dude I'm sorry to tell you.
>>558769132I saw the reddit post going>WE ARE LISTENING TO FEEDBACK>AND WILL MAKE CHANGES WHILE THE BETA IS GOINGok, waiting for those changes
>>558769262The game looks set to steal all the tarkov audience. They seem to love it.
Hey Bunghole, let us overfill our backpacks but every time you sprint or get hit there's a chance you'll drop loot.
I only played a few matches but I'd legitimately hit every bullet of a full mag on multiple players point blank and they'll not die
>>558769303makes sense that people who like hammering nails into their testes would like this game as well
>>558769132Oh thank God, Joanna Chen, is on it.
>>558768073>>558768320Black Ops 7 also has a really low TTK even by cod standards. My brother is a CODdrone and he switched back to Black Ops 6 recently because of the very low TTK.
Marathon is nice when you don't have a bitch in your ear telling you it's bad
>>558769486It's nice when you don't have a great game like Arc Raiders to compare it to
The enemy AI are ruining the game so far. It sounds good on paper to have real durable NPCs, but they just rush you and destroy squads in tight areas.
>>558757252why did escharum kill marathon
>>558769486I saw that reddit post lmaoYeah, maybe learn to form your own opinions moron>AAAA WTF REDDIT HATE THE GAME>I CANT PLAY WITHOUT READING REDDIT
>>558769594I guess the point is to avoid the AI?The game feels like such a clusterfuck
>>558769592They’re the same game. There’s no difference. Arc just has more engaging enemies, that’s it.
>>558769274I really wanted this game to be good and succeed but there's just not enough time for them to fix everything. One week is nothing. They'd need a month's worth of extensive tweaking to get it right, if they even listen to the correct criticism. They already had about half a year's worth of time to change things based on closed playtest feedback and THIS is what they shat out. I'm feel baffled and humiliated for trusting bungle to fix it in time.
>>558766376because consoletards are subhumans they're the reason modern gaming sucks as they're consoomer cattle that will lap anything they get
>0.25s ttkso much fun
I understand now BungieI understand now why yall went all in on Marathon. This is oozing style out the asscrack. Truly, yall have some real chefs on staff.
>>558766376>>558769748this game is 100% targeted at pc players, you are literally making up bogeyman to get angry at
12 hours in absolutely loving the game. This generation of gamers is a bunch of casual crybabies
Today has made me come face to face with how insufferable people can be about things that mean little to nothing.I, like many of you, have been playing the server slam. I was indeed skeptical but after playing for about 5 hours I pre-ordered the game.Coming from thousands of hours in Tarkov and other extraction shooters, Marathon feels like a breath of fresh air. It feels *premium*, and in my opinion it balances tension and vibes super well.I went on twitter, reddit and whatever other site to see how everyone else was feeling and jesus fucking christ what is going on? has everyone just become a drone of negativity and hate? i have never seen this amount of pure venom and vitriol for a new game.it almost feels like a parody of people being angry. people moaning about whatever and saying it’s DOA, saying just play Arc, barely communicating they’re problems with the game itself or self-admitting they’ve only watched streams… i could go on but it genuinely makes me feel like i’m losing brain cells.this hatred and anger feels like a weird sociological experiment and it’s extremely depressing. if you don’t like the game, nobody cares. if you do, that’s cool, i’ll see you in it, but people are acting like this game will kill their family and it needs to be destroyed.get a fucking grip please god.*EDIT* wanted to expand my thoughts. hope everyone is having a good night! genuinely do not interact with any of these people spewing hate, worst decision of my life.
>>558769925yea and it failed, I'm not playing this dog shitmeanwhile all the cope I see on reddit is>guys we finally have Tarkov but for consoles>we have never had a good extraction shooter before>arc raiders is for gay sissy faggots>not people like us who love Halo and Destiny
>>558769656The core shooting is Halo and Destiny, but those games have you taking out hundreds of enemies. The problem here is that there’s no way to deal with enemies aside from shooting.
The game is great, the devs cooked. Haters need to give it a chance. I’m loving it. Who else is feeling it?
Me and my crew is constantly getting destroyed by AI. And then it’ll spectate to another team on Dire Marsh, and they’re all downed too fighting AI. This is nearly unplayable. They didn’t fucking test this at all.
>>558769752Have fun being some new player in a white shield trying to deal with someone in purple or gold while they melt you in .10s with their purple guns. They didn't think this garbage through at all
>>558769675You're retarded and dumb
>>558770027he's right but for the wrong reasons
>>558770028i would advise you to not read reddit glaze comments. or go read reddit posts shitting on this (there are plenty)
