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Vocaloid Edition

Game Info:
>COME ON AND SLAM
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3065800/Marathon/
>Marathon Game Home Page
https://www.marathonthegame.com/
>Reveal Cinematic
https://youtu.be/fvbEnWLRo1s [Open]
>New Gameplay Trailers
https://youtu.be/hWwXSb7dlnQ [Open]
https://youtu.be/MXhQbF7TlbA [Open]
>New Gameplay Footage
https://youtu.be/ToVHiqE_S5k [Open]
https://youtu.be/l5JXX0KZioI [Open]
>The Entire History of Marathon
https://youtu.be/yu7uN6-lNhk [Open]
>Play the Original Marathon for Free
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398450/Classic_Marathon/
https://marathon.bungie.org/story/

Databases:
https://tauceti.world/
https://tauceti.gg/
https://marathonmeta.gg/


News:
>SERVER SLAM BEGINS FEBRUARY 26
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon-server-slam
>CHEATERS BANNED FOREVER NO SECOND CHANCES, LOOT WILL BE RETURNED TO AFFECTED USERS
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathonsecurity
>NEW OST TRACKS
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m7VJ7MwzXPMN7xwF-c24YlpWEsJXj65AI

Previous Thread
>>558909120
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First for that fucking ass bolt gun that shoots one shot at a time
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>>558935261
The Marathon comeback needs to be studied.
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>>558935261
you vill sacrifice your kind
you vill use ze knife
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>>558935663
>Gives shotty and lmgs
Sure senpai
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Give it to me straight.
How fucked am i as a 34yo that hasnt played FPS seriously since UT2K4 if i want to go hard-ish on this game?
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>>558936023
There is no shooting twitch skill needed in the game.
You can’t push people in this game. You outflank them and get the drop on them by being situationally aware.

As soon as you start fighting NPCs, you expose yourself.
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>>558935236
I would assume infinity technically wrote them into a corner, it's too confusing for 99% of people, "picking a timeline" just seems unfun (i.e "who cares about timeline 4, it was 1 mission") but they can't exactly ignore infinity either

>>558935275
that must mean that either marathon 2 didn't take place, or the w'rkncacnter was never released during marathon 2 due to the sun being blown up
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Game is ok, it feels like it's going to be a cool secondary game. Anyone playing this as their main game as it is rn has some serious issues.
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Why is there no sloptuber talking about how good this game is
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>>558936023
Take the volt thrower and shotgun and you'll be fine
Most of the game is getting the drop on the other dude first
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I don’t mind the game, but genuinely Bungie and Sony are insane for thinking that a high stakes, horror-esque PvP focused extraction shooter was going to be some sort of studio/live service defining game per player counts.
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Thread Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4PShDbJPx0

The music is very buglike in this game
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>>558935261
>you can get a thermal, spam smokes and kill everyone thru smoke
lol
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>>558936760
It's baffling anyone considered this to be of equal to or greater potential than Destiny. I like what Marathon is, but it's just not a fucking million CCU game.
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>>558935236
Jason Jones still works at Bungie, the only other writer they're missing is Greg Kirkpatrick. There's one of three options, either they went with the end of Marathon 2, since Infinity is technically from Greg and Double Aught and not Bungie, they went with one of the timelines in Infinity, or the W'rkncacntr is fucking with reality (hence the anomalies). Either way, when you're dealing with hopping timelines and eldritch time altering space horrors the fun part is that you can kind of do whatever you want.
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>>558936949
I like this a lot more than Destiny
I always hated the premise and artstyle of Destiny
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>>558936727
What are some good weapon mods for the Volt Thrower? I ducking love the gun but feel like I do no damage
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>>558937054
God I'd love the PvE MMO of Destiny but style, look, and story of Marathon
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Is Destiny any good?
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>>558937087
Whatever gives you more ammo desu
It has needler like auto aim so you don't have to worry that much
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Close your eyes for a second mr Bungie shill...

Imagine... A Hub, or Hub-Like space

...but on Marathon.

Think about that, it would make the UI waaaay more readable.
Every streamer that I watch try the game, they liked many things and hated others right? but EVERY single one complained abut the UI and menus.

You can fix that with a Hub. You are at time, think about the big picture
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>>558937054
Same, but compare the mass appeal - PvE (with PvP sprinkled in for those who want it), raiding, Diablo flavored looting and progression. It's something that your average dad can dedicate his after work hours to without getting mad. Meanwhile Marathon is mandatory stress, you can actively lose power by just getting turbo fucked by other players and end a night further back than you started.
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>>558937231
I think that's gonna be inevitable since every extraction/modern co-op shooter has a hub
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>>558937252
>Mandatory stress
I wouldn't say so, it's like playing a stealth game if you're just going for the non combat objectives in solo
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Man this game sucks.
I always die what the fuck is going on, there's no matchmaking putting me against other shitters it's always against sweaty fucks.
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>>558937252
I will always say it, they should have just copied Division. Have maps that are PvE and have areas that are PvPvE
Division 2 is still chugging away peacefully
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>>558937376
Literally just team up using free kits and do mida/cyac missions
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Blast status?
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>>558937376
>>558937376
awwwww, babbies first sandbox/extraction shooter
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>>558937252
This. There is no feel good element to the game.

The actual game, is trying to uncover a tense conspiracy through factions and in level missions, but that alone, seperate from the PvP, can only be good if the narrative is extremely engaging.

To be honest, a lot of normies only get attracted to character stories. They lack the intellect to discern what’s actually happening at a conspiratorial level in Marathon.

So without any cool characters to latch onto, that’s another story problem.

Anyway this whole game is not a mass appeal game. It’s wild the sort of marketing it received.
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>>558937297
It dont have to be like the other shooters, it can be way cooler!

imagine if you send recourses to an alternative reality where you didnt became a slave brain in a jar. Like a SOMA coin flip where you losed, but work for the "real" you.
Its not even "you" who enjoy the fruits of your labor, but the next dimension version of you. so its really grimm and cyberpunk.
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>>558937519
I actually kind of like it since it reminds me much of Death Stranding and STALKER in a way, especially with the dread you might get domed at any time.
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>>558937376
You’re playing it wrong. PvP is not the actual focus. Go in with free kits, do missions and get out.

I repeat this is not a PvP game.
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>>558937519
the guy that mention a place to call home was rigth, nothing feel welcoming on this game. at least narratively, but people fuck with that kind of thing.
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>>558937748
Go play Solium Infernum then
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>>558937376
Get Free Kits from the Armory, focus doing contracts for CyAcme and NuCal; shift fully into leveling NuCal to get green and blue shields at the Armory then go into Archne for the shotgun.
???
Congrats, the game is now 70% easier

Stick to walls, crouch when you're looting, ping enemies for team, pop structure radar towers are mid to far range, smg for mid to close, pistols are all three. Volt guns pop shields ballistics are better on flesh
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>>558937748
Im really waiting to see the next 2 maps, what if they are great?
One is on a Moonbase, and the other on a Spaceship, maybe on space? (probably on land)
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>>558937748
you've been posting this for like 2-3 days time to move on
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>>558937665
Yeah that's what i do, free kits i have nothing else anymore.
I dont even care when looting anything, i'll just end up being fodder for ghouls and wont bring it back to base.

>>558937517
Drop your faceit nigger
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>>558937748
i'm going to try the division 2 and borderlands 3. Seems like those are the only decent semi-modern looter shooters out there. Maybe Remnant as well.
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marathon is pretty good when you don't have a bitch in your ear telling you it's bad
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>>558937513
We have this many players on PC and we are only on the second page of best selling Playstation games, losing to Fallout 76, Warframe, Borderlands 4 and Forza Horizon 5. We are jamming and blasting.
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>>558937665
>Go in with free kits, do missions and get out.
get out? to where? Runners dont have home to go back! yet
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>>558937231
they have talked about adding a hub it will probably happen eventually
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>>558937879
drop yours shitter
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>>558937519
I don't know why Sony ok'd this when they're expecting mass appeal and extraction shooters are the exact oppisite
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>>558937994
>I don't know why Sony ok'd this
because Sony is fucking retarded.
t. ps5 owner
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>>558937664
>STALKER
This feeling is genuinely the only thing that keeps me going. The others are right about a lack of hub though, STALKER has those comforting moments of some friendlies huddling around a barrel fire with a guitar, and Marathon instead has you reach safety via a teleporter back to... blue, nothing. It's fitting to the lore, but that juxtaposition of comfort and stress could help make the game more appealing. Plus people love social hub / customization shit in a general sense.
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>>558937852
the other is on the marathon ship so yes it is in space, both the other two are in space, outpost has like a meteor storm event that you must stay indoors for during its duration
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>>558937924
OG Marathons are pretty good yeah, but new Marathon isn't. It has good potential and certain pieces are good, but it really doesn't work as a cohesive whole
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>>558937963
>they have talked about adding a hub it will probably happen eventually
where? did they say if it was going to be cool?

crazy they didnt think about release the game with one.
The STRONGEST point of the game is the setting (and maybe the music/sound desing), and a hub is the perfect way to show dont tell lore!

They can make it so cool if its an abstract cyberspace with some fake "warm" to it.
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>>558937748
>was hyped for highguard 2
lilbro...
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>>558937231
Is the Ui better on console because I just quit when I didn't understand what the green squares I was clicking was even doing
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>>558938038
I can confirm that Sony is fucking retarded
t. Sony employee
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The toilet spawn for Rook is pretty funny
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>>558938160
in an interview awhile back i cant remember exactly when but the question was in relation to wanting to try the guns before taking them into a raid, they said they are thinking about adding a hub/social hub, was a few months back
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>>558938163
>highguard
HG was all over the place and derivative, Marathon have a lot of cool lore, like the moths that preserve gene information etc
I just want cool lore man, give it to me.
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>>558938126
the biggest flaw is the genre

should've been a doom 2016 style reboot
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>>558937962
Delta Force actually does this part really well. It has the best “home base” aspect of all the shooters.
It also grounds you more in the world and characters.

If Marathon had a home base with some humans and some dudes in shells, it would be interesting.
In Delta Force, it’s really nice to walk around your base and those characters are your vendors.

With Marathon, the vendors are too far removed (Arachne is something you’d see on another planet in Warframe, NuCaloric wouldn’t have an in person represntative), so it all feels strange and too menu based.
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>>558938126
>OG marathon
OG Marathon had some of the worst fucking level designs and puzzles known to man
2 was pretty good but Infinity was straight trash
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>>558938230
>few months back
>still not done

blud wtf
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>>558937376
the casuals all quit, its not a fun game
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>>558938372
>the casuals all quit, its not a fun game
If play Fortnite teach me something if that casuals come back if something fun came on the update.
The Marathon ship map is already hype for me
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>>558938254
Its still weird that they never thought about Marathon the Doom 2016 treatment. If they felt like it didn't work with their current setting, then something like Doom 3 or Bioshock 1, would still be a good fit given the audio logs, setting, and it would be perfect for having small combat areas that the player is forced to fight in with the current combat system. Even the heat system would probably play fine with it.
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guys how do i fix my fucking ping so i can play it keeps spiking to 200 randomly and i cannot fucking play!!!!!!!!
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>>558938460
The reason people play Fortnite, and why Fortnite is so good is because of the rate of attention and experience.

There’s always something going on in a match and if not, there’s always a fun way to get around the map.
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>>558938460
1. Fortnite is free and not $40
2. Cryo archive is going to be the labs equivalent and there's zero chance casuals will ever get what's required to enter it.
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>>558938526
Move to Seattle, Washington.
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>>558938526
i literally live in washington like 2 hours from seattle
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>>558938615
Fortnite also had the luxury of not being a game that shareholders wanted to make back $3,600,000,000+.
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>>558938615
>2. Cryo archive is going to be the labs equivalent and there's zero chance casuals will ever get what's required to enter it.
And when they do, some rat nigger is going to shoot them from a dark corner while they're getting face-fucked by the high damage bullet sponge NPCs. Sending them back to the cuck perimeter maps.
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>>558938653
check controls, there is a section for some sort of vehicle
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>>558938652
Take dmg04's computer and play it on that, he's probably whitelisted for lower pings.
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>gold shields in the game
>take reduced damage if reinforced
seems reinforced shields wont be locked to gold, maybe people will finally stop whining about TTK when we start to see more of them
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>>558937748
>What the FUCK do I play now
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>>558938230
>>558938356
https://www.instagram.com/p/DI1W-V1TDp6
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>>558938802
>The game gets better after 50 hours bro, trust the plan
kek
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>>558938802
yeah ive seen reinforced shields before but there wasnt a clear definition like "take half damage". im pretty sure it was "take less damage".
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>>558938878
>44w ago
Oh Bungie lol
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>>558938952
pearls before swine.
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>>558938952
Better than anything Bungie made after Halo Reach
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Rook is genuinely fun, I've had some great interactions with other players. I've picked sides and helped in teamfights and 9/10 times the other team is thankful and will stop to chat or let me tag along. Maybe he's not required given all the free kits we are spoonfed, but I love Rook regardless.
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Things are looking GRIM
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>>558936760
People use the word satanism with Bungie, I think it’s closer to Scientology even the Destiny Hope For The Future has a reference to bridges and sky. I mean like what the fuck kind of voodoo did the tell people behind closed doors whether selling some big projects pitch,consulting to shut down Last of Us project, and anything in between. This is like lvl 20 speech check tests. I think Marathon isnt total shit but like this is what they had to work ages on, big dollars thrown around, this alleged is supposed to be a top 5 game or else,like what the fuck? I feel crazy trying to wrap my brain around it. It’s not bad stuff, and I think will have a scene, there’s dumb fun farting around, I had no expectation for Rook and it’s fun, but like this game isn’t going to catch everybody. Industry is in shit hole
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>>558939230
>20k player drop despite the entire FPS space putting #AD for 4 hours
FLOP INCOMING
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Why the hell does it take a calendar year to use any fucking heal.
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>>558938878
Thanks for the link anon
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>>558938883
LMFAO
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>>558937035
Xister, Jason Jones has as much involvement with nuMarathon as much as George Lucas has had with anything Star Wars recently. Use your fucking head
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Normies and Casuals will probably never reach End-End game, hell, you can even do the very first part on the Server Slam and it's hell.
Right now, the "easiest" way to enter Cryo/Marathon is going to Dire Marsh, head straight to the area where it looks like the earth is disappearing, cracked and a yellowish wall around it; in and around that are and surrounding structures you can find a Legendary/Exotic Anomaly. If you've played any of the Destiny games it looks like a Vex Cube you shoot to open doors (it's extremely digitialized ice cube crossed with Tron and the Matrix effects tinted blue)
It'll either be just floating off the ground or inside a container - once you grab the Anamoly two things happen, first EVERYONE on the map can now see you and two you first need to head to a randomly given location on the map in under three minutes to stabilize the Anomaly. Then (everyone on the map can still see you) you need to go to extract without going down (Bleedout not fully dead). In the Slam once you extract you get, I think 75k credits but in the full release that anomaly piece is part of a key to get into Marathon/Cryo and only *one* person, the person carrying it gets access
The Epic and Legendary tiered UESC Commander has a chance of dropping it in perimeter but it's rare
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>it gets better with shields anon ttk is fine
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>>558939230
Trust Paul Tassi's plan, the west coast is just having dinner, taking a nice bath, and will hop back on Marathon when they're done with church on Sunday.
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>>558937748
Jagged Alliance 2
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>>558939230
its a punishing game, no wonder casual shitters are turned off. its the same reason why tarkov is a niche game.
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>>558939372
it takes longer to heal that it takes to die
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>>558939582
The problem Bungie has is that it needs to be one of, if not the best selling game of the year. Watch out GTA VI...
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>>558939582
yea thats basically how its going to be, i expect a playerbase of 50-100k similar to tarkov, with big boosts during new seasons, and i'd be perfectly happy with that
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>>558939509
>v11
>600 rpm
have you shot the damn thing? that shit does NOT have 600 rpm.
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>>558939643
>and i'd be perfectly happy with that
Sony paid $3.6B for them. Destiny has only been losing money and Marathon got a delay that Sony didn't even want because it should have been done years ago.
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>>558939643
>i expect a playerbase of 50-100k
Who's gonna tell him?
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>>558939672
that the charge gun? maybe they dont have anyway of limiting clicks per minute. not sure
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>>558939492
>I think 75k credits but in the full release that anomaly piece is part of a key to get into Marathon/Cryo and only *one* person, the person carrying it gets access
>The Epic and Legendary tiered UESC Commander has a chance of dropping it in perimeter but it's rare
>BROS PLEASE IT GETS BETTER
>AFTER RELEASE YOU CAN GET INTO THE HARDER MAPS
>YOU JUST HAVE TO SURVIVE THE ENTIRE LOBBY
kek so the shitters will forever be stuck on these 2 garbage maps then. yeah that is great for player retention.
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>>558939643
nigga it cant even maintain 80k on a free weekend with bad word of mouth. you think somehow that will lead to more people playing it when they have to cough up 40 bucks?
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>>558939582
>>558939643
>spending $4 billion to make a niche game

BRAVO SONY
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>>558939739
i literally do not give a fuck what sony wants, i will play the game, im not on the board of sony idc about the earnings wtf??
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>>558939751
its the pistol you can cahrge yes. but spamming m1 does not even come close to 600 rpm.
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>>558939643
The big question sits in Bungie direction, when does the hustle kick in, monetize battle pass, only so many earnable cosmetics(which if what we see now, it’s not nothing but only so many palette swaps), and what will get paywalled in inevitable DLC. An anon brought up weeks ago , what if Bungie made somebody who dropped a DLC locked weapon turn into a base game placeholder for a non DLC haver, considering they got that Trace Status that turns a weapon into credits upon swapping hands enough times, I could buy the anon’s theory
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>>558939925
You won't be able to play the live service slop if it's not making enough money for Sony. Remember Concord? Bungie clearly doesn't, otherwise they would have cancelled this when they had the chance.
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>>558939895
yes i think it will stabilize at around 50k for the foreseeable future, i always thought people saying this would be a 2-300k player game were dreaming bc i realize this game is much more hardcore
i personally stopped playing bc i dont want to grind before release and have everything reset again
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>>558940106
>yes i think it will stabilize at around 50k for the foreseeable future
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>>558940004
Meds
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>>558940004
the game is already 1000x more successful than concord, concord literally got shut down in a week, concords studio also did not have the pedigree or record of bungie, its not getting shut down in a week, it will stabilize and like i said be basically a scifi tarkov with similar numbers and boons around updates
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10k - 30k is more realistic.
I genuinely fail to see any "hook".
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>>558940208
>It will stabilize
You guys say that as often as you say you're having a blast.
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>>558940239
thats because ur level 11 and dont understand the game yet
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I'm having fun...
I'm sorry...
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>>558940148
lets see where we are in a month, but also lets see where you are in a month (still a retard most likely)
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>>558940239
if you guys want a comparison to other normie games going on, elden ring/nightreign get about 30k on average still as well
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>This game is for everyone #MarathonTakeover
>Flops
>This is a hardcore game for hardcore pvp gamers, you have been filtered and just don't get it
What happens when they shut it down in 2 months?
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>>558940106
id say 30-40k by the end of march.
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>>558940360
>What happens when they shut it down in 2 months?
I move on? This isn't my personality or my job.
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>>558940280
>recycled meme #5000
+500 4chan points to you sir!
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Why would I ever pick Guarded Exfil unless it's 3m left in the match and literally my only option? I'll just wait 60s for the new ones to pop in.
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>>558939825
>>558939492
Sounds like very watchable content, can’t wait to shove my plug my ass and tune into a bungie approved content creator who will pull some degen hours to get it and advance the watchable narrative because god forbid Bungie is ever normal about anything
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>>558936023
>2k credits per run to bring 3 green shield and health kits
this game is doa
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I hope you guys realize that within 3-4 days of the full games release the 1% of the playerbase is going to effectively have the game on lockdown due to gear disparity (there's no counterplay like Tarkov) and just endlessly farm people until the population drops to like 10k within a week.

The TTK is currently low, but it's an even playing field. With golden guns, it's not even remotely even.
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>>558940239
wait for the full game, but personally i just enjoy the open world pvp vibe and like killing players so thats enough hook for me
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It will stabilize
I'm having a blast
The more you play the more fun you have
Games don't need high player counts
Bungie cooked
Preorder now
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>>558940493
Maybe I'm coping but I feel like either credit value is super undertuned or cost is overtuned so people cannot cheese as badly. I've only had a few games right now where I got over 3k on extract, I tend to average 1500.
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>>558940537
I’m just waiting for the moment people are going to be in Outskirts with gold gear just grief farming new players.

I wouldn’t even put it past Bungie haters to do that and ruin the game.
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>>558940282
>you just have to play 50 hours to get it
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>>558940452
i do it on void bc its easy to just stealth and throw smoke, can keep enemy players away as well
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>>558940429
>I move on? This isn't my personality or my job.
Now say that without crying
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>>558940668
Isn't matchmaking done by overall party loot value
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>>558940670
>you just have to spend 50 hours in the thread of a game you hate to get why im such a retarded gay cuck
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>>558940830
Why would I cry...?
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>>558940847
What's wrong with being gay?
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>>558940808
>posted it again award
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How the fuck do people run out of ammo and miss extract so often? Literally just fucking do your objectives and leave?
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>>558939639
>2025
that was last year, I wonder if they have better chances now on 2026
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Could have just made 3 player division survival fleshed out to a full game instead of this frankenstein abomination no-one likes
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>>558940926
>pulled out one of his 500 pictures of gay men from his hard drive
thank you for proving my point
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>>558940668
>I wouldn’t even put it past Bungie haters to do that and ruin the game.
You know what must be done /mg/
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>>558941048
I'm sure the extra 6 months of losses probably made it better for Bungie kek
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>>558940945
yea because they probably genuinely feel that way and want to see some discussion bungie shill
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>>558940990
How the fuck is that supposed to be fun
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>>558940887
because you a bitch
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>>558941064
What's wrong with being gay though?
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/bungie-pride-2023
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It's returning a blast to form!
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>>558941225
How does that make me a bitch?
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>>558941220
This game was supposed to change gaming forever
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>>558941275
>continues to show his catalog of gay links and memorabilia he has saved to his computer
we get it already you like cock
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If you think about it, Chris won and Bungie lost. I hope he gets his $200M (price it cost to make Marathon btw)
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>>558941275
maybe this pressuring times make them fire all the troons and add a Hub to the game.
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>>558939492
>>558939825
>>558940473
So wait, is the fourth map just flat out inaccessible for solos then? Nobody is capable of doing the anomaly shit solo given that it literally puts a KOS tracker on you on the map.

This game has not been thought out.
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>>558940990
First five minutes of the game you shouldn't be using your gun. All the semi-normal UESC enemies can be taken out in one to two hits with melee and if people are doing the free kit, it comes with a bag of ammo that most people forget to use to get more ammo for the starting weapon.
UESC turrets drop a piss ton of ammo too.
Also smokes completely neutralize UESC so you toss a smoke go into melee and wale on them till they die as they slowly walk out of the smoke then have a Chem or EMP in your bag for when you run out of smokes for Runners
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>>558941420
>This game has not been thought out.
Is this your first Bungie game?
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Why is this hardcore game not appealing to the casual audience?
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>>558941420
wait if I kill the anomally guy, I dont get the key myself?

They just need to do that so if YOU kill the tracked guy you get the Marathon key (and if you get killed it goes to the next one etc)
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>>558941490
They're stupid fucking chuds
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>>558941463
>it comes with a bag of ammo that most people forget to use to get more ammo
this has to be the shittiest mechanic
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>>558940537
Add in just the likelihood Bungie is going to slack on any balance. Idc if they want the heal bitch to be more dignified and integral, Triage is absolute horse shit for removing so much brain power over heals and consumables for the team and the bot being able to be glued to your team for ages is a scam. Also can’t forget Thief, basically can see if loot was fucked with, can get outlines with xray when having line of sight, drone scans people, she can steal shit, she has very strong cores that of course naturally make her better, and movement tech with strand grapple, are you shitting me? Vandal looking pretty dog shit next to that
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>>558941490
>Why is this hardcore game not appealing to the casual audience?
Unironically Lack of Hub, small objectives and a Pet at the hub (Casuals that NEVER heard of Marathon LOVED THE PINK CAT check adjunct image >>558940890)
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>>558941420
>So wait, is the fourth map just flat out inaccessible for solos then? Nobody is capable of doing the anomaly shit solo given that it literally puts a KOS tracker on you on the map.
Yes. If by some miracle you do manage to get into the map, you will have the fun opportunity to die to a rat after you spend 10 mags and 30 medical items on some bloated HP boss. Thus sending you back to the starter town maps to start the process all over again.
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Not sure why people are even questioning if the game will succeed or fail when the creative director and architect for the pile of festering shit we have now left Bungie just last month quietly as they could be (he was the lead designer for Valorant before he left that prior to his gig at Bungie)
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>>558941583
triage is basically the go to frame for free kits, the infinite healing is insane
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>>558941653
>Not sure why people are even questioning if the game will succeed or fail when the creative director and architect for the pile of festering shit we have now left Bungie just last month quietly as they could be (he was the lead designer for Valorant before he left that prior to his gig at Bungie)
chat is this good news or bad news?
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>>558941653
Art director left too (probably fired, but publicity)
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>>558940537
extraction game players genuinely do not deserve this aesthetic and universe, i am seething.
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>>558941064
>keeping proof of your ennemies degeneracy and hypocrisis is being attracted to what they commit
you need to go back
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>>558941653
>>558941752
>>558941754
at least double check your facts before you post rumors from /v/ because Ziegler is still very much running the show at bungie
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But what if they add fun pve modes down the line?
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>>558941636
Unironically there is a mind numblingy apparent easter egg on Dire Marsh to trigger Bingus to appear.
Chuckle fucks in the YT Discord I'm in refuse to elaborate but constantly take pictures of it from a distance. All I could get from them is that they start to appear on top of structures on Dire Marsh and as you get closer jumps and phases out
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>>558940537
and the best shield barely shaves off a second from 99% of the guns in ttk
its a fuckin shitshow if they dont do something about it.
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>>558941840
There won't be anyone left at Bungie to implement it
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>>558941758
I love the Lore and also Im seething
Imagine if you could have your own in universe place to experience the lore outside menus, they can keep it cool cyberpunk
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>>558941780
yea man its totally normal to have tons of images of gay shit on your computer alongside whatever horrific fucked up porn you have on there, totally normal! keep on fighting the good fight my totally not closeted culture warrior!! hoorah!
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>>558941672
I was autistically farting around with counting frames, things boosted off cores, etc, like you could slow down his heal bots by like half speed and it would still be free as shit. Like in a game when keeping on top of health is a thing, the triage healing is just insane. Even the shareware effect where you eat consumable buff and give it to people with bots like cmon. That is busted.
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>>558941784
theres like 15 of these retards that think fuding the general is going to hurt the game somehow. there is zero reason to engage with them
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>>558941865
>Unironically there is a mind numblingy apparent easter egg on Dire Marsh to trigger Bingus to appear.
Ok. That based and Bingus-pilled, but Men, Imagine if you can have your own bingus on your hub?

(I LITERALLY looted a prototype pet on the game, and it was an autosell item, wtf? I WANTED for my stash, ONIGGER dont have the right to auto sell Him (it was a white prototype cat, I cant be the only one that looted that item, Im the only one?))
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I really would love to know how much money Bungie is giving Skarrow because this fuck has been doing Marathon advertisements for the last two years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6S3kh8bvzM
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Wasn’t there gonna be ingame trophy room?
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>>558942137
>Wasn’t there gonna be ingame trophy room?
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>>558942056
this is the worst type of advertising.
>you dont like it because you just aren't playin the game correctly
i feel like i have to take it personally. playin shooters since doom as a kid for over 30 years, and i'm just missing some easy component like taking an angle like i haven't played a fuckin videogame in my life or applied that to something like throwing a fucking ball to play fetch with my dog
im crashing out
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>>558941840
The game is an endless cycle of suffering by design, they won't do that. Bungie legitimately want (You) to suffer
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>hamster wheel: the game
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>>558942137
GIVE MY PET AND HUB (maybe a range to shoot my shitty weapon to test nerd shit like this >>558939509)

It can be all fake and on Tron dimension for what I care so it fit your Art director Trans vision
GIVE IT US THIS SOON OR THE GAME IS DEAD FOR CASUALS
WE NEED VISUAL THING TO ATTACH NARRATIVES, NO MENUS
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>>558942056
That fat fuck does it for free whenever he can. They probably send him some McDonald's gift cards every 6 months or so.
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>The original person that one of the mass produced shells was based off of has gone rogue and has a chance of spawning in certain areas as an ultra strong ai controlled player with enhanced versions of their shell’s abilities
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>>558942019
>everyone just hates the game ignore them
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>>558941780
I like how he lost so he's just trying to concern troll now
>>558941929
you sound upset bungie shill
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>>558941784
>Ziegler is still very much running the show at bungie
You mean Justin Truman
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There won't be a hub because you are literally an engram floating in quantum flux until you get slammed into a shell and shot towards Tau Ceti IV.
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>>558942269
this doesn't have a practice erena? holy shit
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>>558942493
r/Marathon is the hub
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>>558942056
I've never seen so many content creators and people on social media defend Marathon, in particular, the that they do it.
>Games not bad you're just not playing it correctly
>Games perfectly fine, maybe it's just not for you even though you play Tarkov, Arc Raiders, and Forever Winter
>The Shells are perfectly balanced and make sense, you're just not using Triage and Vandal the correct way
>The game is great and I'm having fun though, I still do have some critiques
Oh yeah? Which?
>The UI is the worse offender and not anything else - everything else is perfectly fine though and doesn't need to be fixed.
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>Ziegler
>Truman
So who was the guy that give us the cool lore and what the one that refuses to give us a hub?
So we can hate correctly from now on
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>>558942493
they are going to have that as a cinematic as you load into the game in the full game, right?
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Is bungie actually completely fucked if this game isn’t a smash hit or has everything been exaggerated from a long ass game of telephone?
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>>558942056
Skarrow is basically trying to fill the Datto role. He also has been in cahoots with that limey pustule Mr Roflewaffles because Bungie basically gave him money to get CoD kiddies to play Marathon, he preemptively knew BO7 would suck so that’s when you basically had Roflwaffles all of a sudden start showing up in D2 content creator videos, making a d2 stuff, was on stage at GCX and very inorganic situations. He tried to cover his tracks and flip shit around by claiming how toxic the D2 community was but mostly it was him trying to make content for a game not a lot of people even watch and failing, and just how people knew he was a rat fuck. Skarrow was trying to ride that wave and my guess is that he figured that he could somehow pivot to Marathon and be like “the guy” for it but naturally people saw how bad Skarrow shills and appropriately roasts him for it.
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>>558942536
>this doesn't have a practice erena?
Lore reasons...
I dont know how that poor soul made the excel sheet without one
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>>558942576
Pete Parsons left last year, 1 year before his retention bonus maxed out because he knew how bad Marathon would be. Is that who you're asking about?
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>>558942579
LMAO
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>>558942259
that's all games
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>>558942689
>I dont know how that poor soul made the excel sheet without one
HOLY SHIT
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>>558942620
Bungie is very much fucked if this fails, you know how they're releasing this in March? It's because they don't want to miss the end of the 2025 fiscal year even though they're launching to a lot of competition.
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>>558941929
Read the url in your browser page, you're on 4chan.
Kill yourself shill.
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>>558942782
>if
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>>558942690
I really like all the implied lore on the game, with the genetic weirdness, and the high tech that make everything nihilistically pointless and greedy at the same time. The Soul trap and body horror, the collapsing feeling behind the colorfulness.

I saw the photos with all the females and basedboys on the dev team, but Im sure there is some capable people behind that bringing the big themes to the game
>>558942620
Even this image, look how grandiose and mysterious it feels. There is some capable dude here. was the dude that left the team already isnt
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>>558940493
didnt mean to reply

>>558940601
yeah i have 20k banked but i freekit a lot. been getting assraped today though, 6 games in a row where we frag out but get third partied and everyone revives too often. id be broke already if I was actually buying guns, ammo, shield, and meds each game.
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>>558942805
Meds
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>>558942805
It's not normal.
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>>558942620
People called everybody liars, haters, doomers, incels, etc about “the rumors of low Final Shape pre orders” and then Destiny took one of the longest delays it had in the game’s history because the content they originally had was a lot less than what actually ended up in the game. Sometimes internet bullshit has some truth
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>>558942620
Little bit of Column A a little bit of Column B
Sony hasn't said it outright but everyone assumes that they're expecting/thinking tons and tons of players are gonna play it when in reality not only is it an Extraction Shooter it's based off of the most sweatlord-tier ES Tarkov
Then you find out that Sony didn't want to but gave Bungie an extra year to make this thing work and even delayed Destiny 2's next expansion/episode/update for three fucking months; virtually killing it in its entirely (the TWAB, for instance, the weekly news update has now been typed by AI for the past three weeks) when you realize that most people who play Destiny 2 play it for the PvE above all else so its very unlikely they'll play let alone enjoy Marathon
On top of all of that we have this free weekend and after the initial release it's permanently lost 50% of its player base when other games in the same class/genre sustained higher numbers for their Alpha/Beta/Demo Previews for the game; and looking at Steam Charts for games being bought Marathons Pre-Orders are abysmal
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Would you queue up as rook with me on NA?
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you can imagine how the comments explaining their truthful reasoning go regarding down/upvotes
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how are we doing sisters?
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>>558943073
It's actually the best game I've ever played. I'm having a blast.
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>>558943092
Doing knife-only Rook runs...
Probably killing the game for people as I win 1v3 with just a knife...
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>>558943092
Oh you know, just getting mogged by Wallpaper Engine.
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>>558942782
whats fucked up is, despite me wanting it to succeed(it wont), guess who will get blamed for it?
>you, the gamer who said you didn't like it
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>>558942493
>”in order to combat mental instability that can arise when a human consciousness spends extended time in an immaterial environment, runners have been provided a physical personal leisure quarters and communal recreation centre”
There, done
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>Marathon about to break into the Top 5 sellers in US
uh oh
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>>558942987
Everyone also theorized that the Final Shape delay was mainly due to Marathon taking up a lot of resources (Marathon was supposed to release two years ago) and after they saw their half assed expansion barely attracted hype they were tardwrangled into doing a bunch of content for D2 like Pantheon and adding more to TFS itself like the prismatic "subclass" which was really just more asset recycling. The assumption is that this also internally delayed Marathon in the process, then they scrambled to try to make two live services work at the same time but failed miserably and here we are now.
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>>558942493
THIS ONE GET IT
>>558943206
Virtual cyberspace is essentially FREE for a corporation, pay with fake reality, Get REAL LIFE material gains

ABSOLUTELLY DYSTOPIC and it give us a Hub, and cool shit.

We ARE the guy in this pic, we sell our real soul for Virtual Gains. IT FITS MARATHON
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That's kind of crazy I thought everyone hated this game and refunded it
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y'all folks need to chill, marathon is actually a blast to play
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>>558943391
>26 views
obsessed
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>>558943238
>>558943376
Love to see where all these purchases are coming from like Shareholder and CEOs off-shore accounts or something.
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>>558943176
>Wallpaper Engine
That cant be real, no way people are having a BLAST with Wallpaper Engine.
Has to be bots.
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>>558943431
Yes #MarathonPartner
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I just saw someone named CunnysaurusSex in-game
isn't that illegal?
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>>558943436
Meds
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>>558943042
Said in the other post but that Final Shape delay held marathon back a bit as well. 10 Year Destiny anniversary gets turned into Into The Light filler freebie before Final Shape drops and they took people off Marathon to ensure that was squared away as well as Final Shape that was on delay. Marathon was supposed to be like I think? early autumn 2024? Early public testing was late 2023 originally but yeah I can completely buy the theories a lot of this shit got reworked badly even before sitting in hands of recent testing
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>>558943439
>Has to be bots.
it is, the kremlin wants to see marathon fail
but us blasthavers are going to save it
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>>558943376
>>558943238
Blasting thru the Charts boys
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I've come to realize that the AI isn't even that good. the AI doesn't really take cover, flank, remember your last seen position, or even shoot accurately, they just have so much fucking health and automatically sidestep when they get shot that that makes them "hard" to fight.
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Man, I actually really like everything about this game, except the fact that it's PVP.
I would kill for a game like this that is just co-op.
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>>558943436
oof. Let that sink in
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>>558943504
Maybe, go and report them so Bungie loses another preorder.
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why is it that people act like you raped their mother if you enjoy this game
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>>558939509
>>558939509
i dont get it. it takes a whole second to kill someone? i could swear its way shorter if you hit ur shots. people in white or green basically die instantly.

also
>BRRT ttk
i feel like thats a lie. thats just not accurate.
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>>558943391
i can already tell this guy is black
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The only blast that will be happening is sony shareholders next week.
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>>558943603
>get btfo on /v/
>come back here to complain

LMAO
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>>558943540
Destiny 2 sorta exists and has the exact same enemy archetypes, too bad they killed it.
Destiny 1 also has the same enemy archetypes and animations (not kidding) and is widely considered the better game at the moment.
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>>558943653
>i feel like thats a lie. thats just not accurate.
Maybe we could test if thats true...

If we have a Hub with a Range to test ttk...
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The reason why I’m hesitant to completely buy into the “bungie is FUCKED is marathon doesn’t become a worldwide hit” is because they would’ve had some time to tweak the art direction into something a bit safer with more mass appeal if that was the main priority, but they didn’t. (Could’ve just been out of stupidity but idk)
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>>558943653
theres another list somewhere https://marathon-guide.com/weapons/grid

even with purple shield, only i think repeater has a ttk of 2.something. everything is below 2 seconds ttk
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I still can't believe they focused on this slop for 6 years instead of Destiny 3.
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What does Signal Jammer mean?
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>>558943742
thanks for confirming your complaints are culture war mental illness and you have no actual interest in good games, valuable contribution
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>>558943772
>(Could’ve just been out of stupidity but idk)
Is this your first Bungie game?
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>loot shit
>get killed
>loot shit
>loot more shit
>get killed before i can extract
I had so much fun in that 1 hour gaming session truly a return to form.
Worst part is i dont even know what i did wrong, i dont see the game having a future at all i'm sorry bros.
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>>558943830
This guy is still having a meltdown? You sound completely mindbroken with all this culture war posting, like just close your eyes internet words can't hurt you.
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>>558943830
What do you consider a good game, sir?
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>>558943823
probably can't be tracked with the recon pulse or smth idk
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>>558943073
>after several hours
These guys aren't even hiding that they are paid
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>>558943772
They just need to add Hub, where you see things

Why even a brain in a Jar would peruse thru menus to pick a loadout? how it even pick the guns from the stash if it dont even have hands/virtual body?

The lack of Hub make less sense on this setting
Also that could fit the PINK CAT that every casual know.
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>>558943823
It counters Signal Diggers
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>>558943898
Why are you apologizing for not having fun? It's a video game.
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>>558943896
0.25₹ have been deposited to your account saar!
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>>558943715
Destiny has more of a MMO style of progression and preset mission style, I kinda want this gameplay loop with the "per-run" stakes but with the focus on PVE.
I'm just sad about the artstyle, it's extremely my shit and I don't think a big budget game is ever going to touch it again.
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>>558943436
I still call bluff that there is some fudging of numbers when it comes to vendors and more official retailers. Just like how Bungie was selling Destiny bundle keys on green man for a special charity thing for their bungie foundation and they wrote off the copies as a loss for taxes and then can scam doubly with the sale factored in towards charity
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>>558944015
So you basically want helldivers, I get what you mean this game has a lot of the same vibes. Too bad Bungie can only do small static maps, it's genuinely sad that just by playing for one day I already fully memorized the entirety of the maps, all this prefab artstyle would lend itself very well to procedural generation, like what was Bungie thinking?
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>>558943504
I wish I screen shotted it but I saw somebody who had the lucky10p’s son timelost handle
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>>558943552
LMAO
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>>558942493
>There won't be a hub because you are literally an engram floating in quantum flux until you get slammed into a shell and shot towards Tau Ceti IV.
If ONI the npc can have a Physical body representation, The Player can too. It would make the presentation easier to read to the casual player.
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>>558944113
Helldivers has absolutely no verticality
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so, how many more enemy types are they holding off on showing us? Sure the main releae is going to have a lot more variety than human shaped robot 1, 2, and 3.
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>>558944253
humanoid robots but RED, maybe YELLOW if you're good
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>>558944253
The game have a lot of water environments, maybe some lurking alien that pop out if you get near water.
I want more body horror, like half bio half robot. Arent they growing biomaterial on the labs or something
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>>558944113
>it's genuinely sad that just by playing for one day I already fully memorized the entirety of the maps
Worse than that (and an actual problem) is that the player spawns are too easy to remember. At this point I know all the spawns, so I can just cheese people that think they’re safe for the first minute of a game by killing them when they’re sprinting to wherever they wanna go
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>>558944113
Kinda, I haven't actually played HD2 but AFAIK it doesn't have the punishment for dying? like an extraction game has. Or at least not in this scale.
Also agree on the map gen, it's also disappointing that so much of it is the generic open-worldslop types of areas like jungles and wastelands when it could have been a really fucking interesting futurist-urban setting to lean on. Though apparently the last locked zone seems to be what I'm looking for.
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jfc this codex page. this is some DRY lore.
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>>558944205
Does ONI have a physical body?
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>>558944491
At least you don't have to download an app to view it this time.
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>>558943979
I like arc raiders menu, where the order you unlocked your workships, is how you they show up in your house, its just a little nice flavor customization that reset on wipe
and you get a pet that gets the basic resources for you after every mission, doesn't matter if you succeed or not
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>>558944484
they could redeem it if they make us go on spaceships with labyrinth type corridors to navigate
they need an area to constrast the clown world character designs. everything looks like a bouncy castle right now
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>>558943771
i thought it was way lower than 0.5ms on average
that ttk seems pretty high actually..
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>>558944643
Isn't the Marathon supposed to be this giant moon sized spaceship? It would be a perfect setting for procedurally generated maps, just a completely different experience each time too.
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>>558943923
yea he's been shitposting the last few hours
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>>558944563
If she can have a big ol head, we should be able to have a body too. How is she supposed to sell my things for credit if nobody have hand on the brain jar????

>>558944603
It have to be a little more dystopic and sad, but something like that. Arc Raiders is surpricingly warm, people are literally playing instruments and singing songs on that game. We cant have that.
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>>558944643
>clown world character design

what does that even mean
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>>558944814
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>>558944814
>clown world
2016 linguo for woke, Nonsensical but flashy? Check Concord designs for what he probably mean by clown world
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>>558944491
It's astounding how little effort they put into it, most codex entries are literally in the paragraph length.

How hard is it to hire a starving writer to actually write?
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>>558944860
nta but seen from afar, she really does look like some kinda clown, even her lipstick just looks retarded.
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>>558943771
>>558944716
how did people decide the smaller TTK was called a "High" ttk, its a lower number than a bigger number, but maybe there is a reason for it
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>>558944982
>>558944923
thats just how i describe it. im tryin to say it in a good way by the way. i like it but the game balance and marketing is almost making me give up on it.
like knowing i have to put my cat down in few days so im mentally preparing for it.
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>>558944860
>>558944982
seriously, who is realistically customizing their shell to look like that while trying to earn credits
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>>558936760
I don't really think it's horror-esque, aside from the music and jumpscare sound effects. The actual game is a little cyberpunk in aesthetic with ADHD elements. I think where they fail is thinking this appeals to a big audience.

I don't think Extraction games are going to be the next big thing unless the formula undergoes some really important evolution. I hated dying at exfil, I hate dying because I can't find exfil, and I hate dying and losing all my stuff if I carry it into the map. That said, I also played EvE Online for years and I'm used to losing shit when I die. Taking that into account, I never go in with anything but the free or sponsored kit.

Adding a story to your Extraction game is kind of neat, but it's all so fucking predictable and you can totally see the twist coming that I'm just not that impressed. At a minimum, they should find a way to smooth out the process of getting into the game and recovering from your losses. Losing from RNG when the RNG doesn't even give you anything worth the randomness, unlike the rewards you can make from gambling at the casino, just makes this feel unfair.
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>>558944936
Probably got Grok to write it
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>>558945089
I think in the lore runners don’t get to customise their shells, they just kind of receive whatever the silkworms from sekiguchi shit out
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>>558937054
They both have their appeal but I think they completely fucked up with Destiny. Not even Destiny 2, but original Destiny. They took the science fantasy aspect in the wrong direction and every expansion has shrunk the setting rather than expanded it.
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>>558944716
you're using words as a manipulation tool and its making me hostile
>thought it was WAY LOWER than .5
were going off fuckin milliseconds man. you are not a super human robot to be able to talk like that.

some of these guns are hitting .5 and less on purple shields. thats fucking low.
in an actual practical setting of seeing someone, pointing your crosshair at them and pressing trigger, 1.5-2 seconds is fast as fuck.
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>>558945103
I hope they go darker in tone.
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>>558945206
>you are not a super robot
what are you talking about retard?
any good player has a reaction time below 200ms. the difference of 500ms vs 1200ms is fucking massive.
and besides the snipers, railgun and maybe magnum no gun has a ttk that fast.
the V11 ttk on that chart is simply false, the firerate is wrong.
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>558945218
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HOW DO YOU KILL A UESC COMMANDER? THEY ALWAYS HAVE BARRIER UP
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You absolutely get melted in this game. There’s zero movement to react to anything either.

I had one encounter pushing someone reviving a teammate, got to them, face to face, two shot gun shots on them and about 13 smg bullets into me and it’s over. That’s at full health and green shields.

That’s gotta be about 0.6 seconds.

Where did they get this idea for the ttk from considering Halo and Destiny’s shield system is fine here?
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>>558945218
Even if they do I don't know that I would care. Part of the appeal of "mercenary" stories is the idea that you can do what is rare in the real world: pull yourself up to success and wealth through immense personal risk. If they go darker and nihilistic then what's the point?
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Please post webms of yourself getting beamed in 0.5s or less by guns. I want to know what I'm missing...
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>>558945103
>anything but the free or sponsored kit.
You literally get showered with free shit via completing objectives and leveling up your faction relations, what do you have to save
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>>558945364
lets bring up the v11 numbers to tryin and discredit the list alright man lets do that. very good lets call me a retard too im sure that really will make me listen to you

holding m1 for 2 seconds to get a kill at the most, is fuckin insane. shut the fuck up. no one wants to pvp in a game like that except sweaty fuckin morons who have monetary gain in it.
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>>558945424
I want the Halo Infinite grapple in this. That'd help a lot.
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>>558945434
That why they need to add a Virtual home of cyber pleasures to came back after each runs. So you fill like you are building something.
I hope they listen.
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>UESC BMs you as you die by pumping some more rounds into you
Okay that kind of made me laugh.
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>>558945490
im sure its easy to picture gettin one tapped by a shotgun.
i know because its happened to me
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>>558945490
Its feels fast, and is one of the most common complains. They need to change the ttk or they are cooked (on the bad sense of the word)
that and the UI
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>>558945146
idk they seem pretty personalized, but maybe its just junk they put on
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>>558945515
>2 seconds is insane
I get it, you never played FPS games in your ENTIRE LIFE. But this isn't World of Warcraft, Runescape or New World.
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>>558945410
Kite it around a pillar or a table and shoot it on the head by the sides, or throw a smoke grenade and knife it to death.
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I think at least 70% of the people complaining about dying instantly would likely have their problems solved if they played destroyer. His thruster dash is the easiest way to stop yourself from getting absolutely fucked since the dash is almost impossible to track, and you can cover enough ground with him to actually make it to cover when you get jumped or need to push

but of course everyone just wants to play triage for free heals or assassin because he looks cool, both of which require good positioning, so they inevitably die because they're fucking retarded
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>>558945643
i haven't played a shooter intensely since 1.6 and source
i know what a spray from an AK and m4 is like. that shit is ingrained in me.
its even worse in this game because of aim assist. its insane. quit tryin to defend it.
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>>558945643
You never played good FPS games in your life but Halo 3 was peam with BRs
Even Arc Raiders doesn't allow people to die in 2 seconds.
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>>558945642
Like that! where does she sitting if not on a place???

Why the toons can have bodies to hang out on cinematics but not on gameplay?

We need a hub so that make any sense.

Vandal is on a place in that webm, but not on a run, she HAS to be hanging out somewhere, even if its a virtual world, that it was I mean.
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>>558945704
This game needs Halo’s ttk. I’d even just get rid of shields and all this shit, just make a full shields and let them recharge slower.
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>>558945679
>you're just playin the game wrong thats why you're dying
>just have good positioning
holy fuck sarr
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>>558945679
>they're fucking retarded
Yes! Thats the casual playerbase
Do you want the game to succeed or not????
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>>558945762
I seriously thought thats what this game was going to be, I'm so upset
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>>558945762
thats what i was expecting but apparently everyone that played destiny 2 was okay with this because they are used to it.
im sure thats where this anon came from>>558945643

keep hearing how the playtesters bitched about the long ttk because they couldn't, get this, listen closely, they weren't able to 1v3 a whole squad by themselves, you know, for..."hype moments"
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>>558945510
Honestly? Nothing. At the end of a run I see a lot of shit get saved to my vault and then I have to sell it manually. The only longer-term stuff I have in there are 3 guns and their ammo. I sell off mods and shit because I don't know what to do with them yet.
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>>558945734
they obviously fucked up and just paid 800 people to jerk off for 6 years
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>>558945679
I don't know. I got two-shot when some runner flanked my team while we were reloading after we killed 5 UESC bots and another runner. That was nasty, especially when my health bar wasn't flashing red or anything. How are you even supposed to learn where the exfil spawns when that happens?
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>>558945976
they really need a quick way to mass select and sell shit in your UI
holding a button for individual stuff will be such a pain when you have a ton of it
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the ttk for a game like this is really uninteresting, fights are over before they start based on who sees who first like cowadooty lobbies.
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>>558946008
It can be still images like *** ******* hubs, nothing fancy
maybe a little of movement or glitch effect to show its fake.

They still have a chance to fix things up! Im hopeful
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>>558945698
ok unc from portugal, ttk in cs is literally like 200ms. so 2-5 times faster than this game.
>>558945704
Oh yeah? Try me. I played
>quake
>unreal tournament
>cs
>titanfall
>tribes
>cod
>battlefield
>every half life 1 and 2 mod you can think of, including of course Day of Defeat
>timesplitters
>halo
>medal of honor
>crysis
>killzone
>portal
>borderlands
>fear
>serious sam
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>>558946070
um anon, your tension gauge? your hype moment?
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>>558945679
You can also pretty much instantly slide on Vandal to get the same result so long as there's a doorway/cover that doesn't require jumping.
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>>558946205
forgot to mention
>apex legends
and yeah ttk is literally a fraction of this game in almost all of them
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how do you progress if you just die 50 matches in a row
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>>558946205
>2 seconds
>2-5 faster

>when the second fastest time on purple shields is 2 seconds~

you lost. you're retarded. your argument will never work in your favor. keep listing single player shooters like it means anything in a multiplayer context for a half baked genre from the past 10 years

im seeing no Doom and you want to slap in borderlands so therefore you're a faggot
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>>558946291
I think a lot of people are complaining because they don't know how fragile they are.
I do find it annoying that the waster and the long shot are completely fucking broken compared to most other guns aside from the autoaim volt throwers
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Oh so if you aim long enough with the Volt Thrower it locks on then auto aims
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>>558946328
How the hell do you die 50 times in a row?
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>>558946568
Huh?
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>>558946568
cool idea
Guns should have a tracker on how many runners or UESC murdered
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>>558946714
>Guns should have a tracker on how many runners or UESC murdered
Definitely.
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>bloodlusting as Rook
yeah this is comfy honestly
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>>558946673
stops gear trading and giving it to your friends, not really if it has multiple traces
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>>558946568
I don't understand the purpose of this?
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>>558947035
Makes items leave the economy. Prevents gear trading. Essentially it's a good thing to be honest.
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Cheeseburger
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>>558947419
Ham... burg... er...
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>endscreen doesnt show damage dealt to players

>>558946358
>reddit formatting
>bad english
didnt read
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General as dead as the game.
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i feel weird talking to girls bros, how do i mute their voice so I don't have to deal with it?
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>load into a map
>run around for 5 minutes
>get ganked and die immediately
>repeat
story of my 5 matches so far
wow this genre is so good, I can see how everyone is having a blast
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https://unityispower.io

Can you solve this Wordle?

The password is D5GY78C
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Ok this shit is cool.
Soul Redeemed
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>>558947654
>i feel weird talking to girls bros
Always roleplay as a Robot or cartoon character. Always
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>>558945896
But you can’t 1v3 in other games anyway.

Fortnite I can sort of do it, Apex maybe if you’re zippy, Halo no, CSGO maybe, Siege sometimes.

Every game fucking does this recently. They do these closed tests with “content creators” (you make YouTube videos don’t kid yourself) and they base the game around someone who plays for 8 hours per day and farms clips.

It doesn’t matter how much exposure these people will bring in, that’s still only a handful of people playing.
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>>558947840
OH MY GOD IS THAT A UNIX TERMINAL
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>>558947661
inb4 the reply asking how you're so bad at the game you aren't having fun memorizing the map and running to another spawn to immediately kill people
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>>558944982
I want the clussy.
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>>558947958
is better marketing that pay to BurntPeanut for a stream
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Hmmm... I'm thinking soul
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I feel like I'm being MKULTRA'd with the visual "art". Enough to ward me off from spending 40$
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>>558948639
It's Satanist Imagery and I recommend avoid the gaming because of it.
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>>558948581
all the mails are californian corny, but they tried to do something cool
there is some concept art if you resolve the puzzle, but just watch a video, is too hard
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>>558948678
I will, my brother in Christ
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>>558948686
I'm gonna see how far I get, got a link to the vid just in case though?
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This and Destiny somehow convinced Snoy to give 3.6 Billies.
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>>558948639
>>558948678
meds
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>>558948812
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nHrntBN3w4
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>they did the worm meme
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>>558947710
cute
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>>558935483
can't study something that's never happened
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>>558948639
>>558948678
I’m telling you boys that moth is some Illuminati Rothschild trans humanist imagery or something
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>>558947908
how does that help
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>>558947710
Oh cool, the card creator uses OKLCH colors. The gameplay department might not know what it's doing, but the graphics department clearly does.
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>>558949803
Quick flashing images of insects/larvae are scientifically proven to cause visceral disgust in people, which is why they're used in studies to provoke certain emotional reactions. Whose genius idea was to put them in loading screens? The the whole thing screams "stay away".
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>>558950187
Marathon is the weirdest combination of incompetency and talent
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>>558950187
The gameplay department keeps using 10 year old mechanics, behaviors and animations while basically the entire game is carried by the art fags.
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I suffer from way to much gear fear to ever be able to play this game. I enjoy dropping in with nothing and leaving with stuff, but I cannot bring myself to bring stuff it
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Art Team Status: Carrying
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i like the sound design
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>>558950517
loser
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>>558947419
Have you Exfiled with enough of these to unlock the codex entries? I think you need 5 for the first level of the codex.
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>>558950517
most gear aside from backpacks and shield modules+health consumables is literally worthless. even more than other games in this genre, it's easily replaced.
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>>558950517
Gear means nothing. Just frag.
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>>558944491
>>558944936
completely unlike the original, READ THIS
https://marathon.bungie.org/story/counterattack.html#M1.05.2.1

and thats just the mida uesc thing, durandal terminal kino is seriously so well done
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how do you tell if a mission needs to be done in 1 run vs can be progressed over multiple? One of them had 'exfil' as an objective so obviously it needed to be one shot, but another one I did was also one shot despite the objectives seeming completely disconnected
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>spend 3k credits on shield and meds
>die
>freekit and pvp
>exfil with guns and 2k worth of dogshit to sell

phenomenal gameplay loop
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>>558948852
In the case of Marathon it isn't that hard. Beyond the established story elements of the prior three games, the original announcement trailer and even the 8 minute CG animation did a lot to intrigue people, at least until people learned that it was an extraction shooter.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbEnWLRo1s
Its just one of those things where it being the kind of game it is really does spoil your interest in it long term. I'd love to play something like this if it were like the Division games, Far Cry 2, STALKER or Metro, Dying Light, or even a DOOM or lite immersive-sim game. There's reasons why people were drawn to its brand of sci-fi, and that's why its criminal that its chained to a multiplayer-only extraction shooter.
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>>558951419
Bloodborne already solved this problem with Chalice Dungeons.
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Can they please make destroyer shield a deployable that you can choose to carry. I want to play him but I only do solos.
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Should I give it a shot bwos? I have nothing else to play on this chill Saturday night. I haven’t played tarkov, I played arc for 10 hours, but I do have 500 hours in d2
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How are people getting gold and purple shit?
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you have SWAT tier, siege tier or any other simulator TTK on a game like this? on this genre? horrible design, thought about reinstalling but decided against it.

Imagine if BR as a genre had the TTK of Arma, it would have gone extinct
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>>558951772
yes, cant beat free. you will lose loot and die, dont worry about it and requeue or play rook
>I do have 500 hours in d2
nothing but the gunfeel carries over
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>>558951907
>Imagine if BR as a genre had the TTK of Arma
ANON
PUBG was the MOST popular BR for a decade and that was the TTK
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>>558951772
It's free for now, might as well try it and see what its about. I uninstalled after a few runs but it wasn't bad, really. It was just too sharp-edged: feast or famine, except "feasting" feels pointless because credits don't buy you anything permanent. You can already see the grind the game will impose on players and the free cosmetics all sort of suck.
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>>558952060
i forgot PUBG was ever a thing lol
youre right well no wonder fortnite took over
remember that game was full of camping
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>>558935261
what do we keep from the server slam?
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>>558952268
$40
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>running skeleton kit
>run out of ammo and heals
>chud teammates never drop any heals or ammo
>not a single spent battery pack or spare ammo anywhere on the map
>teammates would rather fuck around gooning alt tabbed out than exfil
This game is supposed to be fun?
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>>558952268
40USD
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>>558952885
>>558952387
Unblasted, COLLAPSED even, comment
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the japanese seem to be fucking with marathon which isnt surprising bc apex is huge over there
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>>558952268
you get like starter kits depending on what level you finish the slam at, also you get slam only cosmetics
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>>558935261
You know what I find more joy in playing, with a similar aesthetic and gameplay goal? Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Aside from not being PVPVE live service, it's got all the same elements as Marathon for a lot lower price and a lot more interesting story.
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>>558953373
That's a completely different genre and even story/world
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>>558953457
Yeah but
>Risk your life to recover loot and components from the washed-up wreck of humanity's ambitions
>Spend hours puzzling out the most efficient way to dismantle a given hull vs spend hours puzzling out where the exfil spawn and figuring out the likeliest place to find "high"-value loot
>Stark high-contrast color aesthetics both inside ship environments and outside paint jobs, including the high-visibility hazard paint of your workplace
>Face a myriad of environmental hazards that can end you within 2 seconds or kill yourself by making a poor choice
>Your character is a disposable meatsack that is cloned/regrown whenever you die

Basically the same game.
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>>558953687
I forgot that H:S also had an undercurrent of AI malfeasance and alien predation on the fringes of the solar system too.
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>still vibing with the game despite the problems
Man
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Really trying to get into this game, but it's shit as a solo player getting paired with fucktard teammates who don't use mic.
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holy fuck the magnum is shit
i got a purple one and it does nothing
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>>558953809
feels good

>>558953882
the first 4 games during this playtest i was in I ended up solo with 2 dead teammates. in my experience it gets better once you get to dire marsh for the first time
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>>558953882
you can't play this game with pubs. solo is an insta write-off because of the insta-kills / TTK so you're guaranteed gear loss. pubs are basically the same thing, roll of the dice if they come kitted or not. only with friends can you have some moderate confidence that you will be able to extract
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>my internet has been shit all day so i cannot play
fucking pain holy fuck i hope it clears up by launch
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>>558953373
>unions are good
no
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>see guys? all the shills agreed on the same thing. it gets better the more you play.
>never judge a book by its cover
>its actually good
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are there going to be more enemies in the full game or just robots with shield/grenades/camo
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>>558954429
there are higher tier UESC bots starting in outpost, and we know for sure there will be s'pht compilers on the marathon ship, appearently they want to add more phthor down the line too
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>>558954429
There are hostile lifeforms like Ticks and other players. What more do you need?
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MARATHON JUST BREACHED INTO TOP 5 IN THE US THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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>>558954429
Yes, we're getting aliens later
Problem with the server slam is retards made 0 effort to let people know it's not just dumbass same looking robots in the full game.
They're following a storyline and it just begins here, the further we go there more shit we'll get.
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>>558954556
nice! i wonder if we will get a launch cinematic ?
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>tried to cheese the cmdr with destroyer
>he zoomed 20 meters to punch me in the face as my rockets downed me due to splash damage
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>>558954556
People playing Super Battle Golf is having a BLAST
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>>558954556
battlegolfKINGS, i fucking kneel...
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If you ever think that you don't matter and your efforts are pointless...
remember that this game has a dedicated medic character and you'll never be as useless as that.
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>>558954907
triage works great for this, ult pops his shields and healing drones for chip damage. if you lure near a corner, also possible to hit and run with a knife during the stun
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>>558955215
triage is super strong though
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>>558955215
>revive multiple people in 2 seconds
>free constant healing/shield recharges for multiple people
>useless
why are you spouting bullshit here if you don't even play the game?
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I just realized I had an Autorevive on my character when I got downed. When is that supposed to trigger? Do I have to press 4 for it to work?
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>>558955215
Triage literally EMPs anyone he shield breaks with volt weapons. Ranged Revive and constant healing on top of having a giant damage steroid.
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the v11 actually does say it has 600rpm in the in-game stats, i've got no clue why. it still fucks shit up on triage with the overcharge, disgusting that i can knock full squads with a 25 cost grey gun
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>>558955692
the game is going through a crisis right now. the ttk being set like this is just to hype up the game and make people blast hard
https://streamable.com/te1yzf
here's someone dying less than a second with a basic bitch lmg
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>>558951881
Do the events around the map
>coordinate caches
>hauler pirate signal
>kill the gold level commanders
>clear tox rooms
Also play on Dire Marsh; loot drops in general seem to be higher tier there on average
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>>558956314
There's no difference between a purple and grey weapon of the same type.
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>>558955692
the v11 punch? the volt pistol?
I honestly assumed the thing was shit
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Gee really great gameplay when some invisible fuck jumps your ass and FLASHES AND FUCKS UP YOUR ENTIRE SCREEN SO YOU CANT EVEN SEE WHAT THE FUCK IS DIDDLING YOU
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>>558956483
id have to look through the mods. im sure one would increase Rate of Fire or some other bullshit that reduces recoil enough to laser beam even harder
id imagine if you use your abilities like destroyers, vandals, or george droyds you can blast even harder
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I think Triage is low-key unbelievably OP in solos.
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>>558956314
To be fair, every single one of those bullets was a headshot
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>>558944113
Wait wait wait wait wait, it's NOT procedural? This map of random prefab sloppa is bespoke hand-made "map design?" Holy LMFAO
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>>558956760
ah yes, your reward for your great aim is an even quicker death before you can blink or figure out what even happened
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>>558956756
Is the overcharge really that good? I can't imagine that makes up for basically having no ult. The drones seem good for conserving heals but they don't help mid fight
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>>558956845
Your ult works on hostiles. It immediately disables their shields and abilities.
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>>558956845
i think having invisibility is just a way better advantage. the abilities have to be precummed since the animation to charge is fuckin retarded long to use in a pinch
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>>558956818
>being rewarded for aiming well is bad actually
?
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>doing a mission as sin with a freekit
>actually just step on top of a guy without noticing him, he gets one shot off and instantly breaks my shield
>hipfire and somehow down him before he can get a second shot off
>he had the lever action gun
>it's kind of fun to use
I just wish it had a scope on it.
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Honestly. I feel like being able to get "good" at games like this ruins the whole pvp aspect. You shouldn't be allowed to actually land multiple headshots in a row and I'm deadly serious about this
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>>558956960
deleting people in a second isn't very healthy for a game. we were just talking about d2 here.
i guess i dunno you want the game to die quick then, fuck it. we can always blame the gamers.
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>>558957007
>deleting people in a second isn't very healthy for a game.
counter-strike has been alive for 26 years
git gud
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>>558957153
not the same nice bait anon.
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I'm having fun with the game but I'm laughing at all the warnings of "network issues" because its a server slam. lmao.
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G-GOLF-SAMA.... M-M-MASAKA!
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what does EMP even do? is this information anywhere in the game
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>>558957539
Super Battle Gold bros... how could we let this happen..
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>>558956972
The lever action is actually great if you can land your shots; basically just a better magnum since you can shoot someone far away with it
>one taps recruits with a headshot
>don't need mods for it to be functional against higher tier players
>isn't ammo intensive which means you can loot more shit
>decent in a mid-to-long range fight
I try to use it whenever I can get my hands on one
>>558957007
>"Look at how ridiculously fast this person died!!!!!!"
>they got headshotted 8 times in the head with an LMG
Literally any other game would have killed them quicker if something like that happened, yet you think this game is being ridiculous for doing it?
Fuck off with the pretentious "le sigh, this gaem is doomed", you just suck and want the game to mould to you because you can't be fucked to learn or adapt to it. Get bent
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>>558957597
Sets shields to 0. Disables ability usage and charging.
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This game has a budget of a 2 burgers and a small fries
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>>558957626
i dont like people that argue in bad faith. you are a little fuckin worm if you try to word it like that and leave out things like rate of fire or rpms.

little greasy faggots like you is why the game will die. even the fuckin jackass i screencapped said the ttk is crazy you little fuckin monogoloid

>le sigh the game is doomed!
it literally is, and im not the one cheering for it, but when we got bad actors like yourself pushing for it, then i really dont give a fuck anymore.
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This game seriously needs a PVE mode
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>>558957914
>I hope the game dies because someone on 4chan hurt my feefees
lmao
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Raped game.
Raped "fanbase".
Total Bungie Rape.
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>>558957979
the pve mode is the contracts, which carry over progress even if you die/fail to exfil
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I think I’m out man, The TTK is just way too low. Squad fights genuinely feel random, like coin tosses.

The tone is too morbid and esoteric. It’s a very oppressive game to play, not like the originals.

I don’t feel like Cryo can add much here. I don’t feel like grinding out these maps for guns and scopes to be able to take on a Destiny 2 health bar boss.

For Bungie to put so much on a game and genre like this is wild. Not a terrible game, but not the amount of holding power they need, even if they do fix TTK and a few other issues.
It IS the best extraction game so far, but that’s not much. >>558958004
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I like the game but the community is already insufferable victim acting faggots that blame literally everything on players and blow up on any minor critique.

I want the game to land purely because it's so visually gorgeous and I love when games have such a distinct style and vibe but who the fuck is arguing the TTK is at all acceptable? You're meant to craft a build with shit like "crouching for 10 seconds makes you do more knife damage" but what's the fucking point when everyone dies instantly? Trying to use your abilities in combat is suicide, the Vandal's cannon has such a wind up you're literally just die when you could just shoot them.

Extremely frustrated and can't shake the feeling this was never meant to be a extract shooter and it pivoted to one early on after concepting because they thought it was the next Battle Royale (it isn't).

>>558958712
This is about where I'm at except I refuse to back out because I want to love it so bad.
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So whats the vibe of this game? Can I fuck off and loot and do my jobs in peace with my cat on my lap or do I have to focus on the twitch autism schmoovement playstyle like every shooter with ADS nowadays?
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>>558959050
A bit of column a and column b, sometimes I can go a whole match not running into anyone in solos and others it will be a CoD lobby in a specific compound.
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holy shit you can just kill the robots in 2 hits with the knife, and with the assassin you even get to return to invis.
why is this info virtually nonexistent? why are we have we been wasting whole mags of ammo on these fucking clankers?
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I wish exfil wasn't this massive event that draws attention to you. You should be able to just fucking leave.
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>>558959181
>I wish exfil wasn't this massive event that draws attention to you.
I think that part is good. The bad part is most exfil spots are in wide open areas with structures or geography that allows people to shoot you from a distance easily, even from higher ground usually. That part sucks ass.
If you want players to defend and attack exfils, give them some fucking cover at least
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>>558959323
It's okay for group play but contrary to solo play.

But yes you're also right the locations are all stupid, like the one on Perimeter at the end of the pier thing that looks out over a massive wide open rock field with literally 0 cover. Actual retard design.
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>>558959157
what's the point when i can just oneshot them with my repeater HPR from a safe distance?
the more tanky ones are just going to rape you the moment you get too close
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>>558959157
If you get the first knife upgrade from Arachne you can kill them in one hit.
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>>558959670
I'm probably gonna tunnel Arachne rep as soon as I unlock them for that melee upgrade, it's gonna help with soloing so much.
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>>558959524
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>Shitty volt weapon
>Triage
>No meds
Yep, it's rape time.
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>>558959670
Nice, I didn't know that. Thanks anon.
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>erm bro if you just play assassin and just go invisible and never engage with any enemies then you won't get instant beamed in the ass while fighting uesc
>what do you mean it's not fun to just run around a map not fighting anything?

THE GAME CAN BE GOOD
BUT THESE PEOPLE WANT IT TO BE BAD
BECAUSE THEY ARE PATHETIC, DISGUSTING, SYCOPHANTS
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>>558954556
>coming out in 4 days
>behind some random golf game in sales
grim
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nigger just stole a purple backpack from a commander i killed solo and ditched when a team showed up
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>>558960262
its above it now...
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>>558960141
You just don't understand the rat mentality. It's about being clinical, methodical, focused and precise like a scalpel.
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>>558960194
So are MIDA basically anarchists?
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>>558960920
yup
now go smash some windows
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>>558960920
yeah but instead of doing anything real they smash windows and call it a day
a poor display when there's death worshipping murder cults operating in the same area
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>>558960194
the colors you get from exfiling with their kit are ugly so no
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Anybody have that Rook shotgun upgrade yet? Do you get an enhanced shotgun if you have the enhanced weapon upgrade as well?
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>>558961015
>>558960996
Wait is that really their only story mission? I just figured most got disabled for the slam.
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How does it keep getting worse on a sunday???
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>>558961145
There's a new content update in a few days but it's genuinely insane if people are actually buying that game at full price, it goes below $10 all the time
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>>558961365
theres definitely more in the actual game
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>>558961502
holy fuck
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The game has some massive design issues. Right now it's entirely carried by LORELOL which I don't give a fuck about because I didn't play the earlier games and gunplay, which admittedly is pretty alright for modern standards but it's basically just a sidegrade to Apex Legends. Since this is FPS there is actually a niche for the game because the only futuristic/arcade-y extraction shooter is Arc that is a third person game and gunfights in TPS are more often than not cancer.

But not only is the menu-ing fucking retarded (why does tab work normally when I'm in the menus for inventory but when I'm in the ready up screen tab does nothing and I have to press V instead?), the tooltips are atrocious and the game is less casual friendly than fucking Tarkov of all things.
Why do healing items cost so fucking much money? Every single other game you can buy shit healing items for pittance just so you can actually queue into a game.
Why is there no safe pocket? This is literally one of the most important features of extraction shooters, it's there for a good reason.
Why does everything take so much fucking inventory space? You can barely carry out any loot with green backpacks and blue backpack is locked behind rank 15 on a vendor.
Why are all the icons such insane fucking shit? You can barely tell what some shit is at a glance and some you can't at all. If I have a leg implant in inventory it should have a massive LEG ICON on it, this is shit that's been done for THIRTY YEARS and these retarded niggers can't manage with 800 people in 2026?
Why is everything such insanely low value? By far the highest value shit to get out of runs is healing items, expensive guns and bullets. This is actually insane for such a "futuristic" game, it might make sense if you're a scav in some post-apoc game but not this.

This game should be studied on how not to make a video game.
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>>558962076
Also I don't get the complaints about ttk. This shit is the same as every other shooter in 15 years. You die if you get beamed in head. If you can't play at lower ttks that actually help shitters you're going to do worse at higher ttk that rewards people are even better.
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>>558959157
Because getting close to them seems like a fucking bitch. Even if you do, there's always a buddy or 5 waiting around to dunk you. I can only see this being useful against the heavies if your team is distracting them and they're below the shield.
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>>558959034
I got saved on a solo run by my destroyer abilities. I walked into the Hauler, instantly hit a full squad of robots guarding a locked box. I threw up the shield to tank their shots and killed one, then remembered I had the homing missiles. I huddled around the corner of the door and the robots did nothing so I turned on the missiles, went back to the door, and just spray and prayed until my missiles killed all of them.

That was the best run I could've ever had, except I got killed at the exfil because I forgot to reload my gun after a fight and there were 5 more robots just waiting and wandering at the exfil. It wasn't even the guarded exfil, just a random one that I had to run across the entire map to reach. It was so bullshit. Another squad of players rolled up to that exfil and got melted too.
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>>558961502
STOP THE COUNT
STOP THE FUCKING COUNT
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>>558962150
It seems a lot shorter than Destiny, which is probably where the complaints are coming from. In Destiny you can easily feel like a god killing the AI. In this, you're squishy and fragile.

I'm sure the TTK is about the same for Tarkov and Arc Raiders, but it feels like you can't ever get a chance to use your medpaks or shield restorers so they just end up being useless despite the tutorial calling out that you should use them.
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>>558962440
hahahaha
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>>558962076
>If I have a leg implant in inventory it should have a massive LEG ICON on it, this is shit that's been done for THIRTY YEARS and these retarded niggers can't manage with 800 people in 2026?
For verisimilitude. You as a shitty SHELL wearing merc wouldn't know what a mod does until you equip it.

I think all the credit shit isn't actually intended to work. What Marathon wants players to do is grind by doing lore objectives every season and unlock cosmetics, weapons, and disposables that can be accessed through vendors. Credits only matter for buying those, and otherwise they want to starve you out so that you die a lot and need to grind up more.
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>>558962452
It's nowhere near Tarkov. This has higher ttk than Arc Raiders, especially with Arc's stupid as fuck tick rate. The only grossly overtuned weapon is Longshot, I don't understand what were they thinking with it.
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I genuinely hate the tutorial. It doesn't teach you how to ping, it doesn't teach you about the map, and it doesn't teach you about the baited UESC lootboxes. Without the fucking map, you wander around blind hoping to stumble on the exfiltration launcher. Why have an exfil icon on your map but not in your hud? it makes no sense.
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How long does it take to get to level 30 for the carry over shit?
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>>558962772
My friend didn't even know the first mission was a tutorial and theres just so much shit unexplained, I already uninstalled, but apparently there are devices that let you upload singular items while mid-match? sounds like a safe pocket alternative at least, that nobody knows about
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>>558954556
>Game is so shit its selling the competition.
Lol, lmao even.
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>>558945679
I'm playing destroyer because he looks cool and I feel I'm playing with a handicap. Half of his kit may as well not exist it's so useless, if all he could do was thrust and super sprint it wouldn't change anything, in fact if he could only do that but with like a 30% bigger heat meter he would be a better character than he is now kek
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>>558962076
>which admittedly is pretty alright for modern standard
The gunplay is dogshit
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>>558962887
There are? Like, things that aren't the datapads that are automatically uploaded?
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>>558962076
you retards are so over dramatic jesus christ. the gameplay is solid, sure the UI could use some work, but acting like this is some travesty of game design is comical, give it a break already.
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>>558962942
maybe I'm wrong, I'm only going off by what I read here and they could have been mistaken
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>>558962985
How about you fuck off and increase your standards you subhuman animal.
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>>558962985
>the gameplay is solid
A real return to form, I could play this all day.
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So how do you switch what item you're healing with? I feel like I only ever see my character use the shitty health pack.
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Yesterday i spent the entire day knifing people to death in Marsh but today i am getting no matches, did everyone ragequit?
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>>558963072
Hold 4 and scroll wheel on the slot you have selected. Yes, it's retarded.
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>>558963072
Hold 4 (or whatever key you have quickheal bound to) - it opens up a radial menu, and then you can right click (I think?) to change the quality of the healing item in that menu.
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>>558957213
https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1rhkm1y/after_20_hours_its_been_a_blast/
Blast havers winning bigly
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>>558963072
Hold 4 and it opens up the racist menu.
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>>558963131
>>558963121
Wow. I wish the game told me that instead of the tutorial telling me to rely on Smart Heal so the game could decide what to use depending on whether my health or shields were lower.
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>>558963183
Smart heal is alright but it needs work. I think it should always basically do HP heal -> shield heal -> HP heal, unless you have reinforced shield in which case it should prio the shield. Right now it just heals your hp to full which is fucking retarded.
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>>558962887
The DCON's flatly don't work from when I tried to use them outside missions.
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>>>/v/734049892
TTK confirmed. Just about 1/2 a second to kill. I wonder if players are coded to deal a lot more damage to other players while being nerfed against the robots?
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>>558963607
What do you mean server slam? It's a server tickle
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>>558963970
The demo is over, 32k is fine.
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>>558963250
It worked better when healing was instant, it doesn't recognise that your health/shield is currently regenerating
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Alright I've done 3 runs so far.

All 3 runs I died within seconds of encountering our first enemy players.
I have no idea what items to grab, and the loadout menu is super confusing.

The atmosphere is incredible though. Very beautiful game and runs perfectly on my toaster.
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>>558962579
>otherwise they want to starve you out so that you die a lot and need to grind up more.
Didn't Destiny become insanely grindy at some point? Seems on form for them.
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I still can't get over that they named the game MARATHON and instead of setting the game inside the literal ant hill that ship is they instead chose to make up some bullshit about a colony literally named on a text dump instead.

The people that make these games should get a real job
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How do I use the chat emotes or whatever they're called?
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>>558964013
Over? There's an entire day left
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>>558963039
please write more over dramatic essays kvetching about literal nonsense that no one outside of 5 dimwits on 4chan will read
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>>558964058
id recommend just focusing on your contracts, items will get recognizable the more you go on
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>>558964120
we go onto the marathon in the 4th map... and will get more maps inside it ...
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i'll buy the game whenever it goes 20% off i guess
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>>558963110
yes
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>>558964196
>kvetching
I didn't realize there are actual marketers on here. Here's your (You), you embarrassing loser.
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This game isn't free? holy fuck what a mistake
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>>558964469
Legit the maps are dead af now. anyone notice this too?
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>>558964517
>guy who writes essays takes offense at someone with a vocabulary
kek, cry more schizo
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this game is too hard. i just like 20k worth of gear in 3 runs. im not gonna buy it
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Iliterally cannot get matches whatsoever anymore on the marsh dude, this game is actually fucking dead
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>>558964714
>essay
A two paragraph post might be an essay to a retard who has barely two digit IQ like you do but for regular functioning human beings it's 5 minutes of effort.
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>>558964651
>>558964847
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The matchmaking is taking fucking forever now
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>>558964415
I'm not gonna buy it if it's 100% off
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>>558964894
I can't even get into matches at all anymore because my squad never fills.

The game is dead
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>>558964174
Yeah but everyone had fun and all that is left is progression for something that wipes soon. It's normal for people to stop playing.
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Did they turn off the servers?
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>>558965067
>everyone had fun
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>>558964914
5 minutes of over masturbatory, overtly dramatic bullshit for your 5 gay schizophrenic friends on 4chan, bravo!
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>>558965067
What we have now is the same we'll have at launch but with an extra map and runner. If people leave now, they'll leave even harder at launch
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>>558965315
The only reason so many people tried out this was because it was free.

this game will have like 1000 player max, maybe at launch they can keep it at 20k or something, but its unironically over
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>>558965270
Here's your (You). Enjoy your 10k pop in 2 months.
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>>558965396
2 months? more like 2 weeks
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>>558965087
Still goes until tomorrow. I'm loading in rn
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>>558965396
>2 months.
Bro its literally already happening, i can't get into matches whatsoever because there are no players. Its over. I have never seen a game die so fast in my life
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was it a mistake jumping right into dire marsh?

we just did some kind of like hold-out event and we got raped by dozens of bots.
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Bungie getting axed by Sony speedrun no % run
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>>558965396
>he conceded
ez
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>>558962985
Bungie is about to go on a forever break.
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BROS I UNIRONICALLY CAN'T EVEN PLAY THE GAME BECAUSE THERE ARE NO PLAYERS
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>>558965382
Be real anon, it will be 10-20k. Which is fine, bf6 only has 50k online and marathon needs word of mouth to get more popular after the hate campaign.
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The only good part of this game was the fluffy moth images making it look like some sort of angry god, everything else was utter trash
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>>558965591
how the fuck did a game die before it even release, what a clusterfuck
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>>558965935
>bf6 only has 50k online
yeah but it launched with 650k on pc alone
you can't even compare that to what this game will do
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>>558965935
Honestly? Cope, there is literally ZERO reason to play this game at all, why would anyone engage with this other than to shoot other ppl? And even at that the game seems determined to get in your way of shooting other ppl as much as possible.
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I just got killed in fucking I swear to god, 0.18 seconds by someone using an smg on the low ground while I had full green shields.
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>>558966371
Ya, BF6 at least had hype and excitement around it. DICE or whatever they call themselves now just completely failed to support the game post-launch. Marathon is the most astroturfed game since trannies tried to pass off Dragon Age Inquisition as a return to form.
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>>558966457
>there is literally ZERO reason to play this game at all
not that anon, but you underestimate the amout of people that will fall for this sort of grindy, masochistic autism. There seems to be a decent progression system baked in that we haven't really uncovered yet, I'm not saying it will be good but people will play it.

>>558966581
>Marathon is the most astroturfed game since
People say this every AAA launch, but honestly most people are just shitting on this game. The only "astroturfing" i've seen is on the hugbox subreddit and from grifters on twitter. /v/ is just ironic "having a blast" shitposting.
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Marathon is a trans allegory, it is a beautiful sexy woman who wants to have sex with (You) (artstyle, music, lore, vibes) but is stuck in a the body of a fat, disgusting man (extraction shooter genre).
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>>558966729
to be fair, it doesn't help a lot of stuff I'm seeing is people posting
>yea you just have to play [Arbitrary amount of time that won't let you refund], then it gets fun
Like, ok shill
>you just have to cut your own arm off
>the dopamine your brain releases will be so good once you get through the bone
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Are the collectibles that unlock codex entries limited for the beta? It's fucking absurd that their associated items don't seem to be guaranteed spawns.
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>>558966729
>f grindy, masochistic autism.
i like grinding. But there is no fun for this. In arc you haven dangerous arc that drop shit and it's like playing monster hunter. In marathon you have other players and loot that gives +1 shield slot. It's way less exciting.
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There’s some really terrible feeling PvP in the game, it feels like there’s no curve to the gunfight because people can just pop around a corner and off you in a second.

I fucking hate that these companies bring in all these streamers and shit and do months and months of testing and they can’t even get ttk right.
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do i just not show up on the map as rook? its hard to tell where i am
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>>558965935
>>558966371
I feel the bf6 comparison is kinda dumb considering bf6 is a game that has a core gamemode of 32v32.
If this game only averages around 20k players, that's fine enough for me. I play Hunt at 6* MMR where you typically keep running into the same few people and have 3+ minute long queue times.
The Hunt comparison is also not the best considering Hunt does a very specific thing that other extraction shooters don't do where the appeal of Hunt is expressly the thrill of murdering other players and not actually grabbing loot. Usually when bounty is extracted, it still ends up in a fight between whoever else is left on map. It's raw love of the game
Anyway, my point with the Hunt comparison is that assuming Marathon finds it's niche, it'll be fine.
>>558966729
>people that will fall for this sort of grindy, masochistic autism
This is me
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>>558966910
Brother, i played it for picrel, almost 20 hours, and the ONLY ENJOYMENT, THE ONLY GOOD PART, is unironically just fighting other players.

What the fuck else are you going to do otherwise?? fight the 3 robot variants and 1 tick and 1 turret for 20 hours??? I keep writing this on these threads because it is the truth, people argue for PvE but the PvE is FUCKING GARBAGE AND PEOPLE ARE IN DENIAL ABOUT IT.

THE AI ENEMIES ARE BORING, FUCKING BORING, THEY SPENT 6 YEARS OR WHATEVER ASKING THEMSELVES HOW TO DESIGN 4 VARIANTS OF HUMANOID ROBOT THAT SHOOT YOU AND MAKE SPOOKY NOISES.

Why would anyone play this? I mean this unironically. The loot is TRASH WORTHLESS 90% of the fucking time, literally random generation or AI generated garbage that only serves to take up your time.

This game is literally pointless and shouldn't even exist, it would at least be more enjoyable if they turned it into an arena pvp shooter or smth like in the olden days of crucible
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>>558967198
Yea idk if it's intentional or not. I just drop a ping to wherever I wanna go and gauge off that
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>>558967250
>Why would anyone play this?
Tarkov fags That is it. There is nobody else being appealed to here and I don't even know if this is deep enough for them.
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>>558967167
but bro the hype moments
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>>558967250
I like how most of the robots and half the "Shells" are almost completely indistinguishable from one another making for really bad visual clarity at a glance. Really hurts when you can die in .3 seconds and before your brain has registered if its human or not you've been melted.
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>>558967418
Please bro the serves are being pushed to their absolute limit right now...
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>>558967046
I've read comments that a lot of the stuff people are complaining about is in the upgrades you get through grinding corporations. I don't really want to dig through the reddit glaze threads and try to find the comment again
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Anons, what does gunplay mean? Everyone says marathon has great gunplay. But what does that really mean? Why does it have it? How important is it? Is it the main draw?
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>>558967786
its a vibes word, it basically can mean whatever anyone wants
it has no concrete definition
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>>558967786
When i use it, I mostly mean that shooting the guns feels good or something like that.
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>>558967786
How shooting feels. Do the guns have good feedback on hit? Does the recoil feel good? Are the guns distinct enough from each other? Do they sound good? Use your imagination. And no, I don't think the game has phenomenal gunplay or anything and neither did any of Bungie's previous games. I think Bungie cumeaters just haven't played anything outside of Halo and Destiny.
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>try to complete the second mission
>supposed to pick up key-cards in an infested area
>4+ turrets
>5+ spider nests
>each single bullet or hit from a spider is 30% of my hp/shield
>have MAYBE 50 ammo and 2-3 healing items that heal for 20% over 30 seconds

im having a BLAST!
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>watching streamers talk about the game
>they say not enough pvp and movement is too slow
I can see why it's so hard to make a pvp game. The majority casual audience and the hardcore players want two different games.
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>>558967440
What bothers me the most about the designs is that they could have gone completely beyond the human shape for this game and made both enemies and shells that look conpletely inhuman, but instead we get Destiny 2 character and enemies retextures with some bad color schemes on top and random shit like lines and occulus rift glasses and lights to not make it so obvious. Even the fucking guns are destiny 2 retextures as one of the anons in the previous thread mentioned, they re used animations and so on.

Honestly this game is done for and i am tired.
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Positively mid game. AI is smarter than anything in Destiny but still dumber than Halo 3 brutes. The (not) fusion pistol is goated and it can be fun sneaking around trying to complete your challenges without getting gangbanged by players or robots. Rooks are an instant kill on sight from my own experience of being a rat fuck. Only other shell I touched was Destroyer and I like his super speed. Best outlook for this game is indie game numbers with a niche community. Might get this on sale if Bungie survives being raped by Sony for not making a blockbuster and if the inevitable Pfhor enemies are interesting enough.
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>>558968136
The PvE is crap bro, obce you spend enough time with the game you will realize you can two shot most enemies with the knife including turrets and ticks. I can wipe out entire tick nests with knife only to not shoot my gun so i can stab people without giving my position away.

Same with moat things really, you can either run away, use things to hide behind and so on. You shouldn't even be engaging with the AI to be honest with you because its a waste of time and resources. There is literally zero reason to fight AI unless its one of the bosses that gets marked on the map
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The loop is really tiring when it’s some weird ass AI jpeg talking to you as a narrative reward for beating missions.

The analogy is like, coming home after a 10 hour shift and someone rings your doorbell trying to tell you about Jehova.
I don’t want to learn about Tau Ceti or anything after attempting a quest 5 runs in a row with brutal PvP and tense atmosphere.
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>>558968413
>bro just dont engage with the game lol bro just run around for 15 minutes looking for the other 3 players and then hope you see them first because the ttk is literally under 1 second
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>>558968136
the pve is so xbox360/ps3 gen it's not even funny. Gears of war 1 level AI if-than-therefore style scripting.
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>>558968562
Unironically yes, the only good part of this game is the thrill of hunting down trios because they are the only truly dangerous enemy in this game. Fighting people is fun, fighting AI and looting 500 grey dildoes is fucking boring as hell
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>>558967768
>just have to play until you cant refund
Hate this new trend developers are doing
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>>558954387
good goy
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I hate that the game got fitted into a genre mould.

>we’re making an extraction shooter

Couldn’t you have taken different elements from different games and come up with something new? Does a loot store really lend anything to the game itself?
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>>558967418
what the fuck
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>>558968562
Top content creators say .8 seconds is the sweet spot.
>>558968413
>>558968614
It is crap but I bet we can all name a game where the pve is less crap and going to keep getting better.
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>>558967786
People are coping about the game and have to come up with something positive. The movement is too slow, the TTK is too fast and the weapons are laser beams. It's probably just console tards happy that they can kill shit fast.
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>>558967786
>>558968086
I don't even know if I'm hitting shit half the time, or know if I even killed someone
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>>558968562
Yes, that is how you play extraction shooters. The AI is there to give position of everyone else away for you. You only kill things you need to or accidentally aggro'd.
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summary
>pvp only game
>1 second ttk
>lose everything on death, no safe pockets
>all quests have to be done in 1 run
>extremely limited ammo and healing
>all progression gets routinely wiped, no exception

I respect the balls to release someting like this in todays market, but you have to be delusional thinking this is not going to bomb
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>>558968770
They literally made Destiny 3 with Tarkov loot mechanics in a random place no one gives two fucks about instead of the much more intersting LITERAL FUCKING SHIP THE GAME IS NAMED AFTER.
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>story is just AI heads yapping at you
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>>558967418
kek
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>>558969076
That's the PvE raid that still has PvP enabled so you either have to clear the map of other players before actually doing the boss, or work together, and then just shoot them in the back after and make them quit the game after wasting time and resources to help you
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I cannot imagine living a life of a retarded chartposter praying for a video games downfall every day of their life on an anonymous image board in the asscrack of the internet. And you just know that these people wouldn't be on this board if they weren't up to date on shitting up every possible thread on /v/, which somehow makes it even more grim
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>>558969057
Quests don't have to be done in one run. In fact some of them don't even have to have all progress for a part done in one run. I hacked the terminals at overflow over two rounds.
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>>558968340
inb4 the pfhor are just reskinned fallen
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matches being only 20 minutes is really insane. especially if you have a more complicated mission. i feel like you have time for ONE big fight before you have to run to extract.
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>>558969057
If this was a Destiny 6 month development expansion, I’d be impressed.
The fact that this is some 3-6 year development pet project is insane.

I don’t know how this got greenlit, I don’t know what Sony are thinking, or what Bungie was thinking during 8 months of play tests AND a 6 month delay.

I’m even starting to think Bungie made the antireal art stuff up, some weird ass excuse they wanted to delay the game to see Raiders’ market impact before releasing.
In their minds they would have thought it would look like “comeback story” in another 7 months.
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>>558969192
>That's the PvE raid
You know what i think brother? I think the map DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST, if it did they would let us play on it and actually HAVE FUN instead of giving us dogshit maps that literally appear to be made with AI and random generation or re-used from Destiny 2
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>>558969195
I do think the hate bandwagon towards every new AAA release is over exaggerated... but is this really the game you want to pick to make your stand for? This boring turd?
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>>558969195
following the charts is more fun than playing the game
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>>558969462
its the new developer trend because steam lets you get refunds
>make sure you make the first 2 hours really good
>or really grindy
>the game totally gets better after you cant refund it
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>>558969406
>greenlit
So the only thing I can imagine is that it didn't get greenlit and there was a totally different game underneath. But sony saw it and made them toss it all. there is simply not enough content here for anyone to justify shipping this, the maps should be twice as big and probably have vehicles and giant labyrinthine mazes.
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>>558969310
This is a big problem in the genre. You loot one POI, and the round is done.
Packs are full, maybe you hit one other team and got their stuff, so you leave.

There is no ramp up of stakes with extraction shooters; it’s a game of apprehension.
This is why the Battle Royales win out, because it’s a clear goal, you choose your start.
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i'm having more fun than i did with bf6 at least
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>>558969195
I have had more fun shitposting here than playing the game for 20 hours unironically
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>>558969195
Bungie went all in on idpolitics. Seeing them die is glorious. I already have enough games to enjoy.
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>>558969562
As my first extraction shooter I had some fun but not much. All you can really do is run at people then bail out. If you don't live for pvp you have nothing, scavenging sucks.
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>>558969216
It will happen, mark my words, i wouldn't be surprised if the reason all the enemies must be somewhat humanoid is so they can re-use the animation rigs too
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Thief and recon's asses are uncanny. Bungo managed to invent the uncanny ass valley.
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>>558969589
They affirmed basic human rights and gave black characters realistic hair... And you want them to lose their jobs over that?
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spooky
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>>558969803
That's me...
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>>558969649
Arc Raiders is simply a better game especially when it comes to map design and player interaction. Marathon never stood a chance. Embark should add a FPS mode to Arc and kill this game off for good.
>>558969764
Yes. Next question.
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>>558969649
>All you can really do is run at people then bail out. If you don't live for pvp you have nothing, scavenging sucks.
Yup, i think this is probably the real reason why the game just devolved into people hunting down one another, because that is literally the only fun activity in this game, why the fuck would anyone scavange for 20 min just to get some random fucking garbage and a green gun???? Like for real, i am being serious when i ask this, who the fuck wants to do that????? Not to mention the risk of dying and losing your 20min and you didn't even get to have fun while doing your inventory UI simulator l33t gaming or whatever bullshit
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>>558969803
I have seen that like 20 times already, i just assumed it was the screen effects or something making me get spooked, i have blasted all my ammo into a room only to realize there was no one there, this in combination with assasin shells and the invisible robots make you go schizo
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How do I tell if an extration point is ready?

Like, i run up to it and activate the beacon, then i go hide but how do i know when it's ready?
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>>558969803
LMAO the comments
>I hope this is part of the game it is soooo cool
>but its probably just a bug
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I was a huge fan of the art and graphics before release.

Having played the maps now, the visuals are so garish.
I’m in a sewer tunnel, and it’s full orange. I’m in a tractor, and it’s all red and you can’t see shit.
And then you get out into the canyon, and it’s a canyon.
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>>558970018
there will be a circle around it when uts ready
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>everyone talking about glitch/vandal

but is there any sexy recon/blackbird?
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>this game is going to die before it even gets good porn
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Where the FUCK IS SHE???
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>>558970424
The game is already fucking dead if you didn't notice
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>>558970373
most people dont know she's a she
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>>558970018
>>558970176
also it will start spinning when it's ready
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>>558970469
who is that
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>>558970523
>anti-jamming
dont show dmg
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>>558970543
nobody knows, she's just in some concept art
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im too scared to join squads

i like playing rook. i sneak around, grab just a couple items, then go to the guarded exfiltration site and use my disguise to bypass the robots and extract.
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Does anyone else here feel super sneaky playing this game? There’s this weird transhumanist cyberpunk dystopia theme and players hunting you and a MK Ultra Moth loading screens and losing all your shit and horror sci-fi music and lore where there’s some underlying cosmic horror watching you and these weird as fuck AI.

How is this sort of tone meant to sustain a daily game? If it’s a game being played every day, it needs some cool things or some humour this shit is like a horror movie non stop.

Like I’ve turned the game off, I don’t feel “fun”, I feel like something is watching me now.
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>>558970584
man fuck bungie
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>>558969195
Marathon got me to redownload The Division 2 for the first time in like half a decade. The Darkzone (when populated) feels so much fucking better then this game its not even funny.
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>>558970747
I own that, but not the dlc.
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>>558969803
Its like some sort of...Ghost in the Shell....
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>>558970642
you know, this actually sounds nonsensical but then it makes sense when you realize that ppl like you would most likely enjoy experiencing this game more by watching someone else play it, and bungie does want this game to be streamer-centric
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======= ALART U SOUL HAS BEEN HAGGED :DDD ======
>bls stop dressbassing :DDD t. space gop
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>>558970875
The game is perfect for streamers but those streamers need players to farm and nobody wants to be milked for views.
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Also
>ranked mode
WHAT RANKED YOU DIE IN 0.37 SECONDS
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>>558970638
The average squad gameplay is dogshit, no one talks and they are in their own discord.

Its way more fun to play solo and dunk on trios
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>new codex entry
>5 paragraph essay on the medkit
>its not even entertaining
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>>558970642
I want to be honest, i think they are safe edgy
They aren't true existential horror, they are just "Safe", you know what i mean? It isn't truly edgy, it attempts to make it mystical and shit but its not, and i am sorry to say it this way but i think it is abundantly clear that the writers of this game are not up to par to the idea they want to convey.

the UESC entry in particular pissed me off. It's not written the way you would write about the space UN in universe. It has that annoying le hacker energy to it. Reminded me of cyberpunk but even more shit.

The entire writing, every single dialogue, every single piece of text feels that way to me, they even gave random bullshit junk names that make it sound like you are picking up antimatter when you are probably just picking up the wiped hard drive of some fucker that was on the Epstein island or something.

It has a very childish l33t energy but not real, like fake reddit energy of people that arent in the know
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>>558970373
Her ASS is a RECTANGLE.
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This game should have a deathmatch mode
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>>558971654
There are other modes?
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>>558971654
it's called solo in this game
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so after 3 days everybody pretty much did everything there will be able to be done in the full game
>but we get to try pvp with epic implants and cores!
>we get 1(2) more maps! (totaling 3/4 maps)
>boring ass lore
>boring ass robot enemies which look all the same
>ahhh i must do a raid on this map which is already getting old and boring to gather more loot so.. i can run this boring map again!! bungie take my money!

LOL this game is a flop
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>>558970523
voice and thighs give it away though?
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every player should be forced to play as rook for their first 10 games or something.
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>>558971846
I seriously can't believe people are coping and saying shit like
>obviously people finished the demo so they aren't playing
not how games work at all, Arc Raiders has been consistently 200k-400k population, because its obviously constantly getting new players to replace the ones who quit, if you didn't know better you'd be like
>oh its just the same 200k people playing for 4 months
then it turns out they announce they are at 6 million copies sold
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>>558971846
Its even fucking worse bro, the game is literally NOT FUN, LOOTING IS NOT FUN, SHOOTING AI IS NOT FUN.

the game is fucking doomed
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>>558971646
nu-caloric and drinkable cheeseburgers can fix this
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>>558972023
It's obvious arc is aimed towards a more casual audience and it's more developed as a game.
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>>558972049
reddit really loved that drinkable cheesburger item
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the maps feel really small and repetitive
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>>558972112
AAA level design is apparently make flat plane and place cubes on it at random then place boxes in those cubes at random that contain random loot.
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>>558972112
The maps are actual dogshit man, its literally the same buildings copy pasted in random spots with annoying enemies plastered everywhere to annoy you as you try to get to the actually good parts of the game.

These maps could have been made by AI generation
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>>558969858
nigga you have said l33t two times this morning what fucking decade are you living in?
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>>558968136
Bungie will bend over backwards to pander to them btw. The game will become increasingly hostile and unapproachable to everyone but sweats and streamers, who despise playing with each other. Thus they will also leave even after months of bungie catering to their every whim like an ovulating slut begging for cock. Game dies, all bungie employees flown to tokyo to commit mass sudoku in the town square.

I'm a fucking retard buying this game on a blind hope that the inevitable will surely not happen this time around
>>558971846
Congratulations, you've discovered that extraction shooters are a meme genre. Common knowledge for at least a decade to everyone besides bungie apparently
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>>558972257
i am 26 man, back when i was a child we used that shit all the time, now it has fallen off but i hate that these cringe ass companies try to emulate that energy when it is extremely fucking obvious they are snoy drinking redditoids, these people could never possibly match our energy, they will never be like us, fuck them, fuck normies
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>>558972257
get pwnd n00b
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>>558972315
>Congratulations, you've discovered that extraction shooters are a meme genre. Common knowledge for at least a decade to everyone besides bungie apparently
why would they make their next game, THAT NEEDS TO SUCCEED, a sub-genre of a sub-genre
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>>558972374
>26

you are a millennial trying to sound old
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>>558972493
I am old as fuck and i should be fucking dead. Thanks for the compliment though
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>26
>old

I'm 34, I'm still young right bros?
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dont worry bro there is going to be one end game map that will be incredibly difficult to gain access to. then when you finally do, some rat is going to kill you and send you back to the two dogshit maps to do it all over again.
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>>558972634
Yeah bro me too I still give as good as I get in the old extraction rounds before my carpal tunnel acts up and I gotta take a break.
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>>558972634
Damn, my back hurts again bro, lemme go take my anti-pain pills
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>>558972707
i just play with a vert mouse now and all the pain went away, i still game the same degen hours
now what i need is a keyboard with lighter switches because i realized i press way too hard causing pain in THAT hand
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>>558972686
>beat the end marathon boss
>get a random gold gun
>to go back to perimeter and blast grey shields with

This genre is fuvjikg stupid
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>>558972493
>26
>millenial
h3'5 4 z00m3r 4n0n
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Also, I swear people are already cheating too.
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>>558972102
imma be a one man cheeseburger apocalypse
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>>558972634
anything below 50 is young, these days
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>>558971070
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>>558973319
It'd be because society has collapsed in on itself, sadly.
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My 1X-coded shell was one-shot by a shotgunner...
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Game seems "fine".
It is hard though.
Honestly its strong suit is its atmosphere and does just make me wish they'd made this game in a different genre.
Ive only played solo. Might find more fun with team mates if I can get a friend or two to try with me today.
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it's too bad the enemies are so boring looking

arc raiders enemy designs are way cooler

i can hardly distinguish npcs from real players
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>>558973039
LOL
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>>558973689
I can barely distinguish dogshit from this game
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>>558973662
>Game seems "fine".
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>>558966857
kek
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>>558973039
>>beat the end marathon boss
>>get a random gold gun
more like
>beat the end marathon boss
>get domed by some rat with a shotgun as soon as you open the door to leave the boss dungeon
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>>558973814
Who the fuck likes this shit?
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What could the full release of the game even offer at this point as something salvageable?
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>>558974043
complete UI redesign
complete environment redesign
complete enemy redesign

uuuh nevermind it's fucked
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>>558974043
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>>558974043
Nothing, we have already seen most of the game, this is it, in fact i am convinced they haven't even made anything beyond this point
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>>558973860
Sweats who can grind it out to get the sweet chance to kill people who can't fight back.
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>>558974138
That literally has mercenaries missing retard
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>>558973794
I mean outside of the creepy atmosphere, which I did think was neat, thats really the best I can say.
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>>558974043
An entire hidden pve faction that isn't just sentry bots, a much more complex map, and loot that's signficiantly more compelling and inventive than stat boosts.
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>getting shot by 7 robots
>heart rate rising because I think I hear footstep on the roof
>let me just read this item description real quick
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>spawn as rook
>pick up a random blue gun from a crate
>1v3 a team after they wasted 15 minutes of their lives playing this shit game
>can't hold 90% of their loot
>leave
i hope they're having fun
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>>558974447
Game would benefit from an Arc Raiders style tutorial mission that lasts like 2 minutes just to show people a few of the more basic items. Healing, Shields, Grenade types, etc.
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>>558974494
Everytime i play Rook and wipe a trio i unironically have to just delete most of their gear because it doesn't even fit in my vault anyways and i my wallet is maxxed so i gain literally nothing from killing people
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>>558974138
>still below Unc Raiders
kek bungie is kaputt
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>>558974138
That's really good.
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>>558974557
it needs more clarity on what's what. i can't distinguish 90% of the trash loot from the healing packs at first glance, which is an issue when you can get OHKO'd by a sniper while looting
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>>558974138
>Game is so shit its helping sell the competition.
Lol, Lmao even.
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will they get owned by console players?
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>>558974849
I almost want to buy it. Almost.
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>>558974804
Felt the same honestly.
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Has anyone mentioned the fact the item UI doesnt load instantly when hightlighting something? Is this normal? I get the items loading in when you open the bag. Not that. Like literally mousing over something takes another half a second before you can read what it is.
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>>558975045
Yes that is normal for games now.
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>>558974856
I literally wiped a trio with purples on marsh yesterday with Rook using a fucking knife, pic rel

This is what they had on them.
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>>558975045
It used to be that info was stored clientside but that also lets people exploit that function for duplicating items and such, so they made it all serverside
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>>558975254
i'd kmd unironically
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>>558975431
I posted about it in yesterday's thread but the gear in this game is unironically fake as fuck, you guys spend all this time collecting purple and blue shields and shit but all of that only matters if you are shooting people, the shields do almost fucking nothing unless you are on the max tier and even then i can kill you with 3 knife attacks.

Legit, stop using guns altogether because they are trash, they gave the enemy AI actual guns and gave us nerf guns
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>>558975325
jesus fucking christ
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>>558975775
what? literally all games do that now, some just have spaghetti code or network issues while doing it though
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>>558973814
Speaking of which
>Oh boy, two of the five maps require keys to get into them!
>After hours and hours of playing I finally find a key
Meanwhile, a Rook with a melee knife doing the floss has downed all remaining teams and is air thrusting slowly sneaking up on the player that just got their key
>Die
>Rook loots key
>Rook can't take key because Rook isn't a real Shell
>Key proceeds to get deleted once Rook extracts
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>let's give the dedicated rat character a free shotgun every spawn lol
hope you're ready to get domed by corner camping rooks every match on release
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>>558966857
Hate that you're right.
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>>558974043
pve mode
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What does it feel like to lose against a 2 year old game?
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>>558976001
Yeah, i was shitposting about it yesterday, its the rank 4 of arachne that gives that

Not gonna lie, i unironically think the shotgun would be a downgrade to the knife
>It makes a shit ton of noise
>You have to reload
>You can miss much more easily

It would only really be useful for killing the NPC bosses but beyond that its meh desu
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>>558976283
>progression based shooter
>nobody playing before wipe
Trust the plan.
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Why is solo play always an afterthought for bungie? Do they think everyone has at least 2 other friends always available to play with?
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>>558976331
What progression??? You constantly lose your shit
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>>558976329
Not wrong but there's a silencer and mod to overflow/reload if you do enough damage or you kill a target for the shotguns
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>>558976381
This is lightning in a bottle

We'll just matchmake you with 2 other randos... surely nothing can go wrong with this
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>>558976413
Only every few months. The upgrades are the real progression.
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>>558976494
I could play marathon all day.
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>>558976381
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>>558976725
>>558976725
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>>558976413
>>558976567
I think both of you have good points, they intended the faction upgrades to work as a permanent form of progression.

In my opinion that is retarded as fuck because
>Sweats that play 8 hours a day can just farm all day so the average player will always be getting farmed by sweats and in inferiority statwise
>If you jump late into a season you are starting in a much worse position than everyone else not only in gear but also stats
>You are now forced to keep playing this game to stay competitive

Its literally a goy hamster wheel with bungie screaming for the goys to jump in because it promises to be fun at some point after 400 hours or smth



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