>Marathon Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@MarathonTheGame>Game Info:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3065800/Marathon/>Marathon Game Home Pagehttps://www.marathonthegame.com/>The Entire History of Marathonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7uN6-lNhk https://marathon.bungie.org/story/>Play the Original Marathon for Freehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2398450/Classic_Marathon/Databases:https://tauceti.world/https://tauceti.gg/https://marathonmeta.gg/https://marathondb.gg/News:>Mid-Season Updatehttps://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update_106>SEASONS & ROADMAPhttps://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/introducing_seasons_marathon>Introducing C.A.R.R.I.https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/introducing_carri> 4/21 Updatehttps://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update_1061Previous run: >>564528380
I can't believe you fucks are confusing the dude who sees rape everywhere as a way of life with the singular focus extraction ass pirate. It's like comparing a mass shooter with a rap album with a serial killer.
>Destroyer tries to shoot me >open up mic "hey I wanna just leave for the points">he stops shooting at me>we exfil together
Kurppahosk isn't quite ubisoft tier, but they're pretty far down there.
>hear enemy footstepsChoices:>wait until he runs into you = win>run into him = lose
>play both squads and solo>still get called extract camperI don't call everything rape. That's a different dude.
>>564683169>>run into him = loseThat's been proven false, many times.
>>564683376YOU STOLE MY FUCKING CLOUDSONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYh_Ffqy8g&list=LL&index=6
>>564683376I-I kneel
I would not be able to steal items so smoothly, mouse chads have the better input. Sometimes controller can have better movement, though. You can't take a slow-motion step on WASD, I think. And that one step is so quiet, you can miss it point blank.
Sponsored Moshpit(all maps free kit only), when?It's a very good mode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzELom6UPIE&t=355s
>>564686131They definitely need to rotate the maps, freekit outpost would fucking rock
>>564684241that's why I move with controller and aim with mouse
>>564687459Really? Fascinating, I've never met your kind.
>>564683651Thread Anthem
>>564688501
Vandal is for injecting my biolens sneed deep inside
>>564691398you're gonna waste a biolens seed like that?
>>564691627Already did, when that brat looks at me with her slutty eyes, I can't stop myself.
>take a break from free kit marsh>go solo perimeter>locate Thief player>I'm green shield, she(male) is blue>buckbreak her>unmute>Hi, you wanna team up? I don't need your stuff.>responds>yea for sure>let him self rez>asks me what I'm looking for>tell him I'm looking for someone to kill>say oh, and then have him join us?>tell him yea, if it's a Thief or Vandal. I'll kill anyone else.>he say bro you mad weird>we don't find anyone>not a soul>exfilWell this was a first try of something, resulting in nothing.
My friend stood me up. Friday night marathon, key runs and good gets on offer. They rather play milsim fps. It's so fucking over. I hate this game.
I WILL capture female shells(male consciousness), and force my biolens sneed into them, without eliminating them._NONE SHALL DEFY ME
Me knowing they will never add a safety pocket
>>564693672>My friend>TheyOk, what's the milsim fps. Which one?
>>564691545rope thoughts?
>>564693672What shell do you play, what map. I could join you.
>>564694227isn't that kinda gay
>>564694589>isn't that kinda gayWe're not homo sapiens, we're machines. It's not homosexual.The machines I'm searching for, will function as female.
The options for Thief and Vandal>assume the role of female>get biolens sneeded>exfil safelyOr>refuse to perform as female>dieNo compromise.
>>564694339I didn't want "them" to notice my post in case "they" come here to shitpost.Also pic related
>>564694520Unfortunately I just played for 3 hours and am wrapping it up for the night.I play all shells because I "like" this game.
>>564695134That's a very simple, braindead game. Actually designed for the average reddit audience.I'm not shittalking your friend, I don't like that game.
>>564695901>That's a very simple, braindead game. Actually designed for the average reddit audience.>I'm not shittalking your friend, I don't like that game.But enough about Marathon
>>564696025I got Redsec wins with one arm tied under my dick. It's easier than Warzone.And multiplayer is easier than BO6/7
>>564696343Ok?
>>564696382Brainless, tasteless game. Boring.
>>564696450Yeah dude I wish I didn't buy Marathon either
>>564696485No need to be upset, friends come and go. It's not Marathon's fault that your friend isn't feeling the passion.
>>564683407>epic webm gaming highlight clip>console aimbotevery single time
>>564695901Yeah me either. I honestly rather play older BF titles than anything EA sharts out now. My friend unironically sucks ass at games, so that sounds about right.
>spend 10 minutes doing rook things>die with a full inventory>alt-f4 instantly and uninstall>spend 20 minutes doing thief things>exfil with a full inventory and contracts completed>feel nothingnice game, bungie. glad the same geniuses that deleted my D2 dlc bet the company on this thing.
>>564696624I'm not upset, Marathon just sucks
>>564696628Do I have to use mnk to stop your pussy from getting sore?
>>564696624>friends come and go.I've had this friend since child hoodWe've been through a lot together, that's why getting ghosted to play shootslop kinda stings more, to be honest.
>>564696827>I'm not upset, Marathon just sucksOr you don't want to like it. When a game sucks, you quickly get tired of talking about it, checking threads.Either you're very retarded, or you're unhappy, because the game burned you. Just because it burned you, doesn't mean it's bad.Bf6, now that's actually bad. Such a boring, shit game, unbelievable.
>>564697347>that's why getting ghosted to play shootslop kinda stings more, to be honest.You shouldn't take it personally, your friend could be tired of a lot of things, and have a specific urge. Playing that shit game could be relaxing for someone, let them be. It's not your fault, some people need to recharge, or heal, by themselves. You're still special to your friend, but no one can be special enough, to be the center of someone's universe.Let that friend figure it out on his/xer own, and see what happens next. You could take a moment to appreciate how alive you are, because you felt that sting, and let that feeling go. Let it fade away, everything will be alright.
>>564697980Did not expect a hope core post in a place like this. I'm going to bed now, but thanks for keeping it real.
Dang, it's been so long since I've felt any kind of sting, because of a person. I can barely remember it.I kept brainwashing myself into feeling no love, no regret, no remorse, empathy. To increase the level of my rapэ powers.I think it felt more fun, to be fully human. But I wouldn't be super effective at Marathon's exfil destruction, if i retained all of the humanity, and suppressed none of it.Solo players are like insects to me, too easy, regardless of gear, because for a split second, they do get nervous, they miscalculate. I am machine, and they, are flesh.
>>564698301Sweet dreams, but it's not real. It's an improvised lie, I typed that to look pretty. I didn't believe a single word i said. I'm a spiteful subhuman, that's the truth. I just like to practice manipulating people, using words.
>>564698610I cannot trust that you're trying to manipulate me, because you might be trying to manipulate me by saying you're trying to manipulate me. Therefore I'm going to believe you're being 100% sincere and not manipulative.
>co-evolution 4/5>running Vandal with just a knife fight>meet Destroyer behind maintenance >he drops me a v11 and agrees to help me with quest>he thinks I need a sparkleaf>explain quest to him>pic rel he realizes he's not at this quest yet>run around shooting the shit>find tick nest>head to bio, get quest item and start heading to quarantine >lockdown>quarantine >spend the rest of the match running around looking for anti-virus>only 7 minutes left we decide to just exfill>complete quest next run by playing Steely Dan over prox chat the whole match
But I already forgave him. No way you trolls posting as me or @me can take away my good feeling right now. Veri not required
>>564699561>ywn run around dmarsh listening to Deacon Blues
how could you, /mg/, fucking assholeshttps://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1sv2sfg/stay_away_from_this_guy/
>>564699559Sleep tight
>>564699561>>running VandalI'd break your legs, and give you a choice, take the biolense sneed, or die. No homo
Well this was extremely lucky, only had to kill 2 sponsor kit people trying to ambush bio-research, other people died, one other guy just stayed out of the way and exfil'd while I was clearing the lockdown. Honestly did not expect to finish this solo, much less on try 2.
>>564701614Dayum, you're strong. Very good.
>Play solo>To find Thief and Vandal players>Want to force them to be my concubines and exfil with me>Everyone's either Assassin, or ReconFuck. I have biolense sneed to plant deep in side of slutty safe pockets. And can't find any.>What about Assassins and ReconsI killed all of them.
>>564703503what about destroyer and triage?
>>564682421Its a game about rape tbqhwyf
>>564697019>Do I have to stop relying on crazy aim assist on top of bullet magnetism?real thinker, your situation. Your an avatarfag on top of being a controller bitch. Go post on reddit if you want accolades
Is there anybody in AU looking for a dedicated weeknight crew member for actual raids. I usually play Vandal but can adapt to most other classes. I just really would like somebody I can reliably do Warden and Pinwheel raids withchuckchapel#4758rimidar on discord
>>564703830>what about destroyer and triage?Those are male, and I'm a male Recon.Recon on Recon biolens sneeding would be like incest, it's weird.So I'm looking for Thief and Vandal shells, to inject my biolens sneed deep inside. Those are female(male consciousness, but still).
>>564707369>on top of bullet magnetism?Bullet magnetism is a meme, you can jump over, or slide between bullets, at any range.
https://x.com/i/status/2047745074344108322Don't panic.PANIC
>>564709416just teach them the obedience matrix and they are yours forever
>>564709752warframe is a good game
>>564709776Come on now, I don't want to inject seed into this
>>564709495
>>564710165What happened to magnetism? Where banana?
Consolenigs are an embarrassment
>>564710870You play against actual lemmings, it's kind of unbelievable.
>>564710870pretty nifty
I genuinely don't remember the last time I saw a non-Assassin in solo.
The PvE bot poster fears the large PvP console dick
Marvel Rivals added a pve mode while Bungie is still trying to monetise rape.But maybe they are right. Maybe they should embrace the whole rape meme, turn it around and make it their strength. They don't have much to lose at this point.
>>564710870how does he get away with this
>>564711156Look at it this way, he's a lemming compared to you, when you see what happened to him from the side.You don't know, if you'd be a lemming to me. I could do a completely different thing, and kill you as easily, as I killed him.Don't be so judgmental, run a game with me, let's see if I can kill your lobbies.
Everyone likes talking shit, but nobody wants to throw hands. Bleh.
>>564712213It's probably more of a struggle dealing with maneuvers like that on controller, a competent mnk player 180s and rapes you for trying some shit like that
>>564712480When I slid into him I slowed it down to 0.5.A competent MnK player would be pre-firing me from mid range, I wouldn't push someone like that.I can tell when someone sucks at the game, and do funny things to them.Where'd the magnetism go, though?
>>564712645I genuinely don't know what you're trying to argue here. The game has bullet magnetism like every other bungie game has, the fact that it didn't save the guy in that situation doesn't mean it isn't there and that it doesn't make aiming less mechanically demanding.
>>564712883Bitch boy says bullet magnetism makes the game piss easy, every retard can get a kill.For some reason, I don't die to magnetism. I wonder why.
>>564713073Why are you so pressed over this?
Wife hunting loadout>searching for Thief and Vandal>beat the piss out of them>force them to join and exfil with me>as my concubinesIf they happen to be free kitters, I'll give em a shield, so they don't get insta-deleted by some random faggot.>let me inject my biolens sneed into your silky womb>or dieThose are their options.
>>564713535I got excited from talking to you
Why are you so RAPED over this??I got RAPED from talking to you.
>>564715104This
Remember that guy who was like there's too much rape talk here I'm going to reddit
>>564715851Probably the most sensible anon that's come here, seeing as the thread quite literally atm is just one cringe edgelord talking to himself while maybe 3 or 4 other anons call him a retard in between their runs. The rape talk is the most forced and unfunny meme
>>564716262
>>564709752BREAKING: BUNGIE HAS LOST TIMDOG
>design game around trios>player count dies when players realize they're playing at a disadvantage because their friends would rather play anything elsewoohoo!
>>564715851Probably the most raped anon that's come here.
My best Cryo run so far. I failed to down anyone, was eliminated 3 times, and got lost on my way to extraction.
>>564717720Watching bungie die has been entertaining af. I can't wait for the sony rapening in 2 weeks
>>564719641>>564521626
>>564719818What the fuck?
>>564719601What do you do after reaching Control in Cryo Archive? We just spent like 10 minutes fighting UESC because we didn't even have clearance level 2. Also, I don't like Circuit Breaker at all.
the player count is so low today
>>564724218>What do you do after reaching Control in Cryo Archive?Mostly you just uninstall
>>564721063Fucking kek, this game is dying hard and fast.So when does it go free to play?
>do a full clearance run of Cryo>loot the clearance 4 room>intercept a team Opening a vault>get the compiler core in the hatch>defeat every team in the mapI uninstalled the game right after that, just now. It felt like I was going to have a heart attack for half the run, it’s so stressful. I swear I’m losing hair over certain runs. See you guys in season 2. Have fun.
I confusing kill. No one came to save that Recon, and the other Rook wasn't doing anything, either.
>>564721063Something else to note that's unintentionally obfuscated in that pic20% of destiny players are on pcWhile 70% of marathon players are on pc.So it's even worse
Bungie lost
>>564724218Thinking about it, Circuit Breaker could have saved me here. How the hell was this guy so tanky? Is Twin Tap a considered good?
I love this game, but now I hate bungie so much for fucking it up.
>>564733321Also, I think it's funny that the midseason update didn't remove blue thermals from the game, it just stopped them from spawning.
>>564733321It costs 7 fucking thousand base in the shop; therefore it isn't shit.Also i learned today that schema prints do NOT reset. I actually ran out of back packs, they took the schema away from my list when the charges died. Fucking ridiculous if you ask me, charging highway robbery to buy them but they're fucking finite.
>>564728956the player count is low every day
>>564734756yea lol
>>564733321God damn that dude soaked a lotThe twin tap does good damage in my experience but you didn't hit a single headshotyou also woulda won if you just knifed the dude really
>>564728956>>564734756I've been wondering about something. What's up with that weekend drop off on the week of the midseason update? It's usually a weekend bump.
more diehard fanboy streamers quitting. still over a month to go for season 2. oof!
Can you spot a Rook in this image? Other than me, obviously.
>>564737410Rook giant balls hanging on top of the image
>>564735779It's over
>>564735779>Getting put in EU/Asia serversSo Aussie thus irrelevant?I swear it has to be hell to be stuck in australia if you like vidya, everything is dead and you're too far away to join other communities
>get downed as rook>another rook finds and self revives me>we trade stories about how rough the game is, especially Cryo>extract togetherit's the little things, lads
>>564739112he's american living in the usa
>>564738351Wrong.
>>564740910Idk if I’m being put in foreign servers but I’ve been getting tons of Europeans in my cryo matches this weekend
>>564731332what's the secret to being matched with literal retards? i keep getting sweats
>>564740370one of the funnest matches I've had so far involved all the rooks on the map teaming up with one team and massacring everyone who tried to go into pinwheelwe all split up and got various access codes etc and the main group rewarded one of the rooks with a cryo key for getting a red keycardit was a blast (tm)
>>564741151How this went down.>>564743568Couldn't tell you. Me getting a kill is a very rare occasion.
>>564731332Probably the only one left of his team
>>564682098I hate every single fucking one of you assholes that don't use coms in solo. Every fucking time I appeal to someone they just murder me harder. I get the drop on people, I say "hey man, not trying to kill you." they turn to aim at me "I'M A FREE KIT FREE KIT!! NO LOO-" and they down me. What was the fucking point of this dog shit update? Bungie are the most incompotent fucking morons I've ever seen in my life. You can't even properly implement a co-op friendly mode, it's all knives out all the time, no exceptions. If you try to be nice, you die. If you die you die. If you die you die. If you die you D I E.
>>564744949>oh gee its 3am at night in la and im a sexy babe with fat tits and ass please dont rape me oh my goodness>let me broadcast in voice chat about how rapeable and easily taken advantage of i am!>oh no im being raped!
>Entire vault wiped out because the meta is just 3 stack grenade spam nowAbsolutely moronic balancing on Bungie's part, what were they even thinking.
>>564745776So gear against it? Isnt there an entire family of perks that provide explosive resistance and/or ping enemies that damage you with equipment (Such as grenades)
>>564746695Thats only against bots and being pinged is completely useless because there's twenty other grenades coming your way.
>>564746695>Explosive resistThere isn't.>Ping Doesn't do shit when you're dead in 1 second. There's also a bug where you don't get any notification on your hud when a grenade is near you.
>>564697663I do want to like it, but it's just a shit game. That's why nobody is playing it.
>>564746695even IF you could just buy explosive resistance, how helpful is that against 50 grenades your way?
>>564744949Solo is still pretty much a kill or be killed situation. Had a game the other day where I stood at a distance with knife out asking to share an exfil, but they only shot. It's not impossible though, I've seen some crazy acts of cooperation, and even let a couple of people who didn't want to fight live. You just need to be sensible about it, keep others at an arms length and don't let your guard down.
I just made it to level 60 and there's a golden purple stuffed faggot in every bush and vent now. It's so fucking over, I'll never get the priority contracts done now.
In 490 B.C. the Persian king Darius landed 20,000 cavalry, infantry andarchers on the Plain of Marathon and established a defensive beachhead where heintended to destroy the Greek forces before conquering Athens. The Greekgeneral Multiades, leading 10,000 infantry, learned that the Persians wereresting and watering their horses while awaiting the Greek attack. Multiadesdecided to forgo the standard, slow, phalanx formation and charged his troops ata dead run across the plain. Before the Persians could react, the Greeks wereinside their archers’ range. The Athenian infantry had superior armor and meleeweapons, and the lightly-armed Persians, without archery or cavalry support, werebutchered. A Greek soldier, Phidippides, ran the 26.2 miles from the Plain ofMarathon to Athens, where he announced the Greek victory before dying.Darius retreated to his ships, and sailed directly for Athens. Multiades,guessing the Persian intent, led the Athenians on an overnight forced march to thecity. The next morning, the Persian fleet arrived at Athens to find the Greek armywaiting for them. The Persians turned and fled. In all, the Persians lost 6,400men; the Greeks, 192. Contrary to custom, the Greeks buried their dead on thePlain of Marathon to commemorate the victory.Carnage Ratio 1 : 33.33Kills per minute 13.73Lessons applicable to the game: Move fast, seize the initiative, wieldsuperior firepower, dive into the melee, anticipate enemy movements, slaughter thedefenseless, endure.
>>564749447You know, it's cool how nuMarathon kind of adapted those lessons. Too bad it did that on an extraction shooter with a Call of Duty TTK.
>>564752190Damn so this guy was shilling this game and even he quit?
>>564753405Many such cases.
>Me and my squad bring a dozen grenades into our bag on cyro>Win every engagementSImple as
>>564759127>throw a dozen grenades>they walk backwards and i waste them allteach me your ways
>>564759960>they walk backwardsjust walk forward? also they'll die before they have the chance depending where you ambush them
>>564753864To be fair, people who make videos about Marathon probably have hundreds of hours in it. I really can't blame someone for quitting after 100+ hours considering the amount of content Marathon currently has.
>>564743568stealth sbmmhttps://litter.catbox.moe/j40f55.mp4
I feel like I was cucked out by the poor onboarding and now I missed out
>>564761543you only got cucked if you didn't get a refund
>>564735742The midseason update was the last reasonable hope that they would "fix" the game. Natural if they hated it to just drop off for next season, or forever.>>564744949It liegitimized the 6 and 9 man cryo teams in asia and gave them AWARDS for doing it.
>>564761674I spent a bit too many hours trying to learn how to not get raped and learned too late that there's no way out of getting raped as a solo/fill player.
So where do you get blue Mayochem packs? I'm dying from these comments but they're both right.
my queue times are longer than how long i can live for shit nigga
10 minute queue just to be the only one on my random team to get a kill and both of them get downed without even knowing we're in a firefight fuuuuuuck this game
Yall think they'll make all nades more rare or tune down the damage they do? It's very easy to maintain 100+ nades if you consistently exfil in cryo and wait for good ratio barters. I don't mind nade spam too much, but obviously it's one of the main problems people have with Cryo and the game in general. With the few number of sweats playing now It's not too uncommon to have 4+ nades at you in most trio fights. Similar things happen in Tarkov, but it feels easier to land tossed nades in Marathon.
>get sniped>feel blinding rage>snipe>feel nothingwhy fps devs keep gaslighting themselves thinking we need long range non-interactive weapons in the game is beyond me>what's the counterplay?>uhh hehe just don't be in their line of sight :)i hope sony eats bungie
>>564764591Forgot my reddit capRe up on the request. Where's the Neurochem packs at???
>>564763876You don't get commendations for exfilling with other people as a trio, so no, those people don't get awarded for group queueing. You know, other than winning for essentially free and not being banned for doing it.>>564764591>>564766801Neurochem packs are very common in Pinwheel. You can find them in Cryo as well, and rarely they'll be in medical cabinets, which are already a rare fuckin container, so Pinwheel is the only reasonable place. Stealthy Rook runs can pretty easily net you some as people leave them behind quite a bit.
>>564765413If they make a nade pouch like all the ones in it are quick access, and the rest was stored in the inventory needing to open it and resupply that oouch, it could mature a compromise to the issue. Just throw and throw and throw is dumb. Being less effective is worse. Being rare is a huge mistake that won't balance NOTHING until reset. We should designate all equipment and not limit what we can carry, but what we can access in the heat of the moment.
at some point you have to admit that bungie did something terribly wrong
>>564731820holy shit, well time to reinstall destiny 2, at least it has a playerbase
>>564765413I didn't realize there was a hotkey to quickswap between grendas for like 75 hours
>>564770335if I wanted to play solo mmos, I'd play wow
>>564716262>1773346987479573.jpg>>564745660>>oh gee its 3am at night in la and im a sexy babe with fat tits and ass please dont rape me oh my goodness
>>564747237>but it's just a shit game. That's why nobody is playing it.I'm playing it
>>564768579Sony made a mistake, by not releasing a physical copy.Bungie made a mistake, released only 4(four) maps.Everything else in Marathon is very good. Players are leaving because they suck. They're unbelievably bad.
When you don't protect bad, and normal players, from good ones, and extremely good ones, the bad and average players leave.It's normal.
>>564773064Of course players suck; most people are idiots in general. Players sucking is only a problem if the developer wants a large playerbase. Unfortunately,
>>564768579the game is hard and people want games like carebear raiders where you win every time
>>564773983When you make a game entirely centred around mindbreaking players, they leave. It's normal.
>>564745776>>Entire vault wiped out because the meta is just 3 stack grenade spamImagine dying to grenade spam, what are you, a recruit.
>>564774141The game isn't hard, it's just bad.Elden Ring for example is hard, yetit's fair, predictable and rewarding.Marathon is just aimless slop with no win condition.
Marathon is very good and very real game in a way I appreciate a lot, the main issue is that it's too high stress. It desperately needs some kind of low-stress game mode for warming up or as a recovery from high tension matches. I have many times just looked at the loadout screen like "uhhhh I just can't right now" and closed the game. And the remembering of the same feeling creates a large barrier of entry for opening the game.For this situation, the game should have some kind of low-stress mode or activity that you can just click and play any time, irrespective of your current loadout and with no gear investment, and equally importantly, no gear reward, because vault management is part of this stress.Rook and freekitting are better than fully kitted, but they don't fix high-stress stealth/patience gameplay, and you are at even larger disadvantage, nor the vault management (Rook nets you with even more garbage to organize and dispose later)Part of the issue is that freekitting deletes your current loadout that you have to then rebuild it from scratch. Even worse, you might straight not be able to play until you clean up because your vault can't fit the items in your inventory. The game should save current loadout when selecting free kit or have multiple persistent loadout tabs or something, or ability to prepare multiple loadouts in advance. This would reduce the breaking of flow in building and cleaning up.The free kit test (equal opportunity) feels closer to what ranked should be, and as trio only, it's high-stress by default for me.By process of elimination, the low-stress mode should basically be some kind of arena or high speed BR (ensuring minimal camping), with no gear investment and small credit reward. The reward should be probably less than what you could farm by rooking or freekitting (accounting the risk of failure), to not make it replace those options.
>>564749447>slaughter the>defenselessMost of the playerbase is still defenseless, after a month. There's a lot of food in the game still.
>>564774648>Elden Ring for example is hard, yetit's fair, predictablePredictable is easy. Outplaying unpredictable camper chads on Marathon is 100X more rewarding, than playing other games.
>>564775217Predictable is good.RNG is bad.Spamming queues and hoping to get ONE game where you don't get immediately sent back to the lobby because of bad luck is bad.
>>564765413Yeah it's called doing what Tarkov does and making the grenade something you have to stow your gun to use and has a whole animation process and not something you chuck at a faggot like your Bullseye killing someone with a flick of your wrist.
>>564774084>Of course players suck; most people are idiots in general. Players sucking is only a problem if the developer wants a large playerbase. Unfortunately,Fortunately, I'm not the developer.Don't give a fuck about how small the base is.Do not care how much money Sony lost.How many Bungie devs will get fired, or artists replaced with AI?Doesn't matter, fuck devs, fuck artists. And fuck charts
>>564774962I feel the same way. This game feels like. VR to me, I usually have a great memorable time when playing VR game but after a while I just didn't want to put on the headset. I'm tired right now and don't feel like queuing for minutes and passing so much attention to it
>>564775379>sent back to the lobby because of bad luckNo luck in solo, luck's only involved when you get random teammates. They may help, or not.
>>564774141>>564775217You realize that people can just play CS or Valorant if they want to play pure PVP, right? The "players" being the sole difficulty of the game that has PVE mechanics in it, make it worse than every other PVP game that provides the same thing but with content.
Extraction Shooters are fun because of the overarching mystique of what might happen in any given match. It's the unpredictability and having to respond to that that makes it engaging.
>>564776004>the overarching mystique of what might happen in any given matchThat's every fps pvp game
>>564775725CS and Valorant are not juicy and impactful battle royale games. Apex and Warzone are better replacements for that itch. But Marathon is actually juicier, hit feels powerful, it has that brutal impact
>>564776004You get the same "overarching mystique" in most pvp games. Like Counter-Strike for example.No need for any extra half assed gimmicks.
>>564776185>battle royale gamesCS is one of the most popular fps games worldwide. Marathon is an extraction shooter.
>>564776121Very wrong, you have minimaps and UAVs in FPS games, showing you gunfire on the minimap and shit
>>564776121Not really, a lot of FPS games are very structured. Maybe something like ARMA since that's more open ended and freeform but that's an exception.
>>564775683Maybe if you only play to try to shit on clueless retards, sure.But that's not what game is about.Or is it? Actually, that's the problem with Marathon. What is the game even about? After some point, you won't have enough clueless retards to shoot in the back, so what's going to happen to the game?
>>564776350So you're admitting you've never played any other pvp game, considering there's all sorts of perks and shit you can activate, including jamming maps.
>>564776536>What is the game even about? After some point, you won't have enough clueless retards to shoot in the backI will hold angles for 24 minutes against tryhard retards, and then someone slips up and dies, and someone zips into the final extract.But in all seriousness, the game is about surviving. Doesn't matter how much loot or credits you found. Extract = win.Win condition is to extract with something.
>>564776362Unpopular pvp games are irrelevent
I FUCKING LOVE BRINGING AN 8k KIT AND GETTING MATCHED INTO FREE KITS, ONE AFK, AND THEN DYING 1 MINUTE INTO THE MATCH! THANK YOU, BUNGIE, YOUR GAME IS SO GOOD AND HARDCORE AND DEFINITELY ISN'T JUST TEDIOUS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T MATCHMAKE!
>>564776898I had more fun paying Isonzo and Insurgency than whatever gay fucking mainstream FPS you've played
>>564776898>Unpopular pvp games are irrelevent
>>564776730>So you're admitting you've never played any other pvp gameI'm iridescent (top 10% champion) on Warzone ranked, MW3 ranked, and BO6 ranked. This is why I'm easily stomping 90% of Marathon players since day one. Marathon is a battle royale, with extraction mechanics. Kills matter more, than looting boxes.https://i.4cdn.org/vm/1777080141163926.webm
How have people been farming cryo vault keys?I need to do 3 and 6 and I know no one is gonna bring either of those into a fill queue game at this point since one's a prestige and the other is contraband>you can get them from a lockdow-I need consistency. I've had days where I do 8 dire marsh solo runs in a row and not a single lockdown spawns even though I wait until final exfilThe 20+ lockdowns I've done also haven't given me a single bit of prestige loot or so much as a cryo key
>>564777015The MYSTIQUE of extraction shooters.Will I get matched with rapists or will I get matched with rapees?Will I rape, or will I be the one to get raped?Will I get a chance to try that gold weapon I managed to loot after getting savaged for hours or will I immediately lose everything at the Lose Everything Factory?
>>564777015But variance is good, so we need as much as possible, all the time, no matter how much it makes the rest of the game suck shit.
>>564763876>Natural if they hated it to just drop off for next season, or forever.All on the same day?
>>564777152And you don't know that you can jam maps, send out strikes, call down extra weapons in most if not all of these games?You realize marathon was advertised as an extraction shooter right? They did not attract battle royale players because all of those are playing actual battle royales.You stomping players is completely irrelevant.
>>564777319>The MYSTIQUE of extraction shooters.>Will I get matched with rapists or will I get matched with rapees?Lol, get matched with Rupees
>>564777048Doesn't matter what you like, it matters what is objectively good, and that isn't Marathon.
>>564777627>And you don't know that you can jam maps, send out strikes, call down extra weaponsI'm ignoring this, because you think you can jam maps for free. You can't. By default, minimap gives too much info. Marathon doesn't give you shit, it's all up to you.
>>564777627Marathon did attract battle royale players. Non-battle royale enjoyers stopped playing.Battle royale enjoyers keep playing. >kill everyone. so you are the last man(squad) standingThat's a battle royale game
>>564777712Based shooter games enjoyer
>>564778245Oh I'm a shooter alright. I shoot zinc ropes for Thief and Rupee
>>564777961>I'm ignoring this, because you think you can jam maps for free. You can't.I never said that, just because you have to earn these perks, doesn't mean they aren't used. You as a "top player" should recognize that.
>>564778158>Marathon did attract battle royale players.What? All 12 thousand of them? What this game attracted was broken destiny 2 trials of osiris players. Everyone else are still playing real battle royales.
solo cryo for season 2 would be a blessing
>>564779407i know i'm probably an outlier but i'm a boomer shooter fan that bought this on the marathon name that doesn't play any BRs or other extraction shooters
>>564780027pve cryo would be a blessing. rn its just a big round of counter strike and that wouldn't change much in solos. they'd also have to rework the map probably to make things like security tags different for solo
>score a blue unique magnum mc>check it out>it has a 2.3x (some number between 2 and 3 if it's not that) zoom optic and only 1m of range buffs so its hard to aim with and still can't be used at long rangethis gun just can't catch a break can it
>>564777432Absolutely. If they expected X, and did not get it, they may unintstall without even trying the new patch.
>>564780695All they have to do is give it some fucking range and it'll be fine as a headpopper
>>564777712>>564778245>>564778820SAAR DO NOT REDEEM THE RUPEES
I think bungie would be a special kind of stupid/stubborn to not include significant changes in addition to what's promised in the roadmap once s2 comes around
>>564778909>just because you have to earn these perks, doesn't mean they aren't used.They're not used in ranked, you're not allowed to
>>564781273That's how they were with Destiny 2. Destiny 2 only got real changes from Activision support studios.
>>564781273That's exactly the kind of company Bungie is, unfortunately.
Expanded carri would be nice too, maybe a friendly faction
The Marathon Situation Is Insane..
>>564781453You playing nothing but ranked doesn't mean much
>>564781273I'm sure there will be a few little things. C.A.R.R.I. will be reworked & permanent, etc. If S2 rolls around and there's no safe pocket feature, they're straight retarded.Not that it'd make much difference at this point. The server slam was the canary in the coal mine for Marathon, not very many people showed up even when it was free. And then the numbers went down over the weekend, not up. It's a niche game for a number of reasons that are impossible to fix. Being niche is fine but you can't spend 1/4 of a billion developing a niche thing
>>564782154Trying to downplay me won't change the fact, that Battle royale players are better at Marathon, than any other players.Marathon is all about camping and killing, like a BR.
>>564682098Owes me sex
>>564782413You're being downplayed because you think this game actually attracted battle royale players. No they are playing battle royales >>564779407
I dont mean to be a chartfagbut damn
Game isn't that good. Says a lot the biggest defender of this game is the village retard that posts his arm and bought a Niki Minaj skin on Warzone.
>>564782692Is it too hard to think out of the box? The remaining Marathon playerbase is being farmed by top players, and those top players are battle royale players. They did not quit other battle royale games. They simply picked up Marathon without quitting another game.I play Marathon and Warzone every day
>>564781273first time with bungie?
>>564783140You are an outlier. If what you said was true this game would have at least 100k concurrent players. It's simply a bad game and those BR players are playing other games alongside their main games. Not this.
>>564782180personally I never tried the server slam because I wrote this game off due to bungiethen after a month of thinking about it I grabbed it
>>564781273I doubt that duo and sponsor modes were planned, so maybe. Same with the mercy kit.
>>564783681>If what you said was true this game would have at least 100k concurrent players.Again, not thinking outside of the box. I said br players picked up Marathon and are farming it's playerbase. I did not say that every single br player is doing this.Only a portion of them, and that portion of Warzone/Apex players is better than Bungie's destiny userbase, and Marathon's artfags.So the destiny userbase and quirky "reveal trailer" artfags are like chickens, getting farmed by the small portion of battle royale fags.
>Want to buy it and play it>PC too dogshit to run itI wonder how many other people are in the same boat, would partly explain Slay the Spire 2 having such a high amount of players at release. My PC is like a decade old at this point, I can't really run most mainstream AAA games released past 2020, depending on optimisation. A game like this requires good performance and good connection to not eat shit on too, people who are being shoved into servers too far away are finding out 1st hand.
>>564781273Have you not paid attention to the last DECADE of destiny? >>564782180Safe pocket is idiotic, but something along the lines of at least being able to lube up for the rape you get, like object specific extraction is a good idea. >>564782976I thought you were shitposting. I stop paying attention for a year or three and shit is unrecognizable.
>>564784573>Have you not paid attention to the last DECADE of destiny?this time will be different
>>564784419I had to lock my fps to 72 and only the first two maps really run decently for me. Like it's tolerable at 40 fps but it's still choppy.
This game should have been third person.
>>564784770Built for kidnapping
>>564784419>>564784820thirdies pls go
>>564784419you really should upgrade but you are genuinely not missing out on anything by not playing this game. also this game runs like shit even on new computers, my PC has no parts older than 3 years and it still lightly struggles on dire marsh
>>564785993retard
>>564784770me in the red
>>564784820My pc has a 3.2 GHz i5 CPU and a R9 380 where the driver support has stopped, I have no doubt it'd handle like shit and be unplayable. >>564785993I'm just a turn based chad most of the time, so I never needed strong hardware 90% of the time. >>564786063I've not found a game yet worth upgrading for, especially since like you said, modern games run like shit anyway. If a Bloodborne or Resistance Fall of Man Remaster comes out, then maybe I'd upgrade.
>>564786597I'm gonna kidnap you so hard
>>564786874you had 12 yeas to rent a PS4 and play Bloodborne, why would you upgrade
The average Marathon player is 41 years old
>>564787303I'm 23 and I would kiss that lady and fuck her for 2 hours.
>>564787039Oh no I have a PS4 and played it before, but never touched the online because fuck PS Plus. It's just if it ever came out on PC, I'd have a reason to upgrade. >>564787303Trustworthy face, instantly dropping the game when someone backstabs and steals her shit for the first time.
>>564788103>Trustworthy faceThis woman clearly works in HR
I like all women with dimples on their cheeks, old or not, overweight or not, I'm gonna say hello, talk about something and slide a compliment in. Speaking of Marathon>shoot or hit someone in Marathonsounds and feels like hitting flesh>shoot or hit in Arcsounds and feels like you're hitting a bag of sand>shoot or hit on CoD and WZsounds and feels like you're hitting cardboardYou noticed it too, right? The impact, the juicy impact. I'm so glad I didn't skip the game, because I thought the graphics are ugly. I fell in love with it when actually playing.
>>564784770>>564786597Who's that in the red with Gawr Gura? The name of the character, I need to bust a nut for her
>recognizes gura but doesn't recognize marine
>>564789880Houshou Marine
>>564789957>>564789979Thanks. There's a lot of characters who wear red, Gura's tail is easy to remember. I thought the one in the red was Megumin from Genshin
>provocative image>provocative titleArrgghghgh
>>564790549The raped
It seems like the reddit and discord communities are doing their best to drive away the remaining ~20% of players that weren't driven away by the game itself. I said something about the player count on discord and was told "one day you'll be hanging from a ceiling fan and the world will be a better place". I've never seen such a hyper-reactive, rabidly-defensive fanbase in my entire life. I'm not just talking about video games, I'm including all my other hobbies. I've never seen a company or product so totally immune to any negative thoughts or criticism among the community. Imagine if you made fun of Porsche 996 headlights or Rolex having a bunch of display models they refuse to sell you, and were told to hang yourself. Bungiefags have some kind of parasocial relationship with the company where any criticism is perceived as a personal attack on them and their tastes.
>>564790965/mg/ thinks you and me are the same person. Fucked up, huh
>>564791171>I said something about the player count on discordEven the discord trannies are tired of talking about that. I showed them my cock once, and they kept talking about they want to suck it, for like an hour they kept discussing it.
>>564791382Why are you sending pictures of your cock to other guys?
Bungie should just copy WZ and release an AR mode right next to sponsored mode(all maps free kit only).AR mode being not assault rifle mode, but VR(Altered Reality), a training ground disguised as the basic mode.>two real squads of runners>three AI squads of runners with medium skill difficultyWZ has a mode straight up called casual, with fake AI squads, mixed in with a couple of real squads. So bad players have a chance to make to end game, but then have to try to win, against the other squad of real players.
>>564791171They are genuinely the worst possible large playerbase that is meant to sell non-owners on the game. The game already has problems with its PvPvE extraction structure, but they only make things worse by pretending that no problems even exist.
>>564792063It's not gay when they are Thief and Vandal shells
>>564792487They're guys on discord
>>564792419>they only make things worse by pretending that no problems even exist.Not all of them are pretending. I have been honest since the beta. All I truly desire, is to find players, who want to exfil, who care about loot, and kill them. Don't know how angry, annoyed, or nervous they get, but as long as I make them feel something, I'm very satisfied.I play this, and try hard, for them, not for my loot, or my faction level.My technique's intended target, is you. Just you, the runner. Your experience, what you feel.
As long as i have you, the runner, to target, the full playercount doesn't matter.In this game, you are everything to me.
>>564793069Gay
>>564793253Call in the exfil, I'll overcome any obstacle to get you.
Is it really r-pe, if it happens with truthful love? How can it be evil, if i love doing it.
>>564791171>frogposterOne day you'll be hanging from a ceiling fan and the world will be a better place,
>>564793942Most players don't go on mic and say sorry before they rape you, it sure as fuck isn't affectionate.
It has legitimately been days since I have seen a non Assassin player in solos. What the fuck was Bungie thinking giving a character invis in a game like this?
>solo marsh>run across the map to maintenance >kill 3 people there>4th guy snipes me>escape downstairs, but he's hunting me with a TAD>eventually give him the slip>tac sprint out of the building>hit a mushroom>5th guy kills meI just wanted deimosite rods.
>>564794396Play Thief or Vandal, and agree to join me, I'll even revive you, as my concubine.
Not breaking 20k on a Saturday is incredible
>>564794745>It has legitimately been days since I have seen a non Assassin player in solos.I'm so mad about this. I'm searching for Thief or Vandal players, to beat their guts up, and offer them a revive, to join me. All I see is>Assassin>Sometimes a Recon>Rarely destroyer>No Vandal or ThiefFUCK
>>564794765>I just wanted deimosite rods.Go to sponsored Marsh, ask your teammates.Say "Hi, can I have deimosite rods if you see any? I'll help you gentlemen with anything".If it's non talking retards, or annoying faggots>quit match, just exit>search againYou're not losing anything
>>564781273>significant changesBungie is working with a notoriously dog shit engine that takes forever to even get the smallest things working. Even with a competent team experienced with better tools and engine, making new content from scratch that wasn't already preplanned takes minimum a year to get out the door. I can't see them pushing anything big out until at least next year let alone by season 2. The best they can do is tweak around the edges but nothing that will address the core flaws of the game.
>>564794745They probably just looked at the Spy from TF2 and figured "Well that's not overpowered, we can surely have a class like this in our game!". Forgetting of course that Spy had an absolutely absurd amount of counters, and he's basically a glass cannon. They also forgot that he was just a character in a game with CTF/KoTH/Payload game modes, and not a character in an extraction shooter where the genre is filled campers and rats where dying could mean you lose HOURS OF PROGRESS
>>564795350>he's basically a glass cannonThat's what Assassin is, when you don't care about smoke, he's harmless.>See Assassin ult>Fully ignore it>Shoot at his footstepsThe only way he can be a threat, is if he got close, you did not hear him activate invis, and he holds still in a random place. You walk by, look at the area for 2 seconds, and don't see him 20M in front of you. Then he shoots, you have to slide away, and start healing, while walking around shit.
shoving hero shooter slop was the biggest mistake they made in this gamefire ziegler and rework the game from the ground up without heroes, and maybe i'll give the game a chance
>>564795973>That's what Assassin isThere is no such thing in this game. All characters have the same exact HP. You could fight an invis Rogue as Barbarian or Fighter in Dark and Darker because the characters had strengths and weaknesses but in an FPS where everyone has the same HP it doesn't work that way, if he gets the first few shots he has likely already won. Assassin promotes the most boring playstyle, even if you're not playing him, of crouch walking around the map waiting for other people to do things or waiting for your Recon ult/Thief visor to be off cd. It's extremely boring and another reason why this fucking game is dying.
>>564795973Not really, because his playstyle encourages even more camping than usual. Also what >>564796925 said, all characters have the same HP and the same shield HP too. He's not a glass cannon compared to the TF2 Spy, he's considerably more capable since he doesn't have a set loadout either.
>>564796925his invisibility makes noise, both when activated and activethief is the best character in the game and it's not even close for solos
>>564743607Yeah the rare times where people communicate or do something out of the ordinary are special. Too bad 98% of the time you gotta just blast someone just because you saw them before they saw you.
>>564796925>All characters have the same exact HP>>564797536>all characters have the same HPOk, gentlemen, you two win. I'll rephrase to, in my opinion, Assassin is easy to catch and beat. But he's too annoying for most players, so I have to take the loss in this argument. Bleh.
>>564797837>thief is the best character in the game and it's not even close for solosRecon mating presses any Thief, well the giga Recon. Not sure about all the other, normal Recons.
>>564798259recon is astoundingly good and a permalock with triage for group play but not solo at all
I am so bad at peeking in this game. I find it hard to return fire once someone first shoots me. Seems like I take a fuck ton of damage near instantly. Not even from snipers only. Just whatever fucking guns they have. Trios gets chaotic for sure but its fun in bursts to me. I normally play solo.
>>564798508don't peak the same place twiceyou've now improved your skill at every shooter in existencereposition, reposition, reposition
>>564798451I played only Recon at launch, you shoot someone, then throw the drone, suddenly, it's two against one.People always put their eyes on the drone, for a split second. And it was over.I didn't even need the pulse, just created 2v1 situations. Even if the drone does not hit, the guy you were shotting at, will look at it, they can't help it.
>Be to the left>Enemy is in the middle of your view>About 25M away>Start shooting>As the guy is rushing away, you throw the drone far, to the left, or behind him>Now it's a 2v1 from different directionsYou don't throw Recon's drone in front of you. You throw it away from you. That's how you 2v1 as Recon.
>>564797837Thief is "better" than Assassin but if the lobby is 5 players all on Assassin it makes the lobby extremely unfun because you know they're going to be camping corners waiting +10 minutes before trying to get the jump on you. Which is why I will keep bitching about Assassin because so long as most people are playing him then it makes the match boring.
>>564798751>check out this anecdote about how many people I killedthat's cool man but thief has unparalleled mobility, unparalleled scouting, and the ability to spend the least time at PoIs getting the most valuablerecon's little bot is good when you're got someone trapped, and it's really good when there's chaos going on (again group play) but it's easy as fuck to ignore or shoot.Meanwhile Thief can deploy their drone and make people think someone's coming from an entirely different approach into a PoI while being able to actively get in any position on any PoI almost instantly to capitalize on itit's really just no contest, Thief has the best toolset of anyone when you have no one to rely on. Even in team play I think Triage/Recon/Thief is the best setup, but Vandal and Destroyer are good thirds too.
Playing Arc Raiders and understanding why it's so much better. The dynamics, the maps and their scale, the social aspect. I'm speaking of this from lobbies where you have to decide whether shooting a player is worth the risk or not. I am getting chased by robots and open a door to a room where another player is already hiding, and we gauge the risk in shooting each other.And now I finally understand. By comparison, in Marathon, there is only the PvP and nothing else, no nuance, it is Call of Duty. You see someone, you shoot at them always, because if you don't, they'll sneak up on you later, the map is always too small. Even the AI moves and shoots at you as if they were other players. This is the target audience: Apex players, COD players, people who don't tend to play extraction shooters but want a high stakes Counter Strike game. It's outdated. This is why it failed.
>>564799358>Thief has the best toolset of anyone when you have no one to rely onFor you. You prefer to have more mobility, I know I don't need it. Thief's drone is also easy to shoot, and it's easy to ignore Thief's presence, when you shoot down the drone.>Thief now knows where you areAnd what's xer gonna do? I'll hear them/she crouching if she decides to make a move towards me.Thief can leave after locating me, I don't care. I will locate Thief when the exfil is called. And Thief will not exfiltrate.
>>564800247More mobility in this game is extremely powerful and you're a fool for arguing against itplay whatever you want brother I don't care, but thief mogs because her skills are just better suited for what matters.
>exfil camping sniper misses my head by an inch>no resources or pathway to push>only way out is back through the area i spent the past 10 minutes clearing>i either die and lose all my stuff or get the honor and riveting gameplay experience of running through a dead area i've already cleaned out>feels like playing against an invisible wall that sometimes kills you>ziegler's probably got his head in his hands right now wondering how he's going to save the game and the only answer he's got is to run another 12 weeks of test queues
i have not been a shoot on sight rook to other rooks, but i've gotten betrayed a few times recently and may be changing my ways. i also just unlocked the wstr on rook, and other rooks are just going to have to pay for the crimes of others who have wronged me.
>>564800354>thief mogs because her skills are just better suited for what matters.I disagree, in solo Recon and... Assassin are better. And i would not go into smoke as Assassin, I'd throw the whole smoke at you, when you don't know I see you, to make you move and get shot.
>>564800453S2 will have better cooperation mechanics/rewards. For now, rape them
>>564799737Counter Strike is the most popular FPS in the world.
>>564799737>I'm speaking of this from lobbies where you have to decide whether shooting a player is worth the risk or not.Do you get stalked and attacked for no reason?https://streamable.com/25ylmhIf not, you're in fake PvE lobbies, with no PvP stat players.
>>564800690>using smoke on a thief??? the class that just flips their visor down and ignores smoke entirely?Recon and Assassin's abilities aren't good for solo play, Assassin is only good for sniping, otherwise it's just sealclubbing retards who don't know what invisibility sounds like. Every class in the game can hide in a fucking corner and ambush you, or throw grenades
>>564801276>>using smoke on a thief>??? the class that just flips their visor down and ignores smoke entirely?The whole smoke bomb falls on you. Do you fly out of there with your grapple, or stand inside of the smoke and waste a second to scan it?You're jumping at of that smoke, and then I'm shooting you.
>>564801389I just move in the smoke to not be a still target and flip my visor down and look where it was thrown from. Why would I leave the useful cover?Why would I even be getting ambushed?Why are you trying to construct a hypothetical fight to argue like a retard because you just like a class?
A balck & white game, either PvE only, or PvP only, that's Arc.>what about every Arc sissy crying about ratsPvP player reverse boosts, removes his Aggression stats, and attacks someone in PvE lobbies.Someone clips it, and 100,000 redditors cry about it.
>>564801671>Why are you trying to construct a hypothetical fightI have dozens of examples in clips. Blue shield Thieves could not even touch me, when I had grey or green.>Why would I even be getting ambushed?Because no way in hell would you see me coming. I'd be there 3 minutes before you, pretending i don't exist.
>>564801921Yeah well I'd be there 3 minutes before you then I'd teleport behind you and slash you three times before revealing I was a hologram and actually fucking your mother while you pretend to be a badass on a mongolian basketweaving forum talking about how good a class is while constructing hypotheticals which don't use any of the class abilities and could be done better with thief
>>564799737Yes in Marathon there is only one way to play while Arc gives you choice.
It really does feel like after they kicked out the only person who had a vision they really didn't have any idea how to proceed and zeigler decided to just trend chase without thinking about how the game would improve upon the genre. They ended up making all the same mistakes tarkov did and even worse somehow.
>>564801749meanwhile someone posts a marathon clip and 20k people circlejerk over it while 100k uninstall
>>564803457A big ass Grey Zone persistent map type of thing sounds 1000x better than the extraction BR slop we have now.
>>564800435"Um sweaty it's an extraction shooter you don't have to take every fight!" Says some giga faggot meanwhile the actual game design leans to where PvP is the only good and exciting part of the game and actively avoiding it feels almost as bad as dying.
>>564803627Yeah, doesn't or didn't Tarkov (idk I don't follow Tarkov at all and apparently they're making a new game now) want to have a fully open map environment that was basically like STALKER? I remember seeing people say that in a thread about it like a year ago on /v/.
>>564803745Giving a nigga the slip in this game is great, you should try it sometime honestly.
>>564804002STALKER didn't really have much bigger maps than Tarkov's, particularly SoCCoP was the only one that had very big mapsUltimately Tarkov was just not-Stalker and that's half of what drew people to it, but it's really only about half the STALKER experience
>>564802076>talking about how good a class is while constructing hypotheticals which don't use any of the class abilitiesThief's abilities are overrated. He used all of them to defend exfil.
>>564804234I play Destroyer, giving someone the slip is them watching my fat ass jet across the map and then having to worry about them following me. It also feels bad, I don't want to just pick shit up, I want to fight and kill people too.
>>564804389>no look please I killed this guy so it's truegod you're retarded
>>564804526>something like this would not happen to me, I'm special
>>564804893>I promise it's the class that decided everything here trust me bro trust me it's about the class not about the skill of the players
Wasted potential: The Setting, The Game, The Hit New Vod, Based on the New York Times' best seller, inspired by real acts of rape.
>>564805185Low skill retards disagree, that Thief is the best for solo, right, sister?
>>564805627Painfully trve. The series is going to eat shit forever because Ziegler wanted a fucking extraction shooter 7 years (lol get it 7!!! Bungie!!!) after they stopped being relevant.
At the very least the map sizes should be increased.
Ziegler is based as fuck for developing such a good game. I love it.
>>564805820Sure?
>>564806149If they had more than one faction to fight against there could be territories being contested by other groups, but no... it's all just some micro machines playset of what the UESC is up to.
>>564806885Night Marsh S'pht troops, trust the plan.
>>564806149>At the very least the map sizes should be increased.No one would ever fucking die and the sniper rifle would become the new shotgun.
>>564806149Impossible, they chose the Tiger engine(again) for some retarded retarded.
>>564805627Holy shit. The colors, the angular patterns, the long spears and shields with a knife sidearm meta; it really is straight outta the history books. This actually hurts to look at because you realize how mothballed everything is going to be when the Suits finally get their ducks in a row.
>>564806885>If they had more than one faction to fight against there could be territories being contested by other groups,You mean... Like their other science fiction settings? Did no one think we would get bored with one crummy enemy, for half a year at least?
>>564808483when this first appeared I was so excited to drive that spider tankso fucking excitedoh boy bungie making a new FPS with cool vehicles?? I can't wait!I hate them so much, FUCK Destiny
Cryo love
>>564808483We were expecting the Pfhor in the reboot of the series where you fight the Pfhor
>>564810216Fighting the Pfhor is for earners, now get back into the fuckin cryo archive and start earning.
>Night Marsh but all the swamps have wandering Compiler spawns and F'lickta nests
>>564809512Yeah, I still never fully forgave them for the Destiny Rugpull. I played for one year, out of respect for an anon on /v/ that bought me the special edition. I never looked back until season of the Plunder when I got curious again.
>>564810420How can they not see him, he's right there?
>>564810336Speaking of earninghttps://vocaroo.com/14jO5eWNVdrS
>>564810536They wouldn't see him, they would listen. Which is what no one did.
>>564810216>Could have spent the premise working up on an extraction shooter with immersive sim elements and a proper structure to it.>Multiplayer elements optional/different game mode for it, if implement at all.>The rest focusing on the same premise of infil, exfil, but at different times of day and with an constant escalation of hostilities between UESC and Pfhor with the player's meta progression and other events triggered during progression.>What we've got instead is a drip fed and largely skinned version which lives solely on its PvP premise, which showcases that underneath the hood there could have been much more.It's another casualty of Bungie, really. I don't think the company has ever released games that weren't horribly scaled back or otherwise gutted due to time constraints, poor planning or other problems.
>>564774648>dude I'm totally hardcore I play Zoomer Skyrim!Every timelmao
>>564810420I played D1's campaign and completely wrote off the story and writingI played D2 when it went free and had a little fun but not enough to buy more expansionscan't imagine how people got entranced by that skinner box for so long with probably the worst writing bungie's ever put in anything
The lore of this game is what truly puts it in a league of its own within the extraction shooter genre.Its artistic direction takes risks rather than replicate safe, bankable trends, something almost unique for a AAA studio.The gunplay bears the signature of one of the studios that understands what makes an FPS fun, by knowing mechanics better than nearly anyone else in the industry.That’s why I appreciate Bungie… and not just for that, also for their ability to never quit
>>564811517Preach
>>564810216That would be overdelivery anon, we can't have a narrative about xenophobia, better to do another "corpos bad" plot instead.>>564810415How about those little exploding flying bastards and wasps from the first game?I never understood why those were removed from 2 and 3.
Okay serious question, but is this trade worth it? These four purple shields I can buy will help me get more than just those eccentric mats, right? Every fucking purp shield I own was pried off of a corpse. I do not even go to outpost often because I get stomped immediately.Also blue shields for blue mayo packs. Knead it or key-pit?
>>564811839Hounds were annoying and wasps got swapped out for drones. Ankle height ambush creatures have always been terrible in fps, that's why Bungie gave us ticks.
>>564811726my favorite part is that you choose from 3 races that are utterly meaningless in everything I ever experienced despite there being multiple races in the game which are coollet me be the four armed aliens at least for fuck's sake, I can't understand how they released a game with one of their largest settings ever and it still ends up more fucking boring than anything else they didYeah good movement and moment to moment gameplay, right up until you start doing higher end stuff and everything's a tedious slog of HPnevermind this big epic 10 year story didn't actually have a fucking story at all planned and it was full winging it on what made it into shit with unused D1 content still being rehashed in D2I just don't get it
>>564812076yeah that's a great trade they'll help a lot, get the blue shields too
>>564812086Everyone loves the headcrab, it can work. The explodey bastards were fun to blow up in packs. Less annoying than the replicant. And the wasps made the wet splat when they died which was a lot more satisfying than the drones, though admittedly the drones make more sense from a flavor perspective.
>>564812584>Less annoying than the replicant.You don't run punch them? They're fun too.
>>564812076Highfive that you?
>>564812784no i have purples
>want to play solo>have to sit through a ten minute queue because bungie are stubborn fucks>don't play at all and just shitpost on /mg/ instead
>>564813245Yeah the solo experience is so bad I'm considering quitting for the foreseeable future. They must loathe us to make the game this brutal for loners.
>>564812076Do they ever sell for anything else? First I've seen this
marathon sisters i dont feel so good (i ate the frozen chicken patty in the back of the freezer that i dont know how long its been back there but i was hungry)
>>564814635I watched a video about a family that ate year old frozen left overs and they all ended up in the hospital nearly dyingI'm sure it's fine though.
>>564814635>Fucking around with old chicken to save $0.50LOL
>>564813163If you're not him, and not me... You're a third copetroller user here? What platform do you play on?
>>564813245>>have to sit through a ten minute queueIt takes about 3(three minutes), unless you live on the moon.
>>564815259I'm the feller that took the picture. That's from my PS5.
>>564813245Where do you live? I'm in East Asia for the next few months and queue times aren't that bad, at most about 5 minutes. The issue is that even though the game does have a niche Japanese/Chinese playerbase I'm still laggy as shit for some reason.
>>5648157973 controller nigs, and all on Ps5
>Game goes to PS Plus early this summer>Steam number drops lower than ever>Perfect time to deactivate cross-play>No mouse flickers to contest me>Literally everyone will be foodIt's gonna be a juicy massacre, before switching to GTA6 and MWIV(4)
How can one be so based
>>564811839but the current narrative is that "corpos kinda bad, UESC VERY bad" and "oops, wrkn'cacnter under tau ceti!" and "rampant AIs bad" and "huh, just what the fuck happened in this timeline compared to the others?"
>>564812714Their schizobabble is tiresome and the weird overkill delay on the death explosion frequently leads to them catapulting their peers at me. It is still fun to pop them in groups, don't get me wrong, but I like the flyer more.
>>564817061based agent of chaos, accelerating this game's deathwe need more guys like him
>>564816508There really should have been console-only crossplay, PC is notoriously full of cheaters.
>>564816056Almost like we could assemble some kinda controller posse or whatnot?
>>564817967And console is notoriously full of niggerstrust me, we don't want to play with consolebrowns either
>>564817061>>564817876>playing cryo solo fill>the premade duo and I are actually killing squads and did vault 2>I activate the exfil and leave without them>mfw they prob didn't find final exfildon't blame me blame bungie for making me play trios on this map
>>564818421Oof, you cute
>>564818158*lays veiny controllermeat on your face"You don't have the option to avoid it.
>>564817967Sad but true>>564818158PCjeet projection
>>564817967>There really should have been console-only crossplayThere is. In the PS5 social settings, you toggle cross-play on, and on the left, you switch it from Full, to Xbox and Ps5 only.
I don't understand why a gen 9(nine) console game on PC would be easy to cheat on. Marathon isn't cross-generational, not designed for the typical hardware, unlike games like Warzone and Apex.How come they couldn't develop a new anti-cheat system for it?I know that only 10% or less cheat on PC, not many people are willing to risk a ban after paying for the game. The vast majority isn't cheating.
>>564820004because they're using fucking battleye
>>564820004Because modern bungie is incompetent, doesn't have the people, and spent no resources improving their shit. And they're afraid of losing key players that are spending money AND cheating.>>564817876Gets points for being at least interesting.>>564815479They've had to change things a couple of times to improve waits already anon.
>>564815124https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnSYfv6bCA
Alright I think I've autism'd enough at mapping Cryo for this season. I might try to look up where the drone conveyance spawns got thrown to, my map of Outpost is out of date.
I've worked hard to kill many runners, when they try to exfiltrate. I killed so many, as they where a couple of seconds away.And now it seems like I regret doing that, but why. Most of the time it was very difficult, a lot of work, and I kept doing it. Why did I stop being satisfied.
>>564821224What do those F3-F4 symbols indicate?t. shitter who hasn't yet played cryo
>>564821656What floor the thing is on. It's more useful in a relative sense since the whole map is pretty fuckin varied height wise, like Steerage/Revival have the 'base' floor as F3 and the upper floor as F4, while Index/Cargo are drastically lower and have G/F1/F2
If I hear you you're already dead
>>564822653
>marathon’s gasping for air>bungie slaps a breathing mask on it>it takes a deep breath>fills its lungs with nighttime dire marsh>its eyes burst open and it starts gasping even harder
>>564822709yeah that’s me so what
>>564822709based chad
I've uninstalled Marathon 2026 now that its become too much hassle than its worth to try and complete priority quests to learn about the lore, I'm free from the rape until they add a PvE only mode
>>564822747a competent dev would give us an actual new map AND day/night variants of all planetside maps
>>564818421if you aren’t marooning the duo you filled into at the first opportunity, you don’t have what it takes to run. bravo.
>>564822709>Newport redsNot bad>MentholsHell no nigga
>>564823098So afraid of over-delivering what the fans want they forgot to deliver anything they wanted at all
>>564784770I looked up some art of them, but before exploding, I reopened the webm.I exploa\ded twice to that clip. Now with post-nut clarity, I'm ready to do the Marathon.
>>564821224bless your autism
Oh noes, you just wanted to loot and do your contwact? Sorry, chud, this is Tau Ceti IV.
>>564782180>CARRI will be permanentIs it not already…?
>>564824519Nvm I checked and it’s temporary. Bungie are lunatics. People were BEGGING for kinder lobbies and faster progression, they could’ve just pushed the “event” up by a few weeks and probably slowed the bleeding by a ton.
You bring the gunpowder, I'll bring the heat (grenades). We'll smoke 'em out.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. And I got 'em.
Didn't play all day today
>>564825624did you have a blast?
>>564825821Yeah I was blasting PMC spooks in Gray Zone with my buddies. We found matching green berets so we look cool now.
>>564825821i blasted thick ropes all over my tummy :3
Call me Kingslayer. For I have slain the king of the chuds, Chud Tassi, and torn him from his throne. Chuds wander lost in the crimson desert, now and forever. Amen.
>>564824845It wouldn't have made a difference even if it was available at launch. Nobody bothers with CARRI shit anymore because it's too easy to get backstabbed. If they want people to play nice, they need to have incentives for cooperation that cannot be obtained through conflict. But I don't think this will ever happen with Ziegler in charge.
The grind required to beat the Compiler feels like getting to the Arbiter in early PoE2, with the exception that there's zero content between that point of the game and what is the mid-game for your average player
>yeah so basically you have to grind bosses and events for which usually don't spawn for weeks and then get lucky with key drops and then exfil and then go into cryo only on the weekends and get three different items before you can use the key which makes a global ear rape sound and then exfil oh and and you have to do this 6 timesThe words of an insane man
>>564826124And that which had never truly lived can ever fully die. Ahblessyoumen.
>>564821429Because you're the cancer killing ah who cares
This really needs to be studied.A $200mil game specifically designed from A to Z to NOT retain players.
>>564833607Let this be the greatest and most punctual example of the result you get for courting ultra sweats and streaming like farmers and punishing casuals.
I will buy the game this afternoon, what should i expect? I really liked Arc Raiders
>>564833891Too obvious bro...
>>564810216They will obviously come later. This is a live service game. Helldivers 2 didn't release with the Illuminate right away, either.
>>564833697The analogy is too similar to real life. Murder-fuckers prey on the weak, thus suppressing the masses, the ultra rich just hedge their illgottengains to make mega bux in exotic circumstances that the average poor freekitter will never even dream of while they lick the crumbs off the floor of what the pros aren't after. This isn't a game, it's a post-capitalistic mirror.
>>564826000>Not saying this when you actually did so anons like me can lick up the messKinda fucked up anon...>>564827404I know a majority of players have completely given up on the prospect since it's just pure fucking insanity when you list out the whole process>Grind through enough contracts and games to reach level 25 (this is already a challenge for some people who get filtered)>Have to get a single cryo key from a previous run (make sure not to get a duplicate of one you already have if you've done a vault oh wait you cant choose lol)>You need to be able to put together a 5k loadout, so that usually means risking at least a good weapon + mostly blues (but it usually means risking actually good gold + purple gear)>If you don't have team mates you have to fill queue in with the risk that your two team mates have brought in absolute dogshit loadouts and are just retards>You need to know all the complex mechanics of Cryo (security clearance, general layout, side passages, batteries, coolants, credentials etc.)>You need to run all over the map with teams loaded to their guts with dangerous gear and likely better knowledge of the map then you to get the shit you need to crack open a vault>You need to then solve the vault (easiest part)>You then need to loot and get to level 3 and exfil without getting fucking murdered>You then need to repeat this 6 seperate times just to even get the potential to fight the Compiler (you still need to farm a seperate key to kill him lmao)At any point in this process all it takes is you dying once and you're back to step 2. I get that the point is to create a really hard task for some hardcore teams to try and crack but when you can die to a frag grenade landing at your feet or running into someone with a gold misriah it just becomes about luck more so than skill. I'm still delusional enough to try and get to Compiler as a solo though
>>564834336>They will obviously come later. >obviouslyIt took like 10 years for Destiny to get a new enemy faction.
>>564835039I'm never going to forget how utterly incompetent they were for doing that, considering I played old school games that would launch expansion packs with entire themeparks full of new content inside of a year of launch.
>>564835262>Add the new faction in Final Shape.>It's actually really cool visually and design wise.>It's literal layers upon layers of cancer in any high tier activity due to the way certain abilities and enemies work.It's one goofy thing after another, it's like the studio spends so little time on their playtests and then throws high fives at each other for getting something out the pipeline, only to realize it should have been planned more meticulously.
Surprise vaults 3,4,5 clear with fills, lovely evening
>>564796925Agility and weapon weight reduction is the real HP in Marathon, it allows you to take less hits. Same reason why Volt Thrower is the best non-shotgun weapon in the game due to the low weight and hipfire accuracy.
>>564840767>Volt Thrower is the best non-shotgun weapon in the game
Dire marsh at night will save us from the rape right?
>>564842696>splitting the players with another queue will save us>when it's the same map so will draw no new playersAnon....
>>564842696the night time version will shield us during the sweltering hot summer of 2026
>make a game for streamers>players quit because game is not for them>streamers quit because players quit
>>564795278>Bungie is working with a notoriously dog shit engineI feel bad that I gave money to this company recycling such old shit.
>>564801136Only because its free. I loved 1.5, 1.6 and Source. GO I couldn't get into, and what the fuck it is now is so awful.
>>564777176It's not the most uncommon thing for enemy teams to bring 3 in with them. For 6 people say master card room in pinwheel, that's where I found mine but that was the only one I've seen in all my playtime. If your team wipes the lobby in outpost it's probably worth doing the convoy too. Pretty sure deluxe templates can turn into cryo keys too so do those whenever you can if you havent
>>564795278they had a quarter billion to make a new engine, make improvements or switch engines. They were well aware of their limitations with destiny 2. No excuses.>>564836667Their employees don't play their games and haven't for years.
>>564842696I'm only coming back if an Aztec pyramid appears where anomaly is in the center
>>564842925you think it's a new map but actually it's just going to replace dire marsh
>>564777176you can farm key 3 easily off the warden in perimeter
>Only ultra sweat lvl 200s left to matchmake with in all my lobbiesIs this how all late season extraction shooters go? I'm back to having to use free kits at level 50 and of course I get steamrolled every match now.
>Another great day for playing Marathon 2026 and exploding for Gawr Gura
>>564842696Just saying this out loud reveals how fucking cooked we are.
>>564826000>i blasted thick ropes all over my tummy :3>>564834471>>Not saying this when you actually did so anons like me can lick up the mess>Kinda fucked up anon...Look at these slutsLord forgive me for what I'd do to them
>decide to finally try Cryo>do crew fill w/ the 5k sponsor kit>teammate has a green shieldAt least they were friendly.
>Someone activates exfilYou don't seem to understand. That blue beam, is not a sign for you to leave.It is a sign for me, to come over.
>>564850725I was saying my good shit to combat them but they just roll me anyways. The higher they are the more likely they're cheating too. Can't win a single quest now that isn't basic bitch shit.
>>564852964Saving*I haven't my breaky
>>564852874Good. We'll fight to the death. Just like Charter ordains!
>>564852874>is a sign for me, to come over.So you can C.A.R.R.I. them all, right?
I had some good runs today, got some contracts done. PvPing with Russian sounding people who didn't speak English.Got 2 contracts that need me to go into Pinwheel now, one of them Command Wing, so doubt I'll ever complete those. I've only done 2 Cryo randoms attempts so far and both ended as soon we saw other players. I won't ever see the boss and the wipe is coming in what 6 weeks? Guess I should just try to use up all my vault and backlogs of faction rank rewards.
>>564853304A playful one, I like that.>>564853512Of course, we're gonna share a fun moment
>>564855252>Got 2 contracts that need me to go into Pinwheel now, one of them Command Wing, so doubt I'll ever complete those.When Outpost gets a free kit mode, ask randoms if it's ok with them to do Pinwheel contracts. If they're stupid retards, just back out, quit the match, you lose nothing and try to find cool dudes.I would help you myself. I'm a big scary Recon, I can kill a team alone.
Nearly 50% of sponsored Marsh games start with a dude saying "if you don't mind, can we do this here" and marks it on the map.Ok, why not.Go do your loud gay shit, I'll kill everyone who comes over.
>>564682098just hopped back onto the game after 2 weeks of not playing, have they changed the maximum amount of healing items you can stack? i remember they used to give you 3, the maximum amount on a stack, and before that it was just a single one
>>564855825Depleted consumables stack to 6 now.
>>564855825Sponsored Marsh gives you a stack of 6(six) healing items, during a match
>>564855958while this was a nice change it really makes the green consumables feel like complete shit nowthe blue ones stack to 6, the white ones stack to 6, but get fucked on the green ones
Don't look, sisters.
>>564856187My eyes cross when you feed them something so visually dogshit as a steam or twitch chart
He said don't look so I didn't click.Is it a lust provoking image? Cause that Gawr Gura webm made me bust twice and I don't wanna relapse again.
Remember when a big list of actors doing voice lines was somehow supposed to mean this game was going to be a huge production and big narrative? This came to mind when I stumbled on dumb luck of finding 4 cat statue lore treasures in one run and i genuinely was surprised how there was some wit and fun flavor to it but like to have it locked off by such specifics, it’s kinda crummy. I think the only good thing is thank fuck that fat toad Byf can’t churn things and get ego boosts in a world where there’s not really api for the lore that’s be displayed on a site and it’s all random
>>564843272The worst part is that Bungie is going to get this insanely warped perception of how progression goes because you got these freaks who bumrushed everything and could outsource keys for Cryo runs every second and Bungie will think oh surely everybody could achieve this if they just try hard enough,not realizing how truly random this garbage is. I can’t blame somebody leaving when there’s not really much of a hook for working towards Compilier and the only solution is get back to key farming little pig and maybe someday you could survive opening a vault or having the fortune of finding vault 6 keys. Just absolute retardation, they could’ve retained an end game environment without forcing a bullshit randomized grind
>>564856812It's been the company tradition ever since streamers and all the world first craziness became a tradition in their games. You have practically that 2-3% that ever comprises of doing the pinnacle stuff and then it's just outside the reach of most of the players solely due to it being such an exclusive club. Destiny raids atleast had no intensely different entry level nor key bullshittery to go through, not to mention a dozen different failstates that could fuck you over from even trying. Cryo is literally just the culmination of all the worst of that:>Exclusive>Locked behind keys and timers>Your progression severely hampered by rival crews.
Bungie hasn't learned from a mistake since they started making Destiny
>>564856460>Remember when a big list of actors doing voice lines was somehow supposed to mean this game was going to be a huge production and big narrative?I didn't watch the trailers until the beta. I knew nothing about the game, until I played it. When I realized it's a Sony first party game, I expected a campaign, full story mode and a physical copy.Why the fuck did the best Sony game of the gen, release with no disc, and no linear singleplayer? Ridiculous.I would probably not finish the story, and just exfil kill 24/7, but still. Sony games are supposed to be cinematic, prestigious.
What man releases a first party product with no disc? No man, no man at all.
>>564857343Agree it’s a goofy move. And even more annoying there’s not really anything in the progression that leads you into working towards Cryo and its vaults. I’m not surprised if there’s some hyper min/max thing of where people peel off from questing and upgrades to just go into farming even if it’s at expense of just more boring plays. In classic Bungie fashion they tried to flood things to clog how ass backwards stuff is and then the second people realized it was bullshit they tried to back track only on one aspect of it. The fact how subroutines were not guaranteed is fucking retarded and I again don’t think Bungie really understood the level at which these content fuckers were plugging away and fighting RNG by tagging in their fanboy simps for keys.
>i lost everything, but just one more run and i'll win it bigAt what point did you realise extraction shooters are just hitting the same part of the brain that governs gambling addicts that gacha does?
Right now everyone's buying first party on disc. Because the young, poor kids don't have Ps5 money, they don't buy a lot of games.Grown man Joe, Kevin from sales, and Mr Smith have money, and they come from the Xbox 360 and PS3 era. They like to hold the game, pop open the case. And some of them get pissed off at digital-only.Sure, digital sales are a big part, but why would you want to anger the older players, who have money, and prefer the real thing, that goes on the shelf.
>>564857676Stop posting your gross arms, its like if a female game hen was a person.
https://careers.bungie.com/jobs/5978800004/contract-marathon-brand-managerLol
>>564858993>>i lost everything, but just one more run and i'll win it big>At what point did you realise extraction shooters are just hitting the same part of the brain that governs gambling addicts that gacha does?There's no gambling. I bring basic items, kill runners, replace basic items with expensive ones. I never purchased gear from factions, and have a full vault of blue everything. And I still want to use green and grey, otherwise it's too easy.
>>564857676That’s where leader ship is all fucked up. You got Trainman Truman and his corporate live service kool aid where he genuinely doesn’t even understand what makes games fun, so much to the point that he doesn’t get Bungie could do just a campaign game and some extra shit and have an easy win on their hands. I’m starting to buy a lot of the rumors that they’re basically so fucked in debt and over spending. The “Muh Washington state salaries” I feel is an easy scapegoat but I think more on Bungie just went ape shit on very bad planning and shit ideas. There was always industry chatter how antiquated the company ran certain things and Bungie’s did some corporate loop hole shit like selling Year of Prophecy Destiny at a loss and then siphoning part of sales to their tax free bungie charities. The fact Marathon is as barebones as it is, took ages and was expensive smells very off
>>564859402Ok, relax, the Marathon disc could look so good though https://i.4cdn.org/v/1777219012665143.jpg
>>564856460Yeah, it’s good that people like Byf can no longer make a living off of their own interpretations of the Bungie lore, but it also sucks that lore drops are basically gated behind RNG.
>>564856460>>564860225Byf is literally making Marathon videos and getting paychecks off its loreare you just retards or what
>>564859775>The fact Marathon is as barebones as it is, took ages and was expensive smells very offIt's rather a symptom of constant resets in the development cycle. The game has an identity crisis mostly because it went through so many iterations and eventually landed on the Tarkov oriented PvP wayline, instead of embracing the more structured world it had. Everything about the maps, base gameplay, arts and assets seem to have been cobbled together as a multiplayer skinwalker, which is a damn shame. Mooncrash showed years back that there has been (and continues to exist) a demand for extraction oriented shooters with stakes attached, it's just that Bungie ran out of time and took the easiest way out, as usual.
>>564860543...what's the difference between a roguelike and an extraction shooter, again? I'd usually consider Mooncrash the first category.
>>564859775Bungie has been awful at managing their products since they were founded basically. The majority of their games have had serious issues with planning and budgeting, going all the way back to Myth. They are just straight up dogshit at planning and managing development and it hasn't ever changed. We MIGHT see changes happen now with Parson gone but it's not been long enough to tell.
>>564860646Roguelikes usually have meta-progression elements that are oriented towards structuring gameplay around them. Mooncrash was on the reverse. Doing runs does improve your item base, but you bring things both into the map, out of the map and the map stays persistent through character swaps so part of the strategy was also oriented towards giving all of your characters options in the entirety of one simulation loop. For example, fixing broken doors with the Engineer character to give your other characters access to certain rooms later, just to name a few very simple examples. The entirety of the gameplay was similar to an extraction shooter too. You have the meta progression on things you keep (objectives, blueprints for item manufacturing and specific map states), while the objective is to use five different extraction methods to get all your characters out in one piece while the clock is constantly ticking to the simulation crashing.
>>564860450His Marathon videos are a far cry from his Destiny ones in terms of view counts. And apparently he tried to kill himself so things can’t be going good for him.>>564859775Those aren’t even rumors, Sony put Bungie on the hook in their last earnings report. They said the company racked up a $204 million impairment loss just from running D2 last year (presumably spanning TFS’s DLCs to the launch of Renegades), and it actually dragged down their Games and Network Services earnings. And this is with the second half of the year with EoF being super barebones, to say that Bungie is in Sony’s crosshair would be an understatement.
>>564860646>...what's the difference between a roguelike and an extraction shooter, again?I think your tools in roguelikes are permanent, while in extraction shooters your tools can be wasted. And you don't deal with players that may want to kill you for no reason, just for pleasure.So in roguelikes, at least Hades, you can slowly power up while failing certain areas, get stronger and beat them.In extraction shooters, you can fail and be stuck at zero, not going beyond a free kit.
>>564859432This implies they dont have someone doing this role right now. WORRY.
>>564861197I mean the dude chained his income to one of the shittiest games of all time, no surprise he considered killing himself once Destiny 2 crossed the event horizon of dogshitHe's still got probably the best videos summarizing crap of Marathon right now for what he's covered so I suspect he'll do fine enough with them going forward to keep doing them
>>564861584>In extraction shooters, you can fail and be stuck at zero, not going beyond a free kit.Or lose progress, because technically they're the same thing. Mooncrash was especially jarring in some cases where you can die in an inconvinient part that blocks access to specific things you might need on low-points runs, so it leads to your entire run becoming bricked or atleast having you shift priorities like crazy. It's one of the reasons i think Marathon would have worked out much better as a similarly structured game of heightening stakes instead of hours upon hours of wasting bullets on enemy runners.
>>564861636>This implies they dont have someone doing this role right now.For the next game, they don't. They are developing a new game, for the next Playstation system. You'd be a fool to believe otherwise.It could be fully exclusive, if it's a single player game. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/sony-pulls-back-from-playstation-games-on-pc
>>564861050I see - that makes sense.
>>564862202brother, the listing is for marathon specifically, not for any mistery imaginary next game
>>564862557Look at who you're responding to, there is no hope for any sort of comprehension
>>564862557Ok, it doesn't really matter. Old school jap grandpa is calling the shots now.Not only is Bungie frequently responding to feedback because of him, they're also working on something for the next console.Sony is bending them over.Slavery like in the PS3 days.Bungie will>crunch/work overtime>update Marathon>and produce a new gameAnd whoever doesn't like it, is gonna get axed and replaced by japs. https://www.psu.com/news/sonys-hiroki-totoki-reckons-the-company-is-lacking-original-ip/
Marathon on PS Plus, this summer, and a new game teased early next year.Trust the plan.
>>564863798>the new game is mobile based>pay to rape
/codg/ nonbelievers refused to accept, that CoD will be removed from Game pass./mg/ nonbelievers don't want to accept, that Bungie is now a console slave. The studio exists only for the console, not for Marathon.>r**dit said Bungie is now transparent>they update the game frequentlyBungie is nothing. The console publisher is forcing them to act as much as possible. Sponsored Marsh, Mercy kits, all happened because the jap grandpa told Bungie to start slaving. Or else.
As soon as someone at Bungie refuses to keep slaving like a dog, he will be replaced by a jap. Very quickly.Jap grandpa made it clear.
>>564866584Fucking hopefully.
>>5648665841. Marathon is a pseudo-original IP.2. Originality doesn't matter when the game is based on a shit non-genre.
>shilling Snoy for freeSad
>>564866584As yes, the Stalinist Human Wave tactic...
>in a single run>eliminate all male shells>subdue the female shells(male consciousness)>have them join you and inject biolens sneed>if they are free kit concubines, make them put on the hijab(green shield)>exfiltrate together with the concubines This is challenging, because the maps are full of Ass*sins, with no silk womb.
>>564866584Its for the best. Bungie historically has only done good work when they had tardwranglers like Microsoft and Activision, their independent era showed that they well and truly burn through billions without even realizing it and with little to show for it as the real kicker.
>>564870401Wow good luck
>>564870427Bro, the bungie that did good work is fucking gone.
>>564851383>A chumbudAh, that explains the schizo behavior
>>564766801>Where's the Neurochem packs at???Pinwheel. Laying on the ground and on tables everywhere.
>>564866757>>shilling Snoy for freeNo, it's discussing the future of Bungie. Which is>no more human rights>crunch slavery>replacement of employees, who refuse>protests and insubordination will not be toleratedThe retarded man Ryan left, he's not running it anymore.
>>564870939>>A chumbudNo, I don't watch anything related to Gura, or engage with vtuber shit.I only jerk off to the 2D girls, without knowing anything around them.
Just because one recognizes the shark tail, doesn't mean he's with those retards. Schizo or not, I will never watch vtuber stuff.
>>564814635updatei woke up and peed out my butt but feel finei think the two are unrelated
>>564872231>i woke up and peed out my buttThat's a clear sign of rape
Am tired of Arachne skins. Why no skin in store?Something that looks different.
>>564872526i was having a blast alright
does Arachne have any priority contracts? I completed the first one to kill 10 runners but is that literally it
>>564872867Only that one. They have no greater goal or interest, they just want you to kill other runners.
>>564872983What the fuck, they could at least ask me to kill people in funny ways for more contracts
How the hell do you kill 9 (NINE) runners in a single run?
>>564873252what the fuck do you even need to do that for?anyways, clean house on Dire Mash is the answer, get fucking good.
>>564866584I old enough to see the irony behind the head of Sony saying they need more original IPs. They use to be lousy with them, once, maybe even thrice upon a time. Today they go multi plat just to keep the lights on.
>>564873102Charter checks in like every 10 ranks to tell you that you're doing a great job killing other runners, but that's about it.
>>564873472Dunno about multi plat. Hiroki cancelled Wolverine, Ghost of Yotei and Saros PC ports.
>>564873472they are only saying this because their direct competitor just bought everyone else and has their IP now. what they really mean is "we need a call of duty and forza horizon"
>>564873827>Hiroki cancelled PC portsHitler ist kaputt
>>564874210it would have sold like shit on PC anyways, spiderman 2 completely killed normies interest in insomniac, just make a new ratchet you cucks nobody gives a shit about capeshit anymore
>>564874390infamous was pretty coolbut because I played those I didn't give a fuck about playing spiderman
*walks in*>no more human rights>no more PC ports>more crunch overtime >protests and insubordination will not be tolerated*sends Marathon to PS Plus*
>>564874628nobody under 30 gives a shit about infamous but yeah they were great games, I never played the ps4 one though. that was made by the ghost of tsushima devs though not insomniac
>>564874814>that was made by the ghost of tsushima devs though not insomniacThat was made by the Sly Cooper devs, you under 30 zoomie lil shit
>>564874814Yeah I didn't play the PS4 one either, I heard it was pretty whatever. Infamous 2 wrapped everything up perfectly though so who cares.Fucking lame they're just making actual comicslop games instead of their own superhero story like that. Way more interesting.
>>564874973the post I replied to was implying they thought sucker punch made spiderman, calm down you sperg
>get excited to play cryo>it's gonei guess i have to hold onto all these purple and blue shields until next week
remember guys, it's a marathon
>>564875081>>564874973oh yeah that's right Insomniac did Resistance, my bad I confuse these studios that don't do anything I care about anymoreThose were also fun games overall though they sure did do completely fucking different things with each one
>>564870582>Wow good luckThanks, it's a tricky quest. What if one of these will refuse to let me inject my Biolens Sneed into her(male) silk womb?This shell has to exfiltrate with me, after the insemination. I can't eliminate her/xer.
>>564875384only a redditor would say this without a shred of irony
what are the main settings to reduce/turn off to increase fps?im on a 5600x and rx 6700 10gb. mid range hardware i know
https://x.com/kruzer/status/2048356172630286423?s=20Rapeathon.
>>564875806Probably shadows, as with any other game.I have almost the same hardware though (6700 XT) and the game runs fine at 60~100 fps.
>>564875864This looks not fun
>>564875864Looks fun, no gear, poorfag runners are mad
>>564876165for the most part its steady 60 fps, but i get drops on outpost and some areas of dire marsh
>>564875864Fuuuuuck this reminds me of Planetside for some reason
>>564876312>steady 60fps>60fps>in 2026
>>564875864kek all the comments saying he needs to get good when he wins in that clip.
I could play at 30FPS no problem. The Godlike snoyeye fears no frame drop.
>>564876538It's funny, you'd think with the technoilogy of 2026 one would be able to play games at 120fps easily but nope, can't do that without enabling slop gimmicks and have half of the screen covered in muddy, smudgy, ghostery fake pixels.
>>564876538ive been hobbling together parts for this 1st gen ryzen build from ages ago. when i do a rebuild next year, i will get a modern monitor with better refresh rate
>>564875806It's cpu limited. Do you have your ram and infinity fabric running at ryzen optimal speeds? If not, then that's your best bet.
>>564875806I have the same cpu but with a 4070 and performance is all over the place. As many have pointed out it's a very cpu heavy game and a 5060x is kind of old now although it shouldn't be too old if it was a game that was actually optimized
>>564875806try lowering your resolution. i went from barely playable to stable 90 ingame by doing so along with changing the settings to medium, i'm on a midrange gaming laptop
>>564876925>yeah man you'd think games would stay the same and not become more demanding to run as more powerful hardware comes alongor maybe not if you aren't stupid
>>564877163>>564877670yes the fabric is set to the right speed. guess ill just turn shadows down and try performance FSR3 setting
>>5648776705600X is a bit dated and may not age well compared to something like the 5700X3D or the 5800X3D, but because Marathon is supposed to be a "competitive" title, you would be right to assume that Bungie should have done more optimization work on that end. Especially because it does run at a locked 60fps on PS5, even though the CPU on that console is Zen 2 levels of outdated.
Intel ram+cache fine wine wins again. 10600k (supposed to be slower than 5600) with dual rank samsung bdie 3800mhz, gives around 140 fps best case on perimeter, can drop to 70-80 at worst case in outpost, usually runs around 100, I capped to 90 for consistency.
resolution>framerate
>>564878173Games reached peak of graphical realism more than a decade ago.If anything, modern games look worse nowadays with most of the pixels being approximated and hallucinated.
>>564879358>peak graphical realism a decade agothis already tells me you're not worth conversing with because that's just stupid but>thinking the only complexity and potential for exploiting hardware is solely in rendering graphicsthis makes you a complete moron
>>564879358>Games reached peak of graphical realism more than a decade ago.Not really, TLOU Part 2 released 6 years ago.And Senua's saga, Hellblade 2 released a year ago. Both look noticeably more (((realistic))) than Red Dead 2.
>>564875384>"It's not a race"Crazy how people can't fathom that people have just put a lot of time into the game and just want to actually experience the cool part that's been hyped up for a while. I hard agree with the dude since I'm at 300 hours and I still haven't seen a single fucking vault 6 key. I have all the other subroutines done and I exfil 4/5 times as a solo when I go to hunt for keys, but I just can't do compiler because I'm not "lucky enough" to have it spawn.
>>564883821>a single fucking vault 6 keyIsn't it possible to ask people if they have a vault 6 key? Tell them you have the rest of the keys, and join those, who have the sixth one.Just go around asking, everywhere, if you care that much.
A marathon...TO THE BOTTOM
>>564883821A lot of the dickriders for this game treat fighting a video game boss like you're asking for some career milestone. If you've put 300 hours into a game, you should be able to do the endgame content, any other result and somewhere along the line the game design is actively fucking you over. It's ridiculous that you have to go out of your way to form some intricate syndicate of people with keys you don't have, and keys you have they need, all outside of the game just to go kill a middling Destiny raid boss that is supposed to represent a major story beat and spectacle for the game, so much so it's the focus of an entire trailer. The time investment required to get anywhere in the game is just retarded and people have rightfully been realizing they're better off spending their hours doing something else.
>>564884349The only bottom here is you.*unzips*Brace yourself.
>>564884270Already tried and even then It got me nothing since everyone has the same idea. Everyone want's to do vault 6 so tossing your hat into LFG's is pretty ineffective. Besides like the other anon is saying, I shouldn't have to coordinate with some random bumfucks outside the game and not in my circle of friends just so I can actually get to experience the part of the game that's supposed to be crucial to the story because I chose to give a shit about what's going on>Just go around asking, everywhere, if you care that much.>>"You hate that you're minimum wage and you can't get a house? literally just beg for money if you care lol">>564884528Basically bang on the nail. If there was a guarenteed way to get it or the DNA access key then I'd have little to complain about since I could at least apply myself, but at the moment it just feels like a waste of my time since it's now just a dice roll as to whether I get to even attempt it, and that's obviously not counting the fact I could just die with it and then get trapped in some fresh new hell cycle of looking for *another* vault 6 key.The only thing I can think of to do is to just camp the anti virus room and try to kill a team that might potentially stop by but there's no way I'll be able to convince two other people to just sit still in cryo and risk walking away with nothing or even not getting enough security clearance to exfil. You can't even camp in cryo anyway because every team has a recon anyway. It's just a joke.
>>564886618>I shouldn't have to coordinate with some random bumfucks outside the game and not in my circle of friends just so I can actually get to experience the part of the game that's supposed to be crucial to the story because I chose to give a shit about what's going onyou shouldn't need to, no, but that's where the game is right now so either do it or don't
why is cryo weekend only ?
>>564886932Player population is too small
>sponsored dire marsh>meet players A and B>we get killed>sponsored dire marsh>matched with player A and C>'oh hey dude'>run into a team>hostile team has player B on it>prox chat>'BRO IT'S US'>we all do friendly crouch>player B betrays his team and we wipe them>we're now a quartet of players A, B, and C>we exfil together, leave crew>sponsored dire marsh>match with players B and CHoly shit, this game is dead.
>>564812076Multiple people reported having the exact same shop roll yesterdaySo it's confirmed they push out specific good deals every once in awhile and let the rest be as random as Xur, but for each individual? Or is everyone just on certain fixed shop rotations? I swear I thought it had to be random because the trades will be for like the same item twice but with different mat requirements, or a pruple, blue and a green version together.
I don't understand why people don't use gear.>decide to watch someone>solo videos>guy with a basic 3K kit kills someone with purple items>equips purple items and hides until the first exfils are announced>activates the closest exfil and hides again>gets killed by a blue assassin, who saw him run and hideWhy not use the better gear to look for the next runner to smash, why hide.
>>564886932one of the major reasons was that it'd be better for the loot economy. Basically cryo is supposed to have such a surplus of good gear that if people had access to it 24/7 it'd fuck with the game's flow since you'd be running into teams with prestiges and purples all the time. The problem is that this happens anyway since outpost pinwheel gives gear that's on par with Cryo, and the player pop is small so you'll often run into the same teams that have giga-farmed cryo for 3 days straight and are loaded out the ass with good gear.so really the actual justified reason isn't really the reason anymore, it's just that if it was open all the time the queue times would be nightmarish. It can already take 5-10 minutes to get a cryo game at peak time in my region
>>564887810>It can already take 5-10 minutes to get a cryo game at peak time in my regionaus?
I've never attempted to join a cryo raid and I never will
>suddenly feel a strong urge to kill on extract>not for loot, but just to do it to someoneHere we go again
I have over 26 purple shields. Am I the no-life sweatlord now?
Yet another completely great trip to Dire Marsh>two crewmates are on Parasitism 5/5, so need to get to Bio-Resaerch>naturally spawn south of Quarantine>while we're making our way across the map slowly two key doors get opened far from us, probably AI Uplink and Maintenance>someone exfils from maintenance with no contest>guarded exfil happens right on the west side of greenhouse as we're sneaking through the area>every bot gets pissed, but instead of pissed at the direction of the guarded exfil, at whoever's closest - us. So they know where we are and we have to just sprint and leave towards Bio-Research>a team is camping on top of Bio-Research waiting for quest people, takes one crewmate down right as he and I are hit in the back from the team that called the guarded exfil while me and the third get under the roofs of Bio-Research>naturally the sniper team from the guarded exfil doesn't engage the camping team and just leaves>someone drops down from the roof in front of us, crewmate just starts spamming knife combo on him, another jumps down, I unload the entire clip of my Volley into his back>he turns around, pulls out his knife, and three hits me while I reload, wondering why his shields only broke at the last shot>second crewmate who died first was watching us and apparently I was just shooting nowhere near that guy and third crewmate was knifing airSo broken game mechanics (bad bot aggro), bad luck (sandwiched between two parties who didn't know we were there), bad netcode (can't even see what's happening, shooting/knifing nothing), and more bad luck in the best geared team just electing to follow us because of the bot shit, but not even shoot at the roof campers despite having snipers and a clear advantage.
>>564888970Aus indeed. Being a down under player is suffering
>>564889147>still counting purplesngmi
>>564889147How did you get most of them?>bought or tradedgoyim, would probably die to Lentrez, Tyrone and R*se>Rooked themgood player, able to survive as a hobo, among super soldiers>Took them by forcesweatlord fo sho
destroyer cock shooting ropes of nucaloric-copyrighted semen down my throat
>>564889147I have over a dozen and I don't even have a VIP rank yet
>claim the remaining 10 backpacks so you can unlock VIP progression for some meager benefitsuhhh maybe not
I had VIP Arachne before unlocking Traxus and Sekiguchi, hehe
>>564890010touch grass please
>>564889880>>Took them by force>sweatlord fo shoI guess I'm a level 60 sweat lord that can't consistently get into pinwheel or finish priority contracts. I took all 7 of mine from players.
>>564890010Get ready for Recon's load next
>>564891526i've prepared for all of the shells to run a train on me except triage he can sit in the corner and watch
>>564891517>I took all 7 of mine from players.Compared to Al*saf*g poster, you're a sweatlord. Players like him can't even hold on to one, they get zeroed and complain that a Bully costs 1K.Compared to Lentrez and R*se? You might be good or average. Level doesn't define sweat status.Level 100-150 players get killed by a lvl90 player all the time, and they can barely touch him.
>>564891517co-evolution 2/5 makes you a man
Does this game have gear matchmaking because I swear I do better with free kit
>>564891775>except triage he can sit in the corner and watch
>>564892003I had to camp like a little fuckin baby to finish co-evolution 2, that's a bitch contract for bitches and I feel lesser for having done it.
>>564892254>not running like a fucking madman to each objective then hurling youself at the first faggot you see while screaming on mic that it's time to poz their boihole with my sekigoopyyou will NEVER escapeyou will NEVER become god
>>564893196I did that 20 godamn times, and I always just ended up killing the only people I found on the way to the safe simbiont injection site
>>564893315I tried in solo a few times but in the end I found it to be really easy in group, I just told my team to do whatever while I went full madman.
>Solos went from all Assassins to all Recons>Because in an extraction shooter the only thing dumber than camouflage is wallhacks
I think the worst contract for camping for me was one of the Traxxus contested contracts where you have to plant the beacon in interceptTook me 5 matches to finally become the rapist on that one
>>564893196>it's time to poz their boihole with my sekigoopySo disgusting and cute
>>564893906>>Solos went from all Assassins to all ReconsFor real? Dang, I see others as lesser creatures, I don't want to be the same shell as them.Who the fuck should I run as now.
>>564894265RookThe Shell of Kings
>>564812076replicators seem to be the most common purple salvage so i'd say definitely worth it once you've gotten all the upgrades you want that require replicators,. I stopped worrying about them once the upgrades also required prestige salvage. Think I bought 25 purples yesterday though that was way overkill.>>564887258that's kind of annoying to think about, yeah I had that same lineup yesterday
>>564894479What's second to Rook. I can't run Triage because then I can't run a train on the cumslut anon.
>>564894907your only other option at this point is Destroyer
>>564883821during the limp dick world first compiler race stream. One of the top contending teams just got completely cucked because they only ever found like 1 vault 6 key and lost it. Spent I think the last couple hours of the race trying to find another one.
Going free kit on outpost with randomsGood chances for a trainwreck
>>564821224Insanely useful map, thanks anon
>>564895259Thanks for thinking about this with me. I almost went for Thief, would be weird for me.
>>564886932>>564887810It's also retarded because everyone is limited by vault space anyway so worst case scenario is the streamers and extremely dedicated players will have 7 million credits in their wallet instead of only 4 million. I don't believe any excuse they put out about "loot economy" I firmly believe it's entirely about trying to manipulate peoples playtimes, similar in spirit to MMOs, and now most shooters, going all in on the weekly and daily quest/challenge bullshit. People should really take it is an insult when Bungie says you can only experience the most hyped up and advertised part of the game if you blow off your fucking weekend plans. Just a bad attempt at padding out their lacking content so people stick around longer, and it didn't even work
>>564896968Is there a version with the diamond removed? I'm finna relapse
>>564897069>and now most shooters, going all in on the weekly and daily quest/challenge bullshit.They are, CoD not only gives you XP, but all kinds of animated gun skins for grinding that shit.
Why does Charter give me nothing but LMGs?I thought he liked me, but these things suck.
>>564897898Yeah getting all the Arachne skins was annoying as fuck with that kit.
>sponsor kit on Dire marsh>we kill every team>trade with the last>not a single team made it to exfilBrutal
If a teammate calls me "Destroyer", I'll tell him to call me Adam.When a teammate goes down, and crawls to me, I'm going to say>You look like a piece of fuckable meat, are you.
>>564897898>LMG's suckThe shield add-on automatically makes the demolition and retaliator good just by virtue it can win you gunfights cause of the 2nd healthbar you get. It doesn't matter if the retaliator bullets don't do much damage since the extra time the shield buys you just means you can kill them. They're great in cryo since the shields can block you from taking a shotgun blast to the teeth, and then you can follow up while they rack the next shot or reload their WSTR
The golden attachment for the railgun is fun boys. Shoots an AOE explosive round, pretty neat.
>>564900856yeah honestly the shield makes them quite useful secondary weapons if you just want to slap something onthey're also amazingly good at mulching any of the UESC bigboys when you toss a belt on them
>>564900951The railguns being actually decent feels great now. I've managed to get a ZEUS and cut the charge time on it down to 0.4 seconds and bump the range of it to 90m~ it's fucking awesome. People are bitching about the railgun gold attachment but honestly golds probably should be strong, especially since the ARES takes a pretty long time to charge up anyway
>Robotic sound, loud and distinct, when using Destroyer's tac sprintSo instead of bothering with the shield, you can bait people with sound. Hmm. You can boost backwards without facing that direction, yes? Like an omni-directional slide. >Face someone>Boost backwards while facing themThat is possible, I think.
>>564901290The demolition is great for bot mulching when you get a high capacity belt on it. High damage bullets just kills the weaker ones quick while the heavy bullets stagger any higher hp bots like commanders and wardens, meanwhile the shield stops you from getting scratched up and wasting meds. Severely underrated weapon
Lolol doesn't happen in solo
>>564902389I haven't tried a fully geared up demo yet, I picked up a plain one and kinda wrote it off
>>564903374nothing happens in solonothing happensthis game has as much depth as cod deathmatch
>>564903374I teamed up with another player once in solosIf it ever happens you are basically gods, no one is fucking prepared to be double teamed in solos
>>564903570>I teamed up with another player once in solosI will force a Thief and Vandal to team up with me, and inject you know what.
>>564903896as a pure thief main I'd like you to know it'll never happen.
>>564903541>this game has as much depth as cod deathmatchThe basic solo mode on Marathon takes more skill, than any mode on CoD deathmatch.I'm iridescent on CoD(top 10% Champion) https://i.4cdn.org/vm/1777080141163926.webmI was top 250 on MW3 ranked season 2(2024) and iridescent(top 10%) on BO6(2025)
>>564903987>as a pure thief mainThat sounds so good. I was once pure, Recon only, before the buff. But I've switched shells, and feel unpure.
>>564903438Definitely give it a try. It's one of those guns where you really do need to mod it to get something out of it, but it gives you a lot, kinda like the Copperhead or Impact. You can get away with mostly green mods and a blue ammo belt and it'll shine.
>>564904276Absolutely fucking disgusting.One drop of another shell has forever tainted your psyche. You will NEVER crack open my qt azn corpo spy pussy.
I will subdue Thief using brute force, and exfiltrate together with her(male).And then, I will wreck that Destroyer lover slut.
>>564904306Next time I see it I'll give it a go.I just found my first channel rifle so I'm gonna take that out for a spin soon.
>>564904385>Absolutely fucking disgusting.>One drop of another shell has forever tainted your psyche. You will NEVER crack open my qt azn corpo spy pussy.
>>564904664sealed tighter than a level 7 cryo vault
>>564904607Enjoy anon. Haven't messed with it as much but one tip I have for the channel rifle is when you're taking your first shot at a player do a 2x charge, and if they don't go down to that follow it up with a 1x charge shot. Pretty sure the 2x does like 130 or 150 dmg, so it'll mostly kill someone and you can just follow up with a quicker shot.
Is it possible for ONI or Nona to factory reset my psyche? I don't want to be a cybermutt, with corrupt files from swapping shells. Is there a pure copy of my psyche, from before entering Tau Ceti? Do I have to conquer everything and become God, for the pure Thief runners to let me touch them?
>>564905052Sounds good. Is it hitscan? I feel like I heard it was. I found it and my first Misraih in the tunnels key room on Perimeter the other day so I'm excited to try em both out.I found a circuit breaker schema too but I don't really want to spend 15k on one yet.
>>564905047When you stated you're pure, I knew you're insanely expensive.
>>564905225Pretty sure it's hitscan yeah, or atleast the bullet velocity is insanely fast to the point it may as well be.>I found a circuit breaker schema too but I don't really want to spend 15k on one yetFair. It's probably the shotgun I like the most, but it can take some getting used to. It feels a lot better now that you know you won't get dicked on by someone with a white tier wstr. Try to get lucky picking one up and testing it before you spend the 15k on one
game feels wayyy better on controller which sucks because the looting is a pita
If I can't reset my psyche back to it's pure state, or buy the beautiful, expensive Thief shell runners.I will find a way to take them by force.
>>564906751ay papito he said roller is more fun than mnk...
Do you think the Vault would be better if it had designated spaces for certain or all things? I was just thinking it'd be nice if the vault had some upgrade paths that forced you to choose space to allocate for certain things. I feel like it'd be more interesting for these sorts of games in general if you actually just had things segmented more into areas. Like you always have a gunrack on the wall holding 4 long guns and 4 small guns but could be upgraded for more, consumable storage, core storage, salvage storage etc. Salvage is probably the only thing I think just ought to have a space pre-maxed to store it all in personally, because I don't think it's in anyway a benefit for someone to be caught out early on from lucking into too many different materials. It just feels like shit to have so much space occupied by purples anyways even at max size while you're grinding unlocks.I feel like segmenting it that way would feel better overall than the current kinda stupid space efficiency meta of things that's going on with everything being in a big pile right now and could probably be fine tuned to prevent too much stockpiling of certain shit if it was set up this way. I don't think that's honestly too big a problem except for grenades maybe and they could already solve some of that with stack size reductions anyway, but I still feel like it'd be an overall benefit to be intentionally designed at least to store functional full loadouts without so much hassle. Maybe eventually it could be a full 3D space of our Runner enclave on the ship we can customize, all this shit has in game models and all, but I know this especially is a big dream for an underperforming game.
>>564907293the lack of ability to store or set up purchase orders for loadouts without constant hassle every time makes whatever build crafting bullshit they were going for a total waste
It is done.
I'll stop killing Destroyers, and manipulate them instead.>break Destroyer's legs>say hi, you and me have the best powers. Let's join forces.>With a Destroyer by my side, I can keep up with any Thief orVandalThat's it, I can use a Destroyer as a lap dog. I'll just say he has the best abilities, and he will trust me.
>>564908842Congrats, that's ultra rare. Do you have Cryo skins?
>>564907293It'd be cool if the upgrade tree itself just had some more thought put into it. If we're gonna reset every season, make it so factions have upgrade trees that can lock you into certain playstyles for the season in exchange for special benefits but leave you still needing to loot. Example of what I mean would be like>CyAc tree splits off into 3 branches after you buy some default stuff that fits the faction>"Infowar" tree that lets you buy signal jammers and upgrade ping duration that ends in you being able to obfuscate what shield level you have when you show up on TAD or Recon scans>"Comms" tree meanwhile is all about sharing and obtaining info. You can now buy proximity sensors, buy thermal sights and stuff you see nearby is highlighted to your allies>"Networking" tree is how you get the upgrade to increase data card gains, your valuables sell for a little more money and any time you exfil a random implant of yours gains the materialist traitIt'd be a great oppurtunity to give each faction and players actual identity and let them further lean into the whole transhumanist modding aspect, rather than just making every faction devolve into>cyac = backpack and ammo vendor>nucal = shields and consumables vendor>mida = where you buy all your equipment from
>>564909108Just Triage so far.
>everyone is quitting marathon>biggest shills say it sucks nowWow almost like being able to be decked out in golds and purples after one week of playing is a bad sign for the game
>>564909885No-Lifers and streamers were already bad for Destiny, they didn't help Marathon either
>>564909997Yep, they liked it at first because they were punching down. Now everyone has 5 Misriahs and BRRT gold mods a week and they gotta face endless bullshit
>>564909786Looks cool.>0 onlineBased
>>564910114>Now everyone has 5 Misriahs and BRRT gold mods a week and they gotta face endless bullshitThey won't risk bringing that to solo. Solo is clean, the strongest kit you'll see is a purple shield.
>>564909885>after one weekIt's gonna be one hour after they open outpost next season at best.
>Absolutely love the overrun rifle>it's dogshit unless properly set upI know that not every gun can be amazing in its default, but I think this rifle could do with a little less recoil
In order to encourage players to team up more, the USEC forces need to be significantly more threatening. Therefore, there should be a special game mode where a player (or two at most) can take control of the USEC forces on a map, pitted against the runners in an asymmetric pseudo-rts style.
>Sponsored Marsh and Solo only>Outpost solo someone ALWAYS opens Pinwheel fast>Sometimes it's multiple dudes and they will NOT shoot you
>>564910829>>Absolutely love the overrun rifleI like it too, because of the fast fire rate. I've always used it. Overrun to cut off someone's shield, bully to down them.Don't even need attachments. I've beaten blue shields with grey Overrun + grey bully no problem.With attachments it's a very good loadout.
The pure Thief main is on my mind, rent free. Such a tease.
How many months do you need to "save up" $600 and play Marathon?
This game is fucking with me so much.A good run feels unbelievably good. You're absolutely elated.A bad run can sour your mood something fierce. It's a back and forth between extremes that makes you come back.
>>564912021Why does he type like a faggot?
>>564912303He's black and likes Marathon
>>564912021Game runs on an 8 year old PCGet steam, get game again for 40 bucksLink steam + Snoy accountsKeep playing without losswow so hard
>>564912382That makes sense
>>564911336I'm using it in small bursts instead of continuous fire. It works but you still have to put in the effort.
>>564912804At range yea, but within 15-20M I just aim for the legs, and let it wiggle a little, by the time the mag is dumped, a blue shield can be broken. Then I'll switch to the bully and it's GGs
>>564912947Will try that tomorrow.
>>564910829I find it pretty nice with just green attachments. I've gotten a number of kills with that thing.I really like the SCAR when it's set up too, but I never do well with it in PVP. It murders bots however.
>>564914052In my experience Volt weapons in general tear through UESC bots, even without a Triage's EMP boost
>>564914052SCAR is good if you have a big open sightline and can just plink at them from 30m with it which isn't that common of an encounter desu.
sex with vandal while recon watches
>>564912141I think the 'come back' part is the bit that's become contentious for a lot of people.
Sex with ONI while Vulcan watches from her Cuckqueen Chair
>>564914281Yeah it just feels like it loses out too hard to most ballistic weapons in my experience, the other ARs feel like they out DPS it pretty much everytime. Doesn't help putting a suppressor on it is great for PvE but loses out for PvP, but taking out bots with suppressed weapons is one of the simplest joys in this game to me>>564914178Yeah definitely feels so, anytime I have contracts that'll make me deal with them I bring a volt weapon. I wish there was a volt MG.
>>564915157I've yet to try the volt-sniper but the lookout is a very good volt rifle for medium to long distances. It can even tear through commander units while you stay away in safety.
>>564911150How come I get the most rabidly aggro retards in my solo matches that go out of their way to hunt me down in ass end of Airfield doing a MIDA prio contract?
Sex with Nona while Triage watches
Simply, I have become: The Hunter
>>564915559How would that even work? Will she crawl into your urethra?
Thieving away anon's fantasies.
>>564915468>I get the most rabidly aggro retards in my solo matches that go out of their way to hunt me down in ass end of AirfieldCould be 2 reasons, bad luck, or some of them think you're bad and scared. Before you get where you need to go, you might want to reduce bad luck(beat the shit out of someone close by). When you hear multiple footsteps, try saying "Hi, can I join here? Hello, can I join?" And if it's three dudes, they probably won't risk shooting you. Because while they try to fuck you, the third guy may fuck them.If it's only two dudes, they might've agreed to kill everyone.Running into 3(three) is the best option. You say hi and ask to join, even if two of them want to kill you, they probably won't risk it, because they don't fully trust each other. Shooting you, means letting the other two shoot him.
>>564915805>How would that even work?She goes into the big boob mommy shell, and let's me stick my veiny Recon cock between her boobs. Then she guides it into her silky vagina. No anal with Nona, she's pure.
>>564910841This is a serious suggestion that will save the game.
I would never sodomize Mother Nona, I'm her best Recon boy. She said so. She calms me down using her big breasts before every run, and I defeat EVERYONE with post nut clarity and bring her anything she wants.
>>564916235this game is already a big experiment so I'd fucking love it if bungie actually just used this as a sandbox to have game modes like thisthey're good at crap like that (just not iterating and supporting it)
>less than 20k on a weekend night
>>564917427Destiny general going slow, anon?
>>564915813>Thieving awayI will make you join me in solo. None shall defy me.
>>564917427Fucking Escharum makes me think I'm in /hg/ every time I see him
>sitting behind a box>destroyer on the other side of it is somehow shooting me through it (nice game, bungie)>some random in prox chat is screeching>another's calling me a slurwhy do i even play video games
>>564918379sounds like a gay ol' timei miss the olden days
>>564918379>>another's calling me a slurYou don't deserve that, princess. Want a hug?
>>564918687hugs do not involve penises
>>564919085Do you want to involve it? I was gonna pat you on the back, don't want you to be upset.
>>564910841rook should be reworked into a UESC character that fights alongside bots and has his own contracts that fleshes out their story more
holy SHIT i finally finished the Co-Evolution 5/5 step. i've been trying for a bit now solo and never had a successful run. right now though:>spawned with basic items right next to AI Uplink which was exactly where i needed to be, no bots or enemy runners>ran over to bio, heard some shooting in the distance, though got the item and started to run to Quarantine>around greenhouse, see Ass crouching in the far corner of the map, scoping with a sniper>doesn't see me, i sneak up to him around a rock>gun him down with my white LMG, loot his blues>run to Quarantine, open the door to it and a fucking red Vandal is just staring at me>"friendly friendly" on the mic she says, i ADS as i walk around them to my objective, get it, run away. don't see them again>run all the way back to Lockdown, no enemy runners anywhere>kill the captain, guarded exfil near me, activate it>kill the enemies around it, wait for it open>it opens, run to it, all of a sudden an Ass ults on me>0:03 left, literally panicking turning around ready with my knife>Ass on mic, "hey there bro", does nothing though and I exfila wild run, i never got that far. now i can run free kits again and level up MIDA/Traxus for my final contracts
>>564920314>now i can run free kits again and level up MIDA/Traxus for my final contractsGood work, enjoyer.
>free kit mode has the only queue that pops "quickly">when i lose a fight i feel nothing because there are no stakes>when i win i feel and get nothing because no one else has anything just give the pve mouthbreathers their horde mode already who gives a fuck
I just exploded like a shotgun, it looks like a buckshot thick white pellets, not watery or grey
>>564920567Just play regular mode, wait an extra 2 mins, don't be a whiny mouthbreather
>>564920807allow me to clean it up
>>564921175There's a drop on my tip, catch it
>>564920314>Ass on mic, "hey there bro", does nothing though and I exfilI'm jealous you ran into the one assassin who's not a bitch. But also congrats Sekiguchi's a fuckin pain in the ass.
>>564920567i just grab salvage and do contracts
>>564921338>Ass on the mic>Brrrtt Braapppffftt
>>564682098Sex with Glitch
>Thief Xray cannot see players through walls>Players are only highlighted when visible directlySo this is why Thief was never able to fight me. I'm never visible directly.
was he right?
I had a dream that I was playing solo Destroyer, but the game bugged out, so I couldn't shoot. I still managed to kill an Assassin with the knife.
>>564923346Full priced Marathon in the future will
>>564923346more like triple downs on retardation
Older dad here quit Arc Raiders. How to toggle off PvP Matathon
>>564923346When it finally becomes obvious Marathon is a once a century masterpiece and the price is raised to $240, then the concurrent players will triple BF6's launch peak and stay there. Believe in the plan.
>>564921175Was it yummy?
>>564923346Why did or does anyone think an extraction shooter is going to do fortnite numbers
>>564923795>Believe in the plan.Laugh while you can, you will kneel when it's on PS Plus.
>>564923773actually you can't toggle off pvp in Marathon and it looks like it's going to stay that way
they call me the recon assassin
>>564924193PS Plus will be renamed Marathon Plus and provide access to only Marathon, for $24/mo, netting many marathillions of dollars in profit quarterly
they call me the vandal destroyer
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WmTatm65Df0
They call me the Biolens sneeder feeder
>>564915468Are you plaing in EU? No one talks here and everyone is out for blood. Meanwhile I see NA players on streams just teaming up every other match.
Grenade nerf tomorrow.
>>564925565EU still think they're playing CS
>>564925697Cool more reason to let this game die I guess
>>564923773>>564924517You can toggle off PvP in solo, but it's a 6 minute process.First, you run around and kill everyone. Then you PvE.I'm doing this right now. I will not kill Thief or Vandal, I want them as wives, to exfiltrate with.
I will cross oceans of blood, just to inseminate a Thief and Vandal runner.
>need to go to Bio-Research to get contagion sample>spawn in Maintenance or Quarantine every time>have to cross intersection or sneak through Algae Ponds ad infinitum>have to run all the way BACK to Quarantine>get locked in a room and have to kill all bots to get out>then exfilI am so fucking tired of running across Dire Marsh
>>564928423hey yeah cooldo it again fucker you have no idea what you're in for look ahead in the quest chain if you want to taste despair early
>>564928540You dont need to tell me, I already know what waits aheadDoesnt excuse the dogshit quest design
>Missed 20k again
>>564928757>dogshit quest designThe lore explanation is that you’re running repetitive experiments because that’s how you do good science. The gameplay explanation is you’re creating PVP content by running through specific areas of the map. It’s all very heady and, like every other aspect of Marathon, sounds very cool on paper but feels like a huge chore in practice. Please look forward to Dire Marsh’s Night update in a month.
>>564928423>game is called Marathon>surprised that they/them has to run a marathon
>>564928423>>564928757I don't even mind running, just that it's the same route every time. Could spice things up by having Complex->Maintenance, Uplink->Bio or Algae->Quarantine, but no. Just fucking Quarantine<->Bio every time
>>564931079I still contend they could fix Dire Marsh by just adding a fuckin tunnel that runs from Complex to Quarantine, and those quests could do with options, like there being a extractor in either AI Uplink Tunnels or Bio-Research, and a synthesizer in Quarantine or Algae Ponds
>>564931720Id even be okay with the Bio/Quarantine loop if they let us go north beyond the wall a little bit. Having to try and run through Intersection everytime or avoiding the Scorch Warden is a massive pain in the ass
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