Over 2 million players edition>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://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_carriPrevious run: >>565220221
first for insanely massive throbbing Vandal cock
does anyone want to be my friend? i’m so sick of crew fill
second for sentinel
Chud Tassi? Yesterday's newspaper, man.
>>565519263So how are transgenders gonna cope that "Marathon wasn't given a chance" now?
>>565522598trans Vandal and trans Thief are still sitting on my lap, so we're all good
>>565522598somehow it overcame the hate campaign
>>565522710There was no "hate campaign", that's just a buzzword shills use to discredit the fact that a product was largely unappealing to its audiences.
>>565522598They're currently blaming Tassi for his extremist chuddist terroristic news articles.
Co-Ordinated Hate Campaign: DemolishedTassi: Appauled
>you will never get pegged by thiefwhat's the point
>>565522880i believe there was, but it's not the reason why the game isn't doing well.
I wonder if deteriorating economic conditions are also impacting the extraction shooter genre. Can’t imagine putting in extra hours just to come home and be raped.
>solo outpost>find an outland in a locker>grab it>hear footsteps run by me>hide>hear exfil called>peek my little head out>get some juicy exp for downing the runner clearing all the bots from the point>run down and hide in a little room off to the side>exfil pops>count to 5>sprint out>whip out my wstr>get some more exp from the guy who crawled to the exfil >don't even bother looting him>couldn't if I wanted to, there were only 2 seconds left on the timer started for me>prox muted so i have no idea what he's saying>leavesolo > trio
>>565525378i hate this photo. she has speed lines but she's standing still. someone fix it.
>>565525378Yeah I wonder why people were hating on Bungie after they repeatedly fucked over their past customers and then also stole a poor unemployed indie artist's entire portfolio. Totally undeserved.As for the game itself, people just didn't like it.
Thief best shell because x-ray visor rapes Assassin
Never needed an X-ray to rape Assassin, I just do it
>>565528423forget i wrote this, i died next round to something dumb and lost everything and left a negative steam review. solo and trio are both awful. im going back to my books.
>stalemate in a corridor. >only need three keys to get security clearance two and we can leave out the back>teammates insist on just holding W>run through the gauntlet and diegod damn the amount of mouth breathing retards in this game.
>>565528610>Yeah I wonder why people were hating on Bungie after they repeatedly fucked over their past customers and then also stole a poor unemployed indie artist's entire portfolioFirst of all, fuck artists, second of all, fuck Bungie's past customers.Deserved or not, don't care, Marathon plays so good. It's better than every new game this year.
>>565530429The amount of times I had my teammates just die immediately when we encounter a team was enough to make me stop playing cryo, only looks worth it if you are in a competent stack
>>565530429>>stalemate in a corridor.Saw picture of Thief, started reading text, and thought it said shemale in a corridor.Muh dick...
Tonight was probably the most fun I've had with this game since it launched. Filled with a duo (competent pair but not amazing) and did a couple runs with them. Won some, lost some, got 3rd partied some.Fuck Columns, though. Never go through Columns. Feel bad for the people who didn't complete that one NuCal quest in the beginner zone.
>Bunge stole art>stole dlc>delayed reviewsSo? Why should I care. I like game, the battles are extremely good. Everyone who has a problem can suck my dick
>>565528610you can’t steal art. it’s literally lines lmao.
>Marathon is chocolate cake. >When you buy chocolate cake, you don't care, if the bakery stole art, or shitted on Destiny fags.>You enjoy the sweet cake. And if it's Vandal cake, there's probably a candle on it too.
Need a stryder M1T
There's no casual players left.
>>565519539What time do you lay? I would join, I'm the guy they call schizo>>565532746>There's no casual players left.That's not true, lot's of "normal" players in the morning, from 9AM to 3PM. 1AM to 5AM can be hard, it's the demon hours.
Anyone wanna run cryo? I want to see Compiler so badly before wipe.
/mg/ had so many people asking to team up for quests, during weeks 1 through 3.I regret making fun of them, I should've tried to help. This game is so good, it changed my mind.
>>565533781I'd like to see cryro eventually, but I'm still 5 or so levels out. Probably won't get to see Compiler or even a vault before wipe myself.
>>565533781>I want to see Compiler so badly before wipe.How badly do you want it? It's $250 for two cheaters to carry you through it. Without running the cheats on your account, so your profile is safe.
the arm avatarfag is a good troll right? like he play on console how can this be a great shooter with that much aim assist? I'm really confuse
>>565533781Hoping to get vault 6 done this weekend or next, after that I'm gonna offer anyone here to run it if they got a dna card and with any extra I get. If you can get any access cards from vaults 1-2 you could probably get in with a crew on the LFG too desu.
>>565530430>First of all, fuck artistsThe fuck did you say? Your whole personality is flexing how artistic loving you are, why else would you post the many titles you're proud of in every image? There's one thing I hate and it's a hypocrite. When we're all gone you're going to be so sorry because there won't be anything worth a damn up pose with.
>>565535008of course he is, all he does is wait to shoot someone in the back while petting his lap cat
>>565534235it's very common for people to bring vault 1 and 2 keys with them now, especially at the start, on Thursday you can sometimes find every team colliding at vault 1 each with their own key
>>565534454So are they ivan, chang, or jeet scammers?
>>565535224I don't even know what the DNA card is. The few times I've exfilled from cryo, it was after beating a team and being out of heals and grenades. I don't even know what the point is if you're not going in there for the yellows, the lore loot, or compiler.
>>565536381I enjoy the teamfights and general flow of cryo, nade spam aside. There's also decent chances of pulling golds off other players. DNA cards are found in the weapon cases inside any vault, they serve as the actual key for vault 7 after you've gotten all the subroutines.
>>565535381>how artistic loving you are, why else would you post the many titles you're proud of in every image? There's one thing I hate and it's a hypocrite.If someone can have fun, by doing artistic things, he should respect artists, is that what you're saying? I don't think you owe people anything. Nobody's better than you, no matter what they achieved, they have to earn your respect face to face.Playing Marathon because it's good, not because I care about who created it. They could sell children, I would not care.
Doesn't matter what Bungie did in the past, or will do in the future. I love the combat in Marathon, me loving it is enough. Those, who hate it, can suck my dick
>perimeter’s too boring>dire marsh is too dire marsh>outpost has the key gimmick>cryo eats all my frames and can’t be played solo>bungie won’t patch the game >only map update coming in is night marsh>the new shell is probably going to have super invisibility or something equally badso is the player count gonna be 5,000 or 500 by the end of May? It’s burning like 3k per week and we’re at about 15k~. Loss rate’s slowing but it’s definitely dropping. I’m feeling 6,500 peak by the end of May. Just enough to gaslight Bungie into keeping the lights on and throwing dev time into the abyss. They’ll throw more than we expect into Season 2, very little into Season 3, more than 3 but less than 2 into Season 4, and then it’s gone. >the real lose everything factory was Marathon itself
>>565536970Where banana??? I like to eat big banana!!!
>>565536736>>565536970you loving it is clearly not "enough" if the game is going into EoS hahaha
>>565540041Oooga booga!>>565540748Subscription services is where it's going, it'll gain a new, small and dedicated audience. Possibly free to play later, who cares.
>>565523047Why are Bungie fans so mentally unstable?
>>565539823>They’ll throw more than we expect into Season 2, very little into Season 3I think so too. But why overthink it, we have it now, it's good.
>continuously playing Marathon requires post nut clarity every 3 hoursI'm not able to focus properly because of Thief and Vandals. Gotta nut again.
They call me the shadow...
My name is not important. What's important is that you are dead
>>565536970Big lips for big banana.
https://x.com/MarathonDevTeam/status/2050348490501578838?s=20
>>565536624Haven't been in a vault yet. I feel like we need to, dare I say, have hugbox lobbies to get all of this done. Now I don't like it, but you do what you have to do.
>>565542154That's what happens when you peak in middle school.
>>565544861I've had at least 3 cryo runs where we breached a vault and didn't fight another player the whole time. It's possible, but you want to be well prepared on how long things are going to take, how to get out, and if you're running out of time and just need to bail instead of going for it. And of course, be ready to fight anyways because sometimes you just don't have a choice.
>>565544841Rip to no mic'ers
>>565545308rip and good riddance
>>565545372Hear hear!
Was that the wind, or was it...the shadow?
Shh
Fear makes fools of us all.
>2 million playersSo like a 50% refund rate at best, and made up pc/console numbers that directly contradict inside information?
Tips for vault management? I have no space for guns left.
>>565547329Sell low tier implants, gun mods
Hey, dude, nice to see you.
>>565544841>>565545308>Rip to no mic'ers>>565545372>rip and good riddanceConsider the following, microphone based matchmaking will put in lobbies with less bad players. The more you're on the mic, the sweatier the game. Everyone's gonna be Bravo Six going dark, Seal Team, and shit like that.
>>565547292>>2 million playersBy Ampere (((analytics))), it could be 1.6 paid, full game players, lumped in with beta testers. We don't know how Ampere scrapes data.>how does Circana, Ex NPD do it?They have permission from Sony, MS, Nintendo, it's a job. They have access to actual digital sales, but most of the time, Nintendo cucкs them.
>>565547329Sell anything you can buy from vendors or schemas you own. There's no way you do not have a V75 schema avaialble. Or basic Traxus/Arachne upgrades for green mods.
>>565547932BASED Samuel Butcher destroying /mg/, R*se is next...
>>565548610mic teams still play against no mic teams in the same match
I guess new players are still coming, and from consoles, too.>>565548815Actually, that was him killing me, after I hit myself with a heat grenade.
>jannies killed /dg/rip
>1:33>I have not collected any good gear, to have gear fear>No progress at all, this is why players are quitting, they are not able to gain anythingThis dude explains it well, I didn't understand the "employed casual" perspective.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9FZdQn1uuI
Where the shadow lurks...few dare to linger
>>565547329Sell all implants minus shields and all the blue/green mod attachments
>>565552469That seems like a bad move.
>>565552615Implants are not that important, you can get them inside the matchAnd chances are, if you have that many mods, you're not using them so might as well just keep the rare purple ones
Just lost a run due to getting either 4th or 5th partied on Perimeter. Bummer, but I was kicking ass for a while, so this was fun.
>>565552615Implants and attachments slightly help to improve your gameplay, during a match. I would sell the blue salvage, takes up too much space. If you love to barter, sell the implants, the help from those is not very noticeable. I would also pick a couple of guns that i rarely use, remove attachments, sell the gun. I leveled 2(two) different accounts to VIP aracne, you can trust me bro.
>>565547329That's a lot of cores, do you really play all those shells? I sell everything that's not Destroyer or Thief.
When is the time to use these unique weapons if I don't have a three stack to play with?
>>565519263>2 million playersLike hell.
>>565554128That means total unique players.
>>565553724Is that the silencer on BR?
>>565547329Sell all the green mods. Sell SCAR and keep those two blue mods.
>>565554218Nyes
>>565536970
>>565554217Again, LIKE HELL.
>>565554439>suppresses fireLol, fucking bungie.Still, looks nice. I wonder if there is anything nice for Overrun.
>>565554460
>>565554885Your cat is the only good and nice thing in that image. Shame he has to endure your ciggy-smoking ass.
>still no compiler screenshot from /mg/ biggest shilllolol
This is what playing on console does to a man...
>>565550324wut?
I ended up eating shit, but this was fun. If only I didn't miss my ping.
>>565555378I have a balcony, I don't smoke in the room, dumbass
We chillin
>locate someone>effortlessly subdue xer/her>mercy kit>now you will get injected with my Biolense Sneed and extract with meOr die
>>565556458Saar,,, when you have space, and are healing, do remember to take cover, and switch to your firearm. Redeem the gun, saars
>>565558854What's that, packet burst/lag?
>>565559083No clue.
>>565559083hotel wi-fi
>>565560529>WiFiOh no no no no. Niggas be like "I got that fiber optic verizon ultra fast" and lagging all over Warzone, not hitting a bullet. Fuck Wifi
>>565560529I'm on a cable.
>>565547329Keeping cores for every shells is doom for the stash, i'd select at most two that you like playing and sell the rest, but absolutely just sell all the green ones without materialistRead what benefits mods give and only keep the good ones, for example the only shotgun barrel worth keeping is the one that gives range, you have the ones that give aim assist or some other useless shitUse up the ammoAre you playing crew fill?
AHAHAHAHA.... the Destiny general has been DEFEATED.... soon, this general as well......I wish I could tell you it was difficult, but it wasn't......
ummm guys....where's the destiny general.......am i gonna have to keep hating bungie in this general now?
>>565561987You should play a game you like instead.
>>565561908>the Destiny general has been DEFEATED.... soon, this general as well...Not on my watch, you silly monkey.
>>565562224they vaulted the game i like
>>565562367I'm sorry to hear that. Now go play something else. I've never played Destiny 2 and I don't care about it.
Ok but why was /dg/ deleted? The mods clearly aren't Marathon shills given how none of the shitposting in this thread gets deleted
Your end draws ever closer. The rape of Bungie is mere days away. Accept your end, accept your death, accept. your. RAPE. Your futile struggles cannot prevent fate. Soon the Sony earnings call will commence and they will obliterate Bungie for their failure. Long ago I offered you salvation from such a terrible fate, and you denied my gift... so I will relish every moment as you squirm against the inevitable like a worm caught by a bird. I shall meet you again soon, at Bungie's grave... until then Marasissies.
Destiny one was good(PvP), two was dogshit, bloated with goofy trash abilities. Marathon is so much better, a generational leap in gameplay/combat.
>>565562861better question is why no one made another? this place is more dead than dg
>>565562698when your favorite game fades into end of service you'll understand it
>>565563407That time will come sooner than most Maratroons imagine
>>565562909>will obliterate BungieThey do not have my permission.
Sweats getting burned out, good. Soon there's gonna be less of them. Then, subscription release, and Marathon will stay juicy until September(Insomniac Wolverine release).
>>565565185You gotta know Wolverine is gonna be an unfinished piece of wokeshit after what we saw with Spider-man 2, surely?
>>565565413Have you played it? The combat and movement in SM2 is better than any other gen 9 release. No competition, the gameplay is outstanding.>but Mary Jane and the fridge memeI do not care about /v/ shitter memes. SM2 plays better than any Beat Em Up game on the market.
>>565562861>>565563102Yet another confirmation that /mg is festering with Destiny refugees.
When these faggot streamers die off, and Marathon is downloaded by PS+ and GP subscribers, this is what's gonna happen.>plebbit will start shilling Cross-play off>Steam will have a handful of sweats and a couple thousands of mid players(not trash)>Before game goes F2P, there's going to be a lot of console only lobbiesThis summer, whatever Bungie does with cheaters, will not matter to half of the playerbase. They will not be playing on a PC, that can run cheats. Now you know what happens next.
>>565567158Console already has aimbot built into it thoughbeit
>>565567158game wont last til summer though
>>565567443The game will be about who can jew each other more, with aimbot.I've been dealing with this since Modern Warfare 2019
>everything has mic-based connection now>people have their mic toggled on instead of muted but still dont say anythingthank you for this nothingburger change, bungie
I like when I get matched with nolifes who are above 120 when Im barely 80 is how I know the match is going to end before first exfils appear. Level-based matchmaking is so fucking retarded.
>>565553724Wait till you get a good enough fill team and run it back with them. The watchtower and dervish aren’t that great I wouldn’t worry too much about losing them >>565544861Idk I’ve hit vaults 1/2 at least 10 times with fills and have done 3-5 twice each in fill. Not even my keys aside from some of the cryo 1s
>>565542154You could probably even argue this back to the actual early Mac days when your average original Marathon fan did look something like a fedora mall ninja, but there's always been this contingency with Bungie of just absolute fucking nuts cases who carried things around with just aggressive defense. Bungie Forums were a holding cell for actual lunatics who had their brain snap in half the second somebody said gaylo at 6th period study hall and it just kept snowballing. The problem now is you can have an entire generation(s) of people who's only exposure to Bungie was Destiny, and that's they ever knew not only for an FPS but something with RPG mechanics, so they're in this weird stew of just not understanding what a lot of games can be like, but it hooked them so hard at a young age that it's all they know and thus defensive. It's awful
>>565547329Cut down on green weapon mods, you don't need that many green quality implants or even shields desu.
>>565572069What doesn't make any sense with it is Bungie tying the account level progress xp to such few things and it doesn't really do a big make up of what somebody can be like. On top of that with how anti-questing people can be, you're going to have a lot of people who retardedly bruteforce their way up the levels but don't really have anything and it can kinda be a toss up. I'm usually very mixed on SBMM anything because quantifying things can fall off quickly with too many variables, playstyles and a sort of asymmetrical nature of extracts, but yeah there probably should be some form of something just because of how wildly things can swing. I crew filled with people who were a much higher level than me, and they were actual shit at the game and I was just confused how they were even there. I thought I did well doing all the faction shit, but by the end of it I was only like lvl 60something? Idk maybe I didn't get enough kill credit for stuff, but I felt like I played well so idk what to make of it.
Convince me that removing assassins wouldn't improve the game
>get teammate up>he pushes immediately into a 1v3 and calls me bad for not clutching it after he's immediately downed againDire Marsh freekit is amazing, no wonder these people stopped playin the other maps.
>outpost>my duo gets fried on roof of flight control by another duo>spend 5 minutes trying to pick one off and get a good angle>they crack my shield and get me to half hp literally 4 times in this entire time and never push me ONCE>decide fuck it and leave, loop around the map doing whatever for 10 minutes>come back to res teammate and they are STILL thereI really want to understand the thought process behind camping one singular box for almost an entire match. Funnily enough I swapped to Triage to play him for a couple games to see how it runs on duos and I normally play Thief which literally would have been perfect for that scenario as it would have made getting on the roof 10x less hassle and also would have gave me scanner for the Assassin they had.
>>565578428Had that happen in cryo, team camped my two guys for 14 minutes before final exfil, like bro just take their shield and heals and be done with it
>>565574974>Convince me that removing assassins wouldn't improve the gameYou would lose more shitters, a lot of them didn't quit(yet) because they can get past UESC for free, and camp. Take that away, and it's over, every bum will quit.
>>565579318I just watched it back to and when I went to Triage ult (I assumed they had left at that point as I heard nothing and didn't see them after looking around for a min or two), the assassin was literally just stood still in invis on revive box. Mind you this is FIFTEEN MINUTES after the fight occurred, un-fucking-real LOLI cannot believe people seriously play like this. That shell really is for the absolute dregs at this game or absolute newbies.
Cute propaganda.
>>565576748>Dire Marsh freekit is amazingYes, average Joe goes down, watches me 1V3, sends friend request. HeuuehUUeHAHAHA
>playing solo thief on outpost>game starts>leap off a cliff>pop my grappling hook to reach the other side>input eats itself, hook doesnt activate>probably because of their exploit fix>fall to my death>lose everythingif it's not playing versus eight thousand assassins per round, it's shit like this
>>565579924>>playing solo thief on outpostI would mercykit you, and make you extract with me, as my wife
>>565579693>assassins get to reset literally every single fight for freenothing of value is lost here
I played for almost 10 hours today, pushing me past 100 hours hours total. Got all the Arachne skins and did a bunch of contracts. I had fun.
Can you assholes stop grabbing all the yellow keys if you're not even going to open the armories? I'm just a lowly rook trying to stock up on decent guns.
>>565580139>>assassins get to reset literally every single fight for freeThat's false, I just go into the smoke and gape them
Fair warning to Thief and Vandal players.There will be no gunfight, you will go down, like you got hit by a truck.You will get picked up. And you WILL go to the extract with your new, Blackbird husband.
>>565581073saar i rape you saar
I really hope they push the power level down in S2. Armory merchants do NOT need to be selling daily gold molds or having purple barter for easily farmable items, Pinwheel should NOT be as lucrative for as easy as it is to enter. Destroyer does NOT need to be moving like a Guardian or Master Chief.
>>565580503>I played for almost 10 hoursWhat a beast>>565572069>I like when I get matched with nolifes who are above 120 when Im barely 80I don't think a lot of players made it to level 80, lol. The remaining playerbase is half level 50s, half levels 100+.Most people break down, before reaching 80, or 100.
I'm a gay faggot who suck dick thoughbeit
>>565582480>Destroyer does NOT need to be moving like a Guardian or Master Chief.Nice no-fun post. Eat my thick boot treads as they rocket assist into your teeth.
>>565582870yeah we know
>>565582870this but I'm also trans xD
Do you guys think they'll add Rooks into Duo queue in S2 or not?I hope they don't because they are actually annoying as fuck to deal with in Pinwheel.
>>565582480>Armory merchants do NOT need to be selling daily gold molds or having purple barter for easily farmable itemsI think Bungie was intending the armory to be an equalizer and that nerfing it would just be worsening the K shaped economy. The problem is that getting the things unlocked in the armory to make these trades in the first place is unreasonable for most players - blue shields being the main example. Like take away the daily gold mods and that mostly just means that people who needed those to stand a chance are the ones that now can't have them, while the stompers can simply win their way to Cryo vaults for guaranteed golds.
>>565582480Moving like Master Chief would be fine, so long as we mean pre-Halo 4 Master Chief.
>>565582480Yeah and the grind for upgrades should be longer too!
>>565552298>shadow lurkBecause you glow like a lava lamp
>>565528571Maybe she's coming to a stop
>>565583186It’s also only one gold mod a day from traxus, I’ve seen the shitty overrun mod multiple days in a row. My main problem is there are no good barters for patch kits outside of spark leaf but I’m pretty far past looking for those or even really playing perimeter/dmarsh
>>565532746I'm getting into lobbies with level 30s to 60s as a 130.
>>565578428Honestly might be one of the biggest things I hate about this game that gets misconstrued as being "tactical" or "part of the game". I've witnessed people camp a body to the point that they basically are not going to make exfil at all and there's no rhyme or reason to it, especially when they're not even capitalizing on another team running something like lockdowns. It's something where I give Bungie some credit for their design because the more stark design and ability to play things a little faster paced encourages more exploration and doing than just playing like a fucking slug. It's also where I feel Bungie should've never made Cryo this compact kill house
yo 11k on a fucking Saturday is insane. This shit is fucking dead as hell
>>565532746There’s a significant batch of causal still taking their first handful of runs at cryo from what I’ve seen
>>565583680>Honestly might be one of the biggest things I hate about this game that gets misconstrued as being "tactical" or "part of the game"yeah, I don't give a fuck if they were just sitting in a room and got the jump on us because we were stomping around outside full sprinting, that would be on usBut the fuckers literally cracked my shield four seperate times and knew I was low hp, and that it was a 2v1, and still never pushed me once. They're just completely bitch-made players.
I stopped playing, how vacant are maps. Anyone catch a ghost town consistently at low tide?
>>565548858Hilarious if true. No mics typing up a storm just to say they're getting third partied. And wondering why nobody is paying attention to pings while getting shot at
>>565556964The air can still flow in after you're done smoking
>>565547329Get rid of green weapon mods and any cores for shells you don't play >But I play a varietyHonestly, you could infill and play the game without cores and implants and just pick them up along the way if you're only going in with green/blue shields. At least I don't.
>>565583186The Blue Shield unlock isn't outrageous when you actually play the game, I could meet people half way and knock it to 5 biolens and 2 neurals and I think it would still be very fair for what you're getting. I'm no try hard but it makes sense for something that can become your baseline and make the whole order of different quality items feel appropriate and have their place in terms of use. Yes there is a little bit of redundancy because by the time you'd be covered on Biolens and Neural, you could likely already have a ton of shields of equal or better quality, but yeah higher level NuCal and MIDA upgrade boxes can pretty much gift you a majority of the purple salvage. The problem is people don't want to quest and are shitting themselves because they try to go this horrible path of heavy resistance bruteforcing rep leveling by doing the lower quality repeatable contracts. Of course they're going to hate the game when they're barely playing it. I'm not shocked people really fucking hate this game if they're doing that. Yes I do think Bungie should improve the questing because at least this first season, way too same-y stuff Diarheha Marsh, totally underutilized the underground segments. I don't think Traxus giving you a daily option for a yellow mod when you did all their priorities is bad, it actually feels half way earned for going that distance. On top of that there's only so many yellow mods in general, most of them can be a little whatever, and they're still pretty expensive. I think the problem is there should've been a 4th map before Cryo so you could at least have something very solidly middle-early end game, because Dire Marsh just sucks so fucking bad for so many reasons and only gets way better when you're higher level and the loot is bettered because of that.
>>565582480What I actually want from the armory is no daily rotations for credit purchases. I want to treat mod and core unlocks as increasing my power floor. I no longer have to store those items because I can always buy them instead. Right now, you can only have access 1 type of green/blue/purple cores per runner at any given day, which I think is stupid.
>>565583292I think getting to green/blue options in the armor shouldnt be as bad as it is now, but the grind to purple/gold shouldn't be as easy as it is now. There needs to be a hard line between the expected base kit vs the godlike stuff. There's a reason streamers are starting on new accounts, because they're playing against others greens/blues instead of the usual purple/gold bullshit that was immediate after week 2.
>>565583972Not consistent but I did have an outpost run where we didn't see another team or any rooks. And when we thought we had enough red keys for pinwheel and had to go get another, all the remaining reds we didn't take were untouched. But that was just one time at 3 in the morning.
>>565583090sex. now.
>>565583972That's nonsense. Every match starts with the same amount of players, depending on the map and regardless of the player count. Unless it's sponsored Dire Marsh, since duos can queue there. I've actually played today since the daily minimum and had no issues queueing. Unless you consider queue times almost as long as those in Deadlock and just happing to queue with the same 2 randoms on the same team in a row to be issues.
It's amusing watching the streamer side of this game collapse in on itself. All these idiots are trying to be "the guy" for this game but realize you can't really talk a whole lot about "build guides" because there is the rng component, and more often than not you're playing for a very particular effect that comes attached with generic stat upgrades where the core gameplay isn't really shifted. My fear is Bungie is going to listen to these idiots a little too closely and then throw some bullshit to preoccupy them not realizing they're just making the overall experience worse. The fact alone how Subroutines for Cryo vaults weren't a guaranteed drop is retardation and Bungie really anticipated that not only would there be a ton of people even doing cryo, but mindlessly doing keys and eventually leading to them carrying people for Compilier to justify that, when it was still obnoxious layers of RNG. It's not totally unworthy for the actual end goal thing, but they could cut down so much making the keycard drops a bit more consistent(at least for 6) and it could still be a balanced thing. I feel like Bungie just didn't think the end game through with Cryo and its everything . I guess not totally dissimilar to Edge of Shit Destiny where they really expected people to mindlessly grind portal, to go back to do harder Kepler, at 2 different difficulty levels and gates to have a very whatever payoff
>>565562297racist chud
/dg/ won
>>565525378Some disgrutled Destiny players isn't a campaign. And besides, the only streamer support in the world the game got was from D players.
>>565526525They're one of the cheapest entertainment available. And every other extraction shooter at AA or higher seems to be doing better.
https://youtu.be/LBV4gpWF3e8
>>565536267I was able to negotiate with a tour group in my bad hokken chinese. My team would extract without going after any of the big shit. They wouldn't have to waste so much time and ammo. I was down to my last grenades and I had half my inventory grenades when I started.
>>565544861You get a hugbox lobby when you are willing to kill everyone else for it. >>565545087Sometimes you're lucky and get everyone else to kill each other for you first.
>usually do good and have an exfil rate of 80%>cannot get anything fucking good going in a single match today after 4 hours, probably exfiled about 20% of the timewhat the FUCK
>>565547292>>565548735Ampere is free data and sketchy. Gameshare, returns ect, ect. Absolutely do not confuse users with sales. It almost certainly includes their server test.But the thing is, this isn't actually good news for sony, if sales were higher than Tassi and company think. It means the attach rate is even worse.
>>565554885I'm dissapointed they toned down the rape in invincible.
>get knocked>alt-f4>exfil>feel nothing>all marathon makes me feel is rage and schadenfreude watching bungie collapse after deleting my d2 dlc
>>565562861Who the fuck knows? We know the marketing team has been targeting percived threats to them like charthreads.
>>565567158While it's not as robust, console has plenty of cheating. And that's not even counting the 9 man teams.
>>565574497SBMM doesnt really make sense for this game because of gear. But they need SOMETHING for the permarapped people, or they just quit.
>>565584824>higher level NuCal and MIDA upgrade boxesTo an extent this is both a terrible tutorialization and reinforcement of the grind being too fuckin long. Like there's no strong indication to tell you that faction upgrades are the path of least resistance to getting hard to find resources. You basically get told by Perimeter to go where the resource tooltip says to find them and it's reliable, and then dozens of hours later you get to learn (generally outside of the game someplace like here) that that's just not really true for half the purple/gold resources, there's very specific paths you should take that are barely/not indicated at all. And getting to VIP takes a good deal of concentrated effort, while most people are probably going to be trying to spread out the grind, or focus on CyAc for the vault space/heat upgrades that are basically mandatory, then get taught by CyAc that VIP rewards actually fucking suck.And yeah, Dire Marsh fucking sucks. I hate that season 2 seems to be>you know the parts of the game everyone loves? Those aren't changing, instead have more of the parts that everyone hates
>>565593474Yeah it's kinda funny how people thought it was going to be a choices matter, Destiny artifact, "pledge" to a certain Faction, but pretty much if you're not doing the bare minimum upgrades across factions that are remotely considered mandatory, and a lot of them coming from NuCal, it's going to feel like shit. Same deal with how there's not really a big indicator that you should be doing bosses and lockdowns to get at obtaining resources. Lastly it gets even worse with Cryo Keys where you really feel like you're really a rat in a maze and can see where Bungie ran out of ideas because it's just a monotonous repetitive grind where some of the keys are coming from one set specific place, but you might be in a lobby that never has a boss present, no convoy/intercept, no lockdown , and it's like great time wasted. 6's rarity is genuinely bullshit and idk what the fuck they were thinking. That's been one of the few benefits of Free Dire Marsh where you don't feel bad brute forcing it to get bosses or lockdowns. I also imagine Bungie are going to get very skewed receptions of what things are like because if I'm average dickhead content joe, I can just tap into a discord server and ask who has a key to run, and I can collect my subroutine every step of the way. Trying to do all the Cryo Vaults(specifically 6) legit and on your own isn't impossible but the amount of time it can take, and actually getting success at the vault is obnoxious. I've lost tons of keys to cheats, dickheads blocking off certain areas for the entirity of the match ,team up stacks etc . It's garbage and I don't want Bungie to get lost in less pressing player grievances and mistaking the legitimate critics over Cryo
>>565594823>06 rarityI get the feeling that Bungie thought that the Sherpa culture from Destiny would take over. Only one person in a group needs to have access to Compiler to do it, so if that person wants to be friendly they can go in Discord and just grab people who have DNA Access Keys and take them along and we can all get things done and be happy.And I'm sure there are a few communities doing that, but most Cryo people just have their own crew and go in with them, and they progress as a unit, and for that pattern of play the 06 rarity is fucking appalling. I have a single 06 key after 270 fucking hours. My two friends play less than me but combined we have probably 500+ hours, and that is the only 06 key between us.I am genuinely scared to even try it because I've been killed by cheaters in Cryo, I've been killed by team queues in Cryo, I've been killed (lots of times) by rubber banding and game fuckups in Cryo. Of my losses about a quarter of them are solidly just fucking out of my control and in the 'fuck this' territory. To roll the dice with a thing that by odds I will *never see a second of* is just fucking absurd.Then considering what this is like for the person who doesn't have two friends that can be cajoled into putting all that time in, and just fill queues - it seems fuckin impossible.Not everyone needs to do Compiler, but you should at least be able to reasonably aspire to do aspirational content.
the mutant at bungie that thought night marsh was a great idea is probably the same one that programmed the game to queue you into perimeter after you leave a game instead of queuing you back into outpost when you mash the space button
Does every Truth/Lies mission take place on Outpost? I miss Perimeter.
>>565584824>The Blue Shield unlock isn't outrageous when you actually play the gameyes it is. i finally just snagged another biolens sneed and it was stolen from me by other players in cryo archive. i can't get those fucking things at all and i play the game for hours a day. i'm not even that bad at it, my pvp kda isn't that bad but you can't get biolens seeds easily anywhere
>find rook>shoot rook 15 times with Retaliator>4 full bursts with a BRRT>break his green shields with last BRRT shot>kills crewmate in 3 Volt pistol shots>empty entire BRRT clip into him, don't miss a single time>he runs up with his knife>shotguns me with the knifeJesus what fuckin South American server were we even on
>>565600228That sounds like a bad dream
>>565600014Fucking nothing has you go back to Perimeter laterI get Perimeter is intentionally a lower tier lootmap and all but they could at least have more quests there through things
>>565601793I do hope they add more stuff their later, since I feel like it's one of the better designed maps. Has a good flow and layout, and there's enough things to break up sight lines that snipers are useful but they don't totally dominate like in Dire Marsh.
>>565601982i think perimeter is the best map
>9pm on a Saturday night in EU>game still can't fill a lobby for EUUnreal
>>565601982I think Perimeter is too structured in PoIs. I like Marsh more for having a number of approaches to most of them. Perimeter has so many chokepoint areas, the whole map is just chokepoints.
>>565600685The next run all three of us magdumped a destroyer that ran around a corner making no footstep noises at all, we barely broke his shields when he killed me. Then his teammates ran up (also with no footstep noises) and finished my crewmates.I guess this is just not a valid day to play.
>>565591873you are becoming the raped
>>565582870>>565583090But enough about Thief and Vandal mains.
>>565600151do fucking keys and lockdowns and etcbiolens seeds are only rare if you refuse to engage with these mechanics, which is really what you should be doing ASAP
>>565606447
>>565600151i believe mida gives biolens seeds through VIP rewards.
>>565597920We don't know what night marsh is yet, so I'll reserve my judgement.
>>565609230i still have to do mida's priority contracts. i think i'm on the one where you upload malware to a dropship in dire marsh. i'm really far from mida vip i only have cyac and nucal vip and i might get arachne soonish>>565608014i need to learn how lockdowns work. you use antivirus packs right? and kill a lot of bots? then you get loot?
So, what are we playing after they shut down the servers in a few months?
>>565610429I'd imagine it's Dire Marsh, but at night. Which might be cool, I remember when they did night variants of the map in Call of Duty DMZ and it was some of the most kino extraction shooter game play ever.
>>565610541nucal also gives it according to reddit. but i mostly rank up nucal for purple shields.
>>565610429it's just dire marsh but with fungus bob zombies
>>565610607I've done sponsor queue into Dire Marsh for several hours straight today, and I have to say, I like the map when there is only 5 teams on it. If Night Marsh manages to spice it up somehow, then I will be content. Arc Raiders has those night raid events, so maybe it'll be like that.
>>565610552Control 2 might come out by then.
>>565610552gonna go find a job most likely.
>>565610541>>565610795nucal does give it, i just got them VIP and got one
>>565611271i guess i'll stop doing arachne contracts and start focusing nucal contracts
>>565611271>>565611382those squares in the middle also barter for purple shields on some days as well. i've never ran out of purple shields since.
>>565610541>how lockdowns workthey're extremely simple (and quick)when the red field is up it prevents people from entering but you take firewall damage the whole time you're in ityou can disable this red field in a few seconds if you know what you're doing though, that's the only thing antivirus stuff is for.There's a little chest you can activate and it drops in a few waves of UESC. I think 3 dropships precisely each time. Last wave has a commander. All you gotta do is go through these at each of the three locations. It's easy and you should really be aiming to do it if it shows up.
>>565610552I think I'd go back to Hunt Showdown. The slower pace and the fact that gear loss is basically non existent, that appeals to me more. Even though there's character "permadeath", its extremely easy to bounce back and get most of your lost perks back too.
>do a free kit cryo run because why not the network has been ruining every single game we do>spawn in steerage>rubber band out of normal doors 5 times in the first room>for some reason the second room spawns 3 full room's worth of enemies - multiple scouts, grenadiers, recruits plus a commander each wave>by the time we finish killing them (which didn't even take all that long), get shot from the security 2 door roughly 5 seconds into trying to loot the first commander we killed in that room>another crew managed to reach clearance 2 and roll in the front door and kill us>was too frustrated to even look at run time, but I'm pretty sure it was under 4 minutesYou know Cryo is fun when it works but jesus fuck does it just break all the fucking time.
>>565613147>you can disable this red field in a few seconds if you know what you're doing thoughHow is that? I've kind of just avoided lockdowns like the plague because Dire Marsh is trash.
Let's freakin go dude!
>>565615884There's a key that gets highlighted on your map to pick up and a touchpad near the crate that disables the field
A most profitable night on solo marsh indeed To the assassin carrying anomalous matter to an exfil on Greenhouse that I ambushed.... im sorry
>>565618013never apologize to an assassinthere are only two types of assassins, those who deserve it and those who deserve worse
>>565610552Not even trolling. Which dies first? Fairgame$ or marathon?>>565605406Valid? Are you checking people's privlige?
>>565613147>There's a little chest you can activate and it drops in a few waves of UESC. I think 3 dropships precisely each time. Last wave has a commander.im ngl i usually have to play in fill lobbies where my screeching ape teammates cannot even do a container hack so this is great advice but i will have to wait to do it until i'm with a 3 stack again
>>565619621it's exceptionally easy, UESC spawns in obviously so if you disable the field and tell people you're doing it your teammates will come because there are bad guys to shoot and containers to loot
>>565619845I think you underestimate how dumb the fill in fucks are.
>>565620486I almost always play full fill in
>>565620486>Good at shooting>Has situational awareness and knows tactics>Has a micYou'll get two when playing fill but not three.
>Finally got 7 Biolenses for the nucal upgrade treeBungie is out their minds if they think any player would want to repeat this process for Season 2.
>>565620894Virtually everything about faction upgrades and contracts is a complete slog I have zero desire to do againI cant think of a single priority contract Id look forward to repeating
>>565556964>>565584158>The air can still flowDon't worry, don't be nervous, no shirt, no shoes, we still get serviceWiggle wiggle yeah>>565592475>invincibleBoobs jiggle, did you play it? It's a subhuman coomer game, very nice.
>>565620894>Bungie is out their minds if they think any player would want to repeat this process for Season 2.Played this game for 2 months, on 2 different accounts, never boughted a shield.
>>565620894>takes so long to unlock the blue shield shop upgrade that you'll probably have access to purple shield barters before then
Why did Bungie kill themselves for this slop?
i've never wanted for shields, sneed is some reddit shit
>>565623969what website is this?
>>565624181https://flopathon.cc/
>>565624247>Secure Connection Failedthanks though
>>565624439That's on your end, https works
whenever I'm bored I open the steam charts for this game
>>565626231Unironically, same.
>>565620669I'm not getting one sometimes. And because of my reigion add"knows any fucking english or spanish or japanese".>>565621936>Boobs jiggle, did you play it? It's a subhuman coomer game, very nice.I haven't played it yet. A little boob jiggle isn't enough. I wanted as close as possible to a comics accurate baby making special from her.
>>565626231>>565626339Can you fags go back to spamming /v/ with his shit?
>>565626501Why does the truth hurt you so much?
>>565626501But then your general would die from inactivity
>>565626636KEK
>>565626636Grim but true
>>565548610I'm okay with no-mic players as long as they're the on other teams. If I get stuck with them, then it's not fair. I only want to win.
>>565523047>anti-artyeah, defend the game that used AI art! that'll show how pro-"art" you are!fuck i hate these types of fags so much>ugh, you dont like whjat i like? well you must be anti... uh... whatever subject we're talking about
>>565626706>If I get stuck with them, then it's not fair. I only want to win.How can one man be so based?
>>565627550The devs used AI art? I thought they just stole stuff from other artists.
>>565627738no he's just a retard
arc raiders refugee here, if this game is punishing why is everything given to you for free, no leveling needed
So when are people gonna become brave enough to bring gold gear to solo? So I can gibs me dat
>>565628871i play fill but i've donated purple loadouts to perimeter randos before
>>565628871Gain more levels. You'll see it.
>>565628871>Kills you with 8 claymoresBeep boop fuck your gold shield
>>565627897You aren't in the real game yet. And everything's free if you can kill everyone else. But lets get real, you're just going to feed other players.
>>565628871Unless its a guy that's trying to farm kills on Perimeter, probably never. You'll find plenty of golds on Cryo, but that's it.
>>565627897Because the pve is such a joke the players are the only true threat
>>565629245Feed who exactly? A basic overrun deletes purple shields easily.
>>565519263Wow a 53-47 split in favor of consoles
>Overrun deletes purple shields easily
>>565630398>assassin misses all of his shots and fails to get kill>escapes like a bitchYup, this tracks
>>565630398Where's your thermal sight bro? And yes, the overrun sucks doodoo, spread is horrendous beyond hugging distance
>>565630843The Overrun has a high fire rate, slower firing guns, and burst weapons are less forgiving. A gun with better DPS than the Overrun, can easily lose to the Overrun, because the DPS spikes up, when you miss 1(one) bullet or burst.High fire rate mag dumping > careful precision shots. I will not be shooting someone across the map, cause what if it's an MnK sniper, who can flick like Shroud?I'm not in a rush, I'll wait for that bussy and crack it so fast
>play marathon>feel awful>go for one walk outside>feel great>wonder why i do something that makes me feel so awful>can't come up with an answer for why i play marathon or online gameshuh
>>565631672You play it, because you belong here, with us. We will save Bungie together
/mg/ is together, as one. Enjoying the game, not worrying about Bungie, or Sony.This is why Escharum's butthurt, he's powerless, ineffective.
>>565626636Lone arm and cat, the kidnapping rapist, the ommni rapist and the baker aren't enough to keep this general up. Take the extra posts and aprreciate them.
>>565632349Cool fan fiction
Throbbing
>>565632572>arm and cat, the kidnapping rapist, the ommni rapistThat's one dude, the baker is someone else, probably the Tarkov man
Ghosts are either retarded invisible sentries or absolute one robot armies blessed by the gods to solo you. There is no in betweenI would bet bungie took halo reach elite ai programming and mainlined it into the ghost ai
>>565633676I still wish Marathon's character designs, environments and setting weren't held hostage to an extraction shooter. Even if it wasn't a Destiny clone, something that even felt reminiscent like Halo where it offered>a single player campaign>a standard multiplayer component>maybe a mode like firefightor even something different like an FPS immersive sim elements like Doom 3 or Bioshock would have truly done something to make it a proper smash hit.
>>565633676Yeah her cock probably is.
>>565634023>to make it a proper smash hit.I don't know about that, it would be a lot more popular, if it had a singleplayer campaign. Everyone loved the cinematic trailer, why not make a 10 chapter campaign, with a couple of endings, based on choices? Something like Heavy Rain, or Detroit become human, even if it would be 7 or 10 hours long. Just slap that on top of the current game, for art fags to replay it 3 times, and choose dialogue. And search for (((secrets)))
>>565634030>Yeah her cockSwinging back and forth when Recon plaps her
I wish this game had more gore. I wanna see shell's limbs get blown off.
>>565634682campaigns and shit cost money for one time use deliverables, the goal of the modern live service is to make a structure where people can create their own novelty within a relatively constrained content zone. Which makes sense on paper but then Bungie's got like 300 fucking devs on this one game.
>>565634682I'd even take a Heavy Rain clone, that's how much I'm fed up with Marathon as a live service game and as an extraction shooter. The worst part is that Bungie barely has the manpower to maintain one game, so how on earth are they going to be able to maintain two?
>>565634682>something like two completely fucking dogshit games that have nothing to do with scifi shootyman shooting??????
>>565634917But the market research shows that a Teen rating is the best for a game designed for 45+ year old trans men.
>>565626636>He's bumping the thread when he posts in this general.
>>565635128>nothing to do with scifi shootyman shootingHi, my name is Void, I'm the runner shell sent by Sekigoopy, and it's not my business
How the fuck did Destiny 2 win in the end? Marathon has the lowest peak player count of any extraction shooter on steam.
>>565629070Who's dumb enough to get killed by claymores when he's progressed to the point of gold gear?
Ive become the blue shield on perimeter destroying Destroyers with thermal railgunsI'm.... the bad guy? How'd that happen?
>>565636517Look manIt blends in very well underneath AI uplink
>>565636517Most of the time they aren't but I've had a few get way too cocky and tunnel visioned chasing me around corners, then it's claymore shotgun good night.
>>565634932>campaigns and shit cost money for one time useAnd Sony has multiple teams that can create a small campaign. Bungie was consumed by Sony 4 years ago, why didn't they demand to make a small movie-game mode, is beyond me.Naughty Dog worked on 2 games at the same time, which is Uncharted Lost Legacy and TLOU2, those games are based on combat. Something like a 7 or 9 hour Heavy Rain clone could be done by a smaller, second team.Insomniac works on three(3) fucking games at a time, Ratchet/SM2/Wolverine, and fucking Venom is coming in 2027.Santa Monica works on 2 games at a time, Faye spin-off is coming, then Kratos in Egypt.Playstation stuidos do "small game and full game" all the time.If Sony really wanted to, there would be a single player section in Marathon. But, instead of forcing Bungie, retarded Jim Ryan went hands off.Now Jim Ryan is replaced by jap grandpa, Hiroki Totoki, he seems to be shitting on the studios and making them work. He told them that the amount of IP is low, and he doesn't want PC ports. I'm not making fun of PC, I'm saying the jap is old school, he runs console business like it's the PS3/360 era. >Bungie becomes part of PS Studios in 2022>Old school jap boss comes in 2025He was too late to make them include a single player portion. think he would do it.
>>565636517Tell that to the rook that dropped my fill in partner. That dude was such an embarassment, that we negotiated with the rook that killed him to extract together.Contrary to sweat belief, gear is far more about persistence and time played than skill.
>>565637242By the time he shows up, marathon is already at a completely fucking insane budget level and has shown to be slow as fuck at making anything. Risking having this extend to Concordian budget levels, or risking the "we'll get you a single player campaign like OW, pinky promise!" is not what they went with. I mean if it was 100 percent up to bungie, how long would it have taken?
>>565637242>why didn't they demand to make a small movie-game mode, is beyond me.They're a live service slop studio. Everyone that made Halo was fired or quit by the time Destiny 1 shipped. There's no talent left at Bungie.
>>565637815You didn't enjoy Osirus and saint 14 or MXTER NIMBUS?
>>565637667>I mean if it was 100 percent up to bungie, how long would it have taken?It was 90% up to Bungie, because this man was hands off on development. Yoshida called the shots before him, and he made Santa Monica redo GoW2018. GoW2018 was designed with different menus and scenes, Yoshida told them to scrap all of that, Barlog the director explained it, after release.Jim Ryan was hands off, didn't control anyone, like Phil Spencer, didn't do shit, all talk.Playstation not including a campaign is weird, Yoshida only did that once, with GT Sport. Jim Ryan could tell them to include single player, he had all the power, but he let Bungie do what they want.
>>565637815>There's no talent left at Bungie.Playstation has endless amounts of jeets and japs to work on small projects. The second new Uncharted game was not developed by Naughty dog, it was developed by "B-team", small part of the studio, jeets. TLOU Part 2 was greenlit 2(two) years before the jeet Uncharted released.
>have a great run in cryo with a random>friend them after match>they don't accept itnyoooooo
>make small single player Marathon game>slap it on top of Marathon 2026>just like Call of Duty, campaign is a separate downloadWhy not? Jim Ryan didn't care, that's why. It's Playstation letting Bungie be "creatively free", instead of doing the typical Sony movie game thing.
>>565638420He probably carried you and is tired of you.
>>565638641I killed 3 and he killed 3 thoughbeit
>>565637476>Contrary to sweat belief, gear is far more about persistence and time played than skill.TRUTHWORM.exeOne can roll the dice, grind a lot, get lucky, get gold. Then, some rat will take it, because he makes a sloppy move.
>>565638904Do you have a deep voice, or sound like a femboy? He'd probably add you, if you sound girly
>>565638420some wolves roam alone
>>565638904>thoughbeitOk, that explains why no one wants to be your friend.
>>565638367You think jeets and gooks are talent? kek
>>565639117Gooks and jeets are a work force, there's plenty of lore and art ready for them to use. But no one forced Bungie to create a small team for a singleplayer add on. Sony could do it, but didn't.
>>565639045We just communicated in chat and pings, having a competent teammate I don't need to talk to would be so nice...
>>565639408There's more to making a good video game than a "work force". You need humans with a soul and passion for what they're doing, that's why Bungie used to be successful.
>>565639416>having a competent teammate I don't need to talk to would be so nice...I remember you, you don't like talking, makes your vagina uncomfortable. It's ok.
>>565639117Ubisoft's canceled games speeks to jeet competence but Korea at least has Crimson Dawn and stellar blade, and that one superstar korean at Capcom who headed pragmatica. They can at least copy better designs for something, well more than the 4 fucking maps and 6 shells we got.
>>565639795For sure but games made by straight white men will always be the best.
3 games down to cheaters in Cryo today. Good thing the anticheat is so effective and there's a zero tolerance policy.Kinda hard to justify continuing to throw my time away on this. Like I have a 06 key, but there's basically full certainty that I can't do it because Cryo is just a loaded dice roll at this point.
>>565634917Can't sell it in Japan if you give it good gore, and if Japan doesn't like it the target audience of transgenders will be obliged to hate it as well.
>the anti-cheat believer>the no talk vagina>the trans girl who likes and plays Destroyer>rvep Bungie spammer>Bucher>Tarkov guy>two console nigsAnyone else I'm forgetting? The discord troons are gone, but I think the destroyer fangirl is still here. >lore guyAlmost forgot him.
>>565555378Damn son you don't even like Lollipop Chainsaw? >>565630843This is at least accurate to the original Marathon's full auto rifle. Some of the most insane spread I have ever seen.
>>565640727>Some of the most insane spread I have ever seen.I've said it before, aim for the legs, or ass, the fire rate is high, so the mag will be dumped into the body, before the full recoil sways you off target.Or, use an attachment that improves stability, it will bounce less visually.Attachment for recoil will make the bullet pattern tighter, but, the gun will still kick a lot visually.
>>565640648what about highfive
>>565641005He's a... coolguy
>>565641068;)
"the shadow" may lurk in these threads. If you haven't met him, consider yourself lucky
>>565641825The shadow of my cock towering over your forehead
>>565642143gulp
i wish i could play fps’s on controller. would love to play in bed comfy but i cant aim for shit with sticks and it just feels so slow. would probably play more if i could. not a marathon problem but a personal skill issue
Almost time to play more Marathon. But first, the META excercise. Gotta shoot some ropes, before starting the game.Otherwise it will be difficult to focus, with all the Thief and Vandal shells running around.
>>565642258First you play third person single player games on controller, then first person single player games. After that, you try some CoWadooty. Your hands will be tainted, your whiteness revoked, and you'll be able to play on roller.
how do you get faction rep after the main contracts are over? im getting peanuts from standard contracts, is it just a mega grindfest to get to level 28 so i can get the expanded stash?
>>565554460>>565642462PCjeet melty
>>565642759>how do you get faction rep after the main contracts are over? im getting peanuts from standard contractsMake someone exfil with you in solo, or go to sponsored Marsh, help your team do any contract, exfil with them. Use CARRI points to buy faction XP
>>565591839>what if the design team was actually trying Yeah, heh. Would be cool
>you thought the longshot spam was bad>everyone and their mom has ten outlands in their vaults because they've been farming sponsored marsh maintenance
Shooting ropes all over Vandal's toes
Shooting ropes all over Thief's lips
>queued solo fill into the same player three times in a rowthe sign of a healthy game on the come up.
>>565644164Fucking Chud.....
healthy heavy cum up on Vandal's feet after we fooled around
>>565644164>see a familiar name on the team>already know it's a freekit shitterOn that note, it was a nice surprise that the guy I only saw on freekits brought a purple to the match
Embarassing
Locking In
>>565646860>was -10k per week>was -5k per week>is now only a glorious -3k per week>"rock bottom" is an infinite cascade of floors we are simply slamming into and crashing through>the more people play marathon the less they want tomaybe bungie can save the game by increasing the amount of polygons in thief's ass
>>565648258>>565640648>>565627567fucking embarrassing
>>565648583>maybe bungie can save the game by increasing the amount of polygons in thief's assGiven what the employees have said about that, I think they'd kyo anni the place down first rather than allow that.
Finally got the vandal mastery skinUnfortunately i lost my 7.6k loadout to a camped thermal sniper on the way to the exfilI think im done for a while
>>565651371And it was fun.
>>565651371>”it’s not yours until you exfil”this is the intended experience btw. I wonder how much of the problem is exfil points. If you could just waltz out of a safe spot in the map, the pressure might not be so overwhelming..
>>565651371>dire marsh>hear an exfil opening>go there with my thermal>see a green shield exfilling with a smoke>1 shot 1 killI'm sorry little one...
>>565652654Season 2 patch notes:Dire Marsh? Lights out, UESC in. Explore a fully revamped map, heightened alerts (a little something for you PvEGODS), and.. we’re introducing night vision scopes, find them before they find you. That’s all. See you in three months.
Do you agree with the people saying that this game's fate is sealed and that nothing Bungie does can bring it back?I used to dismiss it as plain doomerism, but the more I play, the more apparent this game's issues become, which seem to be issues on a fundamental level. I've been playing less and less, and to be honest, I think I'll be gone by the time Season 2 drops, and don't really see any reason to come back. With each passing day, I kinda agree with the doomers more and more. I think this game's days are numbered
>>565652260It was already mine, I spawned in overkitted to make sure I got the shotgun sliding challenge since I didnt wanna pay Arachne 6k for another shotgun out of the armorySure hope they enjoy the blue shotty and purple shield I donated
>>565653314Yes, anyone who thinks the game can be saved is straight up huffing copium.Shit is dead and ain't coming back from this point. It'll only lose more players over the next few months until it's actually dead dead.Bungie and Sony are fucking retarded for trying to make an extraction shooter.
>>565653460>Bungie and Sony are fucking retarded for trying to make an extraction shooter.wrongthey are trying to make 2 nowFairgame$ will be the onetrust the plan
>>565653314The writing has been on the wall for a while, but the "holy shit its real" hit me when Marathons numbers began dipping below Destiny 2. It's the least played extraction shooter out right now and not even 2 months old. If the population levels out where its at now (~15k daily) I can see it lasting a while as a cult status game but nothing more than that
>>565653460it's unfortunate because i wanted this game to do well. i like the lore/visuals/characters. but my god this is the worst genre of game on the market right now
>>565653314>20k players daily>3 main maps not including Cryo which is only open for a couple days a week>this brings it to about ~6670 players per map queue>divide by half into Solo/Trio fill, now 3335 players per queue>not even including Duos, ranked, Cryo, or brackets according to season levelIts fucking dead soon. I'm seeing the same players on different matches very frequently.
>>565653579>If the population levels out where it's at now (~15k daily), I can see it lasting a while as a cult status game, but nothing more than thatIt might keep on going for a while, Destiny 1 is still up, but holy shit, Bungie is gonna get absolutely guttedReports mention that Marathon has more devs than Destiny 2 atm, which might mean the game might genuinely be at well over 400 devs atm, which just doesn't seem even close to sustainable with these numbers. Hell, I think that even 100 devs would be too much at this point.Also, with so many devs working on it, where's the fucking content?Like seriously, where did the time and money go?5+ years and over $250m for this?Like, where's the content? I know that this game was in a bit of dev hell and changed directions a few times, but at the end of the day, that doesn't concern the player. The player doesn't give a fuck about that. The players give a fuck about the end result, the release version of the game. And this game was SEVERELY lacking. Marathon was supposed to be like the first big AAA release in the extraction shooter genre (which seems like a bad idea from the get-go because the genre doesn't have mass appeal), and the only thing I can say about that is >could've fooled meIf you told me that this game was made for a budget similar to Tarkov's or even Arc Raiders, I would've believed you. So again, where did the money go?
https://rentry.co/6rwx3y49I put them in a page since I don't really feel like posting these unless I make an update. I guess I need to actually play dire marsh and figure out lockdowns better. I imagine anyone still playing doesn't really need these, but who knows maybe they'll be useful to people next season and I'll at least be able to update them with whatever new stuff fairly quickly.
>>565654468>figure out lockdowns betterthe spawn locations of the keys that turn off the red walls are importantalso, imo the greenhouse underground shouldnt be purple
>>565653314>Do you agree with the people saying that this game's fate is sealed and that nothing Bungie does can bring it back?No. They can recover, but they need to fire Ziegler and throw him out, and drop the whole "hardcore" "PvP" "competitive" bullshit, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, get a new anti-cheat. Get PvE and co-op going, stop experimenting and enable duo and Cryo to be permanent, and start making maps and new enemies - xenomorph tick and mutated humans, Spth and Phthr or whatever those are called, snow environ map, atoll environ map, more places where some horror shit happened.Game can survive and live, but it needs to lose the retarded concrete shoes and the stone tied to its neck.
>>565631672people tend to prefer pain over boredom
>>565655075Purple's a color I used to mark underground stuff a long ass time ago for a different game so it's kind of become a habit, but after having drawn on key rooms I can certainly see a reason to pick a different color. Got a suggestion?
>>565654141>Like, where's the content?You are correct to say that. However, take a player like me for example. I have not even completed whatever i wanted on Perimeter. Dire Marsh is something i have to do for a long time to get logs and codexes and crafting mats. Outpost is Terra Incognita to me because i have been there only 2 times. Cry is a mythical land where demons and dragons live. As far as i am concerned - i have heaps and heaps of content to go through. Having said that, yeah, more stuff is better, especially when it is fitting to the story and the atmosphere of the game. I cannot wait to see a mutated tick-human zombie for example.
>>565655507hey, if you think grinds upon grinds are heaps of content, then power to you, buddyBut clearly, most players don't agree with this
>>565655269thought that the purple areas showed purple key rooms in quarantine, maintenance, and bio to go along with the blue and yellow key rooms in their corresponding colors.>Got a suggestion?anything not of a rarity
>>565654141>where did money goMarketing stunts, bribes for reviews to PR companies, welfare for developers, swanky upgrades for the offices, sallaries to upper management and Ziegler. Member that job offering for assistant product manager with 120k an hour? That.
>>565655507>farming lore entries you can read online>farming upgrade materials is considered contentYou are Bungie’s dream customer. The lore writing is so good but, much like everything else Bungie put some but not enough thought into, the drops are so sporadic that I can’t consistently get the ones I want for entries I want to read more of. Which means I keep forgetting they exist and then losing interest in reading them at all. This means when I do get lore drops, I just click around until the highlight clears and I go back to sitting in queue. I don’t even bother reading anything anymore.
>>565653314>Do you agree with the people saying that this game's fate is sealed and that nothing Bungie does can bring it back?Bring it back to what? It was hard filtering people since week one, only the nerds remain. Just like in Tarkov, and the minority of Arc(shoot on sight PvPers, segregated like nigs).
>>565655593Well, did two lockdowns in a solo marsh map with a free kit. and got killed running to final exfil by an assassin who didn't even have the decency to loot my shit or wait til I got in the circle for the achievement, real baby shit Didn't even know there was the Data Corruption Access key, just the Lockdown Drive I didn't bother marking since it's always 6 inches from the cache.>anything not of a rarityWhat a lack of passion for coloring.
>>565530032based. just finished moon mistress myself and planning on reading starship troopers next, what are you reading?
>>565657516>What a lack of passion for coloring.i am sure you can think of another color that isnt blue, purple, or yellow
>>565657828grey is a good color, the people like grey
does silk wipe with the season? i'm assuming it does, but I just want to know before i blow it on shit i don't care about.
>>565655589>grindGrind what? Priority contracts? Or keys to get into areas and loot the log that is sitting right there on the table?>>565656171I dont mind running a map a bunch of time to bonk purple enemies or unlock a storage and get my codex entries from there.Sounds like a "you" problem, and i am getting an impression that you are either shitposting or being disingenuous.
>>565530032>killing a crawling enemyKarma.
I know Marathon is punishing, I don't think it's a flaw. Why is it not ok for one Battle Royale game, out of many, to be more punishing, then others? If you don't do near-perfect timing, you lose stuff, cool, I wanna play this. I'm not gonna loot rooms, I'm gonna make people lose, what they collected.Fuck looting boxes, make a sound, I'll wait.
i still don’t know what a subroutine is
>>565530032basedreading books respects your time a lot more
>>565659590subroutines are executable code in memory that you can pass parameters to via CPU registers. but you need a compiler first if you want to write assembly
cryo with the homies is golden. this player had all these golds on him and my teammates looted the wrong person lol.
>>565661259Mamma mia
>>565651371>7.6k loadoutthat's like, 2 rook runs worth of looting on outpost.
Too little, too late?
The only thing a new player will understand is rape.
if the rape anon ever stops posting then this game is certifiably dead
>>565661789There's gonna be around 8 or 10K who play on the regular, by Season 2. They'll decimate anyone new,Unless the noob is a battle royale autist, who decides to try it. That kind of autist will survive.
I played Marathon for 2 months, on 2 accounts. And unlocking a room, or a box, never crossed my mind.I never picked up any key I found. 310 hours across both accounts.
>>565662503>if the rape anon ever stops posting then this game is certifiably deadThe rape anon, AKA Rise_GKM, AKA the guy who posts the random clips no one cares about, AKA the guy who larps with the shonen anime pics, AKA the guy who talks about fucking Vandal and Thief constantly, AKA the guy who spends literally every single day of his life playing video games and shitposting on 4chan, is unironically keeping this thread alive. I would guess that like 60% of the posts here are his.
>>565663451>The rape anonThat's not me, this not me >>565662428>The only thing a new player will understand is rape.
>write the word rape on a paper as a joke>everyone thinks it's only me posting rapeNot fair, the anthem guy deserves credit too. >Anthemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYh_Ffqy8g
>>565632572>the kidnapping rapist
/mg/ anthem got me like
Where will you go, after Marathon?I come from /arg/ and /codg/./arg/ was talking shit about Marathon, I looked at gameplay footage, looked like cartoony diarrhea. Indie trash beyond ass. Played it and combat was outstanding, plays better than Arc.
>>565651371>my 7.6k loadoutThat's not much.>>565653314>Do you agree with the people saying that this game's fate is sealedNo. I need to see Season 2 and its reception first. Even now, the game is plays well, with only some issues. If you just focus on contracts and occasionally do Rook runs (or sponsored Dire Marsh instead, also for contracts), you can easily lose 10 hours to the game, like I did yesterday. If Bungie just de-grinds the game a bit, adds more content and QoL, and a firing range, then there is no reason why Marathon would be dying.
>>565664527>Even now, the game is plays wellsaar...
>>565664508I come from /fng/. I've only really been playing Marathon because Fortnite has sucked for the past two seasons. But I'm done with Marathon desu.
>>565664639Sorry, bruv, I just like the gameplay. I don't know what to tell you.
>>565664527>then there is no reason why Marathon would be dying.The issue is that it's an extraction shooter. All of them, Arc and Tarkov included, are losing players each week. We can debate night and day why that may be the case, but the trend shows that extraction shooters are on their way out, not dissimilar to how Battle Royale blew up in popularity and it's now dying too.
/mg/ was pretty fun.>launch>trannies erping>wagies begging for SBMM>other sissies begging for SBMM and safe pocket >rape jokes spread>slowing down because game is solvedI'm glad I didn't skip this game, just because footage looked goofy. Great game, great general. In 2 months /mg/ was more fun, than Arc's six-month general.
>>565523047>pay guy to make anti-something videos>see chuds, you totally did thisNo fuck off and take your DEI with you all the way back to africa, nigger.
>>565665202>>trannies erpingThat was unironically my favorite part
>>565523047If they are pro art, will they support extraction rapeIt's coming from a human soul, with love
>>565665421It was pretty funny, the defeatslut quit first. The defeat was too much for her in game, kek
I hope they didn't 41% themselves, they were funny. It was a bittersweet goodbye.
>>565666424Please get a trip.
Your average fill experience, now I gotta afk till final extract cause these dudes die in a nano second
>>565666424what's it like being a loser who plays videogames 24/7 and shitposts on 4chan all day? that's your whole life, and meanwhile all your old friends and family look at you like you're a loser.
>>565667189Suck my dick>>565667494I'm 23, what old friends
>>565668989fuck ur embarrassing
>>565669534Oh no, a shonen picture is ruining the vibes for me, my vagina doesn't feel comfy
I found the key room jingle variants in the files.https://voca.ro/1mNhwVNZdJ2chttps://voca.ro/19POKyb1EQxThttps://voca.ro/136bKnCs3nRL
>>565671987It's fart noises WTF
>get a nice outpost run with two dudes>run back with them multiple times>they are competent and barely talkGlorious
>>565671987Do they have reverb in-game? Don't remember them being that choppy
>>565673636>and barely talkHappy for you, Sister of Silence
>>565674797They do, those versions are also there.https://voca.ro/1el8ZONjkhnmhttps://voca.ro/1h8daQjyqXgZhttps://voca.ro/1k46QtQdiTDx
>>565675773doing god's work, thanks anon
>>565674890I'm happy too man, finally some actually good teammates instead of people with no aim and no brain
>>565667430yeah Crew Fill often feels like cock and ball torture. i've played many different games with random matchmade teammates, but nothing comes close to Marathon in terms of strangers' decisions absolutely draining the fun from gaming for twenty plus minutes at a time
The simplest thing to do for people to flock into Marathon is: create more casual gamemodes.Like in casino, you have a lot of games to choose from. Some with lower risk and lower profits, some with higher risk and higher profits. People get hooked on these lower risk games (could be PvE, deathmatch, maybe battle royale for some moderate risk), and then elated from their success, they tackle on this prestige, high risk gamemode ("This is Marathon" - extraction, with higher spawnrate of loot and this loot would be of higher quality). If they get frustrated with it, they can step back and have some mindless fun on those lower tiers of games, grind some gear, and when theyre feeling ready, get back and try again to do some extraction.That of course means somebody smart would have to move the game in that direction, and thats not guaranteed.
>>565679148>The simplest thing to do for people to flock into Marathon is:>create more casual gamemodes.Marathon will still look like cartoony diarrhea. People simply wanted to play the cinematic trailer, with atmosphere and story. They wanted dialogue choices, or a mystery to watch.But the game is a skill based stomp faced, with weird goofy visuals. Most people don't want to see roblox guns, and lego play dough operators.
People wanted to watch more of this, cutscenes, story movie game.They don't want to sweat, collecting dogshit and then get jumped. Reward for winning - more dogshit in the inventory, no movie cinematic to watch.
G*mers want to consume with as little friction as possible, it is no wonder few can stomach extraction shooters
The gameplay is so good, that I've grown to tolerate the visuals. But for most people this gameplay is not fun, and no cinematics to watch is not good.
>>565680997>G*mers want to consume with as little friction as possibleWe gave them so much friction at launch tho, half of them ran away week one, after spending $40 + tipOh we gave them a tip all right, tip with lot's of friction
Jim Ryan killed billions of dollars
>>565632349>enjoying the gameNot for long. [boisterous laughter]
does any of you have that vandal thief fan art? you know the one.
>>565680997Life has enough friction nowadays, most gamers just want to chill for understandable reasons
>was about post an anime villain picture and a steam screenshot.but I won't. I'm more than that.Movie game this, movie game that. Marathon comes out with no movie game section, and they complained for weeks. Moaned and bitched. >what did we learn from thishypocrites are the sh***ers, you give them a real survival game, and they can't play, they break.
>>565681550>does any of you have that vandal thief fan art? you know the one.I've shamelessly jacked off to everything I saw with them for 2 months, but you have to be more specific
look at her, she just wanted to be happy, and listen to a song. instead, she gets slimed by a controller nig, who then revives her, and makes her exfil, like she's his pet.
>>565681550Here you go.
>>565682639holy kino
>>565682639
I finished losing everything in cryo before it's turned off. My gold bully is gone
>>565682995On the topic of the gold bully, what a pleasant gun to use. It makes purple shields feel gray
Just astral dreamed into an alternative universe where Ziegler dies of a heart attack moments before he took over this game, another director takes over from Sony and sees the recent success of Helldivers and turns this game into a PVE extraction game of sorts. Halo dads love the gunplay and laid back nature. The Destiny chuds love the RNG of loot and camaraderie. The trannies love the art style and transhuman aspect. Bungie gains millions of copies. Billions must smile.
>>565682639The real thing
>having fun in Dire Marsh Sponsored crew fill as Thief>one teammate runs off to quest, dies, disconnects>lol i don't really care>run around with Vandalbro>incidentally wipe the last teams>twelve minutes left>no Warden>no Lockdown>no Anomalous Matter>we kill transport drones and unlock three Lockboxes>i smoke grenade and we make out as we exfilIt was fun. I just wish Dire Marsh had a 100% rate to spawn one event at least. Would be nice that's all. picrel is us for the last twelve minutes after 2v6ing
>>565664508Back to Mechwarrior 5. New DLX drops this month
You know, it would be great if buying the blue Deluxe CARRI salvage crate actually gave you blue salvage.
Tahnit status?
>>565519415Vandal is female and has a pussy
>>565693715And a dick as well most of the time, it's her favorite Core.
Durandal jumpscare.https://files.catbox.moe/59n3cs.mp4
>>565695536Gulp
>>565687580As a Hunt player with 1500h played it is wild to me it has higher concurrent than Marathon.
>>565695536>coolest part of the whole experience so far was when Durandal wrote "@everyone destroy all uesc">bungie only knows how to provide fun to a playerbase when they're trying to hype up some shitty spaghetti map>probably have their best writers working on another 900 codex entries i'm going to skipjust spam my dms, send out alerts from the faction AIs begging me to collect 50 drinkable cheeseburgers, do something fun for once. everything's so fucking cryptic and sterile. MORE WHIMSY.
>Spawn ai uplink>Just have to accept I'm going to fucking die because the spawns around it are retarded and if you play it in teams you just get rushed down
>>565683672you will rape or be raped and you will like it
>>565680997>Tarkov is harder and more popularDo pray tell why this game failed to capture the extraction shooter market.Hint: its not a good extraction shooter
>login>have 2 randoms that have somehow wormed their way onto my bungie friendslistliterally howThe only time I play fill is for Cryo (rarely) and the game never notified me saying I had friend requests
>>565697025Tarkov also has>official pve mode>modded pve mode
>>565697284Bungie makes games that inspire friendship, chud.
>>565640648im still hereidk why
>contract says you have to run from Bio-Research to Quarantine>spawn in Quarantine or the absolute ass-end southwest corner of Maintenance>Bio-Research 800m away Every fucking time
>>565697645Tarkov was way more popular before both of those were a thing though
Nice little vault 5 clear with some team wipes to end the weekend
One day, I'll exfil from Cryo.
One day, the playerbase will exfill from Marathon.
>>565703256You could exfil from this thread right now, if you want.
>>565699665>battle royale>then exfil
>>565704024Not yet.
>>565687580ez 15k today
Why do people say that Dire Marsh is 3rd party central? This is so much worse in Perimeter.
I only do solos because I dont like talking to strangers
People really are their own worst enemies in this game.>solo DM>hear a key open>run up real close>guy gets on prox>'PLEASE BRO LET ME JUST EXFIL I'M FRIENDLY MAN'>'yeah, sure, not in the mood to pvp'>'THANKS BROOOOO'>ten minutes later on the other side of the map>i hear this door that keeps opening and closing>i peak with Outland, headshot, dude falls over>same guy>'BRO WTF I HATE THIS GAME I'M FRIENDLY MAN FUUUUUCK'>he's raging so hard that he doesn't hear me apologize>'i have a mercy kit, let me res you'>he literally can't hear me over the sound of his rage>he disconnects as I'm ressing himWhatever, man. He had two Purple bags on him and some guns - he could have exfil'd with me if he was just a little saner.
>>565706475>not in the mood for pvp>this whole storyAnon subconsciously understands that snipers are non-interactive and therefor not actually pvp
>>565707438>therefor not actually pvpnta, this an overreach that weakens the point
>>565674890>The difference is actual callouts vs mindless chatter where I can't hear enemy foot steps.
a pvp ranked arena mode tied to Arachne should be in the game
The good thing about the long queue times is I can jerk off and edge before every run. Always get a game just before I cross the point of no return so that's a plus
Y'know it just hit me, everything is all shit because of how Bungie banked a great deal that this game would be jam packed with a ton more players so a lot of the pains and rng for things wouldn't have seemed as extreme. They 100% anticipated an ecosystem where people do Compiler carries en masse, and there's enough people running things to amass keys and spread the wealth and obviously it just never happened. I'm curious what S2 will bring because there's so much in the bones right now that isn't impossible, but it crosses a line into being a bit dragged out and obnoxious. I also think Bungie's going to look to their approved content creators and assume nothing is a matter and that it actually isn't that big of a deal to see Compiler time expenditure wise getting all your own subroutines.
>>565665202I called this shit years ago when it was announced it would be an extraction, Marathon was always going to be something a lot would try but fewer would actually stick around for and the lesser seasoned people would turn on the game first and loudest when they are rubbed the wrong way by a lot of usual extraction shit. I'm not shocked Tranno skipped this game
>>565710047in fairness, there have been a lot more teams bringing 1-5 keys and especially 1/2 these past two weekends.
Nothing more annoying than getting harassed by Thief drones
>>565711765they're so hard to shoot compared to how hard they are to fly. and the item prioritization is insane sometimes they can snag the most important thing in your bag before you even see them
>>565655593I used a color of a rarity. Also I did not expect there to be so many potential corruption key spawns per zone, I almost definitely missed some.
>>565712598I had a guy take my gold fucking backpack when it was filled to the brim once. All my items spilled out like i got tripped with my hands full
>>565714006Kek
>>565709297seek help. there is help out there for people like you. its not too late to turn your life around
>>565714006you just know the shithead who coded that possibility thought it was funny and you were the victim
>>565652260Deliberate design decision. The game actively encourages rapists to go after runners exfilling, and placed the exifl points to encourage more pvp.Like this dude. >>565652654
>>565653314>Do you agree with the people saying that this game's fate is sealedYes. >and that nothing Bungie does can bring it back?No.I think that it's very possible to recover, but Bungie doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand. They don't play their own game. I think making an entire new game from the art and assets and maybe engine would work better than a revamp. >>565653597Even worse is that it's getting soundly beat by it's competitors in the same genre. And many of them AA budget.>>565655189Who do they even have who's better than Ziegler?
>>565655589>>565658464Imaginge if Diablo 2 had only 4 maps. Not acts, maps and one act.
>>565659512Because the game is pvp based and doesn't exist without people willing to play it. >>565661789Q: Why should anyone jump in at season 2?
>>565663451I'm sure there's more than one rape anon. I talk about rape, but mostly to describe the design decisions and incentivization structures of the game. Another anon is very indiscriminante about rape, and some of the rape posts are hyper specific. >>565664203I mean the extraction rapist and the one who really, REALLY wants a harem to load up with biolens seeds with might be the same person, but I'm not either one of them. not that there's anything wrong with that.
>>565664508Will fairgames be up?
Today the impossible happened. I met someone willing to cooperate in solo queue. I think this even was the same Arachne skin Vandal from the run before the one I'm showing. I'm posting this one instead because we both got killed by a blue shield Thief in the other one.
>>565717812Next run, I was still trying to Parasitism 2/5. I just needed one more, and I found it in the bluffs east of North Relay, so I ended up waiting for a chance to leave there. But a blind ass Assassin came in and I had to kill him. Gamers never do look up, do they?
>>565717812The first team up. It's actually even more incredible since it was 2 friendly players.
>>565717812>>565718883These events reminded me again that you can only ping "friendly", "aggressive", and "leave" to non-teammates. This pisses me off because you can't say "sorry", "thank you", or "follow me", which are quite useful one you establish non-aggression.
>>565718883I somehow doubt that i would have an experience somewhat like yours on EU servers. Too many russians with VPNs.
>>565710047>I'm curious what S2 will bringA nightime version of an already existing map that was already finished when the game launched. (As evidenced by the fact they advertised nightime dire marsh when talking about dynamic weather in marathons reveal trailer)
>probably down -100k in the last 2 days >dying to shit like thisyeah maybe its time to "bleed off" and come back on season 2 if these are the absolute dregs left playing the game at around level 70, i cba anymoreI should have chemmed the entrance to that vent too ffs
>>565720857I'm a Russian without a VPN. And the guy I accidentally camped in >>565718378 is an Italian. I don't think there is strict region locking here like in Deadlock.
>>565717812>Rise_GKM if he was evil
>just got another survey offeredwhat do i say
>>565722172N
LLAMA, i got my steam account community-banned. Guess ziegler got upset. Man, what a fucking abject joke of a company Bungie is.
>>565723957What did you post?
Few things in this game rape me harder than dire marsh key runs. I can't remember the last successful one I've had.
>>565717128I think the idea is that new players all believe that other new players will jump in with them with the reset, and not that the veterans will be lumped in with them (which they will, because of level-based matchmaking) and rape them over and over. But there will be rape.
>>565724231Why, dolphin porn and frogs. What else?>cannot find that edit of Dafoe asking Bateman about frogsWould've beed a good reaction image.No, i reposted a post that contained a direct link to a site which sold cheats for Marathon. Original post was complaining that Bungie needs to do something because cheaters are getting brazen.Thing is, my repost and comment got banned, and all the rest of the posts, while that one not only remains, but also got reposted again. So... its not the repost and link. I criticised ziggy in multiple posts, and those are gone, as well as posts that had nothing to do with him. I guess PvE mode is a forbidden topic.
>>565725914>Why did I get banned? All I did was post links to cheats which violate their TOS?
>>565710047It kinda did happen, but only at very high levels and in servers with decent pop. Was doing cryo fill yesterday and got matched with some guy that was over lv 300. He said he had Compiler access, so after that run me and the other fill got the DNA cards we were hoarding and managed to beat it in two tries. I think situations like that will become more common as the end of the season creeps up. Even more so if you're willing to LFG on D*scord or wherever.
>>565727243what's the name of this girl
why would i ever play anything else but assassin? i've been playing for 5 hours today just camping in hauler and destroying shitters with my blue wstr. there's been a few times where a recon has found me but the players using that shell suck at pvp anyways.
Bought deluxe edition today. Hopefully my contribution saves Marathon from being shut down.
>>565727618>5 hours camping haulerWhy not do this on Outpost and maybe get something worth your time?
>wipe an entire team when they are too busy looting my dead teammate>guy hops on prox chat and says that I'm soooo bad for using my shotgun on a guy with no shieldsWut
>last exfil on Cryo>all three of us actually make it >timer finishes, animation playing>bot charges in and knocks two of us out of it>look at each other>dieIt was a shit run so I'm not too mad about it but it's kinda insane they haven't patched it yet
>>565727243Eh, it was a repost, and the context of the post matters quite a bit. If the game gets cheats that are sold in the most blatant and frivolous way possible - the site is literally called marathon cheats - things are not going well for the game, and the sooner devs patch the exploits and bypasses the better. However, because so much of moderation is outsourced to automated tools and artificial "intelligence", context is lost. So i'm waiting for steam mods to respond/clear this bullshit. I am not as much annoyed about the ban as i am annoyed by the persistent red "you have an account alert" message on my profile. Yeesh. If i did indeed got banned because ziggy got upset, i will be so fucking happy.Also, nice reaction image, i used to like InCase.
>>565727542Look up InCase, and The Debut comic of his.
>>565727863Perimeter has more soul and I'm tired of running pinwheel. I either camp hauler or sneak around the outskirts of the map looking to snipe. I larp as a nucal runner with all the cosmetics. It's fun.
>>565728124What is there to patch? Kill the robots
>>565721024level 70 is the highest matchmaking bracket, once you reach it you enter the level 200+ unemployment zone
Haven't seen many Assassins in trios lately. Did the shame finally get tot them?
>>565728818Great, sounds fun.
>>565729385The people that care just stopped playing
>>565706116>I only do solos because I dont like talking to strangersWhat would you do if someone knocked you, mercy kitted you, and dogwalked you to the exfil
>>565730893nice one
>>565731430guh
>>565732082Why did they rape her thighs?
>>565714006Thats actually fucking hilarious. I should play thief more
Marasissies, don't look
>>565731430>blue eye-rapeI fucking hate it.>those keysNice one anon.
>>565639950>straight>Frenchpick one
>>565734214Go back to talking about sucking vandal cock, faggot.
Anyone wanna run lockdowns? I need yellow mats.
>the amount of fun you have in marathon is directly correlated to the access you have to a coordinated 3 stack>bungie’s entire design is hinged on this hallucinatory wet dream of everyone playing in coordinated groups 24/7>they keep running experiments and collecting data to find out why people keep leaving in droves when it’s literally right there in front of all of us
>>565736113>>they keep running experiments and collecting data to find out why people keep leaving in droves when it’s literally right there in front of all of usEveryone in the alpha and closed betas told them the same shit. It needs good and real solo play, plus PVE.
>>565736113>It's because I have no friendsGoddammit...
>>565736113Solo was always better, no boyfriend to help you survive
>>565733725Just a little more autoaim..>>565736385They don't need solos. Just let them rook it up, and that's good enough solo for the friendless losers.
>>565737158Dead game but ok
>>565733725Marathon continues to be gaped by us DOOMGODS.
>>565737704Shut your slug whore mouth
/v/iggers and steam users call marathon "too videogamey".Now they want movie games, chill and safe.I hate people more than anything in the world
>>565739532you lost tranny
>>565739919/v/ is the trannies, bad at life, bad at games
>>565732592Not everyone needs to be a fat bitch with thighs like a pig
Go Raptors!
> Game 7 Larden activated. It's over.
Hate meDo it, and do it againWaste meRape me, my friend
>>565663451
>>565741783absolute kino
>>565741284Rapetors
Vault 3 is so fucking cursed for me. Did 7 seperate runs just to lose 3 keys to the biggest bullshit imaginable. Tracking down that faggot warden is such a pain in the ass. Its's the last subroutine I need too. Even vault 6 is less demanding than this.
>>565736113People call stuff like Dark Souls a "game that hates the player" but I think that's untrue since you can still derive enjoyment from the challenges and rules set, and the game does actually want you to win. Marathon on the other hand feels like it hates you with every fiber of it's being if you can't remotely meet up to the ridiculously high barrier of entry. You can meet the expectations set too and the game will still fucking hate you and punish you for trying to play it. You'll be hit with long queue times. You'll be murdered by hackers that aren't being banned. You will be denied the chance to play it if you even merely suggest the idea of wanting to run some activities solo. You'll be matched with idiots who don't use mics or who have 200 less hours of playtime then you, and matchmade against 3 stacks comprised of streamers who are abusing cheesy strategies to get easy kills in unintended ways who often times are on speed dial with bungie devs themselves. You are expected to survive hell and high water and ruin the afternoons of multiple players just so you can get 5 snippets of dialogue and a thumbs up. You will just randomly be thrown into different region servers without your consent which can invalidate your entire loadout if you take precision weapons like snipers or rifles. You can spend upwards of half an hour in a match and survive and basically gain nothing worthwhile, to the point you would have been better not running at all.It's unique in that regard, I won't lie, because Bungie has intended for this to be the experience, and they're relishing in it. You can see that from their social media posts this is exactly how they wanted Marathon to be. In their eyes this is what perfection looks like; a game riddled with imperfections that will beat you senseless both for acknowledging or trying to ignore them. It doesn't discriminate in it's hate, it hates both good and bad, sweats and casuals. It simply hates whoever plays it.
>>565741783LOL
>>565741783It's the voight kamph test of rape. >Gang Rape>Forcible Rape>Murder Rape>Recieving Rape>Enslaved Rape>Knife Rape>Immobilize/Bondage rape>EMP/Taser rape>Toxin/Drugged Rape>Rape stamina
Congratulations to Marathon for being SteamDB's most searched game for almost two months straight! This is an unprecedented achievement.
>>565744027We're studying the comeback
Making friends with rooks after wiping the entire lobby :D
>>565745285okay, someone here has to know, was that "The Marathon comeback has to be studied" video title ironic?I refuse to watch that garbage video
>>565747745No. Dude is quite serious. He put out videos last year, constant videos for 2 months, made it to level 100, ....and hasn't made any videos for a month.
>>565747745The guy is a massive Marathon shill, there's no irony to it.
>>565748771I guess you can see exactly which day his paitence or their checks stopped.
>>565705110>ez 15k todayCouldn't even hit 14K today
>>565741783Can't believe its been like 2 months since this dumpster fire came out.
>finally finish the last Traxus priority contract solo>make it to the exfil, no bots to worry about>get sniped by a cloaked assassin camping the exfil waiting for people to come byIm so tired of shit like this. Are all extraction shooters this way, or is it just a Marathon thing with how exfils are set up?
Marasisters...
>>565754025Aztecross going back to D1 is the omen of the apocalypse for Bungie. We are just experiencing the silence before the rapeoffs that Sony will bring.
>>565753982Marathon players are uniquely friend to none, predator to none, raped to all.
>>565753982That's kind of 80% of solo, just assassins camping exfils or places they know people need to go, like Bio-Research. Assassin should legitimately just be removed from Solo, and it's not due to being overpowered, it's just due to warping the playstyle around being boring. In an active fight, assassin is interesting/dynamic, even camping and getting the drop on someone is legitimate in trios since the fight isn't over after the first two shots are fired. But for solos, it's purely degenerate and non-interactive.
>>565753982Extraction shooters, especially solos, definitely tend to bring out the worst in players. I wouldnt blame you for rage quiting. It takes a special kind of sweaty autism to actually enjoy extraction shooters longterm, especially one as punishing as Marathon
>>565753982Exfil camping is an extraction shooter staple I'm afraid. I'm about to have to do it just so I can finally get my Shadow Index skin since no one wants to use fucking smokes apparently in combat, but I know they do when exfilling.
>Marathon 2026
>>565756309Thats understandable though, smokes serve basically zero utility in combat unless youre a Recon or packing a thermal scope
>>565756598Smokes generally are useful for obscuring sight when you throw them at the other guy, so I get not throwing it at your feet, but I figured by now I'd have been rushed by someone running through it by now or at least catch an assassin sitting in stealth in it.
good way to get credits as a newer player? i just need enough to pay for heals
>>565759406Get a refund
>>565759406Farm the compiler trace in cryo archive, 40k per pop
Oooohhh...so close.
>>565759406Do the priority contracts with free kits from the Armory. They'll usually give 1k, 2k, or 3k a pop depending on your faction level. I'd recommend doing NuCal since they'll award heals and shield charges on top of credits
So what would the Cradle need to be to 'fix' progression?
>>565761763A PVE mode
>>565759406Helpful tip: you're going to want to rush NuCal contracts and upgrades ASAP so you can get the barters and free green meds/shields from the armory. Just grabbing the freebies every day is a good way to stay stocked and then you can barter for meds instead of spending credits since you won't have a ton of credits until you can start selling purple/blue guns and finishing better contracts.
>>565760229>not cracking 14k on usa prime timeuh oh
>hire a Rook to help us take out the purple team>we kill the team and rook gets a full paydayGodspeed, little buddy.
>solo outpost>kill 3 assassins>killed by a 4th assassinDamn, what a healthy game mode solo is
>>565762447Nail this to every person shitting themselves who think they need to spend so much in armory for every run kitted out and then wonder why they have no money. Biggest pitfall people are doing is not getting the shit that gives you daily freebies and infilling with too much ammo and losing it. Hell you can run free kits for longer than you’d expect
>people still take solo as a real modeI seriously hope you guys don't mind do this. Most people realised week 1 that solo is just the mode where you spam free kits to brute force your contracts. If you take actually valuable gear there you're just plain stupid.
>>565754257Checks bounced. Somebody on here had a decent breakdown of theories but it basically amounted that everything rode on this game being such a monumental blowout thing. Notice how quiet a lot of the people are who kept saying “this needs to be the next thing or else” and how a lot of these idiots basically ate their words? They tagged in Roflwaffles who knew CoD was gonna have a shit year and anticipated him to be a bridge for CoD people but fail to realize CoDkiddies don’t like this kind of game or much sci fi. Bungie basically tried to bank that a lot of FPS content people would come bring truck loads of people and the experiment failed probably worse than Lightfall’s sponsored attempts. I’ll call it right now Bungie’s gonna shovel out a DLC in probably 9 months or so , very barebones and run a similar hustle to Year of Prophecy Destiny was, bank a ton on hype but little physical content. And I’m being generous this is a tough low to start with when so few people are playing
>>565764558Aint got no friends that play 'thon (anymore) and squad fills are retarded
>>565736385I was in said early tests and I really drove home how fucking shitty dire felt because it was too easy to have people close together on a bigger map and it lead to people just sprinting to spawns and it being like a BR hot spot. A lot of these decisions reek of classic Bungie thinking they know best but of course they’re locked into their approved streamers and not understanding what the game can really be like.
>>565739532Marathon being "too gamey" wouldn't be a problem if there was more meat on its bone. But there's only 3 maps available for the most part with the 4th one being available for about 3 days in a week, and at this point Cryo Archive is so full of sweats or even cheaters to where it saps away motivation from playing the game. There's a reason why it has no staying power compared to Halo or Destiny right now.
>cryo ends>perimeter and DM are just sniper sweat fests now>constant key rooms going off everywhere>go back to outpost>wipe the whole map before 20 minutes>open up pinwheel and a teammate has to take a shit>he comes back when it's time to go into command wing>exfil with two rooks for those sweet CARRI creditsWeird raid.
I just want the game to last until I kill the Compiler. After that they can pull the plug.
>>565753982It's a part of all extraction shooters, but Marathon is set up to maximize hostility and extraction fights. Even on arc raiders the most dangerous part is the extraction point. If that's not what you wanted, you wasted your money.
>>565767059I didnt know that going in. Its my first extraction shooter.
>>565766982I thought Perimeter seemed extra bad today. I saw multiple purple shields kicking around north relay
>>565767717one match i had i heard 3 key rooms go off. it was just one team rotating around the whole map. i had a teammate die on top of a guarded exfil and they camped his body. you did three rooms and still decided to camp a body with blue shields lol. i eventually got him back up when they fucked off.
>>565767617Yeah, you think the anon who talks about how much he loves to rape motherfuckers trying to extract is joking? I am absolutely sure he has wood when he takes out some fuckers who have spent the last half an hour crawling and scavenging and trying anything other than getting raped by people like him.
>>565754257they can't take this existing marathon economy and make it fit the needs of the high level content creators, it's doomed to be niche.
>>565753982>priority contract soloare you retarded? i think you're retarded
>do literally nothing but make FPS games for decades>fuck up this badI wonder what Sakurai’s take on extraction would’ve been.
>>565764558>Most people realised week 1 that solo is just the mode where you spam free kits to brute force your contractsContracts? No, that mode is for 1 on 1 vibes
>>565764287>collect every sparkleaf >collect every unstable whatever>never spend credits in the armory>only ever barter and grab free dailies
>>565765463>Marathon being "too gamey" wouldn't be a problemYou've said this before. I expected you.
>>565766982>>perimeter and DM are just sniper sweat fests now>>565767717>I thought Perimeter seemed extra bad today. I saw multiple purple shieldsI was gonna take a break from Marathon and grind Invincible Vs, but you two convinced to go see how "bad" it is
>>565772617>collect every player who is aloneCatch my drift
>>565772491>1 on 1 vibesFucking how? You coupd be full gold gear but the moment you cross the line of sight of the one guy who's been crouched in a corner for the past 15 minutes you're out. Even a free kit that snuck up behind you and killed you with a single melee combo the one time you decided to fight bots.
Day 1 of the beta, playing for the first timeSentimental value
>>565773810They can't sneak up on you, without you hearing them. And when you get shot when you're far, heal saar.
>>565773813>First exfil everOpened no boxes, shot no robots, collected the assassin
I will never ever do fetch quests or PvE contracts. That's for good boys.I ain't nobody's good boy
>>565774231i like the old icons for items better. they look stupid now.
When does season 2 drop?
>>565775065June 5, with no content
/v/iggers were never this based
>sub 15k 24h peakShould we start a petition for Nvidia to release DLSS 5 earlier to save this game?
>>565778292There is nothing that would save this game. It might've had a chance if early open playtests were as good as the game is now and there was no art theft controversy that turned people against it. It's too late now.
>>565779939>art theft controversy that turned people against it.Imagine not playing a game because of what a studio did. I don't understand.I want video game for ME, I don't care what others do.
>game has 4 maps>but it's actually 3 maps because 4th is only on weekends >but it's actually 1 map because the first 2 have nothing in them besides contract destinationsBruh
>>565780081I agree with you, but what matters is public perception, and the art thing was a huge controversy.
why doesnt bungie simply hire indians to play marathon and get farmed by sweats? this would solve the population issue without conflicting with the game's identity.
>>565780389>why doesnt bungie simply hire indians to play marathon and get farmedThey did, that's why 90% didn't level up in 2 months
75% can't do 35 contracts in 2 monthsLemeowwwww
>>565779939Game can survive and assuming they make some extra content for it - live.1. Fire Ziegler.2. Enable PvE queue and co-op.3. Permanent duo on all maps.4. Permanent Cryo access.5. Remove ranked.Then after they do that, bring back old icons, rebalance weapons, make UESC more aggressive and numerous.And after that - for content for Season 2 - snow map and tick-milk-mutated human zombies and monstrosities, tick swarms, tick xenomorphs/zerg. For Season 3 - two maps: desert and atoll - think Silent Cartographer in two variations - lush jungle with seaside and cliffs, and Dead Coast off Namibia and Angola - lots of wrecks of marine survey drones and ships colonists used for marine exploration. Alien enemies - Spth and Pthor.
>>565781450Dont lump me in with hindus. I stopped playing because the game became very unpleasant to play - blame cheaters and sweats. I have to pick 2 rewards from CyAc to have VIP with them.
>No self-repair upgrade>No free gear, except aracne>No ability cool down upgrade>No Rook upgrade>Yes heat cool down upgradeI have no upgrades and still did Vip Arachne, I used the power of love in my heart.
>>565781912>191 hours>didn't complete CyAcwow
>>565781912You are excluded from the poop list.
>>565781969Which part of "i have to claim two rewards to get VIP rank" did you not get? Inventory space is full. And the rewards i get will be 1 purple backpack, 1-2 implants, 1 shield. I have no space. Then again, if i sell my 6 WSTRs...
>I have no upgrades and still did Vip Arachne2 weeks ago without upgrades on Ps5.3 weeks ago on Xbox series X, but with upgrades.
Sliming people on Marathon is like going golfing.A guy who wakes up early, on his day off work, doesn't do it because he has to, he loves to.I love doing it, I don't sweat over it.
>>565779939>art theft controversyis this the new cope?
>>565783571There is no cope, only the truth. Game is too hard for you.
>>565783602ill take it as an yes then
>>565782102the part where you shoulda VIP'd CYAC like 90 hours ago
>>565784032Are you dense? I have no inventory space for rewards, and you have to accept rewards if you want to get to VIP. I have 8-10 rewards to claim for NuCal VIP too. Did i reach the faction level to claim VIP? Yes. Did i actually get it? No because I HAVE NO SPACE IN MY VAULT.
>>565765463>meat on its boneMy meat on Vandal's tailbone. Marathon being a forty buck game, instead of seventy, meant there's not going to be a lot of content.
>>565784576for half your playtimeretard
>>565784576>>565785250Don't fight bros, it's ok to be retarded
>>565785250I had that at approx 120 hours. Yeah, i played for 70 hours or so without claiming VIP rank because i had no space in vault.>>565785468I am not playing the game just to claim an achievo. I'd rather play some more Atomfall.
>>565785872>Yeah, i played for 70 hours or so without claiming VIP rank because i had no space in vault.retard
>>565785872>Atomfall.Looked up gameplay, looks cool, would play>singleplayerNo...Come on now.
>>565698503>im still here>idk whyBecause we're cooler than other threads, she knows it deep inside.
>>565786015>play the game "optimally" and the way I like it or i will call you bad words
>>565786095What's wrong with a single-player game?
Lol this shit doesn't hit 15k anymore
>>565786345you're just a retard who did retarded shit, retard
>>565786774>still goes on about it
>>565764813>I’ll call it right now Bungie’s gonna shovel out a DLC in probably 9 months or soFor a game with soon to be 10k player peaks? This garbage is about to be skeleton crewed and put on life support
The future of Bungie:>Layoffs>Raped by Sony>Marathon future content post S2 reduced if not outright cancelled.>Sony forces the remaining raped employees to make more Destiny slop>That Destiny slop is too little too late and continue to not make money>Sony completely rapes and disolves Bungie>We celebrate the rape of Bungie
Bungie: the raped
>>565786414>What's wrong with a single-player game?it's not very good, if it's not developed by Rockstar or Sony.
Bad lil bunny, she's a freak, for lot's of moneyI just sprayed all over her tummy-200K removed
>>565786573>15k is a respectable number for an extraction shooter
>>565787870Feels like we've been saying this since 80kThen 70kThen 60kThen 50kThen 40kThen 30kThen 20k
5k is a respectable number for bungoslop
>>565787419Funny.
People are slaving, kids are at school. And these games are very difficult to play.This is why the peaks are "low". BurntPeanut said Tarkov and Marathon are 100 times harder than Arc.Don't laugh, it's true
Marathon redpilled me on something. When you don't torture other runners, you start to feel for them, you get upset if they fail, or get stomped. You become empathetic Do you want to be upset, because others are suffering? If not, you have to make them suffer, and reject feelings for them..
Why do I love the game so much /mg/? The music, the atmosphere, the lore, the gunplay, everything is like it was made just for me. I'm literally having dreams about the game.
>>565790071Can't empathize too busy raping cause I have asiatic genes
>>565790136Someday the dream will end.
>>565790620I don't want to wake up
>>565790819Let go, anon
>>565790136I only like the combat, music and dialogue is off. You breathe, I hear you, you blink, I thrust inside you
>>565790136Women tend to dream about beimg raped, so tits or GTFO.
>>565788665I am mighty tired of shitposting and ironic posting and jester-posting.
>dropped out because too sweaty>audience not bigWhy should I care? >art stolenWhy care, let the artist sue them or something. Who gives a fuck.
>game enters EoSWhy should I care?>Bungie is shut downWhy care, let Sony rape them or something. Who gives a fuck.
>>565793963I enjoyed it for 2 months, not my problem what happens next.
>>565790136Yeah same, haven't been this addicted since apex in 2019. But I got exhausted after 110 hours, game is stressful af lol.
>>565781450I have 200 hours in the game and I'm stil level 85. I simply don't do contracts.
>>565790136You have bad taste lol
>>565796125>I simply don't do contracts.Life's good when you don't bother slaving for Nona
>>565796125>>565797132It is annoying that i get fuck all progress on Sekiguchi playing normally, everyone else im at least at lv20 but Sekiguchi is still at lv9
>>565797459If you want Sekigoopy you could redeem Carri points for the XP boxes
>>565797753already done that, thats why im at Lv 9
Marathon soon, how will the gaylo ape cope.
No cap, Vandal and Thief are kind of too cute for a brutal, merciless extraction game. I wouldn't want to hurt a princess like that. I'd still force myself on her(male), but without stabbing her.
>>565781806All of that sounds good, especially a focus on PvE queues. But Bungie would rather die than overdeliver with something as basic as that.
>>565739532I see where they are coming from. The chip mods are straight up magic.
>>565800008Oh my science, Mary-Jane 2?!
Hitting the upper level bracket has made solos absolutely miserable now as every lobby is filled with completely bitchmade players but on the bright side I have realized just how chill doing Rook runs on Perimeter/Dire Marsh is.
>>565790136same, i think marathon is the only game ive ever dreamt about.
>>565800953I dont think that enabling a PvE queue, and by that extent co-op, is an overdelivery. Like, how is that giving people much more than they bought?I feel like the reason game is going to die is not because the game is bad in itself - the gameplay, environment, art, sound, codex, story, progression - but because developers are genuine retards who cannot ber bothered to change one or two things and decide to pull the plug. Its like they have some mental issues, genuine mental issues.
>survey asking my vault value, whether or not I've played over the past week, and which maps I queued forWhy is this in a survey? Don't they have that data already?
>>565803420>i got that same survey>"what did you enjoy about marathon in the past week?">"lol?">"what did you dislike about..">"5000 character response">mostly polite in case a person reads it>kind of snarky in case it gets shoveled into an AI
>>565802371It shouldn’t be overdelivery, but this is a joke I’m making at Bungie’s expense because after they went independent with D2, it truly started to feel like you needed to hold the studio to the fire in order to make them work. And by that I mean you need to do it where their skin starts smelling like bacon before they finally admit “Oh, maybe we made a bit of a mistake”.It’s also why making another live service game was a mistake for them, because not only do they not have the manpower for one anymore, but doing so exposes their hubris to a new audience.
I'd play the everloving shit out of Marathon, if only it had PvE queue.
>>565804547Dont they have like 500 employees? That is more than enough for anything really, i think.>you needed to hold the studio to the fire in order to make them work. And by that I mean you need to do it where their skin starts smelling like bacon before they finally admit “Oh, maybe we made a bit of a mistake”If it gets that bad, yeah, studio needs to be culled.
Bro got revived to be a walking meat shield hue hue hue hue
>>565804746It’s a bit worse in that they have 750-800 now, plus they outsource work quite a lot as well. And they had 1000+ people at their height during the COVID pandemic when people were hooked on D2.
>>565804624I would too, but adding a PvE queue would mean they'd need to create more of an incentive for players to still do PvP.Maybe give purples/golds a higher drop rate in PvP lobbies. Or give more faction rep on exfil.
>>565805841>750-800>+outsourceWith that many people, it is reasonable to expect Marathon to have 10 expansive maps by now. No idea what the fuck they are doing unless all that money is going for welfare and management bullshit bonuses. And with that many people, meeting of a meeting to discuss previous meeting's meeting is guaranteed.
>>565806381>Maybe give purples/golds a higher drop rate in PvP lobbies>more faction xp/rep on exfilYep. That works.
>>565804547Bungie(like many companies) got absolutely lost in 2020 ronatimes cash injections and they were in full tilt self suck over being the heckin good guy company and it lead to a situation where they were selling huge crocks of shit and nonexistent products all on the basis of hype and just trust us bro. They literally expanded Destiny by an extra expansion that was never supposed to exist(the Lightfall we got) to attempt to have it be a jump in point and they ate a little bit of shit for it. On top of that we had "Final Shape preorders not moving" get flamed as internet chud rumors, and what do you know early tests said the game was shit and it required manpower off Marathon and delays to make it not shit. I know he's a part of the problem but Datto planning to skip out on GCX 2024 was proof that Final Shape's original form was going to suck, he admittedly said he felt very unsure about how well it would do and he didn't want to deal with people complaining about it irl. Final Shape was going to be very light especially when Prismatic was going to be a destination only thing.
There's 1000% Puneets on purchased old social media accounts doing the "well I'm having fun" routine, and it's not even being hidden when they're doing the exact same thing for other games and have no history of talking about anything else.
Sponsored Dire Marsh ends tomorrow, btw.
>>565807009will sponsorship go to another map? im sick and tired of Marsh
>>565806721Yeah, they even do it here and on /v/
>>565790136I refuse to accept that they can't turn this around. A game this good shouldn't fail.
>>565808415If you start accepting it now, it will soften the blow.
>>565808415As a Destiny player I can only tell you to go in with low expectations. Bungie will take you on a ride of a few highs but many lows, and this is despite Marathon being theoretically simpler in scope.
>>565808706no i will kill myself
ranked should be a different game mode like an arena shooter or something where you face increasingly harder teams on your way t the top, kind of like trials of osiris. Ranked mode in it's current form makes no sense.
>Sponsored Dire Marsh>Wipe 2 teams early on>Doing great>Do my quest, only need to exfil to confirm>The other 2 guys are so high on the fumes that they decide to take on the Scorch Warden>I go along>They both die while I'm healing in the smoke>They are in the combat area, so I won't be able to revive them without getting myself killed>I run for the exfil>I get one-shot by a grenadier>They blame mehttps://files.catbox.moe/k6ohsi.mp4
>>565779939>as good as the game is nowlol
Paul is right and ywnbaw
>>565542032>Subscription services is where it's going, it'll gain a new, small and dedicated audience. Possibly free to play later, who cares.holy fucking bleak
>>565811772How is he allowed to get away with it? Why won't Bungie stop him? Do something!
damn this general is still up?
>>565812278Why wouldn't it be?
>>565812560its 4 days old and the game has barely been out
>>565780081>imagine having morals and caring about more than yourselfYou're a brown with no frontal lobe and thus the target audience.
>>565813652i just dont care about artitsts
>>565806403At a certain point, I don't think more staff is actually making anything move faster, especially for a game that's actually as narrow as Marathon. It's just bottlenecks and administrative overhead and layers upon layers of "is this a good idea?" But then you have the insane morale and publicity hit if you lay off 75% of the team to reach something approaching sustainability where you're left with actual single points of failure that you just demoralized by firing all their friends. As well as the very real problem of decision makers being so out of touch that they probably would not lay off the correct 75% as their information flows from the aforementioned administrative overhead who will always oversell their own value.Marathon is good enough to deserve to succeed but it's also a niche game that doesn't seem to be interested in pivoting to a friendly hugbox to try to chase Arc Raiders in the 'how to actually grow outside the niche' blueprint.
>>565804547>And by that I mean you need to do it where their skin starts smelling like bacon before they finally admit “Oh, maybe we made a bit of a mistake”.Well, if not now, then never.
>>565725418Finally had a successful one today. We even brought two keys. No gold unfortunately
what's the essential upgrades to prioritise after the wipe?
>>565817817what wipe?
>>565806721> third worlder shillsYep you can see this on sneddit, they all got accounts that were mass purchased in lots that often range being 7-9 years old, generic "this game you guys, you guys this game" , I hated this game but this game I like now I am doing the things you guys, this game, it's all the same script.
>>565817817NuCal's heals, shields access daily freebies, MIDA grenade access, Arachne's melee stat thing, anything with heat management, the things that make your stats better like revive speed, uhhhhh anything that can get you a free gun daily, that about it. NuCal is just too good
>The 2.2M players thing includes free server slam playersKEK
>>565820956>made up statistic>make up information about made up statisticlayers and layers of 'dude trust me'
Paul Tassi never lies
>>565803420>Why is this in a survey? Don't they have that data already?Becasuse they want to know your perception.
>>565808415They have the talent. They don't u nderstand the problem and won't be allowed to fix it. Check the destiny experience.
>>565817817CyAc>Heat management Upgrades>First couple of wallet UpgradesNuCal>Free daily meds>Hardware UpgradeMIDA>Agility Upgrade>GrenadesArachne>Melee Damage UpgradeSekiguchi>Core unlocks for the shell you mainly use>Start a run with your tactical half full/ready>Tactical Recovery UpgradeIf I had to rank by importance I'd say CyAc > MIDA > NuCal > Sekiguchi >> ArachneTraxus may as well not exist until they make the armoury actually worthwhile. People will likely want to level Arachne faster so they can get guarenteed WSTR's but I'm sick of using the weapon at this point. I basically have been unable to do Rook runs since week 2 so I could care less about getting specific Rook upgrades at this point with capstones.
>>565808415they've got the muscle but not the brains
>>565821638Dunno I enjoy being able to get a green weapon assembled whenever I want.
>>565821638Traxus mod unlocks give you the baseline 'I don't feel like free kitting' run really fuckin easily, and doing all their priorities lets you win the lottery every now and again with a lucky gold mod buy. Like just being able to buy a range enhancing barrel/scope and a magazine for a bully immediately makes you a threat to purple shield teams.Also I'm guessing next season a lot of this shit is going to be mildly different so I'm not putting too much thought into it.
>>565821638>People will likely want to level Arachne faster so they can get guarenteed WSTR'sdo you really expect the neowstr to be used even post wipe when people have less purp or blue shields? it sucks donkey dick now
>>565820956Makes sense. Sony and Bungie at least made some money back from Marathon even if it didn’t set the world on fire like it needed to, Concord on the other hand became a tax write off that only sold like what, 25k copies? Im going to trust him because he basically has Bungie employees willingly vent their frustrations to him while also providing facts.
gantry you bastard why do you want me to run from west gate to canal that's a suicide mission
>>565821142SAAAAAAAAR
I have been having exceptional time on Sponsored Dire Marsh today.
>>565822915Why do you think _gantry cares one bit about what happens to you?
I wonder if this SIMbiont thing will go anywhere in Season 2.
Yeah, they REALLY dont like any criticism of Marathon. Steam forum jannies banning and deleting posts left, right, and centre. What a bunch of muppets.
https://youtu.be/fzZNWqUJuA4
>>565782102Sell implants and cores you don't use. Then sell the useless wstrs
>>565807009i'm done playing this game then tomorrow btw
>>565819123there's been a ton of totally organic posts in the last day or two on the games subr*ddit claiming to be new players who are having a great time
I'm nonbuynary btw
>>565826093ok tron
what would make you feel excited for night marsh
I think Vandal might be my favorite shell. But I don't look forward to playing as her after the reset. She needs 2 heat capacity upgrades to feel good.
>>565826858playing as or for the uesc
>>565827173very nice
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