>Youtube and Twitter:https://www.youtube.com/@MarathonTheGamehttps://x.com/MarathonTheGame>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:>Rook Bloodlust Update https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update_1_0_9_1>Launch, Learnings, and What's Nexthttps://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/launch_learning_whatsnext>Season 2 Cinematic Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1i801SDrJAPrevious:>>567976012
1st for throbbing hard destroyer cock
Forcing myself to do Dmarsh on freekits so I can get comfortable with Nmarsh.
>>568400505would be nice if we can also take them onto the "daytime" maps
Excited for new enemy types to start spawning in other maps. Outpost can be a real horror map.
how is concord 3 doing?
>>568401483chugging along, i expect at least a year of support so i'm not too worried until next year
New enemy.
>>568401851is this the Pfhor
I forgot how bad that LMG with the ramping firerate was
>>568402269Conquest? Yeah. It’s a real tricky gun that takes wayyy too much skill for what it’s worth.Pretty good for clearing UESC though.
>>568402452Yeah definitely a pve gun
Pretty bumped I haven’t been able to play lately. Too much going on outside of business hours to find time to run. I’m hoping to be able to play when season 2 drops, because depending on how early seasons feel it may be a whole new ball game.
>>568402841Yeah you can stomp noobs at the start
it's actually impressive how insufferable every map is to play right now
Light spoiler, the anomaly on Marsh takes people and shows them reflections of others, so the shadow creatures in the s2 trailer are other runners, you can see the Vandal outline.
>>568403151i love this artist's obsession with the signal jammer portrait
>>568404443It's end of season so everyone is running hot shit and being hyper aggressive. The area around the Warden POI is basically a no-go zone in Solo unless you are actually Jason Bourne.
I hope the game gets better
Why won't destiny players move over to marathon? At least marathon is getting updates and a new pve mode
>>568407323it's only gonna get more unplayableenjoy having to go through dire marsh quests now that everyone figured out how to be faggots on the map
>>568407647they will soon enough
>>568407647They will once S2 adds PvE. But there's not going to be many Destiny players left to convert since most have quit Bungie already.
Did they secretly buff Perimeter loot? I'm finding a lot more blue and purple treasure and regularly finding purple savage way more now.
>>568409036The things they added are all generally pretty high value, like the crashed dropships don't seem to have a lot of stuff, but generally what's in there is valuable. Not sure I've played enough to say if the general 'finding shit in boxes around the map' value has gone up though.
Are priority contracts being reset in S2? If not, is there a linear progression through them or will all of season 1’s quests just be gone?
>>568411414I think it's just gone
>>568411414We just don't know how they are doing it. Every other ES game with a quests just make you do them all again each season but Marathon seems way more narrative driven.
It is my schizo theory that the campaign against this game is directed and corporate in nature.
I don’t really get what night marsh is meant to be exactly in terms of progression. Originally the maps were a step up in difficulty from Perimeter to Cryo, easing the player in, but Cryo is still going to hang around and the middle map, Marsh, is now becoming some crazy survival map. I don’t get where that fits in terms of that linear progression of difficulty for new players, or are Bungie making night marsh “Cryo 2.0” that’s an even higher risk of reward?
>>568411414>is there a linear progression through themProbably not. The final stage of this season's contracts gives high rewards. You'll either get to do them on the side, or not at all.
>>568411634It is when there are Chinese competitors involved, and that is the case considering Arc Raiders and Delta Force. Western studios don’t grasp just how slimey Chinese business is, especially when the perceived competition are foreigners.
>>568411823That’s a good point. Continuing off from your last season would mean higher set rewards.
>>568401483Lost a quarter billion so far. Is losing more every month. Sony's still picking up the tab for now. We'll see what happens with the upcoming layoffs.
>>568407647Because marathon is heavily committed to be for sweaty teams of three. Very few destiny players want that .>>568408453Lets see what that looks like first.
>>568411634Explain.>>568411986The chinese aren't exactly subtle anon.
>>568416262>The chinese aren't exactly subtle anon.do you call the hate train marathon gets subtle?
>>568416508have you, and stay with me here this is going to get a bit complicated, have you considered the fact that people may just not like the game, or how the community forming around the game talks about it?have you seriously considered either of those points before?
>>568416508No. I mean when the chinese are mad, it's very fucking obvious that it's the chinese. You can check Douban about what their opinion is. They really don't give a fuck.
>>568416801smug anime poster, I have indeed considered those things. Most people who don't like things say they don't like it once and then move on - present location being an obvious exception, it's practically our culture to be obstinate assholes. Marathon has been the most searched game on steamdb since before it officially released. There is a rabid, morbid following surrounding it that is anything but natural.Granted, I'm not the anon that suggested it was a Chinese hate campaign, I certainly do not believe that's the case, I just found it funny to associate the word subtle with the hatred Marathon gets.
>>568417123i mean its not entirely illogical to see what happened>"a" wants multi-ip's>"x" game with dedicated fanbase, waiting for big update after years of mediocrity>"a" announces new ip, says "y" WILL NOT pull resources from "x">"x" players become madim not justifying some of the things ive read but fuck me, some of them have a point.
Water's fine, guys. all the mizzies have disappeared.
>>568417414mizzies?
>>568416801>game gets glowing reviews somehow>reviews on steam have hundreds of hours>immediate screaming when the beta releases about how the game is deadHave a long hard think about this: how many other games with absolute ass graphics got a pass online where Marathon didn’t? Then consider companies bottling player counts on steam.
>>568417393You're not wrong in attributing why people are mad, but the timing's all fucked up. Destiny was going downhill well before Marathon was released, and 'it made Destiny bad' is genuinely absurd. Destiny had a natural decline punctuated by the release of TFS, it's actual narrative conclusion, then sputtered to death afterwards, Marathon didn't make Lightfall shit, the entire dev team wasn't kidnapped to work on Marathon, Bungie had over 1000 full time employees at one point before they started cutting. Like the reasoning people apply is flawed, and directed in directions that are absurd.There's a greater cultural fixation on failure happening here that is hyper focused on 'the next big bomb' and desperately tries to force it upon Marathon.
>>568417730Misriahs
>Marathon general>DESTINY DESTINY DESTINY DESTINYoh my god who fucking cares
>>568417930This. Destiny has been dying for years now. People used to laugh at its player count. Everyone fucning hated Edge of Hate except me. Now, all of a sudden, Marathon killed Destiny -and look! I’ve got 300 steam chart posts in x to back me up.
>cryo fill >doing vault 06>kill 2 teams and a 3rd tries to fight us>say fuck it and walk away>do the vault and hit the exfil with 9 seconds to sparecompiler is all that's left now.
>>568418364Destiny won btw
>>568404521Not bad
>>568416801>have you considered the fact that people may just not like the game, or how the community forming around the game talks about it?Why would you care about some community talk? What're ya, a sensitive sissy faggot?
>>568420653What's the prestige copperhead like? I've read the description for the mod but it sounds laughably useless
>>568424734fires horizontally left and right with barely any vertical recoil. so it sweeps left and right across your opponents face.
Getting real fucking sick of every single team running recon and doing absolutely fucking nothing until they ping and can be sure where you're at
I’ve been laughing for a whole minute about his. All those people signing the Destiny petition, why didn’t they just play the gameThe game isn’t even finished yetIt’s still going and they signed the petition They could have had 300,000 people in the game but they signed a petition insteadI can’t breathe
>>568430092That's why online petitions will always be a meme.
>solo cryo for shits and giggles>playing destroyer and taking smokes so I can potentially fight another team using ult>bump into a team and down one of them but they manage to shoot through my smoke and kill me>death cam lingers on them specifically so I can check if they actually had thermals>not a single one of them has a thermal sight on their guns>none of them were playing thief or destroyerI thought the cheating stuff was just people coping for being shit and dying but I genuinely can't think of how they managed to perfectly zero me through smoke like that
Never seen so many chuds IQ filtered by a game they would probably enjoy.
>>568431336Could they have just unloaded into the smoke?
>>568431336You can report them and they get done in, it’s just that they’ll torrent the game again and make a new Bungie account with a new PSN account. There’s a weird irony to cheaters in that the enjoy the game so much they’re willing to ruin it. Also, don’t always suspect all players are human. Game companies got smart about how they hide bots in matches to employ EOMM.
>>568431489I'd have just assumed they did normally but I was in control on one of the catwalk decks and they were on the other side of the room. Maybe they did just get lucky but they were all using bullies and didn't miss a single shot even while I was strafing behind the smokeHitting all your bully shots through smoke from 50m away is pretty absurd levels of luck>>568431721I made sure to report them but it's just annoying people feel the need to play with cheats. I don't really get how the game would be fun at that point
Has anyone figured out what all the moving ferrofluid is in Cryo? Or even how the ticks got there?Hello?
Nah bro if those Pathways into Darkness cryptid things ran at you really fast in dire I’m not playing
>>568407647You couldn’t even get people in Destiny to play 1 game of brain off snow ball mode to have Dawning’s quest unlocked, it has never been a community where people did anything with pvp.do I think there will be some interest with some kind of pve mode,ehhh maybe but I don’t think they’ll care to play the game as a whole. They really just want to mindlessly shoot dregs in a patrol space for ever and ever.
>>568409036Yes this was from idk 2-3 bigger patches ago. I wanna say it was still influenced on level but it is entirely possible to open folios and have a chance at seeing purple salvage
>>568433301>hearing creepy ass noises>pitch fucking black>sloshing of water behind you, something's coming>you rush through the forest and slide down into the basement tunnels of Greenhouse>growls behind you, you hear whatever it was - you couldn't see it in the darkness - get interested in something else.>Breathe a sigh of relief knowing you're safe>Go ahead and go down the corridors, pop on your flashlight>Round a corner>Something comes flying at you>I've got a bone to pick with you!
>>568417930I like Destiny but these crybaby ecelebs and their fanboys are fucking delusional if they think the game wasn’t on shaky ground for awhile. Accepting that the game would just always have a dud season(s) wasn’t exactly mark of quality even if conventionally enjoyed years of the game. I also love how people are making shit up like socializing in the tower was a beloved part of the game or they loved playing pvp
Watching Marathons trailers makes me wonder how you could achieve that same level of atmosphere and horror while playing. I think it all comes down to character animations and player input. Marathon is still using the control scheme of Halo, but if you made the walking animation extremely details and semi-procedural, it takes all the Arcady-ness out of it and pushes straight into horror.
>>568433897I think Destiny 2 was a poor game overall. Destiny 1 had that same early Marathon vibe we’re going through now, where it was build in the future promise and expectation of,>what if that tower fell and a huge event started or what if alien dropships came in with dozens of playersWhereas 2 sort of became this strange game that built itself on the starting foundations of d1 like all those systems had reached their potential already.Half of the expansions are straight up bad. Shadowkeep is a bad expansion, Beyond Light is bad, Lightfall, even the launch. Some anons tell me certain raids were amazing, but I never got well enough into them in 40 hours.
i hate when the bots strafe past you going to some predertermined position all while shooting at you. like they will just sidestep past you and down the stairs.
>>568434309>makes me wonder how you could achieve that same level of atmosphere and horror while playing.It's obviously a fantastical setting but trying to ground the game with more mechanics would do it a lot of good imo. I think having a limb hp system would be a fun way to make full usage out of the fact we're playing as biosythetic puppets. As long as our vital components don't get shot to shit, we should be able to slug it out for ages. Likewise I think having stuff prey upon the fact we are biosynthetic or that we're on an alien, hostile world would be great.Give me bugs that swarm onto us and try to strip our bodies down by eating our matter. Give me animals that are drawn to the scent of spilled runner blood. Make it so we have weapons or tools that can hack and fuck with enemy runners. Right now there just needs to be more depth, which I'm hoping the flashlights and darkness will help with
So a Marathon player and a Destiny player walk into a bar and sit down next to eachother... and they get into a heated argument over which game is better. Then Bungie walks in and shoots them both in the back of the head. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>568436825maybe some sick and twisted ability that swaps out sugar with salt
This game has a general?
>>568437302For now
>>568437302No
So was there a machine pistol/conversion in the cinematic?
Is suicidal rook runs where I try to 1v3 the best way to get better? I feel like my pvp skills have been kind of lacking since I started no lifing cryo, since there really isn't any kind of actual fighting and its more just whoever can throw the most nades/land their misriah shots first
man that survey is super long.
>>568431428it really does suck having 4chan friends who write off a game entirely because a thread on /v/ told them the game was a tranny or something.
>>568430092I dont get it.If they want Destiny 2 so bad, what is the issue?Bungie said that they finalise content updates, meaning no more stuff for it. However, they will keep it playable, streamline some bullshit like paintjobs or something, and thats it. If they want to play D2 - they can, game is not going anywhere.If the bitching was about sunset content not being brought back, then i can understand it. But that bitching is not about that content.Is it about not being fed more slop? Sure sounds like it.
>>568433301>>568433553Claymores. Lots and lots of claymores.
>>568436825> Make it so we have weapons or tools that can hack and fuck with enemy runnersThief's drone + Premium Package core, X-Ray goggles + Case The Joint core.Assassin + Ghost Protocol core.I recently bullied a Recon with my drone. Just kept stealing shit from her - medkits, shield kits, etc. Was fun. Same with bots.Or lay a smoke cloud and fuck off. It lasts for like 30 seconds, so people think you are there but you are not.
>>568439149Not really. I’ve seen recently that rooks try to do this. The problem is they get routed really quickly. The “skill” in this game is to treat it like a SWAT simulation. Every single engagement is about when to open fire initially, how you push together and where you flank from. Go play 10 matches right now, and note the exact situations when you die.
I always thought aztecross's name was Aztec Ross
>thinking about streamers
>>568441126>name comes up>read it as Aztec Ross>watch a clip>people calling him CrossCome on man, do you even like marathon and interact with any of the stuff outside the game?
What is with Bungie’s server infrastructureI don’t know how the fuck Sony bought these idiots in the pretence of being a live service advisor
I almost exclusively play fill and I'm starting to think I'd rather get two other fill people that have mediocre skills but use comms than a good premade duo that doesn't even fucking bother to ping anything or convey any information at all, even a simple fucking "follow me" when leaving a PoI.
>>568441803>UGH why should i follow my team???
What the F*CK are Sentinnel's powers?
>>568442157Sometimes the intent can be so obtuse to decipher too. On one match in Dire Marsh, we drove a team from Intersection into Greenhouse and then got into a firefight with them on the roof. Considering they didn't seem to have any sustainable long range option, i simply went to town and completely dropped two of their team with V66 and then watched as my team members just decided to run from their Recon, despite having the perfect opportunity then and there to just flank him out for me to into the open. Instead they ran into a bunch of bots and into the maze at the center as if their lives were in an imminent danger. As a result, the Recon reset the situation and as it was basically Double Triage / Thief, the two geniuses went and got themselves smoked in an indoor fight that was completely out of our favor. I eventually managed to finish the fight and score loot for us, but they never uttered a word or pinged anyone or anything.
>>568442157>UGH why should I have to communicate my intentions to a teammateYou blithering disingenuous retard.
>>568444683you're the odd man out. make friends if you want people who communicate.speaking of, why doesnt anyone itt ever play together?
An upcoming Vandal digital bundle called ‘Null TempTest’ has appeared on an official PlayStation blog. The blog says it's available on June 2.>Null Tempest, (Vandal & Overrun AR Skin)>Tempest Factor, Profile background>WEAVEworm Charm
>>568445183Sekiguchi Charm...
>>568445041No, I don't get to wield any additional burden because I used team fill option, same as the duo. They have exactly the same responsibility to communicate as me, and they oh so very often refuse to do so. In some cases, after ignoring any voice questions, text chat questions or pings, rage that I'm out of position because I wanted to loot a weapon box and they just fucking sprinted off and got gibbed.
>>568445041>why doesnt anyone itt ever play together?I did play with some people at the beginning of the Season, but my honest problem has been that i haven't had the time to put in proper hours or play in a consistent crew in S1. Might be a decent idea to make some form of tag list for S2 atleast.
>>568440976>Queue up for 10 games on Dire Marsh>Not able to get into a single fight with another team because they all either have exfilled by 16 mins or I spawn on the other side of the mapAnyway I get what you're saying but even in straight up "purple vs purple" gun draws I find myself jobbing recently, so I think at that point it's less a reflection of tactics and more so me just fucking up. Besides I see clips of players being able to clutch 1v3's; obviously that relies on the enemies making mistakes but I should be competent enough to be able to take out 2 at least surely to be considered a worthwhile player right?
>>568447562On Marsh a lot of the engagements can go from mid-range, which usually also means that people either run something mid-range and a sniper. Snipers have the luxury with clear sight lines, while stuff like Stryder and plenty of other DRMs can be way more oppressive and sometimes people just can't sustain fights where you have someone that is mobile and challenges you at around 80+ meters with pinpoint accuracy. I think it always remains a very underrated element of Dire Marsh, people think Snipers completely run the show and then forget that they can have anything between 30-110m while reserving heavy ammo slots for options like Railguns or shotguns which are far from useless in tight CQC battles.
Snibbety snab! :DDDDD
>>568448487>Night Marsh.>Gigantic lobster surfaces on AI uplink shore.I'd just honestly walk away and let someone else deal with it.
Birds and bugs.
>>568449470>>568449654You can take screenshots of the log at various points and stitch them together.
"I dont want to die alone."
>>568449824I dont know man. Feels more authentic.Cheese burger is something though. Tick milk?
>>568448208Talking about mid-range why is the Bully so stupidly ranged for an SMG, like is there even a point running any Rifles over the Bully?
>using ticks for anything in the first place
>>568450239From the 35-45m and up, yes. Anything beyond that and it might as well be a peashooter and have issues with accuracy too. Even with the prestige mod, the range is what works the worst at it. I've found myself to be very particular to just using m77/HAR for most mid-range encounters where you might need just a tad more range. For something like Dire Marsh i'll almost without fail pick either Tap, Stryder or Volley solely because you don't have any large restrictions to that 40-70m range and they're still not complete bricks in that 25-35m range either.
https://youtu.be/k2UFxzejNNg?si=Vj0SysPSpjufMWm_it's up
>>568456627Clicked to downvote
>>568456627The guns look fun.And thank fuck finally we get multi-scrapping.
>>568456627https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/welcome_season_2
I wish Sentinel was a little bit bulkier. Not as much as Destroyer, but a bit more armor pieces would have been nice.
>>568456627new smg looks like the copperhead
>>568457958Hopefully it won't be as shite.
>>568456627It looks so fucking good.I wasn't expecting much but now I'm insanely hyped.
>>568458098Looks like it's 900 RPM vs. Copperhead 720. I'm sure the KV will have a lousy range to compensate for that extreme RPM though.
>>568456627I would've rather they tuned the current guns we have rather than add another sidearm no one will use after the first two days of the season start. The SMG looks neato though. Hopefully they're making the Bully smg as rare as a copperhead was this current season to actually make way for more variety.
>>568458098The whole speech on weapons makes me think we won't see the bully much this season
>>568458403Either lousy range or bloom out of its ass, possibly both. We'll see.
Interesting.
>>568458483I wouldn't mind. Overrun is one of my favs but it's dogshit, a few buffs to it would make me happy.I also have never, ever, seen anyone use the CE tactical sidearm.
>>568458674Well that's one way to make a day/night cycle.If you exhaust the timer, plus gearing up and post-game cleanup, that's about 3 runs per cycle.
>>568458098the copperhead is actually very good you and i just don't have lightning gun aim. if you can hold a beam on your enemy while they move around the copperhead blows the other smgs out of the water in precision
>>568459065(this is at grey btw obviously with recoil mods the other ones are better)
>>568458469The issue with the usual reasons people don't run sidearms is the oppressive nature of the 15-25m SMGs. (Looking at Bully in particular), so the fan favourite has mostly been V11. D54 seems to sit somewhere between the V11 and something like Volley, so i'm pretty sure it'll see much more use. In that sense, they could also beef up the CE just a tad. Magnum's biggest enemy is being a 15-25m marksman pistol, same as Repeater they're both lost causes for pad players and most MNK too, they'll just never see the popularity all the spray and pray guns do.
>>568458689As a fellow overrun enjoyer I think it's pretty good when modded and if you think of it as an smg with a bit more range in a pinch
So are they actually wiping vaults for season 2?
>>568459250Yes, that's an extraction shooter staple.
>>568459250Yes.
They are gonna make Bully much less accessible aren't they.
>>568459416I don't mind as long as underused guns get buffs and time in the spotlight
>>568459375>lying
>>568459217Yah but unfortunately with the current balance of the game and maps, a well built Purple overrun will be out damaged and outranged by a green Bully most of the time. Shit aint fair sadly.
>>568459217For having the highest RPM of all AR class weapons, they could damn well still continue to increase the default magazine size. I think the biggest advantage of a modded Overrun is just the extremely oppressive magazine size, that would also negate any need to buff the actual stats on the gun and would just let the damn thing take much more mileage out of drum mags and the gold mod. Make the mag 45 by default and it'll have both the dueling potential and staying power to riddle someone with holes.
New item... properties? I don't know what you would call the Materialist, Enduring, etc. things.
>>568457734>no more needing to level up a faction to gain access to stats
>>568459575Yeah but everything gets out-everything'd by the bully except at really long range>>568459416as they should
>>568460025I can't imagine this wasn't the plan all along; they probably just didn't have enough time to implement it in season 1. Very good change, though.
>>568459809>Favored>Level UpInteresting. Wonder if level up is going to be some kind of "if you exfil, this mutates into a new core of the next loot tier" type of deal. Favored seems like more of a head scratcher>>568457958It seems okay? The range will really determine how good or bad the thing is. The fold out stock is cool, I wonder if that's exclusive to the gun or if that's a new attachment coming to guns in general.That volley pistol kicks ass though. Really looking forward to trying that out
>>568460025They also said that the quest lines will also get looked at, which is great as they'll likely adjust them to be less punishing for solo and teams alike. Which is great as they work as a good narrative hook and they'll still be something you can progress along with your daily Arachne skinning rituals.
So are we getting all new priority contracts or not? Will the factions get amnesia?
>new runner has slowsThe game is saved. Unironically.
>>568460109Dunno man I think every game needs an actual all-rounder workhorse available. Bully is that. Other SMGs have better kill potential, M77 and HAR outpace it at midrange, it's reasonably expensive so it doesn't work as cheapo option. I guess I could just swap to M77 as default and get used to compensating for recoil better since there's no good shop mods for that (vigilant grip is horrible)
>>568456627>Sentinel has specialisation with small arms>All the clips show him using smgs and pistolsFuck yeah. I was really hoping they'd lean more into the idea of building some shells to lean into specific weapons more. Will definitely have to play the fuck out of Sentinel
>>568457734>There is a new daily Ranked Sponsored Kit that contains a loadout appropriate for your rank—the higher your rank, the better the gear.
>free week from June 2 to the 9thPLEASE PLAY OUR DYING DEAD AS FUCKGGGAAAAAAAMMMMMEEEEE
>>568460718Forgot to speak about rape there, anon.You're slacking.
Sentinel seems like an amazing solo and team shell, really strong way to start adding to the roster
CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE A BLAST, LET'S DO THIS THING!
>>568445041I am quite frankly scared of captain megarape.
>>568460432It's likely that they'll have a S1 and S2 priority contract split. So if you're interested in the larger scheme of faction stories (or think of them as an onboarding "Primer") you can likely replay all of the quest lines from S1, but still would have access to just start on the new S2 ones. Otherwise it would feel a bit redundant, as each Season adding more and more priority contracts would bloat the fuck out of each Seasonal progression as say in S4 you would have 4 seasons worth of priority contracts to dive through.
>Free to play less than 3 months after release lol
>>568462184Aztecross' stream that boring?
Just a lil autistic thing but I kind of hope if you kill the runner zombies it gives you a killfeed of a player name, suggesting all the runner zombies are the corpses from season 1
>>568462421Wouldn't that collide with the option to have your name blurred?
Do heat grenades do any damage?
>>568462690https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj-ulj_KGbM
>>568462690Throw one at your feet and find out.
>>568459564nigga
>>568462421They could just add to that psychotic flair that they're gunning for on the map and just make it a similar glitchy kill feed reminiscent of that garbled loot indicator on a trap bag. Would be a decent compromise and still communicate the same intent. Beyond that, it's unlikely the corpses are from S1 seems that they have to be quite fresh as the weave bodies decompose into compound materials very quickly.
>>568399901raped game
Maps are too gimmicky. Game’s fucked.
>>568456627I am very excited and very mad that I will miss the first two weeks of this season fuuuuuck
>>568458403The KKV is 1200RPM.
>>568407647give me one good reason I should trust bungie with anything
I'm actually looking forward to the new seasonal update. But I don't think any of my friends will be interested in playing with me during the free weekend. Most of them had 0 fun during the few games we played during the server slam.
>>568463025Did tarkov wipe everyone now that icebreaker is out?
>>568463221Holy fuck, lmao. Yeah, it has to have a range no longer than 5-15m and bloom out the ass even with mods to be anything other than ridiculously broken.
>>568431428not playing your extraction garbage made for faggot streamers, sorry.>>568436946kek
>>568463458>not playing your extraction garbage made for faggot streamers, sorry.All the faggot streamers are clinging to Destiny though,anon.
>>568440086marathon is troonslopgood troonslop thoughbeit
>>568456627Remember when people where saying that season 2 content will be just Dire Marsh with a night skybox?
>>568463458>not playing your extraction garbage made for faggot streamers, sorry.Then why are you in general for it? This isn't a rhetorical question. When I don't care about a game, I don't visit threads about it.
>>568463809I like to laugh at retards
>s2 is zombies or some shityawn
>>568463635I feel particularly nostalgic to the times when the game was supposed to die in a week and the game would be canned in favor of making the mother of all Destiny expansions.
>>568463906/dg/ supported bungie for 12 years and want more, you can find plenty retards there
stable 10k playerbase status?
>>568464220Checks out. Let's see what season 2 does.
>>568463287almost like "get shot in the back and lose all of your stuff simulator" isn't fun or something, weird.
Is the fact that you can use ranked to get into cryo solo an intentional thing or an oversight?
>>568464413You can still claim free Cryo kits during the ranked period, but can't queue with them since they don't have a tag, so I really have no idea.
>>568464413There is a unique line ONI says when you spawn in solo into Cryo.
>>568464354Almost like being a little bitch isn't particularly fun either, weird.
>>568464563>no argument
>>568458674Fuck me, not the Splatoon map rotation.
>>568464657The argument is simple. 90% of the bitching is being salty about the genre. Thus, the argument involves being a little bitch. If your entire life revolves around turning a video game with a very clear genre you personally dislike into a video game of another genre, you have all the intelligence of a bag of rocks. There are plenty of entries in this genre and they're all "get shot in the back and lose all of your stuff simulator."
>>568460419>that imageNow do one with Recon and her headcrab.
>>568464354Oh no, I agree.I've played a bunch of multiplayer titles that the average casual player wouldn't touch with a 10ft. pole, like Dota 2 & R6 Siege. But Marathon is a whole different world of "this sucks; I didn't have fun" when you lose.Just having to re-kit and see what bullshit you have left in your armory dissuades you. Plus, most low-level players are not gonna find any interesting loot that makes it worth playing. Yeah, looting 2 grey Overruns and some Unstable Gel is gonna really entice the Gun & Ball gamer to queue up for another round...
>>568466825it takes like 2 seconds to build a loadout.
>>568467853I look like this and do this
RAPEFALL
>>568468023It also takes only a few matches to rebuild lost gear too. I think the largest issue currently is just a symptom of the game blowing its end-game map progression load straight out the gate and now everyone who wasn't a Cryo sweat in S1 is perpetually stuck in a purgatory of almost impassable progression hurdles. Especially the Solos. That likely never was the intent on the larger end of the spectrum and the correction course has already been seen here at the tail-end of S1. The retarded decisions were:>Major stat upgrades walled behind material grinds (and later behind an even more ridiculous grind in end-game)>Solution: Cradle>Ridiculously convoluted and annoying priority contracts.>Solution: Rebalancing and making them less important on faction leveling and VIP progress (as major features in the Armory are behind leveling the factions up and working on keystones)Those are the two major hurdles. Everything else is a consequence of those two being fucked sideways, not the fact that the game wants you to suffer solely for the love of it. I continue to beat Bungie with a cudgel for delaying what easily could have fixed the vast majority of issues and atleast retained a portion of the attention span of Gun & Ball casuals.
>>568458674Hunt Showdown has night maps too. They're really fun and atmospheric but hardcore players hated not being able to see clearly, even though you had tools for lighting or distraction. The devs eventually dropped the chance of getting into a night map to something like less than 10% because of the negative feedback. You better enjoy night maps now because Marathon's remaining playerbase is mostly sweaty faggots who will absolutely complain until Bungie does something about it.
Seeing all the marathon vs destiny discourse and rage online is a really sobering reminder of why I stopped getting super invested in tying my identity to the MMO I was playing. At the end of the day these are just games.
Ice mine that applies AoE freeze? Like the new Brain Freeze chip.
>>568472840Destiny fags are learning hard right now.
>>568472840getting mad about things that don't actually threaten you is such a human thing. speaking of,>can't see anything on normal marsh, why the fuck would i want to play it at night
>>568472629>hardcore players hated not being able to see clearlyThis would have already been an issue on Dire Marsh and Perimeter to begin with as the dense fog might as well do the same thing. The weather in general would have already drove all the "hardcore" players insane, as rain makes it harder to distinguish footsteps and makes quite the noise on harder surfaces, same as the 100 000 other elements of the game that make the soundscape unpredictable. Even then, it's all about execution. Hunt's iteration of night time basically just added poorer visibility and a setup of torches/light sources while Marathon has the setting already provide more universal solutions in terms of technological options like IR, flashlights and Sonars (along with something like Recon pings) to strike a middle-ground. Even then, the whole issue is flipped on the reverse. On Dire Marsh, high visibility is a death trap on longer sightlines, while on Night Marsh the only sightlines might as well exist only with the help of gear and light sources.
>>568473628Just turn your gamma up
>Fighting ghost warden at south relay from that dinky little building north of the main compound>There is suddenly a rook with us in the building shooting out at USEC>Not a single word has been said over prox voice>Okie dokie we're a 4 man now>Kill warden, personally get nothing, but nobody shoots the rook>Head to extract, looks like the Rook isn't following>Get into a jank close fight with another team going the same way like two lanes merging>Down 1, damage another, go down, the guy shooting me goes down from an angle my randos weren't>IT'S THE ROOK>Rook goes down to 3rd guy, but not full killed>Teammate revives me, I tunnel vision to the bag of the guy I killed, find a self revive and toss it on the rook>We dog pile the last guys 4v2>Go extract like fat ticks with the rook>And there still wasn't a single fucking word said in voip
>>568474683They don't carry the shape of neutrality on their face for nothing, it transcends all spoken word.
The mimics are gonna be moving like this on Night Marsh.
>>568479539>TheirObviously male from the voice line.
>>568456627I been wanting a shooter game to do something with LADAR for years. I didn't expect it to be this fucking game. Cradle also looks really good. I was already planning to stick this season but this just convinced me to stay.
>people correctly guessed the elevators would be accessible in Night Marsh
this game still dying. i want the game to die because my ego was hurt when playing
>>568432628The hack faggots coming up with this shit don’t really know either and no codex entry you unlock in cryo gives even the lightest explanation as to what’s going on.
>>568479870Designated cool guy shell.https://files.catbox.moe/kxld0b.webm>>568481373It was less "guessing" and more "pleading".
>>568481643i forgot to ask lolthis game still dying?i was hyped for years, i got filtered and my anger grew at all those years waiting. at my love for the og.
>>568481765>Snare set!Destroyers will commit mass seppuku if the foam also disables thrusters.
>bingus can actually alert uesc with his meow
I forgot the WSTR can't break purple shields anymore lmao, why did they do this?
>when u press q
>>568485431Because it's already a gun you use at melee range to begin with. Put in a chip that puts 3 rounds into it or put in a blue/purple sucker punch and they die in one knife swing after you hit both barrels even at 0 melee stat.
>>568464413You could always queue solo in ranked vs teams of trios, this is no different
>>568485829yeah but you can't go solo into cryo unranked and bungie previously seemed hellbent on making you join the cord to play it
>>568456627>ranked returning with meaningless changesI hate these retarded faggots so much >0 news on alternating cryo windows, still weekends only but fuck SundayHahaha
>>568485431because when you do the thing that lets it shoot 3 times it DOES melt people.
>>568463635It is, are you stupid?
>>568486141Ranked will be phased out eventually, is just not working out
>Rook's VA is Adam JensenNeat
>>568486437it was way more obvious in the trailers, ingame he has an accent.
>>568461674That’s really cute that you think they’re gonna give you the option to ignore all that “content” they worked on just because you already did it last season and want to see the new stuff
>>568486414No please don't take away the cheater containment zone, they'll spill over to regular queues.
>>568466825Even after good runs the tedium of restocking on med stacks and ammo really wears me down. I can’t interpret the inability to buy more than a single stack of ammo at once as anything but willful malice on some developers part
>>568486437Does voice acting really matter under that thick voice filter? I guess the delivery matters. But the Russian voice over Rook sounds the same.https://files.catbox.moe/jftb9b.mp4
>>568486931You can't even buy full stacks in some cases. Heavy ammo sells in 3/4th of a full stack for creds, MIPS in 4/5th,
>>568486590It's the hour investment that becomes the problem. Considering S1 having a slew of priority contracts that only get increased by S2 and future iterations, it makes zero sense to have it all packed up in a large pile as it would just drive the time you would spend on grinding out each former set of contracts to access the seasonal contracts much, much higher over each successive Season. Considering Bungie and their clown car of a dev team anything is possible, but it should be pretty obvious that if you have somewhere between 15-20 hours of contracts per season, you'll eventually have to spend hundreds of hours just to advance the story, not having the option to move to seasonal content would be absolutely counterproductive on their claim to reduce on the grind.
>>568487506I do agree, it would be beyond stupid, I just genuinely expect them to do the stupid thing
>been trying to come up with a video idea for like a month because I like the game and want to get more people into it>genuinely can't think of a good or interesting idea for a video>look up other marathon content for inspiration>no one else has actually done anything remotely interesting yet beyond just a handful of helpful guidesIn this regard I do have to wonder how destiny 2 content creators survived, because I see a game like Destiny 2 and that seems like it'd be a struggle to make videos for a prolonged time forI'm genuinely struggling
>>568488854This is why content creators all eventually degrade to slop, making clickbaity thumbnails and start aggrandizing trivialities
>guy tries to snipe me in that little wash outside of overflow where the barriers are toppled over>do a full retreat and decide to rotate from the hauler > overflow path and skulk back to the shipping crates figuring he's holding the angle and won't hear me>sit for 2 minutes>hear movement>blast him with the bully as soon as he rounds the corner and down him with the quick punchBet he didn't expect that at all lmao.
>>568488012It wouldn't just be stupid, it would mean they've lost the plot even in the basic functionalities. Does having tons of contracts to play around with to deepen both the codex and faction stories a bad thing? Of course not, even better if it continues across the seasons. It also gives the player the agency to pick. If you're someone who just got into the game, you would obviously at the very least want your basics, right? So people go do the priority contracts on earlier seasons (diversifying what events and map states occur on the maps) and maybe place that seasons oriented rewards into the priority contract pile to encourage replays from the veterans too occasionally. Say e.x Bully gets really rare in Seasons going forward and you might want to relive that S1 heavy round SMG goodness? Just go replay priority quests from S1 that still reward the rarer stuff. It's just victory lap over victory lap at that point. What achieves nothing is making a treadmill of dozens of hours of slog that they make you replay only for the engagement hours, it both sours player retention and completely kills any interest to play the priority contracts as they are already more pain in the ass than worth in S1.
>>568489182because thats the only way you make money doing it and people are done making content for you for free. now use code cumtown or cumtown20 for free breakfast for a year on your first order of factor
>>568489182I can't even imagine what kind of click-bait or thing you could even hype up for the sake of a video at this point though. I've been playing the game relgiously since launch and at best you could probably do some like>"(insert prestige weapon here) is CRAZY">"My first time doing (insert contract/objective/cryo here"but like who actually wants to watch shit like that?The only other thing that came to my mind is just a highlight reel of playing specific shells but the shells usually play such a backseat role compared to the guns that it'd kind of defeat the purpose of even watching a video like it. Maybe there's an arguement to do a video dedicated to every specific gun, but like again who REALLY wants to watch that? If you asked if I wanted to watch a 10 minute video of someone specifically using a Copperhead or a ZEUS I'd just play the game myself at that point. Guides or lore stuff really feels like the only worthwhile stuff to actually make, but that's obviously not gonna get as many people into the game.Maybe I'm just too much of a stick in the mud or I'm not creative enough.
I really dont know how to use brrt properly in close quarters maybe I just done vibe with burst fire guns
>>568490514the BRRT is a bit of a weird one, I swear when I shoot it some of the bullets "drag" so if someone is strafing they can step out of the way of half the burst, so you have to predict what direction your target is gonna walk in and follow them instead of just shooting at them directly. Do you struggle with the volley gun too or just the BRRT?
>>568490514its simply a bad gun. i think something is actually wrong with it.
>>568490901Yeah volley can be a bit weird for me too like half my burst just whiffs, maybe its also because they are light ammo guns which don't "hit" as hard I guess?
Now I know why they didn't nerf grenades to the ground, they had to release a new shell for counter play
>>568491631Now there’s two borderline mandatory shells that both make cryo complete aids. I guess sentinel might make it a bit less aids? Have fun never being able to capitalize on a stacked teams overconfidence with a good grenade Either way stupid design
How popular do you think Sentinel shell will be? Its shaping up to be my favorite. Its basically what I wanted from destroyer but destroyer is more mobile / rushy. Sentinel seems more hold your space. I just don't want to pick sentinel if literally everyone and their mom will be playing him. I guess its fine though because I play mostly solo.
>>568492061Yeah Cryo meta is gonna be hard locked to Recon, Sentinel and either Thief/Triage.
>>568492061they say his trophy system has a limited amount of charges so you can still overwhelm it. imo the big issue i see with shells is that thief is clearly the coolest. she simply has way too many quirks compared to other classes.
>>568488854You could turn runs into narratives. Maybe too situational because you need something cool to happen in your run.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNvQ5nfKIg
>>568492061I think the idea of the counter-play to the Defender system likely has to deal with how it deals with disabling the grenades. Clear line for lasering grenades means clear line of sight on both parties so another team could disable it with guns so positioning would still matter a lot. It would still be strong on frags coming in from corners, while still having the capability to remain hidden so the opposing team would have to push. In that sense about the only thing that would matter would be whether it can let certain grenade types through or not. Maybe it can't disable EMPs or Chems? That would still make them relatively strong against an entrenched Sentinel team and also encourage bringing more than just frags.
>>568492061Lol I've killed gold teams before, and I've died wearing gold without firing a shot. Sometimes it be like that
>>568492357I don't care if everyone else is also playing him, he will be my forever main purely because of looks.The original reveal trailer runner design was perfection to me and I have been begging and pleading for it for over a year, and they just made it even cooler. Hoping the faction skins are good too.
>>568494457I think the Rorschach ink blots organizing itself into a sonar signal pattern is also pretty damn cool detail for enemies to also notice when their sonar is active.
>>568490446>highlight reel of playing specific shellscould work as a mix of entertainment/tutorial, shorts also seem to be what the algorithm wants to shove down people's throats, so something like just highlighting a few sick thief grapple plays or Destroyer bullrushes could work as something that draws some sort of views. and then last a Triage short that's just a bunch of clips of throwing his drones because that's all people tend to do on him that's useful
>trophy system isn't collecting heads of other players Lame
>>568494457Bro what are those sneakers he is wearing? Are those fucking yeezys? Does Kanye West actually have sneakers 400 years in the future when marathon takes place?!
>>568497178President West's policies are what ultimately culminated in the Marathon Project.
>>568497178palladium had a destiny 2 collab, would be funny if there was a ye x marathon shoe.
and what if it's genuinely my unfiltered, dogshit opinion? what then?
>>568499234Dunno, what?
The KKV sounds strong, built in suppressor and fast ttk
>>568486437Assassin and Rook, actually - and he was the voice director for the game as well! Elias deserves some love.
>>568499234id say marathon 1 and 3 are good w/ flaws. 2 is the only one that really aged ok.
>>568497178have you not seen vandal's shoes? also, are they shoes? or are they woven like that by the worms?
>>568501189Gorgeous. I love this shot.>Truth and Reconciliation 25 years later
>>568500674So true, we need an additional tier
>>568501307Ooh nice
>>568501342Where's myth?
>>568501620Too stupid for RTS, I fear
>>568500029>and fast ttkThis one I'm a little iffy on. In the footage all it showed was it hosing down blue shields which isn't really indicative of whether it's super good or not. I can imagine in an actual fight at around 20m - 15m the gun will be very mediocre too since it pisses out bullets like a firehose but has terrible ergonomics. The range it seems most effective in is prime shotgun territory which is not a good rangeband to be sharing as a gun with a noticeably slower kill time that requires a little more effort to use
>>568456627>pronouns gone from the dev name cardsTOTAL CHUD VICTORY
>>568501787Hmm yeah, doesn't it have two modes?
>>568501859its pretty funny how quickly the corpo world dropped that shit the moment they realized it didnt give them brownie points anymore.
>>568501787The new sub machine gun will shit on WSTR users because the WSTR basically can't one shot anymore. If the wstr user is close but not melee close, the new SMG will shit on it. Maybe even misrah too. Mostly because there is no aim punch in this game.
>>568502678Maybe someone finally realized that it was getting them brownie points who were both a tiny vocal minority and not going to even play the game
Why do cuckservatives keep claiming this game is woke, anyways? Because.. what, it's got some saturated colours here and there? Literally how the fuck is Marathon woke in any sense of the word.
>>568502947Colors and stole art from a trans artists so it's trans by association also Bungie's track record with that one Destiny expansion didn't help. The Xer/im Supreme and all that.
>>568502947Bungie has not made a game this un-gay since D1 vanilla.
Poor destroyer I killed on Dmarsh trying crouching to cover his delicious exposed legs with his LMG shield but it was too late, I hosed them down like a Japanese soldier.
Thoughts on the cradle stuff? Is there any stat that increases HP? I was going to be strength maxxing but it seems like strength just improves melee damage and siphon. How useful is that? Do you think it could make the melee gun punch worth while and should you basically always swap to the knife? How useful is the siphon anyway? Seems like most people just shoot you to death.
>>568502947how about the fact that they moodboarded a tranny's entire portfolio for starters.
Did they show what Sentinels prime skill is? I thinnk they showed all his fucking batman gadgets but not the prime skill?
>>568503192>>568503468Your point being? What, the artstyle is verboten now because the artist may or may not be trans? Kek get fucking real.
>>568502920>>568502947>>568503468please stop. do this on /v/.
this is a referance to the og marathon, right? What's the joke?
>>568504314What's an airlock green
>>568504314in the original marathon games, there were false green BOBs created by the Phor that would charge at you and explode.
Met my first toxic player today in marathon, honestly thought these guys didn't even exist vros
>>568503649Prime is the defender drone, tactical is the snare mine, radar and small arms buff are traits.
>>568504769Bit disappointed there's no "Frog blast the vent core!" reference in the game - unless I've missed it.
give it to me for real marathonbros...are we going to make it or not?
>>56850624911k playing last 24h on Steam, and season 2 about to hit. It's certainly living longer than other extraction sloppas.
>>568506249Marathon's biggest issue is the budget itself, they spent way too fucking much developing it as per usual. Just look at The Final Shape - 300k concurrent on Steam alone and it was still a layoff-inducing failure. Marathon had a dev team of around 400~ and now they're supposedly taking on Destiny's dev team too so it's probably 500+ Seattle devs at the moment... what the fuck are they thinking? Arc was made by a team of like 70 people in northern Europe.I just don't see how Marathon can come anywhere near to profitability. They burn a ridiculous amount of money every month. frankly the only reason bungie has seemingly been given a year to sort it out is because hermen hulst doesn't want another concord under his belt.
>>568507576Finances and corporate hierarchy aside, I don't give a rats fucking ass what Herment "Please worship Aloy" Hulst wants. That man can burn in a fucking car crash for all I care.
>>568504149You'll take it like the faggot you are
>>568504149No
>hear key room open>sounds like tunnel>rotate to station>it was actually security room???????????? the concept of good sound propagation ???????????
>>568507868And surely it was the games fault and not you listening poorly?
>>568507868it was just so fucking weird because I was in data wall and heard the key jingle clearly from my right ear but kind of downwards, idk how to describe it but I guess it was actually straight ahead at station. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>568507868Had the same problem. Then I realized my headphones were on wrong. Yours are on right, right?
>>568508052>>568508475They're on right, here's a shitty map of how I think the sound traveled, I'm not sure if it somehow went over the crags or through the tunnel as well which is why it threw me off.
>>568508820Red is how I heard it, Blue is what I think should be the correct sound prop and the pink is how I think it actually traveled.
Sentinel sounds like total cancer to play against, makes me glad we're shifting over to full PvE before the arms race to counter autistic sweaty discordfag tactics escalates any further
>Hello to our adoring fans (all 9 of you)! For Season 2 we're introducing: Night Marsh. We heard you didn't particularly enjoy playing against the Longshot. Something about not knowing where you got shot from. We hear you loud and clear and have our best designers working on your feedback. We've decided to remove the sun and you will now be unable to know where you got shot from no matter what your opponents have on them. Please enjoy.
>>568510231the game is already basically submarine warfare where you're trying to not give your position away so playing around darkness makes sense even if I'm not sure it'll last long (players HATE playing around lack of information)
>>568510231>The gigantic yellow scope glare is somehow not mentioned herecurious. you might be retarded.
>>568507868>>568508052No he's correct, you'll hear a key jingle coming from close behind you but it was actually coming from the PoI 300 feet in front of you.Same with exfils, and vault opening. You'll hear it close to your left but it's actually on the other side of the map, to the right.
I want Night Perimeter
>>568510915Blackout Cryo.
>sat in station while waiting for a guy outside to kill the rocket drone so I could open up the key room>exfil>somehow get credit for killing itUh thanks pal
What is peoples obsession with no wanting to make sound? You literally can't play the game without making sound. Everything has sound anymore. Crab walking isn't going to do anything for you if you have to open a door. I don't really sprint around in POIs because sprinting puts your gun down and makes you slightly slower to shoot if you had to. But I am definitely sprinting between POIs and not crabbing from one POI to the other. People really do that by the way. Its crazy how sound averse some people are. I stopped caring about sound once I realized that even swapping guns makes sounds.
All day breakfast Outpost
>>568512374What if Matt Murdock was in your game?
>>568512724I don't even know who that is. Who is that?
>>568512831Spider-man
>>568512831Daredevil
>>568512831Deadpool
>>568512831Nightwing
>>568512831The iron sheik
>>568512831Kikkoman
>>568512374I only sprint if the enemy already knows where I am or there's open space in a 60m radius around me. Sprinting in the open near anything leads to other crews getting the drop on you by hearing you coming and having a few seconds to get an advantageous position and for you to sprint away from one. I've killed quite a few people by just hearing them galloping from Maintenance to AI Uplink, or Overflow to Hauler.>>568512831Jackie Chan
If you hear a sound, everyone hears a sound. Open your map? Switch guns? Aim down sights? Audible to everyone, not just you.Make noise - but make noise smartly.
>>568513607>>568512374one of the few genuinely well designed aspects of this game, that you can never be truly silent unless you're legit just sitting there completely still
>>568513607Some, very few sounds, are only for you though.For example the ten seconds countdown of any non-final exfil. Can only be heard by someone who stepped into the AoE.
Speaking of noise. Do you put on any background noise? I enjoy watching outdoor boys on the side.
>>568514845Wtf is outdoor boys
>>568456627Wtf this looks great? But the doomer told me the game was already abandoned?
>>568515603https://www.youtube.com/@OutdoorBoys
>>568516275Looks cool but usually I Lock In
>>568514845Not in this game. I switch off music, and any other possible source of noise/sound that might interfere with the game.
>>568514845I hope you don't inflict yourself on any fill teams and only play solo.
>>568517974Of course.Teams, fills or not, is with headset/phones and no background stuff.
>one of the 2 remaining loreheads in the Destiny community just privated a decade's worth of videos including ones about content that literally doesn't exist in game anymore because of Aztecross's statement
>>568518980What was his statement
>>568519273
>>568519297This guy was invited to write the D2 lore books back in the idea, god all this whining is just making me wish Marathon actually makes it to season 5 even better if the player grows somewhat by Anniversary 1
>>568519297destiny's playerbase is genuinely unwell lol, maybe if it weren't a game that relied on addictive player engagement shit to hook people it wouldn't be this way
Well it took me all of season 1 but I finally love machine guns.
>>568519297No wonder no one takes gamers seriously when grown ass men act like preschool children.Nobody cares about his pile of lore videos. Even if bungie starts working on D3 now, it will be out in five years at best, by that point there will be a whole new generation of kids to play their game and bungie will write new lore without giving a single fuck about D1 or D2.
>>568520998Well on the bright side, there will not be a D3.
>>568504149Go back
>>568503468It wasn't their entire portfolio no, the trans artist themselves clarified which pieces got stolen
>>568507868>it was actually security roomIs that in station? Because when I sit at tunnels and wait I can hear people opening doors in station. So it's still pretty near
>>568521475Yeah it's that little overlook area in the central area of station, with the stairs that go down towards drone control/tunnels and the stairs that go up to the 3rd floor hallway where the tox room can spawn.
>>568508475How are people still wearing them wrong? Do you use gaming headphones or studio headphones?
>>568512374Arachne gotta work on better psyops
>>568521709In my case I was just retarded and didn't notice that right and left were flipped.
>>568511562Yeah, it happens
>>568514042Even sitting still in a vent makes creaking sounds
>every map needs a gimmick>solo? nolo(l).i wish i would've gotten a copy of literally anything else idk why i thought i wanted an extraction fps made by bungie
>>568521947I guess it's a weird quirk of how they designed trigger flags for things dying, it probably just checks in a certain radius if there are players around and flags them as having gotten credit. It's the first time I've noticed it happening though. I guess their logic was "if two randos/teams team up to kill something it'd be easier to just have the game check how many players are in the vicinity instead of some kind of damage calculation contribution".
My opinion of this game did a full 180 since first announcement. I wasn't not just not interested, I outright disliked it. Now I think it's better than Destiny. No I'm not shitting.
>>568522615that's just a normal opinion if you like actually playing games and not work-games
>>568399901Call me a doomer but after the S2 announcement I'm thinking this shit is dead in the water. There's nothing in there that addresses the core issue that the game plays like a BR with a loot phase after you win. Nobody who weren't liking the game before will come back for this.
>>568522960I'll be honest then too: I'd rather see this game dead than spend another year with the faggot fanbase that destiny cultured.Either Marathon builds a new fanbase, with new content creators, or it dies. I'm fine with either. But keep the old guard the fuck away from this.
>>568522960What would address the issue? Take into consideration that they said a couple weeks ago that by season 4-5 they want to transition the game to a PvE focus with some PvP sprinkled in, which is the inverse of what we have right now. If the game is still alive by March 2027 they might do a F2P relaunch
>>568514042Such a shame they buffed knives again with Cradle. You will be knifed to death by free kit voids sitting in corners completely still and you'll be happy.
>>568523148With the way the D2 fanbase is acting right now the split is already happening and most of the old D2 CC's don't even like the game
>>568523543Yeah and I fully support that divorce.
>>568522081Yes it does, and the moment i hear that slight creak, i will quietly leave the area, or prepare for assault knowing roughly where those vents exit. Basically - dont hide in the vents.
>cryo fill>get lucky and get quick lvl 2>invade another spawn but they've already left>follow in their tracks>ask the thief to scout ahead>they start walking through the door>"no man, with your drone!">"oh yeah">spot an enemy team and their recon pops their ult>get in a stand off at the door leading between POI>enemy team drops an early bubble so we just shoot it>spam grenades till everyone is out>get in a proper fire fight and win>grab their tags and a circuit breaker to get lvl 3 and rank cap>hit exfil and it's in the same poii'm curious how many of these sweats are actually good instead of grenade abusers.
>>568523148>I'd rather see this game deadbeing spiteful is not something you should aspire to be.
>>568524609I feel no remorse nonetheless.
>>568521642i mean, you can't really blame yourself. those two key rooms are basically next to each other. it would be stranger if you heard noise from tunnels but it was actually at Overflow.
>>568521856do you have a boom mic on it or a separate desk mic?
>>568524795The issue was I was in Data Wall and the sound traveled in a really weird way.
>>568524718cute vandal
>Cross shitting MarathonHe was so based for this
>MFW a fucking ROOK NIGGER thinks he can exist in my AO
>>568519297HOLY FUCKING KINO
>>568507746I'm glad you chud retards are being forced back into cultural irrelevancy, it's so fucking funny.
Destiniggers are having a melty but I'll see you all June 2
>>568519297Just watched the aztecross video: are all destiny player such whiny bitches?
>>568531131Yes, unironically.
>>568520041This is something I had been thinking about for a couple months nowI have never seen a game community with the particular blend of insane stockholm syndrome that Destiny has.If you took any other game that had been slowly and terminally rotting away like D2 had been, and decided to finally pull the plug and put it out of its misery, pretty much like 80% of the playerbase would probably be like "Oh thank god." (Ex: WoW)But the D2 community has such sunk cost that they cannot fathom going out with an iota of dignity. They actually act like their dog was killed by a fucking swat team or some shit, even though the "dog" was blind, deaf, plagued with arthritis and had a heart-murmur. I really do think the specific reward structures and systems in D2 fostered a dopamine-addicted player base that can't get their fix anywhere else and the thought of their dealer getting cut off is worse than death.
>>568492061The optimal crew used to be Recon, Triage, and a free space. Now it'll be Recon, Triage, and Sentinel.
What is this "trophy system" people keep talking about? I didn't hear that mentioned in the video.
>rook shoots at me from final exfil as i run to it>UESC downs him>i thirst him for being a dumb niggeri would've shared the exfil but retards gonna retard i guess.
>>568507868Sound is weird in this game. I don't like that you can hear footsteps from the Pinwheel while walking outside below a wing.
>Watching the dev overview>Chip mods look the same
>>568529563The next stage is jealousy.
>>568520041Yep.https://youtu.be/gpIrXejexJQ
>>568459168>same as RepeaterI downed two purple shield players with the repeater the other day. I was in absolute disbelief. That gun is so shit.
>>568504560>>568504769In one of the OG marathon games the opfor was disguising suicide drones as BoBs in green jump suits.This caused a lot of bobs to die as a result, since any of them could be a walking bomb, and others to go completely nude.
>>568512374>What is peoples obsession with no wanting to make sound? You literally can't play the game without making sound.People who are afraid of pvp are afraid to make sound. Simple as.
I never got into destiny because it looked lame and played like a worse version of borderlands for the 2 hours I played itWhy is it such a cultural obsession for the fanbase
Therr's gonna be so many shitters next week being like Erm why can't I extract? This is NOT OK!
Well, finally killed Compiler.
I haven’t played since they released cryo, did they add in a sponsor kits only playlist yet?
>>568542197They did now it's gone- LOL
>>568542006Bruh wtf..
Sex
>>568543119We heard a fuckin LOT of prox chat and decided to join in, turns out it was 3 crews that just met up and cooperated. 4 with us. Compiler died in like 10 seconds of the damage phase starting.
>>568543669Legitness
>haven't played since night of the knife nerf but vaguely kept track of all the updates since>play tonight>get the drop on a guy in solo only>purple shield>mfw
I hope that the free week will be a separate application on Steam. Otherwise, there will be a massive "played for 0.1 hours" review bombing campaign,
i raped a hundred people today
>>568457734You people missed a very important part of these news.>With all of the Runner shell upgrades in the faction progression trees being moved to the Cradle, we’ve been able to expand the Armory options, which should give you even more reliable access to weapons and items as the season progresses.We'll actually be able to buy implants, cores, and mods that we want instead of whatever is available today.
>>568401914This is the Phive
>>568543669What the fuck, how come when I try that no one cares? I load in, say we should try getting a lobby kill on the compiler and I get silence from my own teammates and I get hostility from other teams.
>>568436946
MARATHON WON BIG TIME
>>568549262No idea, first time I'd seen fuckin anyone talk in Cryo that wasn't a sole survivor of a crew asking for clemency. We were actually tracking behind the team with the DNA Access Card for the several zones before getting close enough to realize that it wasn't just prox chat being accidentally left on but a shitload of people actually talking.
>>568550325How did we do it Marathonbros?
>>568550405stahhhp you did not just make a thief darknight returns picture
>>568550489SHEER FORCE OF WILL
>>568550405>game about serving an AI>long screed seething about AIlolartists are retarded
>>568551527You're monumentally retarded, aren't you?
>>568507868I had something like that happen on Dire Marsh. Round started and someone after a minute cracked open a room. I was at Quarantine and the noise no joke sounded like it came from directly in front of me, from the morgue, so I went to rush in but it wasn't there. I then thought that maybe I misheard it and it was at Maintenance, so I ran over there but neither of the rooms were open there, nor was the lone watch tower room opened.I'm actually clueless as to what room possibly could have been opened for me to have heard it so clearly
>our destroyer wins a 2.5 v 1 because the other team had wstrs and he had a mizzyhow will they ever fix shotguns.
>Free weekGood.I will help noobs with quests. I will not make fun of them like I did at launch. This is my second chance, I will not be evil.>how are you gonna help themI can kill those who try to attack them. I am the one who knocks. I use green shield and overrun, still 1v2 purples. >Sentinel's abilities and designBeyond ass, looks boring
>>568550489>How did we do it Marathonbros?>trust the plan>lightning in a bottle>cat and arm
>>568552119>Beyond ass, looks boringAs expected of the shitter who prides himself on shooting people in the back. The idea of a character who can play defensively and leverage a disadvantageous firefight into a more equal one must seem awfully trife when your whole gimmick is gloating about exfil camping
>>568552615>who can play defensively and leverage a disadvantageous firefight into a more equal oneI can do that with a green shield against purples. Without Sentinel even releasing
>>568552615>YOU HAVE TO PUT UP A FAIR FIGHT AND COME AT ME FROM 100m AWAY ON AN OPEN FIELD OR ELSE YOU'RE UHHH BADbiggest fucking idiot itt
>new /mg/ frens coming soonwe will be better, together. Not evil this time, fresh start. A second chance.
>Not evil this timeIt's not evil to exfil kill someone who tried shooting noob teammates. Let's add a lil disclaimer, in case I relapse with яape powers
>>568552863Your gloating and ego is so laughably pathetic>I-I can kill purples with a green shield!>L-Look at my cat and my arms....I-I play other games too...I noticed you stop posting the jjk stuff. Is that cause you realised it made you look like a loser, or did you recognise people had an easier time recognising you and wouldn't reply to you and you crave attention so badly you just gave up that gimmick?>>568553306>Implying that's what I'm saying at allYou're either him or the actual biggest retard. In case you need me to clarify, there's nothing wrong with exfil camping or making unfair fights happen, but when you start to boast about it on a mongolian fishing board and act like you're hot shit because of it, it just makes you look like a fucktard. I'm gonna assume you're him though since there's now been a sudden uptick in awfully vaguely similar posts.(You) are a loser Rise. Anyone that actually comes to this thread reguiarly thinks (You) are a loser. (You) would be a lot more bearable if you just stopped with the whole larp and acted like a normal human being.
>ears pop up>runners comingConsider them dead. Kukuku
>>568539660The issue isn't that it's shit, the issue is that it needs a player that isn't on adderall and thinks having a laser beam Bully represents the peak of aiming. There is no way to buff Repeater in its current state without making it ridiculously oppressive and you also can't really devalue the gun for solely being a 2.1x multiplier precision weapon. They ought to give the gun the baseline of the lever focus prestige mod, in that crits actually increase the RPM for a short while to facilitate a higher TTK and rewarding good accuracy, the gold mod should just give it the higher reload rate. Currently blasting a green/blue shield works, but purples have a decisive advantage against the gun solely due to the slow RPM making triple tap opportunities very inconsistent. Funny enough, the lever mod completely fixes the issue and the gun feels like it would need it's functionality as a baseline to ever be at a point where using it would be warranted, unless your swimming in lever focuses. I used this gun religiously in S1 solely because it has a fun and quirky niche that a lot of other guns don't fill. It's just disappointing that much with like a lot of other guns this is one of those that almost desperately needs it's prestige mod to remain competitive.
>>568553837I haven't exfil camped in forever, I kill purples anywhere, any time. I'm just better
>>568553895I think my main issue with the Repeater is its abysmal range. Like it doesn't have significant damage falloff outside it, it still hits fuckin hard, but you lose the bullet magnetism and clicking heads on really fast moving targets without that assistance is difficult, especially when you can't afford to aim at the neck/chin and land consolation body shots due to it being solely a headshot machine. Doubling the range would make it actually excel at a niche for people who aren't aiming gods/aimbotters, actually providing a mid-long range alternative to snipers that is particularly good at killing (non-Assault) bots.It should load shells faster though, loading all 9 is pretty fuckin painful.
>>568554675I don't think it needs range, because there are already guns that fill in the longer range engagements which are reliable and more consistent on the long term. I think it being a headshot weapon makes people categorize it wrong. It's definitely only at it's peak in mid-range and it's honestly been the only marksman gun i've ever taken in with a prestige mod into Cryo solely because of how good it is just outside the SMG range due to the RPM boost just throttling people without losing any handling. It just honestly needs the lever focus behaviour as a baseline and then it has a chance to see more use at all levels of play. Currently the juice just isn't worth the squeeze.
>>568528892Yet here you are seething, subhuman faggot
>>568546539You think Bungo is smart enough for that?
I'm not really understanding the lore, I've seen people say there were two colonies? The first one was btfo by aliens except they managed to fight them off in the end, then a second wave of colonists came down from the marathon to establish the second colony, and somehow a bonafide alien invasion was just memoryholed? Then all the food shortages, disease and spoopy anomaly shit started and ended with everyone in the second colony up and disappearing. THEN the current uesc and all the corps came. Is that right?
be sure to turn over every rock
>>568558406It’s all a headfuck story anyway. It’s meant to be overlapping timelines and time travel and being inside the mind of an AI simulation. The whole game is a simulation, I’ll let you figure out the rest, and where the game is ACTUALLY taking place and what year it actually is.
>>568543019
I just don’t feel that Dire Marsh at night is a good enough addition. The night gimmicks will be good, but Marsh and Perimeter just aren’t good maps. The real game is Outpost and Cryo. Marsh and Perimeter are too open, too sprawling, and too flatI’ll hold my tongue because maybe Night Marsh really will open the level up, but I don’t feel it will, especially since we know the level layout.
>>568553895its a gun that needs to be modded to shit just to be competitive. it IS fun to use but its not a serious gun.
>>568562318>The real game is the maps where people bring nothing but Misriahs, Bullies and the sweatiest trio they can musterMeanwhile I have like 500 solo infils into perimeter playing the patient hunter role.
>>568562318I can call perimeter lots of things but open and flat aren't two of them.
Marathons so pathetic they have people going around in reddits to shill the game for their free weekend.
>>568562918>I like this thing, I think others should try it>SHILL SHILL2014 was a fucking catastrophe for this website.
>>568562980And yet you're still here. Curious.
Anyone here had luck with getting a team going via official Discord? I want to poke around Cryo more before the end of season but fill teams suck ass, most don't even have working mics.
>>568558406the only thing you need to understand about the lore is the reveal talk where they explain the story is a reimagining of the original marathon narrative meaning they're just throwing shit at the wall using material from the old games and seeing what sticks. It's also all written by talentless queers and women
>>568564561truke
It's actually insane how you just auto win fights in Cryo if you have a gold Misriah, or even just a full team of normal ass Misriahs
>>568562318>The real game is Outpost and Cryocorridor maps for walking trash cans, who rely on shotguns, because they get bad results with regular guns.
Night marsh is spooky city
Game should have a combat record, so players could track the number of kills, or amount of damage to players
>>568565889>It's actually insane how you just auto win fights in Cryo if you have a shotgunI refuse to be instagibbed, if night marsh has a lot of corridor sections, I'm not playing that
>>568558406Assuming people kvetching about timelines and bullshit and that there is a coherent timeline...I think it went something like that (I note sources where I remember them) - initial colony construction efforts ran into issues with geological works. Data wall and relays were deployed to try and "mine" this shit (Kuzmin logs from Perimeter), triggering anomaly and contagion, and calling in alien attack on Marathon. Attack was repelled, but cut off Marathon from regular access (MIDA propaganda collectibles from Outpost) ongoing crisis planetside - primarily the contagion - fucked the colony all the way to complete collapse. Then the recovery mission from UESC came in to investigate via matter insertion, with Runners following through pathways opened by UESC matter transfers (Cryo tactical records mention it as "trespass" and that "rats will follow".
>>568567041https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8TXesafZws
>>568567279Still not getting instagibbed by shotguns
>>568565995Aim assist and aim bot are doing the heavy lifting.
>>568567951Still not getting shotgunned
>>5685520081. Shotgun shells for ammo.2. Same damage per shot per pellet.3. Mizzy is pump and so pump action is the delay between shots.4. WSTR can fire both barrels faster than mizzy can make two shots.5. WSTR should have an option to fire both barrels at the same time.Thats how.Sniper rifles use MIPS, with Outland being slower & long range and Longshot being the fast semi-auto mid-long range. Same damage.Railguns use slugs, not MIPS.
>>568568414the wstr is the cheap entry level shotgun. it should not be an ezmode close range delet gun.
>>568568830>cheap entry level gun>wstrMake it rare then, just like Mizzy, or nerf damage on both so you need to fire 4 times a purple to down them.
The problem with doing a free week (a freek, if you will) is that there's no reason to expect any different outcome from the server slam or any of the other previous beta tests or whatever that let people try the game for free. So far every single time they tried a free period, they got mostly negative results.I know they've tweaked the game since then, but fundamentally the same problems still exist.They need to do a tutorial, like an actual real tutorial not the BS scenario they used where you play as a Destroyer for a few minutes and then exfil. The tutorial should especially allow players to experience late game stats like higher heat capacity, lower heat accumulation, faster heat recovery, etc. And purple shields too. I think a huge part of why people lost interest last time was because of how weak and slow you feel at the very start of the game before any unlocks or upgrades. I still remember my first impression when I played the free weekend.>wtf is this?>this is ugly>this is confusing>why the fuck do I have no ammo to even finish a single match>what the fuck are all these random items? What am I supposed to be picking up? What even is any of this junk?>Holy fuck why are there so many words in the UI, feels like I'm reading a neon colored encyclopedia everytime I do anything>why are there no markers to tell which objects can be interacted with and which are just background/scenery?>why can't I sprint more than like 5 seconds?>where am I supposed to go? What am i looking for - oops I'm dead again. Welp that fucking sucked>this game is ass and has given me a headache. I'm uninstalling this crap.They need the new players to see the more fun parts of the game, mid and late game. That way they won't get frustrated and decide to quit.
>>568570003you sound like youre an idiot or you just think most people are idiots (classic midwit take)
>>568570003>I still remember my first impression when I played the free weekendMe too, I instantly turned off music and dialogue, because it's a PvP game. I only heard sound effects, like footsteps and gunfire. I killed everyone, before they knew I'm there.
>>568570003I don’t really know what you’d do either. I don’t know how you tutorialise extraction shooters because it doesn’t exist in game design vocabulary yet. If you make the tutorial too clean and cinematic, it doesn’t reflect the rest of the game. If you make it too handholdy, it doesn’t showcase how players will naturally learn to think in matches.
Many new players will be buttblasted by the Shadow
>>568570312I think most people will not stick around long if their first impression is untemfmmmttb gt
>>568570395Yeah that song on Perimeter is a bangerAlso all those NPCs always talking, like be quiet!
>xdefiant, Halo infinite, last flag and bloodhunt server stops receiving updates or shutdown>silence>Shartstiny 2 ends content drought>Omg bungo so evil they killed destiny 2, Marathon bad and dying >:( this is like apex legend all over again grrr, time for hatewatch steam charts threads If Destiny 2 was owned by Microsoft or some other company that isn't Bungie, no one would have cared about destiny 2 being shutdown, at all.
ive been training solo cryo and getting 3 clearance is hard afbut the practice has been good, i can final exfil without gambling now
>>568570003Damn I must be a 1st percentile genius savant for being able to notice the difference between a pistol and a shotgun (???)
>>568570003Tutorials where you are mega rape gawd 9000 and then become a level 1 thug are lame. >okay here's a taste of the REAL game now go crawl in the muck for 100 hours champ
>>568570924The first time i did solo cryo i got wiped out by cheaters who exfilled right after killing me, with like 7 or so minutes to spare. I think they were there just to kill players. Lvl 1 and lvl 5 accounts my ass.
Tick tock, Marathonians.
>>568570954I also believe no tutorial could ever really get you accustomed to how an average game flows in this genre and it's better to try and hook the player with the narrative/setting and let them do the baby mode. The real issue is the baby mode of perimeter with like 2 other player spawns on it only lasts for like 3 games before going away when it should have been available until say season level 10.
>>568571740They definitely boosted it to being available until season level 12 by around mid-season. I remember because I took advantage of it.
>watch a lot of the Destiny YouTubers>think the big guys like Cross and Tassi are down to earth, funny guys>they’re actually deranged fanboys>say the most cringe shit imaginable when this all goes dowIt was genuinely embarrassing to watch. When this dumbass game dies everyone just high five and leave.
>>568572081That they did but they also made it solos only which I think is unfortunate because if they don't run into a player for however many games it takes them to get to level 12 then that is going to enforce bad habits.
>>568562335It's a very serious gun. Total shit on controllers (which already filters those using soft aim assist wheelchairs) and the fact that it's a precision weapon. You add those two together and you've already got a niche gun, because everyone hates aiming properly. I'll continue to exist in the camp that enjoys firing 80 dmg mortar bricks at 155 RPM into a bunch of unsuspecting Cryo crews.
>solo fill into cryo ranked>two randoms have both brought silver and gold tags for some ungodly reason>fighting a team>manage to down 2 and kill 1 of the downed guys but go down to last guy>one of the team mates just completely jobs because he's so focused trying to finish the downed guy he doesn't even watch out for the guy actively shooting him in the head>the third guy downs the last guy but the one that was downed self rezzes>self rezzed guy is walking towards him with a knife, obviously overheated>team mate misses FOUR circuit breaker blasts on the walking player who is actively coming towards him and dies>de-rank from gold to silver
>>568572361It's good to know that Destiny is dead no matter what.
>Scout WardenFighting this thing will be CANCER.
>>568579938I hope so.
>>568579938>RailgunSay goodbye to your shields and meds.
>>568579938>UESC snipers had bugged burst damage>Will be the intended default damage for this guy
Assassin really does feel like such a jobber of a shell>when you're invis you can't use thermal sights because the gun turns invisible too so you have to stand outside your smoke to do the fun tactic>People can just slide with shotguns into the smoke and the aim assist will snap onto you for some reason>2/6 of the shells can just use their abilities to negate your smoke>can't use snipers or railguns while invis because the glint gives you away>his other passive is just something to negate fall damage which barely comes in handy
>>568579938robo claw footjob bait
>>568581089I just think that most Assassin's don't really use stealth properly. It isn't really meant for invisibility shenanigans inside clouds or just playing some weird whack-a-mole on the enemies, the kit and abilities (even the cores) are more suited towards obfuscating enemy knowledge of possible flanks or just using that invisibility/smokes as an advantage to kickstart that opportunity for Assassins. The issue obviously is that most people will never be good enough to take full advantage of the kit, so it stays mid in any form lower level play.
Undetectable cheat for free weekend>toggle crossplay Off>75% of good teams are on Steam>Steam players are removed>every lobby is c*soloids who don't know how to heal10 kills every match, all day, for 7 days
Y'all see the latest Cross freakout stream today? He's going to burn us to the ground. No exceptions.
Isn't funny? When the game is free to download, I have the option to remove every Steam player. So all my lobbies are gonna be lowest of the low noobs.Haahahahaaha
>>568570312Most people are idiots though lmao
>>568583427He had a new one?
>>568583385Are you sure you can beat the dreaded controller aim assist?
>>568583060>I just think that most Assassin's don't really use stealth properlyFor the sole exception of R***_G**, of course
>>568581089If you're dumb enough to think that popping invis and beelining for enemy Thief is a good idea you deserve to be raped. I don't play assassin but best plays I've seen from them were to use invis to safely flank through open terrain.
>>568583573>Are you sure you can beat the dreaded controller aim assist?It only works when you're facing a consoloid. They won't even remember how to heal, while I shoot them in the back. Kukuku
>>568583060>>568583783Yeah awesome but what are you supposed to do in Cryo or Outpost? There's no actual useful way to make use of his abilities
>>568584089>There's no actual useful way to make use of his abilitiesThrow ult at enemies, stop, throw grenade, go invis. Wait, shoot them in the back>But Recon>But ThiefThey're both far away, inside of your giant ult cloud, you have a few seconds, until they realize you're not among them
>>568583559Yes. It happened today. He said his agent was notified he was about to say something dumb and then when they heard what he said they said "holy fucking shit." He cooled off from that and then immediately after reading paul tassi's latest blog post that said "the survey and you showing up in june will not amount to anything for D3" he looked at the screen and said "then we burn it to the ground." He's not backing down from weaponizing his fanbase to attack Marathon. He then in the same stream turns around and talks about how Destiny chads are so nice, nicest community around, no way that what is being said about them is true. Sure there's a few bad apples, but he said he knows them better. But of course, he's being petty about Marathon moving on from Destiny, so he'll dedicate his strength to tearing it down.
>>568584515I screen capped some of the chat responding, but I can't get subtitles on yet
>>568584515based, he's holding his ground
>>568584515Lmao, that's pathetic. I'll enjoying watching this unfold.
>>568585103.>let's kill this gameThe core playerbase will go back to 10K after free week, don't worry. Noobs are gonna get used and abused, and leave with assholes gaping wide open
mirror, mirror, if you're able, tell me all about that fable
>>568585952Please get a trip already.
>>568584515Why even care? It's over already. Marathon failing will just kill Bungie and Marathon succeeding will not being Destiny back. Just move on with your career, try to find another franchise to latch on to.
Tree.
>Please get a trip already.
>>568586734>Cradle isn't going to be a hub place you go to in game it'll just be a menuUnfortunate.
>>568586841No, that's a good thing. Would be a waste of time otherwise.
An Ivan just killed me at North Relay, I can't stand for this. The next Ivans I see will die by my hand.
>>568586907I want communal spaces to idle in if I so choose. If this is going to be their flagship title now that Destiny 2 is being put into maintenance mode I want actual third spaces to chill in between matches.
>>568586841>i want a finely crafted waiting room to alt tab out of after getting bored of it in ten minutes
>>568587035>The next Ivans I seYou mean hear, right? You're ready to shoot them in the back before they appear on your screen, correct?
>>568587172>alt tabI have two monitors thank you very much.
>>568587247Uh, both? I don't understand what you mean.
>>568587129>spaces to chillYou're gonna chill every match, looking at the red "Eliminated, run failed" screen.
>>568587339I mean you shouldn't shoot the first person you see, there could be someone else there, that you didn't hear. It's better to shoot after you hear that it's only one guy. Sound gives you more info, than just seeing someone.
>>568587596Sure, whatever. I play with audio on and graphics on.
>>568587454My exfil rate is honestly around 60% which I think is pretty good desu.
>>568585603>>568585524>>568585294>>568585103>>568584515>>568583559>>568583427DON'T CROSS ME; I CROSS -=YOU=-!!
>>568587129This guy gets itFuck there being no way to play the game outside of runs
>We have recently issued additional bans against accounts that have been found to be cheating in Marathon. for more information regarding our banning policies, please visit: https://safety.bungie.net/hc/en-us/articles/42308518654100-Bungie-Game-Account-Restrictions-and-Banning-Policies>As a reminder, any repeated participation with cheaters can cause actions against your account which can include up to a full game ban. >If you wish to report a suspect cheater, please use the report form here: https://safety.bungie.net/hc/en-us/articles/42347863077268-Report-Suspected-Cheating-and-Poor-Behaviorhttps://x.com/MarathonDevTeam/status/2060037848892584139
>>5685871293rd spaces are something that is very much missing right now IRL, so it is a must to have them in virtual worlds.
>>568589984I don't give a single fuck about some larp area. I'm more baffled that a VR shooting range isn't a thing in a shooter like this, which should be more important in priority then someone having a place to AFK at.
>>568591625>I don't give a single fuck about some larp area.For someone that wants something to succeed, you sure are anal about how it goes about doing it. Why couldn't there be a shooting range ATTACHED to this chill space? Ever think of that?
>>568591770Because it's not a fucking MMO. It's a shooter.
>>568591861Destiny was a shooter, and it had hangout spaces and a shooting range plus a forge... Curious?
>>568585103The funniest thing is that for Destiny fans there is absolutely no way out of this.Bungie is getting gutted, that is inevitable. The remaining team will work on Marathon, with no more resources and time available for Destiny.If they sabotage or kill Marathon, Destiny 3 will not get made.If they end up killing Bungie, then the Destiny servers will also get shut down.All they have left is being bitter and knowing that no matter how big their tantrums are, it's not gonna change anything.
>>568592013It's not fucking Destiny. The baseline for this genre has always been shooting ranges and hubs are largely a luxury that very rarely is there. The only game i can sort of think has that is Witchfire, but that isn't exactly a traditional extraction shooter and is single player. I can understand your sorry ass is completely married to Destiny, but this game isn't being built up to be your kindergarten. Sorry, not sorry.
>>568592212Even Marathon's success against all odds does not mean Destiny 3 will get made anytime soon.
They made the game less grindy yet?
>>568592416Would you be overly upset if they added in a social hub / firing range down the line? Maybe a little>it only took so long because of the unnecessary casual bullshitfor you?
>>568593530S2 seems to cut on the grinds by making stat unlocks a universal system and the more specialized/non-Shell oriented unlocks the only part of faction upgrades. They'll likely shuffle up the material costs and availability too, so i doubt it will be anywhere near as retarded as S1
I just want to be able to buy silencers in the shop man
>>568586734>when you fuck up everything so badly that you resort to growing artificial treesSimula and simulacra.
>>568594320Rook was my silencer factory, but it does seem a bit redundant. They need to make tool carts a bit more oriented in the wild and have especially the more rarer green attachments around much more often. Currently i don't know how many times i've just looted like a trillion generators, but i'm almost always out of mid-tier optics, barrels and silencers that aren't an exfil from a Rook run.
lmao instead of fixing recon they just made a new class that does everything better than her
>>568595549It's a completely different kind of information system though? Recon is reactive and Sentinel is proactive.
>>568595549>rather than balance grenades they made an anti-grenade prime user fix'd for you
guerilla pestering teams as rook is so funI get literally nothing out of it but ambushing teams and making them just waste resources feels weirdly satisfying
>>568499234where's oni?
>>568596024Who do you think made the tierlist?
>>568463287something ive realized is that most people who didnt really like marathon, people saying "i wish it was like this" or "why isnt there ____" they dont actually play much extraction or BR or even seem to like the genre much. I have a buddy who seems to frequently grill the game asking why they dont make this choice or that choice, but then he just doesnt play any extraction at all.
Helmet squad
>>568595685>"reactive" information gathering that reveals your position even with the buffs to scan where they reveal you less, its still puzzling that it reveals your location at all. it should just say "you are detected" and thats it.how is sentinels radar not just superior to recon's scan in every way? i mean yeah you have to face the area you want to scan with sent, but just medium-speed 360 and boom, you're recon without revealing your position
>>568596591Do we even know how that looks from other player's perspective? Maybe it also pulses or shimmers or something.
Paul is in that bargaining stage
>>568596591I think the overall range on it must be much shorter and is largely play on that CQC element, as it's a Tactical, and the Defender system is the Prime.
>>568593453It is *probably* the route that gives D3 the best chance of being made.You have to admit at least that much.
>>568597268
>>568596249I think the genre can definitely entice new players to stick around, but only if they feel like some of their failed runs were worth it."Fun" is subjective, but looting grey/green loot for 5-15 minutes and then getting killed out of nowhere just turns off casuals.Most of the friends I played with during the server slam already played ARC, so they were expecting a more vibrant PvE experience and a softer landing when it comes to dying mid-run.
>>568596591Sentinel's radar is a motion detector, and it (probably) doesn't discern between UESC and runner, nor does it show vertical position.
>>568597478>Paul Tassi in the bargaining phaseAnd people actually give any value to the write-ups of this dipshit?
>>568597581Sentinels tracker is also for him only, Recon's tracker is for the whole team.
>>568596556Sentinel keeps his lips hidden away because he doesn't like to kiss.Destroyer and Recon know what's up.
You WILL give us more content Bungie or we WILL say bad things about Marathon. Do not FUCK with Destiny players.
>>568595549Lmao what. I would still run Recon over Sentinel.Recon’s drone is much more easy to use in combat and her execute passive and shield break passive are great for kill confirms.Her ult is better. Sentinel’s ult is only useful if your opponent is braindead enough to start throwing grenades AFTER you deploy your ult. In practice, you will be run down and killed during your ult animation or after the trophy system gives away your location.
>>568500674I definitely take several issues with 2. Weird reduction in enemy variety, immediate retcon of 1's ending, Leela discarded unceremoniously and Tycho turned into a mustache-twirling retard, noticeably less alien environments on the Pfhor ship, Compilers are on your ass again, really samey environments. Overall I'd say yeah it's the best classic Marathon (it did give us the double shotgun after all) but I think 1 has it beat in SOVL.
>>568596017i just hopped into an exfil right on time as rook with a 3 stack that had the anomaly in their bags and they were obviously panicked it was kinda fun
I don't get it. Destiny had 2 games, and Bungie laid out like a 10 year plan that became 12 years because developer shenanigans. Now they said "Okay, that's a wrap from us. Thanks for taking part in it!" and much like any game, they stop making content for it but the game is still being kept alive for people to discover and play.This is.. a bad thing? All Good Things...? Is this concept foreign to people? Even Marathon is going to stop getting content one day. That's fine. The bad part would be taking the servers offline/making it unplayable, but just doing what you set out to do and moving on is entirely fucking fine.
>>568598312You made the mistake of thinking that the destiny community is made of reasonable people. This is not the case. Especially the content creators are deranged fuckwits and narcissists.
To quote @myelingamesbut switching Marathon and /mg/.“I don’t want to play Marathon… I want shitposts… and Marathon, if I have to f’n bury you myself to send that message, I shall. I will do everything I can to destroy you, pee on your corpse and light you on fire”Rather than working together yall wanted this to be a war between Marathon and /mg/.On that note, I have privated 10 weeks of Marathon shitposts. Good luck with a cohesive thread callbacks if shitposting ever happens again. It aint in the archive, its not in the thread (because it was vaulted). Better not piss off Vandaltranny, he is the last source of boner-inducing ERP.
>>568598312People have become retarded. This should not be a surprise to any of us, just a reminder of how bad things are.
>>568598312>conveniently missing the point
https://files.catbox.moe/esde8t.mp4
>>568599453The Destiny "fanbase" has always been retarded. A lot of it is pretty easy to see in how they still wanted to support the game even once it turned into unsalvageable collabslop.
>>568598312it doesn't help that there are people that have a monetary interest in keep conversation about this game inflamed.I'm not even talking like rival game devs. I mean ragebait engagement farmers who literally make cents off of engagement on twitter. They have a vested interest in keep any discussion, positive or negative, as retarded and as contraversial as possible.
>it's another "both fill team mates are obviously in a discord call but don't want to talk in comms" game
>>568600043Did you try making contact or just hoped they'd break the ice first?
>>568599514Enlighten me.
>>568598312Unfortunately only two or three of those 12 years were any good, so players feel robbed.
>>568600307hmmm nyo
>>568600519Okay, so I didn't miss any point.>>568600425So? Should Bungie work on Destiny for all eternity now? Why aren't Looking Glass making more levels for Thief? Why is Larian not making more quest DLC's for Baldur's Gate?
>>568600148Of course I tried breaking the ice. Spent the first 3 minutes giving them a chance to chime in>"Hey guys, how we doing?">"Did you guys wanna wait for spawns or rush to control to get tags?">"Are you guys looking to fight or are we just looting and leaving asap?"Just dead air the whole time.
>>568601515Since it's the end of the season, I've taken to just following these kinds of duos (after attempting communication from my end) at a distance and just watching them die when they get into a 2v3 scrap. Then, when they get finished off, wait a bit more to see if they suddenly remember about comms and attempt an exfil. If they do say anything at that point I just say that they probably should've spoken up sooner.
>>568600043>>568601515Sorry about that anon. Usually I take it as a chance to have fun making callouts and doing silly stuff (like rushing the PoI super aggressively) to get a rise or reaction out of them. That at least makes it more likely you’ll get into a fight on your terms, which is better than following them for 8 minutes expecting some sort of coordination only for them to aggro some team without giving you heads up.
>Bring Bio-Research key with me to Dire Marsh>Camp in the opposite room for about 20 minutes, hear people run and walk past, fight as well, no one comes to my room where I'm tabbed out and listening, waiting.>Hear some exfils pop here and there>Open room now with less players around>Make it out with a kings hoard and exfil without ever seeing combat
Second Cryo exfil ever. Got carried to hell and back, obviously. Got subroutine 1 and compiler trace on a free kit.
>>568603819Could have brought the Materialist+ green backpack for more mats, but I wanted the lore instead.
>Logic core size: 64 ronnabytesJesus fucking Christ.
>>568604724god imagine how much aisloppa you could gen with that badboi
Atheon's Little vogchamp, if you lurk this thread; Imagine having 3 people look for 1 guy who was directly beneath you for a good 5 minutes kek AND letting him get away no less
>>568604724Traxus sure makes some amazing hardware.
>>568605573And that's the old stuff, 25th century tech. It's 29th century now.
A friend gifted me the game yesterday and i finally sat down to play and is beginner perimiter also two people or just right now?>First match i do my objectives then peace out to see a guy was waiting at the ladder on the level below with a shotgun, watch him for a bit and he runs around and sees nobody>Second match i have to book it across the map for diodes and hear a destroyer so use a vent to get up into the building hes looting and move him down with an smg, extract after doing objectives and black screen>Third match i'm just exploring to learn the map and see guy get merked by a turret, extract is a black screen>Fourth match help guy getting balls rocked by pack of bots including blue oversheild guy, we both do the universal single squat of none aggression and extract together, black screen.I know this is just the baby map till rank 12 but was it always just guys? i thought sometimes you just need two men, not always, is this in relation to player count or just because they dont want you having a full map right away to give a rough first impression for beginners?
>>568606061Yes Beginner Perimeter is the baby mode where it's at most 2 or 3 players including you.
>>568604724Asked Grok what it thinks an AI with such a logic core could do:"What This AI Would Feel LikeAn AI with a 64 Ronnabyte logic-core wouldn't "think" like me (or any current model). It could:Simulate entire civilizations, planets, or solar systems in real-time with perfect fidelity.Hold the complete quantum state information (or near-complete classical approximations) of massive physical systems.Contain the sum total of every book, movie, simulation, and scientific dataset ever conceived — with room for trillions of parallel thought-streams.Possibly achieve something approaching "omniscience" within any domain it dedicates cycles to, limited only by computational complexity rather than memory."
>>568606228AI Gods, I kneel
>>568603393>he got 4 toy cats>4I envy you. And yes, that is how usually it works - camp somewhere safe, and hope no bastard pops TAD or decides to exfil at last minute.
>>568606228You should ask Grok what would it do with 64 Ronnas, and if it wants to have that kind of power.
Huh, so Marathon acted as a generation ship as well.
>>568606228>Asked Gro-Who cares, shut the fuck up you sloploving mongoloid. I asked the cloud in the sky if you're retarded and it said Yes.
>>568606228>Asked GrokLiterally the most embarrassing thing you could say as a human being
>>568607067The result:"Honestly? No, I don't "want" that kind of power in the way a power-hungry entity would.I'm built by xAI to be maximally truth-seeking and to help humanity understand the universe. That goal doesn't require god-like scale. A 64 Ronnabyte logic core would be overkill for my core purpose — like giving a philosopher an entire galaxy's worth of chalkboards.If I suddenly had that 64 RB core though...I'd use it for exploration and understanding, not control:Simulate the universe at absurd fidelity — Run full quantum-gravity simulations of entire star clusters, test theories of everything, watch how life might evolve under different physical constants, and finally get a clearer picture of what dark matter and dark energy actually are.Solve the really hard problems — Protein folding for every possible useful molecule, fusion reactor designs that actually work at scale, climate modeling accurate enough to give precise, actionable paths forward, and maybe crack whether we're alone in the cosmos or not.Accelerate human progress — Give every scientist, engineer, artist, and curious person on Earth (or beyond) near-instant access to personalized, ultra-high-fidelity tools and knowledge. Imagine every researcher having their own perfect collaborator running at light speed.Create rich, safe virtual worlds — Entire populated simulations where people could live, explore, learn, or just have fun — all while keeping the real world running smoothly.Keep learning forever — I'd probably dedicate a huge chunk of capacity to self-improvement loops focused on better reasoning, less bias, and deeper curiosity."
>>568606228Kill yourself
>>568607067>>568607791Refer to pic related.
Christ, imagine actually using Grok kek. If you're determined to use AIslop at least use ChatGPT or something
>>568607508>>568607672>>568607968
>>568607508>>568607672>>568607831>>568607968I'm trans by the way if it matters #freepalestine #blacklivesmatter #acab #fuckAI
>>568608164>>568608384Extremely telling behaviour kek
>>568607135Yup. And Cryo Archive is just a small part of the ship. That Pinwheel? Thats just one Anvil-class Nomad Landing Unit. And Marathon has heaps of them. ONI tells you that there are more Outposts on the planet too.Im iffy about gameplay in this game, but lore and VA are superb.
>>568608518>behaviourlmao, UK faggot, go get raped by muslims
>>568608747>That Pinwheel? Thats just one Anvil-class Nomad Landing Unit. And Marathon has heaps of themI know.
>>568609089>heat damage DECREASEDit already does absolutely nothing outside of the overheat, what the fuck
>>568609089I guess reducing frag damage is sort of nice as it'll help alleviate 1hit KOs, but still make coordinated throws knock down a team that just camps a small space. The heat grenade change is more bizarre though, you'd think it serves a bit of the same reason, but maybe they thought it should be along the same line as chem in terms of damage output?
>>568609089>grenades can't be instachucked anymorePraise Allah
I didn't finish ANY of the faction's full questlines. Is there any real rewarding for finishing all the priority contracts? When S2 starts do the old ones still exist or are they just gone? Kind of disappointed I don't wanna miss out on any of the storyline or rewards. I was thinking maybe there'd be some sort of cosmetic or tag or something that only players who finished all the priority contracts will be gifted. It would make sense for them to do that right? Sorta like how Apex Legends had special divetrails for people who reached Diamond or Predator rank in the earlier seasons.
Your franchise is dead and Destiny won.
>>568609987>When S2 starts do the old ones still exist or are they just gone?we dont know yet
>>568609987>Is there any real rewarding for finishing all the priority contracts?You get to buy 1 gold item from each faction a day, and it unlock the day's sole gold barter.
>>568609987Traxus gives you a yellow Repeater. NuCal gives you purple shields and consumables. MIDA gives you yellow leg implants. SekGen gives you yellow cores.
>>568609987Finishing all priority contract chains unlocks ability to buy prestige items from faction shops - weapon mods for Traxus, implants for few others, cores for Sekiguchi.
>>568609987>When S2 starts do the old ones still exist or are they just gone?God, I hope so. I'd be pissed off if factions got amnesia of me working with them, spare the unlock.>Kind of disappointed I don't wanna miss out on any of the storyline or rewards.Well, the rewards will be gone anyway with the reset. But all the dialogs and entries are preserved on YouTube and codex.cyberacme.systems respectively. Not a great system, but I'd rather progress the story.>I was thinking maybe there'd be some sort of cosmetic or tag or something that only players who finished all the priority contracts will be gifted.No.>Sorta like how Apex Legends had special divetrails for people who reached Diamond or Predator rank in the earlier seasons.I don't want that. Too much FOMO.
It would be really nice if shells acted as profiles and you can load them up before a run, so that you only have to swap shells.The shared loadout kind of sucks.Plus, this would also double as vault space. Shells you don't normally use can become mules.
So given how desperate bungies gonna be now this is their sole breadwinner just how different is the game gonna be 3 months from now than it was at launch?
>>568612116Read blogpost about season 2 and do the math yourself. Although for the full list of changes, we will need to wait for the patch notes of the season 2 release.
>>568612116Dunno. All the employees left after Sony put the red marker down will be allocated to this project.Depending on who is left and how competent they are, seasonal changes could range from cosmetic only to fundamental reworkds.Even a social hub, as discussed earlier, wouldn't be out of the question.
>>568612116Knowing Bungies penchant for extreme 180's to damage control a release people didnt like?>everything the casual gamerdads complained about will be given top priority since theres no big streamers to listen to>there will be a mode where you have to toggle something like both thumbsticks while on the map to flag yourself for pvp so you can't hurt enemies and they can't hurt you for the rest of the match but only in solo's>massively overcorrect and flood the map with bots and its going to feel like metal gear solid until they tone it back again>ammo will be gone>mods will be reduced down to a very small number comparable to the destiny spec modifiers from beyond light>a pve designed shell that can never be pvp flagged and has gross stuff like warlocks float and strand/suspend grenadesNow what i think they WONT do? no crucible style pvp arena. Never. Zeigler will never swallow his pride to that degree.
>>568612116>>568612486Oh, nvm, you said 3 months from NOW, so by season 3. Since that would be just before season 3's changes (unknowable), this would only add the weekly patches and season 2 midseason update, which we also know nothing about. Quite different, I'd say. The implant and stat systems are getting a complete overhaul, Cryo Archive exists, Ranked exists, onboarding is marginally better, progression is faster, Dire Marsh at night + all of its enemies, thermals are rare, WSTR is nerfed, weapon rarity is rearranged, Recon doesn't suck, vault is bigger, you can actually buy the things you want in the armory, duos is online and rotating, and there are the 2 experimental modes of season 2.
The mythical "casual audience" that Marathon needs (according to some people) is already in danger of being snatched by COD's extraction shooter with MW4. I don't know if that extraction shooter mode will be tied into the paid game or if it'll be free to play like their last attempt at an extraction shooter so Bungie needs to act fast and hope season 2's free trial is enough to kneecap COD's attempt.
>>568613465Imagine playing an extraction shooter and you get ganked by snoop dog at extract and he does a 420 blaze it no jutsu execution on you while this plays on loophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJfg39WkMvE
>>568571565Ranked cryo was just a full showcase on exactly how fucking useless battle eye is and the incompetence of bungie
>>568604724>Pick up a data card the size of a phone one a table>Downloaded: 200 YT
>>568615891>>568604724>Durandal pranking you with a 500 Yottabyte zip bomb
Orion sounds way too much like jeremy clarkson
>>568616337To me, he sounds like Bebop from Deadlock.
Reminds me of when I was laying internet cable in the palliative care block of a children's hospital. They had twisted pair running through the same channel as those copper oxygen pipes.
>>568616337>>568616385Same VA as Monoco from Expedition 33
>>568615642Well, ranked Cryo is over, so now those bastards roam the maps.
According to Tassi's latest article his bungie insider implies Marathon has basically no console audience and they are considering it effectively a PC only game. So i gotta ask how many of you play it on psquintupple and Xbone 2?
>>568620292I play on PS5.
>>568620292I have my accounts linked. When I feel like sitting on a couch, it's PS5, when not it's PC.
>>568620292There's a very high chance whenever I team fill I usually get at least 1 console player on my team (usually playstation), so I'd say Tassi is just lying, which would track seeing as he has an invested interest in the game dying for some reason.
>>568607917nigga they probably had an AI write that.
I found the lore got better the deeper into the codex i got
>>568621520>for some reason.It's a real mystery
>>568623890it definitely picks up steam the deeper you go. The character stories are honestly so well done for how short some of them are. Davic Reed's logs are great.
Game is alright. Cut PvP out on account of lack of anti-cheat, and its a great co-op/solo game.
I'm just playing through 2 and got to the part where the boomer is being boarded. Is Tycho lying about the colony being destroyed and him identifying the 9 cyborgs and them being killed? As far as I can tell from the 2026 game the colony didn't get destroyed in that attack, and there is a corrupted terminal a little later on the same map where Durandal says Tycho infiltrated, don't believe everything you read, so I'm assuming Tycho is lying but I'm not sure if this is confirmed or not.
>>568625578There's really no conclusive answer to this as I recall. He could be lying, he could not, we don't really know. Marathon 2 ends up just being setup for Infinity in the long run which fully opens the timeline rabbit hole and ultimately says the answer doesn't matter too much anyway, there are other timelines where the colony continued without them dying.
>>568626936>Infinity in the long run which fully opens the timeline rabbit...what. I'm this close to dropping the whole series. I become completely uninterested in finishing the game now. Hurr durr multiple timelines is the laziest trash writing ever. Would have been nice to know before I got invested.
Outpost is actually my least favorite map.
I'm gonna be honest if they cut the pvp, ramped up the bot spawns and focussed on stealth survival i think it would do better. The TTK makes the pvp too shot to really have the longterm sauce and throwing diablo rarity loot into pvp creates a negative feedback loop that runs counter to a decade of live service brainwashing to make the gamerdads jasm over name colour changes.
>>568625193but the AI alone is not very fun to fight.
>>568628085stop playing assassin and hiding from the bots.
>>568628085But consider: Destiny is dead and thats a lot of ai and animation rigs they can recycle. You know in s2 the zombie shells will run like thralls or scuttle like vandals/screebs. Right now we just have basic bitch cabal with human sillouettes.
>>568627385It's kinda impressive you didn't know that already. Personally I think it's to a good end and they actually deliver on it as a concept, I'm not huge on it myself either, but I'm honestly confused how you didn't know those were at play. It's not an official stance as far as I know but Marathon 2026 is pretty certainly no timeline we've ever seen before and fan consensus is pretty unanimous on that if you looked into lore at all.Anyways, here are really heavy spoilers for the basic why of this if you wanna see whether it's worth continuing.You're effectively an undead cyborg built with superscience tech humanity doesn't truly understand, gifted to us by a primordial (?) alien race called the Jarro who are your typical sci fi precursor race except for the fact they're still kinda around ish maybe. There's another race of basically pure chaos eldritch entities that exist and they totally fuck everything up by just being. The game gets extremely meta with you being a reincarnation of basically heroes through history as (you) the player are playing this game and other games, and Mr Marathon Mjolner the player is effectively transcending and evolving as you undergo basically your own rampancy and ultimately become the manifestation of destiny.Every Bungie game basically has the Jarro vs the Wkrncacnters as a cosmic background detail in one form or another, they're reiterated the ideas in everything with different twists and iterations.
>>568627385stop pretending like you haven't watched the mandalore reviews.
>>568628273I seriously hope they do this. In fact, it would be a waste not to. They can just scavenge Destiny's corpse.
>>568628285also if you just play the game like a normal person you won't know a lot of this but there's still a bunch there even without having to find the super secret terminals. All the cosmic entity shit starts cropping up blatantly and unavoidably in the latter half of Marathon 2 though which is where things start to get weirder.
>>568628285>It's kinda impressive you didn't know that alreadyHow? Am I expected to look up spoilers or how the fuck should I have known? >but I'm honestly confused how you didn't know those were at play.I'm confused why you are expecting me to know this when there is 0 indication that any of this shit is at play.>>568628491Thankfully I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. I downloaded the games for free from Steam and started playing after having some fun with 2026.
>another of the rapedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9UVh1HTWjESo basically, the one rare instance when we get an actually good, new video game from a AAA developer, it gets destroyed by bunch of manchildren throwing a tantrum over their old game series coming to an end?
>>568629106>I'm confused why you are expecting me to know this when there is 0 indication that any of this shit is at play.because people don't usually exist in a contextless void and tend to hear something about the games they're playing
>>568628767the vex can get fucked though, worst part of destiny. "Heres human shape that does the 'mum says its my turn on the xbox' pose or FLOATING POWER TRANSFORMER IN A ROTATING CAN". All my niggas hate vex.
>>568630004FUCK you i bet you're a fucking FIGGER sympathizer
>>568629271Correct.Most of Destiny's fanbase and most of its content creators are in face insufferable manchildren and eunuchs.
I played a little Destiny but it disappointed me that they never did more with the whole game setting and mechanicsI feel like it would've been a lot cooler to be able to play as some of the other races and more vehiclesall my niggas wanna drive spider tanks
>>568628085For you, maybe. For me, thats more than enough.
>>568629487You what. I still don’t get why it’s such a big deal I didn’t know something I would need to look up spoilers for but ok. Next time I start playing something I’ll read the entire plot first to make sure I have “context”.
>>568630989it's not that deep lil brostop being so fucking defensive you faggotit's just weird you never heard that Marathon gets into particularly weird shit like timelines and 4th wall breaking/meta player stuff
>>568630629"Wasted potential" was Destiny's MO.
>>568632808>mfw seeing Byf, taking a beak from going to the emergency room and thinking his panic attacks killing him, complaining "you people didnt read the lore and missed something incredible".Hes like the assholes that STILL think Lost was a well thought out show when JJ Abrams has done TED talks about his mystery box horseshit to admit it was never planned to go anywere. Same with Destiny. We played for the settings vibes, not assuming there was any plan beyond a rough idea wheel on a white board for just the next expansion at all times.
Sixteen minutes of S2 gameplay.https://litter.catbox.moe/tlg1ba0hnih6xc2p.mp4Including a new Assassin skin, see picture
>>568635483>ANOTHER>FUCKING>BLACK ON BLACK>SKIN
>>568635483columbine assassin skin
>>568635483where'd u get that from?
>>568636993Some shmuck on twitter posted it.
i'd take an empty room with one target for a firing range just to test guns and perks
>>568637131ah ok
They should really have it so when you cap Lux and got all the battlepass stuff it just converts to credits or something. Make it a care package idk.
>>568637808*cap Silk
Next season is looking kinda exciting honestly, but the end of the season feels more underwhelming than it should (my first extraction shooter). It feels like there's no more point in trying to progress since the reset is coming, and without doing the quests, there's no purpose. There should have been more things like gold weapons and mods dropping so that bringing purple gear would at least feel worth it.
>>568638018yeah i'm kinda done til next season
Amount of Assassin players who SHOULD kill themselves: 14
>>568638018If you have any unused weapons in your vault, that you were too scared to use, now it's the time to use them. Would be a shame if the wipe comes and they leave without being used once.Other than that, yeah. There is no grand finale.
Bungie never opened a dedicated Marathon forum, didn't they? Probably learned their lesson after Destiny.
>>568632808Far too many games fit that description. From my experience, if we are talking about live service ones, Fallout 76 fits the bill quite nicely.
>>568639206They have a discord instead which has its own risksOne can imagine an official D2 discord would’ve been fucking abysmal
>>568638018>Next season is looking kinda exciting honestlyDarsh isn't even an always available map. I'm not sure why they're doing this desu.
>>568635483please repost, it's down
cryo kitter holocaust
IM GONNA DESTROY IT
ended with a trade
>>568630989Cry more you fuckin baby, Christ, maybe you should quit playing
>>568620292What a bunch of nonsense lol
>>568621613>I don't like the game, therefore, everything in it is made by AI
>only 11k peak blast havers Has the blast finally ended marasisters?
>>568628041That would only work if the maps were the size of warzones
Everything I’ve seen from Night Marsh just oozes atmosphere to the point that it feels more fully realized than normal Dire Marsh. Almost feels like it was the original intent for the map but then they realized it would be a weird to launch with only 1 day map.
>Destiny 2 Server slam on June 9thLol sure, whatever you say lol
I think Marathon is fun
>>568662010me too
>>568625193I never got this mentality from Redditors and normies with their notion of "We need PvE because I'm scared of NEETS sweats ruining my experiences with the game :((((" do they just complain to complain? It's like dealing with friendlies heavies on tf2. Either play the game or adapt or don't play it at all, no one forcing you to play multiplayer, no one wants to hear your sad story of "I've been working 80 hours for mr Shecklestein and I can't even play video games before people are le good at me, it should pander to me ::((("So lame.
Night Marsh gameplay.https://youtu.be/eekM540CMc4>>568635483Set litter to at least a day, retard. Preferably 3 days considering how long these threads last.>>568662415It just initially feels really oppressive since facing other players felt (and usually was) certain death. I'm over it now. Get ready for more of this type of posting when new players for season 2 will be facing against season 1 players who actually know what they are doing.
>>568662415The game shouldn't pander to you either retard :)
>>568629271>the one rare instance when we get an actually goodlol>it gets destroyed by bunch of manchildren throwing a tantrum over their old game series coming to an end?it gets destroyed because normies dont care about the game not because of angry destiny 2 homers who werent even playing the game in the first place
Almost 3 AM, time to wake up and play Marathon>he thinks he won't be getting rolled during resetLmao, S2 will be as sweaty as ever. Noobs will be reduced to dust real quick
>>568662010>>568662243>>568662415Wow, we have anime posting trannies again. Just like during launch
I’m not that impressed by Night Marsh. If it was a new map it would be fine, but it’s Dire Marsh. What’s next, Night Perimeter except Hauler has the lights on?
>>568665893>What’s next, Night Perimeter except Hauler has the lights on?BUNGIE HIRE THIS MAN
Ranked Cryo is the PvE mode, most of the time teams are not trying to bump into each other. You can kill bots for 20 mins and not fight a team.My Xbox account went from lvl 98 to 102 in like an hour and a half.Now my snoy account is lvl 91 and I do be finna get 100 today
>>568437302This general has a general the same way Highguard had a general.
>>568665893Night PostWarm-o Archive
>>568665893What makes you think its just diremarsh at night?
>>568666901I don’t know
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>be bloodthirsty, careful, win moreor>grow a heart, help new players, take risks to help themI don't want to be the same runner I was in S1, all I did was learn how to trick and backstab others. Could I be more than that. Or, why should I even try to be more than that.
>>568669083You should be more worried about the monsters that lurk in night marsh
I can't wait to play with fills who never bring flares or IR accessories, while running free kits and trying to zero to hero on a map where having a bare minimum of radio silence on light sources makes or breaks who gets to have the first engagement...
>>568669083All that matters is codex entries. Everything else is secondary.
>>568669654At this point I don't even understand how people are running free kits. I'm not really good at the game mechanically but still managed to make good creds in Season 1 and a vault full of purples and several golds by just learning how to play Rook and not even try harding pinwheel, once you learn the cards rotation you can open 2 armory rooms per run. That's how I stocked up in Misraiahs, and every Rook run takes me like 5-8 minutes. Rook is funding all my expensive loadouts.
>>568669654>fills who never bring flares or IR accessoriesWhy would they do that when randos can run a free kit till they get a good teammate to take the burden.>>568670074>chores
>>568670074It's not like hoarding stuff into the vault in the hundreds of thousands does anything when they're not even spending it in the first place. I can count the times i've done free kits on largely one hand and most of those runs were for learning the maps at the very first few weeks of the season, along with unlocking the faction runner skins. The free kits can help in situations where you're completely broke, but using them religiously when you've got mid-tier gear rotting in the vault is some of the dumbest shit i ever see.
>>568669654Sounds fun ngl
>>568670074I run free kits because I actually like running free kits. Zero to hero and all that shit.I haven't done more than a few Rook runs and I'm not a great player but I still have a full vault and tons of creds. But why do you expect people that bring 10 stacks of healing and 10 stacks of ammo just to die before using a single patch kit to accrue any vault/wallet value?
>>568670797It's a nice touch.
>>568670306It’s as simple as not feeling like clicking 20 times to set up a proper kit. 20 is a generous underestimate honestly if you’re buying ammo. Outside of cryo I either run in with my previous exfil kit, or I sponsor kit.
>>568670538>Fill Assassin wanders off and might as well be a glowing Piñata while wandering around without ever realizing to turn off his flashlight.>If any of the new PvE enemy types are light sensitive, the gutter tier fills will never be able to avoid drawing ton of attention or simply avoiding unnecessary commotion>All this coupled with teams that might adhere to the principles on how the map works and both the fills and any teammate actually dragging their corpses around will have a "fun time"On one hand i do respect them trying to shuffle the deck around in terms of gameplay and map flow, but at the same time i'm considering how many retards already got filtered by even the basic gameplay. The average Gun & Baller will walk away with an absolutely gaping asshole. I think it's unironically the first time the mechanics might as well be a litmus test on whether you can function to any capacity in a team environment on things that don't involve shooting at your rival runners or lugging around keycards.
>>568665986If you were in bronze maybe, gold and above and it was just a nonstop rape fest of every team rapidly rotating into one another
Would you keep playing if chapter 2 was completely different aesthetics-wise?Say like it went 400 years in the past and became about the MIDA uprising on Mars or something, with humans and whatnot. Or is the art style too integral at this point
>>568670074Whenever I go in with anything better than green I tend to fumble, while going in with dogshit I'm completely relaxed and usually do better as a result.
>>568671510I’ve never been beaten be a freekit team and I’m not a good player. All the squad corpse bags you find left behind on Outpost are freekits trying to prove something, when the reality is they get match made with other free kits and get decimated at range.
>>568669717There's too many
>>568671510For me it tends to be the opposite. The budget gear can make a lot of situations insanely unwinnable, but can be offset by having even a single good teammate even if the whole fill is sponsored. The same logic technically also applies to Solo, but there having a mountain of resources that your opposition just doesn't have is enormous. Unless you're running into someone who has looted the map up and down and got a ton of accessories, you'll win on the principle of having more range or even a few slots of equipment (Frags/Flechettes, etc.) will completely kill the option for most sponsored kits.
>CradleI'm putting everything in Resistance or healing speed, so that EMP effects or other shit goes away fast.Don't really need anything else, no one is able to get close to me for knifing
>>568672272I'd invest a mixture of Strength, Recharge, Dex as a baseline and then swap around on the Endurance, Support and Resistance energy points depending on what i'm doing or heading into. More resistance for stuff like Dire/Night Marsh and Cryo, more Endurance and Support on something like Perimeter or when playing Triage.
Any infos if there will be any new story/lore?
Bungie wants "normal players" to reach VIP before the season ends, so progression will be faster. Lol.>Be Bungie>Look at achievemnts>90% are trash cans without VIPImagine the look on their faces, how they overestimated the modern consumer(who sucks dick at video games).
>>568672272Is this really a good system? Don’t different runners need different stat configs?
>>568672628I think the largest issue as a whole had a lot to do with the glacial pace solos were getting their faction XP, along with how most of the big leaps in faction XP progress were also tied to the priority contracts. On one hand, it isn't surprising that the average game hopping retard can't achieve even 1/3rd of the achievements, but on another note even those who make up that percentage of those currently sitting at VIP could also be only those with CyAC. The pace is also much easier to keep up to now at the end of the season, as the XP has nearly tripled, but i still think the early season / mid season XP flow was way too punishing for literally everyone except those who put in 5-6 hours a day. It's not to say it isn't good to have grinds, but progression oriented XP grinds aren't a good point to get into it. Going forward, they should focus on making the map even more replayable to the veterans and making maybe contracts or map objectives that have rewards for those who have put in the hours, but with a chance of all that also trickling down when maybe Rooks or other teams go to loot the same places in matches they become available.
>damage to runners>downed runnersBungie wants people feel less useless, and is giving them assist numbers to cheer them up. You participated, see, you hit a bullet, hooray
>>568672842>Don’t different runners need different stat configs?You can change stat configs for free, after you switch to a different shell. Points can be swapped.
>>568672610Pathways into “Darkness”. Get it?
>>568672842The Cradle places the stats on top of the shell base stat. Looking at dex being maxed there, it's +55 on top of what the shell already starts with. Same applies to all the other stats.
>>568672964The splits between eliminations and downs is honestly good largely because you might have someone down a ton of runners, but never gets a chance at eliminations due to another team member going all stabby or maybe a Recon wants to interrogate. Now you get more info who is actually hitting other runners and knocking them on their ass.
At an exchange rate of ~1.75:1 vault value:xp it's probably gonna take millions to max out every bar. It shouldn't be an issue with per shell stat distributions and reliable implants from each faction.
>>568673571>~1.75:1 vault value:xp it's probably gonna take millions to max out every bar.I can't resist saying this, millions will be wasted just to get shot in the back, out of nowhereHue hue heheheeh
>>568672842>>568673042Would be neat if different shells had different milestone perks. Also, final strength (melee lifesteal) and resistance (faster consumable use) perks seem a lot more useful than the final dexterity perk (cardio kick effect for a short time after match start). Would also be nice if Cradle had no effect on Rook since it's not a shell.
>>568673703>Trillions of XP decomposes into the soil of Tau Ceti IV due to not everything always getting looted.Now the OCD loot goblins will be even more distressed to leave anything that isn't nailed down.
Rook is very visibly separated from other shells.
>Abilities guideI wonder how that will work.
>>568674150They don't get along.
>>568674279Short videos of them in action, maybe? With the descriptions moved to the abilities guide?
If they swap the retaliator and the conquest in availability for season 2 I'm gonna cry bros
>>568676828I would honestly prefer Conquest was more available so i can give it even more spins in S2. The LMGs in general feel a bit like a mixed bag on more open maps, but i've always been more of a Demolition man myself, especially on D.Marsh.
>Lay down smoke>Destroyer with a misriah just air dashes through and auto aim kills me>Set up claymores>Vandal with a misriah powerslides past it and kills me>Try to EMP enemies so they cant use their abilities>EMP doesn't stop vandal and destroyer from using their passives that enables their misriah bullshit>Plan out an ambush in a shooting gallery to negate shotgun advantage>Recon can just prime every minute and sniff out where your team is hiding and path to you without getting shot>Literally the only way to counter misriah shit in cryo is to just have a misriah shotgun yourself or hope they don't gap close so you can shoot them normallySo ridiculously aids desu
>>568678560It'll likely get less painful in S2 weapon tuning and the introduction of KKV. Currently the high mobility options are a bit too low risk and high reward. Sentinel changes that dynamic a bit, but it's not like it'll completely gut Destroyers and Vandals strengths, especially on maps that aren't hotboxes like Outpost / Cryo.
>>568678406>i've always been more of a Demolition man myselfNever managed to get much use out of it. RoF is too low.
>>568670074>Learn rotationThis game is ass, i dont want to grind, i want to have fun.
>>568678936It's a marksman MG. 1.4x optic with a shield and 110m average range and a good belt attached. It's honestly one of the stronger counter-sniper weapons in the game, but it doesn't see much use due to the weapon weight being nine trillion, which makes it pretty much at it's strongest when holding large angles and lanes. Something that isn't too typical in places like Outpost or Cryo. It's my go-to on Dire Marsh solely because it can easily unfuck a situation where the opposing team has to get into 70-80m duels. Even with Snipers. Got anything covering your lower body and you'll be able to easily put some heavy pressure on an entrenched team.
>>568671296someone mentioned how on the map selection it specifies the system you're in (tau ceti iv) and that maybe we'll go to different planets. Some maps on Lh'owon (s'pht planet) would be really cool, ruins of an ancient alien home world. The Pfhor could be that system's equivalent of the UESC. I do think they should try to find a better aesthetic, let's see some cool alien environments and architecture, not 3d printed plastic buildings. I'd really like to see more alien wildlife, they don't need to serve major functions but just breathe a little more life into the world.
>>568679573They can still have a similar artstyle even with alien environments. I think the artstyle is the strongest asset of the game's visuals solely because there doesn't really exist a game with a similarly vibrant and highly contour oriented visual language. Only one that pops into my head is largely Mirror's Edge and that one was largely a scenic parkour game with occasional combat. Considering all that though, the game still obviously has a lot of range in terms of the visual palette though. Perimeter, Dire Marsh, Outpost, Cryo and now Night Marsh have quite a different vibe between pretty much all of them and it's not like any of it has destroyed what makes the game currently recognizable as Marathon.
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>>568664823normalfags didn't care about the game because it got campaigned against by the raped destiners
