Got my eyes on you edition >Combat Tuning Previewhttps://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/season_2_combat_tuning_preview>Welcome to Season 2https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/welcome_season_2>Season 2 Cinematic Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1i801SDrJA [Embed] [Embed] [Open]>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/Previous run: >>569455362
Friendly reminder: knife only starts or no ballsFree kits are cope
>finally got a decent enough supply of guns that I like that I don't need to use these dogshit freekits anymoreFeels really good honestly.
sex with recon, vandal, thief
I'm watching from my med-drone
>Mfw i try the game and actually really enjoy it after shit talking it all year.I was wrong, i'm sorry.
why do schema items cost salvage now instead of just money
>>569665439Shit happens. But to be fair, a lot of changes were made to the progression. It feels pretty smooth now instead of a Sisyphean task like before. I have about 10 hours in season 2 and I'm already hitting the credit limit, so now the wallet upgrades feel useful instead of a waste.
>>569665439>ywn kill a guy and he's full of hoisin crispy owl and bonbonbonbons
chuds won
>>569665669They've shifted the economy so that you need to rely more on bartering.
They kinda fucked up Biostrip salvage spawns. Instead its dermachems allover the place. My NuCal upgrades are seriously impaired right now.
The darksight scope for snipers projects maybe 20m of darksight. Is there any point to this that I'm missing? Because it seems fucking useless to me.
>>569666528I've been finding plenty of poop in hauler still.
>>569664356All three are male>>569664671All three are men
>>569667017what an odd thing to say
are you abusing the pve mode to farm loot risk free, post arachne rank
>>569664356Wait I thought recon is a dude?
>>569667405I don't even run sponsored mode much but my Arachne rank is lagging. I think they just beefed up base rep gain. This plus prio contracts mean other corps are likely to rank up earlier than Arachne.
>>569667362What do those lips taste like
>>569667405>are you abusing the pve mode to farm loot risk freethat's what the game is now
Marafloppers, rape status?
>>569665439It was funny to mock Marathon but now I'm kind of hoping it somehow pulls out of the dive and succeeds just to rape Destiny cucks that little bit more
They really buffed the shit out of the loot pools, didn't they?>>569667405I'm at rank 3 right now. But I don't play survival, it's boring. I've just been playing solo Perimeter so far for the season. Neither died nor killed anyone today.
>>569667516bro she has the clone wars asajj ventress voice, come on.
>>569666740They are also supposed to spawn in arms lockers. However, you find dermapacks instead there. Its fucked.
>>569665439I'm in the same boat buts fine really, making fun of Marathon was pretty funny. Now we can have our cake and eat it too unless Bungie pulls out a miracle and saves the game
>>569667767You find shields mid run way more often it seems, which I'm not complaining about desu.
>>569666719They don't want snipers to be good on night marsh.
>>569667570blueberriesthey're filled with blueberry juice
>>569667570Fresh condoms
If you're in a trio and all three of you are downed, there's no reason not to bug out instead of waiting for everyone to die is there?
>>569668163Last time her lips tasted like blueberries and my cock
>>569668315Possible that someone has a self-rez, but unlikely at this point in the season. They've been moved to the end of the shield pack tree.
>>569668248Won't be fresh when I'm done with them
>>569668848>>569668315Yeah maybe if someone found a depleted self-res and is in a position to use it without being pushed.
>>569668801ew
I think trying to complete 'baseline calibration' on trios is a mistake
Comfy friendly lobby, sharing loot like rabid dogs
>>569668315Only if you want to stay with your trio. Leaving early removes you from the crew.>>569669020Depleted self-res doesn't spawn in trios.
>>569670108>Depleted self-res doesn't spawn in trios.Oh really? Didn't know that.
I'm liking S2 way more than S1 so far.
Steam picture I don't click or read post
>>569670759Night Marsh is genuinely so cool. Love the UESC Cert system.
>>569671691How big was Destiny 1?
>>569672058PCjeets were not allowed to play D1
>>569671691>be bungie, see death lurking in corner>know you have army of insane fanboys>kill d2>simp army pulls out wallets as a protest
>>569672109WeirdgeMy only experience with Destiny personally was seeing my brother-in-law play it a bit. He was constantly playing online deathmatches in Halo 3 and Reach on his xbox but it didnt take long for him to decide he hated Destiny.
>>569671691>heartbreaking: fans log into beloved game and remember why they stopped playing it
this game is making me want to install an aim traineri've not played competitive FPS in fucking ages and I keep missing shots that are probably simple
Still not going to be touching ranked in this game btw
>>569672127I would also kill D2 just to spite that game's fans
So, how do you play this game solo? It doesnt seem like any range favors you against trios. especially when console players are in the mix with aim assist.
>>569673403Assassin and play dirty.
>>569673403You queue into solo lobbies
>>569673403I'm not good enough to 1v3.If I had to, I'd always only engage on my terms. When I have vantage point, element of surprise, or can somehow pick them apart one by one. If I feel like there are too many unknown elements or am sure I am in a disadvantageous spot, I would not engage at all.
>>569673403You play solo by queuing solos. Sometimes it'll drop you into trios for whatever retarded reason, but most of the time you'll be up against other solo players. The only struggle is when you have to solo commander bots during certain quests, but I've managed even with the pistol free kits by raiding areas I know I'll get some better weapons.
>>569673403Solo lobbies and playing like a stealth bastard in a bethesda game or learn enough of the game to queue trios as GREGOR and become the sicko casual trios fear.
Imagine how many people who play Marathon are on /mg/, how many of them have experienced abuse, and of those, how many transitioned because of it. Also, think about how many feel uncomfortable with the rape posts by /dg/.Do you like it when brutes post threats about raping you?
>>569673746I went 1on3, popped my Protector whatever ulti with a freekit, got first, almost (he was about to go) second, and third guy got me through pure Hail Mary.My point is, the TTK in this game is short, but in situations like these, it's not short enough to have enough fuel in the bank to finish the other two.I love Hunt Showdown, and in that game, you can beat 3 players easily with good planning and patience.
>>569674974>how many of them have experienced abuse, and of those, how many transitioned because of it.take your FUCKING meds schizo
Saw this on the Steam store page for the game. A soulless reference to better times. It makes no sense at all.
>>569675524>t. watched the Mandalore vids
>>569675332Someone assaulted you, and you transitioned because of it. Now you’re a big marathon fan, but you’re on suicide watch because of the brute poster who says he's going to rape you for the second time in your life. How would you feel about that?
What stuff is good to give to the worm
>>569675752I played through the og games several times
>>569676032Worm food
>>569675524nobody cares you geriatric old fuck
I'm going to rape y'all in name of Escharum
>>569676032Actually? Green and grey salvage.
>>569674974>immediately thinks of troons and rapemeds. i'm begging you. this can't be healthy
>>569678084I'm glad Escharum got raped by Master Chief
>not steam deck compatibleGuess I won't be giving this free weekend a try after all. Oh well.
aim assist in this game is insane
>>569677954why so raped?
>>569679005what exactly is the aim assist? Is it exclusive to pad?
>>569679121you're the one acting raped here retard
>waiting for match to start>it finally starts>suddenly desperately need to take a shitfuck
>Saturday Night, 6PM EST>Takes 10mins to find a match
they made rook GENUINELY unplayable and then wonder why sponsored marsh is completely risk free
???? what's going on here?
>>569681416what do you mean?
>>569681117>in a free week
>>569681648What is it scanning for?
>>569681117The fuck are you on about? Longest I got was 2 minutes. You from Calcutta or something?
>>569681810Hostiles
>>569681810That's a TAD.It pings the location of enemies. That's UESC troops as well as players.You also get CyAc experience for doing so. And some contracts require you to use it.
>>569681117It's actually kinda good for me today, ive been getting game sin 3 minutesCould it be that higher season ranks take longer to find matches?>>569681954>>569682079Thanks. I still have no idea what most things do in this game and I can't find any kind in game manual or even glossary for the terms I see everywhere.
>>569682225>I can't find any kind in game manual or even glossary for the terms I see everywhere.Yes it's a very classic bungie issue when it comes to onboarding.
>>569681702Anon lives in Jakarta, otherwise it takes 1-2 mins
>weekend>summer, kids are home from school>f2p>off the back of a big wipe and s2 update>might not reach 40k tonightKEKAROOOOOOOOO
>>569682298in a way, nothing being explained is kind of immersive so maybe it's intentional. That's kind of how I feel about how the game is being presented overall, painting this dark, brutal and totally alien world where you basically thrown to the wolves and you either sink or swim. Still i don't like having to go to third party sources if possible, some things I really wish i knew earlier.
>>569682746But Bernie was the best part about that movie, anon. And it even got sequels.
>>569676918why would you do that? only 2 is any fun.
>>569682746posted it again award kek. chuddies are so right they have to convince themselves by reposting
>>569682746Note that Destiny is not pictured in this image, because no one is even bothering to prop that corpse up.
>>569675854Like a stupid faggot. Obviously.
>>569682746k dude i'm having a blast
>>569683434Have you made the transition yet?
>>569683801Transition into the afterlife, faggot. I'll help.
>>569683801Brought up troons again award
>>569683801Rent free, has to constantly bring it up. No one else here does.At this point I don't know what's more annoying, Schizos always bringing up troons or indians
>>569683913>>569684074>>569684347Did you become trans because y'all girls were assaulted, or because you felt like a prisoner of your genitalia?
>>569684791Tell me about your mother, anon.
>>569685184She was killed when I was three years old.
>>569675854so you're a psycho
>>569684791Did you get your dick suck and realized the person milking you and massaging your prostate for every drop wasn't who you thought they were Anon?
Why are meds so fucking expensive?Most of my extracts only give me enough credits to buy 1 shield kit and 2 medkits. I've spent like 40k credits on resto items and maybe 5k total on anything else so far.
>>569683754I will blast your asshole with cum
>>569685502I'm a cis male trying to empathize with everyone who is being harassed about rape and other nonsense.
>>569685579meds now
>>569685579Why the fuck are you spending money on that shit instead of bartering salvage?
>>569685579NuCaloric has a monopoly on them.But in reality it's probably to prevent med-stacking.
>>569685579Buy your meds schizo
>>569685529Is that a trans woman joke I’m not getting?
>>569685701I have 60 of those things banked... so if I only bring in 2 med 1 shield (which is not enough for any purpose other than telling yourself you're not trolling by not bringing more) that's only enough to barter for 6 matches.
Where is the UESC Network Tower in Dire Marsh?
>>569687432Only in Night Marsh. They're the blue towers that boot up the windmills when you pop in certs. They show the locations of weapons, gear or support caches. Very good sources, if you are low on some.
>Sponsored Night MarshI sleep.>Actual Night MarshA fun kind of hell.
>>569687665The big Blue Square's? Or maybe notits weird they dont give you a map point to go tois there a specific facility I should to go to first?
RNG in this game can be ass5+ night marsh runs, observation key appears at end of runKeys spawn in caches - where else can they spawn?
>>569687878They should have markers on your map right from the start. They're black, not blue I think.You climb them via a ladder, then insert certs. Then the antenna pops out and displays the location of a cache.There is no order you have to do, pick the one nearest to you or pick one for gear that you need.
>>569688392>Keys spawn in cachesI'm in need of keys. Which caches did you find them in? Cert boxes?
>>569688392Sometimes there's red boxes on the ground that can be opened and will call a red armored UESC unit, they sometimes have one as well.Keep a look out as well for RED UESC drop ships, those two usually, no matter the enemy from the red drop ship has a high chance of dropping them too.
>>569688556should've clarified, I meant observation key for the loot room in comms. Can be found in UESC caches accessed by the network terminals.Reminded me, UESC cert boxes do have observation keys, forgot about that.>>569688661Good info
Is there a way to save loadouts?
>>569689363No
>>569689662Man...
>>569689703You can write it on Notepad, it's not that bad.
>>569688405brother im looking as close as I can, I don't know what's going. Im in the right map and i have the traxus contract that asks me to do it
>>569690890If you go to Complex, there should be a fairly obvious big block with "UESC" written on it in the lit area.
>>569690890they are supposed to be marked on the map but i have had a few times like in that picture where they dont show up for ??? reasons
>>569691523im beginning to notice a trend in bugs of this nature.
>>569690890>>569691523Were you guys playing on Rooks by chance? That happened to me a lot in S1 on Rook.
>>569691674No im playing as destroyer in these screenshots
>>569690890yeah, once you see one you can't miss them
>>569691523I've had the same bug while farming Narsh, sometimes I'll see them on the map and other times they're gone. Incredible amount of bugs in this game.
>>569689363>expecting anything good from bungie like loadouts that you can click and automatically grab everything from the armory withYou will get intermittent rewards and be happy
>>568901871
>>569663953
Chances of Duos Cryo?
>>569697384The map might become fun to play then, so fat chance
>>569672058It was fucking huge, sold like 10M copies in a few months.
>Peanut dropped Marathon>Shroud dropped Marathon>Aztecross dropped MarathonWho is the biggest Marathon streamer left playing?
>>569697610No one
>>569685579barter. always collect the basic barter mats, every run. all the unstable shit. always grab the daily free kits from nu caloric
Don't look, Maratroons
>>569697610staycation, seraphmax, myelin are all the ones that pop up on my feedAlso, to the thief in sponsored solo: sorry, not sorry. got my shadow index longshot skin from your death.
hamsters,is season 2 good
>>569700378If that was north of Maintenance atop the room that can spawn as a tox room, that explains why you didn't even bother looting me after.
>>569697610>>Peanut dropped Marathon>>Shroud dropped Marathon>>Aztecross dropped Marathonwhat were their reasons, if any given?
>>569697487>bungie execs probably aimed for this numberthe cinematics and in-game world are premier AAA quality but the gameplay is so bad. why they let anyone who worked on the recent D2 expansions into the marathon team is beyond me.
marasissiesmaratroonsmarafloppersmarafaggotsmaracucksmarathon enjoyers
>>569700785naw, it was final exfil with 10 seconds left
>>569700942bungie probably wasnt paying them.
>>569700779It's the same as Season 1 but at night. Too late to start playing now, the streamers have loot that will rape you.
>>569700942the bungie cheques stop coming in the mail.
>>569700942You exhibit the same effeminate, low-testosterone behavior. Kill yourself.
the D54 battle pistol got me moving like an invasive species
Look at that runner damage...I just had the best match of my life
>>569673403LOL. You get pissed on constantly by bungie as a solo. It's a waste of money.
Starting to get frustrated with solo sentinel. The character is beaten by making him come to you, and he fucking sucks out in the open. Text dump:It's hard to use snares since camping is already a strong tactic. Only 1 green/blue core buffs it, and that core is good, but it really needs ways to improve the setting speed, throwing distance, and damage. Defender system does not work in solo, and 99% of his cores are for the prime. Sort of useful against grenadiers, and useless against the rocket drone since it doesn't move with you. I don't know when you'd ever use this against a player, sentinel doesn't have the movement to go set up, fights are too volatile. Maybe when you're opening pinwheel? Prey tracker is fine, it does show runners which is nice, but it barely lasts a few seconds. The cool down is kind of long for how short it is. There is a core to extend it, but I haven't had the chance to test it out.
>>569679323All weapons automatically try to hit players, the amount depending on the weapon and range, AND the type of control your'e using, eg controlver vs mouse and keyboard. >>569683613It's also dead, but rigor mortis has set in and it can stand on it's own.
>>569701207bodied that retard
>>569701207Everyone knows BurntPeanut and Shroud
>>569689363LOL. THis is bungie we're talking about.
>>569700378I have no fucking clue who those people are.
>>569703127who?
>>569701207>they've lost Scrimblo>they've lost Pibbit>they've literally lost Poob>its so overI have no idea what this furfag is talking about and I feel really good about that
>>569700779It's a complete shitfest, but if you played season 1 you know what to expect. >>569700942They didn't specifically say, but their ratings were plummeting, they looked like they were not having fun at all. They weren't making money.
>The BDF is trying to memory hole Peanutkwab
>>569674974is this real
>>569702968Solo is a gigantic unbalanced waste of time, why the fuck are you even bothering? Especially with that shell?
>>569701084The start of cryo will be a complete shitfest.
>>569702710>6 elims>2400 damage>8 revivesjesus those fights must have been lengthy
>>569703643I love playing solo destroyer.
>>569703498>unable to muster a retort>resorts to vagueposting like a womanDestiny Defense Force isn't sending their best.
Sentinel saved the game for me
>>569702968This is yet another thing this game needs.They need more customization for our shells outside of finding rare cores unique to your class. Just a little something more than the Cradle but not overpowered just to make playing the runners/classes a little more engaging.Your mention of having the Defender Turret following you would be wonderful for this.
>>569676032Salvage and overpriced guns. I've found that power farming scouts for their longshots is the best fuel to feed the cradle worms. Big shout out to Arachne for their twin taps too, since they're similiarly overpriced.
>>569704197Maybe some kind of trait and perk system that you gain with leveling up... oh, oh no.
>>569704197>>569704338I just am not a fan of cores being what changes your classes to make them actually fun when you can lose them.
>>569704197I don't know man Cradle seems pretty fucking stupid in a PvP game; RPG elements that reward grinders is not the way to go. Less focus on heroes and more focus on build customization that is open to everyone would go a long way
>>569682225>Thanks. I still have no idea what most things do in this gameThere's a weird thing where technically you can get codex entries for things you're confused like specific activities or items or enemies, that basically explain what you need to do or what makes them special, but it usually requires you to actually do the thing in the first place or use said item blindly multiple times, completely defeating the point of having it explained in a codex entry in the first place.The best way to absorb info is to talk with other players. I'd say watch guide videos but they're honestly wrong half the time or don't even include specific details about things which can be super important
>>569704197I do feel like having a shell customization option as part of the cradle and separate from Cores would be great, just a 'pick one of these three options' sort of thing, maybe have it cost 5 cradle levels so you have to give up stats for it.>Sentinel Prime follows you, but only shoots down 4 grenades>Prey Tracker gains an energy system like Destroyer's shield, faster activation/deactivation time>Snare Mine gets another charge and deploys faster, but has less immobilize duration>Castle Doctrine activates from any damageShit like that, balance obviously permitting.
>Time remaining: 5 minutes>Teammate: Got the key lets go complex
>>569705198I break it off immediately now if they wanna go and it wasn't their focus from the beginning; half the time these people get lost inside and can't even find their way back out for extract
>>569704542It just sucks when the cores that actually change how shit works are the purple and prestige ones so you get less of a chance to fuck with it, and even then they can be borderline useless (extra heat explosion on your recon drone) or completely change how you play a character (you get extra recon scan pulses, also every time you scan an enemy your prime regens faster)>>569705198I've got a trio I run with, and one of them is so extremely greedy to the point of absurdity.>We got observation key at 6 minutes? If we're fast enough we can totally do it>We have enough ranked loot to rank up if we exfil? Let's risk everything so we can get a holotag off a warden kill>Our backpacks are full and we're at security clearance 3? We HAVE to stay and try to fight the gold team guysTo his credit it does pay off sometimes. Having someone who wants to keep pushing and who is trying to squeeze as much profit out of a run as possible can be nice, but holy fuck do I have multiple examples where it just does not work out.
Being forced to do trio lobbies as a duo on every other map except the designated one is so fucking retarded.
Good lord the Master Chief Xbox Only skin for Destroyer is UGLY.>Little X for Xbox on the chin too
>>569705878I don't care if this makes me sound like a whiny bitch but it stinks that the majority of players who will ever see, let alone use those rare, unique cores are the very best Runners while the most I'll see are blues on a good day.
>>569700779Play sponsored kit Night Marsh, solo or trio. Good stuff, and plenty of lore. Just dont shit your pants.
>>569706437XBOX
>The server slam didn't save Marathon>Season 1 didn't save Marathon>Season 2 didn't save MarathonWhen is Marathon getting saved again? I thought I was supposed to study some sort of comeback but I'm not sure when it's happening. Even when it's free, people don't want to play it.
>>569708271B-but Anon, the Summerfest was happening so people had to play new games and demos!B-but Anon, the last update for Destiny 2 is just around the corner so people are playing that for a timeB-but Anon! 26k to 35k players is PERFECTLY fine for an EXTRACTION Shooter! I'm having a blast!
>>569708271It’s gonna be interesting to see how many players we lose on the 11th once the free trial ends. I think we’ll be back to low 20s peak by next week and in a month we’ll be back to barely sustaining 10
>>569707162If you focus on levelling sekiguchi you can change that, especially with how things work this season. I do kind of agree with you to an extent that it's kind of stupid that the best players get to have the "fun" stuff, which is the real crux of the problem for most of this game. If you say that, people act like you're saying good players shouldn't be rewarded, which isn't what I'm saying, but just that this game only lets you have fun if you either>Sink shit loads of hours into it and grind to a point you can just get free good loot from handouts from the factions>Are working together in a coordinated trio that is able to consistently wipe out teams you come across and leap frog in progression off their shitReally there should just be more fun stuff that's lower tier rarity. The unique blue guns were a step in the right direction, they need to do more shit like that so casuals and lower skill level players can have a slice of the pie, but not make them obnoxiously strong to the point higher tier players don't feel the need to power grind for multiple copies of a gun or replace their prestige vaults with them.There just needs to be more fun blue cores. More stuff like Vandal's Mechanized Holsters or Triage's EMP healing enabler that can push you into build crafting and shining a spotlight on weapon combos.
>>569703298neither do i, but i watch their stuff and some of it is useful
>>569708948Agreed. I don't want overpowered shit just fun whit to mess around with
>>569708743grim
A PSA to new players.You are not good enough to rush Sponsored Night Complex Control.You might have seen a how to grind tutorial bullshit thing but you are not capable of taking on POIs on your own let alone rushing through fight after fight with white gear.You also can't do it in 5 minutes because, again, you aren't good enough.
>>569713747Very well aware. Not going to stop me. What do I have to lose, anyway?
>>569713747With a V11 Punch, I can do anything
>>569714078your time.
>>569714153Already down the drain merely by playing.
do lockboxes only spawn in perimeter?
>>569714756no
>>569714867I've never seen them in other maps.
>>569714970ok. still spawn on other maps though.
>>569714970my bad they actually dont
>>569714756There's a chance for a whole group of them to spawn at the top of Quarantine in Dire Marsh - I've seen it a couple times (although unfortunately never when I've actually had a lockbox key).
>>569715242They'll also spawn at the 2 story building just south of Complex and they'll never ever contain anything good.
>Nucal quest going back and forth between Complex and Quarantine on night darsh sponsored>finally finish at the 10 second mark, just need to exfil>teammate goes down inside Quarantine because he got greedy>other teammate goes in to save him and goes downI should have left their asses to die. Never again.
Have you done your part in keeping the player count low?
>>569715924Yeah, didn't play it at all since they ignored my feedback in the 2025 beta.
>>569715472Highguard and Concord won, bigly.
>>569715924nah sorry. i gave it a shot cuz i like the art style and its the f2p weekend. for now i'll stick to battlefield for my pvp fix. i'll be boughting the game when it goes 50%-70% off next season or the season after that. on topic, as consumer friendly as they are being with everything sony is bound to crackdown as I'm pretty sure its unsustainable at current playercounts. I dont have any confidence that destiny's predatory mtx and grindy crap is not going to seep into marathon as well.
When is that west coast bump supposed to save us? 4 hours ago? Oh...
>>569715689straight up. it's what i would've done. >up in pinwheel>some squeaker and a mute on my team>wipe the lobby and we're doing pinnacle>hear a rook and the squeaker chases him up a ladder to kiss a shotgun on the lips>can't revive him>chew him out for his stupidity>the mute goes up and gets a taste of the all you can eat shotgun buffet>cuss them out as i turn around and head to the exfil and leave. the rook got the squeakers purple shield and loot. well deserved from those fucking retards.
>>569717910Rather optimistic to think there will be a player base in a couple seasons beyond one or two thousand hc sweats
>>569708271when is marathon dying again?
>>5697183093 months ago
>Got Marathon for $14>Leave a negative review
>>569718105if bungie has shown anything time and time again is that they do their best when they have their back against the wall. not trying to suck their dick but taken king and forsaken are right there. we'll see. the ball is in sony's court at this point. not bungie. so what do i know.
>>569713747i have to take a medication that gives me muscle spasms and i still play this game how do you think i feel
Just letting you fags know that you're next. LOL!!!
>Farmed Narsh PvE all day for purps and golds>Pretty solid, got RNG cucked a few times because of key spawns>Vandal tired of PvE wants real fights>Ditto>Get a few good runs in doing tasks and shit, finishing NuCal stuff>Decide we want to do PvP Complex because all the green and grey shield loot sucks>Recovering from KKV wipe so we're on green shields and 4k sponsor kits>Followed some gunshots to AI Uplink and catch a full purple team there>Their Thief is overextended activating the Warden crate and I spot her fucking around in the bushes>Our Destroyer trades for her and we're fighting their Triage and Assassin in CQC>They're kitted with actual good guns but my V66 still cucks their Triage trying to peek out of the bubble shield they're holed up in and keep his shields down>Vandal rushes with the battle pistol and lights them up>Huge upgrade from green bullshit to purples galore>They had the key to Complex on them and we have like 10 mins left anyway so we send it and melt the boss>Giant haulFinally some good fucking gaming on Narsh. The map is boring because everyone is so scared to come out and play so they hide in the POI they start in.
>>569719136controller player did all the combat lololol >4 down>4 elimBased Xbox tranny, would wife her up
>>569702710Mogs me, the highest I had was like 1.1K runners damage
Study the comeback..chuds...
>>569719697Insane movement + controller aim is pretty crazy, you love to see it
>>569720160what happens when the new Destiny expansion comes out and the numbers remain the same because the people already playing it right now are the people who are bitching about Destiny 3
>>569718804twitchy
idk why night marsh fucks with me mentally a lot, like the idea of using my flashlight fucks with me.
>>569721940I'll use you as a fleshlight and you'll learn to calm down
why did peanut abandon us.... he could've saved this game....
The bots have somehow become even more retarded than usual almost detrimentally because they will just magdump the area for 30 seconds maximizing the noise they make
>fill night marsh>one guy is constantly yammering and trying to take charge>clearly has no idea what the fuck he's talking about>try to tell him about shit he's wrong about (how many certs we need, where observation key can spawn, panels, how less reverbs spawn in proper night marsh compared to sponsored etc.)>"nah man I think you're wrong, I watched this youtube video like 3 days ago that said-">just keep proving him wrong repeatedly>he almost missed our exfil cause he thought it would de-spawn once final exfil starts for some reason and started running to the center of the mapNo other game do I so consistently meet people that are so confidently wrong so frequently. You try to be helpful and they just treat you like an idiot and lemming march to their doom. I can't tell if I hate these sabotaging bastards more or just dead silent mutes. I can only imagine how many runs have been fucked up from these actual mouth breathing lobotomites that insist on just spouting lies instead of flat out admitting they aren't sure of something or don't know
>>569726698I often end up finding solos or duos running around in trio lobbies, and I assume it's just these confidently wrong dipshits being abandoned by their teams.
>lvl 11>already seeing purple and blue shields in triosIt's over
>>569713747>PSAWhat am i supposed to do then, get farmed in perimeter? I already dread hauler and those two open bases north and east.
>>569713747my stack did all subroutines + multiple compilers and even we had to run it a bunch of times to figure out a consistent way to do it, please do not attempt that shit in fills you will only waste everyone's time
>>569685579Is this still a problem for new players? I remember struggling with this when I started playing in season 1 because money was always tight, but this time around, I'm not leveling CyAc fast enough to get the wallet upgrades. Maybe it's because I know what I'm doing this time around?
>>569687432>>569687665They exist on both version of Dire Marsh, but they are interactable only at night. They were added last season.
Had such an awful run of games right now I genuinely can't explain it. Just playing like a complete fucking noob retard walking right into people and constantly getting ambushed/getting caught out in the open.
>>569703643I've actually been enjoying solo Sentinel. That's all I've been playing this season so far. I want to get the 20 extracts entry.
>>569728483Learn to play the game first before you try to do optimized runs.At the very least do NOT try to be a shot caller when you don't actually know what you're doing and are just parroting instructions.Also doing loot runs solely against bots isn't going to help you get better at fighting other players. It just makes you a tastier pinata if you ever do go normal queues.
>>569729396lol
I'm curious who made the trio core design decision. Surely he must have known this is a player count repellent right?
>>569730125I blame ubisoft.
>>569730125Hasn't 3 been the magic number since Destiny 1's launch? I know Crucible started as 4v4 but at some point even that hit the 3 number.
it's really fascinating how the shittiest most useless morons are the biggest loot goblins
>>569730125It was clearly trying to rip off apex. The problem is that apex actually has a very well designed and seamless ping system, unlike this games. Basically makes it near impossible to effectively communicate without a mic in combat
>>569730125well obviously it was the valorant reject
>>569728483Learn the game through repeated failure using freekits, either as a solo or just accepting that you'll be a burden until you improve.>What do I learn?Beyond basic stuff like how to aim and movement and controls and what each gun does and every shell's abilities, the most important thing in Marathon is sound queues. Try to become extremely familiar with noises. Being able to know when a Destroyer has activated his prime might seem useless, but if you're hiding in smoke knowing that he's activating it will save you from getting gunned down like a dog. Once you become familiar with sounds, start to focus on the maps; learn where vents go, try to remember basic spawn patterns like arms lockers or bot patrol routes. Remember which windows are usually smashed and which are pristine so you can tell if players have travelled through a POI from that alone. The next most important thing once you've got those locked down is to combine them so you can try to mitigate your own presence; you should be trying to move around the map without leaving a trace. Move as quietly as possible, and if you need to make noise, then instead do so but be as quick as possible. Take the extra time to sneak up and knife bots, take alternate pathways like climbing in and out of already smashed windows instead of opening doors, and recognise which areas are hotzones you need to just "book it" through.90% of this game is just game knowledge being applied to gameplay. If you can recognise someone is doing a specific contract, you can plan an ambush around it. When you roughly learn how many teams spawn on a map start counting every exfil and every dead body so you can determine how many people potentially are still left. You really just need to keep playing and engaging with the game, because the more you play and pay attention to every detail, the more you'll learn, and you'll quickly see yourself improve.
>>569730804add in that Apex also has a clear unified objective (be the last one standing), while in Marathon you have to coordinate possibly three different goals that may or may not overlap at various points in space and time, so combined with the lackluster pin system, it's usually a clusterfuck with randoms
sentinel is so hot it's actually unfair
>>569700942I can't believe that streamers who play 1000 games didn't play this one for 1000 more hours that's crazy you're telling me this now?
>>569734101>"Let's see what we catch.">Always a Destroyer crashing through a doorway into a snare mine at 9000 mph.It's almost boiling up to a rivalry at this point.
Has anyone noticed that like half the key rooms on marsh have their shutters up now and you can just walk in but aren't able to loot anything?How have they just left this in for like a week?it's so janky
>>569735568Found this out yesterday.
>>569726698That was without a doubt a destiny player
>>569735412>destroyer trying to push with his shield up>throw a snare mine at his feet
>>569735412That's me. I just run around on destroyer like a bot.
>>569735707It's crazy how little caution most teams use when entering smaller spaces in this Season. There's just been cases where they step into a Frost/Snare mine in a real bad spot and then it's game over. I guess being only used to watching out for claymores really has drilled in some bad habits of people just quickly entering/exiting.
>>569735568Funny thing, the key room in Bioresearch has an interactable bioprinter inside. Why just that one bioprinter not anything else? Fuck if I know.
>>569736591S2 patches must have broken some doodad states on the maps as there are plenty of other places that have a few janky and resetting interactables namely doors, shutters, UESC cred chests and a few other stuff that just sort of freak out or otherwise function very weirdly. It's likely that (as usual) Bungie just didn't put the map states through a bigger QA session wringer to check whether something breaks once the patch is pushed through the pipeline.
>>569708476posted it again award
>>569720160Don't forget that D2 only has 1% of its population on PC, so that was actually 20M CCU
>>569718309Shutdown in March #TOTALCHUDVICTORY
>>569734618Season 2 is already out yet none of them played itSeems like their glazing was paid by Bungie, none of them were honest about it lmao
>>569737647>WE WILL BEAT ARC RAIDERS>actually avoiding immediate shutdown and getting raped by a decade old game is fine, chud lost, not like I play Marathon anywayslmao, shut your bitch mouth tourist, your ragebait is dogshit
>>569738281uh oh leakage
>you can disable crew fill on Night Marsh Survival>you spawn alone>Rooks don't spawn because it's technically soloPVE is here already.I did a few runs while listening to some podcasts, just spawn in, get certs, look for 5 cert lockboxes, and exfil with full purple.And keep retardedly dying because I run out of heals, but can't pick Triage, because without Thief I can't find those lockboxes.
>>569737802Or like with 90% of streamers, the juice just wasn't worth the squeeze. The game still has abysmal viewership numbers on the streaming sites and most of the engagement surrounding it has to deal with the people obsessing over Concord prophecy. Out of those mentioned, only Shroud was the only competent player who wasn't just an entertainer and i think his opinions through S1 were more functional then the rest of the retards. Namely:>Game was way too punishing and hard, even for FPS veterans>PvP needed polishing, namely with Shroud his major gripes had to deal with the loop getting tiring quickly for teams that wiped the map with ease and saw insanely high exfil rates. (Not that Shroud represents the average by any metric).>After trying some variety streaming, Shroud just goes to play CS2 because of an almost guaranteed audience and something that brings in viewers regardless of the overall quality of the content.The same applies to practically any of the other players who got into Marathon. It isn't to say the game might eventually find some streamers who bring in an audience too (Zylbrad being one who isn't complete gutter trash at the game and still averages good viewership on Youtube) and out of the regular Twitch streamers i think only Wallah and Drewsky could be considered to break the 1k viewers on average. It just isn't a particularly good game for streamers solely due to the volatile nature of matches and overall high skill ceiling. It gets extremely competitive and extremely quick for most who just want to stream it for a 'living' and there isn't enough of a viewership for the variety streamers to latch onto it.
>>569735568Yeah I noticed it too, you can break the windows and enter but you can't loot anything.
>>569739053Boogeyman added an allegory for cuck chairs
>>569738340uh oh clitty diddy melty
I have too much money and the next wallet upgrade is not close. What's the most efficient item I could buy in the armory for conversion into Cradle XP?
>>569739441Buy cheap weapons and shell cores, ez craddle xp
>>569738281>"your ragebait is dogshit">has a melty in the same replyOh no no chuddies ahahaha
>>569738972anon rooks are not spawning because nobody is playing rook rn
Wait the game is currently free to play and it's barely cracking 30k hahaha holy shit it is so fucking over lol
>>569740905Keep crying. Game is here to stay and you can do nothing about it lol
Thread is almost as dead as the game
>>569741369it's called DBNO sis
>3 months after release>game still lives rent free in heads of people who don't play itwhat causes this degree of obsession
>>569741583Total casual victory
>>569741609Be quiet in the presence of compGODS.
>>569741598It's fun to see shitty companies die
>>569741924pro life tip: all publicly traded companies are shitty by nature
>>569742069Damn you're right. If only there were games made by companies that are not publicly traded.
oh my god bruv
>>569741583Turns out people like playing games that are fun, instead of ones that are "competitive".
>>569742369Let me know when the first Marathon world championships are taking place.
So its just better to look for cert 5 boxes than waste time rushing the boss in night marsh, right?
Who wants to squad up for contracts on Outpost or Perimeter, and track some items for upgrades. I'm unlocking capstones.
Humiliation ritual general
cradle 53 using the 7 cert 5 method on sponsored night marsh so far:>on my 14th purple shield>3 golds (1 key, 1 bully and a head augment)>4 purple bags (probably 8 cuz i traded a few for some levels)>turned all cores into cradle xp>same with augments>7 bubbles>1 unique weapon>17 purple sms/pistols>1 purple riffle>+23 purple mods>1 purple outpost, 3 blue outpost keys, 3 perimeter blue keys>3 predictive frame works, 10 ballistic turbines, 9 biolens seed, 5 reflex coin, 1 neural insulation, 4 enzy replicator>4 shell ids which could turn into a gold keyrest is green/blue salvage, vault value 248k and cash 112k
>>569742167>Valve has entered the chat.
>>569743586Valve is a time bomb that will get RAPED by venture capitalists once gaben's son takes helm, they will buy him out and turn your precious platform into the biggest slop imaginable
>>569743805Two more weeks
>>569742424That's the thing companies don't get imo - you need a fun game first, which later translates to a competitive scene. The reverse just doesn't happen.
>>569742369TF2 is a pretty poor example of this though because it's 90% third world bots farming drops in idle servers
>>569744008Valve's biggest game has lost 1/4th of its player base from ATH because Valve's butthole is getting turned inside out by EU regulations which led to Chinese farm botters to quit en masseWhat do you think is gonna happen when the EU forces Valve to shutdown all the crypto CS2 exchanges?You don't think gaben's son is gonna cash out before the ship sinks?lol
>>569744656Steam prints money on its own, they don't need MTX from games. Going public is quite literally the dumbest thing Valve could do.
>>569718362It just hasn't shut down yet because... it just didn't. Okay?
>>569740235>Don't have a real queue system for your "experimental" mode that makes sure the lobby can be actually filled to the level the designers intended>Since they aren't making doing any matchmaking to ensure this, people who queue as rooks get dropped into matches by themselves and spend 15 minutes wondering if they'll be able to 3v1 their way into the final exfil>Obviously this is retarded, so stop playing rook>Now everyone knows the lobbies are rook-free and swarm onto the player queue PLUS there's even less rooks because nobody wants to waste 15 minutes just to get raped at the endwhat the fuck were they thinking man
>>569746850>shooting guns with my frens is fun :)
>>569727404>I often end up finding solos or duos running around in trio lobbiesthat's actually just me in there by accident because the game keeps defaulting to trios no-fill
>>56974158380% of the players are idle bots and the other 20% are hanging around because of the sunk cost from wasting their money on a hat
>>569718578the devs who did that are long gone. Look at this season's server launch. Does that look like them at their best? I mean even compare it to the launch.
>>569749290They didn't even give us a roadmap yet for Season 2 into early Season 3. We're cooked.
>>569747913this statement enrage the devs and the raped fanbase
>>569741583
>>569746850Don't forget they also nerfed rook AND made it so you need to play a bunch of non rook just to get him some halfway decent starting gear.400 fucking people and this is their best.
>My favorite rifle is my most hated pistolhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1tz3mtm/apparently_the_twin_tap_hbr_is_just_a_ce_tactical/
>>569749446I don't think there even is a season 3 roadmap. They're just working on pushing things out ASAP to stabilize the game before Sony shuts it down
>>569750060I don't get why people dislike the CE. it's quick and pretty ammo efficient for killing off the fodder UESC
>>569750074I doubt they're doing anything substantial with layoffs, looks like the Marathon team will get with them to a degree that Destiny 2 did.
>>569749756I think it would be cool if rook actually had his own contract pool that forced you to play him if you wanted all the shell upgradesIt's very odd that he's a grey free kit with dogshit abilities that you have to 1v3 with in order to get, at most, a bunch of blue scrap you already have too much ofI *thought* when they announced this new mode that was described rooks continuously spawning in that rookplay was going to be incentivized as being part of a grey horde that can overwhelm rich teams. But no. They can't even do that right. It's somehow less rooks than Season 1 perimeter
>>569750946He should get UESC Contracts and means to grief Runners
>>569751013he should have a lure grenade to sic the UESC on a team
got raped by the same fucking guy three times in a row, i do not believe that this is mathematically possible given the queue times
>>569750946>>569751013All the design on the game wants to push for sweaty 3 man teams. They deliberately want the rook experience to be shit, because it was supposed to be just some scavenging on the side when you lose all your gear and need to build yoru stash up, and to mess up the predictablility of team counters.Because he was effective enough to get some streamer or perma r/s to rage, they had to push him down.
>>569751327My team has raped the same guy 5 times in a row. Habeeb it. At time number 4 we heard "Not you again" on prox.
>>569750429Depends on if they're trying to make Marathon remotely rev neutral. It's more a question of whether this is rectal WSTR layoffs, or a 6 man chinese biotoxic and grenade 2 min cryo drill.
>>569750416>fodder UESCIts great for killing all of them.CE is the best weapon AFAIC, with Overrun and Punch being a tie for second place.
>>569751367>it was supposed to be just some scavenging on the side when you lose all your gearExcept if I didn't have gear I would just use a free kit on a hero with functional abilities and a full squad. Two other independent people is much more useful than even a fully upgraded rook
Is there a reason to ever not ADS?
>>569751880Notice that free kits used to be much more limited. They only loosened it up later.
>>569751896It's faster to shoot from the hip, some guns have slow ADS time. You also move slower while aiming. IIRC, if you boost as destroyer, you can't shoot from ADS until you land, but you can hip fire.
>>569751296Oh my god that'd be hilarious. A sticky grenade that makes that UESC alarm sound and if you place it in buildings it turns on their defenses with the red doors.
Damn, so for Season 2 they're still time gating contracts. I'm assuming this one is for Cryo though.
there are more people in call of duty deathmatches less willing to annihilate you on sight than in marathon even after spotting the fucker first and tbagging, fuck this piece of shit game and its incel fanbase
>>569754096back to speranza lil nigga
I love playing solo but sometimes my kills don't feel thermodynamic at all honestly. I took that blue USEC free kit and dunked a guy with purple shields in Perimeter. I just happened to be by the pipeline leading to hauler and I saw him running in the open. I shot and downed him before he could really do anything. The loot was nice and I fed it to the worms. I definitely do get kills in solo but the kills just aren't pretty. I'd say some of them are almost embarrassing. Killed one dude who jumped from the top of station and broke his green shield on landing. He happened to land in front of me and I shot and killed him. Nothing thermodynamic about that at all. Do thermodynamics actually go up in Trios?
>>569754215I don't know why people insist on playing this solo. In trio if you run into another team, getting a bit shot up - not downed - a player has a chance to reset and heal up if his teammates cover him, and then the fight begins. Even a downed and bodybagged member is not the end of the world and you can turn shit around.None of the above is possible in solos. If you get chewed up, they are going to push up immediately (outside of specific scenarios like Thief grappling on top of a building) and just tank the damage to finish off a kill.
>>569753490They need to otherwise you'd see swarms of retards running around the maps with Cryo contracts loaded in.
>>569749446I did find that weird but I'm guessing that it's coming in a week or two.Likely has to do with the fact that season 3 will be different than originally envisioned, since they actually had time to develop more stuff for that. Unlike season 2.
I enjoyed my first couple sponsored games but by match 10 I don't think I can do any more. Really needs that tension of PvP.. at least one other team on the map would make it more enjoyable
>>569754612this never happens in my experience. Someone gets instadropped and full killed by co-ordinated fire from the whole enemy team and then the rest of us get steamrolled 2v3
>>569754612Solos is more about avoiding fights, but I have won many encounters where someone got the drop on me. It really comes down to a lot of situational knowledge. There's more room for error in trios, but I don't like that it feels like a battle royale.
I'm convinced that the moment you track some material the game intentionally places you on the opposite side of the map. Will try and see if I can control spawn location that way...
>>569754612Trio is much much worse than solo. You are competing with two other people for loot and on top of that you deal with stacks.
>>569758302The way the game throws loot at you I hardly doubt that this is the case.The challenge in Marathon isn't getting the drops you want, it's living to exfil with them
>>569757515Every time I brute force a contract in solos it seems every motherfucker on the map has nothing better to do than chase me the fuck down.>>569757358I'm sorry that you get teammates stupid enough to get gibbed like that.
>>569754612>>569757358It really goes both waysSometimes in fill trios we just get absolutely beamed down 1 by 1 and maybe solos would have been easier in that caseIn other cases I've fucked up and had a goated random go absolutely RAMBO on the enemy team 3v1 and rez us both
I wonder if they'll fuck up season 3 as badly as they did with season 2
>>569758785Probably. By the time we get content they're already months to half a year ahead in content
So is anyone else excited for War Thunder Infantry?I figured I'd give it a go once Marathon dies later this year
>>569759078I don't think it's gonna be good bro. Just a gut feeling.
What the hell is going on with the CPU usage of this game, holy shit. 50% in a 9800x3d.
>>569759467War Thunder inf will likely be fine. Enlisted was great until the merge.The fanmail you'll get for killing vehicle shitters with mines or from niggardly positions will be absolutely exquisite
>>569759078It's not Marathon, so I'm not going to play it. Why would you want to play such a low skill boring ass game with boring ass military barbie doll made by ziggers? I am vomit. Just play Marathon, don't give up on it and don't let the chuds win
>>569759518Bungie has no idea how to use their engine or optimize anything. They laid off anyone with a brain over the course of Destiny's lifespan.
>>569759518Probably spinning a thread. Unless it heats up I wouldn't worry about it.
>>569759764This is also one of the main theories around some circles Sony bailed on Destiny 2 because it costs to much to produce Destiny content due to how horrible and unoptimized everything is (takes longer to push content too)
>Make Marathon F2P>Still the least popular extraction shooter on Steam
>>569760070>deadlock mogs itit's over, isn't it?
I want to see runner bot deaths with a heatmap when survival marsh closes. Greenhouses corner scout must be doing mlg numbers.
>>569760070My favourite extraction shooters: Destiny, L4D2 and Helldivers
>>569760371Deadlock mogs even Arc kek
Do PC players hate playing with controller players and vice versa? I play primarily on PC and the only reason I think I may dislike playing against people on controllers is because I think the aim assist might be egregious. I am not sure though and just a hunch. Just how egregious is aim assist on controller? I know controller players dislike playing with PC players because the keyboard and mouse can do some wonky movement related shit. What do you think?
>>569760070I've never even heard of Delta Force
>>569760735L4D2 is shockingly similar to Marathon in a lot of ways>Enemy players mixed with AI as your form of danger>Skill expression comes from learning the maps and good aim and use of equipment>Gameplay revolves around moving efficiently from A-B-C, and in many cases holding down an area in C for a predetermined amount of time before you "exfil"Only thing missing is consistent loot but even then in campaign mode (Sadly no enemy players on zombies in this mode) you keep your loot from map to map so you're rewarded for getting the good shitIts like a primordial extraction shooter. Honestly shocked a zombie extraction shooter hasnt hit it big yet but then maybe thats just my age talking because zombies havent been the in-thing for shooters for like 10-15 years
>>569761632>>569760070Isn't Delta Force one of those>You will never meet another soul that plays it But >Tens of thousands of east asians live on it every day in pc-bangsIts F2P which explains its audience
>>569761529Aim assist+bullet mag makes controller players a joke. there's a fag that repeatedly posts his controller plays like he's actually doing something, it's cringe af.
Luv me lore
>>569761529Nobody and I mean nobody can notice the difference between an enemy having controller or mouse. People who think they can, watch stupid youtube videos that get huge clicks because they feed confirmation bias.
>>569762208I still can't find any at all this season.Where are you tending to find them?
>>569762208>skracs are learning and intelligently deploying human speech>does not manifest in gameplayThank you Bungo.>>569762489I got that haul from the keyroom in Quarantine. Otherwise, I've found wall-safes are reliable.
>mods>"increases sneak speed when surrounded by enemies">"increases credit drops from UESC killed by explosives">"increases gun stability while strafing on tuesdays"I feel like I should just convert all these, very rarely do they seem worth anything
>>569762771I can't believe they kept Ornithologist in the armory.
>>569763018The only ones that seem good are the ones that just do stuff like increase accuracy/stability while moving. All of the rest seem incredibly situational.
>>569762685Shells aren't exactly human = not delicious.Skrac had time to learn and observe, runners are ADHD psychos who all look the same but vary differently in personality and actions.
>>569762685RIP, I never can find those keys for the unique rooms and when I do I usually die before I can exfil with the key or getting to a room with a key.
>>569763085I hope they rework the implants and chip mods again for season 3, this time cutting down on useless bullshit. I'm not even asking for strong effects on grays and green, just for something small, but usable.
Do we mind if we talk what little lore and story we have? Being that our runners minds are reset fully every season but I assume the overall story is continuing do we think the Husks are caused by NONAs experiments with us during her priority contracts with Sekiguchi? Almost all are her trying to evolve runners and create basically a symbiote that's sentient.Lastly, did anyone notice that Husks and UESC don't fight each other? Obviously this could be Bungie being lazy but if not it could be interesting.Colonists only had around 30 to 35 years to live on Tau Ceti before they went insane and the Pfhor abducted the others right? It's a shame we'll never see a more city-like map with dense buildings bundled together and going through hallways, tunnels, and other such things.
>>569763869I've seen Husks and UESC fight before. They won't swap to target each other if they're already aggro'd onto a player but if they stumble across each others path then 100% they UESC will kill the Husk.
>>569763869>do we think the Husks are caused by NONAs experiments with us during her priority contracts with Sekiguchi?I don't believe so. It's an anomalous enemy type.>Lastly, did anyone notice that Husks and UESC don't fight each other?It's Bungie being lazy, but I assume there will be an explanation for this.>Colonists only had around 30 to 35 years to live on Tau Ceti before they went insane and the Pfhor abducted the others right?I assumed it was closer to 60.
Did they fuck with the bullet tracking on the scar and volt thrower? The bolts seem to track even less than they did in S1 if a target moves even slightly.
>>569764860Yeah, they do.Bunch of streamers said it gave players to much of an advantage. They also removed Aim Assist on one of the scopes that can be used by them so they track even less.
I don't really understand what I can do to get murdered at random less, other than to just do things faster which mathematically reduces the probability. The worst part is I'm running weapons like the shitty lmgs so I'm not good at ambushing runners myself.
Is there a button or shortcut to clear your inventory?
>>569762771>>569763018>>569763085Operate with the mindset that Chips are very situational niche bonuses and not something like a "build around" piece of equipment and they're a lot easier to digestOrnithologist is really not that bad, sound is everything in this game and the random bird noises really fuck you up when you dont know where the shooter is
>>5697649921. Stop running out in the open2. Doing things faster isnt just an option (Thats just optimisation you get better at with time), take your time too. There's no need to constantly rush around from POI to POI, you only have so much bag space3. Listen. Listen. Listen. Treat every new area you enter as "There is potentially a squad looting here". Nowhere is safe.
>>569764964>Yeah, they do.>Bunch of streamers said it gave players to much of an advantage. They also removed Aim Assist on one of the scopes that can be used by them so they track even less.FUUUUCK
Finally survived a full complex run. If it weren't for the rain slowing our heat buildup, we wouldn't have made it to final exfil.I never even saw a single piece of gold salvage all of last season. I see that all the VIP faction upgrades are hidden now for reasons of esoteric bungie retardation, but I assume that's what it'll be used for. Should I just worm it?
>>569765268Being this is one of my first PvP games and Extraction Shooters I really wish the TauCeti.gg website showed what other players are using more readily for implants, mods, and cores because I still am looking at this from a PvE mindset and not a PvP one.
>>569763869>Lastly, did anyone notice that Husks and UESC don't fight each other?They do. Oh do they do.
With Nightmarsh being a thing with Husks, there needs to be events like weather events where a horde of Husks move through Night Marsh and its just fucking nutsOr going into the upper level of Complex where that boss is, and pulling a switch/hacking a terminal so it makes the anomly more unstable and makes more Husks and Reverb Farts appear, making it more difficult for other teams to traverse
>>569764964>scar was already a middle of the road gun that nobody really used but had a decent gimmick>streamers complain and now its total dogshit Classic Bungo
>>569766219I don't disagree but Season 2 only launched under a week ago.
>No solo mode and have to play against duos and trios>No matchmaking>No pve mode at all>game does nothing at explaining systems and items>only 3 maps (+Cryo Archive locked)$30 for this?
Fun ideas for new cores?>Harmacist>Triage drones can be thrown on enemy players, giving them some debuff. Can be shot or removed with appropriate kit, otherwise expires as normal.
>>569766412>no solo mode and have to play against duos and triosmeds
>>569766412there's solo vs solo>no pvesoon they'll be forced to
It kind of sucks that we have to wait until season 3 for them to finally decide to enable duos queues on every map instead of having it rotate. I imagine a lot of people on the f2p week bounced off of that specifically. >oh I have a contract for perimeter but duos is on outpost... I don't want to fight trios though.
>>569766771>IF THEY JUST DID THIS THEN-No doing thing won't save the game. Game sucks and has no aura and people won't come back.
>in Perimeter, activate the hack the UESC terminal in Station to summon a transport droneWhat Terminal, CuntI'm looking this up on a guide it's fucking stupid that it gives you no clue as to where to look besides a general location which is a) huge and b) swarming with UESC and potentially other runners.Fucking spent 15 minutes running around Station only to get ganked by another Runner. Fuck me.
>>569767030You claim that the game has no aura, and yet you are still here
>>569767134If you hover on the contract objective it gives you a vague description on where it isUESC Terminals are dark blue, they stand out
>>569767165But I am not playing the game, am I? #OWNED
>>569767134You can open the map and there's a tab showing your missions. If you hover your mouse on the objective it'll tell you the specific area to go to.
>>569767323yeah it narrows it down to a POI but some of these POIs are BIG and hard to effectively navigateThis is the second time I've had difficulties with station, the first time it was the one that asks you to go to the platform on NW Station and it turns out it's a dinky little platform like half a mile from the centre of the POI
>>569767134It's in the little car wash stations next to the exfil spawn. It doesn't ping it until you're really close for some reason.
>>569767030I think you misunderstand how many people specifically play duos over trios.
>>569767468Thanks anon.Fuck, this game has given me a headache.
>>569765619Best way to learn is just use a bit of everything you find, see what works, what doesn't. All the fun of having so many build options gets lost a bit if you just try and meta slave and copy everyone else
>>569765619>TauCeti.ggOh shit, thanks anon.Reminds me, when do you start seeing shotguns in the game? I've got like, 12 hours in so far and I've yet to either get one in an unlock or find one in the world. I've only ever found the double barrel that another player dropped.
>>569766219>>569766361I hope as we move into S3 we get frequent modifiers for maps like Night Marsh as opposed to them being a separate queue. Similar to Arc Raiders having the timer based map modifiers.The weather effects being completely random is already nice, but it'd be cool if it was like>For the next hour, the following two maps are night mode>For the night hour, this map is subject to a violent thunderstormetc. etc.
>>569767854Last season it was an Arachne upgrade to unlock a WTSR (double barrel) in the shop, and then there was a capstone upgrade (In Arachne again I think) to let your Rook start with one too. So they were basically everywhere. They got nerfed and rebuffed back and forth and few times and were pretty meta warping.Now I cant find it in the upgrades at all, only found one so far off an elite UESC mob, so they're possibly intentionally rarer and limited to random drops now to stop everyone and their mother having oneI guess its more back to Halo design style of a shotty being a power weapon that should be rare, not a sidearm EVERYONE has by default
>>569768358I've not even unlocked Arachne yet. Is there a way to check your regular stats? I think I've personally killed like 2,3 people tops in this. I absolutely S U C K at pvp.
>>569769318I suck too, my K/D is negative, but I still get some kills in every once in a while and it feels good. Plus, you will inevitably get better.Yesterday I had a run where I killed three players. It's not a lobby wipe, but when I started I could only dream of that.
The game will have a lot of seasons going forward:Season 3 will be a completely new map and perimeter rotated outSeason 4 the game will get cryo 2 (it's just regular cryo but 6 more vaults that are more complicated than the ones we have now)Season 5 Daytime Outpost + aliens introducedSeason 6 the game goes free on on PS+ and we get a proper introduction to the W*rknc*cnt*r as season's bossSeason 7 we get a new map + our first cross over with Halo, MS is full third party at this pointSeason 8 we get a new shell (the red nigga in the jamming screen)Season 9 is marathon's second anniversary and we will celebrate it by having a new planet in the Tau Ceti IV systemThink about it, the in game models for the shells/guns/NPCs and the in game maps have very simple geometry compared to overly complicated mess that is Arc RaidersThere is a reason those swedish cucks decided to end their quarterly updates, it's just too much work and they cant keep upBungie? Their jobs are literally on the line, some of them have massive mansions that they still need to pay off so they will work themselves out for many years to come
>>569770438jamming screen? Who?
>>569765616No, gold salvage does not yield a good conversion rate. Stick to greens and basic grey, mats that is.
>>569770438>W*rknc*cnt*r as season's boss
>>569770438imagine typing up a bunch that fanfic
To my surprise I'm dying a lot less and killing a lot more on destroyer with that heavy machine gun bots drop. Eats a lot of consumables though.
it's marathon's season 16 and the meta has been so warped by Bungie never nerfing the gold mizzy that Compilers are regular enemies now
>>569771292>runners slowly ascend to Sec Officer level and are smoking Pfhor and Spht by the end of the game
>>569767463Yea i remember that, there's one for dire marsh too, just keep going in the direction it tells you until you hit another zone
>enhanced mida sponsor kit gives you a green conquest instead of a green retaliator Is bungie retarded?
>>569770438Season 3 we're getting another new shell. We wont be waiting all the way until S8 for that. The shells are relatively simple and being that they have Adam Jensen/Assassin hired on board as a full time voice director I get the feeling they want a pretty quick turnaround on new shells Im not sure if we'll see 1 every season but it might be close to it
>arachne sponsored kit>has magnumOkay, might as well try this>one round laterTHIS FUCKS. I'm hoarding these fucking kits
huhdo people use these?
>>569772834I've never used one and one has never been used on me
>Sekgen Freekit againPISS OFF BUNGIE YOU FUCKING INBREDS
i have yet to properly make use of sentinels kit
>>569772834Only on Rooks to other Rooks
>>569767378Then why the fuck are you here? LLAMA.
>>569767854Sometimes shotgun recruits drop WSTRs. However, if you look closely, they use Misriahs.
What is the AVERAGE skill level of the players in Marathon? A buddy was telling me that I am definitely not an average player as I play mostly solo. I also have a positive extraction rate I guess. I basically never free kit or rook because I always have enough garbage to make a low budget kit. I was told that basically most of the player base rarely extracts and many times has to free kit or rook because they dont' really have the gear to make kits. Is that true? I am definitely a shitter though. I don't think I am great at the game. I think I am decent though. What is "average" in this game?
>>569772989Idk why they rotated all the free kit weapons, all the new freekits are actually trash
>>569772989that's the one with the pistol, isn't it? I like that one
>>569774138>free kits are trashI feel like that is by design. Why would they give you very strong weapons in the free kit? Not to mention they really tuned up most of the enhanced and deluxe kit packs.
>>569772834I got to use it a few times.
I want to keep playing Sentinel, but his "friendly" callout is broken.
that should be enough, maybe
I'd rather not play at all than do a single run with that fucking sekgen kit
>>569773172He is actually pretty good. The only thing I am unsure of is some of his passives. The castle doctrine one that requires you be surrounded? I am not even sure what counts as being surrounded though. But anyway, Sentinel in solo is pretty good too. The snare mine actually shits on UESC and the defender drone lets you fight guarded exfils somewhat effectively. Its not as efficient as destroyers prime ability to kill guarded exfils but the shooting bonuses the sentinel droid gives is nothing to scoff at. Not to mention the robots can't grenade you. The movement sensor is okay but try not to over rely on it. Sentinels base stats are decent too. Pretty sure he has a higher base melee than destroyer.
>>569775747My favorite thing to do with Sentinel is placing their traps on ceilings as light fixtures and having claymores being the bait.I just wish I knew how many of those traps I can place or if they despawn if Im to far away or leave the map. I want my traps to persist
>>569776234They do have a duration. I don't think there is a limit though as to how many you can have down. If you have cooldown reduction for the mines, you can probably have quite a few. However, like claymores, the mines have a passive sound so people can hear them if they know what to listen for.
>>569776234Have you tried testing in solo survival?
>>569776402A little but not as much as I have in duos and trios
>>569776234Snares last about 3 mins 20 seconds. You can have 3 up at a time, don't know if you can get more than that.
>>569775508i'm liking the S2 buffs to it as well.
Call of Duty extraction shooter announced.Might give the genre a boost. By extension, might be beneficial to Marathon as well.
DMZ wonMaraflop lost
>>569778734>DMZI don't know what that is.
>>569770438season 6 is maintenance mode actually, they have runway for a year and then it's just a cliff edge.
It looks like the W'rkncacnter is creating mind-viruses in humans living on Tau Ceti and before they could even figure out a cure it was to late.This transcribe trying to delete the memories in people that the virus/anomaly touched so they don't go insane and spread it to others.
>>569774317Because it’s less fun and making the game less fun is a bonehead stupid move for this failing product.
The hallucinations on dire marsh are near for all of about 2 games before you approach one at a weird angle and watch it run straight into a wall or just pop out of existence. And people say that shit is “polished” lmao
The best upgrade in this game is the uninstall button.
>>569781967This is just the UESC brainstorming how to memoryhole the pfhor invasion
>spend all you goy points in stat upgrades>nothing changes...Why?
>>569785719>UESC Mossad Agent in /mg/ telling me that the W'rkncacnter isn't real and can't hurt me.I'm on to you.
Is there any footage of the yokai skin Thief's voice lines?
>>569775508Wait hol upYou can keep the kit after its free day if you have room in your vault?Why didnt I think of that fuck. I've been letting myself be beholden to the kit of the day when I wanted to frigger run
>>569786765Also, like I've predicted, Bungie used the shell series for customization.
>>569786765It has different voice lines?
>>569773845I think with population being as low as it is, things are stratified at such extremes that idk if there is a good sensible average make up to fairly land on one exact thing. When progression was a bit shit last season and the questing rewards mixed, you theoretically could've had all priority quests done, be stuck at mid 50s and not necessarily have a ton of stuff, and maybe some upgrade progress but not a lot. It's sort of the same shit how doing a Cryo run and leaving is a completely different conversation than doing the keys, getting vaults open, etc. That all aside I do think a lot of people suck at the game and console crowd is an even bigger tell with how they don't understand how a. people still don't look up as much/play verticality(just like they didn't in Destiny) , b. they don't realize the fuck pile of aim assist controller gives. The good thing is Bungie did improve general loot and not locking it so hard on level(a change from mid season 1) and now there's so much good crap, there's really no excuses, especially with how survival freebie mode is very generous even if you dont get to boss on time. I think things are raised but the bigger reality is a lot of these people don't know how to use the power they find. Fights are very easily won by the already naturally low ttks
>go to hauler to kill bots with volt weapons>catch a runner jumping over a terrace fence from the corner of my eye>hide underneath and listen for them to sneak up>hear footsteps in hauler>they both fight thinking they were fighting me>vandal kills the destroyer and runs underneath to reload and heal only to run into me>i get both kills because vandal didn't finish the destroyer>exfil and camera pans to some assassin crouched in a corner at N Relayare assassaniggers even having fun?
>>569777876DMZ was fucking good it just had the misfortune that the codkiddies don't like it so it lost better structure and balancing, and warzone 2 was that year so less attention. I think they can do good with more of it
>>569787216Apparently. I keep hearing this, yet no one ever posted any examples.
>>569787216supposedly.
>>569787021The very Bungie semantics verbiage fuckery changes last second are classic at this point. Shell was originally a placeholder for skin, the characters were always called runners and obviously there's so much that does still act as that, then shell became the general name, series/style became descriptor for skin variance. It'll be fun when DLC 1 comes along and people wake up that Bungie gave themselves the out in advance with "all content for the year" line in what you're getting with base Marathon purchase.
>>569774138why are you even using freekits. loot is way more plentiful this season I'm constantly chucking stuff and I probably only extract 1/3 of the time
>>569787591I mean, I bought the Sentenal Retro skin and he has no new voicelines or even a change in voice like it being more robotic. Although, there is one voiceline that does give him a Asian or maybe Russian accent
>>569787965i think the difference is the skin rarity. i believe the thief skin is either prestige (gold) or restricted (red) while the sentinel skin might be deluxe (blue) or purple (superior)
I hate myself.>>569787965>I bought the Sentenal Retro skin and he has no new voicelinesThe retro remix Sentinel skin is still Rampart series.
>>569788310My personal best.
>>569787327It ain't easy being a hunter.
>>569788302I wonder then if any of the deluxe skins have any h ique voiceless. They're prestige right?
>>569717910At least you played the game. See you later.
What the fuck is wrong with me today, Jesus Christ.
>>569789641I hate those stealth niggas
>>569789641The ghosts are so fucking evil in S2 I am dead fucking serious they buffed them.
>>569790160>>569790480the worst is when they act like psions in destiny and just fucking run across the entire poi the moment you engage them
>>569790587Yep they fucking sprint off like crackheads way more often now
>>569789641That's the normal Marathon solo experience and where the game shows it's made for 3-men squads. They could have changed a few things for solo runs, but would bee too much to ask.
>>569791331I don't think that's the game's fault, though. I should have reloaded.
>>569789641nice to see I'm not the only one getting folded my bots like it's March again. They surely did change something, right? Maybe the new map has all the UESC set to S1 launch parameters.
>>569789641here, this will make you feel better
>>569794490I think it's the fact that their invisibility works a lot better in partial darkness.
>>569788998no, deluxe is blue, prestige is gold. a game like marvel rivals or LoL only make significant changes to legendary (orange) skins so i would assume for marathon it would be prestige (gold) and up.
What are your thoughts on the following:>LMG shield always on or off until its needed?I use a lot of LMGs and I know the shield glows but I feel like its only useful to have it off if you are doing sneaky shit and even then, you could die in the split second it takes to turn it on and then ADS and start shooting. So I always have it on usually. What about you?>SprintingWhen it comes to moving, when do you normally sprint vs crab walk etc? I normally sprint between POI's but then walk when inside the POI unless I need to sprint. >lootingWhen it comes to looting, do you normally have a look around first before you start? I get especially nervous when looting dead bodies because there is usually a lot of loot that you need to go over. I normally end runs severely under looted in Trios because I usually refuse to loot if everyone else is looting. Team mates might kill some people and instantly start looting before looking around. Its insane. So if I were to start looting too that means 3 people are now watching bags and not watching out for enemies.
>>569794490Its much harder to see the fuckers when they are stealthing when its actually fucking dark. I love and hate how dark Night Marsh can get.
>>569795698What LMG shield is the one everyone uses that basically makes you immortal?
>>569794570What were you thinking sliding in like that with a fucking Magnum?
>>569796292I was thinking about it being really cool to slide into them then shoot them with the magnum
wtf is up with solos right now I'm having negative exfil rate right now when I easily had 60% exfil in S1.
>>569795987Is there one like that? I have never used a purple or above LMG so I have no idea.
>Shoot one of those toxic plants >Still get the full strength poison effect because as I passed it, a single fucking pixel of its pollen caught wind of my fartThis is some fuckling BS
>>569796612>wtf is up with solos right now I'm having negative exfil rate right now when I easily had 60% exfil in S1.Enemies have been ramped up>Reinforcements more numerous, come with commanders (often purple shields)>Enemies are more aggressive, can detect you more easily, better tracking and pathfinding>Two rocket drones can now be active at onceetc
>>569797805i would like the game more if those were removed. i enter every run with 6 of each heal or more because of shit like that and it costs so many credits/resources/grinding time
>>569797694I have no idea what rarity it is but there are different shield-types for the LMG. I think, but not sure, the one all the players use that makes it feel like they never get hit is the "Control" variant
Which faction is even worth upgrading now? Beforehand, CyberAcme seemed like the obvious choice, but Cradle happened. NuCal maybe?
oh fuck oh shitgod I am bad at aiming
ngl im gonna miss sponsored dire marsh
>>569799240Nah it's just Magnum at work. That said you should've pulled out the knife instead.
Freekit nigga tried to jump me on exfil. Don't even know what he said when I killed him, his mic sucks.>>569796612It's the other way around for me.
>>569799240Turn your in-game sensitivity all the way down, between 5 and 8-ish (can be more or less) then increase your mouses sensitivity until you can complete a full 360 rotation, from left to right where ever your mouse is located.
We need a melee only shellI wanna slice things up!
>>569799234CyAc, NuCal, Traxus, Sekigucci, then MIDA. Arachne sucks this season.
What am I supposed to do with this temporal fragment cube? I stabilized it and all, exfiltrated with it too. But it just sells for cash.Am I doing something wrong? The money is not worth the hassle, I could just farm guns and sell them for more.
only just noticed this upgrade god fucking damn it, cradle level 40
>>569800271It just sells for cash, increasing with your seasonal level.
>>569800271you have to be like level 70 or 75 or some breakpoint before it converts into purple or gold salvage up to a value of 6k credits, it only sells for credits when you are low level. stupid choice by bungie but it is what it is for now
Are there any "pay to lose" skins in this game? I would imagine wearing white skins on night dire marsh wouldn't be a good idea?
marasissiesrape time
>>569800628I don't know how I got it, I think I got it from Fun Police bundle on steam but for whatever. fucking. reason. It gives Assassin a entirely white and powdered, baby blue accent colors and is the only skin in the entire game for Assassin that gives him normal feet instead of duckbills.I've never once, in all my playtime ever seen an Assassin player wear this thing.
>>569800628not really, the game applies a sorta darkness filter to all skins on night marsh and even the really bright ones don't stand out too much
>>569800628white skins on nightmarsh arent great but because of the lighting it's not that big of a big deal. maybe the white rabbit skin with the .gif of the rabbit running around might be noticeable. but real runners (tm) pick CyAc skins anyway
>>569799708Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a go.
>>569801995Agreed.Personally the CyAc and a few of the Traxus and Archne have great color combinations to make you blend in even more.But the best is probably, as of right now, the Season 1 Reward Pass sets. All the runners have almost fully black skins with grey and dark white accent colors.The only CyAc skin I wouldn't use is Thiefs because it gives her neon green hair color you can spot a mile away.
This blows. This is genuinely, legitimately bad. They really fucked up faction progression. Jesus Christ, what the fuck were they thinking.
>>569802642You will like your alien ball sack and deal with it Anon. You could string a few together and make some anal beads for yourself.
Stupid thing wont even let me see what the fuck it is. It doesnt even allow to be selected. Fucking retards.
>>569802853Finish your capstones retard
>>569802853s2 isn't entirely better than s1 for sure
>every time i exfil, camera switches to an assassin crouching in a cornerdense mother fuckers, aren't ya.
any arc raider chads wanna rape and gape my submissive marabussy?
>Parasitism 4/5Do they really lock you into a tiny room with a fucking wraith warden?
>>569803590u rike?
>>569803590More like rape warden
>>569803590Nah, just a few waves of ghosts. You can solo it on a freekit if you aren't a shitter.
>>569800271I've been getting purple salvage from every cube, it's just bugged for some stupid reason and doesn't show up. You'll have an extra tab on the left of your inventory after exfil with "additional rewards x9" or whatever, it's blank for now.
>>569802986Yeah, i noticed that now. Man, this season is worse than previous one. I think i will just leave until last month of the season.
I think if you have players camping/sitting in a position for way to long a husk should make a beeline to your position.
>>569805094Husks on Narsh. Several ticks on Perimeter.
>queued into the wrong map on no fill trios AGAINoverdosing on retard juice
>>569806053i've noticed it takes 2 or 3 tries to switch between solo and trios. like there's input lag or something.
>>569806053I did that earlier today, a team caught me on exfil, I politely explained I loaded solo by mistake and asked them to let me go and they did.I still barely believe that happened.
If you must rape, rape exfil campers.
Marathon enjoyers, prepare for June the 9th. Destiny fags are going to raid the shit out of /mg/ with screenshits of charts and all of that bullshit
Just delete the sidearm from the game, holy shit. Nobody uses this POS over any other gun given the chance. Melee is better than this waste of a gun.
>>569807578No charts can revert the fact that Destiny is dead.
>Done 6 tier-three cert lockerbox sponsored runs in a row>Not a single purple shieldDid they patch the spawn on them or have I just been extremely unlucky?
Fuck all casuals Fuck all newfags
no way they aren't nerfing melee damage soon. its so cheesy how people can just spam sliding in close quarters while slapping with a knife doing 80+ dmg. either make melee use way more heat or reduce the light attack damage. OR punish you for missing.
>>569808664No. Knife is commitment.
>>569802853Look at this nolifing tranny, would wife you up
>>569807918I hate this gun so fucking much it's making me mentally unwell. Why even attempt to buff this thing? Everyone who plays this game knows it sucks cock, bungie has the statistic: Nobody uses this voluntarily. Why the fuck is this bottomfeeder piece of shit gun in the game?
Crouching for longer than three seconds should ping you for anyone within 50 meters.Cooldown being six seconds.
>>569808979just aim at their head and click fast
CE tactical is still a really good botkiller with a silencer if for whatever reason you can't get a burst pistol
>>569808664they already nerfed it last season broski, it's already borderline useless
Vandal's butt
The real problem with the CE Tac is just how fucking dogshit the fire rate is. Even if you hit all headshots as fast as you can fire, you'll still lose in a gunfight against someone with an actual gun. At least you can feasibly kill a purple shield with a unmodded Overrun or Punch if you're in the right circumstance, but you can't do shit with the CE>it's only 50 creds, it's not meant to be goodCompletely invalid arguement when the Punch exists
just killed a faggot assassin that was camping an air drop, and that fucker must've been real pissed off and alt+f4d or something because I was right at him and didn't even manage to execute him. he really did not want to give me that little bit of arachne xp lol
>>569810530I just want a auto fire option like in warframe
>>569808913>trannyI may be a nolifer (out of the job for the moment), but calling me a tranny is an insult. I challenge you to fisticuffs.
>>569809831CE is great for recruits and anything blue-shield and any scouts. They suck against ghosts. D54 is great against ghosts, worse than CE against the rest due to ammo waste.
does cryo open up while the f2p week is active
So we possibly want a pistol that can switch between full-auto and precision or semi-auto?
>>569811253no it opens when f2p ends
>>569811484damn those worms are gonna eat good then
>>569811254>westop with that lame shit, don't speak on my behalf. *I* just want the fire rate to be faster
>>569810607yeah i've noticed some people kys like half a second after you down them.
>>569811647We shall speak for ourselves as much as we want,
>self-revives can't be bought until rank 28>still seeing them regularly enough in duos
>>569811586Best worm food are grey and green mats. Also blue and purple weapon mods.
>>569812335I get them sometimes on green Traxus Kits
>>569795987The trick is that you would normally never crouch because it increases the odds your opponent will head shot you. When using an LMG shield this is a bonus, you want those shots to hit around your upper chest area and face. Additionally crouching gives all weapons an aiming bonus, there are LMG mods that increase that bonus to an absurd degree.Also consider finding terrain features that cover your feed and lower torso, like barriers or boxes to maximize the LMGs shield use.
Do rocket drones now actively seek out locations where players are? Feels that way.
>>569787825>I am a motor vehicle operator aka a driver>I drive a Ford>It's an F 150Make sense?
catlike reflexes
>>569808138Same with marathon
>>569815485I'm running on spite. I don't mind Marathon dying as long as Destiny dies with it.
>>569815413I get mad when someone runs aways instead of dying Die DIE DIE
Where the fuck do you find anomalous reverbs? I've maybe seen one ever, they don't seem to spawn by default at all
>level 15 on perimeter playing with my level 3 friend>already seeing full squads of purple shieldsgay
>>569817162Sponsored Narsh only.Been in the same boat, regular Narsh basically doesn't have them, but plenty in sponsored Narsh.Check the dark woods areas between buildings. They're floating, wobbly silverly lights.They fire tracking bubbles at you, with really good tracking and at high speed. Hurt quite a lot.
why the FUCK cant I take Rook on Outpost, Bungie?>>569806053I keep forgetting to reselect solo everytime I redeploy. every run Im convinced more and more that Bungie simply doesnt playtest at all
>>569815098it makes sense to show up at late exfils. one downed me while i was activating it but i was close enough to a shed to hide until it was time to shimmy back out and leave.
>>569817168>>level 15 on perimeter playing with my level 3 friendCute, now get the fuck off my game
>>569817634how about you make me faggot
>>569817162nightmarsh
>>569815098it feels like the opposite to me. Ive done dozens of narsh runs and only twice has the rocket roomba actually came to kill me
>>569815098Stop using flashlights and shooting at shit or deploying shit (like Sentinel does).I ran multiple times underneath one with flashlights off and not tossing drones or using pulses or smoke nades or such and i was fine. My teammates however are sometimes noobs, sometimes retards, and manage to provoke the bastard to bomb the area. Bubble shield is a must for such moments, but finding yourself with one on a sponsored queue is tricky.
>>569817474no they do spawn in regular narsh just not as much apparently
>>569818045I only use flashlights indoors, where you actually need them, anon.And the map where I began wondering about rocket drones was Perimeter.
>>569818045not always true. I've had one start shooting rockets at me just crouching and not moving inside of the medical vans
>>569818045As a Sentinel main now, when should I be dropping my mines? I usually always drop one behind us whenever we go into a new section of a building or loosely if we're outdoors on a tree.
>>569810607People still do airdrops for any reason besides noise bait?I haven't seen one looted in months
The more players Marathon 2026 retains, the more the game will get dumbed down. Easier, less rewarding modes, and shittier, stupider "casual".I don't want Marathon to retain players and get dumbed down. Keep the game difficult
>>569818592they're fine if you're going in with a grey kiti never see anything more rare than a blue mod though
>>569818729And the more hardcore it gets the smaller the fanbase.
>>569818863Does the fanbase have to be big? I don't if Sony is losing money and Average Joe is quitting, fuck all of them
>>569819297>Does the fanbase have to be big?Not unless each of the small players is willing to pay tenthousands of dollars to make Sony the money back.
The Marathon downfall needs to be researched
>>569817486All rooks are redirected to Sponsored Marsh for the duration of the experiment.
>>569819646>to make Sony the money back.I don't care about Sony, I don't want casuals to have fun on this game
>>569820212One team vs many Rooks was a beautiful dream that will forever remain unrealized. Why would you play Rook into a scenario like that when you can be the team?Rook is meant to exploit the gaps that occur in game flow when multiple teams interact. What kind of gaps are there in a single-team scenario?
I hate loot
wstr homie probly frothing rn
>>569665969Won what? A leakage?
>be rook>know everyone's doing the sponsored night marsh youtube strat>run straight to Complex knowing there's always going to be 1 guy by himself inside the building>wait until you hear gunshots so you know he's busy fighting while you take elevator>jump him while he's still busy fighting>hear them scream into the mic while you finish them>plenty of time to loot him and set up a trap while his buddies run half way across the map to get to you>claymore or have a nade cooked aimed at his bag when someone goes to revive him>1v1>flank them with the help of bots>extreme salt over the micI've done this at least 4 times tonight and have won all of them so far. Absolute kino Rook gaming.
>>569818592i got a unique magnum out of one earlier. plus now you need to loot them to turn deluxe key templates into keys
>>569821016What do you mean? Why hate loot?
>>569821445Post video, sounds like you're lying
>>569818592Only if it's late match and I know most of the lobby is dead or exfil'd
>people teaming up in soloIs this the pre-made in discord/IRL/cafe bullshit?Downed a Recon but Thief covered her and then mercy kitted her. What the fuck. This is annoying.
>>569822761Is it incomprehensible that maybe, possibly, someone out there might be using a mercy kit for the thing it was actually designed for?You know what, who am I kidding. Of course it is.
>>569821796I can't look at it
>>569821445>Make mode dogshit for rooks>Nobody plays rook because it sounds like dogshit>Everyone treats it as a PvE mode because they don't expect rooks anymore>Rook becomes the ultimate shell that downs unsuspecting solo runners in secondsToo bad every single run is>Spawn with <10m left on the clock>They're already in upper complex and will come out as a 3 stack with all purplesor >Spawn in with >10m left>They all have nothing but free kits
>>569790480I thought I was going insane, they definitely shred you faster than ever and they fucking love just running backwards at full speed while shooting you if you ever get near them, plus just taking off across the POI the moment something spooks them. Annoying fucking enemy now that is way too overtuned. Extraction shooter enemies are things that attract players when you're forced to kill them, they aren't supposed to all be a drawn out ordeal with real threat potential esp because the AI doesn't give a fuck on aggro.
>>569823068Fuck off.I have now died to a fucking 4-man team. What the fuck. 4 fuckers, rushing hauler exfil on last minute. Atleast i got one dead, but seriously, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?! 4! IN A SOLO QUEUE! And i have seen 3 bags too - 2 in hauler and 1 outside of it. What the fuck?!!!Profile of the guy that killed me.
>>569823186I've had 3 encounters where Rooks were very testy. One in which Rook managed to snipe my teammate, even though he died because lol final exfil.
I thought Rooks were trapped in Sponsored I just saw a duo of them roll up after me and my friend dipped on Outpost.
>>569823186I have found like... 4 Rooks total in sponsored. Really fuckin annoyingly once was when we barely scraped by a win on the warden, had literally no meds so were barely alive, and the exfil was between Algae and Quarantine, so we have to rush there, and our buddy made the mistake of calling out to the Rook he saw instead of just shooting, ended up killing each other, and only one of us got out. Lost a gold shield and gold salvage to that - even if the Rook had won he had no time to loot. Rooks in that mode seem to exist only to crab bucket, there's basically no profit to be made unless you happen to buddy up to people doing shit.
Got pretty good luck this time around with filling into two good recons incl one with a purple key. Slaughtered some poor green shields at Station, then we heard a purp'd up trio at North Relay that decided to run down from the high ground to fight us in that little garage/crate storage thing just outside Station. Think plinking at their recon (no fucking damage at extreme ranges even with outland btw) made their Thief drone to try and distract me but I killed it fast enough to still pop two of their shields and our Recons managed to push and trade with me clambering the wall and catching their Thief as she tried to run. Key room had a ton of lore items so I just took those since I love filling out the Codex.>>569815413Like a cat falling off the kitchen counter lmao
>>569825404And this is the fuck i killed.Why/how are they teaming up? Fucking liberty.
I dont get it. Are they lumping together solos with duos and trios?! Pick solo queue, get trios and duos on it? Jesus, Allah, Moses, guide my hand and my knife.
>>569828194And i just realised that you can solo queue into trios. So that is how i fucked up... Why can i queue as solo into trios in the first place?!!!
>>569828194No they just fucked up with the game remembering what mode you picked so it defaults to trios even if you are solo no filling.
is it just me or does the wastelander suck mega cock now
>>569828398
I miss late S1.
>>569828926Me too. That was a good time.>>569828553They nerfed it to shit, same with Mizzy.
Marathon should have been released on PS4 as well.
Killed a vandal in the first minute of a perimeter run. She was just hopping and skipping about without a care in the world. I feel kinda bad about it, but then she shouldn't have infilled in front of me...
>>569830675I scanned out a white shield as Recon in Algae Ponds, stepped around the corner and 3-tapped him in the head with the battle pistol as he was looting a guy. I think I shot him so hard he instantly died, all 3 bullets hit his head. He literally could not react it was so fast, maybe sub-0.3s ttk. It was like shooting a deer.
>>569828394>>569828398It's not all bad. It lets you play semi-Rook but with a full 25 minutes if you want to look at it that way. I've been doing it to take advantage of the leftovers from squad wipes and exfilling with peoples' blue and purple shit
>>569832804The biggest issue is the map sizes aren't made to support 3 different party sizes, maybe if they were like twice as big with more POIs but it's kind of a shitshow.
>>569832804Yeah, i did it that way 3 times now. Its kinda neat.
didnt know you had to start moving to the center of the map before the final exfil spawned on sponsored night marsh, thought the 2 minutes would be enought to make it from most parts of the map
>>569832804Now that I think of it, doesn't this kind of nullify the point of Rook? If you can solo queue into duo/trio lobbies as a normal shell with all your shit and no contract, why bother doing Rook at all unless you like his tact/ult?There's no point unless you have him decked out in the faction upgrades
>>569834106>There's no point unless you have him decked out in the faction upgradesthats the point i think. you also load in later. for me, i used rook to accumulate barter materials like all the unstable salvage so i could get ammo for my regular runs. it was easier to do as rook than solo sponsored kit cause i spawned in later when a lot of the teams were already dead
>>569787283wait, am i actually nerfing my self by not playing pad?
>>569805562>NarshStop saying that.
>>569832793>It was like shooting a deer.lol
>hit 2 cert 5 boxes on average>dump them into the cradle>lvl 54 in the first weekJust 16 more and then I can actually start holding onto my loot and play the damn game. I dunno if I'll finish in time for freekit marsh going away, though.
>>569817168>alreadybro people STARTED with purple shields.
>>569741583even grandpa on his deathbed can still give this young whippersnapper a wallop
I'm playing late S1 in S2
hollup. waymin.whats stopping me from just liquidating my entire vault for like 100k cradle XP, maxing out my shell stats, and regaining my stock in a week or less?
>>569845982>and regaining my stock in a week or less?If you can regain it standard modes, no problem. You have 1 day of PvE mode left
>>569842085>Just 16 more and then I can actually start holding onto my loot and play the damn gamei don't like the cradle for this reason but it's less painful than the old gold and purple salvage system for upgrades... i just wanna have a wipeless marathon so i can enjoy it with my friends and we can all eventually make it to the compiler. they're employed and parents and shit so i just nolife alone all day until they get on and we play some where i kinda carry them (they're not bad, just don't play enough) with knowledge and items and stuff. but i can't bring them into cryo, i'd have to tell them their guns are unacceptable, i'd have to yell how status effects work in the middle of gunfights etc. if it weren't for the wipe i think i could get them out of the green shield salt mines. sorry for blogging in a reply to you if it's annoying btw
>convinced my friends to try the game>play the night map>we keep dying>my friends decided they won't play it againI tried to help Bungo, but the game is too hostile for our sensitive vaginas
in a game thats all about vivid colors. the battlepass shell skins have no color. i see the eververse philosophy has already set in.
>>569847913>a game thats all about vivid colors. the battlepass shell skins have no color.Why should everything be colorful, if you don't want a style, that's different from the base game, don't buy it, faggot
>>569848037>don't buy itI am not. I am just noooticing. funnily enough, I would have boughted if they had good cosmetics in there.
are they gonna keep baby mode after tuesday?
>>569848583>are they gonna keep baby mode after tuesday?Not on night marsh. Maybe they'll switch it to a different map.
>>569848583what is baby mode? i'm new and solo-ing perimeter
>>569848882the sponsored mode
>>569848936ok i will look into it. thank you.
>>569848975thank you also.
>>569849061thank you for?
>>569848882>what is baby mode?Click Dire Marsh, select Sponsored Survival. You need to pick a free grey kit for that. No enemy players, just you and two teammates. Kill bots, pick up bot key(Certs) and take weapons/ammo/health packs. With every three keys, there's a tower you can activate, it will unlock a set of loot boxes, with blue and possibly purple items. Greedy crackhead bitches will collect 5 keys instead of three, and unlock a single 5 Cert box, it's more likely to have purple loot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBeYhUpUIXE
>>569849137Listening.
>>569849240I love and hate that you can tell who watch and play the game via videos like this one.
>queue sponsored mode solo>complete contract>kill self because most of them don't require you to exfil anymore>repeat this until all dire marsh contracts are done>people think this is actually good for the game because hurr durr the contracts were too hard last seasonSponsored mode might honestly be the worst shit to happen to the game and is gonna make the rest of this season actual hell because of how fast people have been able to accelerate in progression and loot
was trying to squad fill for sponsored marsh to see if my randoms would try and attempt complex boss but its always just people aimlessly wandering not even attempting to at least get the 5 cert boxes
>>569849848trvthnvke
On night Dire Marsh, do other players see/hear you illuminate an exfil? I did a solo run there yesterday and never heard an exfil beacon activate. I've only ever encountered 1 other player, an Assassin, and we managed to avoid directly crossing paths. I saw him again on the post-game cam as he failed to reach the final exfil in time.
>>569849848>passive-stat boosts tied to progressionOut-of-game systems impacting gameplay have spread across every multiplayer live service game like cancer. League did it first with runes and then all their devs went out and got funding for their own games and just kept fucking doing it and now here we are: Marathon just eats itself like some shitty ouroboros because no one at bungie thought it through
>>569849380>I love and hate that you can tell who watch and play the game via videos like this one.Don't know what exactly you mean, I never watched Marathon videos. I looked up "sponsored marsh how to use certs" for the noob.
>>569847913People don’t want skins that expose them in a game where the less they’re seen the more likely they are to win.
>>569849848>>kill self because most of them don't require you to exfil anymoreSame thing will happen with savage and safe pockets.
>>569850553you can make whatever excuses you want, fact of the matter is people want shiny shit. there's a reason shiny shit is on the store and not in the bp.
>>569850326>Marathon just eats itself like some shitty ouroboros becauseof crying casuals, who thinks it's not ok for a game to be "hard", unless it's the meme FromSoftware garbage
>>569847091>sorry for blogging..Don’t apologize for expressing yourself and especially don’t apologize before someone’s suggested you’ve made a mistake. Go spend some of your free time reading Joyous Science, you’ll feel better. Check out Roamstrong and start working out too, I can tell you don’t. Not apologizing for my blog.
>>569849946>was trying to squad fill for sponsored marsh to see if my randoms would try and attempt complex bossYou're not missing out, it's a lot of near-perfect work, and the loot isn't amazing. I've done it 5 times.
>>569773845You are irrelevant because you're not facing the actual competeition in constant cryo. Don't sweat it.
>>569773845>What is "average" in this game?Extracting less than half the time. If your extraction rate is 50% or higher, you're better than average Joe.
As a dad who works, I think skill based matchmaking needs to be based on Cradle level. A level 60 player should not be allowed in a lobby with level 20 players. We're just trying to vibe and chill after work.
>>569817486Because they don't give a fuck about you, and just want to use you for difficulty.
>>569819297They have 400 or so of the most expensive developers on the planet on this game, and they have already lost a quarter billion dollars and are losing more each month. They need exponential growth, or the game dies whenever sony stops deciding to be charitable.
>>569825404>>569827635Skill issue. There's a metagame and you're losing.
>>569851757>or the game diesOr we could keep playing it, not our problem when it dies. I remember when Xbox One and Ps4 released, nobody gave a fuck about developers. Nobody cared about how much money a studio makes.Now, 13 years later, many posters are retarded trannies, talking about money and numbers, instead of playing the game.
I will now continue to drop explosives on players, who are trying to extract. As soon as they call it in, I'm flying over there.
>>569851917Hey, we know you're going down with this ship, but anon asked. the amount of dev is directly linked to rev, which is loosely linked to player count.
>>569851917The game sucks lol if I want a trios extraction ill just play apex and win the round
>>569794570>Wasting hand cannon>Sliding in when you dont know where they are>panick hipfiring the magnum all over the placeAnon wtf
>>569808664If you let someone get in melee range to you with a knife out then they could have killed you with any other close range weapon instead even sooner.
>>569800628Thr destroyer with glowing moving red text
>>569853095>Hey, we know you're going down with this shipActually, I'm from /arg/ and /codg/. S1 and S2 of Marathon so far, is a better game than Arc. Don't know if MW4's DMZ extraction mode will be as good as Marathon, but I preordered MW4 and will preorder GTA6.
>>569821059I cant believe people really thought Vandal was meh on launch because everyone looks a bit meh compared to how hard Destroyer fucks in PVP, but realistically her three non prime tools (double jump, power slide, mega man blast) are all really strong versatile tools on their own for a bunch of different situations. Her Prime is just "You can do it all even better"
wait I should be using light attack when going for melee?
>>569853529This is a complicated calculation.
>>569851008idk I have two alien alloys from 3 runs
>>569853529so ideally you want to just do your light combo since the 3rd hit does heavy equivalent damage, at capped melee stat the combo will down them. It has the same attack time as 2 heavies but I think it might be easier to control or has better magnetism than heavies.
>15 T3 lockerbox runs in a row>Not a single purple shieldOn the positive side I'm level 60 in the cradle now and have grinded out most marsh contracts but still annoying af
Regarding the classic game lore.>I have sent a message to Earth. I sent all of the information I have on the Pfhor: their behavior; their technology. The message will arrive in 92 yearsTau Ceti is less than 12 light years away from Earth. It shouldn't take more than 12 years for this message to arrive. What kind of sub-luminal comms does this setting have?
>>569851008>You're not missing out, it's a lot of near-perfect work, and the loot isn't amazing. I've done it 5 times.i mainly just want to do it one time for the night stalker title progress
>>569854274Carrier pigeons
Are there any new story elements in season 2?
I haven't played since Cyro was first released.Have they made anything significant balance changes this season? And have they made the game less grindy at all?
>>569854558a bit for narsh right? i think those contracts have cutscenes
>>569854710Yes and Yes. You level up way faster and go through rep levels a lot faster, biggest change is moving all the stat upgrades to its own system and streamlining the unlocks.
Should I be making worm food out of all my purples until I cap my worms?
>>569854710>less grindyno. however yes, as well. the things that were complained about last season got nerfed like contract difficulty and faction upgrades but the cradle represents a hurdle of gear extraction that is pretty high if you want to have a level playing field with the sweats who will max it
>>569855148i've been saving a little bit of the best purple and blue stuff for cryo but most of it goes in the worm device yes i think it gives very important buffs, it's basically the new upgrade system since the faction upgrades are all armory access now
>>569855367i also wormfood every piece of salvage i don't want badly for an upgrade as it gives a solid amount of xp once you've built up a stash of it, and use it to get rid of things instead of selling for credits like i did a lot in S1
Are the UESC actually being hampered that much by runner activity? It seems like at best the runners are a short lived incredibly localized interruption when left to their own devices and are only really a threat to the UESC operation when working for MIDA or Traxus.
>>569855771Its probably sheer numbers and consistent waves of interruptions. One of the traxus starting contracts says you reduced UESC efficiency by "0.005%", which doesn't sound like a lot but is probably reasonably impactful to a big military organisation and the fact that the Runners quite literally cant be stopped. They just keep getting killed and zapped into a new shell and coming at the UESC over and over again. Accruing higher and higher debts and having their memories wiped so the corpos (factions) can throw them at their objectives over and over
>>569855771I mean, runners are embarrassing the shit out of Orion on the Marathon>be Orion>have a whole runner crew>hundreds of autonomous bots too>nothing in my way>lose to Compiler so fuckin hard that my dropship and all my guns are still there and I can't even get them back>penniless hobos who murder each other on sight fight through all my forces and security systems>and kill the Compiler that I was told to research>and take all my gunsI'd be pissed too
so how difficult would it be getting a compiler kill doing nothing but random fill cryo archive? i did not touch it at all last season
>>569828553>>569829506I haven't gotten to test my WSTRs in PvP yet, got a few in my vault. Should I just cradle them?
>>569856181people have done it, given enough runs you might fill with a sherpa duo who knows things and can take you on a ride
>4 days in playing Marathon with free week>Finally got a purple shield in Night Marsh (I dont even have any blue shield)>While my chink teammates fighting a Scorch Warden somewhere on the map>Go help them>One of them already down when I got there>Ran out of ammo>UESC reinforcements kept coming>UESC rocket drone to boot now>Lost all my loot
>>569857004>Sherpa duoKek thats a good analogy
I love thief
>8 minutes left>over at quarantine>random finds a complex key>GUYS WE HAVE TIME WE CAN DO IT EASYThese aren't real people. They can't be.
>press punch on guy I have on one HP at point blank>whiffs I love unreliable auto aim melee systems!!!!!!!!
>>569856181It happened to me last season, but you'll never match with someone bringing in a key. It happens when you win a fight and nab a key off a body and someone gets really gung-ho
>>569858039sorry chuddy, the melee magnetism was TOO strong
>>569853436I really enjoy the movement and miss it when playing other shells. Popping amplify and running all the way around a POI in 5 seconds to flank an enemy team from a rooftop is great. Arm cannon is useful but the charge time without the core can be a problem.
>solo dm>rocket drone can deploy during final exfil
>>569856031I'm struggling to see how the UESC can't find the corp ships in orbit and blow them the fuck up.
>>569858870The only one they have legal authority to just smoke then and there would be MIDA affiliates. The rest of the corps are legally allowed to monitor Tau Ceti, since it's their investment, and "aid" UESC operations and Traxus is practically joined to the hip with them.
quick question, if i do all the faction quests do I need to do them again next season?
>>569859635yes
>>569859690ok thank you.
>>569859716Thanks
>>569860146thanks for?
>>569860171thank you for the thanks
>>569860171Thanks for getting back to me
>>569855771You try doing delicate investigative work on anomalous fuckery with mostly only dumb combat bots as security while constantly getting harassed by immortal murderhobos.
>>569856181late last season you had a pretty good chance of this happening but it probably won't happen again until end of this season
>>569855771Yes but also no. In the latest valuables there's a chat between Orion and one of his officers about how while they're technically being a nuisance and hampering shit, Runners aren't instrumentally interrupting the whole flow of the operation, and we're getting equally as fucked up as the UESC is. Even if we do achieve major goals like killing the Compiler or wiping out 200 UESC bots, it's a drop in the ocean. Really we're more of a distraction and enabler, and any major disruption we cause is pissing off Orion and getting him in trouble since he keeps focusing on us instead of doing his actual job.Most hampering is being done by the actual corpos and MIDA through bureaucratic bullshittery. You can argue that it's us doing the legwork, but we're just the proverbial messanger.>>569856181All 3 of my compiler kills have been done with random fills. It's definitely possible.
Reminder: All Rooks deserve death.Murder on sight, never play nice. Never revive. Never Mercy-Kit.
>>569861659*Always Mercy-Kit to kill again.
>>569857216I know everything about night marsh sponsored encourages lone wolfing but you should reject that playstyle on principle anyways and this is your punishment
>>569861840If anything he should lone wolf more. Would have prevented his loss.Also if it was his team mate that split off, it was definitely him who deserved to get mauled.
So UESC bots definitely read input.
What would you do if a Thief shell offered herself to you in exchange for letting her exfil?
>>569862081There's a man inside, so it's a bullet to the head.
>solo perimeter>running past guarding exfil on way to hauler, activate it just to fuck with people>about to get in hauler and hear gunshots>go back to exfil and some guy is fighting the bots>wait until he kills them, then I kill him>turned out he already killed someone else>I get 2 loot bags of shit for nothing and exfilThis game is too funny sometimes
>>569862163What if it was a woman inside
>>569862163Why would there be a man insideThe entire point of being a runner is your consciousness and "digitally stored" on a hard drive and beamed into a robo-body. As a career that path is perfectly equally viable to men and women. The "Runner consciousness" in the shell could easily be a man or woman.BUT BESIDES THE FACT: It is canon that the Shells have their own personalities and consciousness pre-programmed into them and the actual "Runner" takes a mental subconscious backseat.This is done on purpose, something about Marathon's equivalent of cyberpsychosis otherwise
>>569862081She doesn't have a pussy or anus, so you would have to use her mouth.
>3 UESC crates>all purple implants and bioseeds >only go up 1 cradle level T-thanks...
>>569862637Enjoy your gloryholes, anon.
Imagine getting your consciousness put into a shell that is designed for giving blowjobs... guh
>>569858660>Arm cannon is useful but the charge time without the core can be a problem.if they're going to buff her cannon they need to make it louder. right now its pretty much impossible to tell when a vandal is about to power shot.
>>569861659Had a rook try to scoot into final exfil on freekir marsh and I shot him while randoms were screaming not to. Fuck rooks, i don't even care what he was carrying he's not extracting and that's that.
>>569864251if rooks announce their presence then im cool with them but if you sneak up im shooting you.
>>569863671destroyer?
>>569864827Those luscious lips
I would put my consciousness into a female prostitute shell. I am a man.
>>569864847Got nothing on Triage's mouth
>>569864359>Announce presence>Some runners will let you exfil with them>Others will shoot you on sight and your announcement was a "COME KILL ME" invitationI cant take that risk. When Im rook on last exfil I just wait until 10 seconds left and smoke the shit out of the exfil and dive on at the last second. You can still exfil even when the bubble comes down if you touch it. Just in case the exfilling runners are aggressive, gives them minimum time to shoot you before you go intangible
>>569865005why is 3d marathon porn so uniquely bad
>>569865252Search and destroys you through the smoke
>>569865287Because the models are attractive not sexy.
>>569865287It's like mid-90's CGI, but with a few more polys
>>569865287>why is 3d marathon porn so uniquely badThe game isn't popular enough to attract the big 3D artists that are actually good. I only know of 2 3D animations (both featuring Thief) that are good. I wish the game was more popular, because then it would get more porn.
husks, reverbs, the ghosts and voices and shit?all dreams made up by the anomoly, like pathways into darkness
>>569865287obese Recon and/or futanari Recon, take it or leave it
>>569865634i want to see a section where you have to start dealing directly with whatever wrkncacnter adjacent shit is operating on tau and you start running into some REALLY out there creature designs like pathways
>>569865287majority of people just don't like the character design, even some people who like the game just don't like how characters lookwhich i'm not sure how they'll fix since skins are suppose to be their main revenue stream. like, no one is going to drop $20 on a skin for triage.
>>569866287they need to make more hot female shells. i'm not coombrained, i'm being serious. people will buy those skins.
>>569866505They made a proper yoga-pants ass for some already
I don't really understand why this game's style is so controversial to people. I've heard>it's soulless and corporate and>it's too bright, it hurts my eyes to look at" from different people. IMO it's just a pleasing and interesting style, it's crazy to me that the art of this game gets a lot of flak but you rarely even hear it for any other game running UE5 realism or fortnite-adjacent cartoony anymore
>>569865881yucatan pyramid as a pve mode would be a cool ideapve, maybe roguelike? on a timer maybe bungie should spend the rest of their D2 silver money on it as a new PID game
>>569865298Activating an ability, downing, and finishing someone in the span of like 4 seconds is pretty good odds for the rook in most cases still
>>569866505doesn't fix the issue that most shells currently are outright ugly or unappealing to most, and they can't drastically change the design silhouettes of current shells without losing le character recognition because this is a pvp game. like they could just outright model-swap triage with someone who doesn't look like him, but then it wouldn't be triage.just another bad consequence of making this game a hero shooter.
>>569866809"make a AA pathways remake" has been the precise thing i've wanted bungie to do since before marathon even released
>>569866903they really fucked up by having the healer character just be a black dude instead of a broadly appealing heal slut archetype.
>>569867132they could give him ryan gosling face and he would still look like ass. this is a top to bottom train wreck in character design, and when people buy this game they're greeted with this as one of their first impressions.
>>569867319also wow early triage somehow managed to look worse, what the fuck bungiealso lmao they were originally humans
>>569867319>they're greeted with this as one of their first impressions.A new player sees the Destroyer first as it's the shell you do the tutorial run. Then he sees every other shell at the same time.
>>569866654Thing is as well if you worked in a modern industrial plant then you can see all the inspiration. One use 3d printed junk? We're already living in it.
>>569858775Dont step into exfil until last 5-7 seconds.
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i swear to god, benjamin netanyahu himself is paying these faggot assassin solo players to be hiding in the corner exactly where I'm going to be. and also bankrolling them with self-revives
>>569867545...yeah, the first 20 minutes to 1 hour of figuring out a video game is first impressions, congrats
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>>569867319He literally just needs a helmet bro
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>>569867947making all the shells faceless robots would actually help a ton, but it's a hero shooter and all hero characters need ~names, faces and personality~ because that's just how business suits see this market
>>569868256>because that's just how business suits see this marketWow, it's almost like those things are proven to make characters more likeable and for people to spend more money on them. Crazy stuff.
>>569866926>bait destiny fans by releasing a trailer on a sony state of play with "bungie" and it being hyped up as a "sequel years in the making"bungie should definitely do it just to rub it in
>>569868323None of that makes a difference if the character designs are ugly
Why is marathon so fun?I'd say its the best bungie game since halo 3.
>>569868382I think they are good. Except for the non-edgy assassin ones.
>>569868382>None of that makes a difference if the character designs are uglyTherein lies the problem. You were incorrect to say that "making all the shells faceless robots would actually help a ton", because it wouldn't. Giving each character a distinct appearance and personality is better, but the problem with Marathon is that they don't really look nice.
>>569862870Gold and purple mats have worst conversion ratio. Green and grey have the best.As for equip - scrap blue/purple gun mods. Purple implants. Shields dont yield much xp. Backpacks are hit or miss. Scrap green ones for 2.5 ratio.
>>569868323>those things are proven to make characters more likeable and for people to spend more money on themnone of that is applies to this game lolfaceless robots would unironically be an improvement over whatever they're currently doing. not to mention this genre obviously leans toward players wanting more generic, customizable characters anyways over John Hero Shooter who likes cats and his favorite color is blue and he talks funny
>>569867319I don't even dislike him desu, they just fucked up by making him the healer.
>Night MarshWell, i have a perfect track for the vibes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bePCRKGUwAY
>>569868623>faceless robots would unironically be an improvement over whatever they're currently doingNo? That would just make the characters extremely fucking boring and similar. Who is buying a skin when they all look the same?
>>569868623>not to mention this genre obviously leans toward players wanting more generic, customizable characters anyways over John Hero Shooter who likes cats and his favorite color is blue and he talks funnythis is a very weird thing to say when we all know that everyone who plays extraction shooters also plays shit like overwatch or league, etc. you're wrong on this.
>>569868740literally my argument prior was mentioning that no one is going drop $20 on a fucking triage skins because he sucks to look at, and model-swapping is impossible because hero shooters need easy hero recognition.so yes, this problem would be solved if the players had access to faceless characters who aren't inherently tethered to dogshit character design.
>>569868840How are you not understanding what I'm saying?We both agree that Triage is a dogshit design and no one wants to buy skins for him.You are saying he should become a faceless robot, despite the fact that this would make him boring and people still wouldn't buy his skins because every skin would look the same.I'm saying he straight up needs to be completely changed to look more interesting and appealing to people who play healers.
>>569868829>that everyone who plays extraction shooters also plays shit like overwatch or leagueI used to play League a long time ago. I dont play Overwatch, League, other extraction shooters, or multiplayer games that are not Unreal Tournament.Maybe i am an outlier, but your generalisation is flawed. This game sold itself to me on sci-fi and lost colony vibes.
>>569869071brother I'm telling you right now you are an outlier lmfao. my generalisation is not flawed because of some autist like you thinking this game is filled with heckin OG gamers who like you
>>569868929because other games in this genre favor towards giving players high agency in how the characters look, and they're not going to change the entire roster's base designs this late. hiding their faces entirely with a full-face helmet, or at least offering the option, would involve minimal work and opens up to more skin potential.if this was overwatch, i'd agree. but it's not.
>>569869071>i only play unreal tournamentweirdo lol
>>569869071based unc
>>569869351They are good games. Onslaught/Warfare is sublime.
>>569869272>because other games in this genre favor towards giving players high agency in how the characters lookWhat do you mean by this? 'Extraction shooter players' don't have some agreed consensus on customizability. >and they're not going to change the entire roster's base designs this late.Obviously. My point lands that this game's characters and skins are doomed forever.>hiding their faces entirely with a full-face helmet, or at least offering the option, would involve minimal work and opens up to more skin potential.They won't do this. See your point above. It's too late. I don't know why you're even arguing this when, in the same post, you just said they won't change their base designs this late. What are you even doing?>if this was overwatch, i'd agree. but it's not.Noted. Thanks bud.
Going VIP on NuCal this season allows you to buy reinforced gold shields.
>>569869392they are good games but they are over 20yrs old, they get stale to normal people.
>>569869458genre's have baselines and expectations, that's why they're called genres.comparing this to other games in the genre is rational and valid. also putting a hat on a character is not some complicated process comparable to designing a new character from scratch you overly analytical dingdong.
>>569869552>normal peopleDefine normal.You mean current generation, no? Thing is, current generation is cooked.
Are you Marasissies ready to get mogged by D2 tomorrow?
>>569869701>also putting a hat on a character is not some complicated process comparable to designing a new character from scratch you overly analytical dingdong.Ah, now it's just a hat! Not a "full-face helmet"! Womp womp. Try again without changing your argument this time. I don't need to tell you that yes, putting a full-face helmet on these characters completely changes their designs. Again, you've already said they won't change their base designs this late into the game, so I don't know why you would even continue with this.
>>569869803can't wait for the "erm actually that's a good thing because..."
>>569869803>>569869891A drowning man's final thrashing.
>>569869929D2 will still be playable when the servers eventually shut down. Can you say the same for your game?
>>569869838NTA.What if they release a Shell that is customisable? Keep current ones, and release a new customisable shell?
trust me guys, if i can cover up vandal's face i'm gonna buy all of her skins!
>>569869838>Ah, now it's just a hat! Not a "full-face helmet"! you know i specifically called you overly analytical yet you still doubled down lol, covering their heads doesn't completely change everything just their head which is low investment on bungie's part, but just enough to make things better across the board. arguing otherwise just makes you come across as semantic for no reason. take a chill pill, hothead.
>>569869994When Sony snips bungie everything will go dark. And I'll be happy because ultimately Destiny fags will be the ones who cry the most.
>>569870134better get those subroutines then faggot
here's your slop fixed with slop. that'll be 20 dollars, sir
>>569870260Mister Chef?? From the Hello games??
>>569870148>you know i specifically called you overly analytical yet you still doubled down lolYes, because I don't care lol.>covering their heads doesn't completely change everything just their head which is low investment on bungie's part, but just enough to make things better across the board.It might be low investment, but it still changes their base designs, ROI doesn't matter here when it's such a large change. The characters are mostly defined by their faces and silhouettes -- full-face helmets turns them into generic robots indistinguishable from each other, which Bungie won't do because of design principles aimed at making characters immediately identifiable. >arguing otherwise just makes you come across as semantic for no reason. take a chill pill, hothead.Nah, I'll keep going because I like making you look silly.
>>569870260OH MY GOD TRIAGE IS SAVED!!!! IM PULLING OUT MY WALLET TO BUY ALL HIS SKINS NOW
>>569870163We already know when that is too. This is Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League all over again. They made enough season content for half a year and then the entire studio shutdown.The best part? We already know Sony's killing Bungie. Go to Reward Pass and then press down; there's imprints of how many seasons are planned already, it's six - every three months is a new season
>>569870330the nigga that made no man's sky? yeah I think so
>>569868929>You are saying he should become a faceless robot, despite the fact that this would make him boring and people still wouldn't buy his skins because every skin would look the same.I would buy Rook skins
>>569870386>design principles aimed at making characters immediately identifiable.Dude I can't tell the difference between npcs and players at a distance
Skinlet mogged by actual good design.
>>569870386>The characters are mostly defined by their facesno they aren't lol>full-face helmets turns them into generic robots indistinguishable from each otherme when i play video games blind
>>569870260oh so its not his design its just that his face had african festures.
>>569862081>What would you do if a Thief shell offered herselfI would tell you to get the fuck off my game.I know you're not even playing it
Thief is the best design. I like that her lower body looks like a doll/mannequin while she has a puffer jacket on her upper body. It is quite cool
Can't wait for June 9th for the trash cans to quit
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recon, destroyer and assassin have the best character designs
>>569871031Dark Skinned anything doesn't sell.The entire world hate niggers, the only country that tolerates them is the US and to a lesser extent Canada.Hell in China they use nigger like cattle, skinning them and using that skin for leather products while turning their balls into powder for fertility Anon.I would play Triage nonstop if it didn't look and sound like a nigger. The only positive is that its the only one I have to deal with in this game.
>>569871534>destroyerreally? he doesn't even look like a playable character compared to the others. he looks like an npc.
>>569871534I absolutely love Sentinel personally.One neat design I've noticed is that Sentinel and Recon were both UESC robots prior to them being modified by runners; both their heads are akin to UESC troops elongated heads
>>569871629I like it.
slopped up vandal, that'll be 1 battlepass purchase sir
It can be worse
>>569871190Cope
It can be even worse
>>569871697I never understood why this game is as popular as it is when the characters are so bland and ugly
>>569871697>>569871813Really makes me re-appreciate Marathon
>>569871859When it first came out the movement and shootan were a breath of fresh air. I'd never played a BR before and i got hooked. Every update has casualised it even more, Marathon will probably be a speedrun of that process.The characters are so fucking gay though.
I feel like at some early stage of development UESC must have been much more of a threat to players before they turned them into fodderI can't imagine any dev looking at the game now would put in contracts like "Defeat hostiles [Runners++] 0/5" and give them to people at level 70 because it's so on-its-face silly
>>569871697Lifeline was the first african-american woman that I jerked off to. All it took was for her to be a fictional 3D character.
>>569871671wasn't recons shell initially designed for the UESC and it somehow found its way into runner circles?
>>569872028>black/brown 3D/anime woman cures racismmany such cases
>>569871697>>569871813post that ai slop version of the runners from that xitter retard (I think it was the one who beat his wife)
>>569872026In server slam or maybe at release they had way more health. The nerfed their health which made them a joke. Now they do more damage and are more aggressive which I think balances it ok. The ghost barrage fucking wrecks now.
activating exfil>>569872668>>569872668>>569872668>>569872668>>569872668
>>569872026The contracts are dumb and there is less variety this season. If you have 'exfil with 4 trash items for 120rep', you will just reroll for 'open 6 containers and kill 5 hostiles for 240 rep'.
>>569872161Yeah, but its base is off of UESC, Fun Police skin talks about it and so does another skin, forget which.
>>569867132>>569867319The next healer/support-esque shell will probably be a women Im guessing. Problem solved
>>569854558Barely.>>569854710Rooks are fucked over hard. CRADLE system is a huge change.>And have they made the game less grindy at all?LOL. Different grind. Remember. Grind is relative to your opposition. My teams are vs practically 100 percent purple and gold now.I found it worse.>>569855178We expect to go into cryo with the entire squad, including alternates and the extra people to negotiate with extra teams to at least full cradle, and full purple, with most having mostly gold gear. It's gonna be rough.
>>569855367You're going to eat shit at the start of cryo.>>569855771UESC is fucked and look at how many fuckers are running around? Consider how much damage ONE methed up looter could do in your house in a single run. Now imagine a squad of 3. Now imagine 6 squads of 3 in your fucking house.
>>569856181Difficult isn't the word. You need luck. And you're incompetent at 3's. The odds are the same as having someone like me eventually carry you through all phases. Which depends on my team being accidentally down a man when you show up to fill. I think I ended up taking maybe 5 random fills through a compiler kill in all of last season. They all were very happy. You can't count on it. You can improve your odds by playing through, maxing out your shit. Having a good supply of gear to risk every run. and not be salty that the noobs you fill with need you to carry them to extraction or getting steamrolled 30 times in a row.
>>569862841MOUTH.FRIEND MOUTH.
