Stupid Sexy Recon edition>C.A.R.R.I. Returninghttps://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update_1_1_0_2>Welcome to Season 2https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/welcome_season_2>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: >>570786765
add a firing range nigga
blast status?
>>571104062anus blast!!!!!!!!
Art blast (lol) on artstation if you want to see some concepts and suchhttps://magazine.artstation.com/2026/06/bungie-marathon-art-blast/
>>571104701It's a shame that all this beautiful art and unique style has gone to waste. It only makes me angrier, even more so because of who holds it and what they foolishly decided to do with it, awakening Marathon from its 30-year slumber with this misguided, belated fad-of-the-month, content-less hollow extraction flop.
>>571105896>tfw no 4 player pve co-op where you customize your own shell, do objectives to reclaim corpo assets off of tau ceti, and fend off against insurmountable pfhor forces>basically ballbusting difficult suicide missions against waves of alien terrors where extraction is optional ala helldivers stylei hate bungie so much it's unreal
>>571107914That is...a significantly greater variety of enemies than what we actually have. Huh.
Is the Impact any good?
>>571108651marathon was the literal precursor to halo, of course it had a large enemy roster along with some batshit insane lore.and they decided competitive hero shooter with tarkov shit was the best choice for a revival
>>571108651That's all 3 games. Marathon 1 had like 8 enemies with a bunch of palette swaps
>>571104701If anyone has been wondering what the banners say, it's(left) "death levels/equalizes all | In death, we breath" the last word is a little hard to read even in game, I think it's Flamus(right) "death conquers (or binds/fetters) all | I am that which you will be/you will be as I am"(on the sides) "to give silence" though silenzio is Italian, not Latin.
>>571109119Arachne has such a fucking cool aesthetic. Charter is awesome.
>>571109389shame he's got like, what, one priority contract?
>>571109742Yeah. Marathon is just a whole lot of wasted potential
>>571109113Damn. Would be cool to see them. Maybe even a UESC/Pthor crossfire map at some point...
If you don't like the game why are you even here?
>>571109832Maybe in the future there will be more, it would be cool if there was a very stand-out, hard to unlock Arachne skin, that requires you to get *a lot* of runner kills, one that makes you go "oh shit" to even see someone with it.
You've Been Lied To About Marathon... This game is actually full of blast havinghttps://youtu.be/lcMoHGui33U?si=7Z61ca4Rpq71WRsw&t=105
>>571109118this is still more than flopathon
>>571113163blast-haver spotted at 1:55just watched half of this video and it is not a chatgpt essay as a commenter suggests, it is just a low IQ slop enjoyer. chatgpt actually explains and elaborates on its points, comparatively.i quit when he started explaining the story of bungie starting from bungie and even including halo. NIGGER, those aren't even the same company, and why the fuck does this matter for your argument for Marathon (2026)?
>>571114841
lol
How's r/Marathon doing these days? Are they still in denial?
This game was so bad it also killed Hamish Sinclair and the Marathon story page
>>571116591in daily panic over player numbers and people bitching about how this season sucks
finally getting some regular extractions from Cryo and it's solely because I found a team with non brainlets and we all pack mizzys. insane how the game just does a 180 for your entire Cryo experience when you use the most broken meta guns and bubble shield spam. makes me sick
>>571116957Ngl, that's surprising. I thought they'd still be fully juiced on toxic positivity
>>571117638it's honestly entertaining to watch. there's a lot of infighting over people saying the game needs to change entirely because being extraction hero shooter isn't appealing to most, while others like to argue they need to lean harder into the extraction shooter aspect but make it more accessible.what denial there is comes from the fact that the game isn't making any money, and the people who don't want the game to change really reject that notion through sheer cope.
Less Hero Shooter more Extraction Shooter I say
>>571118659extraction shooters are objectively niche, which is the crux of the issue since this game had the development budget of fucking Cyberpunk 2077
>>571119257250 million for 3 shitty forgettable and small levels and 1 good level on a weekly time limit lol
>>571119386here's the fun part, 250 mil was the initial budget.now include delays, marketing budget, and first year operations, the estimate is over 430 mil.cyberpunk 2077's budget was 440 mil. bungie is THAT fucked.
I like Marathon.
>>571119786That's extremely suspicious. There is no way this game should've been over even just 100 million with the amount of content it holds.
>>571103461And the general drops off fucking again.
>>571119927it's because this game was in development hell.the concept was an MMO (called Matter), then it became a hero shooter, then it became an extraction shooter.also if it wasn't obvious from the character design and art direction, the Marathon IP was slapped on retroactively. it was initially suppose to be its own thing.
>>571115315lmao
>>571116591The depression is taking hold faster than kurpa hosk can ban people. They're feeding some posts into twitter again, or vice versa.And of course shitters everywhere. Some even worse than that one dude here who can only understand PVE and still bought this game.
>>571119927>That's extremely suspicious. There is no way this game should've been over even just 100 million with the amount of content it holds.There was a LOT of chaos with metooing the previous guy and emergency changes with the Zeig heil. And bungie under best conditions is extraordinarily bloated and inefficent.
>>571120358btw here's a screenshot of old Triage, when he was called Lifeline
general died twice nowno one likes extraction slop, people would rather play true single player games than drag their balls through FOMO ridden extraction slop.Tarkov is changing. Arc Raiders was developed for the long term. bungie is retarded.
Darksight Scopes on precision rifles honestly seems like a meme. It highlights what, 30m at best? It's just okay.
>>571120969Somehow even blacker?
>>571090908>>571091665They could have done a lite-campaign that takes the existing maps, blocks off areas to linearize it, script in some sequences and have people talking to you over comms. Could easily have gotten 2 missions out of every map and done a cool sort of evolving campaign where every new map that gets added also gets these new missions to further this campaign story. Throw in audio logs to find and computer terminals to read off of like classic marathon for lorefags to make youtube content off ofWould have been a lot less resource intensive than making unique maps and assets for a fully fledged campaign while appeasing people complaining the lack of a campaign and how the new season hasn't moved the story forward enough, offered a mode to interested campaign players and maybe even draw them into trying a PvE
>engage a team>there was a 2nd team right around the corner that third partiesI kind of fucking hate the pvp in this game sometimes
>>571122541The maps are too fucking small, even in duos everyone just fucking slams into each other.
>>571122301Maybe they'll do it, but scripting like that takes time, and it's gotta be something interesting enough to not feel like just a normal walk through the area or no one will care.If I were them I might consider a way to make some of the priority contracts into missions like that (and maybe pull Rooks in for some stages or keep certain stages of it as contested contracts that spawn in an opposing player, that'd be my preference but I'm sure people would whine) while working on more storylines for upcoming seasonal developments.
A shame that a 25% of the actual content of this game is locked behind trios only. Still can't believe they actually hedged their bets on this being a primarily trios only game.
>>571123851Bungies going to have to do something, anything to pull in players. Whatever the fuck this is right now isn't working
The core for Recon that improves TADs is fucking lame as shit, why wasn't that changed?
>>571122754As intended. They want high intensity. Rapes for everyone.>>571125493They needed to be in emergency mode back during the server test. The fact that they seem shocked at this outcome tells me they're gonna die. At this rate, maybe mass layoffs couldn't make things worse.
>>571126483Yeah, seems like they're way to outta touch with gaming as a whole as well.
Got a good payday in ranked last night. Fighting a team at east wall and a third team showed up to party. Got a lucky break and managed to turn the fight on them and yoink their gold stuff.First time converting footage so sorry for the scuff
>doing sponsored perimeter with a buddy>actually find a compromised key in a wall safe>get some good implants/heals/purple backpacks and a bubble shield>already looted hauler so we're good on guns>thisistherun.exe>Warden just didn't spawn at all on the mapWe swept every POI and he just wasn't there. What horseshit.
>>571125287I'ma be honest does anyone else run solos simply because they dont want to fuck up 2 random peoples night by absolutely fucking up
Destroyer shells are kept in a state of permanent fight ready agitation by leaving their kissable lips exposed but making sure their helmet is too big to actually lock lips.
>>571128462Nah I just don't like the cadence of trios mode. I actually prefer Solos being a slower experience, duos is alright slightly more frenetic but you still have the capability to disengage and move about the map without it being a slugfest.
>>571128158good clip anon
Why does a failed game have a general
because your dad touched you at night
What do your cradles look like?
>>571129183I don't get it. >>571132442maxed, obviously
>>571132173Because the body hasn't hit the floor yet., and even if it did, the rape fans would keep it pumping out of spite.
>>571132565That is maxxed.You get 70 out of 80 total pips to fill.
>>571132442>not getting the final perk from melee, recharge and enduranceRetard?
>>571129183Thanks fren. I'll try to post some more stuff when I get the time, but like 90% of our ranked footage is just us ratting cause we keep getting put on servers that aren't in our region despite setting the matchmaking to connection priority.>>571132442This is my cradle for playing Assassin/Sentinel. I'm the trio's dedicated "TAD man" for if we hit a POI, but I'm wondering if it's worth cutting back on resistances so I can bump the revive speed up, since I mostly take the MIDA resistance implants that can shore that up a little, but the self repair speed is really nice.
>>571132876Final perk for dex is legitimately useless since MIDA offers the exact same thing as their level 6 capstone rewards and the final pips don't have stat increases.
>>571108651>huh I wonder why the live service game meant to last a million billion years drip feeds me content in three month increments, seems weird I only have a little bit of content when the game’s only been out for three months
>>571133053I didn't say dex
>>571121201>it’s three schizos and some chartposters talking about marathon’s budget for the 400,000,000th time baiting tourists into posting
>stuck on economic espionage III all week>reverbs will not spawn>final infil of the night and i spawn in front of 3 of themthank god.
>>571133134Yeah but I did because I'm confidently mentally challenged.
>>571122301>pve players got the exclusive, clearly marked pvp game and then complained about no pve so much that bungie felt forced to add a pve mode that was so overtuned it torched their ENTIRE seasonactually hilarious. no one has their hands on the wheel.
>>571133384I saw one twitter post that apparently claimed it took 40 runs for someone to get them to spawn. It's fucking insane that Bungie just assumed everyone would do the reverb missions in the one week sponsored night marsh was available and didn't bother up'ing the spawn rate of them in actual runs
>>571133527Do wish the perk spots did give some bonus stats, even +2 just for a little sumthin sumthin though.
>>571133028not sure if it's fixed yet, but the last node in resistance is bugged and doesn't work.
>>571133596I did hear it was bugged, but I honestly just crossed my fingers and hoped they fixed the bug with the weekly bug fix. Maybe I might do a sponsor run later to verify
>>571133384It actually is fucking broken though, they were guaranteed on sponsor narsh
>>571133716apparently they spawn all the time in solos.
>game only has 4 maps>play it for over 400 hours since launch>want to play moreSeriously, why people saying gaem bad? I fucking love waiting and jumping someone
>>571135297(me)sorry, meant for >>571133557 >>571133948
>>571136645Like solo night marsh? Weird.
>>571136882from what i've been told. but i never do solos.
Vandal is the best shell and it's not even close. It feels like I'm playing a different game than all my squad mates with the sheer amount of mobility she has.
>>571136208It really says a lot about Bungie's ability to make games. They're so tight and refined but the lack of content and niche genre is going to be the end of Marathon and it drives me crazy because it really is such a cool fuckin game. I was one of the artstyle haters but it's really grown on me because it's so damn consistent. The 3D printed world is actually believable.
>>57113743750/50 between her and destroyer for me.Amplify and the sickhops are fun but the boost jump and tactical sprint are also v nice.
>>571137437The things I've seen OCE players do with her flipped my opinion on her from thinking she was one of the weaker shells to definitely being the best. If you're a competent PvP player vandal is absolutely insane, and only Destroyer comes close to being as huge of a menace
>>571133550It was such an easy layup too. Just make the pve mode only drop up to blue rarity but a fuckton of them and it could be a fun little way for nubs to farm mid-teir kits to feel competitive with. ggez. The bottom 50~% get a way to gear up but the pvp players still get better loot odds and keep their edge over the carebears. Instead we have a huge chunk of the player base farming green dogshit from perimeter that they refuse to take into real matches because they know they're outgunned and refuse to learn positioning.Full disclaimer for my blog; I'm ass at the game and can still find plenty of success just sneaking around POIs until squads engage with the uesc bots and wipe them while they ammo-dump a commander. I'm dogshit. I refuse to take a fight unless I can 3rd party, and I still love every second of it and have a stash full as fuck. PSA to newbies, just run at the enemy. It's so easy to win fights if you play aggressive as shit against the terrified masses, it's literally what the game is designed for.
>>571137769Boost jump alone has allowed me to reposition and win so many fights, I can't imagine playing anything else and it's a real problem.>>571137812Seriously though people don't understand how fucking stupidly OP it is that you can basically cover 2-3x the distance of anyone else when you ult. It takes fucking SECONDS to be 80m away on the other end of a building sniping the retards that still think you're behind a corner on the opposite side of the complex. Absolutely absurd. I can't believe how much success I've been having just spamming perimeter and flanking like a madman.
Redpill me on tactical sprint. It doesn't seem that useful since it's like 5% faster than regular spring for an extra 20% of the heat build.
>>571138391Tac sprint is definitely faster than 5%, it's more like 10 - 15%, which can be the difference between sniping someone and running up to finisher siphon them or having to shoot them since they'd self rez before you gap close. The real strength is being able to move at a comparable speed to normal sprinting with your knife out while holding a weapon, meaning you're never caught with your pants down and have to fumble to get a gun in your hands if you're peeked while pushing
Why can't I get a game aaaaaaaaaaaa
>>571139057On this game we queue for 5 minutes
>people are only just discovering the UESC bots are printed in using Goetic Runes likely taught to them when Bill Clinton made contact with the Jjaro.
live
Rook Vs Assassin's prime
I like playing sentinel
>>571107914so just darktide?
>>571138391tac sprint is fantastic for running away or closing the distance. you can also use it with your shield active.
Rook Vs rock climber Assassin
>>571148406dieon my murderous cock
>>571149751you got ported to PlayStation and still flopped
>>571149379darktide or l4d but in the marathon universe sounds way more appealing than what we got
>>571148406What a cutie, /mg/ keeps winning >we have Thief>Sony favors us>D Three rejected, studio is forced to keep trying to please us
>>571149875crashing these planes...with no survivors.
Bungie tried to get Destiny three greenlit. Jap grandpa said no, stay on Marathon.Even Jason (((Schreier))) said it's true
>>571149980thats because you are bad at pvp.
>>571150389no just this game isn't fun
>>571150446It's fun when you're outplaying 90% of runners without breaking a sweat
>>571150446umm if you don't like to be fucked up your ass with a three foot long spiked dildo each and every evening you're gay and also a casual and also bad at video games>>571150581based dildo-taker
>>571150581i can outplay in other pvp games, this isn't a hook.
Rook vs hopeless Assassin, this one was the easiest, too scared to try shooting
where are her boobs
>>571150639>i can outplay in other pvp gamesBecause you can keep trying without losing your weapons. You can't keep trying with good guns on Marathon, you get nervous, lose them, and become undergeared. Broken and defeated you are
>>571148701>the way he throws his arms into the air before flopping to the ground jej
>>571150802>waste time grinding shit to be competitiveboring, you can keep your directionless slop
>illegally immigrates to your solar system>brings like a dozen vile alien cartels in its wake>squats on your homeworld after its fellow visitors reduce your civilization to ruinayayayaya halp pl0s guardians
>>571151115>>waste time grinding shit to be competitiveNo, you have fun with teammates, taking other people's gear
ngl it would be cool if one of the shells had a directional microphone that let you hear shit far away
>>571152539ngl I'd bang the shit out of you on Marathon pound you so hard you'll question your gender
>>571151704>camping in a room waiting to instakill someone with your butt buddiesWow this is riveting gameplay, I can tell why Marathon resonated with gamers so strongly
>>571156350>>camping in a room waiting to instakill someoneJust like every team game, you're not supposed to check rooms or corners on your own. Dude believed the building was empty, nobody was shooting bots. Now he learned.
Wow they really didn’t fix the lasers on cryo getting disturbed by air molecules, sliding still sets them off and there’s some spots where crouch walking doesn’t even work
>>571148406I love you Thief cutie
>>571151704i can have fun with in other games, i don't care about gear i can't keep
>>571158660Other games are not as fun, you don't lose or gain items that someone else tried to collect. Losing on this game matters, it's not just a "number go up". It's item stolen, and desire for revenge
>Brags about silver rank>Does 69 damage with 15K kitI sent him this screenshot and said uninstall
>>571160789while playing with autoaim no less
Remember early S1 with the sluts
>>571160598>Other games are not as funmost people disagree including me. this game is boring and uninnovative at most, painfully mid at its absolute best. it still a number go up game with extra steps.
>>571164503>it still a number go up game with extra steps.I do not care about a changing number, if in-game items aren't lost, or won. Knowing that you can make someone lose expensive items, is very entertaining. You can basically nerf people, send them back to basic, less upgraded gear.Send. Them. Back.
>>571164503>alt-tabs back to helldivers and stares at the galaxy map before alt tabbing back to a youtube review he has seen 100 times of a game he has 600 hours in
>>571133550>make a game that is near completely antithetical to the audience you've garnered over +20 yearsreal shocker people want PvE
>>571166763*lays veiny pvpmeat on pvesissy's face*
Anyone manage to beat Warden in solo survival? It's the last of the events that I haven't done solo but I just never seem to have enough time or healing
True you take less damage if game runs 30fps?
>>571169030if its the perimeter warden its not too bad as long as you have something like a scar, lookout, hardline or HMG and plink away at him from the roof. you just need to bring like 5 ammo crates
>>571169030warden is doable with this trick
I love playing Marathon so much bros, even the "Lite" survival mode is fun. Quick 8 minute matches
>>571172472wow anon you killed a green and a white while they were preoccupied. killer footage.
>>571173237That's most of the webms he posts
>>571173237Thanks, I only did this because I wanted to ruin their activity. Ever since sponsor survival released, I played hundreds of Rook runs and did this.
>>571172472How is this relevant to what I asked?
>tune in to seraph max stream>he is doing cryo runs>gets raped 5 times in a row and loses 5 purple shieldsbrutal
>>571160789you are missing the pointmaybe if he didnt have free kit nigger MINECRAFT you both would have survived
So you think the Tuesday patch will be substantial?
>>571181535lol
Love going stupid with the knife
>>571183715>knife still has the old magnetism on 'rollerIf I was in this situation on PC that knife heavy would have whiffed
>>571183715that destroyer just waiting for you to kill him like hes a marvel movie henchman
Bungie truly are the ultimate experts of making a game that you love to play but also hate so many aspects of. I haven't felt this annoyed with an online shooter since Siege.
>>571183715i absolutely love destroying cryo skin niggers
>>571181535yes but the substance in question is a hot steamy log of unstable biomass
>>571133596Update; I did a sponsor run with and without the perk as a Sentinel. Using a depleted patch kit, I had the following heal times:>With perk1.6 seconds>Without perk1.9 secondsSo it seems to be working...But honest to god I'm wondering if it's worth saving 0.3 seconds on a heal over potentially getting a clutch rez off or having an actually good self rez time by dumping some cradle points into support.
>>571185912Don't depleted kits specifically have longer use times as well? Maybe it scales better with green and blue heals.
>>571186265I'm not sure? I always assumed the higher rarities took longer to use, definitely feels like it at times. I'd queue up solo into a game to check but it's almost 5am my time so solo queue will take forever to pop and I just wanna sleep. If any anons feel like queuing up with a single green patch kit and just checking what the heal time is (it will display the time over the actual icon of the med as you're using it) in the meantime I'd appreciate it, otherwise I can find out tomorrow when it's prime time in my region.
>>571185912It scales with your base self-repair and any addition to the stat, much like ping duration. The gist of the bug has more to do with the times not being consistent across different consumable types. It works mostly fine on green/blue meds, but panacea kits gain jack shit.
>>571138282People cried and cried for her to get buffed too.
What does /mg/ want in season 3?I'm hoping for a new map. I don't know if we're going to actually get one or a perimeter remix, but an update cadence of map remix > new map > remix would be acceptable for me.I also wonder if they're going to do a new shell every season? Sentinel seems like he was designed as a response to cryo grenade spam, so what would this new shell do?
>>571189363>CopeLarger maps, more solos and duos support, permanent duos queue for every map instead of a daily rotation, pve mode being good>HopeGame is still gonna be alive in 3 months
Does anyone actually use the flares? Also it's insulting that they have infected the loot pool of munitions crates even on day maps.
>>571189363A new marathon map
>>571189363Some type of new Marathon deck for us to raid and a night version of Perimeter. I would like a whole new map that's more open and just bigger, but that's probably a big ask at the moment. I'd like some kind of solos redux where maybe games can start without needing a max lobby size so I don't wait 15 minutes for the lobby to fill just so I die almost immediately. either that or making it so if you play solo you can spawn in mid-round as opposed to at the start.Other then that? Just a cool new shell + weapon and some kind of new content since I don't just wanna play Outpost and the same priority contracts. The limited contracts are a fun idea, maybe making it so we have to actually pick and side with one faction for a season could be fun. Like the other anon said though my main hope is that the game is still living>>571189669I just immediately throw them for shits and giggles whenever I find them, they really serve no purpose. I do wonder if they technically count as a projectile so you can trick a Sentinel trophy into zapping them so the rest of your team can grenade spam but obviously impossible to check in a normal game
>>571189669You can use them for distractions on N.Marsh as tossing one triggers bot alert mode if it's in sight range of any of them. Besides that they have barely any use on other maps and take so much space that you barely ever want to pick them up. They can be nice for communicating with Rooks though, as you can just toss a green flare and keep moving and most of the time they get the message.
>>571187114>I always assumed the higher rarities took longer to useThey take shorter
>>571169030biggest issue when trying solo is ammo imo. best luck ive had was finding a magnum and a bunch of heavy ammo. its a very efficient weapon and whenever i find it is when i start hitting the secured resources, intercept and the warden
>>571189363>a new mapbungie designed a video game entirely around farming the same rooms on the same maps for 'people' that think grinding the same content a thousand times over is entertaining. you're getting a new map in season 4 MAYBE.
>>5711938864x stacks of ammo per gun and a couple of the green ammo crates should be more than enough to handle the lobby + warden.
>>571194206theres no lobby, talking about sponsored survival solo. doubt youd run into that many green ammo crates, at most ill find 1 maybe
>>571194402Oh solo yeah that'd be super rough unless your Hauler run was super juiced and you got lucky with munition crate spawns
>>571189363>New map>New INTERESTING enemies>Shooting range>A set of new priority contracts for each faction>More volt cell weapons>A MIPS ammo revolver
>>571132663>>571133028>>571132876>He doesn't know about the exploit.
>>571184139I think he tried jumping on me from above but the fall disoriented him, he did almost kill me but should have pulled his knife
>>571196576???
anyone wanna do some sponsored perimeter boss runs? duo or trio
Is there actually anything stopping Cryo from working as in solos mode? I went in there a few times and the enemy density isn't that insane, and bots aren't that scary post-nerf anymore if you aren't retarded.
>>571189363>What does /mg/ want in season 3?There's no S3, I'm playing grand theft auto, claw man, and a new extraction shooter
>got downed from toxin damage and nothing else despite using a blue heal???
>>571203580AHHHH
>>571203683bro, your mechanics kit? bro?
>>571204731didnt even get a chance ot use it bro
>>571203683you gotta use a mechanics kit if your health is already low, dont think the meds can keep you up if your hp is low enough unless you have a med drone too
>>571201010The problem is that solochads in cryo would readily team up with each other and easily clear out cryo together. Not getting constantly raped by other players would expose cryo for being a joke of an "endgame" map and marathon as a whole being shallow as a puddle in actual content. It would also fly in the face of the gnostic humiliation ritual that bungo devised for us wherein we goyim must turn on and cannibalize one another like niggers for the amusement of the demiurge.
>>571203683>>571204731>>571204881Imagine dying to a flower
>>571205053>gnostic humiliation ritual that bungo devised for us wherein we goyim must turn on and cannibalize one another like niggers for the amusement of the demiurge.I did that before Marathon. No ritual, no demiurge, I just loved doing it.
>>571205081It was from a chem grenade
>>571205053But it's already a joke of a map because it's fully cleared of opposing teams by minute 5.
Snow map or beach map is the only way I'll keep Marathon on the SSD this fall. I have 2TB and won't have space for the game otherwise.>Perimeter remixHow pathetic
>>571206174>won't have space for a small gamecan you stop advertising other games in our general you waste of flesh
What do you think actually causes gear fear? I have never experienced gear fear in games like this honestly. I never see my gear as even my gear. In the context of the lore, all the shit we find belongs to CYAC anyways right? It was never mine. CYAC will take everything in the end. However CYAC can't take your player experiences or knowledge gained. I just never saw the point of having gear fear. My guess is that gear fear is some sort of cousin to the FOMO freaks who can't help but get FOMO'd by things. "LIMIITED TIME OFFER!! BUY NOW!!!" types of shit.
>>571207921it's the dissonance between rpg-like systems and the pvp hero shooter comp shit.people don't like spending time looting and grinding for power just to lose it all and gain nothing, whether it's from a player or a seasonal wipe.this is why people don't like the genre and rather just play more focused pvp games without the fluff, or pve games where grinding for power is the point. this is why marathon is failing.
>doing duos with my buddy>go to processing>ping and see a pair of freekitters>they get killed while we're rotating around to them>kill the green shield duo that killed them>then we get ambushed by a blue shield duo and dieAnd like that 90% of the lobby is wiped out in less than 10 minutes. I really hate the cadence of the non-solo modes. It might as well just be a TDM if this is how every match plays out.
>>571209118>rather just play more focused pvp games without the fluffArcadey, casual PvP games are the fluff. CoD, Battlefield, Overwatch, loss there doesn't matter. Zero point in shooting people that don't lose their weapons because of you.Once you PvPvE the typical PvP fluff gets boring
>>571207921>I never see my gear as even my gear.I see gear as trophies. On Marathon, I only run green guns, and replace them with purple. If something goes wrong, I loose green backpack and gun. When done right, I replace it with expensive stuff.
>>571209835The vE part is hardly relevant
>>571209835I would rather the gear mean little to nothing. The farthest I would go with "Making another player lose their good gear" would be maybe making someone drop a power weapon in Halo.I also hate hardcore modes in RPGs for a similar reason, but on the other hand I like roguelite mechanics of "start with nothing, return to nothing on death" where it's all about how much you understand the game's systems.
>>571210138Environment can damage you, target you, it will interfere with your PvP intentions. The vE part is for the enemy team to take damage, then you jump them and make them lose their anal Vi cardGet it? Hueheuehahah hHAAHAA
>>571209835I honestly like games like Marathon because of the semi-emergent shit that can happen. mostly in solos. I came across a guy doing some quest in solos and I started shooting him because he was in my way and I didn't want to risk it. He screamed open mic "WAIT WAIT, I JUST NEED TO KILL UESC COMMANDER HERE!" So I stopped shooting him and said "Dunking on the UESC? Why didn't you just say that?" and I shot robots too for my own quest and we parted ways. I don't think a game like CoD or CS2 etc could ever have something like that. I wouldn't exactly consider myself a carebear player and definitely have killed people unprovoked in marathon but I actually like dunking on UESC and I like roleplaying as a Traxus hired goon and Traxus doesn't like the UESC pretty much at all. So it made sense.
>>571207921It's not gear fear, I just don't want to reward the punk that kills me.
>>571209835literally most people disagree with you. this game had entire week of f2p and tons of marketing yet no one is biting dude. all the newbies who tried expressed their grievances and said the same shit, saying this genre isn't for them, they don't get the point of progress, too punishing to be fun, etc. either this needs to be a PvE game or a stronger, more streamlined PvP game if Bungie wishes to continue. it's fine for this genre exist as a niche, but it's not going to get mass appeal, and Sony wants mass appeal.
I mean the core issue of the game is literally everything forces you into pvp whether you like it or not so it's really a game of who is the first person to make the fatal error of trying to actually do something in the game they are playing.
I really like the idea of PvE mode where your team is 4 UESC bots you can customize, with the missions about protecting or reclaiming UESC assets from pfhor forces.The robot designs might also be more appealing than the runner designs, which would help sell the game. But this idea might be too good, so Bungie will do the opposite.
All shields should provide twice as much protection as they do now. The TTK is still way too low.
>>571210346I love mother Nona, and get paid by Charter. Traxus? Never heard of them.>>571210479I do not care how Sony maintains Marathon, if Bungie survives or not, I want PvPvE games. Regular PvP is boring, people should lose items if they die.
>>571212525This would be pretty cool. The robot designs are more appealing than the runner designs; it's what initially got me into the game.
>>571213490Shields should naturally recharge 1 pip worth of shields after 30 seconds of not taking damage.
>>571215013Natural recharge would be most welcome. Maybe even at ridiculous rates such as Halo's or Destiny's. In exchange for no shield charge consumables at all.
>>571212525>The robot designs might also be more appealing than the runner designs, which would help sell the game. But this idea might be too good, so Bungie will do the opposite.The bots are my favorite part of the character design, and I like the shells. I'd rather play the cool demon mecha tyvm.
>>571212525Wait, you're cookingRepubl- UESC Commandos campaign set when UESC first arrive on Tau Ceti
>infil>2 freekit teammates>climb ontop of quarantine and immediately hear footsteps to the north>hear them open the door and walk into quarantine>tell my teammates 3 times they're walking into quarantine>teammates are still looting>both of them die while i'm on the roof>"YO WTF THERE'S A TEAM HERE"valorant raised a whole generation of retards.
>>571216483>>571212525There is no reason to assume the UESC wouldn't employ their own runners and let them use UESC bots as shells/bodies
tfw I'm pretty sure I selected trios with fill but load in alone so now i'm not sure if I'm a solo against trios or just picked solo by mistake
>here's your Cryo Archive fill teammate, sire
>>571217131i wish, mine have green shields and worse guns than the bully
>Wanna go this way? Too bad there is toxic plans>Wanna take this route? lmao birds>Wanna take the route through the building? The warden just spawned there>Take the long route around? Rocket Drone!I think bungie designs for maximum inconvenience
>actually have a good outposts duo run where we wipe two teams and get enough red keys to hit the pinwheel key room uncontested, first time my friend ever went in that room>we each get a gold item and a bunch of purps between us, no keys though>ventilate two rooks that are trying to team on us as we are leaving>get out at restricted exfilWhen the game is good it's really good.
>>571217301I would just go through the plants and tank it. Or through Warden's crew, with invis.
>>571217301Plants are safest. Shoot them and run.
*walks through poison flowers*No big deal, got a fast healing factor, Bub.*snikts health pack*
I like the game, it's my first dive into the extraction genre. But I really do wish people played a bit more open and aggressive (in Solos). Everyone seems to be afraid even though there is no loss that can't be compensated by a single good run. The quests can't be the reason for the passive gameplay either because most of them are piss easy and the tough ones take players into command wing or other places.
>>571218034>shoot plantsYou want every squad within 100 meters to stare at your direction and get horny?
More Rooks seem to be farming Lite players
>>571219282Who cares? One rook or a thousand, they all must die. Makes no difference.
A complete PvE mode with no option to attack runners should be scrapped, fuck that
>>571219350Sometimes you don't know you're getting Rooked, because the Rook has over 400 hours on the game. Trust and believe you're not exfiltrating that round
>>571137812>>571137437>>571138282she's only good for higher skill players. low level and low skill players have a much harder time taking advantage of her strengths than other shells that create value much more readilyi do still wish she was a hacking/demolition specialist more befitting of her MIDA origin story, though
>>571203580I was very mildly interested in the new DMZ, but I'm not spending $70 on a video game.Also, I'm not buying another CoD again in my life.
>>571219726The only way to get a new map, with solid gameplay, is to buy MW4. To me, it's a $70 DLC for Marathon. I'll play it like Marathon.>what if Marathon S3 actually bring a new big mapWith 69 players online
>>571207921I think it's an extension of FOMOMy biggest annoyance is when I lose a great piece of gear before I even really get any mileage out of it.
>>571219594Just assume there is a rook around every corner and play accordingly.
>>571219490Can you cut yourself to show Bungie that we want them to make Marathon 2?
>>571220418I never cut myself, cat accidentally fucked me up. She's like a wolverine
>>571221446I've been posting my cuts on twitter and bluesky and tagging bungie employees
>>571221743That's bullshit but I believe it.
Marathon has too much to do>go for a robbery on Cryo>go for a robbery on sponsored survival>go for a robbery on standard mapshard too choose, all of this is fun
>>571189363I am like 95% certain S3 will have a new map otherwise Bungie has legitimately lost the fucking plot
don't go solo, you need all the help you can get
This game is just like Destiny before it. In the sense that there is a solid core but bungie always lacks that final mile, that last spark, that unknown something that would turn the game from being alright into something amazing.
We got a titty streamer
>>571225893>controller on pclol
>>571223428Why when I use the V11 paunch the shit feels like a peashooter?
>>571226115bad aim or not spamming the trigger fast enough probably, or using it outside of about a 40m range
>>571226115Dunno, that pistol hits like a truck
>>571224372The fact that they keep making the same mistakes is telling
>>571226092yeahthat's who you lose to in this game btw
do you still level way faster in trios than you do solos? I normally only play solos but like to dabble in trios every now and again.
>>571228005not just this game, the big extraction shooter(MW4) will have strong aim assist too. They lowered the aim assist in Black Ops 7 and that game flopped. CoD's gonna be aimbot kino, just like Marathon.
>>571228409that's cool but this is the marathon general so who gives a fuck
>>571228552The Marathon general has nothing to discuss, because they were fake-hyping a night map, calling night maps good. Nobody gives a fuck about it, just like I told you they won't
>>571228716the way you spend your free time is strange
>>571228773There's nothing strange about calling out queers, who lied about enjoying night maps. I saw you liars with the fake hype
Did they increase the recoil on the D54? Feels like it kicks more, caught me off guard fighting someone who was using the Hardline and they actually got me.
>>571229968stock status?
>>571222468>that long ass crusty yellow thumb nailbarf
If they don't nerf D54 by next Tuesday that's going to set the mood for the rest of the season.
Flashlights should just be a baseline feature of the game.
>>571210346>I honestly like games like Marathon because of the semi-emergent shit that can happen. mostly in solos.The problem with Marathon is that it incentivizes PvP so heavily that you rarely get that kind of interaction since the vast majority of interactions is shoot on sight
>accidentally load in solo>don't know if this is trios>waiting for an exfil to be activated>one goes up>go check it out>sneak up and see Sentinel with purple shield>full kill him>purple Destroyer tries to rush me>beat Destroyer to a pulp and he zips away>jump into their exfil, see Rook laying there >Rook is down but alive>hear Recon's ult activation>teleport out and see a Recon pissing himself with DestroyerYou have to pick a map, open crew fill options and toggle "fill on, then fill off, and on again" to make sure you get teammates. This was a funny situation, I hit that squad so hard, they thought they're getting jumped by a team.
>>571216675Orion is implied to be a runner isn't he?
>>571233524That's paint, not dirt. I draw
>>571236010Not implied, he's explicitly stated to be one.
>>571236868Which codex?
>>571237215The events of MIDA Truth/Lies 5/6. Orion is killed in action by something while investigating anomaly shenanigans but he's still right as rain commanding the UESC operation._Gantry expresses disappointment that MIDA isn't responsible but says there's always next time since Orion has probably already been reprinted by now.
>>571226115You're probably too far away. Volt weapons have massive damage dropoff
>>571228409It's funny how everyone praises Bungie for their gunplay but the secret sauce is just bullet magnetism.
Welp
>>571239384nta I don't mind that but then they have the gall to call the game a hardcore FPS for hardcore players
Okay, I really haven't played the game much recently. I think I'm about done. I enjoyed it at the beginning, but I'm kinda burned out on it at this point.Now my real question is, how long do you guys think the game has left?>We are getting at least a year. They said so on the blog post.Yeah, and Highguard was also getting a year. Those promises don't mean anything once the funding gets pulled.So my question is, how long until Sony pulls the funding?
>>571244343I think we'll get a year and then maintenance mode because Sony doesn't want another embarrasment on top of Concord, so it'll rather go quietly into the night instead of a cord pull. Bad reputation otherwise if you want people to stay in any future live service you might offer
>>571244545>Bad reputation otherwise if you want people to stay in any future live service you might offerwhat other future live service?Fairgame$? I mean, Br€ak In? Or whatever the fuck it's called now. Can't even call it Jade's game anymore because she fucking bailedOr that fucking disgusting-looking Horizon game (most forced franchise to ever exist btw)?
>>571244751Well, yeah, those
>>571245612Sony is so fucked, manlike, what the fuck where they thinking?Like 12 live-service games in development all at once?
>>571245771greed and trend-chasing
>>571244343>how long do you guys think the game has left?However long it takes sony to either lose paitence OR redeploy the devs to work on the next game. By any conventional metric they should have moved it to winding down mode already, even if they havent announced it yet.
>>571245771It’s always correct to make live service games. You see Highguard and Marathon and think, “These devs are idiots. Just make an arena fps with a single player campaign and you’ll sell plenty of copies.” What you’re missing is CS, League, Apex, DotA, all these fucking things, pulling BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER YEAR EACH for very little effort after they’re up and running and farming enough players to sustain an online player base. The amount of money these things generate relative to the amount of effort required may as well be infinite. It looks bad because Sony has Concord and Marathon and whatever else ruining the view, but it doesn’t really matter. It’s always correct to burn a ton of money aiming for a live service hit. Players want games that they can throw their lives away into. Companies want players that spend all their time with their product. You can’t really blame either side for live service games infesting the space, the meat yearns for the grinder.
>>571249862God what I wouldn't give for a new (good) MMO to drop. One that actually becomes part of the cultural zeitgeist.
>>571192347longer to use, faster to heal.
>>571207921A lot of answers here and they’re all wrong. It’s loss aversion. It’s a mix of pride (this is mine and it is good so I am good), safety (stockpiles are good and if I have a lot of powerful things then I am safe), and resentment maybe? You can do everything right and still lose and that’s hard to process, so people just throw a fit and act like they had their good run stolen from them when they lose their good gear. Ironically this just leads to worse runs long-term because they begin treating gear like trophies and hoarding it instead of using it as fuel to boost their EV. Bungie really should’ve put something in the game to nudge players towards learning to use gear instead of hoard it. I don’t know what, but something. The cradle just eats all of it. Which is kind of the right idea but definitely the wrong execution.
Is it worth doing shitkit runs to farm heals?
>>571251402>Bungie really should’ve put something in the game to nudge players towards learning to use gear instead of hoard it.It's a behavior you can't fix. The popularity of sponsor kits as a whole proves it. The game already launched with even more limited vault space prior to them raising the consumable stacks and the players rather consistently hoard instead of using the stuff they gain on runs. On one hand, i'd see the best option always being to go in with the stuff you exfil from your last run, stash what you want to desperately keep and then keep the ball rolling that way. Most people don't do that. They mostly just stash everything and go in with a sponsor kit for next to preserve each and every net gain. The only way i could think of improving the situation is putting gear ante on everything outside sponsored playlist, but that sours the ultra casualfag audience even more.
>>571251402>You can do everything right and still loseEverything right implies perfect timing, how would you lose. You can win by escaping, you don't have to finish fights. How someone with perfect timing loses?
>>571252192>to farm heals?Do Rook on sponsored survival, run around pick up Unstable Biomass. You can trade endless biomess for health and shield charges. 5 Rook runs should be within 50 minutes, if you jump in at the last seconds and don't die, you should have like 100 biomass within an hour
>>571253120Dang good idea
>>571252192Once you're high enough in capstones with Nucal, you usually don't have to farm heals unless you pack like six million each run. You can hit sponsored survival, do some Rooking/low stakes runs with kits to grab some stuff to trade but stuff like med cabinets and their contents are rare and far between. Sparkleaf, Tarax seeds and Unstable Biomass are all very efficient ways to get green/blue meds without paying. Beyond that, just buying some with creds before each run works fine too, even in the case you lose.
damn I gotta start rooking more on the duos maps, got an easy 2 misriahs and a free pinwheel off two goobers killing bots
>tfw just spamming rook runs to get silencersThis is so silly
I want teammates, I toggle crew fill ON, game STILL sends me alone
>>571254415I don't think you can specifically queue for duos can you? Unless maps with an active duos queue automatically puts Rooks in that queue.
>>571212525Source on that image? I want it in higher res.
>>571237215Truth/Lies 5/6, and also in the last log you get from helmets in Cryo Archive. He and 3 other UESC runners died to the Compiler.
>>571257127NTA - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8vWvbQcheckhttps://www.artstation.com/channels/tag/TheArtofMarathonfor more bots and concept art
>>571257648Thanks. I guess this never got used.
>>571258187No there is 100% a commander that throws those.
>>571256451Specifically no, but rooks do get thrown into duos lobbies now so if you rook into a map running duos there’s a chance of it
>>571257648Some of these would make for amazing Lego kits. I'm not even saying this as an insult.
https://youtu.be/4gcs5k8n-FY
>>571252192>>571253517>>571252192It's cyac this season. Roll the repeating quest until you get shell games 2/prime time 3, do it on a sponsored perimeter and leave the run when you're done. One evening of this and you never need to worry about purple/blue salvage, money, or any consumables anymore
>>571258835kek anon
>>571255226turning on crew fill is not enough, did you select trios as well?
Previous version of the assault trooper shield.
Season 2 contracts being complete nothingburgers took the wind out of my sails for this game. You'd think they'd have SOME actual story ready for the very next season after release
>>571185912Update on this: I have now done several runs as several different shells, both with and without the field medic perk, with depleted, green and blue meds and found the followingFirstly, the perk is working. It reduces the time it takes for all healing consumables by 0.3 to 0.4 seconds, depending on which healing item it is (most items are 0.3, green patch kits are the main culprit with the 0.4). I'd safely assume it's reducing it by 0.3 across the board and that the 0.4 seconds is just a UI complicaton. Secondly >>571187214 this is completely wrong; self repair speed ONLY affects the actual healing effect for once you've activated the consumable and speeds up/slows down how fast you regenerate the lost health. The perk just reduces the time it takes for the consumables to actually activate, and isn't modifiable by any stat, the perk is the only thing that can potentially reduce the activation time. I know this because I had 4 test groups/shells; sentinel with self repair speed maxxed (stat number = 70), sentinel with no self repair (stat number = 15), thief with no self repair (stat number = 5) and triage with self repair maxxed (stat number = 80). Despite the variance in numbers, all had the exact same times for actually using the items both with and without the perk. Thirdly, >>571192347 every healing consumable of the next rarity takes longer to use, with the benefit being the bigger/faster healing effect.Wish this was just actually told through the UI but whatever. Also shocks me how comfortable anons are with just spouting off absolutely incorrect info so confidently.
>>571128158Good shit
>>571266469Why does it seems there's barely any people that play for the joy of playing instead of slurping up content slop? Ive put hundreds of hours into Hunt and ARC and didn't really give two fucks about the "story" there. If I want a good story I'd play something like Roadwarden, Vagrus or another strictly story driven game (or an RPG like Pathfinder if I'm feeling particularly plebeian) with lots of prose or mystery in it, not an online pvpve extraction shooter.
Just bought this gane from a key site. Is it dead? I should have researched, I just thought it had a unique and cool aesthetic and music.
>>571274028It's alive. You might not get a decade out of it, though.
>>571274028It will easily coast to end of next season. Very likely you'll get bored of it before it keeks over.
>>571274028you are gonna experience the hardest game of all time
>>571274220>a decadea year*
>>571275327camping in corner is hard job saar
>>571275327I waited til 1.0 for Tarkov and held my own among the trannies and nolifers that knew everything. Im here to have a blast.... Always get bored when Im on top.
I fucking hate solo Outpost runs.>find 2 green keys and rush to Pinwheel, get a full backpack of goodies>check 3 Red Key spawns; they're all taken>go to the guarded exfil since there's like 4 minutes remaining>exfil spawns a fucking commander + 5 more bots>get downed by UESC and heat cascade>random assassin comes up and finishes me and then extracts without looting my bag
>>571228716I mean ARC Raiders doesn't even have a general thread anymore. Most of these shooter games just don't have much to talk about unless there's coombait for all the retards to say "SEX WITH [x]", e.g. Overwatch, Marvel Rivals.
>>571282972same. Im just trying to do Unsanctioned Hostilities 4/5. pretty much have to clear the lobby to even have a chance and I suck at finding keycards
>>571283336>I mean ARC Raiders doesn't even have a general thread anymorebecause their schizo abandoned and came here, most posts on here are his
>>571258445The one you posted especially because even just looking at it you can straight up picture parts of the build in your mind, could do SNOT galore on thatAlmost makes me want to get whatever program people design Lego sets on their computer and attempt putting it together
>>571269000did you have a purple med pack to compare? probably not, right? i wonder how the perk interfaces with those
>>571282972>pinwheeling on solo outpostthat's high level stuff you're trying there, big fella
what's even the easiest way to get into Pinwheel solo? Ive only found the drone card once and I can never seem to find more than 2 power boxes outside destroyed wing. Is it really just keycard hell?>>571283336sex with Vandal
Building a load out is such a boring chore drag holy fuck, I have so much shit in my vault and I just run sponsored kits because it’s the fastest way to get back to the actually fun part of the game. I hate the talentless niggers that designed the UI in this game so much. I see they still couldn’t develop the technology to allow me to buy more than a single stack of ammo at once, but I’m actually thinking now that forcing players to click the buy button 10x every time they want to buy ammo is fully intentional. I don’t know what the intent is but it makes me want whoever’s involved raped and dead
>>571283507I hate how Bungie made that locked room in Pinwheel require 3 red keys. In solos, I used to be able to get this lone red key circled here 90% of the time. Now it's basically 50-50 chance it's there or not unless I beeline for it.They should make the extracts require yellow keys. For some reason I can find those more abundantly than green or red keys.
>>571288173you can click on slots in your inventory, and then your vault will only show items that can go in that slot. E.g. click on the shield slot, vault shows you the shields you can equip.
>>571287852There's only 3 ways in and you excluded 2 of them. If you don't want to memorize power box spawns you are left with dumb luck (drone elevator) or hacking your way in.>>571288491It's supposed to incentivize PvP. And yellows are abundant since they trigger supply drop and transport drones (that nobody does) and armories (that sometimes do get looted).
>>571288491isnt that particular keycard always the most contested with people just sitting with their sights ADS'd at it? would rather loot it off someone by chance than go through the trouble of that one
>>571289176>excluded 2 of themNot like I'm doing it intentionally. Don't the power boxes have like 25 different potential spawn points? Seems like a chore to remember all that shit
>>571289217Nah, it's out of the way enough that trying to camp it is counterproductive when you can rush for other keys.>>571289360Yes, because it's supposed to be the harder alternate way in to offset it being stealthiest and safest.
>>571288609I’m aware, still a clunky chore that after so many hours I just don’t want to put up with, but thank you.I really wish they had just made a good campaign with an arena style multiplayer
>>571289536A randomize/autoload feature using your lowest value gear first would be neat. Then you'd just have to worry about consumables and ammo
They definitely fucked with the keys, but did they make destroyed and drone easier to get into? S2 is the only time I've been able to get in through those wings by myself. Probably confirmation bias.
>>571289856No they actually made it harder. it used to only have 8 spawn locations, now it has more than 20
>>571289697Is really like a purchase order function that would allow me to set up a one click buy, say like 2 stacks of patch and shields, a blue shield, bag, ammo, battle pistol/attachments and a set of implants. Set it up once and boom it’s good to go whenever you want to run that provided you have credits and stock in the armory.
>>571289697 >>571291357I’d really like*
>>571291357What I'd love is an ability to pay some creds or salvage to pack up a loadout (irreversibly and one time only) into a neat 2x2 box like sponsored ones. Then you take it to a match and it unloads into whatever you put inside.
>>571291813I think that would also be really good yeah, just more shit to streamline the process of interacting with the garbage UI and getting players back into gamesI’d wager at least half of everyone running a free or sponsored kit is doing it because they just didn’t feel like building a load out for the 100+ time
>>571289217Don't know about trios, but I've never been killed out there solo. Seems like a pretty easy spot to camp with that building nearby, but nah.
>>571292208im gonna start camping there and ruin it for everybody
There should be insurance you can buy that will return any items on you that were not looted
there should be a sex mini game
There should be a safe pocket for salvage valuables
Steam Summer Sale will save us.
>>571289697>lowest value gear firstthis would be awful because it would bait so many people (which means it's the kind of decision bungie would make if they could be bothered to update the game more than once every three months). you want to be using your best gear as much as possible to give you the best chances of winning fights.
Why did Marathon failed, we finally got rid of Shitstiny 2 and the numbers have trended up!
>>571297902FOUR MAPS
>>571297902Took all the wrong lessons from Tarkov and also based its core loop on Apex for some reason. Trying to marry the fast, frenetic shooting and movement of a BR with something like an ES game is a fool's errand. Even a game like Arc has pretty deliberate movement and shooting even if its definitely one of the arcadey ES games.
>>571298580*one of the more arcadey ES games
>>571298358Pissed Pedro knew this
>Have potential for build crafting and unique gameplay gimmicks to triumph over usual shooting gunplay>70% of the interesting implants, cores, gun mods, weapons and backpacks are just entirely reliant on RNG and there's no reliable way to get what you wantI'm not even talking about prestige shit is the worst part. Smoke focused assassin for example seems like it could be a valid playstyle with the blue or purple jammer backpack to hide you from thermals and visors and bullshit, and you could combine it with prowl kit and flexweave casing so you move super fast while crouched and invis.But oh no, we can't just have jammer backpacks purchaseable, and prowl kit (a green core) and flexweave casing (a blue core) can't just be available at all times. You have to wait for them to be a barter deal or in rotation, and then you get to buy maybe 2 or 3 of them and that's it. There's all these super specific chips that could be absolutely busted amazing or fun but oops, looks like you can't buy said chips, so you actually have to just either experiment with the singular chip you find for maybe several weeks or just do the most obvious and sensible thing with said chips since there's no guarentee you get them for the rest of the season. The circuit breaker is not a good gun, but the game seems convinced to try and assure you it is because it's drop rate is so low that I've managed to find more Misriah's naturally than it. So if I can get my hands on one, I just have to have fun with the one or two runs I'll get to use it for before I inevitably die and lose my chance to fuck around with the gun for the rest of the season. I'm sitting on 400k credits, I'm willing to get ripped off if you just give me the chance to fuck around with the cool system and mechanics you've made Bungie PLEASE
>S1>had a good time, reached lvl 100+, several successful cryo runs>S2>getting raped so hard I can't even extract from Perimeter, not to mention Dire Marshwhat changed?
>>571296274nah, Id rather it be lowest value gear. the best gear gets saved for the hardest contracts or the best teams, I dont wanna have an autoloadout feature just to take my purple M77 on a repeating Cy-ACK quest
for keyboard and mouse playahs: what look sensitivity do you have it set to
I hate that I just now learned that the people behind Concord were filled with Ex-Bungie employees from around the time of Witch Queen when they did those layoffs around COVID
>>571261395I can get why thy made it just a big glowing rectangle in-game but damn that version is so much cooler, looks like a big lump of polycarbonate
>>571122301Kys
>>571283336>I mean ARC Raiders doesn't even have a general thread anymore.huh, i didn't realize they went belly up. Looked at the /vm/ thread out of curiosity and they're still having the same arguments as day one about weather or not it's okay to kill other players so it's probably for the best the general died
>>571257648Would be cool if UESC were more dynamic and responsive to specific damage. Like if you could shoot their limbs and cripple them, or shoot off armor.
>queue sponsored trios to quickly hammer one large kill count quest>spawn in alone>there was no rooks>still exfil after 15nani?
So this thread is getting moved to /vm/ soon? We don't seem to have enough post throughput to stay on page...
>>571310149why are you obsessed with us
/vm/ is better you dummies. threads can stay up for a week without a bump and it facilitates more honest discussion.
what if the game was called barathon and the shells were big sweaty men haha
>>571252192Only if you're completely fucking ass at the game, and are really just feeding better players.
>>571254689>>571253120It's the core intent of rook. For shitters who lose their best gear faster than it can be replaced to have a low stakes run..
>>571311559I mean it's literally the only way to get a guaranteed silencer when you exfil.
>>571311124they are mad their videogame broke up with them.
>>571266469Sorry, they only have a staff of about 50 people who are writers, editors, story makers, plus sensitivity readers and people to make sure eveyrthing they write is approved. You're demanding way too much from their tens of millions a year spent on that.
My Mida rep is really falling behind, what outside of contracts am i missing? just breaking windows or what?
Bungie's marathon team is 6 developers and 394 HR/PR folx
>>571297902>>571298580The people making the game didn't play Tarkov and don't play Marathon. They have no visibility to it's problems. Brain dead shit like this:>>571303289>>571289697>>571291357takes a backseat to gay rave lego interface.
>>571302995The casuals got killed. You're the casual now.
Anyone else having to spend longer queuing times? Are the servers slow or something?
>>571312125>quality of life improvements are braindead shitfound the tryhard sweat
>>571310149There's enough haters to keep it here for a while longer. For now at least.
>>571312389Brother the amount of people playing this game could comfortably live together inside a normal midwestern subdivision
>>571312583What are you talking about?The amount of players is average for an extraction shooter though? Outside obviously Arc Raiders which is a outlier to the genre.
Are beginners straight avoiding Narsh? i only started a few days before S2 and at rank 46 currently i'm doing narsh and never seeing anyone and when i extract sometimes theres a guy hiding in a bush somewhereI just went in to do a cyac contract so didnt care if i lived and went super load in the warehouse to the east of ai and cleaned the place and its reinforcements and made a LOT of noise then headed to the slightly north exfil in the building with the broken yellow floor up top and it was full of greens you need to progress and shields and implants.Is it maybe solos beginners try it once and get intimidated? or am i just used to stealth games so the creeping and listening for shit is my default?
>>571312686he's saying that the number of people playing the game is small enough that they could live within a few square miles and have plenty of space leftover
>>571315114People go to Night Marsh solo? Huh.
i ONLY play solos because I dont like talking to people
>>571315114narsh solo is meta. also, no one plays marathon.
>>571300184I remember prerelease them talking about buildcrafting and I was already thinking, in an extraction shooter? Awesome I finally got lucky enough to get all the pieces for a build I want to do, oh whoops we got our asses whooped in 5 seconds flat, all that gear is GONEAlmost feels like they just designed shit without even engaging with their own gameplay loop
>>571319852They probably saw people talking about "builds" in Tarkov and thought there was like some deep crazy system there when it's just "look how retarded I made my gun lmao"
>>571319852Well considering there's no way to buy attachments reliably, it does make sense
>Finally had a good trios for the first time>We pinged everything>Everyone knew their role e.g i got up high with longshot, vandall flanking and nuking with arm and knifey asassin smokin and stabbin>Cleared four POI and took out a bunch of commanders>Ended up in all blues with a purple for the first time>Most importantly we shared loot and only took a little from each lootable thing and rotated around leaving some for othersI'm never gonna see the like again.
>>571312409Lethal toxic positivity is a huge part of why this game is so revulsive to the normies. Pretending that everything is ok is lethal.
>>571315114You're walled off from the rapists because of your noob status. For now. >>571317179None of my fills like to talk. You're probably no worse than them. At least I hope you aren't.
>>571319852>>571320502>>571320031>Almost feels like they just designed shit without even engaging with their own gameplay loopOf course. You think the soft, flabby pink haired easily triggered type can deal with the stress of even Hunt? They don't play their own game.
>>571321216They didn't paly Destiny either
>enemy has gold brrt>you lose
>>571321726If I get killed by a BRRT I assume they are a hacker and just report them lmao. Ain't nobody using that shit except hackers going for the 0.1s TTS headshot magdump
>>571320504send them a friend req ingame and keep a list of contact for future runs.and then never contact them again.
>>571321803both times its been the gold brrt
>>571323267lmao what the fuck is that
>>571323267>one shot instantly drops you to 5% hp from full health + full shields
>>571321216>this whole post>most of the people working on marathon are white dudes that've been at the company for like 15 yearscheck the credits
>>571295446I think they should turn DCONs into stations where you can store whatever you want to keep into it and you have to wait X amount of seconds for it to transfer. That way, you can make permanent progress no matter what, but DCONs now become a contested resource that would still drive PvP.
Post factions
its like im playing fucking Clear Sky
Post cryo campchive loadout
>>571326434Dayum UESC nade spams like THAT?
>>571326434>1st salvo brok the window and let the other grenades land right next to youOOOF
>>571326437>at least half of your bag not bubble shieldsNGMI
>>571327208I don't think I need them, I exfil 4 out of 5 times
If I gank you at final exfil don't self revive :( I was going to let you crawl in but when you try to rez I don't trust you anymore
Solo Vs purple team
I don't have any more room for guns, fuck
>>571330015>If I gank youYou and what army, baby girl
>>571312409Not sure but I believe that anon >>571312125 is saying all of those suggestions are brain dead in that they are not deep insights, anyone who’s played the game for a couple hours with serious intent could probably think of these basic QoL improvements. But the studio is too out of touch with the reality of their own game. They had to have players bitch at them to let you just drag mods on and off weapons til they patched it in. A single hour of play testing should of informed the developers of al the counterintuitive clunky bullshit in their UI
>watch 2 teams shoot each other's bubbles for 15 mins>some of them fell>got my bag of explosives readyMFW it's time to boom boom them
>>571330701motherfucker that isn't "versus" thats you downing one and running away.
>>571333601I won their exfil, they called it in. And I smacked them with my dick
>>571333907damn dude thats twisted, not dissimilar from the joker.
>>571334252Shut your whore mouth and hop on Marathon, there's still a playerbase to rape
>>571149537>aimbot
I would love to see the PvE mode fail and get scrappedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYh_Ffqy8g&list=RDNpYh_Ffqy8g&start_radio=1
>>571335346PCjeet melty, no GTA6 or Wolverine on keyboard
>>571325920now thats a fucking idea
>>571226092They cannot into MKB, and they want a crutch.
>>571228045yeahyou get XP for helping people finish their quests, not just yours
>>571335463NTA, but>no GoyTA6I'm good bro
>>571237754Orion is a runner just like we are. If you get a shot at reading Night Marsh Codex for UESC... you find that Orion is still all good and well, and Keletti - his subordinate that you had to fight on Outpost (beacon at the airfield) - is also with him and is mighty frustrated with what a fuckup this whole situation is. She refers to him getting all fucked up by music from that anomalous object, his shell that is.
>>571336002Post your factions, I wanna see how much you PvP
>>571330701That fucking aim bot. Seriously, anyone who says that this game is hardcore is a retard with his hand up his ass.
/mg/ does as much pvp as the redditors who get endlessly bent over and talk about sweats
>>571335463>GTA6>WolverineAcrid garbage. >consolesSame thing.
>>571330701>didnt loot anyone and ran instead of winning the fightok???? who cares why'd you post this clip lol
>>571336858All complaints are about difficulty, because it's hardcore. You lose items and become weaker, when you make mistakes. You maintain a good level of gear, when you don't make mistakes. Not making mistakes is too hard for sh177ers
>>571337071Disingenuous.
>>571337061Team got scared of one man and gave up their exfil. Winner took their exfil away
>>571337350>Disingenuous./mg/ complained about sweats and neets, begging for SBMM and wagie lobbies. This general got stomped by better players
All you hear about Marathon is >game's too hard>need PvE mode to save my booty from tryhards>sweats this, sweats thatRope yourselves unironically
>>571303521Where does this pic come from
>>571337979don't worry pretty soon you won't be hearing anything about it
>>571337979Well, maybe Bungie should just give everyone an aimbot, an automated one too.
>>571337979Don't worry Anon, the game's apparently being taken down in a few months if leaks are to believe due to not making any money.So you won't have to hear those people complaining anymore
>>571337363it's 11 minutes left on perimeter i think they exfiled probably
>>571337979hello blasthaver here where do i fit into your post
>>571340023a AAA studio taking a game down under a year would pretty much ruin their reputation forever. no one would want to buy anything they put out.
there's some fucking bullshit happening on solo outpost atm
>>571340764Good news, you don't need a good reputation when your studio is shut down!
>>571340774What is it? Seeing Rooks or something?
>faction rep voice overs for runs>nona and vulcan for 2x the priceWould it make marathillions?
>>571342689>Charter voice pack but he only talks when you kill another Runner
>>571340774I been griefingsee>>571292348>>571338334Answer my question.
>>571342689I'd pay to have Gantry say some shit like "NICE WUHK RUNNAH" when I kill a bunch of bots
