Haters Rebuked Edition>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 >>571948572
>>572413250Personally when it comes to these games I like that:>the stakes are higher>theres more to gain than a 'kill'>asymmetric gameplay>full loadout customisation>generally more control of what you're up to
Post videos, you faggots don't even play the game. Even reddit is more interesting than /mg/
I really hope they fix lockdown today.
>sub 9kHAHAHA, OH WOW
DEAD THREADLOL
>>572465091It took OP almost 12 hours to make a new one. Yeah it's over.
>>572465212I was too busy playing the game
You fool. Don't you understand? No one wishes to go on.
>>572465212fuuuuuckk I don't want us to have to move to /vm/ where all the losers are fuuuckkk
https://steamcharts.com/app/2300320
Not charting
>>572467150Farming Simulator 2025: 22k players onlineMaraslop: 3k players online
>>572464072I try not to spam post my blur webms too much since I dont wanna annoy anons too much and make sure I post stuff that's actually worth a watch. Anyway here's 40 seconds of the battle pistol being a gross weapon
>>572467261Makes sense. Farmchads don't have to worry about some sociopath coming and burning their farm down, they get to see the fruits of their labor unmolested. There is always a goal to work towards that won't be squashed by some rat camping an exfil. Take the farmpill, sissies.
>>572468153For me, it's Fields of Mistria. I might be one of the mere 1.3k online, but that amount would make up 1/3rd of Marathon's current playerbase. The absolute state of Bungo.
>>572463417Wow! Almost 12 hours to make a new thread and sub 9k players this week? Dead game, dead thread.
>>572468153fucking casuals
>>572469458alive enough for you to post
>>572469458>a right wing gay pedophile content farm told me to make my personality screaming about player numbers instead of actually interacting with art
>>572471765>>>art
>>572464340Fucking sub 4k at the lowest too LOL
>>572472572Shame, it's a fun game, but if Sony doesn't plan on killing it off then that's all you need to fill lobbies really
Today's patch will do it
so how long will sony keep this farce alive? fucking sub 9k peaks for a 3.6 billion dollar studio.
I can never remember what guns are what half the time so I put ugly skins on them as a warning not to loot or use for the shit ones and everything else gets a cool skin
i havent played in a week...i really want to, but its been so hot..
I’m having a lot of fun still and don’t want it to die.
>>572472102you forgot to add the gigachad image
>>572464072I'm level 30 playing with ~2k kits and all my fights are just spraying at someone until they die because no one is geared.
>>572471765Escharum broke you.
>>572475645Same I had one raid and was sweating more than if Id run sprints
>>572476878no need, it already lives rent free in your head
HOLD ME NOWI'M SIX FEET FROM THE EDGE AND I'M THINKIN'
saars, marathon horribel bloode bitch gam! thank for listen!
No update today?
>>572480740They've given up
>>572479303KEKAROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I'm ok with this amount of players, this is a good amount of players to keep the game going and you don't let casuals in to ruin the game or allow PvE
OH NONONO SUB 4DIGITSMARASISTERS???
>trio fill>one low gear one mid>low shoots randomly while we move and pings thin air and is generally a retard>mid guy seems ok>he takes the lead on some quest>eventless pve and looting>he tags something and I go look>runs up a slope and gets bodied almost instsntly despite his arnour>spam some explosives up the hill can't see shit>tardchad in grey arnour gets picked off >run for my life and manage to shake them off because Im a superior being>catch them extracting on a hot extract>smoke and bubbles spammed>go in for the exfil behind them>seconds counting down>in the chaos of the smoke one is down behind the pole and the other two are spamming crap at the ai>finish him with a second to spareFelt good
>>572484045marathon will drag along fine, the numbers only started truly cratering after the PvE mode announcementit also never had sub 4digits off-maintenance, jeetGPT
>haha look guys it's another gold assassin bundle-fuck off man
Ive never seen that biogel gun or a railgunIve never seen a red item
>>572489619Fake Chuddha poster
>>572491486Did anything happen?
>>572491451This is really starting to piss me off. The skins are getting pumped out so slowly and every week it's just a kinda "meh" tier skin for the same 3 shells I don't use. Bungie I want to spend money on your game just give me a good Destroyer or Sentinel skin already, even a solid recolour will suffice.
>>572492034The great Nothing looms over Marathon
̶1̶0̶,̶0̶0̶0̶ ̶9̶,̶0̶0̶0̶ 8,000 is a healthy number for an extraction shooter
>>572494175>8,000 is a healthy number for an extraction shooter
KWAB
>>572494481It will go up once it finds its audience
Does anyone know the source on this image?
When should I start going out with high value loadouts? I'm still around rank 8 with cyac nucal and traxus. last night I had a few bad rounds so I started going out with free loadouts and killing uesc to get guns.
>>572499427at least try reverse image search, niggahttps://x.com/moffy_0/status/2039500685595791736?s=20
>>572499612Go rook for that, you get a big bag. Free is good for banging out contracts
>>572499627Thanks.
where are all the good guns?!
>>572500470Sorry, I fed them to the worm.
>>572499981you don't get a blue bag on rook with rank 8 factions, that's a later upgrade
>>572500673even rook with a green bag is better than bringing a free kit with no bag where you're mostly going to be full of heals and ammo
>>572500673Oh my bad, do you get a bag at all with a free load out? I forget
>>572501384Cyac gives you a green bag in one of their kits, I believe. Not sure which one.
>>572481824>don't let casuals in to ruin the gameWill the game finally be good when it's just 500 players and an hour long queue?
Have they posted the new patch/update yet so I can cope?
>Less than 9k player peaks It's over
>>572494481Casuals messing up the matchmaking is the biggest problem of the game right now and they are the ones leaving en masse. Once numbers stabilize around 1-3k it'll start climbing back up as competitive players take notice from word of mouth.
>>572509032I'll take "things that aren't going to happen" for 200, Alex.
Sources tell me Marathon is stable
>>572508293A game for...A very small amount of people lol
>>572505975That's.... not how queues work
Are the hardware and firewall stats of any real use? I can't feel their benefit even though I have invested in resistance and usually play shells like destroyer or sentinel which I think I have higher base firewall and hardware?
>>572509938Please god
>>572513089They decrease the time that you're afflicted with status conditions. (So no, not really.)
Am I some sort of retard? I don't feel the same struggle as most people who are shitters at this game. I am dog shit. I get a couple kills here and there. mostly play solos. But I definitely die. A LOT. I don't feel the friction so to speak. I don't feel depressed or sad or even mad when I die. The only time I ever feel even a bit down is when I die in a embarrassing way. Thats it. So if someone was shooting me and I jump off a catwalk and die to fall damage. That is fucking embarrassing. But I still requeue again. So is my mind just resilient to being killed / shit on by people better than me? or am I somehow different? I love the game. I would say my biggest gripe is that opening pinwheel is kind of weird in solos. It seems like no one ever wants to do it. I want to be the person to open it because I don't care but I don't even know how to do it properly. It seems like in solos, most people skulk around waiting for the other guys to do something. Which is fine. I will be the guy to do stuff. if I knew how to fucking do it lol. But I also don't like heavy spoilering myself on map mechanics. I know I need two keys but I don't even know the other spawns. I know processing normally has one it seems. Somewhere.
>>572513725Hardware apparently shits on recon drones effectiveness and sentinels mine. You still get slowed by both but its very brief compared to having no hardware. I am not sure about EMP effects and firewall though. Like if you step through a green security beam and it EMPs you or whatever, how long are you emp'd for if you have no firewall stat? I thought it was like 3-4 minutes. Which I guess can be a lot.
>>572513847Most of the complainers haven't even played the game and are just on some social justice crusade.
>>572513089From my own testing sorta not really? It can suck accidentally stepping in a chem grenade pool or setting off a tox plant and getting chunked by the toxic effect, but It's not super worth intentionally investing into. When you get EMP'ed or hacked firewall investment can reduce your usual time from something like 2 and a half minutes down to 1 and a half which is...Nice? But you're still fucked up and it still only takes a single OS kit to fix you up, and you can essentially replicate having your stats maxxed just by using the green consumable kits which solves problems like walking through chem pools or going up against a sentinel knowingly. Considering it usually isn't too hard to find the kits on a dead bot and they're cheap AF, I don't think it's super worth thinking about. As someone who has their cradle maxxed with everything except resistance the biggest downside is the lower self repair speed, but I've acclimatised to playing without it high.>shells like destroyer or sentinel which I think I have higher base firewall and hardware?You're correct. Sentinel and Destroyer both have the highest base stats for both.It'd be cool if the stats actually mattered in different ways. I know it'd piss people off but I'd love more ways to inflict status effects and fuck with people to incentivise actually investing into the stats. A shell that can more proactively hack (Thief may as well not have the ability to hack with how she needs to use it) or one that can throw out tox abilities would be a step in the right direction. The whole biotech angle is not nearly played up enough
Stats that affect conditional status effects will never actually be good on their own unless acquiring enough gives you blanket immunity or it's some kind of crazy ARPG build that requires you to self-inflict bleed so you actually do need all that shit to not kill yourself.
>>572513847How you feel about losing in a a game is definitely going to differ between people based on all kinds of stuff. I find it frustrating in this game because matchmaking takes too fucking long in my region so I've given up for the time being.
>night marsh>in complete darkness in a forested part of the map (south-east AI uplink on the border of the map)>don't have a glowing bright skin>team mates don't have their flashlights on and neither do I>none of us have any lmg shields or glowing shit like darkvision scopes that could give away our positions>have been crouch walking so we don't make any noise bumbling through the brush>enemy team is somehow able to see us with fucking snipers from 150m away and quickscope us in the headIs there some kind of exploit to make the game less dark or is it just people unironically hacking? I know it's marsh but bringing 3 outlands to Night Marsh makes literally no sense
>>572518645Yes it's called nvidia profiles and people just crank their gamma up to see you and there's literally nothing you can do about it unless the game devs specifically force the game to disable profiles while open.
>>572518523I actually feel you on this one. I live in NA and have never dealt with long queue times in almost any game. I think its probably painful to enjoy a game but its not as popular in a given region which means it can't be played comfortable without high ping etc.
how many of the debuff cleansers and buffing consumables do you take?
I only hand out one (1) pity bump per thread Nice game you've got, surely 5000 players is the perfect healthy population in a couple weeks time
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>>572520820I'll very rarely bring a mechanics kit but that's about it
>>572517190If the actual effects were debalitating enough and if repair kits were actually a luxury they definitely would be worth it to invest into, the main problem is that it's just a waste of time to hack or toxic someone currently when you can just shoot them or throw a frag grenade instead and kill them outright. Right now there's little reason to bother trying to inflict status effects since it's just objectively weaker and the trade off isn't worth it in the slightest. The main problem is that this game has systems set up to introduce complexity but it falls apart because the rest of the game doesn't really gel with how those systems would be introduced.Like I'd love it if we could get our fucking legs shot out and be forced to hobble or crawl across the map like some mutilated terminator if your hardware was too shit and just failed you even if you technically managed to repair yourself, but because of how Marathon's gameplay loop is it just wouldn't work at all and most people would be pissed off by it instead of immersed>>572520820Depends>rando fillsUsually taking a blue or green sponsorkit which comes with 0 by default I'm pretty sure>friends (blue runs)I take 1 mechanic kit and 1 OS kit, maybe a cardio or energy amp depending on the map and what shell I'm playing>friends (purple runs)2 mechanic kits, 1 OS kit, 1 cardio, 1 energy amp and 2 signal jammers>cryo3 mechanic kits, 2 OS kits, 2 cardio, 2 energy amps and 3 signal jammers at minimum
Sub 8k soon
>Doing some solo perimiter while friends are offline just to fart my way through some basic bitch contracts to boost up some rep>Spawn at hauler>Spring down with Vandal kitted out for max speed>Wierd theres no bots>Hear shooting>Some Assassin has cleared the place out>Stand back with a good angle>Hit him like four times with the freekit magnum and then knife him>Hes got a couple greens but nothing movement relatedHow the fuck was he already there from, i assume, North Relay spawn and cleared out the Hauler in the time it took run down the rep ramp, boost across the grass and climb a ladder?Do people with better internet connections actually start the match first or what?
>>572526142Nah I think there's another spawn on the north relay side right by that key room and they can get in there and clear the initial bots in the first 40 seconds.
>>572526265Man i guess but if there is i've never spawned there and i've spawn in some fucky places like in a shipping container pointed at a black wall in night marsh. I guess maybe is to push confrontation but furthers my opinion Perimiter needs a southern equivalent. Hopefully the revamp in S3 is just the one the concept artists post and it was just meant for S1 and we got the testing one with the trees removed as a filler or something.
>>572526142There's two hauler spawns; one north and one south, both are on the ramps on each respective side to the west. Likewise bots spawn either on the north or south end of Hauler, so it's likely he spawned north and the bots did too. Pretty sure when they spawn north technically there are less bots too, so it wouldn't have taken him long to clear them out>Do people with better internet connections actually start the match first or what?I have seen some people take a little bit to "load in" but I think it's more hardware related than internet related. It's usually only be 5 or 10 seconds though
>>572492226Comeback: to be studied.
>>572526142>Clear all of Hauler in the first 30 seconds of a match>Alright time to get my pockets fil->BAMBAMBAMSTAB>See a freekit Vandall not only cheap shot you but then fuck off and walk away without checking your bagI would be pretty salty i'm not gonna lie.
Are some Marathon players really stupid?Like i've played multiple matches now, mostly during american hours, where players on the mike can't read words or the names of items and sound like the child left behind meme but real.Maybe its because i mostly play mmos but i've never seen this level of illiteracy before in a videogame.
>>572529398>on the MIKE>complains about illiteracy retard-kun...
>>572530073>where players on the mike can't read words or the names of itemsBro you couldn't even finish reading the second line.I guess i got my answer.
>>572530184NTA but it's mic, not fucking mike bro.
>>572530184
>there anons ITT not on first name basis with Michael Ra-Phone
>bungie wants me to grind contracts for a billion hours for engagement metrics>ok.jpg>i load into trio fills with free kits>do my contracts>leave lobbies>occasionally i get a couple teammates that fight 2v3, get knocked, then screech at me>don't care, leave anywaynice game
is it fun to just do contracts and find out about the organizations and tau ceti iv? or do you play to maximize your gear and become wealthy and powerful?
>>572539729I started with the last free weekend and I haven't reached the endgame yet, but the lore is part of what got me to buy it. Outside of the priority contracts is your standard filler content, but the writing does a good job setting up the why behind what you are doing. Good voice acting too which I was not expecting.
not even 8k today
>>5725509462nd day in a row it dropped 1k. wtf is going on?
>>572551420Death spiral. Players aren't finding matches because it takes 15+ minutes to get into one, which means they stop playing, which makes matchmaking WORSE. The game is done for now. Especially outside of NA.
>>572513847I only dislile how big a deal audio is in solo. I find myself creeping a lot and looting a player kill is beyond risky.
>playing solo>doing event, contract or something in an area>that big rocket drone ship arrives
>>572464340>>572465091I'm more impressed that this is what you spend your life on, every day monotoring threads and f5'ing steamspy to say how much dead games you don't even play are. Some people clearly don't have lives.
>>572536510You get Faction XP from picking up valuables and doing certain events. If you only do contracts it's relatively slow.
>>572518645Thetmals maybe?Also crouch walking does make noise.
>>572523937I swear I had my legs fucked on a run once. I had a red icon above my health saying legs offline or something amd a 2 fucking mijute timer.
