Dead General 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/NEW: Third-party Looking For Group service (alpha)https://runclub-alpha.netlify.app/First solo compiler clear:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnLVU_ddDFUPrevious run: >>575795074
Raped game.Raped players.Raped developer.
>>5765780392hard4u
For a dead game I sure seem to be finding plenty of low level players daily
>>576585150Apex have bots now (but doesn't tell you). I wonder if Mara will do the same.
>>576586034They have mics which really helps
Is S3 the comeback?
>>575795074died before bump limit award
>Fully invis as assassin>Didn't sprint during my invis>Didn't make any kind of "alerting" noise prior to or while invis>Warden I'm walking past immediately locks onto me and bursts me down from full HP to almost dead>Run away and hide around a corner>Go invis out of sight>Scout runs up to me from 30m away and does his heat explosion attack while I'm invis and downs meAre the bots just fucking psychic now?
>>576578039Indeed. Marasissies endure a gape so wide it rivals the size of the grand canyon.
>>576589876sometimes the bots just shoot their guns going all hyphy like tusken raiders
>>576589876They seem to spot from further away now. This game is so inconsistent between minor updates its ridiculous
>sneak behind assassin>he cloaks>get behind him and swing knife>miss>ai sees me and hits him, sending him running for his life>cloak up and follow him>hide behind as he heals>decloak and aggro another AI that hits himWho /mischief/ here?>
>>576593035>freekit, running to overflow from columns>hear steps behind me>turn around and see a fellow Vandal, green shield>he opens with arm cannon, misses>I get them with cannon, send into air and cut them down with volt thrower>"gg wp" as i finish>loot and carry on to overflow >hear footsteps and recon radar>take hits but no idea where from>Amp up and run away back to columns>hit supply drop as i run through to South Relay>ten mins later I've circled back and find that recons dead body by the open supply drop>they actually took the bait lmfao
>>576593035A few times I tried running around Perim activating every exfil without using it. Not sure it did anything as it probably just made it easier for people to exfil.
kek
>>576593774I've never been exfil ganked and I'm lv100. Its weird cause Im always ready for shit to go wrong. No I didnt level boost in that pve thing or 2xXP I was on holiday
>>576599184Sand is now beating Marathon in sales, viewers and players without the bots turned on. It is over. 3.6 billion dollar studio losing on all fronts to a SoT clone made by 20 people.
>>576593398That image is really ugly. Why did you post it?
>>576609694whats sot
>>576610178S(uck)o(Our)T(its)
>>576593035Since I mostly play trio now the rare times I play solo I basically just sprint around everywhere and make as much noise as possible and somehow get away with it. The mischief mostly comes since I main sentinel. so I just sprint around leaving snares everywhere, and as such it's not unusual for me to snare one or two people on average that are trying to stalk after me stomping around everywhere. It really shouldn't work but it just does for some reason, I'm honestly shocked I don't see more sentinels in solo desu
>>576609764It's not like he's drowing in options.
>>576613026I am. And even if I wasn't, it'd rather just not attach an image than post that.
>>576589546yesUntil it releases and doesn't actually move the needleThen S4 will be the comeback season
"Our name is Bungie, king of game developers:Look on our works, ye Mighty, and despair!":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YO8rKMCeck
If you crew fill with white shield you will not be rezzed or supported in a gunfight
>>576620264t, anon destined to failI personally hate solofags in trios. Retards who don't care and just run to wherever without reading the room. These fags come in pairs too
>late S1>tell /mg/ that the update is bad, night reskin is not content, one shell and gun is not content>/mg/ says night maps are good, one shell is good>update completely failsI told you so, new maps or no update. Doesn't count as a season without new map.
I am not supporting PvE on Marathon. I would like to play, this is my favorite murder hobo robbery game, but I will not log in during Vault Breaker's availability.I did not log in when VB released, I will not log in until it's removed.
>>576621531Night Marsh and Sentinel are good, the main problem is lack of new contracts and story progression, as well as the massive fuck up that caused the average vault value on week 2 of season 2 to be the same at on weeks 11-12 of season 1.>Doesn't count as a season without new map.It's completely ridiculous to expect a new map every season when seasons are 3 months long. With this said, season 4 better add a new fucking map. 4 isn't enough.
>>576621725well looks like you wont be logging in after s3 there is going to be a permanent pve mode.
>>576628519maratroons will write 1000 word essays about how this is high art
>>576628803Why are you in a general for a game you don't like?
>>576628859I came here to watch Bungie fail
>>576629015
FUCKING CHUDS!!! FUCK OFF!!!
>>576628803look at that mug
>>576628859For the schadenfreude, you faggot.
stable 4k playerbase
>>576631921You people have been saying this for 5 months. This isn't healthy.
Marathon losted
>>576634940And Sand wonned
>nig marsh>fill with decent duo>run around doing chores>have to go to complex>sounds like a team in there so we sneak to an ambush spot by the open entryway>one ofthemm alerts a bot>voice inside is some guy shitting himselff he accidentallly came solo>could be a ruse but we go up>bit of negotiation later we end up helping him do an annoying quest>ends up being a cosy raid til extract>find out i didnt get credit for getting into complex control for some reason and have to do it again for my questIm getting less and less shite crew fills as the weeks pass, thank fuck for pve
I tried this PVE thing and despite everyone saying it's baby mode, etc, it's quite fucking obtuse and took a few tries and a 40 minute youtube video before I could open even one vault and exfil. It's kinda fun I guess but I can see the novelty quickly wearing off. What's the point really? Because I don't think it gives you codex vault progress so I would need to open them in normal cryo I guess to count. Nothing can be kept, only those mode exclusive mcguffins. It's basically season exp farm when everyone and their grandmother is already season level 100+ anyway? I don't get this game sometimes, or what Bungie is thinking, or if they are even thinking at all.
>>576638484>What's the point really?the previous director raped the game into the dirt with his retarded obsession with team-based competitive shooters so now the new guy is scrambling to find something that people actually will want to play
>>576638484fun map on vandal
>>576638484>What's the point really?lets you learn the layout of cryo and how to do vaults so that when you play the actual version you only need to worry about pvp skills instead of getting lost in a completely unfamiliar place
>>576639328That's fair. Do the vaults open the same way in normal cryo? Because they were pretty standard, compared to some destiny raid shit, look for the symbol at the entrance, find the correct symbol panels, gg?
>>576639512>Do the vaults open the same way in normal cryo?yeah its the exact same, the stuff you need to do to actually get up to the complier is more involved than just finding three panels
>>576609694what the fuck was that crash for sand on wednesday?
>>576630308>>576536209Are you gonna samefag this for the following months? Game is here to stay kek
How many guns do you refuse to use? I find the hardline and the twin tap to be shit even with good headshot accuracy.
circuit breaker is a fun weapon
When will they be adding linux support and bring back the leviathan raid in this game?
>>576642238beggars can't be choosers, i'm afraid...
>>576644590I cant imagine playing this game like a scav/low level pmc in tarkov
>>576630308the chuds are winnings, bros..................
>bungie makes the most beautiful game in a decade>some smoothbrain or schizo committee decides that night marsh, a map i literally cannot see, needs to be one of the first content updates to the gamethere is no one at the helm
>4k player peak>PvE update is still a month and a half away
>>576638484no one at bungie plays video games for fun. they confuse monotony for depth and spend all their time creating the most time consuming treadmills possible.
>>576622981>It's completely ridiculous to expect a new map every season when seasons are 3 months long.Not it's not, first of all, new maps should've been in development before the game relaesed(unless the studio is retarded). Second of all, the maps are not large or complex, it's a bunch of boxes. The only map that isn't a cookie cutter box, is Cryo. The maps are simple, and small, easy to produce(unless the studio is retarded).>>576623247>well looks like you wont be logging in after s3If the studio is retarded and doesn't have a new PvPvE map
>>576645364>most beautiful game>yet most people hate the character designsmake it make sense
>>576639949bots turned off and it was STILL beating marathon
>>576645658The only one that offends me is Triage
cryo is a fucking meat grinderhow do i recoup my losses? ive lost like 4 kits
>>576647065Dont go unless you have top kit and friends or a free kit
>>576645776marathon was actually beating it on that day. higher lows and higher peaks.but like, how does this actually happen? do they really bot the numbers?
>take a week to make solos remotely playable>take another week to make solos more bearableAnd Destiny fans are crying over missing out on another Bungie game? Holy fucking nigger, Bungie is so retarded I can't even put it into words.
>>576648256none of my friends play this game though
>>576634940>>576635649why is there an anon replying to ximself?
>>576645364It's not about beauty, it's about appealing to dudebros. That's why Bungie's Halo won and 343's faggot coded Halo are flops. Dudebros will never play faggot looking games, and Marathon is absolutely faggot coded.
>>576656553destiny was yuge tho
>>576656669With redditors
>>576649854bungie was able to get away with this previously because destiny fans are a deeply raped people
>>576642238guns i always sell>brrt no gold mod>twin tap>both railguns>the channel rifle>the lookout>conquest>overrun>v75 scarthere are probably more i can't remember right now without opening the game
>Almost relapsed and installed Marathon to ambush runnersWould love to play, but nope. Either release PvPvE content, or no log in.
THEY'RE FIXING THE SKINSYESSSS
>>576673742Take my money right now, the best part is that these skins still fit marathon's theme. I can believe a runner would look like this. So much better than a dumbass Nikki Minaj collab lol
>>576638484>What's the point really?Learning Cryo.Spend data on salvage, unique weapons, and vault keys.
>>576674053>kpopjesus, they're desperatethis is how the fortniteification beginsI'm afraid it might be too little too late
>>576642238>Snipers>Railguns>BRRT>Hardline>Repeater>Circuit BreakerThis is a real problem, when you think about it. Marathon feels like it has too few guns.
>>576645658That's pretty simple, actually. I don't even need to add anything, your statement is sufficient.
>>576674053Honestly, I might pay a small amount of money for the Space Gods theme. That's a pretty decent one; it's a good mix of still visually identifiable but not just a palette swap.
>>576674053That Kpop skin does not fit at all, and I can't tell if that's supposed to be Thief or Vandal. So much for recognizing silhouettes I guess
are there any shells you guys would like nerfed or buffed? how?
>>576677046Revert recon ult back to being bright blue like a TAD ping for fucks sake.
>>576677046Have Vandal's movement abilities consume less heat when not using her ult.
>>576677046personally i think triage's emp overcharge thing needs a slight rework so he's not a volt weapon specialist. i think they couldn't feed signal jammers for free to the people who want echo pulse nerfed, and i can't tell what they should do to destroyer maybe nothing i suppose but he's the best besides recon on outpost and cryo and he holds up better on perimeter and dire than recon who can't ping an enemy that's 100m away sniping you
>>576677278giving vandal better parity with destroyer would be nice i could get with this change
>>576640267he's been here for months already. marathon mindbroke some people to such a degree where they just can't let it go
>>576628859I suspect there are more people shitting on the game here than actually playing it.
How you guys doing?
>>576677046Give Sentinel bubble shields as his ult (then delete bubble shields)Delete Recon
>>576674053no one is dropping $20 on this shit. you need a good base design first, which most people find off-putting.when people say they would've preferred the original concept of generic customizable characters over this, you know you fucked up.
>>576676315Bit disgenuine honestly; anyone can tell that's vandal>headphones>medium length hair>running shoes>segmented upper and lower face plates>lipstick markingsI do agree that I don't think it really fits though, but I think that's mostly cause of the art style rather than the actual direction. I can totally buy people with shells becoming music stars and running promo for the different corps, and if you're immortal I mean why not just do merc work for shits and giggles? So long as your neural port is undisclosed you can basically do whatever
>>576668096Railguns not worth using?
>>576677046Recon wallhacks need to fuck off
>>576677046As a sentinel main I could ask for absurd buffs, but really the main thing I want with him is any combination of the following>Deployment time and activation of his defender system to be quicker>To let the defender system stick to surfaces other than the ground (similar to how his snares work)>Let sentinel's pick up their defender system to refund the CD cost>While the defender system is deployed, the CD for your next defender system starts being charged immediately instead of having to wait for the defender system to die firstOne of his main weaknesses at the moment is it's hard to make a good call on when to "use" the defender system. Ideally you throw it out before you start a fight, but most smart players will either see or hear you deploy it and just hold back on throwing grenades until it dies or shoot it with half a mag of bullets and destroy it. You really have to whip it out as a "gotcha" move, but it takes so long to use it reactively that it makes the thing useless since players can easily throw 2 or 3 frags before the defender system is actually active. This is in tandem with the fact that if you even slightly misplace the thing, you have to wait upwards of 4 or 5 minutes just to deploy another one, something that happens way too often since again you usually have to predict where you're gonna fight/hold against an enemy and with the short range of the system even just being 2 or 3m off is enough to let grenades slip past it's netLiterally any of the suggested changes will make using his prime far less punishing and give people a chance to be more useful with it.>Quicker deployment time means it can be used better reactively>Allowing it to stick to walls means people can position it over the tops of doorways and lockdown a door without making it super easy to destroy>Refunding the CD makes guessing wrong on the location to hold way less punishingNot strong, just QoL imo. Doesn't make sentinel OP, just less painful to play
>>576688016Pretty much all the shell abilities take too long to deploy, it's bullshit for a game with this ttk.
>>576688919Ehhhh idk, the only abilities that take a while to activate are the primes, but most of them are things you should be prepping before you step out of cover or just outright not using in combat anyway. Basically every tactical can be used quickly on the spot or has a core for using said tactical quicklySentinel is an outlier mostly because his prime takes one of the longest to get up and running, but it's effect can be quite neglibile, whereas the next prime ability that takes the longest to actually use is Triage's reboot which can fucking bring both of your dead team mates back to life from 30m away.
>>576688919I like it, anything that pulls away from "panic button" gameplay is a win.
>>576690358Yeah a defender system like his either needs to have the fastest rechatge in the game or just be replaced with a high power bubble shield
>>576674053Going a bit Delta Force but I guess it beats having a Yogscast©skino or some rapper
>>576673742>>576674053You missed some. Apparently, the questions in the survey also talked about skins being customizable or modular.
>>576701113
>>576701113Damn those 3 skins look good
>>576673742>>576674053>>576701113>>5767012474 more Assassin skins to Israel.
Any other skins than all black is nerfing yourself
>>576673742>>576674053>>576701113>>576701247trooncore skins
>>576704381Local anonymous user is afraid of color.
>>576704475colour*
>Mewgenics>QuasimorphI've noticed that turn-based extraction games can be quite hardcore despite being PvE. Is this possible in a non-turn-based extraction game?
Nobody ever surveyed me...
Did the servers just die or did my gf just fuck with my ethernet cable for attention
Okay, but what else do they have besides wacky and out-there skin themes?Because skins will not bring players back, or bring new players in. They will just make you money from the already existing player base, which at this point is not much. No kpop woman is gonna see a kpop skin theme and suddenly decide to buy an extraction shooter because of itThis genuinely just seems like Bungie is just moving at a snail's pace.>Oh so players complained that the release skins were awful and uninspired?>well, take a look at this!>y'know, like 5 months later, after the playerbase has dropped by like 98%I'm still not giving them a single extra cent btwThis is a box price game, not F2P shit
Holy FUCK NA players are stupid, out of all the servers the game could put me on I'm sick of getting lumped with these actual mouth breathers>Two assassin fills with open mics with music playing in the background>"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think we should go control cause uhhhh that's where all the fighting happens">Making callouts and both of them are just outright ignoring me>They're blind peaking players with circuit breakers 3m away with double taps>Looting body bags in the open and getting downed>Have to 1v3 to stop us from getting wiped by a random blue and purple team>Snare triggers on a gold shield player 4 mins later and tell them>"It was probably just a bot man">Tell him that it literally cannot be a bot it 100% is a player that's coming to fuck us>"Anyway lets uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just open this vault">Literally just walk off and leave them to die to the gold team that inevitably comes to kill them>Manage to get exfil activated just before the gold team storms the vault and kills them>Have to deal with all of this while on 7 million ping and rubberbanding back and forth"Priority connection" my ass
absolute Vandal sex in anything she wears
>>576708173Season 3 is supposed to have a proper PvE mode, improvements to early game, changes to the contract system (and presumably new priority contracts), and a revamp of Perimeter, including new PoIs. And new weapons and a new shell, just like every season.
>>576715334I guarantee you that the "proper" PvE mode is gonna be one of those things that you run once, and you've seen everything there is to offer, like the Marvel Rivals PvE modes.See, this is the problem: at this point they are just running around the clock to turn Marathon into a worse version of Destiny. You really think people want that?If anything, this is just gonna alienate the already small player base by neglecting the PvP players that are still enjoying the game, while adding some very perishable content that is just gonna be a one-and-done thing. At most, the game will just force you to run it multiple times to complete contacts, which is not gonna exactly attract new players or anything
>bungie starts making sexy goonslop skins>infinite moneynot a bad move tbhdesu
>>576716850>>infinite moneyyou need players to give you that money
>>576715757I think I'd rather see what they actually have to offer before making statements like this.
>>576674053>Destiny 2 trials of the nine recolor>koreaslop
>>576709887Yeah Ive gotten some US lobbies in the past 24hrs for sone reason and they were like playing another game
>>576673742>>576674053The Decora Protocol and K-Pop themes are horrid what the fuck are they thinkingThey should be making shit that looks COOL to attract back the more dudebro audience that they put off with the character designs already. Leaning more to appealing to slop consuming troons that will lap up anything but further drive away anyone else is supremely retarded
>>576720656I like Decora Protocol. Looks MIDA themed. As for the K-pop one, I'll need to see a model implementation before I decide.
>>576701113Bungie are such rat fucks for scrapping the your guys customization.
>>576701113>woomy vandal
>>576715757Without a doubt, this is a Bungie with physically less people in the building and absolutely defeated. They couldn't even do normal activity development in Destiny when they were in much better shape of a company without over reliance of reused assets, and now people are expecting some big full fleshed PVE mode when the original scope of this game was always set to be much smaller? I just don't see it. Bungie are very metric driven, they have been in minimum viable product mode for years at this point and don't want to spend the money or time for something that won't budge the needle. The blast haver vibes brigade are trying to will a Forsaken resurgence into existence but fail to realize the underpinnings and more importantly context at which made that possible, High Moon and Vicarious Visions forever unsung heroes. We live in a far worst time in gaming where there isn't really much physical time or interest to "win people back", things more quick. It's no different how people are smoking crack if they think Bungie is going to ass pull a whole bunch of pvp arena maps like old times
>>576722636I suppose I'm fine with the Vandal Decora one, it feels more grounded in Marathon's artstyle and is more just a variant on her current look, the Thief and Assassin ones are just way too much though, they look like they're from a completely different game. Short sleeve hoodie is peak generic hip urban youth look I really hate how some of the skins already are starting to stray from the games base artstyle and it's only going to get worse and worse as it goes on. I wish Joseph Cross hadn't left, whoever is in charge now is letting absolute bullshit through
I dont ubderstand what the issue is here. Steam has about 4-5k players. Consoles have fuck knows how many. Worst case scenario it can go on PS+ anyway, but eveb without it theres thousands on there too. I've never had to wait more than half a minute for a game. Tarkov, Delta Force, Arena Breakout etc etc arent getting bashed for being "dead" despite queue times up to 45 minutes on some of these games' maps. Anyways I got hold of a Stryder rifle for the first time today and its a fucking rapist, was expecting another Hardline PR shitpile. Gonna be a shame when I get ganked for it amongst free kitter crew fills.
were shells supposed to be loot at one point
>>576735306But saar... the steam counter saar...This game is just simply not consumed enough to be clarified as good
>>576735306>>576737820Marathon sharted
>>576673742>gyaru thiefi'll never recover from this
New OST for season 3.https://x.com/sonicbarber/status/2085759873980268965?s=20
>>576742636Wow.
>>576742636WE will be buying the soundtrack at all storefronts to save the game.
>>576742636Requiem for Marathon
>>576687707i can't aim with them to save my life, i've not really played any fpses with weapons you charge by holding the trigger, i'm not even really used to aim down sights with right click
>>576748731probably better on controller, in destiny with bows or line rifles you'd just strafe and drag a little and its free heads
>>576742636Noice, I love the music in this game. First time in decades that I've not turned music to 0 in a conpetitive game.
>>576748731Ah ok, I had good results with them but I barely used them so thought it might be fluke. Annoyingnto use though for sure
>>576715757I don't see why they couldn't make something like Witchfire with assets already in the game. Only thing they need is more PvE enemy variety, which would help extraction mode too
>>576687223IF you see them in the middle of a firefight, or running between buildings through a scope, you aren't going to see if their faceplate is split or if they have lipstick markings
Id love to see a Lost Planet skin for Thief.
I'm not a fan of snipers and railguns because they lack utility. Most automatic and semiautomatic guns are good from 0-50 meters, but snipers and railguns are just for long range. The longest range, even, made just for PvP fiends. If you have one of those, then your other guns must cover everything else. I'd rather use precision rifles, they have much more utility.
>>576757109Ill take a sniper rifle over a Hardline or Twin Tap in cqc any day
>>576757193But what about a V66 or a BR33?
>>576638714This. It isn't Covid era anymore and anyone who hasn't seen how extraction shooter populations self-cannibalize faster than any other genre is retarded.
I love cryo I love cryo
>enter dire marsh>dick about for 15 minutes>no lockdown>leave
this legit has to be some kind of mental illness right? maybe onset schizophrenia? why waste time caring so much about a thing that's guaranteed to not be a thing anymore by the end of 2027
>>576782509vro...
>>576782509>some kind of mental illness right?well, yespeople also just really like rallying behind something to cheer on it's failure, the internet thrives off negativity after all
>>576742636The soundtrack that will save Marathon, chuds in shambles.
>>576782509Doing the job the gaming press won't.
>>576787449We are gamergate
>not even 12 hours playtime>already in matches of purple shielded faggots roaming for killsI think this whole genre might be ass
>>576756741>Would be the only skin to be bright pink, gold and white in the game>Has a fucking ponytail>"DURRRR THAT COULD BE ANY SHELL?!?!?"chances are most likely it's the only shell in the game with a pink, gold and white skin you moron
>>576794024genius chibiposter
>>576793062not enough players for you to be matched with others of like gear/skillset.bungie uses cbmm as a fallback when noone plays pvp modes in there games, they documented there process in numerous twabs/twids during d1 and d2. current total online (on steam) as of right now is 3730, and (at least for d2, which marathon took a lot of backend servers to create their pvp lobby connections) pure cbmm starts at around 12k (they never gave precise numbers, doubt their were any and it was a rough algorithm, again 3730). you are at the point of the season where you either suck it up and "git gud" soulsborne style and exfill with the bag, or decide you either dont like the game, or extraction shooters as a whole. of note, maybe you should try tarkov, the game that created this shitfest. might give you perspective.
did bungo fix the oobs in cryo? any reason to farm for funny red weapon, or did they really nerf it into a pit of irrelevant obscurity because shitters cant pve?i heard somethings about cradle changes, should i just wait for the next season, am i going to jump into maps against % maxxers i mathematically cant catch up to in time?last question : with tarkov and its devs focusing on evergreen gear/loot, has bungie made a statement about how they feel with their current design logic, or are they dumb enough to believe that what we currently have with marathon is what people wanted?
do things like cradle and factions reset with the season?
>>576794024It's the same deal as with the battlepass Sin skin. I'm fine with Bungie doing a ton of variations to the visual side of things, but the shells need to still have a unique visual language. A ponytailed Vandal works just as fine as a school shooter trenchcoat Assassin. My biggest gripes were the skins that were available in S1, as they didn't really do much to differentiate, yet everything that's come out in S2 has been pretty solid.
>>576801258i don't actually know but my assumption is yeah, besides codex stuff and cosmetic unlocks everyone's sent straight back to fresh-account status
>>576801258They do. You only keep your codex and cosmetics, which includes subroutines.
Are we having a blast?
>>576802224Always having fun, i wouldn't play this otherwise. It's the company surrounding all this that deserves to get clowned at as much as possible.
>>576802461king
>>576793062Become rat
https://youtu.be/IW3KB4Jwryo
>>576814004First time I did 3 vaults solo.
>Have like 15+ people I play trios with>Not a single one has been online at prime time for my region>They've barely logged on throughout the week either to play>Fill queue cryo takes ages to find a game and then I get paired with people who are completely helpless and barely even know what to do>Queuing on every other map has just led to a dead lobby where whatever team I get matched with doesn't have any other enemy players in itGenuinely feels bad man. I'm really hoping there's some fun content for solos next season because it looks like I'm just going to lose any chance to play trios in the future. The worst part is I'm not even a bad player, so going from doing compiler and ranked to just being basically stuck doing priority contracts in empty maps I've already done just kinda blows.I've got good loot. I've done some of the hardest codex challenges there are. There's basically nothing fun for me to actually do, and all the fun PvP content is hard locked behind having a preset trio that's always on when you are that can give up 4 or 5 hours to grind out some games.
>>576817290Most people would see this as the sign of a dying game and quit
>>576817481I don't want to do that cause I actually like the game though. I know that's an unpopular opinion here for some retarded reason but it's the truth
i genuinely hate what this game stands for, i was hoping a doom 2016 revitalization of the originals
>>576817896>i genuinely hate what this game stands forSame, until I played it.
>>576817896YOU WANT SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN?!TOO BAD! HERE TRIOS! FUCK U!
>>576818124well i'm a tarkov guy so this game doesn't impress, i just want my liminal mazes and minimalist storytelling
>>576818320>i just want my liminal mazescryo archive>and minimalist storytellingliterally all the codex entries
>>576818320You want to paypig your way to a magic anus box and a leg up over others. You want an ezmode game where you can rape a guys legs withan Skorpion and negate his gear. Begone, child, Marathon is too hardcore for you.
>>576820713Apparently it's too hardcore for most extraction shooter players since it's the least played one
>>576817896just join the fucking cord chuddy
It's crazy how much MIDA rep you get from VB.
I found 7 batteries just in the first room.
>>576817896This game deserves to die, everything it stands for is evil as if a culmination of the anti-christ child of modern gaming. It is even worse than Concord in its objective, character and most of all its conception at its core. Its fans can't see this. This game NEEDS to fail.
Marathon would be really good if it was more solo oriented instead of pushing for trio team fights and had more content. I hope that the Perimeter overhaul expands the map instead of squeezing the new PoIs between the existing ones.
>>576821446>it's the least played oneit's not
>>576829015>um ackshaully it has more players than some irrelevant dogshit no one has heard of so checkmate chud
HOLD ME /mg/! HOLD ME!!!!!!!!
>>576829493>marathon is the least played extraction shooter if we only count the ones above it
Say good morning, Marathon. Show everyone how alive you are!
>>576830880>Say good morning
>>576831718I still have 5 more minutes of morning, Ranjeet.
>>576830268see >>576830880
>>576821446Feel free to download Delta Force, Tarkov, Arena Break out and see how long it takes you to get a game on these supposedly bustling titles compared to Maragods.
>>576794024That means they can never ever add another skin with bright pink then. And if someone who doesn't know about the skin sees the character, they have to guess who it is. Do you want the meta to become "knowledge check your opponents on store knowledge"?
>>576834662>baby can't memo skinsmaybe pvp games are too much for you
>Retards are defending the death of Marathon's art styleGrim
>>576830880>mogged this hard by ESCAPE FROM DUCKOV[sensible chuckle]
>>576834994>1 year from now>game was saved by flood of premium skins added to the store>I que into perimeter>I thank Bungie for putting the Store in the loading screen, it gives me a chance to study the new skins>Looting osme containers, I hear a noise behind me>Turn around, I see Michael Jackson running from cover to cover>Knowing that it's simply Destroyer's newest skin, I get ready to counter a rush>Nothing happens>He uncloaks behind me and kills me with a shotgun>I didn't realize this was Michael Jackson (Forma de post-op), which is an Assassin skin
>>576836250You are getting mad at scenarios you made up in your head.
>>576836629Am I?
>>576836250To be fair, the game will shut down before it gets to this point.
>>576836712>Posts a different game>Posts fucking Fortnite, the infinite media crossover gameYes, you are. At worst, Marathon will get subtle thematic crossover skins, like Helldivers 2.
>>576836712Not sure what that gay shit is, but its not Marathon
>>576836920>Marathon will get subtle thematic crossover skins, like Helldivers 2.Retard
>>576837051Is that trans ally Darth Vader?
>>576836201Duckov both peaks and dips lower thougbeit
>>576832167>marathon is the least played extraction shooter if we only count the ones above it
>>576839253Go ahead and name the relevant games that have less players, Maracuck
>>576837051lol what game is this from?
>>576839450Destiny 2.
>>576839396>MaracuckNo need to project your cuck fetish Ramesh. This is a vidya thread.
>>576839683I asked for video game names, cuckboy
>>576839450Sand Raiders
>>576839396Relevant is doing a lot of rhetorical work there, is it not? You may simply dismiss anything that does not fit your point.
>>576839396duckov and far far west>t-those were never relevant! cuckoldry saar!I accept your concession, but duckov had a big launch and is constantly being brought up here.ffw was also always compared to this game until it inevitably fell off harderI could also list sand raiders on a lucky day, since the ccu randomly craters and falls even below marathon's lowest. (that's totally normal for a game, okay?)
>>576840630I concession your accept
>>576840630Don't worry, xe will definitely dismiss everything listed.
I wish i'd get pre-nerf Energy Amped every time someone brings up charts and player counts.
>>576840679>duckovSingle player, not comparable>far far westFair enough. Thank you for listing a game
>>576840679Far Far West is an extraction shooter?
>>576841405You havent studied its comeback?
>>576847564Did you reply to a wrong post?
>>576840923>Single player, not comparableWith VB, it totally is. It's not March 2026 anymore, Marathon is a PVE game first and foremost.
>>576849121>With VB, it totally is.It's not. It's an experimental mode. Until we see what Bungie is doing for the proper PvE mode, it's a silly comparison. You can't even extract loot from VB.>Marathon is a PVE game first and foremost.Either trolling or retarded. Although looking that the kinds of people that inhabit this general, the line is either blurred or nonexistent.
>>576849884Coping retard. The only new content confirmed for Marathon is PVE, PVP failed.
>>576850368
>Que solo into Night Marsh>Spawn in AI uplink basement>See random ghost sprinting in the darkWhat the fuck? I didn't know Night Marsh was haunted. Genuinely spooked me.
>>576850570all roads lead back to destiny
>>576850960That happens sometimes. They aren't real.
>>576850570>such as perhaps a PVP modeWow, sounds like that's ready for Season 4! Definitely won't take too long to make and it will definitely be in the game before it shuts down, perhaps. Retard
>>576851004Marathon actually appeals to me, unlike Destiny (see: >>576837051), so I'm cool with it.
Sand wonned, biglyQuasimorph wonned, biglyMistfall wonned, biglyMaraflop lost, bigly
>>576851136>before it shuts downAnytime now. 2 more weeks, trust the plan.
WE ARE MARATHONIANS, WE ARE VERY SMART, WE STICK TOGETHER AS ONE, WE FOLLOW MARATHON ON X, WE PUT 'BUNGIE FIRST,' AND WILL MAKE BUNGIE GREAT AGAIN!
I've noticed that this starts always around the same time of day. Could it really be one guy?
>>576851214BASED MARATHON LOSSED AND EXTRACTION WONNED
>>576850960There's the TV screens, sound like someone pinging you or other sorts of fucking around that the game does on Night Marsh. It can generally be quite unnerving in the quieter moments, but you usually only get to appreciate that in Solos. My most horrifying memory was getting into a knife fight with Arachne skin Triage in AI uplink basement, scared the crap out of me.
>>576851324yep, this one is going into the folderI'm gonna be making a collage, you see
>>576852746>Arachne skin Triagehttps://youtu.be/omAK-LkWKME
>>576827381Concord wasn't evil it was just dumb and ugly
>>576852746>>576850960Yeah if anyone hasnt done a solo night marsh raid they need to give it a try. Spooky shit, more than listed here, and the other sounds like wind and rain outside whilst listening for any little sound. Fun little horror mode if you sonehow cant conplete a contract in trios without getting gaped.
I really wonder how long it is until we get a new map. I want it as soon as possible, but I also don't want it to be lower quality than the ones we have. And there is so much detain in the existing maps.
It's going to be at least 2 years for a new map. We still need at least 2 more times of day for Dire Marsh
enter Twilight Marsh
why are meds so fucking expensive
>>576851782>exact same writing style>shilling the same gamesyes anon, it's very likely one guy
>>576857409>Patch kit/Shield charge - 300 cred>V11/CE - 50 credThis says a lot about our society.
>>576858669Hey now, you have to consider the costs of bullets as well. Knives, however, are free.
>>576857409It's nowhere near as shit as s1. At least you can loot items you may want to use now.
>>576858669It’s cheaper
>Schedule 1 - a game made by literally 1 dude: 17,868 players online.>Marathon: 4,666 players online.Imma be honest, if Sony doesn't axe every single employee in Bungie for this shitheap of a game then they are idiots with their money.
>>576866718They were idiots with their money back when they bought Bungie for 3.6 williams. And as long as they let Marathon keep running, they are useful idiots, to me, because I like this game.
>>576866718>Minecraft: a game made by literally 1 dude: 32M daily userswait...
nobody should want marathon to be successful because if it is bungie will immediately resume adding discord slop and destiny-style dark patterns
We are MaratroonsWe carry the flame
Spent the day teaching crew fill randoms how to do the VB Exploit where you take the event kit and remove the lock on it - turning all of the sponsored kit gear into normal gear. Feels good to ruin the economy. Fuck Bungie.
>>576869772It still works? How do you do it?
>>576869884Put on VB kitGo into trios, solo, no fillWatch the load screenUntil the screen goes black and shows three rectangles, and shows the text ‘Initializing Contract System’Disconnect internetCanary errorTurn off game Turn on game in 10 minutesDone
>>576870227Thanks. That's more involved than I thought. I'll try it, but I don't think that trying to farm this is worth the effort for me.
>>576870227If this doesn’t work, wait 20 or 30 minutes instead of 10. I did this through out my workday for free shit during all of VB.
Bungie is going to upload my consciousness to a microchip and stick it in a freezer for exploiting on Marathon 2026
Marathon is at least a 10 year franchise. I trust my trans and non binary allies. PVE will save this game.
>>576878956tag yourxelf i'm front row left hand corner
>>576878956>marathon is a 10 year franchisethis level of cope is so disingenuous it can be compared to 2006 wall street saying cdo's and tranches wouldnt fail.you are a troll, or ideologically driven, or just flat out retarded.
marathon bros, where are you?
>>576889720watching some civ 6
lady gaga the fame skin for vandal send tweet
>>576840679>duckovduckov had a higher 24 hour peak today, so scratch that off the list good sir
>>576883219>this level of copeAnon, you are replying to a troll post. It's not even pretending to not be a troll post.
*cricket noises*
>>576917054I'm still in the camp that things the Outland just overperforms in comparison to the rest of the snipers. Channel could definitely use a niche in having the highest range (something ridiculous like 250 m) while still keeping the same damage figures. Outland could easily have the effective range dropped a notch to the point where it still retains it's two tap capability to around 150 m, but they should make it even more of a brick in terms of handling to compensate. Longshot is in a decent spot and doesn't really need fiddling to retain the lightweight sniper spot it currently has.
>>576919191What about the railguns? What is the difference between Ares and Zeus outside of ammo type?
>>576919323Zeus charges slightly quicker and has a bit less zoom and slightly higher precision multiplier while Ares charges slightly slower, has 0.2 lower precision multiplier. It has a bit higher damage per shot to compensate. I think overall the railguns have been in a decent spot for what they're useful for since the buffs, but they could easily give them something unique to compensate for them just being mid to long range shotguns. Maybe have them apply tox, hack, EMP or something? We currently have next to zero weapon types that have innate status capabilities.
>>576856789I really like tge day night thing and would be happy to see it on all maps.
>>576858669At some point someone should dir to attrition fuci this healing shit
>>576867281>thousands of people make a game =flop>a solitary white guy makes one = bazingaLogically then if we get a pureblood african woman to make a game the humanity quotent will be so low the game cannot fail until AI manages to best her efforts
>>576920160All the of the map pools need more map hazards, events and map states to keep the replay value functional. Not to say the game couldn't use 2-3 more maps in the mid-risk pool, but currently they should be rolling out both changes to their current map pool and a map per season. This both refreshes the reason to play the old maps more often (except maybe high risk stuff like Outpost/Cryo)
>>576878956Hmm odd choice of crop thete
>>576919826I'd like a relatively weaker weapon that does some health damage. Or a grenade or trap gadget. Or shell ability even.
>>576921173It would be funny if they released a White Rabbit skin for the Destroyer.
>>576921293Joy would be had certainly
>>576903053Id paypig some jrock shit. Blam Honey inspired or something.
could a masculine white guy developer save this game?
>sub 5k on a weekend
>>576927338I'm starting to run out of copium
season 2 was fucking dogshitI miss my icbm auto targeting 1000 degree knifeI miss my free shotgun
>>576914356Trusting my non binary and women developers at bungie is not trolling. I trust women and am not an incel. If you don't think Marathon has at least 10 years left in the tank I'm afraid you're the troll.
>>576927338>sub 5k on saturday night holy kino I cannot wait for season 3 launch numbers
Recon without her helmet.
>>576939178Genuinely baffling how awesome the Marathon artstyle is but then they pull bullshit with most of the shell designs with stuff like this bulldyke hair, they really couldn't help themselvesShit looks really grim character design-wise with the bullshit they showed off in the survey. Nearly 900 years and apparently punk aesthetics haven't changed at all. Even if they're styling themselves after the stuff that happened on Mars that spawned MIDA, that's still like 400 years from now
>>576941060I find it funny when people glaze this game's art design so much. Yeah the world looks good, the map and the ambience. But they always ignore weapon and character design, which are both AWFUL. Every single shell looks HORRIBLE.
>>576938117>>576927338>S3 when GTA 6 releases a couple weeks after
>>576941060Long hair would obfuscate the visuals of the open visor, and it makes sense practically for someone who's always wearing a helmet to keep it short. I don't think this is worth getting upset about considering that you never even see it outside of concept art.
>>576942024>Every single shell looks HORRIBLEshit taste desu
>>576941060>bulldyke hairIt'd normally agree with you, but this kind of haircut makes sense for Recon. She wears a huge hi-tech helmet, any more hair would get in the way.
>>576942024>But they always ignore weapon and character design, which are both AWFULI'm quite critical of the character design, though. I only really like Thief and Sentinel, everyone else varies from lukewarm to awful. And by "awful", I mean Triage. He was supposed to be a nigger from the very start. But if you look at the cinematic, you'll see that they couldn't figure out what to do with him for the longest time. I can only see black Triage work if Bungie made him a woman instead, a black combat nurse. Would be easier on the eyes, if done right (<-- important).But will fight you regarding the weapons. I really like them. My only critique is that some look too busy, like D54, and some default skins could use better color coordination, like Hardline and BRRT. And volt weapons just look amazing, universally.
>>576942024Triage sure but whats wrong with the others?
>>576945176
>>576945378>arm lengthWow they really wanted it
>>576945378Good god those initial ones are hideous.
I'll a some more neat concept art I saw today.
Exfil
I remember when Bungie concept art used to be good
>>576946156The drowning idea is sort of cool, but practically all of these were likely just too hard to make visually distinctive or practical from a gameplay standpoint, which is why they likely just opted for the tower, big blue light and the teleport effect.
>>576946508It's the same artists as they had for Destiny 2.https://www.artstation.com/patrickbloomhttps://www.artstation.com/tobiaskwanhttps://www.artstation.com/dgoryainov
>>576945553What do you mean?
>3rd time i've been asked about the survey in my ingame mailbox despite completing it the first timeawesome job bungie
>>576953934I wish they let you do the survey again when they change it.
>>576945953Wait there's a little guy in there?
>>576954082yeah mine didn't have those harajuku skins i saw on twitter
>>576942024The weapons look great what are you on. There are some that have some questionable aspects to them (like the pommel on the Outland), but overall they're pretty great>>576943359>>576944047She could just wear a cap, like astronauts or knights did under their helms. That they don't want to give her long flowing hair makes sense, but you can still make a feminine short cut that even without wearing any helmet wouldn't get in the way in a combat scenario. Why even have hair in the first place if these are meant to be combatants? Why even give her a small tuft of hair when they could have just made her bald instead>>576945176I prefer male triage because female medic is too much of a trope. Now it might be trope-y, but they should have just given Triage a gas mask, or a respirator at least
>>576959536>She could just wear a cap, like astronauts or knights did under their helms.This argument only works for people who have lives outside of combat. Shells was made specifically for combat, they aren't people. I'm surprised she was given hair at all.>you can still make a feminine short cut that even without wearing any helmet wouldn't get in the way in a combat scenarioYou never see her hair in any combat scenario.
>>576960085>Shells was made specifically for combat, I'd be surprised if Shells (or the general concept of an inhabitable body) exist solely for the purpose of combat, we're only seeing that aspect of it because of our position of ransacking TCIV. Might be that back home in the day to day mercenary runners are just living through their shells normally until they've got a job to run. Hell, we might see shells/runners have a sort leisure zone when they put in a little hub area, we already see in the main menu that our shells physically sit in a chair to contact the company reps rather than directly into ours heads. I would imagine that back in the milky way there are tons of cyberconciousness people that just use shells in day to day stuff. I can't imagine CyAc and Sekiguchi aren't partially funded by tons of rich assholes that want to live forever>You never see her hair in any combat scenario.They'll inevitably have a skin at some point where her helmet is just a mask or some hologram so they can show off the rest of her head
>>576963442>I'd be surprised if Shells (or the general concept of an inhabitable body) exist solely for the purpose of combatThey don't, I specifically referred to the ones we can play as.>back in the milky wayWe are still in the Milky Way. Tau Ceti is less than 12 light years away from us.>Everything elseI imagine it's like military contract work. You live in a military base and to drills all day with some leisure time in between, or however that works. And if they were to quit the service (assuming that's legally possible with the UESC running the show), they'd get transferred into a normie shell, made to look like their former self.
>>576850570How is it almost September already
>>576974332we were trapped in the goon chamber time eclipse
>>576965054Runner shells were used to rebuild the colony which we are ransacking.
>>576974654Who do you think puts all the salvage back in place in time for the next group of runners to ransack it? We have to pay down this debt somehow...
>>576975787the chuds and guardians
>>576945953>sample: squeezedComeback: studied
>>576948546Normally they just pay "lip service" (intended) to the diversity thing, skin deep of you will. Giving the black guy longer limbs is another level deep. The average John Pedestrian doesnt even know black people hve longer limbs and shorter torsos they think everyone is just painted a different colour.
>>576954203it's me
>>576974654No they weren't.
>24h concurrent under 5k>season 3 in a month and a half>no new mapbungie?
>>577008041a new map is coming they're just being coy about it to announce it at the last moment for all the hype it'll bring coping
Ahh... Marathon my old friend. Good to see this piece of crap still chugging along. Not a single minute is from a legitimate play through. My controller testing is no longer needed for this game, but I will watch it's demise with great interest.
>>577008041>Bungie?Found with an axe in their spine with the Sony logo printed on it.
omg...
>>576927338The prophecy is unavoidable, /mg/.
>>577008041Unless they plan to overhaul Outpost next, there will be a new map in season 4. Would line with the "building more depth to the extraction loop" promise.
>1/3 of players quit before finishing the first mission or dying for the first time>Only a bit over half finished the first contract>Less that half extracted 7 times or played 21 runs>Only a third killed 14 runners or 147 UESC
>>577007015Yeah they were. First colony destroyed by pfor, this one we're on was rebuilt with help from new ftl runner teleportation and shit.
>>577020695A lot of people seem to buy games and they sit in the library never played, it's weird
>>577021613Do you have a single fact to back that up? I've collected a lot of valuables and read every codex entry the moment it became available. I think I'd know this.
>>577021686Hey, a sale's a sale. I'd rather buy it now at a discounted price when I've got the disposable cash to throw away then later when it's at a higher price.
>>577023508Did you just sage this thread?
>>577021743I did a dive into the lore at release and I'm sure I'd read that this is the second colony that the corps helped rebuild with runner technology. I can't find anything like that now, maybe I made it up.It would make more sense though as the colony is clearly not glassed, nothing looks that old, every interior should have a thick layer of 100 year old dust.
>>577024640>the colony is clearly not glassedI think only Marathon 1 happened.
>>577024640And another thing, there are still plenty of people on Mara's cryo storage, if you wanted to try again.
>>577024714They are all probably dead. You are supposed to cycle them in and out of cryosleep, but no one is around to do that anymore.
>>576927338>>577011350Highguard conceptually is a better game
>>576878956>Marathon is at least a 10 year franchiseif you include all of pre-production, full development and the delay it might be
>>577024930Pretty fucked up. Gaius indicates that TCIV is important for the survival of humanity. In the old lore, during the time it took for the UESC to get there, the Phfor have been assraped on their own homeworld, and not really a threat anymore. So humans should be able to re-colonise (planetary core space gods and shit may still be a problem)
>>577021686Yeah my friend said I should play this (we play every extraction shooter it seems) and I bought it 2 weeks later and he hadnt even installed it. Its been a month now. Luckily I'm chad enough to survive and dont have to play bitchmade games like tarkov to compete.
>>577025287That the one that had a horse riding segment followed by a ctf segment followed by a siege segment followed by a counter strike segment followed by a reset to ctf?
Ok whats the deal with the compiler, I got there twice now no luck. I press the matching symbols to the data pad thing to make him shootable I assume and then just shoot him and his balls til he dies? My dps just shit? Im not watching youtube
>>577026506i heard you got to EMP it
>Get put on NA server despite priority connection being my default>Using volt weapons so 2/3rd's of my shots are not even registering their hits>Green loadout so nothing fancy to save me>Still manage to do 600 dmg and 1v3 a white shield goon squad that managed to take down my two purple loadout gear fills who both only managed to do 60 or 80 damage eachI saw people talking about the NA thing and thought they were joking but they really weren'tWhenever I talk about the game with people online everything makes so much more sense now
>>577031336This reminds me of when I used to play war thunder and get raped until I wound up on an NA server and did the raping
>>577025953
Ive never used a voltcel gun
>>577031336>got into the LFG discord, jump into the first room I see>black guy and white girl on mics>they're flirting with each other but whatever I just want to play>start match, black guy is overcompensating with insane pushing out of position and white girl is being too defensive and does nothing all game>I'm noooooooooticing>play a few games with them, white girl continuously glazes black guy>Black guy continuously fronts on me despite me not even talking on mic >Nigga fuming I'm not "on comms">end up rezzing both, multiple times, find the last enemy team and down their first>4 games of this shit in a row>they talk like complete Zbots>black guy does well, white girl is absolute cancer and contributes with nothing to the game unless it's glazing black guy>I ultimately tell them that I'm too based for this shit>black guy asks how to refer to me in game>I just yawn and tell him whatever, he remarks "bruh ur nonchalant I fuc wit it">Just reply "yeah cool good luck", log off, game uninstalledOut of 30 games in NA lobbies, the skill level is smelly poo, most players are bots, they talk like bots, act like bots, with one exception where the two dudes I played with were actually cool. Why? It was a white guy and a black guy being IRL friends and just shooting the shit. EU lobbies you say? High level lobbies are absolutely all stacked with the best of the best. Burgers can't even compete
>Couldn't even get 4.5kAre you studying?
>>576939178Looks like my mom, spare the haircut.
>>577043262holy... it's going to get bad this week. Under 4k on wednesday I bet
Even with the lame ass enemies we have right now, the combat feels good. Bungie just need to make more interesting enemies and they'll have something really good.
>>577054130Let. Bungie. Cook.
>>577043262Remember when some retard on here thought Marathon was going to surpass Sand?
Had a very successful last run of Cryo 10 minutes before it closed. bros i love Marathon
>>576638484>What's the point really?getting 3 red keysi still haven't beaten the actual compiler because they didn't spawn for me last season
>>576830880lmao weren't destiny trannies doing 200k?what happened?
>>577059713>what happened?no more updates?
Bungie is so getting turned into a small support studio
>>577059912no I mean they knew no updates were coming and they all said they were still playing destiny 2so what happened? did their pathetic attempt at changing Sony's mind already fail? lol
>>577060026>so what happened? did their pathetic attempt at changing Sony's mind already fail? lolyeah?this was always retarded. there was no "changing" Sony's mind. The layoffs were already set in stoneAnd they already happened. People right now are staying because they have nothing better to doFunny how Destiny's cratered playerbase after the final update is still 8 times that of Marathon in the middle of their second seasonI'm sure Bungie has a future here
>>577060393that 38k number is still artificially inflatedgive it 3 more months and it's going back to 9k give it another 3 more and it will go below Marathon's lol
>>577060626>give it another 3 more and it will go below Marathon's lolah yes, because Marathon is certainly ghoing to stay right where it is at the momentMarathon's stable 5k players, right?Just like their stable 10kAnd their stable 15kAnd their stable 20kAnd their stable 30kOops, I forgot it's at a stable 4.5k alreadyMy bad
>>577056627Kek imagine doubting Sand
>leddit spacing
>>577025287It was certainly a better game as far as game pacing/action and movement. Marathon is a game you play very slowly, as is usual for an extraction shooter. Highguard you slapped some crystals in the middle of the map for cash then go into gunfights with the enemy team over the flag pretty quickly after that. I actually do kind of miss it, but the devs fucked up colossally by designing their game around 3v3 as a default mode. Ironically, it's the same sin that Bungie comitted with Marathon. If you're depending on your game to survive by having 3 people in a discord chat to play together or you get fucked in solo pub teamfill then it's doomed entirely.
>>577060846it's a long waiting game :)Marathon will have season upon season to get numbers up and retain the hardcore fanbaseDestiny trannies will get nothing lmaoAlso all it takes is for Sony to do one single announcement and get the game on PS+ for all 3 tiers and boom! 2-3 million players on Playstation instantly in one go
A lot of r/Marathon posters here today
>>577059713>literal dead game, as in no more updates, finished content>still more players than marathonTalking about Duckov btw.
>>577061868>Marathon will have season upon season to get numbers up and retain the hardcore fanbaseyeah, suresony will keep burning money for years to come just to keep (You) happyYes, (You) specifically. They are doing it all for (You), babe
>>577063459he's right tho
>>577064821
>>577061250>Marathon is a game you play very slowlybait used to be believable
I wonder if they're going to lay off this month's game director with the shut down or move him to a different Sony game
Every day.
>>577068218>needs to hide posts so the mean chuds go awayKWAB
>>577068218I support my women and non binary developers. Marathon is a great game and chuds should be ashamed of making fun it. It's not a joke marathon's low player count doesn't matter.
>>577043262It won't hit 4k peak today, dads of marathon aren't studying hard enough
>white crew fills and I doing some shit quests>time to leave, managed to avoid combat>just as extract starts recon pings a green player>one of usgoes for him and is downed>i got good gear and loot, im out, spam nades to assist >post game spectating downed guy>from the smoke comes a rook>he rezzes our man>spec him without any time limit>continuing adventures of shit kit assassin and rookchad>sharing and supporting, rooting for them>sniper shot cuts him down 5 mins later>rook chad downs one>too much shit going on and viewed from ass floorcam>i am now speccing whoever killed our man>theyre looting but the others are hunting>time runs out before I can tell what happenedI hope you made it rookchad.
>want to run marathon>wife giving birth tonightI hope I have a comeback to be studied bros. Hold that extraction for me...
>>577068218Snowflakes of Marathon
>>577068218JEEEEEEEEEEEEEJ
Randomly found a pretty good (in term of attitude) crew in VB. We tried for Compiler 4 times, but didn't win.
Who is Rook
>>577080194Why is Rook?
We are Charlie Rook
havent posted here in a month or so, what killed the game? I think it was just too hardcore/intense and you have to play with a 3 man every day. modern gamers are low-t cucks who are afraid of a competetive game and need to play friendslop garbage or watch their favorite e-celeb spoon feed them an opinion. for me this was the best game since tarkov and played like 300 hours but it got repetetive and theres only a few maps.
>>577080815The core gameplay idea of "Apex Legends, but extraction shooter", combined with terrible onboarding and low amount of content. Solo is an afterthought, maps are small and designed to cause PvP, and season 1 had very tedious progression (the latter was genuinely fixed in season 2). I left as well because season 2 didn't have new story contracts. Might start playing normally (solo) again after VB ends because it turns out I still like how the game feels. Oh, then also took away Rook's claymores and shotgun.
>>577080815The ChudsBungieThe War in Iran
>>577080815no player economy, looting sucks, guns sucks, hero abilities are uninspired, shitty small ass maps, one shitty big ass map.games cooked.
>Here's how Marathon can still win
>got to compiler with good time>only have 4 emps>phase one, emp hit, does his explosion>phase two, 2 emp misses, 1 hits>explodes and hits me>get lasered and downed>it all falls apartWe were so close FUCK. I really really hope we get this in the bag before our third ragequits. This was our fourth compiler try. First one we did blind so that obviously was a shitshow.
>>577085449it's a marathon not a sprint...
>>577085608
I've been camping the vent below command wing in outpost for the last two months or so, really profitable. If you'd died to a Vandal with a Nucal skin who had claymores prepped down there it was me
>>577080815Not dead. But yeah, its too much for the average shitter. The "hardcore" game Tarkov has more baby handholding options (behind a paywall) than this game, the hardest part of Tarkov is the questlines vs 10k hour losers but most won't get far enough to see the worst of them.
>>577088080>but most won't get far enough to see the worst of them.If no-life losers can ruin a game the game sucks. PvP obsessed anons will admit this then turn around and say "spend more time in the game newb" as if that isn't extremely hypocritical.
>>577088080marathons freekits immediately makes it baby mode compared to tarkov
***TRVTH NVKE***the only way this game survives is if they remove the PVP rape
why do normies like pve so much? i think i would fall asleep if it was just running around killing bots, theres no challenge at all
is Marathon still ‘rapey’ or was that just a passing fad?
>>577092710Yeah you're getting raped with those kits.
>>577092710*shoves rare loot up anus before dying to a superior being*
Smells like curry in here
Smells like rape in here
New low for crew fill>load in on dire marsh between algae and AI >both crew fill are taking bong hits or something>team comes from canal and shoots us in the ass>green kit has a self revive for some reason and we escape as I scare them off with outland>free kit cannot figure out how to get up and dies>push off team from following us as green kit cannot figure out how to get onto roof>canal team gets third partied by maintenance team>try to get a revive on sponsored kit>manage to down vandal then knife two remaining maintenance team members to death by myself>meanwhile free kit is down again>they loot everything and take the only purple shield>they don't say a word the rest of the matchGo into every single match expecting to do everything yourself.
New low for Marathon will we reach sub 4k on Wednesday?
>Barely even breaking 4k players today.Just put Bungie out of their misery already. Nobody other than the most delusional of Bungie glazers have faith in this product anymore.
>>577085354>no player economy,Could you elaborate?
>>577116035Continue your studies
>>577080815It's a brutal game that fucks your ass if you don't have the knowledge of skill + the game expects you to schedule and play with friends on discord or the entire game just falls flat on its face because the game was not even designed for solos or duos. It's the same problems Highguard hard, but worse because it's a fucking extraction shooter so you have to learn a fuck load of garbage items you'll be looting + dealing with Bungie's ugly and confusing as fuck UI.
>>577107961Jesus christ, I would've uninstalled after that, you just use those dummies as bait? I think a larger part of it is how I see this game further descending into hell. I'm normally pretty anti sbmm but I think with the tweaks this season a ton of people got high levels way quick so they're just in over their head.
>>577080815Bungie don't know how to make a game out of their wheelhouse so they tried to tie it all up on vibes but with not much in the way of an ecosystem of eceleb pitchmen, they basically have nothing to show for. Having arena shooter supermen with not really a ton in the way of variables is kinda not going to work nicely on very small not complex map landscapes, and most apparent it just doesn't have that scrappy survival element of an extraction. The BR with more steps comments are accurate and so much of the factors encourage wiping the map for sanity sake which limits the viable playstyles.
>>577116035>PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SHUT IT DOWN!!! I CAN'T STAND THIS GAME BEING ONLINE ANYMORE11!!
>>577117117>It's the same problems Highguard hardIt's nothing like Highguard in terms of gameplay, what are you saying? How could Marathon have same problems?
>>577080815simply too much stuff that drifts from contemporary extraction shooter design in a way that isn't adequately compensated by anything else
>>577119172Why are you willingly being ignorant? I said it's like Highguard in that both games demanded you have and schedule games around you and your 2 other butt buddies on discord or suffer. Was I wrong? No.
>>577120118I've never done that in my 250 hours of playing Marathon. I just solo, Rook, or crewfill.
>>577124134>i just prioritize the two inferior modes and the mode that is rife with issuesyeah that's the problem we're getting atcrew fill is not a good enough experience to justify the game being designed and balanced around trios
>>577116910player-to-player trading via market, direct trades, or similar mechanicstarkov has the flea market, lets you buy and sell for in-game currencynot the same genre but it has loot (xd), path of exile lets you trade gear with other players, usually using crafting currency as the medium of exchange>>577092710nah. in tarkov the gradation of gear advantage is both smaller in total scale and less extreme than marathon. well, i guess they added the class 4 facemask that goes under helmets. that one is a strong filter. but it's gold-shield-tier (somewhat) in terms of rarity for a blue-shield-tier bump in survivabilityanyways the point is that if you shoot someone in the face once they will die practically always. it doesn't take much to make that go from "practically" to "always" either. as such it's easy to come up on a fat kit or otherwise outskill large menin marathon if you rock up with a free kit against even just blue shields, you just dieand all of that doesn't even consider the 99% solo-duo nature of tarkov vs the obligate trio game that is marathon. everything about the free-kit to real-kit gap is cranked up to 11 in trios
>>577128797>player-to-player trading via market, direct trades, or similar mechanicsThat's an awful idea and I'm glad that this isn't a thing.
>>577129045it has some rough implications on the shape of the game (especially encouraging RMT and, by proxy, cheating) but it's pretty good for casuals imofor the gear you fear using you can just sell it to the sweats who want it and then buy your faction upgrade mats which are now cheaper than dirt
>>577128797>in marathon if you rock up with a free kit against even just blue shields, you just dieA blue shield gives you 40 extra health (120 is the base). It's possible for a free kit to defeat a blue shield player since that's just 1 or few extra rounds that need to be spent. All you need is a slight tactical or skill advantage. Why is this a problem? If good loot doesn't give you better odds, then what is its purpose?
>>577135386a 33% longer time to kill is significant
>>577135386>>577136358oh and it's not an argument against gear doing stuffjust that the gap feels much stronger than in other contemporary games, which compounds how punishing the game feels. it's much harder to hit a come up comparatively, especially against always-trios, especially with all the tools and options available. solo isn't far off either. it's either surprise or die, there is no catching someone out of position in solos. at least not the way i mean itanyways the root subject is "why is marathon dying"and the gap between base gear (note: you can't even buy green shields super early on) and high-end gear being an unmitigable 50% longer time-to-kill is pretty brutalwhich i feel is, combined with constant unavoidable pvp, to be a fairly compelling reason as to why new players don't stick around
How about this?>Remove the default 1 bar shield>Add a gray shield that does that instead>Increase the value of every existing shield by 1 tier (green costs like blue used to)>Gold shield now gives you 5 bars, except for that 2 big bar one>Add a contraband (red) shield with 6 bars, matching the health bar length
>>577138183Bungie can you please just remove common loot pool and make the uncommon tier the new one and so on? Most of that shit is useless, your internal data is going to be backed up by what? Free kits? lel and no I'm sorry, but blue shields and mods (all of them) are abundant and have been since season 1 like I'm the most average one can be at Marathon and I've had plenty of scenarios where I just spent some credits to put a custom start kit with which I've run through bith blue trios and solos, even purples at times.honestly this is getting retarded to the point that this game has to cater to1000 games in Steam library <0.5hrs Andy, these lazy ass cucks deserve humiliation and be treated as cattle, like just go play Candy Crush or your 20min gacha shit and fuck off. people like this are worse than nolife chartAndys that don't own the game at least those people have some purpose
Vandal core tierlist.
>>577140174this piece says a lot about our society
>>577107961Story of my life on all games.
>>577136882I don't think that players quit because of shield disparity. Real issues in matchmaking didn't start until around midseason of season 1 since the playerbase was large enough. I've mostly used green and blue shields and mostly matched against green and blue shields. I think it's okay to see a purple squad and go "maybe we don't want to mess with them". What isn't okay is the fact that they most likely will try to mess with you since the maps are small and designed to funnel players into PvP.
>>577128797Flea ruins tarkov
>>577138183Just remove free kits without shields that would go a long way
>>577145387>what isn't ok is pvp in a pvp game :(fucking coward. you want to know why this game is failing? humanity being turned into pathetic zogslaves like you.
>>577145897Have they tried anti-flea shampo?
>>577145387I can see how purple death squads put off low gear crew fillers.
>>577146720nigger logic
>>577140174But seriously:>SCut To The Chase>ATag!, Mechanized Holsters>BCalling Card, Extended Amp, High-Octane Propellant, Microjet Efficiency Package>CAdrenal Core, Out Of Dodge>DLow Profile, Adrenaline Rush, Blast Off
furthermore Bungie you better not be this fucking stupid and change the splash screen music AGAIN. that was perfect back then just leave it as it is and you can put your new shit in game menus or as map specificshttps://youtu.be/mB-A24E8C_I?si=iu7r3NiIVpGAcbWS
>>577147571>blast off>Dmovementlet
>>577147571this nigga playing arm cannon builds lmao no wonder this game's in the shitter
>>577147038Yeah and the bitchmade community had a shit fit and couldn't handle it.
>>577147980>>577148086I just like blasting.
>>577155850Based Concordian
>>577147793They'll probably do a new one every season.
>>577159262But there's only one more season...
>>577160737That does not contradict my statement.
>>577160826Perhaps'n...
https://imgur.com/a/ideas-modes-that-bungie-should-add-to-marathon-CgSoelP
>>577162690>Confusing mess of shit that free players won't want to learn aboutSounds like something Bungie would do
>patch notes: nothing i'm expecting maybe a VB deadline extension and then nothing till season 3 (which better be fucking good)
>>577056627OHNONONONO SANDBROS, WHY THE 90% LOSS IN 2 DAYS?
>>577116035>having to beg for the game's shutdownlmao
>>577164191This patch is surprisingly big.
>>577164820>having to broughted up Sand Raiders to distracted from Marathoned lmao
>>577165989there must be a new destroyer skin in there
>>577164820SandGODS...we must come back from this.
Erm...
>>577139536No one wants to sit there between games going back and forth between menus in a visually disgusting UI buying and equipping a dozen and one sci-fi baubles Still have to buy single small stacks of ammo one at a time holy shit lmao fuck ever retard that had a hand in making this
>>577169301>No one wants to sit there between games going back and forth between menus in a visually disgusting UI buying and equipping a dozen and one sci-fi baublesTons of people do it in Tarkov, except it's tactical baubles and the UI looks even worse.>Still have to buy single small stacks of ammo one at a time holy shitYeah, that's really annoying.
>>577170204I wonder what kind of testing they have in place to try to prevent issues like this. They must have some automated tests they can run across all different loadouts to check for 'unintended one hit knockdowns', right?? No??? This stuff should be the easy part.
>no new cosmetic in storecome on man
>>577173653They're saving her for next week
>>577174154I see they didn't fix her face since the survey version.
>>577174154That's so ugly
>>577169301People buy ammo?
>>577164820>Still hasnt beaten Sand despite losing 90% of playerslmao
>>577174154Should have given Vandal an expression instead of having her just look at the camera at an angle.
>>577178856It works
>>577179937It can work. But in this particular case, it doesn't. Could have worked if this was skin more like what you posted, like Achromatic Rush, and it always works on Thief since she is smug. But Vandal is supposed to be energetic and bratty, and this skin series is love themed (sort of, more like Valentine's Day essence without the actual emotion). She should look more playful.
>>577175595as opposed to regular vandal? Shit's a massive improvement even though she's got a bit of a dope-y look
>>577181568Lipstick on a pig
>>577080815not enough women and non binary developers bungie needs more diverse representation.
>>577174532>>577175595whats wrong
how come there’s no polymarket type site for betting on steam charts? Too easy to manipulate perhaps?
>>577190232because you haven't made it yet oniichan
>>577190895many such cases
>>577190232Chuds would make too much money off of Bungie and Sony's repeated failure
LIVE
Soon
When do i earn the right to wear a store skin...
>>577200450Paypig it when you reach 1,000,000 total loot value
New trailer dropped
>>577170204>talking about a gun I've never equipped and mods I'll never see
>>577201825A game to surpass Marathon
>>577203527>homesick for a place i've never been...
>>577213226Nani?!
>>577213226brrrraap
bump
I got the goo gun last night and turned it into two worm coins so I am on cooldown til next I run as thief for the first time Hokay Hokay???
this is the 2xko general all over again, where clearly there wasn't enough interest to keep the general going, but some faggot kept bumping the general off page 10, and this went on for a while until the guy gave upjust let the general die, man. there's just not enough interest in this game
>>577229149what is the point in complaining about what is in the /vg/ catalog of all things
>>577229149just banish me to /vm/ with eso and a** r**ders senpai...
>>576679091the class can quad jump, just stop being shit.
>>577229149There are at least 2 people doing this. Me and someone else.
>>576688016Defender system needs to just follow sentinel around like a drone and he should be able to drop two mines before it activates the CD on his ability.
>>577061250>Marathon is a game you play very slowly, as is usual for an extraction shooter.You can always tell a solo player from a trios.
>>577063459>sony will keep burning money for years to come just to keep (You) happyThats exactly what D2 was anon
>>577232901yeah, and Destiny had like 20x the players Marathon ever had, plus Bungie already burned thru all of the money and most of the "goodwill" Sony might've had with Destiny
>>576609694Remember that the studio's valuation was adjusted a while ago so it's like 2.8 now and will fall way below the 1 billion line next year if Marathon somehow doesn't revive through a miracle of... Well, i don't know if there's anyone left to pray to by now. If the game gets killed, god knows if the studio will be worth anything by that point, are they even allowed to kill Marathon anymore?
>>577238871I've said it many times beforeBungie is gonna be tuirned into a relatively small support studio for Sony's other AAA slop by next year. They'll also probably be quietly shut down 2-3 years for now, when most people have forgotten they were even still a thing, if they're lucky. That's how Bungie goes out. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
>>576638484The most outrageous thing about this game is how it is about a hostile alien empire attack, but there is only one such alien in the entire game, it's hidden behind a door that requires RNG keys and the thing is basically a giant roided Halo grunt (fuckers die in two pistol shots in the original marathon) with its health cranked up to eleven and just given different fire modes for its marathon equivalent of its plasma pistol, also it has some danmaku touhou AoE attack bullshit with added homing and a shield that doesn't drop unless you do some TES 1 and 2 final boss room or dungeon autismo back and forth button pressing strats unless it literally flashes you, revealing a weakpoint the size of a dragon ball that also shoots lazers because fuck you. Which made me realize these retards were really going to make us forever fight UESC and shells while the aliens were going to be singular bosses hidden in rooms on new maps. We were never going to fight the P'fhor like in the trilogy in large numbers, it was always going to be UESC, shells and perhaps some proper humans down the line and that was going to be it. We were always going to get robbed, either by design or by failure to meet expectations. The later is what happened.
>>577241463it's a product undergoing a forever identity crisis. does it want to be a hardcore extraction shooter? or a battle royale? or a competitive hero shooter? or now a casual PvE hoard shooter? who knows, and bungie shoving the marathon IP onto at last second was one of the many consequences.pic related is what could've been
>>577241463it's worse than that. I bet the other alien race wasn't planned to show up at all. Bungie thought they were being clever and that the game would be so popular that it would take years before we see another AI faction. truth is, Bungie does not have the time to actually implement any other enemy type at this juncture. the compiler fight isn't the issue. you can solo that shit now and it defeats the whole purpose of "you are a mass produced 3D printed body".it's the whole rigmarole of getting there that's so badly designed. to this day I don't think Bungie realizes how abysmal that end game map truly is. I don't get how people praise Cryo for being this marvel of level design, but I bet if you take off the nice textures and props and lay the map bare it just looks like they mashed several strike maps into one and called it kino. Perimeter somehow beats every other map in terms of design and it still looks unfinished, that's the level of lazy & now desperate we're seeing here.
>>577243876>pic related is what could've beenman if only
>>577244882>I bet the other alien race wasn't planned to show up at all.There is a 0% probability of this. They are obviously saving the aliens for later (how much later? Hopefully not too late. Definitely sooner now).>I don't get how people praise Cryo for being this marvel of level designBecause its really well designed for its purpose. I just disagree with the purpose.>I bet if you take off the nice textures and props and lay the map bare it just looks like they mashed several strike maps into one and called it kino.No, it would still be well designed. And the textures aren't that nice actually.>Perimeter somehow beats every other map in terms of designBecause it's more in line with what extraction shooters are.>and it still looks unfinishedBad textures + barren landscape. I assume it was finished first in development.>>577247652You forgot to finish the sentence.>man if only Marathon looked really fucking generic.
>>577243876If the game ever becomes more than a battle royale, it would be cool to see some cyborgs defrosted and wrecking shit. Doubt that will ever happen though.Where will the story actually go, we've already had UESC escalation. It's just going to be like Destiny with new dropship/teleporting factions introduced to kill?
>>577248451How bout dat dere pvp
is 1320 online a new low?
>>577252941There are games with more players on steam that have 20x the wait time matchmaking.
>>577253772Deadlock is a good example.
>>577252482It's a weird thing this game has where if you remove either pve or pvp, it sucks shit.>remove pvpGame is a borefest, like a destiny strike running to do the thing as fast as possible>remove pveNobody has a reason to be on the map, no contracts no items to collect. Would you play this game if it had Counterstrike size arena maps? You spawn in just have to kill the other team? Probably not.
>>577255998This isn't that weird. It just means that both are designed with the other in mind.
I hope that the Perimeter overhaul is overgrown Perimeter. There is some good concept art of it.
>>577264897I hope they add Mirage's party boat
>>577265143What?
>>577264897Im happy for copypasta maps if theyre in locked rotations with normal mode. People shit on it but night marsh plays very differently.
>The cattle are begging for time of day changes instead of all new mapsGrim
i want a marathon infinity sequel, not a reboot
under 4k peak today? what do we think?
>>577285651It's been getting so close, I think we'll see it on Sunday for sure. Maybe tomorrow.
>>577282917Your best bet right now is Sony killing Bungie and selling the IP back to Xbox for cheap, and somehow, through a miracle of God, it not being given back to Halo Studios.Realistically, this is the end of the line for Marathon as an IP. Forever. This is going into the same room Concord went, and not because of the game's development cost, but because of the money lost in buying Bungie. 3.6$ billion fucking dollars. It's so over.
I'm having trouble with the servers right now.
Servers are down I think, I can't even load into solo VB
Game is kill. It's over.
>>577295698
>>577295698>>577295951Why are Marakeks like this?
>>577233051>it had 20x more players!and it was still a money pit
>>577243876>pic related is what could've beenThat game is called Halo
Finally.
>>577298020good job anon you got a little testicle you can hang off the side of your gun when you're playing the hit 2026 video game Marathon by renowned developer Bungie!
>>577299006Hell yeah.
>>577296270mental illness
>>577285651I think there's a solar eclipse during a heatwave i got better shit to do than play on my compooter
>>577300929>solar eclipsehttps://youtube.com/shorts/dWHgJvHAgaU
>>577295698Based chat someone invite
bungie just needs to hire more women and non binary developers. the game is doing great and will be around for years to come
>>577295698Detective pikachu on the case, if only 1/8 of the members in discord actually played the game....
>>577298020>>577299098Solo or trios?
>>577304682Trio.https://files.catbox.moe/e74xen.mp4
>>577298020Congrats. My third just ragequit VB today so it's either crew fill or solo ;~;
I love this little nigga like you wouldn't believe.
A good night bump.
Can 3 destroyers really single phase the compiler in vb?
i'm sorry i haven't been logging on to pwn the chuds... i'm still coughing up vault data
>most expensive SMG>also the worst SMGWhat is it's purpose?
>>577164363bungie thought they could run marathon with a skeleton crew from day 1 and use it to fund other games (lol)
blast havers... we... we need to log on....
its over
>>577344713
>>577337221>bungie thought they could run marathon with a skeleton crew400 devs is a skeleton crew?
>>577344713it's actually worse than this, that was yesterday's number
>>577348714american game so we go by american peaks
Marathon is losing to Duckov again...
