We will live to see Bungie die,

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>>563546672
rape bungie

Ban steam charts and chuds will find a new hobby: Double Win

can you people just let me do my diremarsh contracts please and stop sniping me across the map?

so how is the game doing?
what's the player count like now?

UESC need to be a lot tougher or there needs to less teams per map

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>>563546820
raep
bungi

>>563546875
dude just play smarter
just position differently
lmao

>>563546904
We're all playing the new old school runescape league

>>563546956
That's plenty

>>563546956
That's just me and my 17,151 alt accounts

>>563546904
It's fine if you're a premade
Rn it's hell if you're a freekit solo queue

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When is Bungie releasing the artbook for this game, even if it shutdowns I'm buying merch

>>563546950
yeah man let me just activate this box that locks me into a room directly next to algae ponds and send waves of bots that i have to kill to escape the room and then exfil smarter.

>>563547096
speaking of art, what happened after the plagiarism scandal?

>>563547237
They hired on the artist or at least added their name in the credits.

>>563547237
They're an art consultant for Bungie now and bought rights of the pieces they stole from them

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Bungie desesrves to be hated just for making the Volt weapons so incredibly shit. I know the intent was to make them like the Plasma guns in Halo, but those have way more use on Legendary compared to this.

>https://bsky.app/profile/marathonthegame.bungie.net/post/3mjf4z5qti22n

>>563547978
The punch is gud tho

>>563547978
they need a buff, i'm getting bored of running the same guns every raid

>>563546875
dire marsh contracts are so gay i have almost given up on them entirely, that maps spawns are fucked and there are too many hazards

>>563544497
>>563545680
damn this sound kino
>>563546904
raped and dropping every day

>>563548109
guns? what gunss? i only know bully and wstr

>>563547978
i love using the scar and lookout even if i lose fights more often with them than the ars and smgs that are ballistic

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Your game is dead... it has been RAPED TO DEATH... by me...

>>563548192
I use those and the sniper sometimes, that's pretty much it.

>>563548627
no

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Did Ziegler just save Marathon?

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>>563544467
Different anon but I would like to imagine that in a more generous interpretation of the argument that he's mad that people treat steamcharts/CCU as primary and concrete data when it's more of an indicator of things that matter. There's inherent inaccuracy by steam players opting out of publicly showing what they're playing, as well as the existence of console populations that are not as plainly public that muddies the direct analysis from those numbers - to be clear the privacy stuff is probably a margin of less than 5% and while not proof I do believe the reports that Steam is the largest portion of the playerbase. Declining Steam CCU over consistent time frames (less players today than there were last monday) is absolutely an indicator of a declining playerbase, but can also be an indicator of shifting player behavior, such as playing at different times, or less hours.
Additionally, the structure of the game is seasonal, some level of decline is expected - as an example, Path of Exile 2's last season started December 12th, 1 month and 8 days later at January it had lost 80% of its CCU and continues to decline in a way that's not at all alarming - more of a proportional decline than Marathon has seen (near 70% in the same time frame).
So again, not on the koolaid that
>nothing is wrong you chuds the game is doing great
but the doomposting is obviously shitposting in "disguise" 99% of the time.

>>563547364
Nice, congrats bro

>>563548954
>200M in the hole and 600 developers making a game for 23,000 players
KEK

>>563548954
this is...nothing

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>>563548954
They gotta blast this guys head smooth off

>>563545056
>Bloated 200 million dollar games by a 3.6 billion dollar studio especially need a higher CCU count
Yes, I agree, the initial capturing of the positive public narrative has failed, and is not enough for good long-term health of the game of this budget (skeleton crewing is still possible)
However, the claims of players quitting because the game is bad etc. are completely made up because CCU does not measure number of regular players, and the high player scores doesn't reflect that either.
Changes in CCU is determined by so many factors like early/late game progression, seasonal progression, binge playing (like many people did in the beginning) the pattern of when new players enter the game increasing or declining interest from new players (which is also affected by seasonal structure), it's confounded manifold by other things that it's practically useless for estimating player retention (ie how many players are staying vs quitting a game).

Modern online landscape is pretty simple: God-given line goes up = "best game ever amazing and flawless!". God-given line goes down = "Oh no the game is so bad and everyone is quitting because things are so bad, plz fix game it's hopeless, it was bad all along".
Sure, there are various things I'd like to get improved, and sure, people are bound to quit after getting enough of any game, but let's not get caught into this stupid drone behavior.

>>563548954
>Needing 4 months to add a duo queue.
Nigga how? Is it not a flip of the switch to add in a new queue option? How the fuck does it take months to add it in?

>>563549304
Right right, I am sure all 60k players didn't actually quit the game. Theyre waiting for S2.

COPE

>>563549440
small indie studio pls understand

>free kit experimental playlist
LETS FUCKING GOOOOO THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN ASKING FOR. Streamers are gonna fucking CRY when they can't use their gold mods to bully green shields

>>563547978
nah, the volt weapons only get better and better the more agility people have which makes strafing increasingly effective against ballistic weapons, making their accuracy go down. It depends a bit but with the homing bullets you can often hit 100% of the bullets while you also get to strafe at full no-ADS movement speed, making the enemy miss 50% of their shots while you hit everything. The bullet travel time starts affecting things at longer ranges but at close range it's almost negligible. Volt thrower is the best close range weapon after shotgun.

>>563546445
Owes me sex

imagine free kit only cryo it might actually save the game

>>563548954
This is a reasonable mode for new players, but it doesn't undo the fact that proper duo support is inexcusable to have not had at launch or now.

biotoxic disinjector needs to be banned from non cryo runs
this shit is aids to go against

>>563549440
He's just lying. They're not re-enabling it because they don't really have the player numbers to support it atm and Season 2 could use an extra selling point or two anyways.

>>563549746
See I think this is why he's mad, because
>all 60k players didn't actually quit the game
is a genuinely retarded thing to say. Far more than 60k have quit, but you're latching on to the literal only hard data you have and pretending it's something it's not. Even if every doompost is true and not a single soul has said 'alright I'm good with this for now, I'll hit it again later' and decided to fully quit, the number would be, and please pay attention to this word, *proportional* to the CCU decrease. 70% of the people who bought it have quit forever and also hate the game and are currently cursing Bungie. How many people bought it? I dunno, maybe 2 million. So the guesstimate number of people who have quit should be 1.4mil

They should just make Rook runs free to play and then edge people into buying the game by giving them no vault space or something

>>563550521
yeah man infinite cheating rooks is exactly what this game needs to be saved

>>563550356
I've been very fortunate to not see it in any non-cryo maps yet.

>>563550601
Solve the cheating situation first and then make Rook f2p

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>>563548954
>they pushed the Battle Royale button
Hot damn this thing is floppin' super hard ain't it.

>>563550673
i hit rank 40 and its been awful

>>563550356
It needs to be changed/removed entirely, it is a skill remover at present.

>>563550840
In what way is that a battle royale

>>563551002
everyone starts off at 0 (free kits) and try to get better loot from the map. i mean if we're being semantical, an extraction shooter is basically a BR but with an overarching inventory and mission system anyways with tweaks to the loot table. but at the heart a BR. this just brings it even closer to its BR roots.

>>563551002
equal start makes it at least one step closer, but obviously being reductive for increased shitposting is in vogue

>>563549836
This is basically what ranked should be. And it should be scored based on exfil value or the items and/or salvage. Though I think ranked could still be based on 2.5k paid kit or something.

>>563551241
>>563551242
Oh gotcha, I feel like this mode will be skipped if you have a shitty kit for the day like Traxxus

I'm not amazed by the EQ but ok

>>563551514
what about the JQ

>>563551584
there is a solution to that

>>563550454
Even from estimated sales and proportional CCU decrease it's still wrong because CCU is affected more by other factors. Unless it's the most braindead daily grind mobile game, people will play significantly more during honeymoon phase compared to steady state playing. Which applies especially to Marathon because there are no time-gating or daily grind.

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>team of white shields
>push
>they have a shotgun

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>>563551425
Everyone being on a Traxus free kit in Dire Marsh isn't bad, Hardline has an effective range of like 80m, so long as you're not shooting it full speed and not moving it will absolutely kill people effectively without snipers invalidating its existence.

>>563548954
>everyone starts with a freekit and use what they find to upgrade themselves
thats called Battle Royale

>>563548954
>Zieglerfag begins making the game Apex Legends from first principles

>>563552075
damn i totally forgot about the part in fortnite where you start with an AR and when you win you extract and get to keep all of the gear you had in your inventory

>Marathon flopped
>Gets turned into Apex
Space Tarkov won, bigly

>>563550840
With the focus being pvp, it makes most sense to shift it to BR as much as possible.

where we droppin boys

>>563551347
Yeah, and each rank tier you get slightly better starting weapons. Also everything in the kit should be damaged to prevent people from building up inventory on the kits alone once you start getting blues and purple in your base kit.

>>563547978
>Bungie desesrves to be hated just for making the Volt weapons so incredibly shit.
>one hundred shot magazines
>extra damage to bots
>an entire class that juices them
>50 fucking credit V11 punch is the first and last gun you need when you're broke
>can be silenced
>can be charged for big blasts
>running refills the battery
>volt version of every gun type
Volt weapons are one of the only things they did right, you philistine. Cringe yourself to death over an actually valid concern next time.

>can turn the game into apex
>bumping bots number and setting the matchmaking to one player?God no, that would destroy this game identity!
lmao.

>>563552659
fr the v11 punch is goat

>>563552659
My only complaint about any volt gun is that the Lookout's charge shot is a mode switch that takes time. It does not hit hard enough to warrant that. Also that assassin cloak should lose the anti-lock while he's moving outside of crouch since he's visible as fuck, but that's more of an assassin complaint than a volt weapon complaint.

>Marathon will die before we find out what's going on in this timeline and where the fuck Durandal even is too
Nyo.....

Is it better to just play and passively gain credits from vault clears?
or is it better to jump in on rook and nab primarily valuables?

>>563550738
This is Bungie, they'll sadly never be able to get rid of cheaters.

>>563552659
Does anyone know how much damage the charged shot on the punch even does? Feels like that's only ever good for bots

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>>563548954
A valiant attempt... but ultimately... futile...

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Looking good, guys!

>>563553242
You're right!
It is looking good!

bungie needs to make a mic only matchmaking. its cool if you want to be mute but i want nothing to do with you. ive started going into matchmaking with a freekit and if you dont talk i just leave its that simple

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>>563553242
it's over
what's next for Bungie?

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>>563552039
Iron sight Hardline on Dire Marsh is an absolute and complete pain in the ass to play

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>>563548954
This does literally nothing to help the present situation. Free-shitter containment lobbies wasn't what was missing from this game.

>>563553339
Rape, followed by death.

>>563553339
there is no next
they either save this game or die

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game should have been a roguelike mmo
that is all

>>563552850
I highly suspect the punch will get nerfed before the bully just because its cheaper.

>>563553384
It was if you were paying attention. First couple weeks sure everything was chaotic enough, but now freekits run into purples every match

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>>563553346
>standing
>moving
>shooting rapidly
Yeah it kinda sucks at those things, which sucks, it absolutely is still the worst gun, but it is accurate if you're crouched and shooting slowly.

>>563553339
the guillotine

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>>563553906
it's such a basic bitch mode that there's zero excuse for why it wasn't in the game at launch. It was most impactful at launch, when the entire playerbase didn't know what the hell the game was or how anything worked. Now it's utterly pointless. There's no new influx of players, they're scared shitless over what they've been hearing about the game. The people playing right now that are broke as hell get SOMETHING to do, but do you want to know something? It's a waste of fucking time for them too. If they took their freekit into a real lobby and found a dead player with actually good goop on them, then they would actually be ahead for once. Now they'll be stocking their vault up with a collection of... free gotten gains from 1 (one) map. This does absolutely nothing at a time like this.

>we want to study the impact of low level gear progression
WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU DO THAT BEFORE YOU LAUNCHED THE GAME?! YOU INCOMPETENCE FUCKING MORONS!! THIS IS BASIC BITCH MODE, AND YOU SLEPT ON IT.

>>563553906
>Hmm, a lot of fill players are free kitting, what should we do to prevent that?
>Let's make freekits into seperate queue, Apex type shit, not only it will increase waiting time for the regular queue, but also increase the amount of free kitters in general! Isn't this great, Ziegler-sama?

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>Freekit only queue
Now that sounds like an actual fun game mode.

>>563554574
You could play Apex you know.
This mode is just worse Apex when Apex does everything this game wanted to be.
The hero skills actually do matter over there.

>>563553242
My theory:

They "fixed" the final exfill on outpost a week ago and made it even harder to exfill now by it now showing up consistently in Dormitories

Hence every rook and free kitter just dropped the game out of sheer spite of not being able to 8k in profit every round

>>563554645
Except there's still everything else about extraction and progression.

They should make "no kit" lobbies, knife only and no res/heal items

>>563554645
Yeah except it might make people actually engage with the PvE a bit more instead of instantly going to slime everyone first.

>>563554885
could be a fun event for 2 days, but nothing more

>>563554952
that's giga cope, you'll just blitz to the first poi to set up and fight the closest team, you either get some good guns and go hunting or you go camp an exfil

>>563554574
It would be a great time to have a free to play pairing with it.

>>563554574
Dire marsh with 90% less snipers sounds amazing

>>563555075
What good guns? Everyone is freekitting.

https://youtu.be/ucEm3IuETVs

Yooo the marathon killer is coming

>>563554574
>learning about our early gear ecosystem
Do they not have any data from when the game launched with 100,000 players across all systems and we all had empty vaults…? What the fuck are Bungie doing

>>563555245
found in containers in the first poi after you wipe the next closest team, keep up anon

>>563555075
>you'll just blitz to the first poi to set up
>on dire marsh
lmao no, everyone will just rush spawns because no one will have thermals or longshots, sweats will eat noobs alive, it's a literal rook game mode

ranked has been a clown fiesta today. nobody actually wants to loot anything, they just wanna run in and try and fight people.

>>563554401
i free kit because 7/10 times im match made with mutes that go and do their own thing. im not wasting my blues and purps on that. when i find a team for the night that uses comms and isn’t lobotomized i switch to what is in my vault

>>563555429
Stealth ranked test

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>>563555429
>What the fuck are Bungie doing
even bungie doesn't even know.

>>563554574
Didn't you want a battle royale when you signed up for Marathon?

Now say thank you you ungrateful chuds!

MARARHON WON
CHUDS ARE TRASH
RETWEET THIS FOR MAXIMUM LIKES

Apex won, bigly

>>563557062
I have 5,000 hours in apzx and i love mararhon

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jesus, why is nobody talking in ranked. you know, the one mode where people SHOULD communicate.

>>563557142
You're retarded? Cool!

>unc wants to talk

>>563557191
I fuck

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Embarassing

>>563557169
Bruh I am always on mic

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>simply fed up with team fill
>discord randoms might as well be randoms, they talk but they still roll with low kits despite literally being in the exact scenario to run their good shit
>continually ran over in trios no matter what now
So I guess I'm a solo player now. It's still cancer when you get extract camped or ambushed with no recourse because someone was just camping a PoI but at least it doesn't feel like a constant 3v1 because your teammates are stupidly challenging by themselves and refusing to reposition.

I feel like church on blue team, genuinely.

>>563557169
i said earlier in the thread that mic users should be matched with mic users. if people want to play a team game on mute that’s on them but i shouldn’t have to deal with them. just start free kitting and say hello and wait 10 seconds. if no one responds just leave and requeue

>>563557169
I'm always the first one to talk, and after a minute or two teamates start talking also. people are shy hehehhe

You have all been RAPED...

>>563557393
Nah, he is one of the better marathon content creators

>>563557169
>SOMEWHERE IN THE HEAVENS THEY ARE WAITING
>zero pfhor and ONE ayy in the entire game so far
:\

>we’ve decided to double down on making apex except worse and experiment with a mode that nullifies the concept of loot
>also no big updates until june lol who cares if the queue times get even slower? what does that have to do with us?

>>563559014
no refunds

>>563559014
Logistically also they can't just manifest new content where they don't have. Western studios struggle with GaaS, they can't do the cadence of content Chinese games churn out every 6 weeks, western studios take 4 months per patch

>>563557169
idk everytime i soloQd i got paired with 2 chatty burgers in green and blue shields, the types that sound like middle aged halo, cod or destiny chuds.

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no solo cryo was a poor choice

>>563559509
They could enable duos right now but they’re saving it for Season 2. Maybe they have data that shows the game churns even faster when duos are active and that’s why they’re holding off, but otherwise there’s no excuse not to add a duo queue right now. That doesn’t require Chinese-level development prowess.

>>563559740
>530 hours in a little over a month
Take a fucking shower

>>563559740
I wish I was unemployed

>>563557062
This shit made people flock back to apex it has 300k peaks now

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>this is what Marathon lost to
lmao

>>563559740
why no-life such a shitty game

>>563552390
The playerbase stopped farming for loot and started farming players after the first week of cryo. looting is irrelevant in a PVP game

>>563554574
will this be queue have solo?

>>563560593
lol

>>563560593
That will be an experimental mode for a random week on season 2!

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>>563559740
>average 12 hours a day since release
confirmed to either have left the game open, faked the post, or legit mental illness

>Can't even break 18k, let alone 20k anymore.
Oh lawd, hahahaha

>was chillin random filling in ranked earlier
>bronze 3 to silver 3
>back to back losses now
are the employed people off work or something

>>563560934
>legit mental illness
this one, but i'm also 42 and retired so it's not a problem

>>563561256
the dropoff is accelerating

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>>563561298
brought nothing in but a railgun this fucking nigger

>>563561478
quake player

>>563561256
>>563561403
at least we aint arc raiders sissy ass hoe

>>563560218
well no shit, it's PVE dad sim. that's what everybody wants lol.

>>563561628
dats rite dis game is only for hard ass niggas fr

>>563561628
Erm around here we call it *** ******* sis

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I'm still pissed they wasted reviving the Marathon IP on fucking extraction slop that nobody wants to play

>>563561478
he's hacking

>>563560218
Capcucks will buy anything Capcom makes regardless of quality. Even a pedophile simulator. Maybe especially a pedophile simulator, looking at the Mega Man threads.

>>563561963
>tfw we will never get to see the Security Officer put that dweeb John Halo in a headlock and give him a noogie like he deserves

>>563561538
More of a flak cannon guy myself.

>>563562070
>Capcucks will buy anything Capcom makes regardless of quality. Even a pedophile simulator. Maybe especially a pedophile simulator, looking at the Mega Man threads.
Why is it a pedophile simulator? Does the robot man try to rape the little girl?

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>>563562034
brother just ran around deleting everyone with the ares

>>563553102
its like halo where it doesnt necessarily deal godlike damage but if charged it oneshots their shields

https://youtu.be/e9Q1IpV-UCg?si=eFBt7ve_ueNfnMHo

>"I don't really see a path forward right now"
>Who is this game designed for??

The honeymoon phase is over

>>563562718
>Who is this game designed for??
i like it

>>563559740
cringe.........

Shroud status?

>>563562718
>"I don't really see a path forward right now"
Yeah
>Who is this game designed for??
Nobody! It's hardcore, chud!

The recon shell cinematic is truly a moving visual story about the last two players still playing Marathon.

>>563562901
-1 player from the CCU count

I want the game to die because I didnt get cool stuff and felt cucked playing it. Is it gonna die honestly?

>>563561305
what was ur secret

>>563562901
Got his bag and ran, like usual. If you ever took king shill himself's opinion as genuine than you're a sucker.

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marathon is definitely one of the games of all time

>>563561809
>it's a dad sim
For me, it's Machine Child.

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>>563563367
I figured rape would be bigger

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I know this is an extraction shooter, but I swear to fuck that the nonstop PvP ruins the game. You have one friendly encounter helping another person, and that rare feel good moment is ripped away because your exfill is ruined by some faggot assassin camping in a corner, or someone thermal sniping you from across the map.

>>563563367
if u make a canvas of this thread its rape rape rape player count rape dead rape players dead rape chuds destiny rape

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Not beating the Maratroon allegations

>>563562718
>Muh new player onboarding
Tarkov has more players than Marathon and that game has a bunch of bullshit systems that are not new player friendly. The game is mid. If I want to explore a world with a deeper questing system and gun autism, I can go play Tarkov and soon to be Spaceov. If I want some casual thing I can go to Arc Raiders. If I want a highly-competitive shooter, why not go to the dozens of highly-competitive shooters and hero shooters. Ranked in an extraction shooter? When ranked and competitive games are all about having a level playing field and having skill being the deciding factor. Heroes in an extraction shooter when the core of the genre is tricking out your guy and making him wear that cool armor piece you found. Even if Arc doesn't do this, at least you can swap the pieces around the different skins and it has a variety of clown-core skins. The skins in this game are glorified paint jobs. So you have this weird game that wants to be a highly competitive hero shooter in a genre all about ensuring your character has the most imbalanced gear to stack the odds in your favor the second the match starts. Add on top of that ugly guns, boring AI, boring maps, limited content, and run of the mill shooting and moving, yeah no. It is not a new player onboarding problem. The game is just kinda average.

>>563564319
>The game is just kinda average.
You can just say bad, it's bad.

>>563563367
>rape hours
>weekend entirely fucked
>safe raped
>exfil hate week
>lose gold completely
>smoke retards
>20k immediately peak

If you actually earned XP for shit and farming for shit wasn't such incredible bullshit it'd be fine, just make it less tedious and possible to do things and it'll work
just let there be a respite from the rape

>>563565181
It'd also be helpful if there was just some, ANY form of insurance. Or if the DCON kits can be used to extract items you want outside of specific contracts.

>>563564319
>Tarkov has more players than Marathon and that game has a bunch of bullshit systems that are not new player friendly.
Tarkov had a decade of onboarding through drip fed development, community resources, and youtube content to guide players through it.

>>563563367
>wstr instead
>please giving fans buy
>listen chud
>boss rape
>dont anon
>safe raped dead

>>563565391
Nobody wants to watch Youtube videos on how to do everything, that's why Destiny 2 failed.

Niggas will cook your biscuits and that's tha namr of the game

>>563565383
one time item extraction during a match would be cool, ideally being exactly the same appearing as a normal extract and didn't require you to be there. It'd make extraction beacons more uncertain. Still needs a lot more XP and less RNG in getting keys and sheer item amounts. Let people complete shit even in death more and have more permanent progress especially if they're doing fucking wipes

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>Ranked fill
>it's a zoomer duo
>ask me if i have anywhere to go
>"Not really"
>Second guy pipes up all hyped saying they're just here to PVP AND GET GOOPED UP
>south relay
>spot a runner hiding behind a door
>neither teams are pushing
>i run up to the door, open it and stab the guy to death
>team doesn't push in.
>one guy get's downed and the third is still standing outside
>nobody pushes in to back me up and I go down
>last guy goes down without firing a bullet
I thought there were here to PvP???

>>563565391
tarkov had a legion of direct milsim larpers jerking off to anything to go innawoods and rape

I'm really excited for Space Tarkov, shame that Marathon sucks so much dick.

>>563562718
He is right about one thing at the end, Marathon feels too video-gamey and has fuck all for immersion. Maybe its the amount of people in the maps or how the maps are structured but you don't get lost in the world like you do with Tarkov.

>>563566306
>Maybe its the amount of people in the maps or how the maps are structured but you don't get lost in the world like you do with Tarkov.
Or Destiny or Halo. This is the least Bungie-feeling game Bungie has ever made.

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i like u /mg/ dont come to outpost solos 2nite

Why the hell do key rooms make music? the entire map can hear, complete bullshit

>>563567390
Imagine if in Tarkov you open up a key room and it starts blasting Hardbass across the whole map.

I hate that I never got the cool mods or cool weapons. 90 hours barely anything good

I feel...depressed. I quit a week ago anyways

>>563566023
just removing "in one run" quests would go a long ways, nobody enjoys that shit

>>563567534
They already proved they could do that with some of the Traxus quests they just don't want to commit for some reason.

>>563567390
Because they want you to die. Obviously.

I don't care if they nerf the loot or whatever cryo needs to be open 24/7. All of the other maps are a snooze fest

>only 1.8% of players reached lvl 100
haha, im top 0.5% then

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Chuds wanna s the d of a champion. Is it not true?

>>563567473
How can I not feel depressed about it?

>>563567450
kek

>>563567821
Yeah idk what else you do but wait till theres af ew mins left

>>563567473
>>563568127
what cool mods and weapons? did you never farm pinwheel at least?

>>563567390
I work at Bungie and can confirm whenever I open a locked door with my badge it blares an alarm across the entire building so that everyone knows that someone entered the 3rd floor storage closet where exotic paper towels are kept. A fight ensues every time.

>>563568307
I did pinwheel, I did cryo, I did some bosses but I never got good stuff. I only played random fills so I only managed to find keys for rooms like 3 times and out of those 3 times I never got to open them. I got wiped or camped every time.

I feel...depressed and suicidal in general.

>>563568318
>tfw you had to fight off the interns coming out of the vents for the paperclips in the 2nd floor supplies closet

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>>563567172
don't get back stabbed in a dark corner, mate.

>>563568427
>I feel...depressed and suicidal in general.
Probably don't play Rape Championship 2026 then. baka

>>563569137
nta but the rape makes you feel alive and desired

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NOOOOOOOO

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Fuck you bitches

im done
IM FUCKING DONE
i like this game but fuck im done with it. at least this season.
maybe they will fix something in season 2
but as it stands right now this shit is impossible unless you are unemployed with 2 other unemployed friends.
the first week was great. you won some, you lost some. you had a good time doing it
now?
BUBBLE SHIELD NO SCOPE 360 THERMAL SNIPER ACROSS THE MAP WITH A GOLD SHIELD AND ALL GOLDS ON FUCKING DIRE MARSH
not cryo
DIRE MARSH
IVE FUCKING HAD IT
MAKE THE GOLDS FIGHT EACH OTHER AND LET THEM PLAY THE SHITTIEST VERSION OF BLOOD GULCH. IM NOT HAVING IT ANYMORE

>thief can hack turrets and bots
What the fuck? Why does Thief get so much utility meanwhile I can't even move and shoot with the shield out or powerslide and shoot.

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And here he comes, this...Alien. And he's better.

>>563569721
i like watching to see if people will take my woosters and self revives and stuff when i die i dont care the game is fun as hell

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THIS JUST CAME OUT A MONTH AGO AND COST $300M+ AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE

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>Believing a word Bungie says

>>563571910
depending on when that screenshot was taken it is currently -1 because i refuse to open this game again

>>563571910
woah there dont you know you cant post steam charts in this thread

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>The team is jamming on "experiential" queues

>>563572537
justin bieber better

>>563563767
cringe. Should have played better to avoid being prey.

>load up game
>Die
>Play something else for the rest of the day
>Load up game
>Die
>Play something else for the rest of the day
My main complaint in Marathon though is 99% of the time you'll die to players which is lame

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Paul tassi killed a hunnid niggas on his way to the top

>>563573124
>Ate

>>563573124
>Raped

I genuinely think free kit mode will stop the bleed, yes it’s just a kind of BR where you leave with your loot but that’s fine, a live-service game desperately needs something more casual

I'm finna gonna play tn

>Me and my normie stack kill a squad with purple shields somehow
>We run 6 raids in a row and have 6 great raids
>Our 7th raid we die, but went down with a fight
>they bitch and wine "omg this game is so bullshit!"

Why do people have this mentality? We had 6 literal wins in a row where we steamrolled shit and then die once and suddenly the sky is falling.

>>563573351
that's what i said last night and the day before and the day before

>>563573339
Honestly it's fine

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I'm gonna rock perimetet ranked!!!

>"Honestly it being a BR is fine"
Stage 3: Bargaining

>>563573631
It's a mode for retards, you're better off rocking a free kitt in regular mode cuz maybe you take their loot.

>>563563767
Maps are too small and there is nothing to do but pvp. Tarkov is better in this regard as you can often play in a laid back manner and avoid pvp entirely if you are patient.

>>563573894
It's a shame you can't see the bigger picture

>>563573947
I don't..

>>563574014
You will, don't worry. But it will involve Bungie being raped.

>>563574067
I'm gonna rape honestly it might attract "players"

>>563573946
This is all because they listened to a handful of retards during server slam that there weren't enough players and that the bots were too hard

>>563573631
A br with no stakes and everyone on mostly equally footing where you keep the loot to use in other game modes sounds pretty good, I think the majority of consistent fun I had in this game was the first days/week when everyone was grey and green shields with whatever guns they found on perimeter and dire.
I’d watch this game end of service and feel nothing I just think in isolation, not concerning whether or not bungie is competent, it’s interesting to think about how it could be less of commercial failure.

>They killed Destiny 2 for a game that died in less than a month
I'm not surprised but it's still pretty fucking pathetic. Now they have no cash flow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
Gives me serious Marathon 2026 vibes

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fess up gang which one of you told this fag off

>>563566306
Yeah to me something makes them feel sterile or something not sure what the right word is. Every map has the vibe of running around a halo 3 map alone in a custom game, empty theme park I guess. Just not what you want in an extraction shooter

Fine, I will check it the astrology again updated

>100 hours
>only level 66
Shit this is pretty grindy...

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Guys I can't play the game right now. Why? Because my vaults full. Somehow the game expects me to cough up 50k just to increase the amount of funbux I can carry in my wally. I neither want to risk my current kit at peak nighttime (mcsweats' delight) nor do I have the ability to run free kits or even Rook. I WOULD play if it wasn't for all these reasons that the game ate imposing on my right now.

Tl;dr : Bungie invented a game that actively punishes people for playing the game by so heavily restricting options while simultaneously making it too great a risk to lose. You literally can't just dick around in this game unless you melt shit or lose it. What the hell were they thinking??

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This doesn't look good. Still reading.

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>>563574216
They did the same thing with Destiny 1 going into Destiny 2. D1 was in a really good spot and then D2 decided to not take ANYTHING they had learned over the last two years, and it almost got them killed if not for Forsaken fixing most things. Edge of Fate was just peak retard from Bungie, no clue what they were thinking, that did more damage to Destiny than anything else.

>>563575226
>WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T DOOM ON A GAME I ALREADY QUIT?
>STOP YELLING AT ME TO PLAY ANYTHING ELSE; I AAAAMMMMM!

>>563576425
@Grok what does this mean?

>>563576303
get over your gear fear. waste that shit.

Finna rock a m77 whilst i have a boner

is the volt sniper any good?

>>563576303
you'll soon realise that most of the crap in your vault early on, isn't worth keeping.

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>>563562070
>imblygin both of them aren't %Hero and according to the original lore, Sec Officer/Cyborg didn't restart the universe and gave us the events of Halo
It's like you didn't watch the Mandalore video.

>>563576425
Transits are the movement of energy and planets with time. Marathon's birth chart had issues I explained before.
The transits I find interesting for Marathon, this is only for Marathon, not Bungie directly.
Chiron was in the 11th on natal, chiron is a lifelong wound on the house of community and friendship...What else to say?
Transit wise, sun transit on natal chiron means the conversation on player counts will be the main focus, by Bungie themselves? Sony? Could expect an statement but it could refer to the experimental mode. I would expect a very very clear message about it "soon"

Basically, sun there means wound exposure. Could refer to people like Tassi talking about it that openly.

Mercury on 12th, statement about pricing or monetization... 2 days to 1 week timeframe?
Im burnt out on this game so I dont care as much as I did on launch but, saturn on lilith, mc and asc
means that there will be a course correction and attempts at work, by embracing something outside? embracing something usually supressed, what that could mean for this game i dont know, rework? not sure (2 to 6 weeks)
Something unconventional to marathon and something suppressed as the likely path forward

no clue on if it works from this

the windows for significant financial success and community building (which i mentioend would be a natural problem for the game based on its natal chart and birth) have already passed, its the past. A community never solidified.

unlikely to be shut down
next 4 to 8 weeks are critical for a course correct

PLuto 9th is interesting. Rework, destruction, the game will do two things, either step away from the live service as we think of it or casualize. Not a quick patch but a reworking of systems

Profit is still hidden due to transit venus taurus on 12th

I think the game will get a 2nd chance but not a third???

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>>563577701
Given the original game's lore... Sure this all seems sane and reasonable.

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New mode is going to be horrendous for normal play. Every below average retard is going to queue there, making normal queues straight death squads. So now if you want to risk your take a good kit in and you aren't running with a stacked, skilled trio, say bye-bye to your gear.

Great idea Bungo.

>>563577957
>>563577701
I think it will go free to play, something about monetization will change thats on the chart.
if it wants to survive it wont be the same marathon that launched, i said it on launch week and ill say it again, pluto means a heavy rework is the only thing that makes the game survive the long term.
The wipe is not on the chart, too soon to be able to read that, i mean theres a method for thta but im too lazy to do it


the game is as of the transit temporal range unlikely to ever hit the 88k peak, expect 20k give or take but maybe 40k to 60k with new content, actual new content.
IF Bungie does a heavy rework or an expasion, again what im saying that "marathon as it is now cant survive" thats your player thing

eh i dont care anymore to read as in depth as i did back then

>>563572931
i got my fill of rape from a uesc ghost today thank you very much

>>563578991
>Ghost
don't those get 1 shot by a heavy knife?

>>563548954
You've got to be fucking kidding me. He's trying to bait some zero to hero streamer shit.

>>563546846
LOL. Try botting the report button more. You deserve what you get.

>>563579635
>zero to hero streamer shit
That's exactly what the mode will turn into, especially since it's coming so late. Half the sweats are likely getting bored, and this will provide "content" for them in the form of a soft reset for them to shit on the ever shrinking pool of shitters.

>>563549304
What the fuck am I even reading? This isn't some pissant minimum viable product we're talking about. This is a AAAA budget game, and we have a pretty good idea what a reasonable range of IAP spend per player is possible to make up the literal millions of dollars a month this game needs for server costs, not even considering further development. The CCU proves that there's been pretty much zero viral attraction to the game.

>>563549440
If anything they want to reduce the number of queues, because they don't have the user base.

>>563550738
>Solve the cheating situation.
Seriously. This is bungie we're talking about.

>>563579950
Yes, the campaign by the raped was very effective. There wouldn't be so big disparity between player sentiment and non-player sentiment otherwise

>>563577303
my purple shields and rare weapons are not worth keeping?

>>563548954
I don't know who needs to hear this but the reason why they are so weird about the duo queue and pushing it for maybe next season is they need more players to sustain it and they are hoping for a season 2 jump in players so they can turn it on also they are trying to act like this queue is "new content" to get you to come back. They gave up on this season basically.

>>563550840
It's not concord, but it's looking ubisoft class of AAAA that will probably never hit a third of it's budget.

>>563551760
I'm not so sure. I've been promised finality before.

>>563552902
Run the spreadsheet. Remember, you're primary objective is to get shit that will survive the wipe.

>>563553906
So, what is going to be the effect here? Less free kitters trying to stop you from completing your shit? People with loads of free kit trash?

>>563554310
Sounds likely.

>>563555429
>What the fuck are Bungie doing
Thrashing before death it sounds like.

>Bungie ignores the very obvious play to limit daily free kits to incentivize queuing as Rook
>sets up a free kit exclusive queue that will obliterate the normal queue’s times instead

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>>563580281
if you don't take them into cryo at the very least then why even have them?

>>563580965
>contd.
Limiting free kits would also incentivize actually queuing into the normal maps WITH GEAR. I’m sure they’ll try this in six months when they have 500 concurrent players.

>>563577239
The channel rifle? It's good by virtue of being a sniper, but it's probably the "weaker" of the 3. The longshot is the basic bitch sniper but it's the best since it has the highest fire rate, meanwhile the Outland is useful since it has a pretty damn high base damage and the fire rate isn't too bad for a bolt action. The channel rifle can have nice base damage, but it's just a bit awkward to use "in a fight" since you have to charge it up. Supposedly it being a volt cell weapon means it builds up heat on people you shoot but there's no way to tell how much you are building up and if it's even worth it.

There's an arguement it could be useful to rock as a Triage so you can EMP people from 100m+ away? Maybe his overcharge speeds up the charging time or something, honestly have no clue. Unfortunately it's just one of the more bougie weapons that pale in comparision to stuff people can readily get cheaper and more commonly. It's still a sniper so it's good, but if we're talking raw efficientcy the longshot is probably better.

I hate Darsh so much

>>563581194
That's the best idea, kick people who lose out of the game when they don't win when already disadvantaged, they will love that!

>>563578189
maybe they should add solo queue priority

>>563563314
In it's current form, it's guaranteed to die. They will need to make dramatic changes so it will be unrecognizable. Possibly go free to play.


>>563563767
That's not inherrent to extraction shooters. It's litteraly the enitre design focus of the game. Huge hours were spent trying to make the game maximally PVP.

>>563581314
ty sir : )

>>563565181
>just let there be a respite from the rape
That's denying the fun for the rapists.

>>563566023
More effort than what current bungie can do.

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Why is it that devs can put a good game out the door, then just proceed to completely shit the bed when the game is at-market? Where the fuck is the team that made the game as good as it is? Surely they can't be the same ones that thing putting shitters in a special queue is going to somehow fix the game? It's just going to make it impossible to play normally, with your gear, because everyone else in normal queue is going to be total nolifers. Zero chance of running into average players in the FUCKING NORMAL MODE.

Christ what the fuck. It's Helldivers 2 all over again; they get an amazing game out the door then proceed to smear shit all over it immediately.

I've finished the first two marathon games and am about halfway through infinity and the player movement has not grown on me at all, it's so fucking awful and floaty and slippery. Story and terminals have been cool, though.

This game is actually more brutal than tarkov despite all the vibrant colors. The difference in skill between people who have been playing and noobs is night and day. At least in tarkov you had a chance with a lucky mosin shot to the head or a lucky nade, in this you'll get full sprinted by purple shields with shotties and get completely stomped and defeated and you'll no longer want to play unless you like cock and ball torture.

>>563581839
That's pretty much every old FPS. It comes with the territory. They can't change it with mods because it'd mean pretty much redesigning the entire campaign for different movement tech.

>>563566372
Because all the people that made the bungie games you remember what they are are long gone from the company.

>>563567450
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OoglRuT0jY

>infinite free kits until account level 10
>3 per day after that
>1,000 credit ante on each map
>you actually have to earn the opportunity to play fun shells instead of just Rook
>fewer free kits in normal annoying everyone bringing in gear, more people exposed to low-stress and dynamic Rook gameplay
There you go, Bungie. I saved your game.

>>563573947
Can you explain the bigger picture, in a NON rape related way?

>>563578189
Isn't that the intent?

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>>563582079
>locking retards out of playing the game entirely
Nope. The real solution is to put freekitters in teams with other freekitters, with a big red warning popup telling you
>WARNING: YOU WILL BE PLACED IN A CREW WITH OTHER PLAYERS UTILIZING FREE SPONSORED KITS.
>Build a kit from your armory of gear to give yourself and your crew the best chance of survival!
You can trio fill with your shitkit but you won't be ruining other people's time with it. It incentivizes you to build a kit without actually saying "no you can't run". Puts players with similar expectations together as well.

>>563582246
If the intent was to completely burn your existing playerbase, then sure yeah I guess that's the intent. It's going to piss off anyone that isn't running at the top because now you're guaranteed to be queuing up against battleroids, not even a chance of running against a shitter team or two.

Knowing the spawns is another game-changer.

>>563582642
>multiplayer game requires extensive meta-knowledge outside of something you can experience in-game
I hate games that are really streamer and third party site extensive

>game becomes even more unplayable during fill
based

>>563582000
The other old fps games I've played feel a lot tighter to control for me, level design might play into it.
>>563582642
I'm surprised they didn't try to think up a different way to handle spawning given that tarkov has had problems with spawn rushing forever due to the static spawns. Is a good solution that hard to find?

>>563582806
Please spend 10 hours memorizing key routes for every spawn on outpost or else everyone else in your lobby will be doing it and you'll be forced to pick up scraps forever

You could solve spawns by having multiple sets of per-positioned spawn points then having a system randomly cycle in a few from each set for every match while accounting for potential overlaps.

>>563582961
The maps need to be bigger on Marathon for one or player count on the maps should be reduced

>>563582961
>Is a good solution that hard to find?

It's a map size issue desu. You overcome it by making sure that by the time you rush anywhere the team is long gone.