Oh boy, I get to go to Marathon and Cryo Storage only if I have a ticket

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First for Bingus

>>559023667
yeah? you can buy 3 and then you have to wait 15 hours. retard
>>559023668
slow movement doesnt "reward" positioning, it requires it.

>>559023770
yea lmfao, I already refunded, but I'll keep checking this thread for the seethe

>>559023878
Is it true that a slower TTK would remove all positioning skill? That is what streamers say but I would have thought the higher ttk means postioning doesn't matter, only the first contact.

>>559023878
>slow movement doesnt "reward" positioning, it requires it.
this might help me have another point why it just doesn't work for an extraction shooter like this. theres too many rng variables to consider low ttk and heavy positioning when you cannot balance engagements around anything

the balance is just super fuckin jacked and no casual will want to stick to this game like its halo 3

>>559024078
Im casual and it feels everything i do in the game is pointless.
All i do is being a loot pinata.

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>>559023509
Expect shit like this to come out a few months after Marathon drops too. The Arachne guy already looks like he was made by Kwan, so he probably had a hand in other things too

>try the game today
>maps feel so empty and lifeless
>just jogging around since sprinting gives away position too hard
>hear somebody fighting NPC
>crouch and blast him as he comes up the ladder
>had some loot on him
>other raids basically the same thing except i die a couple times
>log out
idk man, something just feels off about this game. really not engaging. just skulking around grinding faction rep, trying not to shoot the little robots otherwise somebody will blast you away when youre not looking. this aint it.

>>559024067
the positioning rhetoric just means higher ttk would mean people tryin to fuckin snipe you out in a field with a couple boxes wont be able to kill you for "being out of position"
if anything its a map problem in any other game, or its just part of the map. but since its an extraction shooter, theres all sorts of nonsense to go with this justification

its all nonsense when you got hero abilities like destroyer who has shields and a jet boost or a whole character about double jumping and unlimited sprinting supers. or like, a guy who can turn invsisible and throw smokes

and you want to balance it around squads, what the fuck you think happens if more than one person, who can already delete you in 2 seconds, shoots you? theres no counterplay to that and already just rewards nonsense. if the gunfights and engagements just turn one shot melt fests then whats the point.
its just a fuckin mess dude.

>>559024385
>>hear somebody fighting NPC
>>crouch and blast him as he comes up the ladder
and that's another uninstall

>>559024385
how would you fix the game?

>>559024289
That idea of the curled up form being the inspiration of all Nezarec oriented motifs and the Warlock helm is fucking sick visual design.

>>559024481
i have no idea but im not a developer of video games. all i know is that this just feels off.

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>>559024428
>me when punishing someone for being out of position

>>559024385
Trios if you want actions, solo if you want to play MGS/Thief/Splinter Cell

How is this game supposed to last longer than one month when over half the content is inaccessible to 99% of the player base? I mean being able to get to Marathon and play on the map if you do get in, forget it. Having to get 2 other guys to do the little bosses in Marathon and get in Marathon forget it. So solo players are fucked, trying to trio with randos are obviously fucked. You need 3 friends who want to play Marathon and are good at the game, for a CHANCE to play on the other maps and get the loot.

This sounds awful.

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>booped a squad out of the exfil zone with vandal cannon
>all hell lets loose
>they're fighting really hard to stay in the zone
>they pop a smoke
>rat my way into the zone
>timer starts counting down
>Two in the zone, both fighting
>one of them with his back towards me
>down him
>finished him
>timer hits zero
>exfil with the enemy runner
>absolutelydevious.webm
wew lad, okay maybe this game has potential

>>559024946
the marketing and access shills didn't get the script to make anons like you feel secure about.
just gotta only tell you the guns feel AMAZING, the PvP is AWESOME, the PvE is FUN, the graphics are SWEET, and they are having a BLAST

I AM BLASTING BROS

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>>559022039
>Released on the 26th
>Post screenshot with last played on the 28th
>Retard accuses you of playing 12 hours in 1 day

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>Pathways into Darkness references in hidden ARG stuff
Okay but can they reference Myth next?

>>559024946
yea idk who this games for
and now everyone is like
>haha just keep playing the game until you can refund it

>>559025884
>can
cant*

>>559025884
Hardcore pvpers who like very low time to kill.

>>559023668
>theres thermal snipers and brs. invsibility skills. its total dogshit to allow low ttk if you are going to have busted nonsense like this that isn't even in tarkov
yeah, fuck all that shit. holy shit.
like make the game fucking skillbased and stop with this low skill nonsense. tarkov has the same issue
>anyone telling you low ttk rewards good angles and positioning is just blowing smoke up your ass because they heard some faggot streamer repeat it.
1second is not low ttk, its high ttk. the problem I have is in this game it mostly feels like whoever shoots first wins

>>559025990
>1second is not low ttk, its high ttk
NTA you were replying to but wouldnt it be called "low TTK" because its a lower number .1s vs 1s

am I missing something

>>559025990
I am not sure why anyone thinks positioning is rewarded by gameplay where you can't move because you have already died.

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Do UESC drop any upgrade materials because the map says I can find whatever kind of random trash in certain areas but I find like 1 out of a dozen crates.

>>559025990
>1second is not low ttk
Heavens! this man tweaking

>>559026386
Very rarely, materials sometimes are just lying around so you gotta check tables and cubbies n shit, not just crates.

Does Lockdown do anything besides not letting me extract

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>advertise on lore, unique aesthetic, even already using a series that got very original with storytelling in vidya
>make bold artistic choices (good or not, who cares) on videogames
>MAKE IT A MULTIPLAYER PVP EXTRACTION SHOOTER ONLY
>streamers and PVPfags couldnt care less about lore, skip intro, skip any dialogue, dont even read any item not combat focused
>the people who do like it stop playing as they get filtered by the TTK and boredom. Either just read the lore or abandon ship lamenting theres no PVE/campaign

Bold strategy honestly

>last day until launch
Gonna just grief as Rook

>>559027490
It was good to try this game before i tried arc, i think.

>>559027470
git gud

>turn corner
>face to face with someone and panic
>get knifed and die
how do i stop being bad?

Really tired of the sub-reddit trying to nuke any critique
https://www.rxddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1ribi26/75_million_vs_36_billion/

>>559027548
Join me brother

>>559026243
high time to kill = it takes longer.
it takes quite long to kill people in this game compared to any other BR, extraction or pvp shooter.

the problem is mostly the slow movement speed and generous projectile size so its almost impossible to miss.
and the rock paper scissor balance.

an smg shouldnt be literally defenseless against a shotgun.

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Game can get big if the make it a little more cute and less ugly. Nicer menus would help

>>559028228
>it takes quite long to kill people in this game
I did not get this impression.

Recon dick sucking lips...

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>>559028369
I think it's funny she actually looks kinda cute without the giant Tron helmet

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Behold! a Map update...

WHERE IS MY HUB

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>>559027470
>bold
No, anon. It's called being stupid.

>>559028614
iced out wigger

I spent the entire day planting claymores around story mission objective areas and camping exfils. this game is actually fun for a good laugh every so often

>>559028368
depends on your baseline I guess.
mmorgp player? its fast af
fps player? its slow

>>559028916
MMO player here. Tab target forever.

>>559028981
What the fuck MMOs are there even left to play anymore

killed another rook player that was blasting rook radio or something lol I think it smut have been a streamer

>>559029073
They ERP in Discord and with AI based on what I see in /xivg/, /osg/, and /wowg/

This game needs some sort of quick hub. It doesn’t have to be extravagant, what it needs to be is some comfy little cyberpunk apartment where you can interface with a computer screen, look out a window and with a little closet armoury or something while synthwave plays in the background.

the game needs some downtime for the player and a bit of human contrast to the brutal maps.

>>559025990
>>559028228

>1second is not low ttk, its high ttk. the problem I have is in this game it mostly feels like whoever shoots first wins
is low/high just subjective or did someone determine what constitute high or low? the fuck? am i gettin too old?

1 second is 1 second, thats like blinking your fuckin eyelid.

i hope for yoru fuckin sake you're not comparing other genres of shooters to this because this is an extraction shooter by bungie with a ton of gay hero abilities.

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>>559029729
>is low/high just subjective
see >>559028916

1 second is very high for competetive shooters / BRs / extraction games.
the game that comes closest to this is Tarkov and there the ttk is much faster unless you use HP bullets against t5 armor.

>>559030407
I cannot imagine a ttk faster than this. The game is already super fast paced with players everywhere.

>>559030407
this isn't a military sim or a hunt showdown that warrants a low ttk due to weapon handling. everything in this game comes out of the box working immaculately. you aim, you shoot, your bullets aren't going to miss unless you allow them too

this is low for everything else surrounding this game. the fact they had to lower it from the last playtest means they had a vision for it to be higher in the first place.
this is just based off guns. are we not applying any sort of magical combination of explosives, abilities, or melee hits in conjuction like were halo 3 shotgun meleeing people?

the shields aren't going to alleviate anything either. you mention t5 armor but this game doesn't have anything relieving anything, theres no better/worst bullets. shit is there ready to be used and the baseline is already fucked to begin with

>booby trapped runner bag
huh?

>>559030757
lol

>>559030761
To me it feels like a weird Halo Reach mod with mantling and shields being an equipment

>>559030879
It's true. Maybe to hardcore sweats it's slow but most players are not that hardcore.

>>559030761
Is hunt even worth playing anymore

>>559030761
The entire idea that this game needs little to no TTK goes out the window when you have an entire class system with players with different abilities. If you were playing as a run of the mill person with no magical sci-fi abilities sure

>>559031271
the problem is that some people like assassin and triage have absolutely cracked abilities by default and dudes like destroyer and vandal need mods to actually be good

>>559031271
even if the armor got better, thats just going to actually make shit worst for new players unless they have gear matchmaker
theres people already loading in with purple modded therma snipers and an inventory of shit ready to sweat and its only been 3 days.

all these loadouts and classes design to just melt you. it really shows the glaring issue with this game and extraction shooters and why you really need to carefully balance things or else its just fucked. lowering the ttk just carpet bombs it all and makes it worst and doesn't help anything.

this whole "well the other games did it this way so this feels off" is just a contagion. now people hop off from tarkov and hit up the new extraction sim thats the opposite of a fuckin military russian simulator and think man, why does this sci fi shooter takin place in the future with robots have people not die like my military sim? this sucks!

>>559031608
Exactly.
Destroyer and especially Vandal feel like half of an idea or character.
Hell, we don't have access to them yet but Thief has three abilities too. Grapple, a butterfly robot that can scope ahead and steal items from people and they can actively see loot in containers without even interacting with them and show what rarities are inside

>>559030761
>>559030757
this is mostly a mix of Tarkov, Destiny and Apex Legends, with 90% of the DNA being Tarkov.

and in Tarkov you die in 1 bullet to the face. or in like 4 to the body if you have good ammo, and thats from 800RPM guns.
this game doesnt even have 800 rpm guns. and all guns in tarkov are ballistic, so fast projectiles and not slow energy blobs.

what you also need to understand is the gear progression like in Tarkov. as you keep playing you eventually unlock purple shields from the store which give you additional 80 hp, greatly increasing the TTK.

a few weeks into a wipe everyone will be running at least blue shields and a bunch of mods that increase survivability.

again, the TTK in this game is not slow unless you only play MMOs or Destiny.

>>559031698
Killing low gear players is the only reward and endgame in these types of games.

I had more fun upgrading and playing Rook than any of the other characters

Wouldn't longer TTK encourage retarded war of attrition battles where you tag enemy with a couple shots they hide pop all their meds and you do the whole song and dance again until one of you makes a massive mistake or runs out of meds?

1 second sounds like a short time on paper but in reality you need to land all your shots to kill and that doesn't happen unless enemy has nowhere to hide after your first shot lands

>>559031802
I always assumed tarkov was balanced by being really slow and stealthy.

>>559031829
>>559031859
seems like the gamplay loop is
>play rook
>loot dead bodies
>or kill someone and make them quit
>you then use that kit to actually do the Marathon raid
>repeat

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can these be used for anything or sell

WHERE ARE ALL THE PLAYERS IN MY ROOK LOBBIES

>>559031802
tarkov doesn't have:
>stealth abilities
tarkov doesn't have>thermal scopes
>bunny hops
>jetpacks
>energy shields
>double jump
i can go on but dude, this isn't tarkov. it shouldn't ever be tarkov. this is why the genre never moves on or evolves. tarkov tarkov tarkov
this is really just bungies fuck up. they want to make an extraction shooter they should apply it in a way that makes fuckin sense.

>>559032150
you forgot
>get killed in the raid

>>559032317
By a rook. The circle of life.

>>559032292
>WHERE ARE ALL THE PLAYERS
could have stopped there
>>559032350
I don't think you can queue the raid as rook because you need to use that stupid key

>>559032086
longer ttk would make you weigh in your choice if you want to engage or not if that was the case. you dont have to pvp. theres still the pve.
like i figured this would be the natural way of playin a game like that
right now its just fuckin melt you right away since you're easier to deal with than the basic robot

>>559032126
this game is fairly slow. if you remove slides and dashes the movement speed is almost identical to tarkov.
except in tarkov you can lean and prone and sit in dark corners, which people do a lot.
you can play fast and aggressive in tarkov, but the game has mechanics in place that punish skill, such as the aforementioned ratting, and slow ADS from sprint, and excessive pain and broken limb mechanics if you get shot out of nowhere.

also in tarkov PvE dies to 1 bullet.

>>559032307
>this is why the genre never moves on or evolves. tarkov tarkov tarkov
haha oh god it's world of warcraft syndrome.

>>559032498
I did notice in marathon camping is really effective. It's boring though but ambush to the back is the decider of most fights.

>>559032307
>tarkov doesn't have thermal scopes

https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/Trijicon_REAP-IR_thermal_scope

>energy shields
instead it has armor and you can stitch back blown off limbs and go on your merry way. It just takes a bit longer.

>>559032664
talking about destoyers energy riot shield. which also fuckin sucks and doesn't work with how fast people die. dont know why the animation start up is the way it is and has a long cooldown
oh yeah because they had a higher ttk in mind
oops

>>559032307
>huuurrrrr
did you read the part where I said its tarkov and apex? yeah all the abilities are from apex dude. but the pace of the game is very tarkovesque right now. it might change when you get high heat capacity vandals sliding around excessively.

>>559032863
i never played apex and honestly this game should have just been a battle royal. would have suited it better given what we got in the server slam

Starting to think that Tarkov sucks, marathon sucks for trying to be tarkov, and arc really was just lightning in a bottle by focusing on cool enemies instead of what the tarkov players like

>>559033032
reminds me of how dsp thinks every fighting game that isn't super turbo sucks. because it was the only game he was good at and it was the most busted shit ever where you can lose in two throws

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>>559029420
>This game needs some sort of quick hub.
Yes!

>>559032763
even worse, it works and feels great against NPCs, because this was supposed to be a PvE game

>>559033032
tarkov has a lot of cool things about it and A LOT OF JANK, TEDIUM AND BULLSHIT.
this game gets rid of most of tarkovs jank and tedium, but it stays a bit too close to tarkov at its core. its tarkov light.

>>559033032
if arc didn't have PvP or labeled as an extraction shooter, it would definitely still be popular and probably called a monster hunter alternative, I know a lot of poeple that genuinely would like the game just PvE only and have 0 interested in any PvP whatsover

>>559033285
i wonder if thats like the natural development of an "extraction shooter" is just devs tryin to make one game and realize they can't profit off it because live service slop is what makes the money so they start tryin to frankenstein a game with work they put time into already and hope for the best
the players endlessly shooting eachother will keep them busy more than outfarming the robots

This game needs a hub with a shooting range or something, the codex entries are not enough to get me to care about the "lore"

>everyone on dire marsh just palys shotgun and sniper
ive been enjoying perimeter

>>559032863
It's actually just Destiny 2
>Gunplay and TTK is similar
>Weapons have similar designs
>Environments look like a modified Neomuna/Titan
>All the movement abilities already existed
>Each character gets 2 skills and an ult
>Destroyer shoots Grand Overture rockets
>UESC are modified frames
>Jetpack UESC have Psion movement
>Thief grapple is Strand grapple
I wouldn't be surprised if the Recon drone was a modified threadling too

>>559033437
very likely
pvp is the
>free+infinite content
button for devolpers

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Man I feel so bad for this duo I wiped as Rook, I think the first guy thought I was a bot since he didn't instantly shoot at me when I opened fire. His buddy ended up looping the long way around from the side I came from and I was expecting that so as soon as he rounded the corner I mowed him down with the LMG.

>>559033598
reminds me that they really kick you off the beginner perimeter map too quick

heaven forbid if they had a pve map in this game or something

>>559033285
It's bullshit UESC heavies can use a gun with their shield

>>559033689
They probably uninstalled

Do UESC reinforcements drop anything good? I heard they get better drops the closer to the end of the run.

>>559033285
I FUCKING HATE THESE DEVS
all these shells are fun as fuck against NPCs, the PvP is literally what ruins my experience every match
but maybe the games not for me, I am filtered and not buying so not shitting on the game or anything, hope you guys have fun with it, the aesthetic was just so fucking cool

>>559033934
you can do what i do is scream at the void hoping they will listen to actual balancing feedback
right now were just jotting down notes on what people are whining about the most and its....runnin into more people in the beginner map and the ui issues?

yeah were fucked m80.

>>559033934
Although the game is dead by now, all of these abilities come from D2 so you can play around with them there.

>>559033934
>"We make games that inspire friendship"
>only gave is a pvp game where you murder and loot any other players on sight

Bungo management is psychotic and needs to be locked up.

>>559033261
I really want to know what the point of Bingus is. He appears in their save the date teaser and is even used for some of the game's marketing like the ARG, so clearly its not just some prop a bored artist made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZUv1-qR1Aw

do i have to play rook to unlock more perks or does it jsut come from unlocking them ?

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Uhhh, you are high IQ individual that likes the game, right?

>>559033768
I hope not

>>559033437
It's a no-win scenario. If they make a PvE game it is just Destiny 3: The marathon.
If they make a PvPvE game then they bleed playerbase because sweats will keep farming ungeared casuals and casuals hate losing gear.

Just look how quickly ARC pivoted towards friendly servers once they realized that majority of the playerbase doesn't want to fight humans.
Ironically even Tarkov had to implement PvE because people just ran that shit locally.

>>559034127
maybe I'll go try that, I never touched so I guess thats a lot of content to do

>rat out for 3 runs with default gear solo
>exfil with two of them
>bring out gear in swamp expedition
>die
riveting gameplay loop

>>559034118
This angers me the most, the not seeing enough players in PvP was a meme that streamers started, and of course, Bungie being the absolute retards they are they listen to them in everything and balance the game according to whatever complaint the popularize enough. It's how they were killing D2, making the game exceedingly tedious so streamers could make "content" more easily but turning every other player away. The last 2 raids they launched are unplayable on PUGs because they made them stupidly hard/tedious to coordinate with players.

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>>559034265
The perks for Rook? No you have to grind faction rep to get the upgrades for him.

>>559034362
>He doesn't know
Sorry buddy 5+ years and every other season of the game just doesn't exist anymore

>>559034475
damn i wanna be a rook main but you cant do contracts with them FUCK
why cant they just give the rook its own contract of shit to do. make the contracts mostly just collecting shit to complete

>>559034365
ok now imagine doing that but you're doing the PvE map to get the Marathon raid key and get shot in the back, and if you manage that, then doing marathon raid and getting shot in the back lmao

Is Rook more evil in Dire Marsh?

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>half the loot is healings

And some retard would tell you the game not need balance.
Ttk is insanely wrong

>>559034546
I FUCKING HATE THESE DEVS HOLY SHIT
its probably fine as a new player, I can't miss what I never had

>>559034562
Rook already starts with green shields and a backpack, along with being 10 minutes into a round
He's better than the other runners by default

>>559034608
if they dont just have that be the pve raid i dont know what to tell them. arc raiders is gonna have pve only soon so cross your fingers

>>559034608
I dont even mind being locked out of trve endgame content, i'm simply trying to not go negative playing the first map man.
Ok i'm not good at FPS but so what, a game without casuals simply dies.

>>559034651
Streamers dropped this game like a stone once they stopped being paid.

>>559034694
starting off with claymores and a shotgun sounds busted and more fun though but i guess you can just solo as invisinigga in the meantime

>>559034741
you mean when they uninstall tonight, no way they want to lose subscribers for money

>>559034651
having a ton of heals is meta in any game like this.

>>559034715
Speaking of that how did sea of thieves pve only mode go?

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>ok we are gonna have an epic raid in the UESC Marathon itself
>except to get inside you need to exfil with an item that lights you up for EVERYONE on the map
>and then you will fight in the ship filled with danger and bosses
>except you can get ganked from behind and 1tapped by another group
who the fuck thought this was good design? what brand of crack were they smoking?

>>559034741
>>559034651
thats the worst part. you got endless glazers sayin the game is fine and then they are just gonna stop playin anyway because all the casuals will leave then the sweats will complain no ones playin anymore or they drop it

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>>559034691
>He still doesn't know
The new player experience has been notoriously god awful for years now and the story makes no sense, because it's full of characters you'll never be introduced to, fighting enemies you don't know from plotlines that don't exist anymore. (Not even the one that comes with the game disc).
The only relevant expansion and content is the newest one if you just want shooting experience stuff, I'm not sure what the state of meta weapons is anymore but you might need to raid for most of the good ones (that means buying more expansions)

>no bro you see, the slow tactical milsim shooter and this fast paced game with tons of movement options and super powerful abilities should have the same TTK
>I am very smart game designer man

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>>559035023
>June 14, 2024

When's the slam ending anyways, few hours?

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I just need to relieve some mild frustrations about the game.
I only ever play PvE games most of the time but I'm having fun with this game, a lot of fun but I'm also really, really, really bad at PvP.
Ok so what? 90% of my runs end before the two minute mark
>Team pings a location to go to
>Everyone heads in that direction
>We meet another team and proceed to die instantly
We last anywhere between 40secs to 1min and 50secs on the dot. Rarely do I even make to the ten minute mark let alone extract.
Everyones apparently watched some guy called Scare-Oh YouTube video showing how to go after other players and where their spawn locations.
I've been playing since the demo released and I'm just now halfway through Level 27
I don't even have anything in my inventory anymore and use the grey kit and trying to play Rook I just die instantly

>>559035036
The miss to capture a fantasy
The slow tacticool mil sim of tarkov is a fantasy, thats why people like it.

In a sci-fi setting people want to feel like a cool robot or android with abilities and wacky movement.
Most of the runs I dont get to use my ults if somebody shot me first.

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>>559034404
Its probably because Bungie took the absolute wrong feedback from the launch of D2. People tore that a new asshole because it was too dumbed down compared to D1, and it wasn't until Forsaken that they started to turn it around. But they began to lean too hard into drip-fed content and appealing to the streamerfags with "hard" or "watchable content" in later expansions that it just put off most normal players that just buy the game to play for fun, especially those that have to run the content by themselves. The irony too was that plenty of the streamers advocating for "harder content" aren't even that good at the game, they always get their shit pushed in whenever there's a World's First raid contest.
That led us all the way here where it is a game targeted for the sweats first and foremost. Of course casual players are going to turn away from it with that awful UI, dogshit community of KOSfags and gaslighting streamers, and of course they're going to mock any streamerfag clearly not having a good time with the game live.

>>559035036
i bet you only play chess because the ttk is actually really really really low and fine and not an issue

>>559035373
>Most of my runs only last 2mins tops
>Most of my Runners kit only go off cooldown at the 1min mark

>>559035373
theres upgrades to reduce the cooldowns on shit but i think my last two games before i stopped playin i died at the first poi from knife runnin right to it to loot. so i couldn't even really use any abilities because the cooldowns are so fuckin long for no reason other than the fact they wanted you to not die in 2 seconds at first

>>559035036
>Marathon
>fast paced
you overheat for 30 seconds after using like 1 movement ability
just call it what it is - slow and shitty Apex from Temu

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>Art style inspired by Mirror’s Edge, Aeon Flux, Ghost in the Shell and Akira according to devs.
>None of them has bright colors aesthetic which looks like crayola vomit.

>>559035804
He doesn't mean you move fast. You just get into pvp and die fast.

>>559035804
since anon wants to use relative subjective terms for ttk and this is clearly too high for him(or you), its safe to judge this based in comparison to tarkov's mobility to being fast paced.
hope that helps

>>559035310
Ends tomorrow at 10AM PST. Marathon launches 3 days after that, so they're probably counting on the game being so addicting that people are willing to shell out $40 or more to jump back in, like a drug dealer giving out a free sample.

>>559035023
You won't even believe it, but the game got even worse the moment you killed the Witness with last year's expansions and overhauls.

>>559034936
OMG I CANT WAIT TO WATCH NINJA DO ALL THIS

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>>559035458
You make it sound like Bungie has some kind of intent with their game design. They unironically just look at reddit and youtubers and just do exactly as they command at the time, that's why we've had flip-flop design since House of Wolves
>We want to reroll guns
>Guns need to be a chase again
>We don't want content droughts
>They should give us all content upfront
>There's too much loot
>There's not enough loot
>We want to reroll guns again
>Guns need to be a chase again again
>Weapon crafting should come back
>Ad infinitum
D2 launch was extra funny because it had all the fixes for D1, just without the rest of the game to go with it.
10 years of the most expensive comedy ever made

>>559035023
WHY WOULD YOU RECOMMEND ME A BAD GAME AAAAAAAAAAA

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So are there any permanent unlocks for playing the server slam? I've been trying to look at the rewards but the way they're worded seems like it's just a head start of items in your vault.

>tried teaming up with another Rook
>I got iced by the Sin we were trying to kill
That's just how it is on this bitch of a Tau Ceti IV

>>559035552
>i bet you only play chess because the ttk
ok I got to remember that one lmfao

>>559036165
It's basically just a head start of items in your vault.

>>559035552
I only play speed chess, since it's the only true showcase of skill

>>559034936
Makes no sense. Worst part, we the plebs will be stuck on these 2 dookie maps. So just grinding out these dookie maps for 90% of the playtime.

>>559036165
The only perma items you can get is by watching the Twitch streams until tomorrow, at four hours, in total you get two stickers, a player card of the Silk Worm and a Worm keychain
Cosmetics basically.

>>559036134
Oh I'm not the guy that recommended it to you.
I can easily say that after 3500 across both games and 3 platforms, I would never recommend either Destiny game to anyone ever. It's literally a "you had to be there" game by its literal design (they said this outright)

>>559036007
Unsurprising honestly. I've heard whispers of The Portal but I'm glad I don't know what that means

>>559036371
Yea are food for the streamer to gear up and do the raid for everyone watching

>>559036307
yeah no ones going to play with you casually and now chess is going to go out of business

>>559036502
damn it, another anon recommended because I said the PvE in this game is actually fun

>>559036371
Don't forget, all the 1% sweats will get to the end-game in a day or two then go to the starting maps and kill everyone new playing.

>>559036534
They seriously need to release a PvE mode for chess

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Since the release is few days away it feels like the calm before the storm desu

Now that the dust has settled; What's the consensus?

For me; it's a buy. 7.5/10 - Cautiously optimistic

>>559036579
He's technically not wrong, the actual shooting of mobs is pretty much 1:1 with how it's handled in Marathon and maybe a bit better in a bubble. The real problem is that the rest of the game and Bungie's baggage comes attached. There's a reason they're actively trying to suffocate it at this point

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>>559036625
forget about sweats
this is just creating a super cancerous meta where the only winning move is not to play because anyone actually doing the objective will just get ganked

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>>559036506
>You and 2 buddies finally get the key to get into Marathon map. Took you 2 weeks for this.
>Finally get to do epic PvE raids and get some purple mods for your shell and cool guns.
>Get niggered by Shroud and his buddies in front of 10k viewers
>Have to go through the gulag of dire marsh and perimeter for another 2 weeks to finally see some new content
Sounds great, can't wait

Oh I didn't know you could see the Marathon ship on Dire Marsh. Neat.

Marathon is best seller. It won. top 3. I guess the hate was fake.

>>559036823
Did you know sponsored kits arent going to be infinite on release :)
The posts are going to be hilarious

>>559036848
I wasn't planning on buying initially, and the server slam didn't move the needle.
It's fine? but I wouldn't pay $40 for the game in its current state.

>>559037124
wait what?

>>559037118
it's the people who didn't even know there was a beta preordering their next slop about to release

now that they purchase they will watch the "Before you buy" videos

>>559037118
>Top 3 US
>Top 5 Global
Oh nonononononono Concordakeks!

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>>559037118
MarathonXis...it doesn't look like we're in the top 3...

>>559037124
well duh; the ROOK is the freekit
but... perhaps the devs should have stated that more clearly in-game...

>>559037287
There will be a daily limit on each one, if they changed it I will be happily wrong, but they are only infinite for the beta

>>559036848
6/10. i do not hate this game and found it vaguely fun but the maps got repetitive and it felt kinda shallow unless you really like shooting other players. I would buy this at 19,99. But at 30 I feel like i can wait to see if it dies.
>>559037287
What do you think rook is for?

>>559037427
>What do you think rook is for?
streamer bait
griefer bait

>>559037124
No fuckin way lmao. AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA GET USED TO SCAV RUNS ARCFAGS!

>>559036848
I'd give it a 6. It'd be a 7 but I know Bungie's history and what they're like with new toy syndrome. It's £27 on one of the key selling sites so I'm debating it just to fuck around for 10-20 hours, but I don't know if it's even worth that honestly

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>>559028369
>>559028541
she's better with the helmet and hot grandma voice

>>559037532
My logic is it's not going to get more expensive anyway and I bought arc raiders just before the slam

The opening cutscene made me mad that this wasn't single player

>>559037287
The gameplay loop, since it actually isn't clear is
>load up as rook
>kill another team and make them uninstall out of embaressment
>or loot some random bodies
>exfil
>hope you didnt die or you have to repeat that until you win someone elses gun
>NOW you use all that gear you stole on a real shell
>for someone else to kill you and loot you for money
>repeat
if you're good at the game
>get the key to the 3rd map without dying
>get the key to the 4th map on the 3rd map without dying
>somehow do the raid without dying
>use that gear you got to kill newer players for fun
>or die and repeat using rook to make people uninstall again

>>559037663
yep

>>559036463
Okay I think I won't bother with the slam then. I'll just afk on a twitch stream.

>>559037663
With you there

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>>559036848
4/10
the fact that in order to get to the real cool stuff (Marathon itself and probably meeting the big names) you need to sweat in a PvP full loot shooter - except those sweats literally do not give a single shit about any of that
truly masterful design that appeals to exactly nobody
didn't r8 lower because someone in the team (read: art guys) clearly gave a fuck compared to pretty much everyone else

>>559036463
you also get stuff for hitting season level's 10, 20, and 30

>>559037714
Eventually you pimp your Rook in something that actually packs firepower out of the box
There must be some fun in that

>>559037714
>>get the key to the 3rd map without dying
hold up, you have to get a key to get to the 3rd map???????????

>>559037945
The art is the only good part.

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>check the marathon reddit
>clearly they will feel the same way about wanting more PvE focus

>WORTH EVERY PENNY, I HAD A BLAST
>meme using Marathon images
>THE TTK IS PERFECT HOW IT IS
>Image making fun of players saying no ammo is on the map
>"OBVIOUSLY YOU BUY IT BEFORE THE RUN RETARD??? THIS ISNT FORNITE KID"

oh

>>559038345
snoy damage control

>grey waster and long shot mogs everything else
>a near nude team of triage and two assassins can rape loot based matchmaking due to this
I wish there was something that lets you temporarily have overshields or deployable cover because being one tapped through smoke or around a corner is irritating as fuck

>>559038090
I thought the key in the beta was for the 3rd map, and then you unlock the raid(4th map) on the 3rd map, could be wrong

>>559037663
I'm disappointed by the game in general. There's no flavor text and the quests seem extremely basic.

>>559037967
Yes but those appear to just be items for use in game and not cosmetics/permanents.

>>559038090
I don't think we really know.
>>559038345
Tarkov and console players are essentially subhuman and live to sweat. Also 60% of them will be young.

>Almost preorder because of the artstyle/design work
>Actually play the server slam
That was a close call, I think I'd have more fun just replicating it in photoshop

Dire Marsh is a bit too sweaty for me and people are running blues so I'm going back to Perimeter

>push squad, literally kill 2 easily with headshots
>the third just pulls out a knife and kills me in 2 swings
this game will never be good at this point

>>559038345
reminds me of 2XKO where all the fags playing it kept ignoring any criticism people had for the game only to be shocked when a few weeks after release riot cut half the dev team and outright said it was a flop

>>559038432
>There's no flavor text
open the codex sometime
it even has fucking audio logs WHICH OF COURSE YOU CAN ONLY GET BY EXTRACTING WITH CERTAIN RARE LOOT

>>559038432
>There's no flavor text and the quests seem extremely basic.
It's because they have to cater to the genre they've created. Despite the intro's promises, no quests, dialogue or codex entry can have significant narrative weight. It's like a sitcom, nothing is allowed to meaningfully change in the story ever because it might get in the way of doing a run

>>559038345
Yeah there seems to be a fight between the people who feel the game needs more polish and others that just want to shout "Get good".

I think the current state is a fair 7/10 but it's a little boring.

>>559038461
unfortunately, the asset ripping tools are locked up in someone's >discord and won't be given to the plebs until a week after release

>>559038461
seriously same, I was actually hyped for this game, didn't play any of the alphas or other betas, I'm just not that kind of gamer, would rather play a game on release, this is close enough and its on the store page anywy
I try it out
and its the worst game I've ever fucking played and I'm 30+

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING WITH THIS DUMB MELEE AND SHOTGUN? BOTH LITERALLY OUTCLASS ANY OTHER WEAPON UP CLOSE

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>>559038561
apparently the game is good enough to hit top sellers.

>>559038345
Reddit is literally 90% bots and sock puppet accounts by marketers trying to sell products, their tactics don't work here because we are too based for that shit

>>559038561
i took out 2 guys in a squad in hauler on perimeter as rook by just waiting for them to turn the corner and knife them in like 3-4 swings

>>559038645
It's fine, I've taken screenshots of the shit I like and I'm sure someone's uploaded the intro cutscene for me to copy from

>>559038802
>mass refunds incoming

>>559038802
>alright now time to watch "Should I buy this" and decide if I refund

>>559038848
You could play it for the last three days, not likely.

>>559038802
If the game hits 200k on launch I'll buy it from grey market slop site

>>559038923
The people buying it right now aren't the people who were playing the beta, they're people who are going
>oh yea this game comes out in 3 days

>>559038826
I told you the knife was fucking strong as hell. Also i dont think there is any damage difference between right attack and left but left is much faster and can be comboed Try it out

You know what, I gotta give credit to Bungie they made one of the biggest streamer on the internet say I love eating shit.

>>559039125
streamers are subhuman so that's not exactly an achievement

>>559039125
Streamers are simply media whores ever since the advertiser sanitation.

Where the fuck do you even find weapons? Bots or crates don't seem to drop anything worth a shit most of the time

>>559038819
Meds, most people here shill fucking garbage gachas and mobas

i love spending 3 years walking around a building while trying to sneak past the bots just to find 1 terminal for a contract only to get blasted in my face by a faggot already in the room

>>559038561
I've had a lot of success just knifing people in close quarters indoors because of the slow ass movement. does a ton of damage

>>559039363
Kill other players or do contracts

>>559039363
unironically other players
I have seen them in loot rooms that you use keys to get into too, but its clear the devs wants a PvP focused game

>>559039363
Play for another half hour, I'm a solo queue shitter and I'm drowning in loot at level 10 only

>>559038983
Alright, you have a pact anon.

>>559039542
love that the quests aren't cooperative and part of the game philosophy is that you are competing with other runners to complete contracts, essentially incentivizing you to kill any player that comes to your objective

>>559038345
it will be a great place to revisit once the servers shutdown and then after the bungie layoffs

>>559039363
Specific creates. I found a weapons crate in hauler that had guns. Loot is really weird in this game because there aren't really any clear places that scream "guns and shields here sir."
>>559039731
They are actually cooperative. You can ignore each other.

>>559039801
some of the quests only 1 person can do

>>559039363
supply drops always have guns inside

>>559039858
Those ones are no cooperative. Bring your crew.

>>559039363
I've found weapons from bots but they seem to have fairly small drop chances from the enemies. Really annoying considering every enemy in the game seems to be a bullet sponge.

No matter how the gameplay feels, no matter how interesting the loot is, no matter how good or bad the game looks, I just don't trust Bungie.

They screwed with Destiny for a decade and I have zero faith they're not going to screw Marathon even further.

>>559039378
You keep regurgitating that shit but i've never seen it outside of their threads

Also cope

Do weapon tiers even matter when some guns just outright outperform everything else even at default gray rarity

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This is an interesting gun, to bad I hate shotguns.

>>559039924
I don't like the supply drops. They are so noisy that as a solo i can't help but feel I will get shot in the ass while looting.

>>559039996
Personally I can't wait to see how the playerbase reacts to the other 2 maps and how exclusive they are

>>559040076
That's the point...

>>559039378
>>559040002
even as a gachafag, I know my game is complete trashslop, I would never recommend it
never played a moba

Does queuing Rook only put your duo/trio lobbies? The only other solos I see are other Rooks.

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Does anyone else get halo vibes from the movement and physics? Obviously, its bungie, but something about the design choices like sprint on a resource, grenade physics, hell that shield ability is a straight up repurposed spartan ability.

>>559040080
source my man, you can't bullshit me up saying unlocking maps on an Extraction Shooter requires EFFORT in 2026.

The zoomies will lose their minds

>>559040138
I know but that really only makes them worth the risk as rook.

>>559040173
yes

>>559028541
>>559037540
Whoever thought giving her a fucking helmet needs to jump off the St. Johns Bridge yeah I know it's a fucking troon.

>>559032292
sis..... everyone is dead by the time you load in....

>>559040173
yes, you get dropped into in-progress squad lobbies.

>>559040317
resist the urge to fist the robutt

>>559040250
no source, but I am almost sure that gold key that you have to exfil with while the whole map knows your location is just for access to the 3rd map, and then you have to do something else for the 4th map (cryo lab the raid)

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don't see why everyone is complaining about ammo. pic related is like 45 minutes(? maybe an hour?) of doing solo rook runs.

spawn in, loot a few crates, kill a couple robots, beeline for the guarded extraction point and get out.

Time for a last match as rook before going to sleep. Level 32 here, did you make the cut?

>>559039363
supply drops, caches, 'major' enemies, any sort of objective that appears on the map, things that require you to buy keys in the shop, etc. guns basically require you to do something rather than being free pickups

>>559040535
I just found a gold key off a dead player in Dire Marsh so I don't know about that

>>559040582
it's because they're retards and are paying full price for bullets instead of leveling their factions and trading a single flower for a stack

God I love some corporate drama
>>>/v/734096885
>>>/v/734097071

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What's the most efficient way to increase your season level? I want to get to 30 before the slam ends but I'm only at 20. I've been focusing on doing standard contracts and killing bots, but it's so fucking slow. I figure there's got to be a better way.

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>>559040261
>>559040428
Cool I just wiped a trio trying to do guarded exfil and another rook who was trying to do a regular one.

>>559040837
I would quit

>>559040837
Chad, did you do it with knife only like me?

>>559040697
We can only hope.

>>559040946
I knifed the 2nd dude in the trio after shooting the first guy down, then I saw the UESC going around to where the other person was hiding and put them down, I turned around and saw one of the two I originally downed try to crawl into extract and he almost got out but I shot him and killed him. His buddy didn't make it in and I finished him off.

>>559039590
Stalking and knifing people is the only fun thing to do in this game

>>559041324
Top seller.

>>559036848
The raid needs to land. It needs to contextualise the entire grind alongside the lore else it’s all for nothing.

>some dude got to level 50 in the slam and queues in with a 30k credits purple gun

where the fuck are all the streamers

>>559041390
Doesn't really matter how good the raid is if 80% of the playerbase is going to be barred from seeing it in the first place because of the requirements.

>>559041390
If it lands I might actually buy it. But it has big shoes to fill to match arc raiders pve.

The raid is going to be more of the same we've seen so far. This game is super doomed

>>559041390
>The raid needs to land.
it will never land, youd have to kill everyone else before you even attempt to kill the boss. otherwise somebody is going to rock your shit as soon as you engage with the pve.

>>559041710
Arc avoided this.

>>559041768
How did they solve that issue?

>>559041867
By having really fun and engaging pve, i think.

>>559041906
We're fucked

>>559036848
i need them to address the ttk or else im gonna wait for the real reviews and laugh

>>559041710
Apparently you need to beat a boss in every room in the marathon to progress to the end? Dunno how they're gonna pull that off.

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>>559041981

Why is almost every PvE enemy some shitty android? You have a futuristic, fantasy setting and that's the best you could come up with especially when the game supposedly ties into Halo's lore.

>>559042116
They couldn't make anything else because they had ti re use the skeletons and animations from destiny.

Literally this entire game is just destiny retextures

THE FUCKING FREE KIT GUN IS THE WORST FGUCKING GUN IN THE GAME DUDE
WHY DID THEY HAVE TO USE THIS ONE FOR THE WHOLE DAY

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>>559042085
im sure they have really in depth reasoning...
oh...

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Cheese burger

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>jailbroken UESC recruit is superior to SekGen's trillion dollar worm puke sex bots
How can this be so

>>559042340
The Traxas rifle? It's fine.

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>>559041981
>>559042407

>>559042489
the raw power of
>GIBS ME DAT
>*blows your brains out with fully charged fusion pistol shot*

>>559042576
>60 tick
You know the feedback is off the deepend when they think server tick rate matters.

>>559042576
>you guys just aren't playing correctly thats why you dont like it
im so sick of this shit dude

>>559042576
How does one shield and heal "improperly"?

>>559042407
>the most popular extraction shooter in the market is the one with the highest TTK
they're so close to getting it

>>559037714
rooks trailer is probably the only really accurate trailer of the game at this point
>come in late
>loot the scraps
>kill the stragglers

>>559042647
seriously as if a different tick rate is going to matte when it take 3 bullets to kill you

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>>559042576
>I think the average right now is .6-.7? I prefer a .8
I wish I could bash the skull of a larping retard like this with a rock