My 1X-coded Shell is going to miss you all...
/mg/ isn't a fun general so I'll just be shitposting with losers like myself on tumblr when the game launches but for now lets enjoy the last server slam...

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Get in the fucking wage cage.

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>>559073323
How about i just mug the wagies?

Fellas, I’m beginning to think that escape will make me god n’ shieeet

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>>559073221
>/mg/ isn't a fun general so I'll just be shitposting with losers like myself on tumblr when the game launches
don't worry, they'll fuck off once they realise the ship isn't sinking

i like this game's aesthetic but i don't find it very fun. missions are lame, enemies are barren and stupid, and there's too much looting going on. give me less frequent but more quality loot. give me good contracts that encourage combat. give me decent enemy variety and intelligence. i really want it to be good but idk fellas. for some reason game devs seem to have an aversion to making fun combat encounters and prefer to fill their games with grindy busywork.

>>559073442
You're being disingenuous, a large number of the people with the most scathing critique on this game wanted it to be good. Some even have been testing it for the past year but have had all feedback ignored.

Given that Bungie's continued existence is literally contingent on it being a mass success (which it simply cannot be, due to it being more casual unfriendly than Tarkov in some ways) there is nothing wrong with saying the ship will sink, and in fact already has going by the catastrophic server slam numbers.

Does the UESC send random patrols through various map POIs? I swear i visited Hauler twice and it was empty while i started clearing it out, then the whole fucking building was swamped with invisible fuckers.

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SERVER SLAM

how it started
>"hey guys I GOTTA DO MY QUEST sorry"
>loot goblins everywhere

how it's ending
>pvp
>pvp
>pvp

>>559074362
The quest spots still see a lot of newcomer traffic, especially on Solo, but there's a lot of people just hunting in trios or mercilessly slapping Rooks around.

>>559074340
If someone has been spotted in a location or if a robot has been killed they move units from one base to another as well as call in patrols.

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>>559074049
>a large number of the people with the most scathing critique on this game wanted it to be good.
Nah, they wanted it to be ARC, they wanted it to be Destiny, they wanted it to be PvE.
>Some even have been testing it for the past year but have had all feedback ignored.
That's just false, they implemented changes based on feedback from october
>Given that Bungie's continued existence is literally contingent on it being a mass success (which it simply cannot be, due to it being more casual unfriendly than Tarkov in some ways)
There's truth to this but we still don't know what the launch numbers will look like, not everybody plays stress tests
>in fact already has going by the catastrophic server slam numbers.
140K peak going down to 80K and losing 10K everyday for the next 2 days is not catastrophic by any means, there's not a whole lot to do in the server slam version, people played and saw the progression then said they'll wait for release cause what's the point of progressing when it's over in 2 days?
Of course there were lots of people that didn't like the game for various reasons but clearly it was nowhere near as large as some people are making it out to be.

>>559074573
You can hear patrols being plopped nearby and groups with mixed units usually make some noise. The only audio cue i had was the door opening, thinking it was a player. Instead it was like 5-6 invisible UESC fucks with red capes.

Am I correct in assuming all my gear will be wiped after the server slam ends?

>>559074791
Yes but they also said it would be

>>559074791
Correct.

>>559074695
Insane coping combined with nonsense deflection+dismissal in the "no none of that really happened" vein.

The most egregious part is you claiming they "implemented changes based on feedback from october", lol, lmao even.

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Day one steam numbers? Come on up and place your bets!

>>559074797
>>559074808
Cool. Only doing a few more runs. Might as well load out with all my best shit.

>>559074839
250k and down to 30k after a month.

I forever remain puzzled by people who are personally invested in the success of this game and by people who are personally invested in the failure of this game. Not just on 4chan but literally everywhere. The majority of posts about this game are pushing one of those two narratives like it’s their political agenda. Gotta be the gayest hobby of all time.

Where’s the Alysaposter?! I need my raccoon queen when I’m playing Marathon…

>>559074839
200k and then 40k within a single week, Bungie will have half its staff laid off and be completely folded into Sony within 6 months.

>>559074817
>The most egregious part is you claiming they "implemented changes based on feedback from october", lol, lmao even.
But they did retard.
Lower TTK, proximity voice, solo queue are the direct result of player feedback from october.

>>559075041
>There are other desperate Alysa simps who play Marathon
I have found my people

>>559075123
I’M RUNNING FOR YOU, ALYSA
SOON WE’LL HAVE ENOUGH CREDITS TO RETIRE
JUST ONE MORE BIG SCORE

>>559074876
>>559075052
so it will nearly double the peak f2p server slam numbers? how do you figure that?

>>559075249
In the far future, Sekiguchi Genetics will be able to 3D print each of us our own raccoon gf to love and cherish.

>>559075283
My job is to study trends. Looking at Bungie's previous records, their reach, their advertising campaign and the willingness of individuals to participate due to brand as well as their ability to bring in players who are not part of the Bungie ecosystem is why I estimate what I did.

>>559075052
>>559074876
brother, the FREE server slam only did 143k, there is zero chance this pulls over 100k on launch

>>559075489
You're missing out.

HOLY SHIT EVERY RANDOM I GET NEEDS TO COMMIT SUICIDE ASAP NO ONE IS THIS BAD AT GAMES BY ACCIDENT THIS IS 100% GRIEFING

>>559075438
I'm also pretty sure those who have made their decision whether to join at Launch or ditch have already put in their hours. Not everyone is grinding the game for the entirety of the slam, so the overall declining figures really don't paint a full picture.

>>559075283
>>559075489
Bungie's brand name.

Notably, even in this insane out there case, they're still going to absolutely get fucked by Sony.
>>559075567
Are these posts by bots? ARC didn't have a crash of player numbers during their thing like this.

>>559074839
the free beta has pretty low numbers, there's no way the paid game gets more than 50k at release

>>559075376
I’ll be Alysaposting Thursday on launch.

>>559075787
>ARC didn't have a crash of player numbers during their thing like this.
Word to mouth brings in a lot of fresh players, while the opposite happens in cases where the game doesn't launch off as some smash hit so the overall population drops when there isn't a constant influx of new players. Nobody anywhere is saying that the game will break even or even have as huge of an audience that Arc does just that it isn't going to launch into a complete stillbirth. Considering Bungie's track record, even that is in and of itself a miracle.

>>559076051
Bless you

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Didn't realize skins were in the server slam (Not the palette swaps),

I do wish ammo was way more plentiful.

>>559076246
>>559076051
Let me guess you're gonna be jerking off on VC and stroking your hard cocks for her huh you fucking gaylords moaning and jerking like a couple of homo fags CLEAR COMMS CLEAR COMMS

>>559076286
It's the same model though? That's just a destroyer with camo print

>>559076375
I've had to cut and run more than once because a fight was eating too much ammo.

>>559074839
25k

>>559076565
Does he usually have a red light in his visor that moves left and right? Plus the chest has different bits.

>>559075037
It's a multiplayer game, people want it to succeed so they can literally play it.
And it's a game from a studio that has several big former hits and people want them to go make to making them instead of something new.

I be shooting ticks with the loudest gun in the entire universe

>>559076802
>he isn't lobbing grenades at them
NGMI

>>559076802
>not using the largest explosion to force all the sin players to run immediately towards you
I feel bad for one sin I got the jump on though. He was with purple shields with a shotty and sniper but since I was playing Vandal and it was match start I accidentally popped behind him abusing her movement tech before he could even set up his evil stealth sniper perch

>>559076468
Hnnngg yes my fucking raccoon queen milking my cock as I kill defenseless rooks and console retards

What’s up with health items being so expensive and the Overrun being so shit? Your only free kit is complete ass. Don’t even get a shield lmao

>>559076468
Raccoon is for love and NOT for lewd

>>559077115
Free Kitters should be doing missions and not murdering

No one acknowledges my “Friendly” when I’m Rook ;_; they just shoot on sight

>>559077030
Republican
>>559077160
Democrat

Please provide slightly more good loot like guns and other useful items and slightly less useless garbage that makes me want to explode my cock off with chinese fireworks.

I have become a marathon plaptuber...

>>559077246
Nothing to gain everything to lose from trusting other runners.

>/mgal/
>Marathon General Alysa Liu

>>559077252
Lmao prob true
>>559077495
<3

>>559077342
can i plap u???

>>559076160
I'm not convinced. I am pretty sure it's gonna be DOA. The reception is just way too negative for a silent majority of players to keep it going. but it's going to be AAA DOA so 40k on launch.

>>559078037
It's not priced like a AAA game though.
If I had to hazard a guess it's going to follow HD2's model of monetization since that's the last Sony live service product that turned a dime and Sony are blinded by the $$$

>>559078160
It's not priced like one but it is still a bungie game and nobody said it was made cheaply as a side project.

>>559078037
That's the exact reason why it will launch at 100k and crash towards 40k stable players in 2 days.
After that, they either address some feedback, pull out a big patch after the first week saving the player count (60-80k stable) or it'll slowly and silently die until they inevitably turn it into a f2p in the next 8 months, though sony would rather kill the whole team than morph this expansive hugely expansive project into le free to pee

I am a little surprised how difficult this game is. Honestly I think they’d have better odds at success if they made it more casual friendly. I’m not sure if that would make the game better overall, mind you. But it might attract a wider audience. I don’t think the game is gonna “fail,” nor do I think Sony will destroy Bungie. But I don’t think it will be a gigantic hit either.

>>559078469
They deliberately targeted the hardcore pvp audience and made the game as inaccessible to casuals as possible for some reason. I am not sure why they decided limiting broad appeal was the winning move but it seems to have worked out.

>>559078469
I do hope Sony destroys Bungie, they deserve it for a myriad of reasons. Just imagine them being forced to commit seppuku in front of the Sony executive board.

Why is everyone playing like their lives depend on it? It’s a demo and it’s nearly over, nothing carries over.

>>559078638
it's funny how the scenario you just mentioned happened a couple weeks ago with Bluepoint who had to commit seppuku in front of both sony and fromsoft kek (deserved)

>>559078681
If you mean the PvP it's because everyone has already learned to shoot on sight and to expect to be shot on sight, just as the doomers predicted weeks ago. Marathon plays like a battle royale with stunted progression.

>>559078469
>>559078548
They need to add a Fortnite overshield.

>>559078548
this, it's made by bungie's pvp team so it really makes sense that it's just trials but you have to loot and then extract at the end.

>>559078469
Yeah I thought it was going to be Halo Reach with Fortnite loot.
Instead it’s like this milsim with AI on steroids and everything is super hostile.

when does the slam end?
is it today, or tomorrow reset?
i just got back home and wasn't to play yet

>>559079046
>Yeah I thought it was going to be Halo Reach with Fortnite loot.
at what point did it seem like marathon was gonna be like that?

>>559079053
Today 10am CST 6pm UK

>>559078912
it would unironically fix the third third parties and big ass rotations in the middle of nowhere issues.
With a higher ttk as well the fights could be so much fun, fuck

>>559079094
11am damn, alright then thanks

I feel like I’ve seen the majority of the game now. I could stop playing entirely then and there.

Cryo when it releases later on, that’ll have to really pull some big weight. If there isn’t a big narrative payoff and it doesn’t hinder the game loop, maybe it’ll be worth seeing season 2.

>>559079046
Halo pvp was great. Everyone was so chunky health wise it let real skill shine.

>>559079093
When the streamers playing the betas on stream were jumping around like Master Chief with battle rifles dropping everyone.

Then the reality hit.

>>559079108
Doesn’t have to be a big one either. Maybe one or two plips worth of regenerating shield that everyone gets.

>>559079245
I still think Halo and Fortnite have the best TTK. They still have an issue with snipers and shotguns, every game does, but at least they get the shields down well.

im hoping there isn't too much stuff to grind so i can balance this and destiny well enough

>>559079094
>I sold all my stuff for shit and giggles and uninstalled several hours ago thinking it would be closed much sooner
FUCK my life

This is the first shooter i ever pre-ordered in my life, been having a blast all weekend and can't wait for thursday!

>>559078548
It's literally all a kneejerk reaction to all the griefers seething about arc raiders matchmaking. All these retarded devs can do is latch onto short-term trends

>>559079441
Wasn't planing on buying the game but the server test turned it into a Day 1-purchase. Pumped for thursday!

>>559079546
I had an absolute blast this weekend, especially yesterday. The game really does come together the more time you put into it. Bungie absolutely cooked here and im excited to experience everything else the full game will have to offer. Can't wait for Thursday

>>559073417
No. I mug you and then get mugged by 3 wagies who quit their job and camped exfil.

The Marathon comeback needs to be studied.

>>559075082
Ah yes...
>lower TTK
one of the things people are complaining about now!
>proximity voice
that nobody uses!
>solo queue
should have already been in the game

You can do the rattiest shit with rook. I sat at an exfil in the plant section in Marsh, sat behind some railing and threw grenades at everyone while they were counting down.

The killed me of course because my aim sucks, but nonetheless.

>>559079803
Rook can be upgraded vie the first node at the bottom of every faction. MIDA gives you a free stack of claymores.

>>559079610
The game is amazing, the tutorial is so detailed and immersive I had to stop listening to the tips because there’s just so much helpful information to take in if you follow it all. The mechanics worked smoothly, the specials were consistent in the 10 games I played thanks to clever design with overlapping buttons that make everything feel fast and fluid. Same thing happens with the healing, it can always be relied on. I don’t really play Bungie games but people say the gunplay is good? It’s absolutely fantastic. Everything is perfectly balanced so the game rewards awareness and smart positioning, especially for players who are quick to get first sight on others.

Incredible experience.

>>559075082
>TTk too low
>barely anyone used pros chat because it’s too hostile
>NPCs arent balanced around solos

I was saying this months ago. None of these points would have and don’t have any effect on the game.

I just went about 7 rounds with Rook, trying to talk to people. Every single trio shot on sight.
Then I went with a crew and tried to convince them to take some guys they downed with us, they wouldn’t have it, even though they were chatting on the comms.

>>559079441
BLASTMEN ASSEMBLE

bros… the /v/ thread is making fun of us for Alysaposting…

This might sound stupid but there absolutely needs to be some sort of upgradable hub area with a shooting range, not being able to test different weapons and mods outside of matches is insane.

>>559080084
>caring about what a bunch of gacha obsessed thirdies have to say

>>559080084
I'd give head for her.

>>559080084
Alysa Liu is the queen of Marathon. Bungie needs to hire her to advertise and put her raccoon colors as a skin for Vandal.

dead game trannython is losing hard to arc raiders

>>559080084
Alysabros are the most persecuted and oppressed people on 4chan. But our love is insurmountable

>>559080191
honestly it would need some kind of actual explorable hub area in general for testing a bunch of different shit and just add some personality to the shells in some way, shit feels incomplete.
Also I know that extraction shooters are menu intensive/reliant but it would be a breath of fresh air to see shit like an actual, exploitable physical place where you can buy shit/order shipments idk anything that could make the game feel less sterile and bland.

dead game arc tranners is losing hard to... no wait they're both losing and both tranny games

I will be playing Marathon on my Xbox Series X on launch day.

>>559079947
I do wonder if the ayys showing up might change this, if bungie has anyone with a working brain they'd be planning for it.
The UESC commanders are already reasonably dangerous. Anything nastier may force player to cooperate if they want to fight it.

Been playing Marsthon for many consecutive hours. I smell like KFC. Bungie please give me the game for free I have been playing your fuckass video games since Halo 1 and I was just a wee laddy then.

>>559080575
if you give me your steam name, I have a key

>>559080191
They need to do this because talking to AI heads in a menu feels awful.

You know what would be really good? A map planner and 3D note taker in a base area. Like That DS Zelda game or Metroid Prime

>watch both retarded teammates get raped and killed by the yellow shield bot
>run away and got sniped by a player
Why do they always want to fight that thing? The Wraith isn’t worth any amount of effort required to kill it.

Bungie gave me a free key and called me a princess... >~<

>>559080740
because servers shutting down and I wanna kill it
where's your sense of adventure? play solos or with friends if you want to hard optimize everyone else's time

>>559080535
I still will not work because there is no emotional good will built into the tone of the game.

When you’re playing Marathon, there are stressful musical tones and strings, noises made to keep you guessing, footsteps on the roof, a conspiracy plot, AI that distract to you and are hiding something.

You can’t build a co-operative game on top of an oppressive tone. Dark Souls got away with it, this doesn’t.

>>559080740
Those bots have the best loot on the map btw especially the yellow shielded ones.

I quit Destiny and /dg/ not long after the Star Wars DLC came out. I imagine some of you are also /dg/fags. I missed you not Destiny though lmao.

>>559080958
me femra hates destiny

>>559080958
GET BACK IN THE FUCKING PLAYLIST

STOP CALLING THEM RUNNERS! THEY’RE CALLED SHELLS NOW OK!!

>>559081020
My 1X-coded shell is ready...

>>559081020
They really half asked the response to "hero shooter" critique to the point I wish they'd just kept with it and went all in on the idea of characters with personality instead of this current middle ground which is the worst of both.

>>559080839
Dark souls got away with because there's a clear distinction between friend and foe.
The time they tried free agents with DS3's grapebois everyone just treated them as regular red invaders.
It won't work here because on top of the oppressive mood like you said everyone is competing for the same things. There is zero reason to cooperate and even less reason to live and let live.
The only thing I get out of somehow convincing another team not to fight is not potentially losing that fight. If we fight then everything they've got as well as more map control is up for grabs.

>never played an extraction shooter before
>try the beta for this
>it’s ass
>every post and video shitting on this game keeps glazing ass raiders
>decide what the hell, I’ll give ass raiders a go
>search it on steam
>it’s $60 in my stupid fucking cuntry
>thought the game was free to play like all the other live service slop
>google to see if the game used to be free
>it did and the devs decided to go full jew because they found success
Well this is great. Just fantastic. Looks like we’re entering a new dark age. Live service slop persists only now you have to pay for them.

>>559081275
Arc Raiders was never free.

>>559081184
It's the perfect extraction shooter.

>>559081275
>>559081313
Arc was originally planned to be F2P in like early 2024 before they decided it was worth paying for. So it was never actually free but it could have been theoretically.

Couldn’t runners customize their shells to resemble their favourite pop culture icons from humanity’s distant past? Seriously. They could fill the game with IP crossover skins and it would be 100% lore friendly.

You’ve presumably seen that trailer where the Assassin guy is listening to Bach. Well maybe my Destroyer found an mp3 of Deadmau5 and he likes it so much he made himself look like Deadmau5. Maybe my Vandal found old archival footage of Alysia Liu skating at the Olympics and decided to make herself look like everybody’s favourite raccoon girl. The possibilities are literally endless.

Hire me Bungie. I will save your studio from financial ruin.

>no energy sword monday in Marathon
bungie has died

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>>559081124
yeah agreed, I want to know more about Vandal.
The rest of the cast is so fucking boring though, they lack personality.
Especially the male shells fucking suck ass and are bland/unoriginal as fuck.

>>559081417
Ham... burg... er...

How can I tell a bag trap from a regular drop?

EMP nades are fucking cancer

>>559081442
I don't think Hunter 1.1 is much more interesting than Titan 1.1 or other Hunter 1.1 or healbitchbot.

>>559081395
The only thing your Vandal found was my cock inside her mouth.

>>559081568
Wow yummers!

>>559081520
Observe the surroundings and decide if it's trapped or not.
>bag randomly planed somewhere
don't be retarded
>bad sitting on a corpse or piles of corpses
dig in
Even the most pvp brained retard I got squadded with saw a bag sitting in a random place and called it b8.

>>559081395
I think moving away from the flat, blocky, bright coloured aesthetic will ruin the vibe of the game, but in order to sell skins they’d have to, so it’s a lose lose situation.

>>559081670
>bad sitting on a corpse or piles of corpses

Anon that's exactly where any smart player is going to put a trap bag.

>>559081708
Exactly so most players are going to fall for the bait. You included. Have fun :)

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>>559081670
>bag is anywhere inside Hauler or Algae Ponds

How much damage does the bag do? instant KO? Claymore that fails to kill someone with the weakest shields?

Why do people buy skins in an FPS?
Why would people buy weapon skins in this particular FPS when all the guns are already colourful?
There’s no PvE campaigns to sell.
Map packs are a terrible thing to monetise.
The horrid player numbers will cause it to become F2P soon.

So how is this game gonna make money exactly?

>>559081395
fuck off man im pissed that collabslop has invaded western gaming. it was never cool when japs did it and it ALWAYS cheapens the experience of the game.

Thinking about how strong random UESC bots and commanders are in this game got me thinking. How powerful is a S’pht Compiler? How powerful is Mjolnir Recon Number 54? That nigga’s gotta be like Master Chief x10,000

>>559074839
>sony/bungie grand slam
1.5m players at launch, 300k-500k after 6 months maintaining, becoming best selling game of the year beating GTA6.
>likely launch projection numbers
250k launch, depreciating over 6 months. likely wins Multiplayer goty with this number
>hedged player count
considering weak serverslam data, 150k max at at launch and steep decline to 20k in 1-2 months

blast? being had
cheeseburger? drinkable
s'pht? compiled
med droid? active
bingus? spotted
ROOK? online
destiny? 2

>>559082325
Alysa? Liu.

>default automated message when holding the ping button is "friendly"
>has actual voice lines too
>nobody has ever used this except by accident

>all of rook's lines are great
>ping anything on map for personal marker
>he just says shit to himself
>makes me think he was supposed to be an actual option instead of sponsored junk kits

/mg/? Raped

>>559082325
ticks? squished
turrets? destroyed
tox? disabled
enemy runner? finished
objectives? completed
exfil? trated

>>559073093
>all low settings, DLSS performance
>100-130 fps
the game doesnt look THAT good to warrant such a shitty performance bruv.

Who the fuck is Alysa

>CPUlet

w’rkn? cacnter

man this game is so fucking dead

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do you agree that Recon/Blackbird has a "calm but decisive vocalization pattern"?

sponsored kit? equipped

Oh I’m w’rkn my cac’nt’er alright

>>559082582
cute raccoon, also a double golden medalist.

Instead of heros we should have just been allowed to choose whatever abilities we wanted. Mix and match them.

As for customisation, they should have just used recon as the base and let us change up and recolour the helmet, vest, arms, legs, backpack, and undersuit. Maybe give us a bunch of different faces to choose from as well. Recon’s the only one that looks good imho.

>"mastery" skim
>its just a recolour
Oof

>>559083073
>we should have just been allowed to choose whatever abilities we wanted
>everyone just picks cloaking and wallhack vision

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>>559083509

>>559082582
Queen of /mg/

>>559083325
Shut up chud, the Marathon comeback needs to be studied.

I was pretty good at Halo and even Destiny back in the salad days. But I am fucking traaaaash at this game, boys. Am I really about to spend 50 buckaroonies just to get repeatedly milked in the dick retardstyle? Yes. Because I am a gamer. And gamers eat the path like it’s a dog’s head in a jar. Or somethin I don’t know.

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>>559083073
recon and destroyer are the best looking, just so happens they're also the only two characters who are faceless

they FEEL like some kind of cyber-warriors that fit aesthetically with the setting, the others are just wierd looking people

>>559081954
You can see your character when you are downed. I never understood why they did in overwatch though.

>>559083991
>gamers like eating dog shit
fixed that for you

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When did 4chan become more spineless than lebbit?

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>>559084149
ROOK is my personal favorite since he's just a jailbroken UESC recruit

>>559084235
Having a real opinion is soulless?
You should see the shills saying there is absolutely nothing wrong with Marathon

>>559083073
>recon
>forcing the sorriest ass in videogame history on every player
The Vandal moggs her so brutally I almost feel bad for recunt

>>559084235
Half of that is wrong because it’s a grind to 30 and the best way to do that is to fight every single bot you see. Who cares if you die, just get another free kit.

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>>559084298
There's a lot of shit that kinda sucks, mainly the shell balance and the fact that grinding for upgrades suck but the fact that a lot of people are more offended by the concept of extraction shooters as a whole rather than the game itself is perplexing

>>559084235
>secure weapons with free kit
And the only way to do that is fight over very telegraphed supply drops, really. So... bad game design?

>>559082583
12700k is better than any console cpu by like 2 generations, I should get way more fps than them.

>>559084278
in terms of design i'd say it's recon>destroyer>rook>vandal>assassin>triage

>>559084441
>the fact that a lot of people are more offended by the concept of extraction shooters as a whole
That's the audience Bungie tried to capture, and then I guess doesn't understand, the average person does not want to play an extraction shooter, combine that with them being stupid, and they probably don't know how to voice their opinion probably
Doesn't help the game looks cool as fuck and appeals to the type of player who love PvE games

>>559084489
bro your weapons lockers?

>>559084302
>vandal
>I’m not like other characters the character
Yawn

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>>559084302
I have yet to see a side shot of vandals ass

besides, recon voicemogs vandal

>>559084149
I think all of the current shells are pretty distinct and easy to pick out in a flash
>Bulky with round head - Destroyer
>Scrawny legs with round head - Recon
>Mystery nigga with hood - Assassin
>Why am i so bald? - Triage
>Spiky hair - Vandal
>Skinny - Thief
>International Red Cross Robot - Rook

Forgive me for being a lorefag, but I’m really curious where they plan on taking all this. Marathon lore is infamously batshit-crazy and interesting. But live service games have infamously bad storytelling. Are they just gonna blow every 30+ year old secret and mystery from the old games? I hope not.

>>559084735
They already have a easter egg where you load in and Durandal says "You shouldn't have come here"
>CLIPPP ITTTT
>CLIIIP IIIIT

>>559084624
I would agree with you but they aren't placed in a logical way. I have never found an area that suggested it was an armory. But in games like dayz or zomboid I know you can find guns at police stations because that makes sense.

Uhhh…recon is a w*man? Since when?

My verdict on this game is that if should've started as F2P or a low price like 20 dollars. I can't see myself spending 40 to play, 10-15 on a battlepass, and then another unknown amount on cosmetics, to only have a few maps to play, a small amount of shells (should've had character customization) and be aimless with 0 story while having to sneak around and hope we beat the other runners to exfil.

Like the game in it's current form does not have enough content, it has stupid lore indexes like destiny, and you're essentially playing while waiting for them to add stuff that may cost money (roadmap).

Gameplay wise the abilities are stupid, and lock people to certain shells. I hate having different contracts and essentially my team of randoms are soloing theirs with me as backup. Mine are 200 meters while both of theirs are in the same proximity. Enemies aren't interesting only annoying, same when encountering other runners. I'm trying to look around and explore, why do I need two sets of enemies to potentially end my run early? That's so stupid, let me play in full like you can in Helldivers.

I would mind runner contact less if it was longer and more drawn out to a skirmish dip skirmish dip, with larger teams to promote the whole 'RUNNER' schtick. People don't even use their abilities to kill you, they or I gun them down in 2 seconds. It's boring.

I'm going to wait to see if this game gets better or a consistent player base before I commit to time and money.

>>559084832
I’ve seen that. I’m not surprised we’re gonna hear from Durandal at least. He’s basically the main character of Marathon.

>>559084735
You don’t have to worry about any of that because once this game flops we’re never getting another marathon again so you can just ignore any lore fuckery it attempts

>>559083509

>>559081275
extractions are never f2p to avoid cheaters being able to constantly make a new account

i would prefer it was f2p too :(

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You will serve Traxus' interests on Tau Ceti won't you Anon?

>>559084947
>Mine are 200 meters while both of theirs are in the same proximity.
You get rep from theirs anyway.

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>>559084895
since inception, she's always been a woman, looks and sounds like one too

>>559084984
not just Marathon, why would any developer make an extraction shooter, when they can look at the biggest one in the industry (Like $300 million to develop) and then it fucking flops
and it had a FREE beta DAYS before it came out

>>559084984
Ultimately I can just ignore it regardless. I already ignore 3 games worth of 343’s nonsense in Halo. But I’m still curious to see what they’ll come up with.

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>>559084895
>>559085134

>>559085059
I stand around playing less content and filling up my pack with valuables in less than 10 minutes, and that's supposed to be fun?

>>559085042
the game should have been pve

They should add instant respawn tokens as loot you can carry with you. If you die you respawn at a random location with your gear in tact. Would increase player encounters, and make the game less frustrating, and let you get revenge on whoever killed you.

>>559085221
sorry destiny is over, go home

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the prices for the heals in the shop are per single heal not X3

>>559085314
sounds like I'll be forced to when Marathon shuts down

>>559084735
it doesnt matter because marathon takes place in a universe full of alternate timelines and jumping between timelines. it will be 'lore accurate' for bungo to do anything. we will have evil bad guy durandal, then in an new season a good guy durandal will warp in, then leila, then evil leila, trans tycho etc.

All they had to do was pick a different name. No one even remembers the OG marathon. There’s no brand recognition.

>>559085349
NuMale sells bundles lil gup

>>559085349
I just grab those leafy green things that grow in the perimeter to swap for the 3x version deals from NuCaloric.

>kept dropping depleted heals because I thought they did nothing
Why the fuck would you call them depleted if they aren’t, in fact, depleted?

>>559085395
unironically there is, for us guys who played halo, marathon was like that lore that was sitting in the background, and is referenced tons of times through halo
if you played the halo series as a kid, you have a vague knowledge of marathon
and it is apparently in the same universe anyway just really far in the future?, which makes it really cool if you were a halo fan and think this might be a spiritual successor, to the point the ads I see are going
>FROM THE CREATORS OF HALO AND DESTINY
so it does work on some people, but people who didn't grow up with halo? no idea, I guess the aesthetics are cool if you like 3D printed baby barf colors

>>559085505
Because they only heal the bare minimum due to being depleted?

>>559085180
face does not fit the voice AT ALL

>>559085505
You're literally squeezing the last bit of toothpaste anon

>>559085505
liciking drops of fent still in the medkits

>>559085505
devs thought that sounded cool
not think how a normal person would read the item

>>559085561
>I guess the aesthetics are cool if you like 3D printed baby barf colors
>why does cyberpunk have cyberpunk colors
bunch of fucking plebs in this thread

>>559085776
this looks nothing like a cool game like Cyberpunk 2077

My pitch for Marathon is this:

You have a single-player PvE campaign, with optional co-op. It has a full story with cinematics and set-pieces that plays out over a bunch of different missions/levels. It has multiple difficulty settings too and features some interesting unlockables and secrets to discover.

Then you have multiplayer with multiple modes. I’m thinking some FFA, some 4v4, some 8v8, etc. There would be a whole suite of different maps offering a range of size, structure, and terrain. This would all provide much more gameplay variety and more consistent action than all the wandering around, looting, and menus typical to an extraction shooter.

You would also have unlockable and customizable cosmetic options for you character. This will be a full-price game, so no need for microtransactions. It can all be attained through progression or by completing challenges.

Lastly, you can throw in some bonus stuff. Maybe some community features. And a multiplayer map editor would be a great idea too. Imagine all the wild stuff the community could conjure up!

Bungie should make a game like that. It seems like something they could do really well.

So when does the Bungie scam kick in? I’m not saying there aren’t some particularly dumb designs already but like they worked Destiny over with the most player unfriendly stuff even in arguably good periods, when is the inevitable DLC and paywalls, going down? I find everybody’s blind trust disturbing and I will laugh when people get the bait and switch.

>>559085973
wake up anon it's 2026

>>559085973
Too ambitious, no one could ever pull this off

>>559085973
I seriously don't get why Devs think an "extraction shooter" is just a game by itself
Maybe just me, but it literally feels like a game mode similar to Deathmatch or Battle Royale

>>559085561
Bullshit, Marathon was always a cult thing even when more attention came on the company and Halo came around. It’s like being really into Planescape Torment instead of Baldur’s Gate

The server slam is almost over, /mg/. Final thoughts?
Will you be buying it?
Will you be Alysaposting on here and /v/ Thursday when the game launches for realzies?

I still really don’t like how mandatory Triage is. Destroyer and Vandal I do agree and can see get better when you find better quality cores but that’s a wish in one hand , shit in the other. Also Thief will be able to move,scan with x ray and drone and take shit

>>559086189
>Bullshit
well I am retarded and probably autistic so there is that, but there were definitely some hints, the Marathon symbol is used all the time, there's multiple AI that aren't the focus of the halo games
its been too long, but i feel like there was other stuff where you go "huh that's interesting let me google that" and it leads you to "yea this Halo thing is actually a refence to bungie's old game Marathon"

again I'm probably just retarded, and who the marketing was supposed to work on, I don't know how this is supposed to appeal to any non-autist that didn't grow up with halo

>>559086098
I refuse to let it go!
>>559086156
It’s a lost art. Like Roman Concrete or building the Great Pyramid or whatever. We literally don’t know how to make Halo 3 anymore.
>>559086174
Yeah exactly. Or even something like Titanfall 2’s multiplayer. That’s at least as big as any extraction shooter. What a shitload of fuck.

>>559086271
Alysaposting? Yes. Being the game on release day? Maybe.

>>559086271
I thought about buying it, but the loading screen makes me feel like I'm being MKULTRA'd, so I'll pass for now. Also recoil in this game is way too easy, so fights mostly come down to whoever clicks first.

>>559086271
There was some fun to be had, but the game felt extremely barebones and the maps are too claustrophobic, I basically learned the entire layout of the maps in two days and it definitely got old fast. Overall it feels very amateurish which is why I wouldn't pay $40 bucks for it.

>>559086664
I hate how the whole game feels tense and you're about to be shot in the back

Even in the loadout menu, or loading screens

>>559086664
>>559086793
I think you two just need to treat your schizophrenia first.

>>559086793
Yup, I get that the art direction is supposed to be hostile, and they nailed it a bit too much. There is nowhere to relax, mentally speaking.

>>559086189
>>559086327
I’ve been thinking about this too. I was a severe Halo autist as a teenager, so my ears instantly perked up when they announced they were bringing back Marathon. But I mean, this was a Mac game from the early 90s. Probably even most of the people who were playing Halo 2 and 3 back in the day didn’t even know what Marathon was. And almost none of them ever played it. I did, because I was that type of dork. But none of my friends did. Why resurrect an ancient obscure IP just to change it into a very different type of game altogether? It never made that much sense to me.

>>559086921
Take your booster shot, goy.

>>559087048
I've taken no jabs and i still think you two are off your rockers.

>>559087158
What's off about it? Flashing images of moths and larvae are supposed to be soothing and relaxing?

>>559087024
>Why resurrect an ancient obscure IP
Making a new IP is too risky, and they owned the Marathon IP to use still

Sounds logical
>who the fuck would care about this old ass game
but from an investors point of view its
>do we make a whole universe from the ground up
>or use this old lore we have
and I think they specifically mentioned how Marathon has a "rich universe of lore" to work from

>>559087312
I mean, it’s definitely true that Marathon has pretty amazing lore. Which is why I remain very curious to see what they’ll do with it. It’s a cool world. But if you’re right and they’re basically only doing Marathon because they didn’t think they could come up with a good original idea, then that really doesn’t bode well.

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>>559087494
its not even a Bungie thing, its just normal to cash in on nostalgie and old IPs (even if they have 0 nostalgia(
biggest culprit right now is how there are no new movies, just reboots and sequels to old IPs, and when there is a new movie, it fails, making investors go
>um why are we losing money
>just use the IPs we already own instead of making something from scrach
>I've gotten rich from making these decisions and my confirmation bias cant be wrong

>>559087305
Unless you're severely entomophobic, it's not like the imagery is particularly attempting to assault you. I don't find it relaxing, but it's not like it evokes any particular feelings in any other direction either as the whole digital rot is kind of what the recurring theme in both UI and visual design is all about. If you want to truly experience imagery that is meant to consistently assault the senses go play something from Mason Lindroth.

>>559087698
I know that you’re absolutely right. I guess the old fanboy in me just wanted to hold Bungie to a higher standard. And I’m still a sucker. I’m probably gonna buy this game. Wouldn’t be the worst $50 I’ve ever spent. But I won’t be shocked if things go south. But maybe, just maybe, this time will be different!

Have they revealed what's on the season pass yet?

I've spent more money on worse games. Might as well play this until Bungie gets dissolved.

>>559088027
Bungie isn’t gonna get dissolved. They’ll get another chance and they’ll turn Myth into a MOBA or Gnop into a Dating Sim,

>>559087846
For me it causes a trace amount of nausea. Nothing severe, but enough to associate the game with nausea. Not something I'd pay for nor look forward to play with excitement.

>>559087846
>I don't find it relaxing
The loadout screen and loading screen should be relaxing before you're put through hell again

Played the entire slam solo(25 hours) and I'm thinking that if you wanna play this game seriously it's trios or bust.
All of the blue/purple gear is either bartered for blue/purple salvage or needs to be unlocked with an upgrade that requires blue/purple salvage, and that stuff is mostly obtained from gameplay events such as lockdown which aren't consistently doable solo. Trios seem to progress so much faster it's insane.
And then there's the meta. Everyone runs either Vandal or Assassin because the convenience of mobility or convenience of ignoring UESC is just too hard to pass up. Triage is decent but not nearly as good, Destroyer is just a worse Vandal, Recon is worse than everyone else by so far it's not even funny. Same shit with weapons, up close you get deleted by sawed-off, any other range you get deleted by single-shot weapons. Automatic weapons have no place in the meta, TTK is quick but not quick enough to kill a dude before he double-taps you with a sniper. Volley rifle(burst fire) loses to a fucking magnum at a distance.This is shaping up to be like Halo where magnum and sniper are the strongest weapons.
None of this shit is a problem in trios from what I've seen, but I played solo, and by Sunday evening it really felt like this is as fun as Marathon is gonna get for me before the meta gets really degenerate. Scrolled through Twitch and EVERYONE plays trios, not a single solo player, so it looks like everyone came to the same conclusion as I did. Not sure if I'm even going to buy it now as none of my friends are interested. Guess I'll just wait and see if they adjust the balance, idk.

>>559086271
Same as the other anon. There just isn't much content on the first two maps. In arc clips you see all sorts of cool shit with the arcs going on. Unless the cryo map is really good this probably is gonna fall off or need major updates to be anything less than a royale.

>>559088596
they designed the game around trios, and only added solos to appeal to the arc raiders crowd

for a hardcore game with hardcore developers they sure don't have a solid idea for the game or confidence in the decisions they make

How and why the fuck is Alysa Liu a meme here? Is it one guy replying to himself?

>>559088735
Which is a damn shame, they really seem to have done their homework on Tarkov, I was hoping they'd do something to make solos viable and not a noob trap.
>for a hardcore game with hardcore developers they sure don't have a solid idea for the game or confidence in the decisions they make
No idea what you're on about here though

>>559088678
>Unless the cryo map is really good
the map that to get access to, you need to extract with a key item that alerts everyone to your location on the map, and when you do finally get in that map, you can still die to someone shooting you in the back

seriously cant wait to watch streamers do it and be forced to make streamsnipe lobbies, so they don't get people queuing who kill them while doing the raid

>>559088864
>No idea what you're on about here though
Bungie had a huge ad campaign about how this game is like super hard, and death is normal get over it bitch, and ESCAPE WILL MAKE YOU GOD

and then just dropped all that I guess to be like
>um guys, we are like totally a friendly extraction shooter like arc raiders too :D
>GIVE US MONEY

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>>559088883
I think that is just map 4. Map 3 is just harder pve and more pvp.

>>559088834
There are at least 3 of us.

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>>559089106
cant wait for all her cool skins

>>559089106
>>559089629
What does Vandal’s sweaty asshole smell like?

>>559089742
unfortunately probably nothing, except like the bottom of a laptop that was running for hours

this game is like anti-lewd

>>559089742
NuCaloric “Cheeseburger”

>kernel level anti-cheat

Why’d they make it a hero shooter? Isn’t is weird that all of humanity is using the same 6 runner shells?

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>>559089973
>and it doesn't stop the cheaters
>>559090068
they should have stuck with the original idea, engaging PvE with a character you customize, but for devs PvP is just the "push this button for free content"

>>559089973
it's not 2019 anymore gramps, everybody's given up caring about that.

>>559090068
Yeah you’re right. That occurred to me yesterday when I was playing as a solo Vandal and I got into a gunfight with another Vandal. We traded and were both downed at the same time. And I thought about how retarded it looked to see two identical characters bleeding to death right next to each other on the ground. Very immersion breaking.

>>559090068
If anything, every runner using the same mass-produced shells is what I'd expect.

In the end it was really.... Maraslop...

>didn’t get to level 30
It’s Maraover…

>>559090584
>only 20k people playing as the servers shut down

I still have marahope

>>559074695
>losing players every day is actually a good thing!
why didnt it happen to arc then? from friday to sunday they saw minimal player loss despite there being one map, way limited progression compared to marathon, and like 2 guns to play with? marathon lost half its players and still kept dropping every single day.

IM HAVING WITHDRAWALS REEEEE

What’s gonna happen when you actually go aboard the Marathon? Fighting Pfhor? Reading terminals?

Losing 80% of your players in 4 days is normal actually. That's how it happens with every single player game as players finish the game.

This game suck but I still want to play it because I like how recon looks. Fuck, why couldn’t she exist in a good game fuck me.

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I just dont like the game. I am sorry but I just dont like the game. Theres no worse hater than the one that was actually into it only for it to be let down. 4th day waiting for my refund, my schizo ass is thinking I "need" to play the game for some reason this is ridiculous. Only other game I've refunded was done in hours.

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>>559086271
I like grace way more actually but theres barely pics of her.

>Every game on Dire Marsh tonight had a 3-man team with thermal sight snipers killing the entire lobby
Genuinely what on earth were they thinking making sights like that, they're fucking ridiculous. What a shit way to end the server slam man

>>559091140
Shot in the back

>>559091509
YES

>2/4 maps are bad
>3rd map unknown but probably bad given 2/4 maps are bad
>supposed 4th map which is the best map will not be played for 90% of somones playtime because of how convoluted it is to enter the map
>will likely die to some rat as soon as you enter the 4th map, thus sending you back to the 3 bad maps to try and enter the one good map in the game
YIKESS.....not looking good at all bros

i'm only buying this game because rook is fun

why would you EVER play rook when there is free kits?

>>559092157
can't wait for Ninja to play it!

>>559092248
I haven’t gotten to have fun with Rook at all. Literally can never find someone to fight, and when I can they all have sniper rifles and I’ve just spawned.

I'll buy this game when it's $20

>>559092324
Less time in map
Everyone already did all the looting for you, all you gotta now is knife and hit the griddy
Robots become friends

>make game f2p
>add sexo vandal skins for 20 bucks
there, I fixed the game!

>>559092420
waste of time

>>559092392
About a month. It's already 30.

>>559092465
waste of time is when you spend 15 minutes looting for me before getting shanked to death

They should just rid of the shooting all together. Make it so you just wander around a few big multiplayer maps scanning object and putting items in your backpack. That’s the essence of an extraction shooter anyway. The shooting is just incidental

>>559091646
As if she could ever love a filthy Marachud like me….

>>559092621
i already extracted with the gear of 2 squads before you even spawn.

>>559087024
It makes good internet noise. People want to feel like they’re playing something storied and important even if it’s barely connected in. Fanboy slobs and nu Bungie troons still put reverence on Bungie as a company and anything they were associated with and when you’re talking people basically who live online it’s going to seem way more special to blow up over than something completely original. Somebody beat me to the punch bringing up Torment but it’s like people autistically jerking it to Chris Avellone related stuff and getting jollies dunking on people uninitiated who never played anything with the number 2 that he was involved with, also New Vegas troons is it’s whole other arena

>>559092324
"free kits" are limited daily on release
LMAO

>>559092813
this would have done banger dollars as a PvE game

>>559088390
>moba

Don’t you worry Gummy Bears is coming even though there was a credible /v anon who said it now is basically skin for a slop China game and no longer a smash or fall guys clone

How are the emotes on this game?

>>559091509
Wow a gracie fan with standards that's crazy

>>559088596
Why don’t you rate Recon, the ult is pretty good and she gets decent cores. Personally I see Thief just nuking relevance out of Vandal

>>559093359
No dab so it's DOA

>>559092465
why not sexo recon skins? she's already in yoga leggings

>>559088883
Calling it right now, if Bungie pulls any sort of “world’s first” contest of who does it first and “advances the maps” with changes, it’s going to be done on VPNs in east jabib where there will be lobbies short of players or completely controlled by streamers and their discord following. There’s no way this shit isn’t going to be manipulated to cushion a team to an easier less hectic run. These people are scumbags and it will be no different than Bungie employee who lost his job giving hints and leading on a team that was still doing contest Epic Desert(despite it already won) to ensure they’d take a higher placement

Is there cross-platform?

>>559093729
Yes. Mac, Switch, and Stadia players can play together.

>>559093729
yea you have to play with PC cheaters, unless I missed the option to turn crossplay off

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>>559093562
because

To succeed on Tau Ceti IV, you need to think like a real scavenger. You must embrace the spirit of the raccoon.

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It's time to choose.

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>>559093367
The only one...the last one...
I am so disappointed about this game. Fuck man, I am officially a Bungie hater and wanna see them get raped by Sony.

The worst thing is normies or dickriders tell you the ttk is just right that it and i hate/love this one
>IT MAKES YOU PLAY BETTER AND BE AWARE OF MUH POSITIONING

>>559088596
I somewhat disagree with a few of the critiques and thoughts on the shells.
I won't say however claim any are better than others outright but there are clearly glaring issues with some. Most of what I say are based off of what I learned from the Closed Alpha Testing leaks and up until now with all the content creators talking about their times getting invited to Bungie to play and allow what they could say and critique.

Outright there are glaring problems with most of the shells and their kits with little to no forethought from Bungie (go figure).
Vandal is the best example for this; Vandal is horrible for 90% of the player base (give or take) while the last 10% can play her correctly. Because of this there is a higher chance of a Vandal player in a three player team being a dead spot on the team than any other shell because only the very best can understand and use her with her movement skills in a game like an extraction shooter. She only becomes viable to the 90% of the player base, if you have high level cores specific to her and don't die two minutes into a match and you lose cores on the down low. On top of this her ult, the one where she can run really fast and doesn't cost any stamina turns her into a giant fucking lighthouse/shooting star of rainbow colors akin to the Sandy from Cyberpunk 2077 anime making her easy to spot at a distance giving away your teams position; her double-jump does the rainbow thing too but it flickers but can still be a dentrament if you're teammate can't jump and spends 15secs trying to get onto the second floor of a structure and gets spotted (this happened to me btw) and without her cores her hand-canon is fucking useless and leaves you open for attack. (will continue rant in next post)