first for mouthwatering Vandal cock

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Give it up saars. The game is dead.

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Run while you still can. [boisterous laughter]

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What do you want out of Sentinel?
If it's a defensive type, I'd like some kind of overshield ability. Deployable turrets also seems like an obvious choice, similar to how Recon uses tick AI in her grenade.

>>566156561
Armour Lock

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Yurifags out

camping exfils, never looting bags, uninstalling

>>566156486
What are you gonna do, rape me?

>>566156819
wow they made triage look cool instead of like a silly monkey boy

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>PS userbase grows bigger because of Rockstar bundle
>And Marvels claw man bundle
>Marathon is free on PS
This is your future

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New DualSense players coming this year, and some of them will download and enjoy Marathon.
>Why would they download
They can't play Rockstar's game online, without paying for a service. That service gives them access to Marathon.

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Nintendo raped Sony. EoS soon.

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MarathonStation is the only system, that can run both GTA6 and Wolverine.

Crazy huh

At this point I'm just looking forward to how fun the week leading up to EOS could be. Like an all compiler canon playlist. Infection game mode where it's like 50 rooks against one team of runners. Shotty snipers on outpost. Lots of possibilities.

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This game will indirectly promote Marathon, by advertising a platform, that gives away Marathon for free(fee).
Rockstar's game will be bundled too, and do the same.

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>>566159480
The Xbox wins by default since insomniac's wolverine is made for faggots on antidepressants.

People who enjoy capeshit games and GTA are never ever going to play a game like Marathon

>>566160392
The ones that do likely already tried marathon

>>566160392
Only capeshit retards like Marathon

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>>566156561
>What do you want out of Sentinel?
Something unique, not deployable boring shit. Give him telekinetic abilities, let him catch Destroyer mid-air and send him flying.
Let him create an anti-gravity field around him. Bullets can't go in, our out, friendlies float in the air.
And let him use his own shell as a mini-black hole, he attaches to anything and can go up or down for 15 seconds. Wall running and shit.

>>566161223
Great physique, brother.

What's your training split like?

>>566159904
>50 rooks against one team of runners
I keep dreaming that one of the experimental playlists will be something off the wall like this. Perimeter sponsored was utterly predictable, and predictably worse than Dire Marsh since Perimeter doesn't have as many arms locker locations or rewarding things to do. Only curveball was upping free kits to green which is also not particularly interesting.

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Or just copy Magneto for the new shell. Make it cool and strange, not gay shit like "shield" or "placeable gun"

They should just give you retards a Marvel expansion

>>566161898
Triage is Doc Ock, Thief is Spidey, Destroyer is the Hulk, Assassin is Daredevil, Vandal is Quicksilver, Recon is Cyclops, Rook is Ironman.

That's how they should recolor and stylize them

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>>566162345
>Rook is Ironman.
Or Wolverine, make him yellow and scratched up, with holes in his chest, that you can see through,

>>566161353
I don't do anything specific for it, I rep to failure and don't care.

Goodbye Bungie

Good riddance Bumbo

>>566161223
>Bullets can't go in, our out
Nice, a "nobody gets to play" ability.

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Bungie does not have my permission to stop.

>>566163246
>>Bullets can't go in, our out
And it works mid-air. If Sentinel jumps off of a roof, with his teammates close by, all three of them will stop in the air. Within that anti-gravity sphere. Bullets can't go in, or out. Lasts 20 seconds, then they all fall.

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>>566163693
>Bullets can't go in, or out.
You can run into a group of Three, and freeze all of them. But they can't get hit by your teammates.
Freeze them to troll them, let teammates use the final exfil, die with all 3 enemies.

>>566156467
There's still another season, but the general died.

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>3AM EST

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I tried playing Classic Marathon, but by the vacuum area, I feel like I've had enough. It's not difficult, but it's really annoying to play. Also, I can see where Cryo Archive's level design came from.

>>566166245
Uncs aren't ready to hear but most of these old shooters are a chore to play because of the level design. Even the first level of this game just wastes your time with a maze that has zero enjoyment to it

>>566166565
wdym? Doom has pretty good level design overall and only Hexen is something I'd really consider shit when it comes to that era of games
Duke 3d, Blood, and Shadow Warrior had rather beautiful and well done levels too

Bungie are considering giving away the battle pass for free for the launch of S2 to help boost retention. Thoughts? Doesn’t seem like it’ll do much to me

TheFaithfulSheriff is the only one that can save Marathon.

We can save the game by removing Assassin and hardware banning anyone who played it

>>566167581
Source or fuck off.

Marasisters... the earning call... I have a bad feeling...

The earning call...
The Final Rape of Bungie...

>>566166565
I love Turok and I get technicalities of it being on PC and all that, but fuck some of the platforming sections of Turok 2 specifically Lair of The Blind Ones was like trying to thread a needle while somebody repeatedly punched you in the crotch. The N64 tank controls where you had to use the c buttons in tandem with the joy stick was a pain and trying do practically mid air jumps on little spindly platforms was aids. It really had no purpose other than just you were essentially doing a long winded maze to access a mechanism that opened a door and then made the backtracking slightly more tolerable or you're unlocking a powerup that allows you to bypass what you just spent time doing. Idk how the fuck I beat those games legit even when we had gameshark and could just go through it all cheated.

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First time running sponsored Perimeter. Surprisingly peaceful. Did a North -> Station -> South -> Station route without encounters.

You know Marathon's not popular enough when nobody's made faux outrage campaign how they feel the Arachne logo looks a little too close to hate group symbols

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I should start playing normally again.

should I hop on prox when Rooking?
I was in Outpost for the first time as a Took and found a lot of stuff, with less than a minute to go I ran to the exfil and when I turned it on a Thief pounced on me and raped me, then she stared at me for about 10 seconds maybe waiting for me to plead?
she ended up killing me but I've been thinking that maybe if I said something she would've spared me...

>>566175372
She was almost certainly chatting shit

>>566175372
she wanted the dick

>>566172305
You know it's extra dead when even the edgiest edgelords here won't jump on making their own new hate group symbols.

>>566172264
Empty server?

The whole game turned into snipers that 2tap. who wants to even play this anymore. sponsored queue is actually fun without that bullshit.

I still think that no runner, you are the uesc would be a fun game mode.

>>566177546
>snipers in cryo

Some contracts want you to exfil treasure of certain factions, but I have no idea which treasures are associated with which factions

>>566177752
blud finna tryna turn dis jaunt pocktr into Dead By Daylight on nation :skull_emoji:

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I did it. I finally exfiled from Cryo Archive, and with 3 biolense seeds at that. But at what cost?

>>566178204
I'm not sorry at all, anon. It's terminal, and you have to be put down.

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>>566179368
Blue is the baseline now.

>>566176962
>Empty server?
No, I saw other players in post-run spectation.

>>566177752
I just don't understand how a UESC faction would work from a story perspective.
>"Haha, runner, you're so good at blowing up trillions of dollars worth of our shit! Would you like a job?"
>"Okay, sending you now!"
>Now transferring consciousness to UESC Cock and Ball Torture Facility

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>>566179368
I tried to show them the way.

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Fucker stole my team's intercept

>>566177752
you need to explain this fever dream game mode with more words if you want to make me excited for it

>it's so hardcore broooooooooooo
>aim assist and magnetism

>>566181421
I'm not hardcore.

>>566180627
You think UESC doesn't have some weird ass black ops division that could give you temporary clearance codes?

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Sweet.

>>566179612
Maybe fewer teams. They're launchng with less now to reduce wait times.

>>566184848
>They're launchng with less now to reduce wait times.
Really? I guess that would explain why earlier today I exfiled as Rook from Outpost at ~14 minutes and there was no one else on the map left.

>>566185313
NTA but I can confirm. Did some outpost runs yesterday and for several games we killed the whole lobby and didn't hear anyone else exfil and it was only 2 other teams every time. I haven't jumped into Cryo yet but I'm kind of hoping it's knocked down to 4 teams total cause the reduced potential of being third partied and faster queue times is kinda nice ngl

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>>566172264
>everyone else heard gun shots at overflow and dog piled the POI

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>>566175372
MB3 and Up direction is the "Friendly" emote.

I'm tired of waiting for this game to die

>>566186270
It already died

>>566186806
how niggas be playin it doe

>>566187008
They aren't, there's a battle royale with the same name that people are playing.

>>566187213
But I haven't met another team in 3 runs.

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>doing contracts on Outpost
>considerably easier than Dire Marsh
>if you don't run in to a team in the first few minutes then you don't run into any at all

>>566187443
The tiger engine is pretty old, it can't handle more than a few players on screen.

>>566185769
I swear I had a Cryo today where it was only 2 teams, Met each other outside our spawns, they knock two of us, and spend almost the entirety of this dead silent lobby camping the bodies before exfiling at the last minute. Didn't hear a single shot fired anywhere else, no other exfils, no one else left during final exfil

>>566187213
Pretty ironic that the game used to be a BR before they decided extraction shooters were somehow more popular

>In our last game security update, we mentioned that we are expanding our telemetry and updating our detection methods to widen our net in catching suspected cheaters. We want to provide an update on those efforts and report that we have made progress in actively banning confirmed cheaters.
>We’ve begun rolling out a more advanced detection system that targets specific cheat patterns we’re seeing in live matches. We’re continuously validating and tuning it to make sure we’re catching real cheating and not introducing false positives and believe this should improve our ability to remove bad actors quicker.
>While we are acting on many of the reports you send, it was not possible to show that your reports have led to action. To help bring more transparency to how your reporting is making an impact, today we are rolling out the first version of a Report Confirmation Pipeline to help close that gap. This first iteration will confirm when an action has been taken against an account you've reported, with planned upgrades in future seasons to improve how and when those decisions are communicated back in-game.
>As a reminder, we are always on the hunt for new cheats and are working to respond as quickly as we can. While we cannot give specifics, we are monitoring the game and will continue to update our internal detection systems to respond to the latest cheats. We do not view anti-cheat as a one-time investment but an ongoing effort to maintain a fair playing field.
>As the cheating landscape evolves, so will we. Our mission is to continuously identify, adapt, and respond to new cheats as quickly as we can.
https://x.com/MarathonDevTeam/status/2052494099174076868

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>>566187728
I just had a game then that was super quiet, no joke we only heard and fought one other team for about 20+ mins, and I checked the recent players and only saw our team and the enemy team that killed us listed. I'm actually wondering now if Cryo can legit be a 1v1 scenario

>>566188992
2 little 2 late

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>>566187574
> go around the POI clowning around
>see no teams
>someone goes up to pinwheel
>expect them to be a bunch of purple shields
>deduce that they're in command wing from all the shooting
>go in and beam a green shield trying to rez a triage
>look for the third
>already dead in the corner
My team of purples just chilled outside while a bunch of sponsored kits killed each other then died to command wing UESC. Still walked out with a purple enduring misriah

>>566182773
>Worth mentioning to acknowledge MIDA on Mars? Will MIDA still be around when anyone reads this? Will Mars?
Sometimes the lore in this game is interesting

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>>566188992
Huh, Embark posted something about anti-cheat today too. Wonder if Bungie had to save face by putting out a statement re:Marathon cheating.

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>>566189459
Update: did cryo again and once again only fought one other team and exfilled. We went into 3 seperate spawns and every single one had their security clearances undone and no bots killed. Pretty sure there's actually a chance you can spawn into cryo with only one other team now

>the only ritualposter in this general is a guy spamming weird selfies of his arm to impress(?) 4chan chuds (population 100% male)
it's grim. try again guys

>>566193531
why are you trying to bully our mascot out of here he's all we have

>>566193531
He's putting in a lot of work keeping the threads alive

>>566193940
chartposters run this board

>>566193531
nice cat though

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>>566180912
did you extract with it? then it wasn't yours.

>>566159904
You gotta have players for that to work tho

>>566159904
How are you going to populate a 53 player lobby at that point?

>>566178069
if you're like me and habitually press C in your inventory to look at credits instead of what an item is. usually the faction symbol will appear next to the coin purse symbol. but honestly, just loot every valuable whether it's that faction's or not. it's just that that faction's loot will earn you more towards progress. but you could go in and loot everything and still get progress.

>>566177869
>he doesn't beam people from accross the panopticon because if you get too close it turns into grenade spam.

i have 200 hours in the game and only play perimeter solo.

>>566195654
I find that extremely hard to believe

>>566195732
exfil camping on roofs in south/north relay when it rains (as an assassin) is a víbe. maybe you don't get it

i wish i hade more time to talk shit to people when i down them but since everyone tries to self revive i have to finish them immediately.

>>566196017
>1 dimensional faggot that needs to touch grass
>we live in a society
Naruhodo.

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>fill queue with a vidmaster
>this guy will surely be good
>dies immediately to the first team we bump into because he decides to run in 1v3

>>566162730
Honestly, a sound strategy.

Tick tock Maratrons, the earnings call is coming.

>11k people online.
L M A O

>load into sponsored perimeter
>my group downs another
>another group exfils
>exfil shortly after that
>black screen
uh oh

>>566202998
how will you cope when the outlook is positive?

>>566203428
Bungie was marked as a 200 million dollar impairment in the last one

>>566202998
Let us know how that goes, shareholder-san

>>566204817
those were the days

Thread Anthem
https://youtu.be/NpYh_Ffqy8g?f9HIVOBHeSzMBTpJ

>>566205641
that isnt the thread anthem though?

>>566205721
what is then

>>566205803
Thread theme:
https://youtu.be/BvYuf4r-8xk?si=rL8ITO4qmIW02PYM

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They need to fix something about the hit boxes because this should not be a body shot.

>>566206484
Shots 1-5: Clearly missed.

Shots 6-9: Missed due to recoil (bad spray control).

Shots 10-11: Very close, but recoil and inaccuracy make these reasonable misses.

Shot 12: Likely didn't actually fire because he was already dead.

>>566206484
the jetpack is within the red circle, so the shot curves. Aim assist.

>still no counterplay for this
https://litter.catbox.moe/okpp81.mp4

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>Actually managed to shepard two fills into doing 3 vaults for the first time
>Successfully remembered where Coolants are, the refill spots, tracked down the credentials we needed and hunted for batteries almost entirely by myself
>2/3 of the runs we got security clearance 5 and got the compiler trace and armoury
Feels good man. When you 'get' cryo it's honestly a great map, it's just a fucking nightmare for your first 40 runs desu.

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>>566208079
You got beamed pretty damn hard. Instead of turning around, running behind the wall on the left may have saved you. Real answer: play a shell with evasive abilities.

So turns out I've been playing the entire game wrong. You just have to spam nucal basic missions at level 30 and the game just throws salvage and purple shields at you. What else do I need? What's the best source of high rarity weapons?

>>566211020
>What's the best source of high rarity weapons?
Killing other players
Cryo lockers
Outpost Pinwheel lockers
Killing other players

>>566193472
>pve players beg for pve lobbies
>monkeys paw etc

Solo is literally nothing but assassins.
And they're all passive bitches that do nothing but crouch in a spot for 10 minutes.

https://litter.catbox.moe/c5w21a.mp4
There appears to be absolutely zero bullet magnetism on hipfire,
7 out of 8 hit on ADS clip vs 4/14 hit in the hipfire clip, with bullets just going past the head every time.
Hipfire build is basically utter trash and you should never use it except on the homing volt weapons.

>>566185769
Had this happen on Outpost yesterday also, came in with a key, found one other group with a key and killed them, and didn't run into anyone other than one or two rooks the rest of the run. Between that and freekit perimeter, managed four exfils in a row, which is probably a record for me. Could just be chance, but still.

>>566197740
Ranks are worthless anon.
It's either pure grind until you succeed by chance or you get carried. They are by no means a sign of skill.

>>566216139
Cause most people that play this game are unironically brainlets that think
>Me go invisible? Me no get ambushed and killed!
The only thing he has going for him is that he can stealth through the middle of a POI without getting murdered by bots and maybe that he can smoke an exfil so he can get out. Most people think he's an autopick for this alone because they think shooting bots = you die to a player, when the truth is really "you shoot bots in the open = you die"

Playing Recon right now solves the whole "dying to camping assassin rats" problem cause you can just scan every POI and amp yourself and it'll be back by the next POI.

>>566216909
I'd be much happier with the removal of assassins altogether.

At its highest points the game is quite fun, at its lowest it makes me wish bungie would die faster.

>>566216909
I never die to assassin that is using his skills, it's so easy to counter, just run away. I always die to the camper who sits in silence for 5 minutes regardless of shell.

Killed literally 5 seconds before exfil I should have just fucking stuck the transfer instead of walking out to help my fill teammate. Fucking bonsai tree lost when lore is the only thing I give a fuck about.

>>566221702
tauceti.gg has all the lore entries, just read it online so Bungie gets 1 less player and has to try harder

>>566211020
leveling traxus/arachne and getting lucky with traxus/arachne barters

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>>566222425
Sorry, chud, but I like the game so I'm going to play until EoS.

>>566221702
>Cryo run 1
>crewmate gets shot at the bottom of the ladder into Cargo from Index
>other team camps his body for 15 minutes while neither of us can do anything
>eventually leaves, but there's no time for either of us to do anything but exfil
>Cryo Run 2
>circling around to Biostock, get the drop on a team that was just killing bots
>kill 4 players
>assassin I'm chasing through his ult with my thermal scope just fucking zoops out of my screen as I'm shooting him in the back, probably due to network shenanigans
>crewmate killed by the assassin who was nowhere near where he was when I was shooting him in the back
>killed by the 6th player
>watch them all revive each other and go along with their 6 man business
Damn Cryo is a truly pinnacle experience where only the best players thrive

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Destroyer and Thief needs to be nerfed to Vandal's level and I'm not joking. Vandal is supposed the be the "movement" shell but everything costs heat and traverses very little ground without a core or implants. Meanwhile Thief can zip across direction with no cost to heat, and Destroyer can zip further and pull off better movement than Vandal with an air dash which is superior to the slide you can't even melee or shoot in the animation of.

>>566222953
WTF is happening Destroyer is massaging Assassin's back? Why is Vandal freaked out? Why do I wanna stick my cock in Vandal's mouth?

>>566221702
Exfil at overflow in sponsored? Ate a teams lunch there earlier when I found a unique version of the ramping lmg that was shredding. Chose to abandon my team and step in the circle at 3 seconds for a finisher on the last one.

>>566223254

>>566225573
Guarded exfil at the tri-area between hauler, north relay, and station.

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>Bungie has lost Sony ~750 MILLION dollars

>went to the lose everything ship
>lost everything
Good runs, honestly.

>>566227452
KEK

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>>566227452
It's ok, Sony will spend more on Bungie. And not release the next game on PC.
>No PC version
That's good

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>>566227452
I wish I could tell you it was difficult. But it wasn't.

>>566223254
>>566226002
Sorry I have no clue how to work this site I wanted to call you retarded.

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>Layoffs confirmed
Bungie is getting shutdown and raped

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Bungie's next game is already greenlit.
>Marathon story for years to come
It's probably not going to have more than 4(four) seasons, season 5 could be a coop chapter with a final boss. 4 squads of 3 going through PvE and "escaping" their fate together, no more dying for the factions.

>>566227452
I couldn't believe it when I learned that they had 1800 employees

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>Marathon PS Plus
>GTA bundle
>Wolverine bundle
>Intergalactic Naughty Dog
>Stellar Blade 2
>Marathon Season three
>God of War Egypt
>Insomniac Venom
>Marathon PvE expansion
>Horizon three
>Insomniac X Men

>>566228872
>Destiny 3 (2019)
>Project Payback
>Gummy Bears
>Matter
Were all greenlit at one point too, now they're shitcanned. And that's back when Bungie made money, now they don't. They're fucked.

>>566229483
Does every other game fear those releases? If no, then neither should Marathon.

>Marathon has earned $50m to $75m on a budget of $300m
OH NOOOOOO NO NO NO

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Bungie is the next studio, that will stop supporting PC.
And that's based as fuck

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/sony-pulls-back-from-playstation-games-on-pc

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>$700M+ impairment loss
They're dead

>>566228872
Your ass is gonna be whored out to recuperate costs.

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>>566229628
>Does every other game fear those releases?
Everyone fears releasing close to GTA.
Except Sony games, because GTA will be bundled with PS5. GTA will promote the PS Store, which promotes Sony games.

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You can cope, you can dial eight, Bungie is effectively immortal. Untouchable, until they release one more AAA for the next PS(6) system.

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>$700M impairment loss
>Will owe Chris Barret $200M when he wins his lawsuit

>>566229038
>1800 employees
this is gonna be like the blizzard scandal x10, innit?

>>566230602
Muscleanon will cover the costs.

I'm studying the comeback

>>566232029
Studying the cum sprayed all over the back.

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Bungie will develop for the next, better hardware. Doomfags are not knowledgeable, they think first party would risk cutting a big studio, when they're close to the new hardware.
Marathon doesn't matter as much, as the next lineup of software, for the new console. This is why Bungie will live, they have to try again for PS6.

Bros... https://wimg.rule34.xxx//images/1044/cb4bbb2b019b6f7f6b7ddff0b3cfd1c4.gif?17406760

>>566232859
>Marathon doesn't matter as much
Goalpost moved. Got it.

>>566227452
So the valuation went down again. That seems fair, Bungie was clearly never worth 3.6billion and Sony was fuckin retarded for paying that much.

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Prophetic

>>566233218
Horizon Hunters Gathering, or whatever it's called is next on the line

>>566233295
don't forget the Fairgame$ extraction shooter

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Friendly reminder that it will be even worse for Bungie, if they're still around, next quarter.

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Sony bought Bungie for $3.6 billion. When they did that they recorded an asset of $3.6 billion (really it's the subsidiary/Bungie itself on their balance sheet).

Because Sony owns Bungie, they're obligated to test the company for impairment (basically, they have really smart valuation experts test Bungie to see if it's actually worth $3.6 billion).

Their valuation people decided Bungie is not worth the $3.6 billion Sony spent on them.

Because of this, Sony has to book this impairment loss (basically a reduction to the asset that represents Bungie on the balance sheet), by reducing the asset (bad for balance sheet) and posting a corresponding impairment loss (bad for income statement).
>Sony thinks Bungie is worth $2.8 billion, instead of 3.6
Big deal

>>566233478
It’s going to be worse for Bungie because they have NOTHING to show for themselves. All that’s confirmed with Season 2 is a nighttime version of an existing map, a new runner and mods, some guns and “threats” and that’s all we know. If it was already hard to sell people on Marathon before, it’s going to be harder now that it’s known as the rape game.

>>566233791
it's time to close out the income summary to retained earnings

>This is not the same as Sony losing $565 million from Bungie’s bank account this quarter.
It is an accounting write-down saying:
“The Bungie asset is worth hundreds of millions less than we had it valued at.”

Based white people, explaining it to jeets

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Look at how happy Sony is, this is a good thing, actually!

>Sony expected Bungie to be worth $565 million more, than what their internal analysis/financial data projects (and that’s on top of the previous impairment).
Sony's problem, nothingburger for Bungie.

>>566234062
>Look at how happy Sony is
Sony's happiness doesn't matter, the studio itself did not lose money. Sony paid more, than Sony had to, not our problem.

>>566230748
Which blizard scandal? Regardless, in terms of complete fuckups that are generating negative value, Bungie is currently beating blizzard's ass overwhelmingly.

>>566230779
Kitty might be limited to kibble at this rate.

>>566234212
>the studio itself did not lose money.
>$300M budget for Marathon
>$50M in sales
They lost money

>>566233295
>>566233425
FairgameS is the next one up. it's Horizon hunters is probably closer than Gummy bears.

>>566233791
Big rape.

>>566233901
It's way fucking worse than that. Bungie's income is not going to have much in marathon sales. Just whatever MTX marathon is generating, and the falling Destiny shit.

>>566234340
That's their first time at PS Studios, it doesn't count

>>566233791
>This quarter
>Sony thinks Bungie is worth $2.8 billion, instead of 3.6
>Next quarter
>Sony thinks Bungie is worth $2.2 billion, instead of 3.6
>Next quarter
>Sony thinks Bungie is worth $1.7 billion, instead of 3.6
>Next quarter.....

Sony should've gotten Activision instead lole

>>566234115
>>566234212
Sony paid for Bungie and now owns them, and they’re expecting an absence of impairment losses by the next fiscal year. If that doesn’t happens the studio is dead in the water.

I hope they layoff at least 500 employees for this

>>566234551
I mean, realistically what was Bungie actually worth at the time of acquisition? Jim Ryan thought 3.6 billion. He was clearly fucking wrong. Not to discount Bungie's recent fuckups by any means, but this seems like reality setting in, and slow rolling out whatever the actual valuation should have been the whole time.

>>566234551
Bungie was never worth anywhere close to 3.6b dollars. If they still had the Bungie IP, then sure. Even as raped as that IP is nowadays, it still has some value. But they literally only had Destiny. Destiny was not worth anywhere near that. Their only other "emerging" IP, Marathon, already flopped. So what the fuck do they have now?

>>566234795
>>566234796
It was speculation. They bet on potential and brand recognition, not reality. Bungie fleeced them good.

Marathon just needs another experimental queue, then Bungie will be worth $3.6B!

>>566234796
>If they still had the Bungie IP
meant to type Halo IP
I'm tired

>>566234960
You just gotta take a ride in one of papa Pete's cars and you'll see, you'll see the Bungie magic

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>>566233791
>copypasted reddit comment
Cmon /mg/, THIS GUY is your dedicated schizo? Embarrassing.

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>>566234551
If Bungie flops again and again, they'll shut it down. Duh.
Bungie's next AAA game is already greenlit. Marathon's sales numbers don't matter, nothingburger. A new game is in production.

>>566235227
That's my own comment tho

>>566235416
They've already cancelled 3 Bungie games, that we know, about after the Sony buyout. There are likely more. Bungie has been flopping since the buyout, every project does worse than the last since 2022.

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>>566235596
There's a big reason to try again, they want something big with Bungie's logo, for picrel

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>>566235820
The Bungie brand is bad for marketing since the Destiny 2 content vault, Marathon's shit sales proved it.

How many times can you say “Sony lost money Bungie bad” before it stops being funny? Is there a limit? It’s the same thing a thousand times. The chartposter ouroboros personality needs to be studied

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>Cryo fill
>get out of spawn and make it to the control door
>can hear foot steps right above us
>head back to our spawn and can hear bots dying
>we got invaded and they're killing our bots
>wait at the corridor, shotguns in hand
>prankingmydadmeme.png
>they leave the way they came
>follow them
>disappeared just like my dad
>get batteries and do vault 1
>get clearance 3 and exfil
>after cam shows the same triage we saw still moping around
>didn't hear any team fights or see another team
Cryo with only one other team seems chill.

>>566235942
Marathon's 88K launch happened because the combat is punishing, and the visuals are goofy. If it looked normal, and was easy to play during the beta, it would have more full priced sales.

I like how Marathon is being balanced in the direction of fucking over everyone who isn't 1k hour grinded.
>knife nerf
only hurts those below purple shields
>WSTR nerf
only hurts those below purple shields

Pretty soon, snipers will require three headshots to down a purple but still 1 head or 1 head/1 body for blues.

>>566235942
It’s not just that, it’s the fact that Bungie went from being associated as a studio that makes games friendly for dudebros to a studio that makes games only for streamers and no-life min-maxing autists. They have a huge image problem that they really need to work on.

>>566236316
>the visuals are goofy
i really don't think they're that bad.

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>>566236407
>>knife nerf
>only hurts those below purple shields
>>WSTR nerf
>only hurts those below purple shields
Green shield user can easily cut off a purple by ratting, one on one. It's only a problem for squad modes.
By cut off, I mean you shoot him in the back, he turns, shield is cracked, you don't reload, you switch to a second gun.
Don't fuck with us solo niggas we about that life

>>566236679
>i really don't think they're that bad.
I saw gameplay footage, before i watched the cinematic. I thought game looks like Play-dough, cartoony dogshit. Played it, loved the combat, accepted the visuals.

I come from /arg/ and /codg/, someone who doesn't play Marathon, thinks Marathon looks like fucking vomit. It's the truth.

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People who see a video of this, will thinks it's an indie game, developed by 10 people.
You have to play it, to understand how good it is. It doesn't look good on stream.

If It's over, at least I got 200+ hours out of the game and got to play one of my favorite mp games of all time. Shame that more people didn't like it. I guess i'm in a minority but it feels like the game was made just for me. From the the design, both visual and sound, to the lore and the gunplay – everything just clicked for me. I truly had... a blast....

>>566236981
fakest screen ever. no team actually fire fights like this. it's always 1 guy getting beamed and then the remaining two trying to find where the other 3 are.

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Nerds love to play Marathon, but those who don't play it, never want to watch it.
It's not a watchable type of game.

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>>566236830
i guess i'm just old and desensitized to everything. or autistic. i've never been tested.

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>>566237157
>If It's over,
It's not over until this fall. New players are coming this summer.

>>566237334
I've been tested, and doctors believe I'm healthy. I love the game, and I walk around with discs and a cat. Do you like cats? People let me pet their dogs too.

>>566237414
Based. Let's hope.

>>566221702
>bonsai tree los
i think those drop off of the commanders sometimes.

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/mg/ is too s-st-stronghhh... I have failed...

>Picture of Thief
I'm about to relapse

>>566237962
She's beautiful, but too expensive.

-200K for one minute of facesitting is fucked up

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Fat chicks and incels talking about being based, grim.
Shroud's pubstomping squads were cooler.

>Been waiting for vault to clear to do prestige dire marsh key
>Been nervous about doing the run since it's for greenhouse
>Finally get into the room
>Fucking nothing worthwhile except for a single prestige valuable
>No good salvage or guns or anything
Every vault room just seems to be fucking shit no matter the rarity, what's the deal?

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/25q4_sonypre.pdf
bungie has already been devalued by sony (on paper) by 765 million usd over the past two years. layoffs are almost guaranteed at this point.

>>566235942
Marathon did not have shit sales because of any one reason, but if there was an obviously clear reason it would be that they pushed this basic feature shit out too soon to market while simultaneously ignoring all the warning they got from testing. Three maps, one way to play but two to three options for how many included with you? One enemy and tiny fixed areas? Devoid of cutscenes that aren't hype advertisements? Relying on steamers to educate everyone and have a shitty onboarding process in the game for those that don't consult clickbait gurus for wisdom? Anyone could've guessed this wouldn't capture a big enough audience in this day and age. They did this to themselves, clear as day.

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>>566239428
>Relying on steamers to educate everyone
What happened to figuring things out on your own? You need a movie game, to hold your hand, and guide you with yellow quest markers.

Will there be a new AAA game, that dares to be unfiltered, and brutal?
Don't know, Marathon really is lightning in a bottle. No SBMM, no handholding, all skill.

>>566240121
People rather play goy raiders with abmm

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>>566241027
ABMM is not enough, they're quitting. Reverse boosters are able to get into "PvE rank" lobbies and kill them.

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>exfilling solo darsh at maintenance
>chilling in muh smoke
>heat grenade whiffs past my head
>oh this is that exfil camping I've heard about
>hear camper hiding behind a crate
>peak out of smoke
>he isn't looking in my direction but a different part of the smoke since I threw down 2 nads and used my ult
>crouch walk up to him while invis to the side of the crate he isn't mainly behind
>sprint at him
>shank shank
>he goes down
>ask if he wants to exfil together
>kills himself

>>566241442
Shank shank Aqua's butt with my finger

i don't play the game but i can tell this game was ruined by streamers

time to exfil camp perimeter

Time to load into Cryo with 5K worth of garbage and die to UESC, leaving teammates to struggle as a duo

I've gotta be one of the best in the biz

Raped.

>250 million in losses for flopathon alone for snoy
you blasthavers wont even see season 2 lol

I'm worried bros. When is EOS coming? I was just having a blast, Marathon was lightning in a bottle...

kind of weird how destiny had a lot of different enemies but marathon only have uesc soliders. Shouldn't be that hard to introduce different factions, spider tanks (like in destiny) and that sort of stuff. I think normies have a hard time telling the difference between the uesc enemy types. Also: some enemies should patrol the map instead of being locked to certain areas.

>>566238545
just put the nades on an ability cool down like in destiny. don't matter the stack size, people will fill their bags with them. i had an outpost run where i heard footsteps and started running but instead of getting shot in the back they threw every grenade they had, even bubble shields, at me. like how is that fun?

They could have a roving scary monster

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>Exfilled 6 times from Cryo today
>Opened 3 vaults
>Got into the arsenal 3 times
>Did 2 prestige room keys on Dire Marsh and Perimeter and exfilled
>Solo'd 3 lockdown events in 3 seperate runs on Dire Marsh
>Did 2 pinwheel runs and got into the red key room both times
>Literally not a single bit of prestige salvage or worthwhile prestige gear despite doing all of this today
>No cryo vault 6 key
>No fun prestige weapon mod to try
>No thermal sights
This is honestly the shit that's killing the game for me. Literally non stop success but RNG just keeps cucking me out of actually getting anything worthwhile. I got some purple guns, purple backpacks and a million ballistic turbines and neural insulation, whoop-de-fucking-doo.

Bungie's insistence on wasting people's fucking time by just making so much shit luck based is so horrible.

>>566246703
Yes, the pve is lacking compared to arc raiders.

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>>566239172
>>566234115
>>566233997
>>566230602
>>566233791
So they lost more than a billy on live service and they're still doubling down with Horizon Hunters Gathering and Fairgames?

>>566234062
When seppuku isn't enough for the tranny gaijins this nigga will fly to Saudi not to ask them to invest on Sony but to ask them on how to do a full on jihad on the entire Bungie studio.

>>566248442
>and they're still doubling down with Horizon Hunters Gathering and Fairgames?
Not, those games were greenlit years ago. They're complete, ready to release. There's no point in not releasing them.
>>566246946
It's gonna be ok babygirl

>>566248987
>They're complete, ready to release.
Fairgames is still on alpha and it's a fucking mess.

>>566248442
was gonna make a joke about 99% of gamblers quitting before they hit the jackpot but no sony is just full of retarded boomers brainrotted by lead paint and lead gas fumes
way too many people think having an mba degree and a middle manager corpo job makes you some kind of 4d chess playing genius

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>game with lvl120 dude and his lvl16 noob friend
>help him collect unstable diodes in Perimeter
>helped them collect gels on Dire Marsh
>got jumped by a duo, missing a third
>they both got knocked
>I instagib the duo using aimbot
>we go for a guarded exfil
>see Rook jumping like a chimp
>let Rook come with us and loot a purple bot
>we exfil
Yea I'm a good guy now.

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>>566237916
hop on

>>566249906
My wiener separating those lips

Ohaiyo /mg/. It is I, Mr Sensei Sony. We looked at our financial reports and saw how horrible Bungie has been doing in recent years. Great dishonor. We were about to axe them until our greatest financial advisor pointed out a hidden currency Bungie is developing. Blasts. So many blasts! Because of this we have decided to give Bungie another 3.6 billion. May the blast shine throughout the empire!

The shadow walks alone

>>566249641
I alone smashed two blue shields, then revived my pals and we picked up a Rook. Clarification, I'm Mr VIP Arachne, you know.

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Rook was hiding, I told him he can join, and told my nigs to let him loot the purple bot

>>566241248
Reverse boosting is easy to detect, would be funny if they made a system that matched reverse boosters with each other

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Faggots should have blasted hadded harder.
kek

>>566241248
Lmao

>>566246703
>>566247747
Just add a bunch of roaming Ghosts - i saw people dying to them all the time. Hell, i see people dying to even base recruits all the time. Hell, i've seen these PvP "gods" jobbing to blue and purple shielded UESC bots too.

PvE is quite sufficient. I would rather see roaming patrols, aerial gun drones that bombard you with homing missiles, and above all else - mutant humans, giant ticks, fungal miasma hazards. Seriously, have you heard the soundscape in the maps? Its like there are hordes upon hordes of scary-ugly-mean mutants/zombies/insect-fungus nightmares hiding behind and beneath each and every structure.

People thinking that the game will EoS because Sony/Bungie overspent are stupid. The money is already gone and killing the servers isn't going to bring it back. In fact, it's the opposite, when you have a premium foundation, it's clearly better idea to try to make it work than throw it into the trash and start from scratch. The production is already done, rest of the tweaks and game modes can be done by a skeleton crew for pennies.
EoS is for games that nobody actually plays so there's no point keeping the servers on.

>>566241248
>detect reverse boosting
>perma-lock account into aggressive-retard zone
>problem solved

>>566252050
No pve is not enough but thank you for your comment

>>566252104
That's true you're so smart

>>566238545
>that screenshot of inventory and loadout
What are the chances she is being carried by two guys who do all the job and she gets to be the "face" of the team? Also, what are the chances one of those guys uses hardware hack/cheat?

>>566252362
Women are lesser creatures, it's likely she's getting carried.

>>566236981
>that screen
The team with controller aim bot wins.

Touching Vandal's chest. it's suspiciously flat

>>566252104
So why not put on A PvE queue and let the game recoup loss over a few years? Do people really think that Season 2 wipe will bring in 200k players who will dwindle to 50k by the end of the 1st month and then to "stable 5k" by the second, as if its Path of Exile? Just a reminder - PoE is not a PvP game. Its a vE and co-op. They tried PvP and it failed so badly.

>>566236170
Still funny so far. Check back in a week.

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What if the new shell can teleport, and Bingus belongs to him. What if everyone gets a bingus, who lives in the armory, and you can feed him stuff like ticks.

>>566252050
>PvE is quite sufficient
Nah, it's clearly the games weakest part. It's not dynamic at all, compare it to how arc raiders have the big spider robot that hunts you through pipes and buildings and causes chaotic situations. Marathon is the better game but the PvE is clearly lacking. There's zero enemy variety, they don't move around the map and they are just not that fun to fight.

>>566236696
>PPSH
Hell of a shotgun.

>>566253126
>they are just not that fun to fight
Whatever do you mean?

>>566252104
Xir, the hundreds of devs and managers are still getting paid to work on the game, there's no guarantee that the tiny playerbase is generating enough money to even cover the salaries.

>>566253312
Fighting the UESC get repetitive pretty fast, don't you think? They would be fine if there was other enemy factions to mix it up.

>>566253597
>Fighting the UESC get repetitive pretty fast
No. Should you pay no attention to them they will fuck you up. While their behaviour is formulaic, and easy to anticipate, it is very easy to underestimate them and get decked in. Fighting UESC is just a part of gameplay for me, the other two are looting and appreciating the environment (a very holistic thing).
If you are an aggressive ape who can only feel engaement when flinging shit ot rocks at other apes (and get those flung at you) then the game in PvE would be very boring indeed for you.

>>566254012
>If you are an aggressive ape who can only feel engaement when flinging shit ot rocks at other apes
Why are you calling me names, the fuck did I ever do to you?

>>566254012
>that second part
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>566254094
I did not mean for you to take it personally. In my experience, people who complain that UESC are not worthwhile enough for PvE mode are saying that because PvP is all they know, then proceed to get shoulder-slammed by a bot and die.

Some people are so focused on PvP and dopamine rush that they get a tunnel-vision and cannot see anything, or experience anything, as worthwhile escept for fighting other players. If that is their thing, then they should consider playing other games - like Quake 3 or UT99, except that they dont want to because excuses are "its old" while in reality they mean "i suck at it badly and i will get called out for cheating in them and players i kill have a solid chance at revenge".

I have no idea if you are anything like the players i described, anon, and so i use the rule of thumb-of-disappointment and assume the worst, so that if it is not the worst and the player is better that the ape, i will be pleasantly surprised and scold myself for having no faith in humanity.

>>566254636
>how to tell anon that he is right without telling him he is right
Get a wife you fag. Atleast then you can flex those muscles and impress her with your physique instead of being an eye-sore on a nepalese bee-keeping forum.

Imagine trying to moralize people for killing players inside the most hardcore PvP video game

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>>566254836
I can trust Bungie, I will not trust a woman.

>>566254836
call him a jeet see how fast he loses his shit

>>566254595
I can tell that you are a massive faggot

>call him jeet
/arg/ was calling me PvPjeet for 5 months. And a PvPigger too

>>566255043
>trusting corporation
>over warm flesh and blood
If you are so afraid of females, get yourself a trans-woman and be happy. At the very least, you can then say that you live by Roman codes and ethics and being serviced by a man makes you an even greater male.
>>566255221
He is clearly white. Why would i call him a jeet?

>>566255329
>no argument
Bullshit. Ultra-failed reply.

>>566255390
>Why would i call him a jeet?
it makes him mad

>>566255354
yea i knew it was you, you fucking faggot you sperged out every time someone called you a jeet

How we gonna recoup 750 million lads? I'm gonna buy a few copies for Marathon for my coworkers.

I'm doing my part!

>>566255543
>Lightning in a crystal clear bottle
And it is fizzling out quite nicely, so nicely infact that right now it has approximately 4.4k players, with peak yesterday not even hitting 15k. Lightning in a bottle. More like a fart.

Imagine being a shit flinging pvp ape in this immersive pve masterpiece. Just enjoy the enviroment retard

>>566255790
I know you are just being silly, but seriously, nothing that they can do will fix the damage. PvE solo/co-op is the only thing that they can do immediately and garner enough tracktion to get on the path of recovery.

Today they posted an update of working on anti-cheat and having a measure where if you have reported someone and they have been found to be cheaters, you will get a notification. No idea if it will help though.