#Marathon

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cosmic flame
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def more efficient overall thoufh

grave pebble
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ah ok, i guess being able to literally triple stuff like energy amps would be a bit silly

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Say, can you share a self-revive via shareware too? Like if you're down and an ally is downed with a heal drone on em?

cosmic flame
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i find its most useful stuff is the cleanse and uh

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s

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YES

grave pebble
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o-ho

cosmic flame
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YOU CAN SELF RES SHAREWARE

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ITS INSANE

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last night i clutched up with @pale flare because i gave her my self rez via drone

pale flare
cosmic flame
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i think i was pretty early on it

grave pebble
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can you use a self res even if you're not downed? Normally that would be a waste, but if it gives triage an alternate way to res at a distance that would be pretty nuts

pale flare
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I don't think so. The prompt only appears when you're down

grave pebble
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ik you can use patch kits at full health

cosmic flame
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idt its even usable from the med menu

mossy bridge
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had a crazy outpost run

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much schmoney

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Oh Man

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OH NO

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OH FUCK NO

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OH NO NO NO NO

patent thicket
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jumping up and down excitedly

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||W'RKNCACNTER MENTION!||

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Wait no, I read the last one first nevermind.

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...Is it the ||W'rkncacnter?||

grave pebble
twin rain
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||Our Crimson Cloaks are pretty clearly the Compilers. To call them Harbingers of the wrkncacntr is a little misguided? But it wouldn't be the first cult that was misguided.||

grave pebble
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||I don't think they necessarily worship the work'counters , but they clearly appear to have some reverence for the S'pht||

cinder hare
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dammit

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i knew we shouldve exfil'd 😭

patent thicket
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||The S'pht homeworld was orbiting a star that had a/the (unclear which) W'rkncacnter in it.||

cinder hare
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gahhhhhhhhhhh

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gear fear isnt a problem

grave pebble
cinder hare
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it's "dying when i get good loot" fear

grave pebble
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||Cause humanity was never uplifted by the Jjaro and they're not inherently a cybernetic species||

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unless they retcon that ig. it does make the timeline even fuckier though

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||Cause this would have to be after the S'pht liberation, which would put it.....at least halfway through Marathon 2 I suppose?||

mossy bridge
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i just got fucking sparta kicked

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by a fucking recruit

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oh my god

cinder hare
sand sluice
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they only appear on dire marsh, you need anti virus consumables to do them, mida gives upgrades which give 40 seconds of time inside them per upgrade.

You can do them up to 3 times per raid, you have to go find a key, then go to the box causing the lockdown, grab the drive off the floor, then you start a 3 wave fight against usec which unlocks the box, you can keep the lockdown going during this or turn it off. every time you go to the lockdown zones the rewards get better, so 1st in the raid is passable, 2nd is slightly better, 3rd box is best and is the most worth

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additionally, once you have the key and box you can get it out of the box again and just take it to the next zone and insta start the fight, you don't have to find the key again

final onyx
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<@&1474420814979010821> anyone have time for a few runs?

final onyx
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not worth it unless you already have all the upgrades you could spent it on

cinder hare
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i mean yeah tbh synapse cubes rare asf

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but at the same time this is an insane combo

chilly pebble
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Trying to get reclaimed biostripping and it's suffering

final onyx
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if you want a specific piece of salvage, the game will deny it to you

chilly pebble
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I noticed

twin rain
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the desire sensor is back

cosmic flame
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she... she reclaim my... she stripping til i re... sh...

wintry shuttle
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Heh

neat nest
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<@&1474420814979010821> I'm about ready for more runs, anyone free?

twin rain
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ya

neat nest
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(I will need a few mins)

twin rain
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(same)

neat nest
mossy bridge
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i just realised

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davic reed is voiced by fucking roger clark

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aka ARTHUR MORGAN

cinder hare
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we had 4 in total but i think 3 teams fell as well as we came in the fray

neat nest
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Still looking for 1

cinder hare
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im out for today

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"sponsored kit"

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ngl the suggestion of "just keep using what you loot" without ever thinking to vault it for one sec helps a lot

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i only vault what i absolutely wont use or dont need now

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and i went from gray to green to dead to green (from previous run) to full blues

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oh my god i fucking love rat pack

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this shit is amazing

obsidian latch
chilly pebble
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really liking the retaliation

grave pebble
neat nest
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full now

grave pebble
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<@&1474420814979010821> anyone running?

chilly pebble
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7/10 finishers, good place to leave for the night

grave pebble
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gotta stop assuming that someone is good at the game just cause they're good at the shooting

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joined a rando, one teammate basically 1v3d two squads and res'd us, so i was just following them like a lost puppy the whole game

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they fuck off to a random poi and end up costing us the final exfil

cinder hare
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I wonder what the matchmaking is for Marathon

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Skill-based? Exfil%?

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I don’t think it’s loadout-based

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I’ve had too many runs full of purples while we were on free kits

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I’d imagine something like lightly weighted by skill + slightly more heavily loadout would work

neat nest
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long ago bungie mentioned it was by runner level

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no idea if that's it or if that's still true

cinder hare
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Runner level feels wrong somehow

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I’m level like, 45 and I’m probably not as good as many of the level 20s

neat nest
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lol had a stupid run

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going for one of the later nucals

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ran into a glitch also doing it

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lost and ran off

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got a safe and fucked off with cats

grave pebble
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it definitely feels like it's quest-based to an extent, the game tries to match people with similar pois up i want to say

echo scroll
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i didnt go in with anything purple

grave pebble
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<@&1474420814979010821> run or three?

chrome rapids
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Id be down

grave pebble
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in voice, bungie is Sunn Bro#3165 , just going to the bathroom

cinder hare
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zero to hero rat solo runs are fun

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you can hide really well in hauler

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exfils are common there

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just camp it

cinder hare
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met a "friendly" assassin who decided to hack me

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so i stabbed them to death

cinder hare
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Died to a destroyer appearing out of nowhere while I stabbed a different thief to death

grave pebble
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this is definitely a 'leave your squad for dead' type haul

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both of them got downed, but one of them managed to smoke the extract and i just snuck out lol

sand sluice
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yeah if extract is popped and you don't think you can 1v3 just leave

grave pebble
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we all went in with sponkits so we absolutely ruined purple's day here

sand sluice
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no such thing

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it's trios

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you should expect to die often

grave pebble
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where do you even find purple salvage in perimeter btw? I thought that would only be dire marsh and above

cinder hare
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Just get lucky, mostly

sand sluice
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you can get prestige loot in any container

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#1360700632998215701 message

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look here for example

sand sluice
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they need to like

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rebalance the quests or something

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why are 90% of the quests on dire marsh

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like it feels rough cause it's an end-game map with the quests but with non end-game loot like outpost

cinder hare
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i kinda agree yeah

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outpost is my favorite map

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it's excellent honestly

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its small enough to make for fast rotations

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deadly and nicely vertical without being excessive

ivory laurel
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Was gonna ask "what about the rest of Outpost?"

cinder hare
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good sightlines and plenty of outdoor movement while having lots of tight spaces

sand sluice
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I'm assuming they're going to do like a new map or something every season

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cause holy shit everything feels frontloaded on dire marsh

cinder hare
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or modifications to a map

sand sluice
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sure

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but like

cinder hare
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but yeah dire rn is just too fucking quest'd

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like night maps are coming iirc

sand sluice
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I'm gonna lose my mind doing dire marsh all the time

cinder hare
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but also, at some point i hope we get a tarkov/drg style map selection if we get more maps

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something like the tauceti.world map but cooler, basically

sand sluice
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that or give us new enemy designs

cinder hare
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i love the wraith warden

sand sluice
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like have space wolves show in and fuck up everybody's shit

cinder hare
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we're gonna fight pfhor or some shit at some point

obsidian latch
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I need to start doing Rook runs

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Hopefully run into others

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Rooks together strong

ivory laurel
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Rooks alone survive

obsidian latch
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We will unionize

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The runners will learn to fear us

grave pebble
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i did about 3 rook runs today and 80% of the other rooks i ran into were friendly

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i feel like the rook population is undergoing ethnogenesis

cinder hare
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i think rook is friendly to rook

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everyone else is kill on sight regardless

grave pebble
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not by default

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they scan as enemies and you have to prox chat to talk to each other

cinder hare
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i mean by community standards

grave pebble
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ahh right

cinder hare
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i want a pve game similar to marathon/tarkov

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preferably more marathon

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but like, a game with decently good movement, that roguelite feeling, and them tough bots

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... witchfire?

grave pebble
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i always got the impression that witchfire was more of a destiny/borderlands-like

cinder hare
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ive never played borderlands

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didnt get destiny so i quit quickly

twin rain
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borderlands is more of an RPG shooter with levelling, skill trees, etc. has a dungeon/raid type endgame. the humour can be pretty grating. but some of the mechanics are very unique and fun

cinder hare
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mmm

sand sluice
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witchfire is more boomer shooter-y

sand sluice
cinder hare
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i like ultrakill but speedrunner brain makes me not like playing it that much

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because im always too slow feeling

cinder hare
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which halo?

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i thought it wasnt an extraction shooter

sand sluice
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oh you want an extraction shooter>?

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unfortunately very few exist that are sci-fy

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only ones atm I believe are tarkov and marathon

grave pebble
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i guess deep rock galactic is the closest thing i can think of to a sci fi pve-only extraction shooter? A lot of the missions are pretty freeform

cinder hare
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doesnt need to be scifi

sand sluice
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and tarkov is less sci-fy and more milsim with sci-fy elements

cinder hare
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moreso, needs to feel like how marathon feels

cinder hare
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it feels like Apex Legends but slow paced

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and that feels really fucking good

sand sluice
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#video-game-discussion message

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this is my post on like, pve extraction shooters

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I would honestly say maybe zero sievert if you want slower movement

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but it's top down

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but it also has sci-fy 100%

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however

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zs has no melee for you

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so melee enemies will jump you literally

cinder hare
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top down pain

sand sluice
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yeah you're in the same boat I am generally speaking

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first person/3rd person pve is still largely getting off the ground

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with my best recs being like

mossy bridge
sand sluice
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Incursion Red River, Grayzone Warfare (not really an extraction shooter but it's close enough if you consider DRG an extraction shooter)

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issue is like

cinder hare
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drg doesnt have the same vibe

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it aint the same without friends

grave pebble
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arc raiders is THE pve extraction shooter though, right? It has pvp but it aggressively matchmakes pvpers into their own queues

sand sluice
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none of them are gonna have bungie-like enemies that tokyo drift on you

cinder hare
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and it just really isnt an "extraction"

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i dont play arc out of principles

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fuck AI

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its also ugly as shit imo, but thats very imo

sand sluice
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but the devs basically were like "We didn't earn enough money to pay for voices and we're indie" and I was like "well can't rec that game then"

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anyways yeah not super easy cause like my top choices for PVE solo extraciton shooters are gonna be like

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Incursion Red River (1st), Sulfer, Project Silverfish (more stalker like than an extraction shooter), Zero Sievert (top down), Witchfire, and Escape from Duckov

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Forever Winter is the only one I don't rec fully but that's more cause I'm going to revisit it at some point

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and I do recommend it if you think the vision is neat

sand sluice
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ye once the AI gen label no longer on the store page I can rec arc raiders for very casual focused (with the caveat they might still be using AI voices and I can't confirm that but that's up to the person to decide)

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like Active Matter doesn't list it on their store page (for some goofy reason)

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but then it's on like their official website

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and I'm suspect it's cause of gaijin being the publisher

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oh

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@cinder hare there's also the division

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I have no idea how the game is

cinder hare
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mmm

sand sluice
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I also don't know if it's actual full proper extraction shooter and not just mmo-shooter

cinder hare
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ngl i want Marathon's TTK to be balanced to be closer to like, V66 levels overall

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it's a very satisfying TTK

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it's fast but it gives time to react, time to play around it

split apex
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I've honestly been brought around on the relatively fast TTK because it gives more of a chance to people with middling gear; it emphasises flanks and good positioning vs higher TTK being about better aim

grave pebble
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from what i hear, the division has an extraction-like gamemode, but that's the one with pvp enabled

sand sluice
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I think current ttk is largely fine in marathon

cinder hare
sand sluice
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it's weirdly enough reactable for the most part

sand sluice
cinder hare
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the V66 feels incredibly perfect

grave pebble
sand sluice
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like if you couldn't get the wstr and longshot off every other goober usec you probably wouldn't feel it as much

cinder hare
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yeah its heavily longshot + WSTR being problems

grave pebble
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a sniper and a shotgun being oppressive in a bungie game? Say it ain't so

cinder hare
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imo getting shot at should knock you outta the thing you're looting

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sometimes i try to react but cant cuz im still in the menu

sand sluice
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  • knock you off terminals
cinder hare
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yeahhhhhh

sand sluice
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well

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maybe not

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because usec likes to harass you

cinder hare
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deserved.

sand sluice
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at least for terminals give the option to disengage

cinder hare
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clear them out.

grave pebble
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yeah there's been times when i've fully committed to quest terminals even when i knew i was going to die shortly

sand sluice
cinder hare
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i think that plus some adjustments to some weapons would help

sand sluice
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if they want to nerf assassin so they can't interact with things freely while cloaked then I'd be more okay with being force knocked off interactions

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I just want to choose on the terminals cause omg they last so long and at least let me decide

cinder hare
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yeah an option for terminals might work

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but for loot, please kick us out if damaged

sand sluice
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looting feels a bit delayed on closing the window it's very silly

cinder hare
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ive died too much too looting issues

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i WANT to react

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cant

sand sluice
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yeah I've def been there

late geyser
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Man imagine each season wipe is ||the wrkncanter popping out the sun||

mossy bridge
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maybe we all just decide to cash out at the exact same time

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and then get mugged and lose it all

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And then have to come back to mercenary work

grave pebble
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Yeah the easy assumption is that it's loan repayment day for all of our shells

sand sluice
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Got the drone conveyance request in like 30 seconds

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made it to drone wing, had no shields as I cleared the entire pinwheel area from the sponsored kit

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then on final exfil I waited because someone did the only other entrance into pinwheel, saw him enter the final circle, killed him with the shotgun, got the finisher, then looted his shield and the neural insulation he found (I found one earlier so I got 2)

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assassin players lose again

mossy bridge
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also cool screenshot i got

sand sluice
mossy bridge
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this is one of the few games where i just. take screenshots of the game

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because it's that cool looking

sand sluice
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Yeah it's hard to appreciate the cool environment but if you get a moment to chill it's nice to just appreciate the scenery

mossy bridge
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  • the mural under ai research
  • the overgrown corpse
  • the mass grave by quarantine
  • Thank God, it's you!
  • the overgrown commander
  • cup :)
  • cryostasis cow
  • the guy from the trailer
  • IT'S THE SHIP!!!!!!!!!!!
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i wonder if assimilated bobs will come back

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vacuum bobs and regular bobs too

patent thicket
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FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE!

late geyser
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me: oh boy i'll do a solo run to farm some resources-

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marathon: "downtime in 5 minutes"

sand sluice
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Oh I misunderstood the timing hmm

neat nest
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Excited for the patch notes

placid oxide
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Played with a buddy last night who had just bought the game and he kept calling destroyer shell Garnet and I can’t unsee it

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Also looks like all but 1 puzzle for the Preservation puzzle is solved

sand sluice
neat nest
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Oh is that connected to a contract?

late geyser
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I'm trying to get my squads to recognize engaging early means we have to sprint to catch up but

sand sluice
# neat nest Oh is that connected to a contract?

Mida has been having me do a bunch of shit yeah.
Someone commented that it specifically
||requires getting in the command wing, getting to the end, hijacking it, then defending it while the broadcast happens||

neat nest
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Ah cool

obsidian latch
# sand sluice

Honestly half the reason I’ve done triage for the majority of my runs is because he’s just such a damn good utility

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Like drones help so much

neat nest
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Triage is good as hell

late geyser
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I 1) need to use his emp more and 2) only just found out the bit recharges shields

obsidian latch
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I want to play more of the other shells but like goddamn is it so useful to have a triage on the team

neat nest
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<@&1474420814979010821> patch noooootes

tawdry sequoia
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exfil beacons while downed? interesting

neat nest
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Goated changes

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  • audio: back to silence
  • wstr: nerfed
  • cryo: archived
    Yeahhhhhhhh
tawdry sequoia
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Improved the overall legibility of the Revive prompt.

Consumables, Ammo, Salvage, and Grenades now have larger stack sizes in the Vault.
Added filter tabs for keys and backpacks.

neat nest
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Hopefully this means I can play Dire without taking out half the lobby again

chilly pebble
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Knife

Knife cosmetics will no longer unequip after failing to exfil.
neat nest
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I had a genuine tilter of a run where I killed 4 runners working on that fucking MIDA quest

chilly pebble
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Oh that's why I didn't notice that bug :v

tawdry sequoia
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Drag & Drop can now be used to remove weapon mods from weapons.

Dragging a mod attached to a weapon into the backpack or Vault will now remove the mod and place it into that inventory rather than moving the entire weapon
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hell yeaaaaaaaaah

neat nest
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And the died to a UESC ghost commander FUCK

neat nest
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Also funny way to learn that suppressors had more effects than just making your shooting quiet

tawdry sequoia
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I think I ran into one so far

neat nest
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Fixing the thief exfil trick is also good

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That shit was stupid

tawdry sequoia
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no news on claymore drone yet

neat nest
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(Thief drone could steal your shit while you were locked into the exfil animation)

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Very happy for the wstr nerfs too

neat nest
tawdry sequoia
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it's funny as a clip

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in match, I'd be less entertained

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I'll try and play some today, was working late yesterday and did not have the life energy to be upright which is not conducive to trying to run quests in dire marsh

neat nest
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lol real

tawdry sequoia
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I also still have that greenhouse key and a few lockbox keys I wanna use

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no point sitting on them

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I didn't see anything about the arachne skins in the update, I wonder if they'll be tied to ranked

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some sort of bounty system maybe

placid oxide
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Maybe! Also not mid-season yet so we shall see

neat nest
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Ranked in 4 days

placid oxide
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Any more info on it? I must have missed it in patch notes

neat nest
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Not sure if this is official info or from the old leak

placid oxide
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I think I like the system?

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Will have to play to see how it feels

neat nest
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Chuuni as fuck they know what Assassin players like

neat nest
placid oxide
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Darth Maul looking head studs

sand sluice
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Exfilling with a Temporal Fragment will produce variable rewards depending on your seasonal Runner Level.

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Okay but like

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It has to be worth more than 2k

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Like it flat out needed a buff

neat nest
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Yeah

sand sluice
# tawdry sequoia

Some people gonna be salty it wasnt available immediately from the arg lol

neat nest
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lol we haven’t finished the arg

sand sluice
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Inb4 getting to cryo actually requires the keys and no one is going to bring them in raid to do it

neat nest
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It’ll probably go live shortly after the arg is cracked

neat nest
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Since they mentioned the requirements in the arg somewhere

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  • season level 25
  • all factions unlocked
sand sluice
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Yeh

neat nest
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I think Marathon keys are secure room keys on it?

sand sluice
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I would hope so

neat nest
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Damn I’m stoked for Cryo

sand sluice
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I am remaining cautiously optimistic

neat nest
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Also really happy for this

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Now I can pull off thermals and such without it taking so long

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Though with the range nerfs thermals now (appropriately) feel more like powerful specialized gear not god sights

sand sluice
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I need to see actual purple sights

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Cause rn thermals are still the strongest I've seen

neat nest
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Thermals are still really good but the range caps make them no longer reliable battlefield scanners

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Except for thermal snipers

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Oh cool Marton keys are decoding

sand sluice
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Oh wait

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    This weapon deals significantly increased damage against [REDACTED] combatants.```
neat nest
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Im digging this perspective on Marathon’s framing and lore

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The corporations have no legal obligations with respect to these contractors, which is just how they like it. You are a bug — barely even human — smashed flat between the palms of a 400-year old handshake agreement with no living survivors, one that everyone involved interprets differently and nobody intends to honor.

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You are a debtor with a company mandated gambling compulsion whose job is property damage against the government. You are slowly going crazy and you don’t exist. You are a bloodied shell, drawn to the exfil beacon like a moth to a flame.

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Will you take a job with the black bloc terror group MIDA? Yup. Will you follow that up with a contract for Space Walmart? Sure. It’s just a fucking job, man. What do you want from me?

mossy bridge
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oh GOD the ranked icons dont appear until you unlock them

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im going to have a permanent fucking notification

neat nest
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I’ve had one friendly encounter in Marathon, on Perimeter, the game’s “starter” map. My team and I crested a hill and heard another team just in front of us. Evidently, they heard us too, and shouted out from the building they’d entered. We agreed to let a good thing be; we’d pass and they’d let us. Actually, I’ve had dozens of friendly encounters, with all the other runners arbitrarily sorted into my squad. I could conceivably befriend anyone else in the lobby. There’s no inherent quality that marks one runner as friend and another as foe. We all owe money to CyberAcme. In all likelihood, we’re stored on the same server rack. But from the fog of Tau Ceti emerges one near-certainty: there’s no solidarity on a right-to-work planet. So I tend to shoot on sight.

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Huh

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5,000 smackaroos isn’t too bad

mossy bridge
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ranked in four days

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time to never leave bronze

sand sluice
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5000 credits per run

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Like

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Holistically?

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And is that sell or buy value?

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Cause like

neat nest
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Presumably it’s based on the value before runs for sell value

sand sluice
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Yeah I'ma like

neat nest
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Works out to basically an incomplete/mixed blue loadout usually I feel

sand sluice
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Nooooot exactly

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Backpacks and shields sell for little

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180 for reinforced green, I think 500 for green backpacks?

neat nest
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Most of the credits are in guns and such

sand sluice
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What are you taking that costs that much?

neat nest
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2 blue-green guns is easily 2-4 k

sand sluice
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For me it's like 2ish k but I'll admit I usually don't take the more expensive stuff cause I can do more with less

neat nest
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Modded wstr is like 3-3.5k for one example

oak glacier
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Yeah modded guns are worth a bunch

sand sluice
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Yeah I don't bring in modded wstrs unless I just picked one up which is rare

neat nest
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Ok so?

oak glacier
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Well that's kinda the point of the value gate

sand sluice
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Usually it's just the pocket wstr off the grunts

oak glacier
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It makes you bring more expensive stuff

neat nest
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It’s around a blue kit, you’re not running those so yours is less I guess

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🤷

sand sluice
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Yeah I'm just thinking of how you can game it

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I'm thinking just take greenbackpack full of blue weapon mods

oak glacier
#

Why not just use blue weapons

neat nest
#

Just bring advanced meds

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If you’re trying to use bad guns

sand sluice
#

Advanced meds exp and also trying to do the least possible for lower risk

mossy bridge
#

oh hey the ready up screen has footstep noises and you hold your knife now

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instead of just fists

swift sluice
#

May need to factor in other player's kits more with the 5k minimum

oak glacier
#

Ok well you'll have to risk 5k of gear either way

neat nest
sand sluice
#

Granted

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Wstr 2 taps all shields in the game so meowshrug

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Prob just frontload a wstr with weapon mods and play around that

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On the other hand

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I'm curious to see how random queue will be

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On the flipside can just go farm wardens and bring in their guns

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Since their guns default to like 1.8ish k minimum

neat nest
#

I mean there’s a lot of ways to do it but I don’t think getting 5k for a loadout is terribly onerous or in need of special strategies

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It means I kinda do have to retire my brokie playstyle of using cheap shit to squeak through contracts quickly lol

sand sluice
#

Yeah I'm mainly just trying to think through it cause I'm hedging out against solo assassin players and having to deal with them

neat nest
#

But I can just do actual resourcing runs ever

twin rain
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I kinda wish the ante was a little higher, but I get that people will probably have a quest or two there

sand sluice
#

Rather than just throw money at the wall to see it evaporate

twin rain
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I think 5000 is a good sweet spot for now

neat nest
#

I think 5k is a pretty good one

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There’s absolutely people with crazy vaults who just won’t care but

sand sluice
#

5k is fine but I actually am not sure any quests will exist for it right now

neat nest
#

That’ll be the case at any sane value lol

sand sluice
#

What I feel like it's primarily for gold resource hunting

oak glacier
#

would be funny if arachne quests required playing ranked

mossy bridge
#

what arachne quests there's literally a single priority one that's it lmao

oak glacier
#

clearly cause ranked isnt here yet

neat nest
#

Once you hit 7 Charter congratulates you which is fun

sand sluice
#

||it does it again later IIRC, rank 20ish I think?||

sand sluice
#

C.OX keys gonna count for value assumingly too

neat nest
#

Yeah I was thinking about that those aren’t cheap

sand sluice
#

So yeah do warden farming until you get a key

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Then take their gun and loadout into cryo with the key

neat nest
#

I don’t really think that’s the best way honestly

sand sluice
#

And you're probably hitting the value

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It's unfortunately not cause loot drops from them kinda weak compared to just outpost sponsored kit spam

neat nest
#

I mean it doesn’t need to be sponsored #crediblebutinexpensivekitspam

sand sluice
#

Wdym? I meant farming outpost with sponsored kit for gear upgrade headempty

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Cause then with that you can just go into cryo with those weapon lockers in pinwheel

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I also like how it's 5k which is 1k above the uhhh

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Deluxe sponsored kits

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Or w/e the green ones are called

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Actually those are 0 sell so idk headempty

mossy bridge
#

please can we just fucking remove "and exfil" from every contract

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at least let me use a fucking dcon

cinder hare
#

5k is barely a requirement for Cryo lmao

sand sluice
#

It's a painful one for me

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But to be entirely fair

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That's because assassins keep tilting me

mossy bridge
#

i've just started blocking anyone who plays assassin

neat nest
#

I play assassin in solos often so for me it’s mostly “that’s tradecraft huh” if I get dirty tricked

mossy bridge
#

maybe one day i can get a nice lobby without one

sand sluice
#

Even if they don't win they tilt me cause enemy aggro is already goofy af without their stealth breaking it even further

neat nest
#

I will also dirty trick as many people as possible on the way

sand sluice
#

Like sure USEC can wallhack me, whatever, but they completely ignore assassins every time even if an assassin shoots and I'm like, "the fuck"

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And to be clear

mossy bridge
#

would the game be any worse off without assassin

sand sluice
#

The smoke is fine

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I think the smoke is healthy but that cloak is weirdly irratic

neat nest
#

Yeah their “aggro time” and our restealth time are similar so you can mix it up near bots pretty well during camo

mossy bridge
#

it's either comically obvious or perfect stealth

neat nest
#

I will say most of my dirty trick kills just come from slow play not camo

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Even if I did walk up behind a Destroyer who solo cleared a purple box with a wstr last run

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It was honest stealth I was just walking!

oak glacier
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i killed a purple shield guy with a punch cause i caught him looting and he didnt spot me

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i was just hiding in a corner as thief

sand sluice
#

I got nothing because I know stealth is binary af but I swear it isn't fully consistent

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I've had too many times I hear footsteps and there's nothing visible before they already swing and other times I can see the outline

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And again I think I more just tilt cause I get wallhacked by the USEC

oak glacier
#

wallhacked?

mossy bridge
#

every fucking tom dick and harry appears from the heavens every time i finish run/hide 3

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shot through cover

cinder hare
#

Anyone wanna try out Cryo in like an hour

mossy bridge
#

it's not even out yet

oak glacier
#

its not out yet

cinder hare
#

Wait

sand sluice
# oak glacier wallhacked?

They detect me and aggro me through walls, it happens to other players too and has gotten me killed because it happened to other players cause I got misinfo

cinder hare
#

I thought patch notes were out

neat nest
#

The ARG soldiers have to finish up before it unlocks

#

Get solving

sand sluice
#

And like again

oak glacier
#

the patch is out

cinder hare
#

Oh

oak glacier
#

cryo is just not unlocked

neat nest
#

Preservation is probably the last puzzle layer and the ARG soldiers are working on the final puzzle there

#

So plausibly Cryo by tomorrow

sand sluice
#

If it happens all the time it doesn't bother me but then assassin rolls around and their cloak breaks the usec aggro even more and I'm like, "bruh plz"

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Like I think

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What's supposedly happening

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Is USEC can hear runners but can't hear assassin cloaked

neat nest
#

The only truly genuinely tilting thing which has happened to me in Marathon was trying to shoot a UESC recruit and hitting the perfectly cloaked Ghost Commander standing in front of him and then freaking out and dying to it because I was so surprised

sand sluice
#

Ive had a lot of smaller tilt things but in general the only things that have upset me have primarily been weird cloak situations with assassin

mossy bridge
#

i've gotten so fucking mad at so many things in this game it is unreal

sand sluice
#

Like even dying because I rush into an assassin cloak and they wild swing melee I can go, "yeah that's on me"

neat nest
#

Assassin cloak is like smoke aiui, it just hard drops bot aggro

mossy bridge
#

i just cannot accept that things are my fault sometimes im always "oh fuck you" and "fuck off" when i die

sand sluice
#

But when an assassin shoots at usec, they walk over, he cloaks, I shoot at assassin and somehow assassin being visible due to the shots doesn't make usec hear or see him I'm like, "okay this is dumb"

tawdry sequoia
#

Probably has an aggro buildup

sand sluice
#

Maybe

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But fwiw

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Solos is an afterthought mode anyways

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So a bit more difficult for me to want to balance assassin around it when it's clear assassin doesn't get off as easy in trios

cinder hare
#

Solos is designed more to make people happy than anything

neat nest
#

Solos is nice because if I shoot someone I don’t have 2 buddies waiting for the counterkill

cinder hare
#

Duos feels more in-line with that the game actually would work with

neat nest
#

But also I love the wonderfully tactical and tactile 3v3 dynamics

cinder hare
#

Also yeah positioning (vert) and a sniper makes you fucking undefeatable in Dire

sand sluice
#

Well tbf

cinder hare
#

Just sit on a roof and boom, nobody can fucking touch you

sand sluice
#

Assassin + cloak + standing still with sniper = nearly free win

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Since perfectly invisible outside of graphical glitches or thermals

#

But yeah dire marsh is the end game map currently with mid rewards

#

At least until cryo releases

neat nest
#

Dire marsh isn’t an endgame map

sand sluice
#

Or they rework quests so not so mant are on dire

#

It's more of an endgame map than outpost

neat nest
#

No it’s not lol

sand sluice
#

Like I'm hoping cryo is harder

#

Why would you say not? It has more difficult events, the most difficult boss, and the most later stage quests

neat nest
#

Endgame means once you’ve completed all quests

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People are going there to do prio contracts which makes it a bloodbath because of the east-west movement dynamics

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So it’s not endgame

#

You even said it has mid rewards haha

sand sluice
#

Oh then yeah no maps are endgame

neat nest
#

I think like half of the Dire Marsh lethality thing is that people reaallly want to cut through Intersection and Ponds and those places turn into super lethal areas because of it (leaving aside the various contracts which take you there)

#

It’s comparatively safe and boring to cut through the canal and south of maintenance

#

Even though I’m super guilty of cutting through Intersection frequently lol

#

But most contracts have you go east-west on Marsh at least once since there’s so many ones which have you running all over

sand sluice
#

Or uhh

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South East west, then south, north, east, back to south

#

Good lord that was a goofy contract

neat nest
#

I listen to this less than I should but it’s a very good early rotation map

#

But it also makes stuff like that “go to bioresearch and then quarantine” mission hard

sand sluice
#

Ive died more following green than going through red

#

But tbf

#

I do W key people a lot

#

Cause it's too unsafe not to

chilly pebble
#

it's also because they expect people from those routes

sand sluice
#

Jfc I keep forgetting that like

placid oxide
#

<@&1474420814979010821> Any down to try out the new patch?

sand sluice
#

Part of the reason I w key people so hard

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Is because assassins exist and it's so much safer to take out as many assassins as possible than leave them running around the map and cause USEC aggro to go haywire

neat nest
void stirrup
#

yo guys check out my new loot from Cryo

neat nest
#

Tacotimmer’s tweets aren’t super popular

#

lol

sand sluice
#

It'll let you go to the halo rings clearly PochitaNod

#

But yeah no dire marsh just feels goofy cause to me I consider it end game cause its later stage questing non stop it feels like + the other stuff like scorch warden just being more annoying to fight of the 3

#

But tbf I dont think bungie will ever add an actual true end game map that requires completion of all prio contracts

oak glacier
#

cant wait to find keys to lh'owon

neat nest
#

Year 2

sand sluice
#

Season 2 is the actual horror game

#

When Dire Marsh is night time

#

And the anomaly spawns actual mimics

neat nest
#

Update to the ARG soldiers

neat nest
sand sluice
# neat nest Update to the ARG soldiers

Understood, jumping into every toxic plant I see and injecting myself with symbiot C.0X by synthesizing a C.0X key with chitin biosample from bio-research in quarantine

neat nest
#

This is sending me

placid oxide
#

Logged in and holy christ I have so much room in my vault now

sand sluice
#

I'm gonna login and have like

#

No vault space still

#

But tbf it's because I'm behind

patent thicket
sand sluice
#

There's even more satirism if you think about the influencer personality types of the faction contacts

placid oxide
#

Maybe you guys are stuck in a corpo hellscape but I am just here for the vibes

neat nest
#

Dire Marsh is ludicrously pretty when the weather isn’t some bullshit

placid oxide
#

When the weather is nice and you aren't getting 3rd partied its gorgeous

sand sluice
#

Always very pretty

neat nest
#

Oh shit

sand sluice
#

Lmao they forgot to redact it

cinder hare
#

YO THEY NERFED THE WSTR YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

sand sluice
#

Where?

cinder hare
#

opportunist

#

indirect nerf

#

but the combo was insanely oppressive if played right, also the warden shred

placid oxide
#

It also got its spread significantly nerfed

#

directly

neat nest
#

Yeah haha

sand sluice
#

That took my brain way too long to parse

#

I kept reading it as nerf to spread = making spread tighter and I was like, "but how is that a nerf"

neat nest
#

It’s a nerf to a bunch of parts of it

sand sluice
#

Jfc I forgot they call bullet magnetism aim assist

#

Or is it actually aim assist?

#

My brain can not read those words for some reason

placid oxide
#

I believe it is functionally bullet magnetism yes

neat nest
#

It is yeah

#

Marathon also has aim assist on controller

#

But it’s different from the stat

sand sluice
#

The spin ready is the weapon swap ready time right?

neat nest
#

I think so

#

I’m not sure

placid oxide
#

Bungie loves their vague, obtuse names for things

sand sluice
#

I might be too dumb to understand these words rn ngl

#

But I also expect numbers

#

Like some sort of

#

Statistics doer

mossy bridge
neat nest
#

This is usually what I do but occasionally shit goes Very Wrong near intersection

#

Damn this has aura

mossy bridge
#

I just fucking ran past a guy one time

#

Only saw him when I got past the fence

neat nest
#

Lmao that’s great

mossy bridge
#

I don’t think he even noticed

#

Somehow

#

I was wearing the nucal thief skin so

#

About as visible as possible

#

oh cool new skin for killing a compiler and then exfiltrating

#

“let’s all wear face masks and not tell triage recon or thief”

#

Oh my god I just saw a post of outpost

#

THERES ROOMBAS

sand sluice
mossy bridge
neat nest
placid oxide
#

Friend roomba

mossy bridge
#

I had a thought

#

One of the mods mentions [REDACTED] enemies

#

Are we gonna see simulacrums on the marathon?

#

The “Thank God, it’s you! BOOM” guys

sand sluice
#

Prob the uhh

placid oxide
#

Think the achievements already ruined what the redacted guys were

sand sluice
#

Yeah exactly

placid oxide
#

Which, gotta say, after all the secrecy it feels a bit silly to have it drop that way

neat nest
#

I mean, it was pretty clear

placid oxide
#

Well sure

#

But playing coy all the way up to this then having it like that seems a bit deflating

neat nest
#

I wouldn’t be shocked by simulacrums or even some other Pfhor hardware

neat nest
#

It is really funny how much they played coy though

placid oxide
#

That's what I mean

#

Everyone knew but not saying it the whole time

neat nest
#

Ah fair I follow now

sand sluice
#

I think the codex for the skins was a fumble ye

#

Should have been redacted like they did in the patch notes

placid oxide
#

Yep

sand sluice
#

But it happnes

#

Who knows

#

Maybe they expected cryo to be unlocked by the time the patch went live

neat nest
#

I’m actually excited to see little previews before we can go in tbh

#

I think the most important stuff remains hidden

#

Map mechanics and layout

#

How S’pht fight

#

Where you can find that cloth worth 40,000 smackeroos

placid oxide
#

I'm hoping they keep as much hidden as possible before it opens tbh

#

I enjoy the genuine sense of figuring it out as a community

#

S'pht look dope and I am hopeful that fighting them feels like a legit horror game rather than just dumping bully mags into them

#

Have to do the last bit of Selection Pressures and I may just wait until folks are on for that bit lol

sand sluice
neat nest
sand sluice
#

Oh contraband

#

If I had to guess rng loot behind the contraband 6th key

#

Or maybe the 7th key

#

Since uhh

#

That exists

#

Im moreso curious about like

#

If contraband gear exists

#

Cause I know we have the prestige gear

neat nest
#

I’ve only need non-combat contrabands so far

#

A few trinkets and the cloth and the key and such

sand sluice
#

Yup

#

Like there's the uhh

#

Durandal snippet

#

Which generates a locked room key every exfil

#

But it's fragile

neat nest
#

This is a weird one

sand sluice
#

God

#

Id want to keep that in my vault

#

Looks so goofy I love it

neat nest
#

I’m wondering wtf CyAc gives you for it

sand sluice
#

Wait that's a salvage?!

placid oxide
#

It's actually a consumable

#

salvage is there to trick you

#

Tastes like cherry coke

cinder hare
#

i saw an aztecross clip

#

it's a bit of engagement bait, but man that accent/voice

mossy bridge
sand sluice
placid oxide
#

Walking in to Best Buy to get a new keyboard because you smashed yours to pieces in fright

cinder hare
#

insane idea

sand sluice
#

Nah I was locked in, my hands didn't leave the keyboard

cinder hare
#

swap loadouts with a team mate

#

exfil

#

infinite storage glitch

#

:3

sand sluice
#

Yeah but you gotta exfil

neat nest
#

I think returned items expire and disappear after some time

#

A week? 48 hours? I forget

cinder hare
#

what does the 25 mean in the corner

#

like 25 creds?

neat nest
#

I think it’s shorthand for how many items it calls for

sand sluice
#

25 items yes

#

25 neurochem packs in this case

#

The blue sponsored kits are worth about 10k credits IIRC

#

Or cost 10k credits

cinder hare
#

ahhhhhh

#

10k yeah

sand sluice
#

Green ones cost 4k IIRC

#

Which is what I'm a bit curious about

#

Cause can you bring a blue sponsored kit into cryo if it costs 10k but doesn't sell for 10k?

cinder hare
#

big fan of how you can just get all this for free

neat nest
#

Which I don’t remember for fancy kits

#

I think free sponsor kits show up as 0 so it’s not sell value of the stuff there

sand sluice
#

Oh that's a good point

neat nest
#

I’ve actually never bought a fancy kit so idk

cinder hare
#

the keys now show some stuff

#

<@&1474420814979010821> who Marton

placid oxide
#

I'm game

cinder hare
#

Gimme 5 for water

sand sluice
#

Can either of you pull up the codex titles for me

#

Apparently they added a new one

cinder hare
#

the fact that this here is 3.5k makes the 5k lim feel small lol

#

tbf 2.5k of that is the WSTR

sand sluice
#

Wait what

#

Oh yeah Im big dumb

#

It is just loadout value

cinder hare
#

this is a 5k pack

sand sluice
#

Yeah that makes the 5k way more approachable

#

I always have the money value turned on in raid so to me a wstr is like 1.2k

neat nest
#

Yeah 5k is non-trivial but easy to hit

#

If you’re running top end purples you’re easily at like 15k

sand sluice
#

Yeah I'm dumb

#

I wonder what the ranked entry fees will be

#

Low stakes I imagine would be fairly cheap

neat nest
#

No idea how legit it is but a basic bronze holo tag is supposedly 500

sand sluice
#

Interesting

neat nest
#

I expect it scales up with rank esp above plat

split apex
neat nest
#

I think this guy might be getting the same weird volt weapon results but I’m not sure

#

It’s a good table

#

I don’t remember why (the thread with the explanation is archived) but iirc there’s some weird stuff with volt weapons which DPS calcs miss

#

I haven’t seen the video only looking at the table

split apex
neat nest
#

I can’t remember

#

I know the Volt Thrower is deceptive because it can’t headshot though

#

But this chart gets that right

split apex
#

Yeh

neat nest
#

I am not seeing very good info

split apex
sand sluice
neat nest
#

Yeah lots of good anecdotes

#

I’ve also had the volt thrower absolutely chew up people in blue+shields

cinder hare
#

@warm sage ya up?

neat nest
#

The ARG may be on the verge of being cracked

#

I think it might have been done

cinder hare
#

man i love rook

#

solid as hell run

#

met a bunch of friendly rooks

#

i love how every rook suddenly agreed that other rooks are friend

neat nest
#

Earned us a new hint

#

Double ignore lol

#

Cryo probably tonight?

cinder hare
#

<@&1474420814979010821> anyone wanna go for wraith warden and maybe snipe some runners

placid oxide
#

There’s one more section after preservation right?

#

Cryohub I think

neat nest
#

I think the last region might be a victory lap

cinder hare
#

Buffing golds lmao

neat nest
#

Interesting

wintry shuttle
#

Hmmmmm

#

Puzzle mania it is then

split apex
#

Good

mossy bridge
#

They should've nerfed the WSTR harder.

#

i wish they completely fucking gutted it frankly

#

i wish it healed you if you were shot with it but hurt your team mates

placid oxide
#

Hmm, is that including team fill too?

neat nest
#

Yeah afaik just no solos

final onyx
#

im gna get some better gear and then bust out my cryo key

mossy bridge
#

were bungie intentionally trying to one up tarkov in terms of quests that make you want to rip your hair out

placid oxide
#

Wow that’s kinda cool

#

Intensely interested to see what this map ends up being

sand sluice
#

Ah rip

placid oxide
#

People speculating that it is going to be Destiny 2 raid difficult has me a bit confused

#

I don’t see that working in a pvpve game

#

More difficult fights and puzzles sure but doing something as complicated as Rhul while also having the threat of being beamed down by a rando seems rough

twin rain
#

It coooould but it'd have to be much different than what is being suggested. Not so much D2 "memorize this wall of symbols" raid-level but definitely more than "here's a beefy enemy with an ability or two". Like with the events in the current slate of maps with big map markers and announcements, but with more elaborate steps. But yeah it'd suck all the same to get interrupted. But that's also the excitement / risk/reward yknow?

mossy bridge
#

Oh my fucking godddddd dude I knocked the ghost commander I needed to kill and loot OUT OF BOUNDS

sand sluice
#

I'll only really care for cryos trios if it's pve

mossy bridge
#

HE FELL OFF THE MAP. ALONG WITH HIS CREDENTIALS.

#

I CANNOT COMPLETE THIS QUEST

neat nest
twin rain
#

yeah

#

like Dungeon level shit at worst

wintry shuttle
#

The just strategy would be to fight through it

#

the unjust strategy is to RAT.

#

RAT the winning team and shiv them with WSTR's.

#

When in doubt

cosmic flame
wintry shuttle
sand sluice
#

Yeh like it's honestly not worth at a certain point

#

Like I'll prob drop a negative review for the game and slower taper off if they do end up locking cryos to trios

wraith vector
#

I mean it sounds like they're going to

sand sluice
#

As much as I could complain endlessly about it at the end of the day I'm not someone who can consistently put the time in to 1v3 teams so it's better for me to accept it and move on

neat nest
#

You realize trios is a 3v3 right?

sand sluice
sand sluice
# neat nest You realize trios is a 3v3 right?

Eh....yeah but it kinda runs into the same situation as deadlock did where my usual friend group doesn't play the game enough and I don't feel fully comfortable being a liability elsewise

neat nest
#

made a thing

sand sluice
#

Thermal sights being considered ratting is hilarious lmao

twin rain
#

I'm enjoying imagining someone with their thermal sights installed backwards on the gun and they cannot look through it

cosmic flame
#

i enjoy many things about this game but i will never defend thermals

neat nest
#

I think with the range cutoffs thermals are in a pretty good place

#

I wish it was easier to tell if people were using them

twin rain
#

they're def not as good as they were

neat nest
#

I'd love a splinter-cell like pweeee when using them as a small tell

twin rain
#

yeah like the sniper lens flare

mossy bridge
twin rain
#

but it's purple and smaller or some shit

mossy bridge
#

oh my god

sand sluice
#

Yeah I think they're okay now cause 100m isnt full distance for Longshot right? It's halfish?

mossy bridge
#

they added a sticker

#

for going to the Cow Room

neat nest
twin rain
#

you just gotta go to the room afaik

#

I got it by accident

#

(I didn't even see the cows)

neat nest
#

I see

#

I apparently haven't been in there since the MCTT

mossy bridge
#

uhhhhhh cow room in i think lower dorms?

neat nest
#

Apparently shotguns don't get em at all

neat nest
#

I wouldn't sweat it

cosmic flame
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the bang smoke / gold 1x meta from apex being replicated 1:1 in this game is pretty tiresome and i mostly enjoy that fog acts as an environmental hardcap on sniper sightlines

neat nest
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Actually I've had some of the best randoms in Marathon vs other games which is weird

neat nest
cosmic flame
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the things the existence of thermals indirectly buff I already find pretty strong, like smokes

neat nest
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Yeah there's a lot of systems which get touched by thermals being good

cosmic flame
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even with exactly zero assassins on my team I've got a lot of value from smokes

cinder hare
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<@&1474420814979010821> anone got time?

cosmic flame
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white rarity uesc off button bredy gud

mossy bridge
neat nest
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smoke, the assassin frame, several random implants and cores which make you invis

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augh I'm lancering the shells

twin rain
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yeah I feel like even tho the smoke grenades are blissfully tiny compared to assassin smokes, every one I've thrown has been impactful

cinder hare
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big fan of this tiny UI change

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also i wanna snipe people anyone here wanna snipe

neat nest
neat nest
cinder hare
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alri

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ill just solo q perimeter ig

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or trios, bah

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why not

neat nest
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Last time I played trios fill I got a crew of all people who meant to Q solo but forgot and we whipped ass

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Even with our dumbass 2 assassin 1 destroyer comp

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great fun

twin rain
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I think assassin might (hilariously) be the best class to have multiples on in a team

placid oxide
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Fill still feels like a crapshoot tbh

sand sluice
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I will say I'm going to be personally biased against thermal nerfs but thats largely due to assassin shells existing.

So it's hard for me to be impartial about it cause I already get pretty frustrated at the cloak to begin with.

Granted the Bangalore bloodhound smoke meta is annoying so I get it and would understand nerfs logically even if personally I'd be salt

twin rain
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as they can all benefit from each other's smokes

random vessel
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I keep seeing big money rook runs but I have no idea how to maneuver to do the same

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All I've been getting is the unstable mats people left behind on dire marsh

sand sluice
# neat nest I wouldn't sweat it

Ye no I agree but unfortunately it's a more personal thing where I want to be able to play a game when I'm depressed and largely not care about the effort and being forced into trios kinda makes that rough

twin rain
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I think it's either:

  • know where the good loot typically is and check
    or
  • go vulture mode and lurk the big fight areas
mossy bridge
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Gantry im begging you

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ease up

twin rain
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but those unstable mats are lowkey valuable too. they're good bartering for basic materials and you need like 100s of them for upgrades

mossy bridge
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for five seconds

sand sluice
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It's uhh

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It's gonna get harder

mossy bridge
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Yeah. I know.

neat nest
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I'm not sure how bad it is

sand sluice
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That one isn't too bad

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But tbf I just did the uhh

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||go into drone wing, scan drones, hit 7 power boxes, then exfil||

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Which tbf

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Rn might be a bit easier depending as long as you ||get into pinwheel first with drone stealth entry||

cinder hare
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i really really really wanna run this kit

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but damn the gear fear is REAL on this build

twin rain
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save it for cryo Id say

placid oxide
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Agreed

twin rain
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then we throw it all away

mossy bridge
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how is the channel rifle

placid oxide
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If I’m going to dump all my gear I want it to freeze with the Angels, not just get taken by some random who is a much better shot than me

mossy bridge
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for a reference for Ranked

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here's a 5000 credit loadout

neat nest
mossy bridge
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that would make sense

cinder hare
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anyone wanna hit pinwheel

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im kinda in the mood to run the 70 damage + crouching tiger build

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with toxin

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200 fucking damage lfg

placid oxide
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Kiddo time right now but if I’m on after I’d be down

mossy bridge
placid oxide
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I’ve yet to meet a chill Rook

neat nest
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could finally log on - feels nice

placid oxide
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Little fellas are like seagulls, they come in and make a fuss until you shoo them away (Shoot them in the cranium)

neat nest
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wtf I had 24 advanced heals?

placid oxide
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They sneak up on ya!

twin rain
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they stack to 8 in your backpack!

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so prior to today's patch you may have thought you only had 9 like regular heals

neat nest
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I knew I had a bunch but I hadn't been counting them cause they're rare

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cryo soon

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This was posted about a minute after Preservation in the ARG got cracked

twin rain
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god I'm nervous/excited

placid oxide
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Oh shit they figured it out?

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swear I just checked

sand sluice
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I'm trying to keep my expectations low

twin rain
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we're gonna simulate the seasonal reset with how empty my vault will be

neat nest
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new monologue

sand sluice
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I'll probably leave the server for a bit depending

placid oxide
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Bungie usually does a good job with this type of content tbh

sand sluice
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But tbf I am like

placid oxide
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Moreso it is the follow up that I’ve always felt was weak on their part

cinder hare
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cryo today?

sand sluice
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Trying to be mindful but with the way he's wording it I'm assuming insta down mechanics

cosmic flame
placid oxide
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Thoughts get in the way of pattern memorization for the raid puzzle anyways

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If they have a callback to DSC soundtrack I’ll geek out

cosmic flame
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Guys Guys Guys Whats Antumbra Again Guys

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that breakcore reinterpretation of the marathon 96 main theme riff is gonna hit like crack

twin rain
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honestly that's within the realm of possibility

neat nest
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What's a pinnacle challenge in a bungie context anyway?

twin rain
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usually endgame stuff

sand sluice
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Considering that's the top rank from the profile icons

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I'm assuming Master rank mmr challenge

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Unless I'm mistaken

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Lemme double check

twin rain
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it typically refers to raids in terms of content

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in D2 anyways

sand sluice
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Yeah that's what it says

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Granted idk if that's accurate

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Would have to check in game

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If they mean just like raid I really hope it's good enough cause I'm like

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Trying really hard to not get negative

twin rain
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confusingly they also used it as a term for a tier of rewards/loot which could drop from several other activities, such as strikes, weekly quests, and pvp. it was at the highest power level that could drop (which was dependant on your current power level)

neat nest
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😵‍💫

placid oxide
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Bungie and vague wording for game terms, name a more loving pair

twin rain
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it's probably just a quality/challenge equivalency if I had to guess. It's just the Marathon version of the endgame

cosmic flame
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yeh

tawdry sequoia
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oh hey, ranked level is visible now

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neat

placid oxide
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We all start at Bronze 3 I think?

tawdry sequoia
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yep

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would make sense

sand sluice
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Actually now I'm wondering if ranked is forced trios

grave pebble
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Believe it is. No fills, one queue afaik

tawdry sequoia
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would make sense

grave pebble
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Go in with a squad or git gud enough to 1v3

tawdry sequoia
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I'm just crawling around in solos doing quests

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have gotten no progress on my priority contracts in fill/vc games (part cause I don't force 'em) so I'm super low progress on them

grave pebble
sand sluice
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I'd rather do cyro and ranked 1v3s as an option rather than forced trios yeah

grave pebble
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Because in my head I'm imagining a destiny raid , with no respawns, where you can get jumped by other players

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I haven't heard that cryo doesn't have fills but I imagine it would be a bad idea to go in there with a fill

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Wonder if they'll try to implement an actual party finder in this game at least

sand sluice
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yeah I'm def curious

placid oxide
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Do hope that Cryohub ends up being a short, perfunctory step

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What’s this I saw about someone in the arg channel having their twitch viewers spam hate gifs?

neat nest
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Ok cracked preservation for myself

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This section is a motherfucker

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Hard asf knowing the answers

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Here they are fwiw

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There's also a userscript which can output the ones you need then in priority order on the page

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Which is how I did it

cinder hare
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What the fuck does any of this mean

placid oxide
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Cryo is one step closer to unlocked!