#Marathon
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ah ok, i guess being able to literally triple stuff like energy amps would be a bit silly
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?
o-ho
YOU CAN SELF RES SHAREWARE
ITS INSANE
last night i clutched up with @pale flare because i gave her my self rez via drone
oh actually I was self-rezzing at the same time, but I don't actually know which happened first?
i think i was pretty early on it
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
I don't think so. The prompt only appears when you're down
ik you can use patch kits at full health
idt its even usable from the med menu
had a crazy outpost run
much schmoney
Oh Man
OH NO
OH FUCK NO
OH NO NO NO NO
jumping up and down excitedly
||W'RKNCACNTER MENTION!||
Wait no, I read the last one first nevermind.
...Is it the ||W'rkncacnter?||
the last one is, first one sounds like the ||S'pht||
||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.||
||I don't think they necessarily worship the work'counters , but they clearly appear to have some reverence for the S'pht||
||The S'pht homeworld was orbiting a star that had a/the (unclear which) W'rkncacnter in it.||
||it does sound to me like the colonists were inducted into the S'pht religion, which is crazy, because it would basically require you to believe in your own non-sapience, right?||
it's "dying when i get good loot" fear
||Cause humanity was never uplifted by the Jjaro and they're not inherently a cybernetic species||
unless they retcon that ig. it does make the timeline even fuckier though
||Cause this would have to be after the S'pht liberation, which would put it.....at least halfway through Marathon 2 I suppose?||
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
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
<@&1474420814979010821> anyone have time for a few runs?
not worth it unless you already have all the upgrades you could spent it on
nah
i mean yeah tbh synapse cubes rare asf
but at the same time this is an insane combo
join us
Trying to get reclaimed biostripping and it's suffering
if you want a specific piece of salvage, the game will deny it to you
I noticed
the desire sensor is back
she... she reclaim my... she stripping til i re... sh...
Heh
<@&1474420814979010821> I'm about ready for more runs, anyone free?
ya
(I will need a few mins)
(same)
ready now lmk
Still looking for 1
im out for today
"sponsored kit"
ngl the suggestion of "just keep using what you loot" without ever thinking to vault it for one sec helps a lot
i only vault what i absolutely wont use or dont need now
and i went from gray to green to dead to green (from previous run) to full blues
oh my god i fucking love rat pack
this shit is amazing
really liking the retaliation
still looking?
full now
<@&1474420814979010821> anyone running?
7/10 finishers, good place to leave for the night
gotta stop assuming that someone is good at the game just cause they're good at the shooting
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
they fuck off to a random poi and end up costing us the final exfil
I wonder what the matchmaking is for Marathon
Skill-based? Exfil%?
I don’t think it’s loadout-based
I’ve had too many runs full of purples while we were on free kits
I’d imagine something like lightly weighted by skill + slightly more heavily loadout would work
long ago bungie mentioned it was by runner level
no idea if that's it or if that's still true
Runner level feels wrong somehow
I’m level like, 45 and I’m probably not as good as many of the level 20s
lol had a stupid run
going for one of the later nucals
ran into a glitch also doing it
lost and ran off
got a safe and fucked off with cats
i want to say level based but my last 2 perimeter runs i matched with level 70s-80s, so i think there are multiple factors
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
i didnt go in with anything purple
<@&1474420814979010821> run or three?
Id be down
in voice, bungie is Sunn Bro#3165 , just going to the bathroom
zero to hero rat solo runs are fun
you can hide really well in hauler
exfils are common there
just camp it
Died to a destroyer appearing out of nowhere while I stabbed a different thief to death
this is definitely a 'leave your squad for dead' type haul
both of them got downed, but one of them managed to smoke the extract and i just snuck out lol
yeah if extract is popped and you don't think you can 1v3 just leave
we all went in with sponkits so we absolutely ruined purple's day here
where do you even find purple salvage in perimeter btw? I thought that would only be dire marsh and above
Just get lucky, mostly
you can get prestige loot in any container
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they need to like
rebalance the quests or something
why are 90% of the quests on dire marsh
like it feels rough cause it's an end-game map with the quests but with non end-game loot like outpost
i kinda agree yeah
outpost is my favorite map
it's excellent honestly
its small enough to make for fast rotations
deadly and nicely vertical without being excessive
Was gonna ask "what about the rest of Outpost?"
good sightlines and plenty of outdoor movement while having lots of tight spaces
I'm assuming they're going to do like a new map or something every season
cause holy shit everything feels frontloaded on dire marsh
or modifications to a map
I'm gonna lose my mind doing dire marsh all the time
but also, at some point i hope we get a tarkov/drg style map selection if we get more maps
something like the tauceti.world map but cooler, basically
that or give us new enemy designs
i love the wraith warden
like have space wolves show in and fuck up everybody's shit
we're gonna fight pfhor or some shit at some point
I need to start doing Rook runs
Hopefully run into others
Rooks together strong
Rooks alone survive
i did about 3 rook runs today and 80% of the other rooks i ran into were friendly
i feel like the rook population is undergoing ethnogenesis
not by default
they scan as enemies and you have to prox chat to talk to each other
i mean by community standards
ahh right
i want a pve game similar to marathon/tarkov
preferably more marathon
but like, a game with decently good movement, that roguelite feeling, and them tough bots
... witchfire?
i always got the impression that witchfire was more of a destiny/borderlands-like
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
mmm
witchfire is more boomer shooter-y
halo
i like ultrakill but speedrunner brain makes me not like playing it that much
because im always too slow feeling
oh you want an extraction shooter>?
unfortunately very few exist that are sci-fy
only ones atm I believe are tarkov and marathon
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
doesnt need to be scifi
and tarkov is less sci-fy and more milsim with sci-fy elements
moreso, needs to feel like how marathon feels
or like, GTFO
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this is my post on like, pve extraction shooters
I would honestly say maybe zero sievert if you want slower movement
but it's top down
but it also has sci-fy 100%
however
zs has no melee for you
so melee enemies will jump you literally
top down 
yeah you're in the same boat I am generally speaking
first person/3rd person pve is still largely getting off the ground
with my best recs being like
I had the thought of “wow stealth hasn’t been this essential since GTFO”
Incursion Red River, Grayzone Warfare (not really an extraction shooter but it's close enough if you consider DRG an extraction shooter)
issue is like
arc raiders is THE pve extraction shooter though, right? It has pvp but it aggressively matchmakes pvpers into their own queues
none of them are gonna have bungie-like enemies that tokyo drift on you
and it just really isnt an "extraction"
i dont play arc out of principles
fuck AI
its also ugly as shit imo, but thats very imo
I disclude AI slop games from my list, there's a MUCH better indie game that uses AI voices that would take the place over arc raiders that is one of the better games I've played in the last five years
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"
anyways yeah not super easy cause like my top choices for PVE solo extraciton shooters are gonna be like
Incursion Red River (1st), Sulfer, Project Silverfish (more stalker like than an extraction shooter), Zero Sievert (top down), Witchfire, and Escape from Duckov
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
and I do recommend it if you think the vision is neat
They’re planning on removing it
Absolutely voicemogged by the goat gantry
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)
like Active Matter doesn't list it on their store page (for some goofy reason)
but then it's on like their official website
and I'm suspect it's cause of gaijin being the publisher
oh
@cinder hare there's also the division
I have no idea how the game is
mmm
I also don't know if it's actual full proper extraction shooter and not just mmo-shooter
ngl i want Marathon's TTK to be balanced to be closer to like, V66 levels overall
it's a very satisfying TTK
it's fast but it gives time to react, time to play around it
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
from what i hear, the division has an extraction-like gamemode, but that's the one with pvp enabled
I think current ttk is largely fine in marathon
yeah there's just some guns being too fast
it's weirdly enough reactable for the most part
yeah but that's more an econ issue than a ttk issue tbf
the V66 feels incredibly perfect
assuming you're not caught fully with your pants down, yeah
like if you couldn't get the wstr and longshot off every other goober usec you probably wouldn't feel it as much
yeah its heavily longshot + WSTR being problems
a sniper and a shotgun being oppressive in a bungie game? Say it ain't so
imo getting shot at should knock you outta the thing you're looting
sometimes i try to react but cant cuz im still in the menu
- knock you off terminals
yeahhhhhh
deserved.
at least for terminals give the option to disengage
clear them out.
yeah there's been times when i've fully committed to quest terminals even when i knew i was going to die shortly
I do not want assassin buffed further thank you
i think that plus some adjustments to some weapons would help
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
I just want to choose on the terminals cause omg they last so long and at least let me decide
looting feels a bit delayed on closing the window it's very silly
yeah I've def been there
Man imagine each season wipe is ||the wrkncanter popping out the sun||
maybe we all just decide to cash out at the exact same time
and then get mugged and lose it all
And then have to come back to mercenary work
Yeah the easy assumption is that it's loan repayment day for all of our shells
Got the drone conveyance request in like 30 seconds
made it to drone wing, had no shields as I cleared the entire pinwheel area from the sponsored kit
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)
assassin players lose again

this is one of the few games where i just. take screenshots of the game
because it's that cool looking
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
my collection
- 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!!!!!!!!!!!
i wonder if assimilated bobs will come back
vacuum bobs and regular bobs too
FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE!
me: oh boy i'll do a solo run to farm some resources-
marathon: "downtime in 5 minutes"
Oh I misunderstood the timing hmm
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
Also looks like all but 1 puzzle for the Preservation puzzle is solved
Jfc Bungie cooked with the dynamic map events from other players doing their quests (Mida contract spoilers)
Oh is that connected to a contract?
Think Chuckle, Fastnuts-
I'm trying to get my squads to recognize engaging early means we have to sprint to catch up but
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||
Ah cool
Honestly half the reason I’ve done triage for the majority of my runs is because he’s just such a damn good utility
Like drones help so much
Triage is good as hell
I 1) need to use his emp more and 2) only just found out the bit recharges shields
I want to play more of the other shells but like goddamn is it so useful to have a triage on the team
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.
Hopefully this means I can play Dire without taking out half the lobby again
Knife
Knife cosmetics will no longer unequip after failing to exfil.
I had a genuine tilter of a run where I killed 4 runners working on that fucking MIDA quest
Oh that's why I didn't notice that bug :v
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
hell yeaaaaaaaaah
And the died to a UESC ghost commander FUCK
So happy for this
Also funny way to learn that suppressors had more effects than just making your shooting quiet
I think I ran into one so far
no news on claymore drone yet
(Thief drone could steal your shit while you were locked into the exfil animation)
Very happy for the wstr nerfs too
Claymore drone is funny and has (theoretical) counterplay at least
it's funny as a clip
in match, I'd be less entertained
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
lol real
I also still have that greenhouse key and a few lockbox keys I wanna use
no point sitting on them
I didn't see anything about the arachne skins in the update, I wonder if they'll be tied to ranked
some sort of bounty system maybe
Maybe! Also not mid-season yet so we shall see
Ranked in 4 days
Any more info on it? I must have missed it in patch notes
Not sure if this is official info or from the old leak
Chuuni as fuck they know what Assassin players like
Seems pretty good to me yeah
Darth Maul looking head studs
Exfilling with a Temporal Fragment will produce variable rewards depending on your seasonal Runner Level.
Okay but like
It has to be worth more than 2k
Like it flat out needed a buff
Yeah
Some people gonna be salty it wasnt available immediately from the arg lol
lol we haven’t finished the arg
Inb4 getting to cryo actually requires the keys and no one is going to bring them in raid to do it
It’ll probably go live shortly after the arg is cracked
That thankfully doesn’t seem to be the case
Since they mentioned the requirements in the arg somewhere
- season level 25
- all factions unlocked
Yeh
I think Marathon keys are secure room keys on it?
I would hope so
Damn I’m stoked for Cryo
I am remaining cautiously optimistic
Also really happy for this
Now I can pull off thermals and such without it taking so long
Though with the range nerfs thermals now (appropriately) feel more like powerful specialized gear not god sights
I need to see actual purple sights
Cause rn thermals are still the strongest I've seen
Thermals are still really good but the range caps make them no longer reliable battlefield scanners
Except for thermal snipers
Oh cool Marton keys are decoding
Oh wait
This weapon deals significantly increased damage against [REDACTED] combatants.```
Im digging this perspective on Marathon’s framing and lore
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.
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.
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?
oh GOD the ranked icons dont appear until you unlock them
im going to have a permanent fucking notification
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.
Huh
5,000 smackaroos isn’t too bad
5000 credits per run
Like
Holistically?
And is that sell or buy value?
Cause like
Presumably it’s based on the value before runs for sell value
Yeah I'ma like
Works out to basically an incomplete/mixed blue loadout usually I feel
Nooooot exactly
Backpacks and shields sell for little
180 for reinforced green, I think 500 for green backpacks?
I’m going off of what my loadout value looks like going into runs haha
Most of the credits are in guns and such
What are you taking that costs that much?
2 blue-green guns is easily 2-4 k
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
Modded wstr is like 3-3.5k for one example
Yeah modded guns are worth a bunch
Yeah I don't bring in modded wstrs unless I just picked one up which is rare
Ok so?
Well that's kinda the point of the value gate
Usually it's just the pocket wstr off the grunts
It makes you bring more expensive stuff
Yeah I'm just thinking of how you can game it
I'm thinking just take greenbackpack full of blue weapon mods
Why not just use blue weapons
Advanced meds exp and also trying to do the least possible for lower risk
oh hey the ready up screen has footstep noises and you hold your knife now
instead of just fists
May need to factor in other player's kits more with the 5k minimum
Ok well you'll have to risk 5k of gear either way
Oh nice the fists was weird
Yeah I'm thinking about what I know of other players and assuming they'll do similarish stuff depending
Granted
Wstr 2 taps all shields in the game so 
Prob just frontload a wstr with weapon mods and play around that
On the other hand
I'm curious to see how random queue will be
On the flipside can just go farm wardens and bring in their guns
Since their guns default to like 1.8ish k minimum
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
It means I kinda do have to retire my brokie playstyle of using cheap shit to squeak through contracts quickly lol
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
But I can just do actual resourcing runs ever
I kinda wish the ante was a little higher, but I get that people will probably have a quest or two there
Rather than just throw money at the wall to see it evaporate
I think 5000 is a good sweet spot for now
I think 5k is a pretty good one
There’s absolutely people with crazy vaults who just won’t care but
5k is fine but I actually am not sure any quests will exist for it right now
That’ll be the case at any sane value lol
What I feel like it's primarily for gold resource hunting
would be funny if arachne quests required playing ranked
what arachne quests there's literally a single priority one that's it lmao
Once you hit 7 Charter congratulates you which is fun
||it does it again later IIRC, rank 20ish I think?||
Actually another thing
C.OX keys gonna count for value assumingly too
Yeah I was thinking about that those aren’t cheap
So yeah do warden farming until you get a key
Then take their gun and loadout into cryo with the key
I don’t really think that’s the best way honestly
And you're probably hitting the value
It's unfortunately not cause loot drops from them kinda weak compared to just outpost sponsored kit spam
I mean it doesn’t need to be sponsored #crediblebutinexpensivekitspam
Wdym? I meant farming outpost with sponsored kit for gear upgrade 
Cause then with that you can just go into cryo with those weapon lockers in pinwheel
I also like how it's 5k which is 1k above the uhhh
Deluxe sponsored kits
Or w/e the green ones are called
Actually those are 0 sell so idk 
please can we just fucking remove "and exfil" from every contract
at least let me use a fucking dcon
5k is barely a requirement for Cryo lmao
It's a painful one for me
But to be entirely fair
That's because assassins keep tilting me
i've just started blocking anyone who plays assassin
I play assassin in solos often so for me it’s mostly “that’s tradecraft huh” if I get dirty tricked
maybe one day i can get a nice lobby without one
Even if they don't win they tilt me cause enemy aggro is already goofy af without their stealth breaking it even further
I will also dirty trick as many people as possible on the way
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"
And to be clear
would the game be any worse off without assassin
Yeah their “aggro time” and our restealth time are similar so you can mix it up near bots pretty well during camo
it's either comically obvious or perfect stealth
I will say most of my dirty trick kills just come from slow play not camo
Even if I did walk up behind a Destroyer who solo cleared a purple box with a wstr last run
It was honest stealth I was just walking!
i killed a purple shield guy with a punch cause i caught him looting and he didnt spot me
i was just hiding in a corner as thief
I got nothing because I know stealth is binary af but I swear it isn't fully consistent
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
And again I think I more just tilt cause I get wallhacked by the USEC
wallhacked?
every fucking tom dick and harry appears from the heavens every time i finish run/hide 3
shot through cover
Anyone wanna try out Cryo in like an hour
it's not even out yet
its not out yet
Wait
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
I thought patch notes were out
And like again
the patch is out
Oh
cryo is just not unlocked
Preservation is probably the last puzzle layer and the ARG soldiers are working on the final puzzle there
So plausibly Cryo by tomorrow
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"
Like I think
What's supposedly happening
Is USEC can hear runners but can't hear assassin cloaked
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
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
i've gotten so fucking mad at so many things in this game it is unreal
Like even dying because I rush into an assassin cloak and they wild swing melee I can go, "yeah that's on me"
Assassin cloak is like smoke aiui, it just hard drops bot aggro
i just cannot accept that things are my fault sometimes im always "oh fuck you" and "fuck off" when i die
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"
Probably has an aggro buildup
Maybe
But fwiw
Solos is an afterthought mode anyways
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
Solos is designed more to make people happy than anything
Solos is nice because if I shoot someone I don’t have 2 buddies waiting for the counterkill
Duos feels more in-line with that the game actually would work with
But also I love the wonderfully tactical and tactile 3v3 dynamics
Also yeah positioning (vert) and a sniper makes you fucking undefeatable in Dire
Well tbf
Just sit on a roof and boom, nobody can fucking touch you
Assassin + cloak + standing still with sniper = nearly free win
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
Dire marsh isn’t an endgame map
Or they rework quests so not so mant are on dire
It's more of an endgame map than outpost
No it’s not lol
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
Endgame means once you’ve completed all quests
People are going there to do prio contracts which makes it a bloodbath because of the east-west movement dynamics
So it’s not endgame
You even said it has mid rewards haha
Oh then yeah no maps are endgame
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
Or uhh
South East west, then south, north, east, back to south
Good lord that was a goofy contract
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
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
it's also because they expect people from those routes
Jfc I keep forgetting that like
<@&1474420814979010821> Any down to try out the new patch?
Part of the reason I w key people so hard
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
Most people don’t ime
yo guys check out my new loot from Cryo
Contraband key from cyro
It'll let you go to the halo rings clearly 
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
cant wait to find keys to lh'owon
Year 2
Season 2 is the actual horror game
When Dire Marsh is night time
And the anomaly spawns actual mimics
Update to the ARG soldiers
Oh yeah they’ll probably have mimics in it
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
This is sending me
Logged in and holy christ I have so much room in my vault now
I'm gonna login and have like
No vault space still
But tbf it's because I'm behind
I thought this was fairly obvious. It’s like Cruelty Squad, but less Dadaist.
There's even more satirism if you think about the influencer personality types of the faction contacts
Maybe you guys are stuck in a corpo hellscape but I am just here for the vibes
Dire Marsh is ludicrously pretty when the weather isn’t some bullshit
When the weather is nice and you aren't getting 3rd partied its gorgeous
I like seeing the explosion happen south out of bounds
Always very pretty
Lmao they forgot to redact it
Where?
opportunist
indirect nerf
but the combo was insanely oppressive if played right, also the warden shred
Yeah haha
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"
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
I believe it is functionally bullet magnetism yes
It is yeah
Marathon also has aim assist on controller
But it’s different from the stat
The spin ready is the weapon swap ready time right?
Bungie loves their vague, obtuse names for things
I might be too dumb to understand these words rn ngl
But I also expect numbers
Like some sort of
Statistics doer
My advice is just go to bio research then go around greenhouse then use as much movement in your wheelhouse as possible to sprint through intersection to quarantine
This is usually what I do but occasionally shit goes Very Wrong near intersection
Damn this has aura
Lmao that’s great
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


Friend roomba
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
Prob the uhh
Think the achievements already ruined what the redacted guys were
Yeah exactly
Which, gotta say, after all the secrecy it feels a bit silly to have it drop that way
I mean, it was pretty clear
Well sure
But playing coy all the way up to this then having it like that seems a bit deflating
I wouldn’t be shocked by simulacrums or even some other Pfhor hardware
There was a compiler in the Marathon in the reveal trailer
It is really funny how much they played coy though
Ah fair I follow now
I think the codex for the skins was a fumble ye
Should have been redacted like they did in the patch notes
Yep
But it happnes
Who knows
Maybe they expected cryo to be unlocked by the time the patch went live
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
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
There's a what?
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
I’ve only need non-combat contrabands so far
A few trinkets and the cloth and the key and such
Yup
Like there's the uhh
Durandal snippet
Which generates a locked room key every exfil
But it's fragile
This is a weird one
I’m wondering wtf CyAc gives you for it
Wait that's a salvage?!
cyac should give you a six pack of beer and 5,000,000 dollars in cash just for even picking the thing up considering how much work it's going to be to get one
Reminds me I scared myself fighting scorch warden at 3 AM the other day and let out a very disorientated "waaaaaah" sound.
Cause the rabbit knight plushie I have fell over and landed on my hand on my keyboard and I thought it was a giant bug
Walking in to Best Buy to get a new keyboard because you smashed yours to pieces in fright
insane idea
Nah I was locked in, my hands didn't leave the keyboard
Yeah but you gotta exfil
I think returned items expire and disappear after some time
A week? 48 hours? I forget
I think it’s shorthand for how many items it calls for
25 items yes
25 neurochem packs in this case
The blue sponsored kits are worth about 10k credits IIRC
Or cost 10k credits
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?
big fan of how you can just get all this for free
I imagine it’s whatever the loadout value says it is
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
Oh that's a good point
I’ve actually never bought a fancy kit so idk
I'm game
Gimme 5 for water
ight vc
the fact that this here is 3.5k makes the 5k lim feel small lol
tbf 2.5k of that is the WSTR
this is a 5k pack
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
Yeah 5k is non-trivial but easy to hit
If you’re running top end purples you’re easily at like 15k
Yeah I'm dumb
I wonder what the ranked entry fees will be
Low stakes I imagine would be fairly cheap
No idea how legit it is but a basic bronze holo tag is supposedly 500
Interesting
I expect it scales up with rank esp above plat
Master Chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xiBwYPWsJbQKErFKXBS89ZKFSEXM3BcF9XXASIkjAak/edit?usp=sharing
I wanted to understand how the weapons in Marathon actually work, not just which guns feel strong, but what the numbers really say about the sandbox. So I built a full weapon chart calculating damage, RPM, headshot multipliers, DPS...
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
do they do additional damage to shields or something?
I can’t remember
I know the Volt Thrower is deceptive because it can’t headshot though
But this chart gets that right
Yeh
Looking it up and I thiiiiink they do?
I am not seeing very good info

I would say yes but that's cause USEC ghosts delete my shields
Yeah lots of good anecdotes
I’ve also had the volt thrower absolutely chew up people in blue+shields
@warm sage ya up?
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
Ok second to last puzzle done
Earned us a new hint
Double ignore lol
Cryo probably tonight?
<@&1474420814979010821> anyone wanna go for wraith warden and maybe snipe some runners
I think the last region might be a victory lap
Interesting
Good
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
Hmm, is that including team fill too?
Yeah afaik just no solos
im gna get some better gear and then bust out my cryo key
were bungie intentionally trying to one up tarkov in terms of quests that make you want to rip your hair out
Ah rip
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
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?
Oh my fucking godddddd dude I knocked the ghost commander I needed to kill and loot OUT OF BOUNDS
I'll only really care for cryos trios if it's pve
I would expect things to be pretty simple by destiny standards but with the added tension of other mfs trying to Get you while you do it
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
we get that you're mad but could you stop using this channel to salt off
RAT
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
I mean it sounds like they're going to
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
You realize trios is a 3v3 right?
I'm kinda coping they won't or there will be some way to keep playing solo but I can't be that mad for having a good run
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
made a thing
Thermal sights being considered ratting is hilarious lmao
I'm enjoying imagining someone with their thermal sights installed backwards on the gun and they cannot look through it
i enjoy many things about this game but i will never defend thermals
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
they're def not as good as they were
I'd love a splinter-cell like pweeee when using them as a small tell
yeah like the sniper lens flare
but it's purple and smaller or some shit
oh my god
Yeah I think they're okay now cause 100m isnt full distance for Longshot right? It's halfish?
I'm still not really sure how to do that haha
you just gotta go to the room afaik
I got it by accident
(I didn't even see the cows)
uhhhhhh cow room in i think lower dorms?
Yeah it's now
- pistols: 40m
- precision rifles: 80m
- Snipers: 100m
- else: 60m
Apparently shotguns don't get em at all
The lfg community here and elsewhere is pretty chill ime
I wouldn't sweat it
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
Actually I've had some of the best randoms in Marathon vs other games which is weird
Yeah I wouldn't mind them copping more nerfs in the future
the things the existence of thermals indirectly buff I already find pretty strong, like smokes
Yeah there's a lot of systems which get touched by thermals being good
even with exactly zero assassins on my team I've got a lot of value from smokes
<@&1474420814979010821> anone got time?
white rarity uesc off button bredy gud
i cannot make any promises due to a long struggling battle with me and my anger issues but i will try to post it in here less in the future the problem is that this tends to make me less mad unfortunately at the expense of shitting up the channel
i am seeing my GP about this tomorrow and will pray that i get support for it
smoke, the assassin frame, several random implants and cores which make you invis
augh I'm lancering the shells
yeah I feel like even tho the smoke grenades are blissfully tiny compared to assassin smokes, every one I've thrown has been impactful
The way they just go block off a troublesome sightline is incredible
(I am unavailable - killing time before my lancer game)
Last time I played trios fill I got a crew of all people who meant to Q solo but forgot and we whipped ass
Even with our dumbass 2 assassin 1 destroyer comp
great fun
I think assassin might (hilariously) be the best class to have multiples on in a team
Fill still feels like a crapshoot tbh
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
as they can all benefit from each other's smokes
I keep seeing big money rook runs but I have no idea how to maneuver to do the same
All I've been getting is the unstable mats people left behind on dire marsh
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
I think it's either:
- know where the good loot typically is and check
or - go vulture mode and lurk the big fight areas
but those unstable mats are lowkey valuable too. they're good bartering for basic materials and you need like 100s of them for upgrades
for five seconds
Yeah. I know.
That one isn't too bad
But tbf I just did the uhh
||go into drone wing, scan drones, hit 7 power boxes, then exfil||
Which tbf
Rn might be a bit easier depending as long as you ||get into pinwheel first with drone stealth entry||
i really really really wanna run this kit
but damn the gear fear is REAL on this build
save it for cryo Id say
Agreed
then we throw it all away
how is the channel rifle
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
Awkward to use but I think it has the highest single hit damage fully charged?
that would make sense
anyone wanna hit pinwheel
im kinda in the mood to run the 70 damage + crouching tiger build
with toxin
200 fucking damage lfg
Kiddo time right now but if I’m on after I’d be down
I’ve yet to meet a chill Rook
could finally log on - feels nice
Little fellas are like seagulls, they come in and make a fuss until you shoo them away (Shoot them in the cranium)
wtf I had 24 advanced heals?
They sneak up on ya!
they stack to 8 in your backpack!
so prior to today's patch you may have thought you only had 9 like regular heals
I knew I had a bunch but I hadn't been counting them cause they're rare
cryo soon
This was posted about a minute after Preservation in the ARG got cracked
god I'm nervous/excited
I'm trying to keep my expectations low
we're gonna simulate the seasonal reset with how empty my vault will be
I'll probably leave the server for a bit depending
Bungie usually does a good job with this type of content tbh
But tbf I am like
Moreso it is the follow up that I’ve always felt was weak on their part
cryo today?
Trying to be mindful but with the way he's wording it I'm assuming insta down mechanics
can confirm, my interaction with Destiny has generally been 24-72 hours of fevered crunching for the raid race and dungeons in between idle interaction with pvp and gms to stave off the burden of thought
Thoughts get in the way of pattern memorization for the raid puzzle anyways
If they have a callback to DSC soundtrack I’ll geek out
Guys Guys Guys Whats Antumbra Again Guys
that breakcore reinterpretation of the marathon 96 main theme riff is gonna hit like crack
honestly that's within the realm of possibility
What's a pinnacle challenge in a bungie context anyway?
usually endgame stuff
Considering that's the top rank from the profile icons
I'm assuming Master rank mmr challenge
Unless I'm mistaken
Lemme double check
Yeah that's what it says
Granted idk if that's accurate
Would have to check in game
If they mean just like raid I really hope it's good enough cause I'm like
Trying really hard to not get negative
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)
😵💫
Bungie and vague wording for game terms, name a more loving pair
it's probably just a quality/challenge equivalency if I had to guess. It's just the Marathon version of the endgame
yeh
We all start at Bronze 3 I think?
Actually now I'm wondering if ranked is forced trios
Believe it is. No fills, one queue afaik
would make sense
Go in with a squad or git gud enough to 1v3
I'm just crawling around in solos doing quests
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
I am intensely curious as to what this means
I'd rather do cyro and ranked 1v3s as an option rather than forced trios yeah
Because in my head I'm imagining a destiny raid , with no respawns, where you can get jumped by other players
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
Wonder if they'll try to implement an actual party finder in this game at least
yeah I'm def curious
Do hope that Cryohub ends up being a short, perfunctory step
What’s this I saw about someone in the arg channel having their twitch viewers spam hate gifs?
Ok cracked preservation for myself
This section is a motherfucker
Hard asf knowing the answers
Here they are fwiw
There's also a userscript which can output the ones you need then in priority order on the page
Which is how I did it
Script that automatically outputs the solutions to modules on https://cryoarchive.systems/preservation - README.md
What the fuck does any of this mean
Cryo is one step closer to unlocked!
