Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

[Professor Donger]

This is the part that I don't really get. Dark and Darker tried to do the same, then the devs eventually gave in and implemented solo matchmaking when the game is and was balanced for 3s. The demand was clearly there, but the end result just ended up making nobody happy. Effectively needing a premade can't be good for the game's playerbase in the long run.

They just need to add a solo queues with the enemies being less tanky than in normal queues

To expand on my comment about solo queue.

Enemies in this game after green shields are meant to be team fired by 2 or more people. A buddy and I can handle anything up to purple shields pretty comfortably, with the purple shield NPCs taking two ish magazines from us to take down when we're duod.

In solos it's a lot harder to deal with, the AI is very aggressive which you don't notice as much in a trio or duo because you get very very good at killing them as a team, and to top that off blue shields and up become a straight up chore to kill. With the standard AR it took 3 magazines to kill blue shields for me in solo. With ammo being the way it is in an extraction shooter, its generally not worth it to kill the AI on your own.

 

[dltzk]

They just need to add a solo queues with the enemies being less tanky than in normal queues

They just need to reduce the amount of AI that spawn in solos, its way too fucking much.

 

[Professor Donger]

They just need to reduce the amount of AI that spawn in solos, its way too fucking much.

That would also help yeah. Though I think the signal jammer makes you harder to detect by the ai, I know it blocks thermals and prevents you from being pinged.

I'd have to get one and test it in game

 

[Senior Frogmin]

If this game doesn't Eos in 6 months I will kill myself, swear to god.
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In all seriousness, I do think it will be around for at least 6 months, everyone will forget about it and once it shuts down people will victory lap about it even though there will probably be even more failures that have come before it around that time. I believe this because bungie fans are fucking cattle and buy anything destiny related and the average gamer is a dumb moron, but we'll see what happens.

 

[creaturestorm]

Got some in game mail from bungo today, they wanted me to do a survey and it reeked of desperation, that's the vibe i got from it. I think they are absolutely shocked this isn't the next arc raiders.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

In all seriousness, I do think it will be around for at least 6 months, everyone will forget about it and once it shuts down people will victory lap about it even though there will probably be even more failures that have come before it around that time. I believe this because bungie fans are fucking cattle and buy anything destiny related and the average gamer is a dumb moron, but we'll see what happens.

Bungie fans have died off, their name only got them this many players.

Its like you said, it'll be around for 6 months to a year, Sony has no choice to try what they can to recoup their investment, its that dire, they are deep in the money pit on Bungo.

 

[Dead Lion]

Apparerntly alot of the codex entries in the game are audio logs.

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How cute, they look like the terminals from the old games.

 

[Site of Origin]

Got some in game mail from bungo today, they wanted me to do a survey and it reeked of desperation, that's the vibe i got from it. I think they are absolutely shocked this isn't the next arc raiders.

Got examples? I'm genuinely curious. Also, did you buy the game or do they have your email as a previous destiny player?

 

[creaturestorm]

Got examples? I'm genuinely curious. Also, did you buy the game or do they have your email as a previous destiny player?

Unfortunately no. Any time I answered a question negatively there was an immediate follow up question with an essay portion.

I bought the game, but I'm also not a destiny player, i dont play pve slop. I'm some one that likes extraction shooters and is interested in marathon but got "colony ship for sale" filtered.

There is an in game mail feature i should add. So far it's just Bungie's direct line to the player.

 

[Professor Donger]

How cute, they look like the terminals from the old games.

They also have terminals in game that have messages from Durandal, they look like updated ones from the og games

 

[Cardef1121]

In the end, the biggest problem with Marathon is that there isn't a player base large enough to support it's massive budget-- regardless of what ever ridiculous reason the budget is so high.

It's like making a big budget, $200 million dollar HoMM-like. Sure, there's an extremely dedicated base hungry for a new game in the genre but there aren't many of them and rubles aren't worth very much.

 

[Dead Lion]

They also have terminals in game that have messages from Durandal, they look like updated ones from the og games

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nK7Uha1-ql4

Apparently this is part of some kind of ARG.

The voice acting doesn’t fit him at all though, he’s the crazy one with barely coherent terminals. Fits tycho more, sounds almost like him in the Mandalore vids.

 

[Professor Donger]

Apparently this is part of some kind of ARG.

The voice acting doesn’t fit him at all though, he’s the crazy one with barely coherent terminals. Fits tycho more, sounds almost like him in the Mandalore vids.

I think since the game takes place 100 years after the original Marathon games they may be going with the idea that Durandal has gained some of its sanity back, which may explain why he doesn't sound like a mad person

I think this cinematic is more what he should sound like all the time

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

I think since the game takes place 100 years after the original Marathon games they may be going with the idea that Durandal has gained some of its sanity back, which may explain why he doesn't sound like a mad person

I think this cinematic is more what he should sound like all the time

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hWI57fjY7XE

such great visuals wasted to render Android Derrick Zoolander, honestly its a great trailer and a great encapsulation of the thematics they are trying to present (both this one and the one this one is using clips from) just absolutely wrecked by the runners' ugly looks.

The game will never, ever escape the fact it gives off the Gay Jaguar Ad vibe, forever, mainly the with the Runners.

 

[Professor Donger]

such great visuals wasted to render Android Derrick Zoolander, honestly its a great trailer and a great encapsulation of the thematics they are trying to present (both this one and the one this one is using clips from) just absolutely wrecked by the runners' ugly looks.

The game will never, ever escape the fact it gives off the Gay Jaguar Ad vibe, forever, mainly the with the Runners.

It's kinda funny too since people were making fun of the guardians for the same problem

Flashgitz did it best

"Thank God it's the Spartans!"

"Gasp, we're not Spartans! We're Guardians! We're here to defeat the darkness!"

"Oh God it's the fucking awoken."

I'm not saying Marathon doesn't have a gayer asthetic though

Just that Bungie has been getting gayer since they stopped making Halo

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

It's kinda funny too since people were making fun of the guardians for the same problem

Flashgitz did it best

"Thank God it's the Spartans!"

"Gasp, we're not Spartans! We're Guardians! We're here to defeat the darkness!"

"Oh God it's the fucking awoken."

I'm not saying Marathon doesn't have a gayer asthetic though

Just that Bungie has been getting gayer since they stopped making Halo

plenty of Guaridan armor looks cool as shit, or at least "not ugly".

as someone who became accursed (Warlock Main) we are uglier than the other two most of the time but still plenty of good shit you can slap on such as this one



they can never change too much of the Runner's look due to how the game works.

 

[Professor Donger]

plenty of Guaridan armor looks cool as shit, or at least "not ugly".

as someone who became accursed (Warlock Main) we are uglier than the other two most of the time but still plenty of good shit you can slap on such as this one

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they can never change too much of the Runner's look due to how the game works.

Yes I understand that, I played D1 and D2 a lot

I'm just saying that people called D1 a fruity looking game when it came out.

But unlike with D1, Marathon actually matches some of the aesthetic

Though to be slightly fair to Marathon transhumanism always has gay shit in it, it's supposed to show how decadent humanity had grown in the future.

I'm not saying that was Bungies intent however, they definitely made the shells to sell to queers

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

Though to be slightly fair to Marathon transhumanism always has gay shit in it,

That's fine, but its irrelevent, no one wants to be and play as ugly gay nigger faggot androids.

sure its "lore accurate" (I question this but I'll accept you saying it is) its still retarded that they look like trashy Derlictique' runway models

 

[Professor Donger]

That's fine, but its irrelevent, no one wants to be and play as ugly gay nigger faggot androids.

sure its "lore accurate" (I question this but I'll accept you saying it is) its still retarded that they look like trashy Derlictique' runway models

I didn't say it was lore accurate to Marathon

Just that it's common in transhumanism

 

[Steven Chapman]

That's fine, but its irrelevent, no one wants to be and play as ugly gay nigger faggot androids.

sure its "lore accurate" (I question this but I'll accept you saying it is) its still retarded that they look like trashy Derlictique' runway models

Thematically, it “works”, since it’s supposed to be dystopian and shit but…

Could the shells not look gay as fuck and still be dystopian? Like, the dude with the shield is perfect, covered in armor, thick as shit, neutral colors evoking military colors and theming. But everyone else? Why does Zoolander Manson need fucking lipstick? Why do they need faces?! They should be literally “shells”.

Better yet, make them fucking people. Sure you lose the whole “sell your soul” thing, but it’s less impactful to be gunning these niggas down for loot, knowing you didn’t actually kill anyone. It’s the lowest stakes possible.