IB is like the easiest shit to get right. Just copypaste one of the 500 previous ones. It's just one gamemode with its own, slightly altered reward pool. It should be cruise control at this point but every little thing is a Titanic for them.
In D2 Nightstalker Hunters were often the "medic" role, since they could use invis or smoke to reach the downed teammate, and revived characters got a temporary overshield (that later on, at least, had 50% damage reduction).
In my opinion, my only real contrarian take is that I actually appreciate the visuals, music, lore, and overall gameplay. Yeah, It's likely the game gets shut down, but I think it’s more likely something else happens to it entirely. Sony dropped $4 billion acquiring this, so I doubt they pull the plug anytime soon. This thing probably has at least a year left in it regardless of player count, though I could be wrong. If there is a Season 3, that’s probably where things are going to get weird. I would think they are going to seriously start pivoting away from the hardcore extraction shooter concept in an attempt to right the ship. At the end of the day, though, it doesn’t feel like this game is going to last in its current form one way or another.I’ll always appreciate a contrarian, I’ve stepped into that role at times on this site myself. I’m afraid in this case the #’s portend this shit shutting the fuck down sooner rather than later thoughever
There are plenty of people posting here whose whole daily routine is doom posting about a game they’ve never even played. Saying anything remotely positive about the game drives these people up the fucking wall. There are two threads on the farms for shitting on Marathon. We've got a reverse Gunt guarder situation on our hands here.
Using revive kits to kill some one multiple times is nothing new, it's been in the game since launch. People are just latching onto any new reason to hate the game.
So when you form an alliance with people mid raid you can rez them if they go into a downed state. Plenty of times I've joined up with other solos and one of us goes down, nothing we can do except hope the other team had a self revive on them.
That second bump is the late USA bump. It peaks as the us timezones pass through Midnight, if I understand my timezones correctly.
R not many people jumped on at that point, because it’sonday tomorrow and they got shit to do.
It was a bit of a tongue-in-cheek jab about how the west coast just said 'fuck it' and phoned it in, and to highlight that the second bump is always the larger of the two, as at no point during the week~ window does it occur in this manner. But yeah, Sunday numbers being low makes sense for normal humans I agree. All those Destiny dads-of-nine gotta go grind their boss-aggro so they can rush home to have a bottled-lightning-blast.That second bump is the late USA bump. It peaks as the us timezones pass through Midnight, if I understand my timezones correctly.
Because it’s super late, it tends to reflect the day after rather than the day it technically starts during. So it tends to be a bit of a drop off on Sunday night to begin with - as much as we joke about marathon players being no-lifers, some of them at least have to fake being a functioning human bean.
It might look worse right now because this is the end of the first weekend with that free kit not-a-battle-Royale thing. So the weekend got a bit of a bump, but most people who’d be yet to try have now tried it, and thus the bumps gonna fade away at this point.
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You're "doom posting" more than most tbh. I would be surprised if it actually shuts down. You can't really accuse others of "doom posting" while saying that the game is likely doomed.
That's been happening for years sadly. A few years ago they added cosmetics from previous seasons into the rng loot pool but the drop rates are so abysmal that you wouldn't know unless you played at an autistic level (me who hit Legend rank twice for IB every season for like 4 years).
There is a difference between acknowledging the 250 million dollar elephant in the room and consistently/constantly focusing on negative out comes. There is an excess of negativity about the game here and it's not coming from me.
I would pay anything to be an insider at Sony/Bungie right now. Marathon took a month what destiny took 10 years to reach.
Estimates make it look even worse, 70%~ of Marathon playerbase being on PC while it is the inverse for D2 with popularity.report putting it at 23%~
Well yeah, people are going to focus on the negatives when discussing a $250 million ($3.6 billion from Sony' perspective) disaster. The most notable thing about Marathon will always be its failure. Nobody was praising the interior design of the Titanic as it sank.
“If Microsoft jumps off a cliff would you?”-ahh decision.
If most of us were Sony, we probably wouldn't be making the dogshit financial decisions Sony has been making.
Sega somehow managing to come off as the least retarded of the major publishing companies lately never failed to amuse.
