Marathon 2025 - Bungie's new AAAA Extraction shooter

[Civillian 18]

They won't be able to adjust it until they know there's a problem, which will require people getting stuck in-queue and start bitching. We should be able to see those complaints.

It'll be interesting if people complain about it and Bungie just pretends not to notice (i.e. they tweak it internally on the fly and don't mention it as a patch note); that'll be the bigger tell that Marathon's in real (immediate) trouble of player count collapse.

Pretty sure this has already happened. I made a comment that the game would basically be unplayable outside of NA peak times already, and there are a couple threads talking about how people (in OCE, the 'canary' region due to their tiny population, have been talking about 10minute wait times before getting defaulted to NA/EU/Asia servers with >200ms ping) have experienced getting put on local servers with fewer players. Apparently it occured (at least once) on the end game map too.

 

[The Ugly One]

No, they have tried with a few things, but I think they ultimately cant. There is a total ideological mismatch between LGBT ideology and cyberpunk.

They are both exploring and pushing similar ideas, but at the end of the day they both condemn one another. So when these people end up writing shit for cyberpunk, their intent gets reversed and their argument gets turned back on themselves. There is a subtext in this genre that completely destroys any kind of argument they are trying to make.

So when these guys try to frame MIDA, a faction that could be described as a sort of communist love child between the IRA and BLM, it ends up so poorly executed that it comes across as a strawman for conservatives.

While other factions have you acting as search and rescue or as recovery for geological survey data, every single MIDA missions has you fighting the 'police' or 'man' as it were. One mission you're spraying graffiti on building and in the next you are breaking windows to protest the system....

They read as both ineffective, incompetent, and lack all seriousness. The lore makes it clear that the one and only time they had any real power, instead of ushering in anti capitalist utopia, they instead murdered around 10% of the entire population. Their terror was short lived, maybe only a few months. Just pathetic really. It's a meme in the marathon community,

This is even gayer that two gays having gay sex.

 

[moocow]

Pretty sure this has already happened. I made a comment that the game would basically be unplayable outside of NA peak times already, and there are a couple threads talking about how people (in OCE, the 'canary' region due to their tiny population, have been talking about 10minute wait times before getting defaulted to NA/EU/Asia servers with >200ms ping) have experienced getting put on local servers with fewer players. Apparently it occured (at least once) on the end game map too.

Ah, there we go then. Beautiful!

Aight, the experiment has officially begin with its first real data point. I declare this Moocow's Official Estimated Moment of Terminal Decline™ ... game's doomed now. Not even fresh content can save it now.

 

[StacticShock]

Aight, the experiment has officially begin with its first real data point. I declare this Moocow's Official Estimated Moment of Terminal Decline™ ... game's doomed now. Not even fresh content can save it now.

if it was F2P then new content could give it some small dose of playerium huffs but since the game at it's very core is shit, it would bleed players even with new updates.

 

[The Secret Sauce]

yes. Have you seen the retarded fanbase?

No. I haven't seen Bigfoot or Nessy, either.

 

[creaturestorm]

This is even gayer that two gays having gay sex.

In what way?

hiding lore in item descriptions is one of the biggest narrative sins games commit. there's plenty of ways to do it when there's a narrator framing the player experience or a floating fairy whispering over your shoulder that just tells you "wow, thats an ocarina!" but so many games don't even attempt to hide the conceit that the game developer controls the exposition

Souls bourne games do a good job of it, Marathon makes a mess of it.

n OCE, the 'canary' region due to their tiny population, have been talking about 10minute wait times before getting defaulted to NA/EU/Asia servers with >200ms ping

They are soft locked out of so many multiplayer games, they are practically forced to play the most popular shit. I dont think I've yet to play in a WoW guild that didn't have at least 1 Australian acting like some kind of gaming refugee.

 

[Sigg Kyle]

Mida is a meme

By the way, what’s going on in the inside? Apart from leaking their asses off about steam charts in their giant communal fuhrerbunker, what are marathon players memeing about?