im in uk and would be down, but am also terrible so idk when im gonna be able to give it a go
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Sent a DM!
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Only like a few games into this but it feels great, looks amazing, and I’ve had good experiences playing with randoms and no microphone. The atmosphere and setting building they’re doing is really exciting to me. It’s been fun to slowly begin to see through the opaqueness and glean what I am supposed to do in the game and start to be able to read the situation more clearly without any straightforward tutorializing.
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I’ve only heard good things since release…
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The bones of the game seem to be very good, the issues that are coming up are the ones that are particular to extraction shooters in general, which basically boils down to, how do you handle people who don’t have a lot of time to play the game getting matched against sweats who out-gear them to a degree where skill/luck can’t reliably bridge the gap, and the experienced players don’t have anything to do other than methodically wipe the map (exacerbated in this case by Marathon’s maps being small/movement being pretty fast). In theory, Ranked should do some heavy lifting here; right now, it’s only available on weekends.
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i think wallbangs probably don’t work in a game where you can enter the match with a ton of ammo and most of the guns shoot fast but i still miss them in Marathon compared to Hunt. it’s just so satisfying to be able to keep pressure in an advantage scenario even when they go behind a wall. i really like the information aspect of Hunt and being rewarded for it.
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Through gritted teeth I must admit: I quite like Marathon.
I guess it hit that saturation point for my friend groups where there’s always people around. I’m also playing it by mostly “playing with the house’s money”; I keep going in with a sponsored kit (not always free) and play until I exfil with something decent. Then I use that until I lose it.
I’m already sitting on some pretty good stuff, but that’s for Cryo Archive. No point in wasting it doing crew fill (random teammates) on other maps, honestly. The people I play with actually comment on how much money I have compared to them, which is thanks to this frugality. Maybe once I can kit myself out with insanely good items every round from the store my credits reserve will drop, but for now I’m doing okay.
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is this for real
https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1s9mbaj/what_is_going_on_with_rooks_in_outpost/
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Did multiple Cryo Archive runs today, made out like a bandit in all of them, AND ended the night with an extremely funny run where almost every team on the map ended up in this vent pit rumble brawl. Spammed grenades down into it and wiped two teams with that + shotguns.
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Cheating problem has gotten pretty bad, I might take a break once I hit season rank 100.
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so kernel anti cheat doesn’t even work? nice
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Yeah there’s a bunch of videos out there showing the cheats, there’s even a guy making “montages” of himself cheating. Gives you wallhacks + aimbot + full health and class information about every entity in the game (both players and bots).
I didn’t run into any obvious cheaters yesterday like I did over the weekend multiple times, so who knows. Still, kinda fucked that:
- There’s no deathcam replay from killer perspective so it’s impossible to tell if someone is cheating unless you deliberately set up the encounter in a way to tell they were cheating
- BattleEye means that Linux players literally can’t play the game, but it’s doing jack shit to stop cheaters
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has there been any interesting character stuff with Durandal that the game has been expanding on?
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Yeah, there’s actually a fair amount of Durandal behind the scenes.
You earn codex entries for stuff like completing challenges. Most of them are colonists talking to each other about the weird shit going on around TCIV, from shared nightmares causing religious cults to people liquifying from the inside out. Some of them however involve the original AI trio, and of those some of them involve Durandal talking to you directly.
My headcanon is that he’s almost definitely your handler (ONI) in disguise, given that he gives you / narrates the weekly cryo quests. This has some implications as to where the digitized consciousnesses of the runners come from; they could be the minds of the colonists who died in cryo before they could be thawed?
I’ll look through the lore stuff later and post whatever Durandal stuff I come across. There’s not a ton, but he definitely seems to have a similar role here as in the original; a cryptic semi-sadist who is constantly leading you into weirder and weirder situations for his own agenda.
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Please forgive the multi-posting as I go through these codex entries and screenshot them. They aren’t online in their entirety yet.
Bernard Strauss: Mentoring Intelligence
Bernard Strauss: Growing Pains
Bernard Strauss: Farewell
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kernel level anti cheat mostly exists to further the surveillance state
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This codex chain is gonna take me a while to unlock, since it requires opening all the Cryo Archive vaults. These are all communiques from Durandal to the runners.
Introduction to the Unknown: Hello
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Final bit for now: the cutscene which plays the first time Cryo is active after you hit season level 25 (and can thus go to Cryo)
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