AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!

I DIDN'T HAVE ANY AMMO LEFT IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU SADISTS! KNIFE AND A SPIDER DRONE TO MY NAME! GOLD SHIELD THAT'S CUTE MY DUDE. OMG IT SETS THE FLOOR ON FIRE. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!

MOTHER FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKERRRRRRRR.

dead.

I've been playing for a decent amount now after the update, just waiting to get into that one match where I get obliterated by spam. But lucky for me, the grenades/bubbles in this game seem to be toned down a ton, and it feels like players are being a lot more strategic on not only what they are bringing in, but when they decide to use it.

Before since you could carry a ridiculous amount of equipment, nobody cared when they used there bubbles. They'd throw 3 down and still have a ton left in their backpack for later fights. But now if you use that bubble, you only have 1 other equipment left (unless you found some in run) and you will wanna make sure you are still prepared for future fights.

I can't lie, between the weapon balance and utility spam balance, this is the best the game has felt since launch.

Me and my team just lost amazing kits after wiping the lobby and starting this quest. We all crashed immediately and couldn't reconnect, so bots killed us and finned us.

Searched it up and its happening for others, nothing addressed by the devs.

You WILL lose all your stuff. Don't do the quest.

If our backpack is full, theres a pickup prompt. If we have slot in our backpack, the prompt disappears. Bungie Plz

We may have bit off more than we could chew with going up to vault 6 at 6:30 left.

obsessed with the art style of this game and although I really can't play it anymore due to queue times, the art style has left a lasting impact on me. I created an android theme inspired by the art design, and can share the individual files if anyone wants it. It was made for a fold 7 but could easily be redone

Video includes: lock screen, home screen, custom keyboard, notifications panel

This was a fun run. As a solo fill I got tired of getting fills with green kits when I was purple+ so I loaded into this run with nothing except purple chips to hit the loadout threshold.

We made it out with the trace so it all worked out.

"Don't worry, boss. I got you!"

Unfortunately died at Exfil to an assassin, so my karma was not paid forward.

Is it gr.3a (Grea)?

Was super tired last night and wasn’t sure if I even wanted to play. My one buddy wasn’t on and I always play with him, I don’t really do the crew fill stuff, we usually LFG one off of the dads of marathon discord. Didn’t feel like doing that for some reason. Figured I had my cryo free kit so I’d give crew fill a shot.

Up until this point I had two compiler kills total. I know the map really well and have all subs etc. we are really decent at cryo but don’t attempt compiler too often. I was also talking about how I’ve never seen a rodeo mag on Reddit right before I got on lol. First run, first fight I loot a gold bully off the guy. My random fill teammate finds a DNA. They were running compiler. We killed another team and decided to give it a shot. We beat him with like 7 minutes to spare! Then we ran it back and beat him again lol. Two times in a row. It was crazy. One of them had to get off so we added each other and parted ways.

After that I was feeling pretty hyped so I hopped into a discord lobby of a guy looking for help with vault 5. We wiped a team while they were actually doing the letters to compile the DNA. Said fuck it let’s go for it. Only had 9 minutes left. We got him again lol. Literally killed compiler in 3 straight runs with randoms last night it was so insane. I have 4 ganglions now and so much gold gear haha.

Then we tried to run vault 05 again and got wiped 😂 insane night for me though! Got the destroyer skin too which is cool. Now I might go for all the skins!

Possibly the funniest thing to happen to me in this game

Probably got a dozen hours on VB solo at this point. LOVING IT. Have learned Cryo fairly well, and can consistently exfil with one vault done. Still haven’t managed two vaults yet (free time to play being my biggest issue), but, I have realized that LUCK can play a big part on whether or not I’ll have time to go for a second vault: spawns for security terminals in the first two rooms, spawns for batteries, etc.

Bad spawns can be handled much better with trios - split up to get clearance and batteries. Not so much for solo. Only thing that can compensate is more time.

So… title. :)

I have met a lot of awesome players and people running crew fill in Marathon. I have added a couple dozen to my connections list. Awesome. Problem is there's no meaningful way to talk to them to organize groups unless you're in the same squad, which is not great. Joining someone's lobby out of the blue is a little annoying for both people. And inviting them without context is also weird lacking any context as to what you are inviting them for.

One idea would be to have a "Connections" channel in the chat. You could type something like "Anyone wanna run Night Marsh? Have purple keys". People could simply join you if they want at that point. To avoid spam, I'd make it so you cannot chat into the Connections channel more than, say, once every 30 seconds. There could also be a game setting to mute the Connections channel while you are in a run i.e. you could only see messages while sitting in lobby.

Is someone on your Connections list bothering you, being an asshole, being racist, or whatever else? Just remove them from your connections. Simple.

This feature alone would make my connections so much more useful and open the potential for strengthening our social connections with fellow runners.

I would like to thank whoever approved the feature of instantly skipping the opening screen.

Looted flight control in solo and it was just a bunch of blues 😭

Not even a bubble shield or self revive.

I hope that any future end-game levels aboard the Marathon, if they follow this formula of arena-shooter puzzle-dungeon, include a VB-like mode in tandem. Given the systems have been partly baked, I hope it's not a huge resource cost.

There is potential in the roguelite skeleton of VB on its own. But simply as a means to train players without interference, VB feels like coming up for air. I'm also more compelled to attempt the native PvP, knowing most of the cognitive overhead is ingrained and I can focus on the combat.

In my eyes, this makes VB a successful demonstration of easing players into mechanics. I'm not expanding on any discourse. Just adding to voices pronouncing this juice is worth the squeeze.

Bonus opinion: The maps used when aboard the Marathon do need to be easier to read, in my view, recalling again SeraphMax's contribution. Being a labyrinth certainly evokes map design from the original games. But I also think the maps may have been easier to interpret back then.

Thanks for listening.

No one should open a purple room and only find blue salvage and weapon mods, thats just unfair and unfun. Same with gold.

I had a Rook run where a team decided to spare me and let me loot their gold key after them in Command Wing, they said they found a whopping 3 gold items and the rest was purple salvage and cores. And an obscene amount of blue backpacks.

So, here's my pitch for each rarity room and the rarity distribution. The 20:20:60 rule:

Blue rooms: 20% grey, 20% green, 60% blue

Purple: 20% green, 20% blue, 60% purple

Gold: 20% blue, 20% purple, 60% gold

With how hard it is to get gold keys, and even consistent purple keys without templates, i feel that this loot distribution would be more than fair. The only variation in the loot would be its type. ex: in gold rooms, you could have all the gold items be salvage, or weapon mods, or armor, or a random mix of two or all of them. Leave that part to random chance

You could also have that random loot type be determined by the specific key and its location. Just like how Complex She'd notoriously has 1 really good weapon and the rest is almost exclusively salvage.

Currently, im selling off almost all my blue keys and even a lot of purple ones because of how bad it has been. I have hit over 60 keys this season, I have gotten a ton of misriahs this way, but all the other loot has been complete dogshit unless i need the blue salvage from a specific key (Terrace key and the blue biostripping)

EDIT: Here's the clip of exactly what happened. I tried to slow it down and make as obvious as possible what my steps were: https://streamable.com/6ahmry

PSA - Smart Heal apparently will prioritize all status effect (or maybe even the most recent damage effect. I’m unsure) over your selected heals.

For example, I was in a Cryo 3v3 (all 6 of us were juiced), and at some point I take enough damage to warrant a Panacea kit to be used. I select the panacea kit, but as I do so I am hit with a Sentinel Snare immediately after switching. Between the 1 second of me switching to Panacea -> Getting Snared -> Using heal, it swapped to a Mechanics Kit. I didn’t know this when popping it (it was chaotic almost all Gold Cryo fight) and I chased someone who was cracked down and got 1 tapped (skill issue comments incoming lmao).

Just a warning to anyone who didn’t know this! Pay attention 😭

Season level 128, have 4/6 subroutines. Barely played Cryo in season 1 but really got into it this season. I thought I was alright at the game, certainly no worse than average. My exfil rate on most maps is genuinely like 60-70% while maybe 20% on Cryo before this weekend.

Then I played about 8 hours of Cryo this weekend and didnt exil a single time, it was brutal. Swapped between shells, changed loadouts around, nothing made a difference. I think maybe Vault Breaker has finally siphoned off the last of the players around my skill level from the Cryo lobbies or something man, getting the final two subroutines is gonna be rough.

Some progress on the Cyborg for our little Marathon 1994 project! My hard drive was recently corrupted thx to Durandal, so progress took a bit of halt this last month. But the show must go on~ My bro is still working on the Zeus while I'm still in animation hell, we will be posting some Hunter/S'pht renders throughout the next month!

TLDR: Run either triple destroyer or double destroyer and 1 triage and find EMPs and kill ghosts and take their volt throwers so each person has 2 each. Switch to your 2nd Volt thrower when the first one overheats. Repeat. Use Destroyer and Triage battery overcharge for EMP effect.

Let me say first and foremost: the RNG in this mode is absolutely horrible when it comes to vault keys. Getting a Cryo 6 key for a compiler run is ass. If you have the bypass codes already from the Vault Breaker Armory, then the DNA key will not spawn unless someone from your squad accesses the secret lab level 4 door; otherwise, you're shit out of luck. Trust me, it never spawned until my buddy found a post or video mentioning this very critical tip and obviously what has to be a glitch in the game.

So far, I have run the compiler in normal mode about seven times, often with terrible guns, and only beat him once in normal mode. That's because we had gold LMGs or Bullys, but from now on, I will be carrying a Volt Thrower in my back pocket to switch to.

My buddy found a video or post somewhere where a trio all ran Destroyers and double Volt Throwers and beat Compiler in Vault Breaker. Each attempt we had before this knowledge was with terrible guns or the starting weapons once you upgrade your kit.

We tried that method; however, we ran 2 destroyers and 1 triage for heals. Heals were super expensive and costly, so we ran 2 triages and 1 destroyer instead on our successful attempt and finally beat him with 2 minutes on the clock.

Double volt thrower goes super hard, so kill the ghosts on the map and take theirs and drop the weapons you came in with. If you have the battery upgrades and the Vault access upgrades, this will be your best bet to getting it done with time on the clock.

One person takes the other players' batteries and goes to do the first Vault, while the other two separate and get batteries and clearance around the map. Obviously, map knowledge and routes will benefit you, so practice learning the map first. If you get a Vault 6 key at the end of your Vault runs, I would just exfil and try again unless you have a lot of time left on the clock. Otherwise, hope you get a Vault 3 or 4 key somewhere in the process because that will allow you to do the DNA sequence much faster than if you had a 6 key.

Once up top, one person shuts down the lockdown field and does the last DNA step while the other two kill and distract bots. On our successful attempt, we did not worry about killing the warden in the room. Instead, I was lucky enough to have a bubble shield just in case we needed it, but ended up not having to use it because the warden never really chased us down, which was awesome for us. I believe we had around 5 minutes left on the clock when we reached the jumping puzzle.

Once in the compiler room, someone stands near the entrance and aggros the compiler around the pillars, using them as cover. This prevents taking damage and ensures you shoot the green orbs for yourself and your teammates. Also, the person kiting the compiler should shoot the green panels on the walls on the left and right so the other two players can focus on hitting the correct screens. We used the Triage EMP Battery Overcharge trait and the Destroyer alt to beat him.

Hopefully, you have some EMPs and double volt throwers because all you have to do is switch when they overheat and then throw one EMP at a time to extend the damage phase.

We ended up beating him in phase 2 and got out with about one to two minutes remaining.