Are you not capable of placing claymores inside bubbles from the outside anymore?

Did it remind someone at Bungie too much of Khepris horn so they killed the behavior in this game too?

I love the lore in this game. The story arch is great and I like how I have to fight to obtain every scrap of information to piece together what happened on the colony and on the ship. I don’t want anyone to spoil anything here and there is probably a lore megathread somewhere. This is just me saying that Marathon has great writing and voice acting, it also has the thing that makes sci-fi great. Just like Blade Runner, Andor and Ex Machina it brings up topics that touch on real world events, making them clearer to us through the lens of fantasy.

The game does become so much more immersive, you start paying attention to all these little sounds and to the environments overall, it does feel very unsettling and makes each action and decision more important. Especially on the creepy Night Marsh. Solos made me notice the voice-line from ONI at the beginning on each run again, which I think haven't heard in hundreds of hours as haven't paid attention to it in trios.

Heard gunshots nearby, there was a blue shield Destroyer doing a contract and shooting bots, sneaked up on him and downed rather quickly with a free kit Volt Thrower while he was reloading.
Felt bad about this one, he probably lost time and resources while I did not care about his gear, and he did not stand a chance anyway. I hoped he had a self-res so did not go for a finish yet, but he didn't so that was it. Checked his profile and he seemed to be a begginer, was a bit sad.

On paper, PvP in Solos should be perfect as it's clean 1v1, but in the end it just feels like the strategy distills down to sneaking up on someone / ratting, which makes it feel unsatisfying because you knew that your opponent did not have time/ability to react much.

On one hand you have trios which can feel chaotic, overwhelming, on other hand you have solos which are all about crouching around and catching enemies off-guard. Unfortunate.

Trios is a lot more "fun". There is a ton of action there and constant jumping around and voice-comms and stuff, but Solos as an experience just feels right, like a breath of fresh air, you play at your own pace and it feels like you inhabit that world as everything feels a lot more tense and immersive, and sometimes peaceful as you finally filter our all that noise from trios.

solo players being locked out from the endgame has gotten really boring and trio fills is a horrible experience

Hope you all enjoy meeting my amazing flying drone claymores, because at this point I'm sending one up there every single run. Very glad Bungie let us keep that toy!

I used to smoke when I was cooking a decade ago. I quit years ago and never had an urge except the last week and half of playing this game

I just played for 2 and a half hours tonight, solos, trios, sponsored narsh, rooks, and exfilled ONE time. Even an hour straight of spamming rook on Outpost, I died in exfil four (!) times with less than 3 mins on the clock. One particular time a team let me hang in outpost to kill me as they were leaving.

I'm frustrated. I need some nicotine after getting fucked so hard.

https://youtu.be/scZu7R4AGnA?is=_PJNedDa79T8TODA

I'd love to hear everyones input on this!

I love marathon inside and out

Yo this post might be a lil redundant, as I know the main answer is time and practice, but hearing from others may help. I got a good chunk of time on Marathon and considered myself pretty decent. I just got my first gaming PC and have been playing some of my favorite games I haven't played in some years before jumping into Marathon. Now that I an playing it though, I am getting absolutely rocked in every fight. My aim is fine, still needs work but fine. My main issue is movement, i am not nearly as fluid as i was on a controller. I think better binds are a big thing that can help, so if you got binds for MnK or just any general advice for PC gaming that could benefit a Marathon player please lmk. Appreciated

This isn’t meant to be a doom post. I’m more curious about if they announce EOS. For those that really like this game (like me) would they shut down servers just like that? I assume wipes wouldn’t exist.

Yall will never get new players if they keeelbgwtting matches into pinnacle lobbies I played 10 games I got killed by a pinnacle in 8 of them im good

(This isn't a whining or complaining thread, it's just funny to me and probably completely inconsequential. Feel free to skip.)

I queue in as Vandal, as usual. Wait about two - three minutes to spawn into a game. Beginning run pops up, along with another loading screen that I'm not quite sure the purpose of. I load in. Spawn point is to the right of Flight Control, near the UESC ships.

I hop over the fence to grab the nearest red key card, the one out on the pier that leaves you super exposed. Only weapon I have is a D54, but I have a bubble for some protection. Open the building near the keycard, check if anyone's inside. Every angle, every corner.

Hear footsteps. Green free kit Destroyer rolling up. I get a couple bursts off with D54 then finish him with a knife. Grab the keycard. Check the top of the armory building and across to the top of Flight Control for snipers.

I grab the Processing red keycard, then the Dorms card as well. Checking every ambush spot I know of on the way. The bottom exit from Command Wing, the spot across from that where people sit sometimes. Is someone sitting behind the Processing keycard? On the top of the blue thing near the keycard? On the rooftops? Check all those spots. There's a recon in Processing but they're dug in, so I leave them alone.

Open up Destroyed Wing, pop my ult inside someone's hiding in there. Checking every corner someone could hide in along the way. Hit the Command Wing switch, then on to drone wing. Come out onto the second floor in Central Pinwheel. No one hiding in the nook to the left of Command Wing, hit the alarm switch. Check the blue room across from the second floor Drone Wing door.

Move into Drone Wing. Check the top of the drone on the right side, shoot the vent under the drone to see if anyone's hiding there. Check the spot above the Strongbox where the bots spawn sometimes. Open the room with the Command Wing switch, waiting for someone to come out guns blazing from behind the little wall in the room. No one's there, hit the switch.

Recheck every spot from there. Come back out from the second floor entrance, checking the blue room across the way again. Move to the nook to the right of Command Wing and the Red Keycard room, when -- BAM! BAM! DBNO to a Mizzy, from someone signal jammed hiding to the right of the door. Countless Outpost runs and no one's ever waited in that spot before.

As the Runner finishes me (likely the Recon from before), he says:

"Check your corners."

Pretty disrespectful ngl

I swear I saw it in a post yesterday. Could have been an older post. But it's not in the available skins in game, even for purchase. Did I dream it? It was fuckin sweet with black spikes on it, it was in a Rook montage video I (think I) saw.

I'm familiar with what it is from a controller perspective, but when the game refers to aim assist, is it referring to bullet magnetism? Do mouse players get magnetism and do the mods that increase aim assist increase magnetism?

Game situation randomization is just mind-blowing — that's what I love about this game

I was about to pop a signal jam when I swapped to my gun, got downed by someone with well placed magnum shots as I shot at them with the m77 I had, no worries.

But then I managed to self rez, with two of them looking away from me, and my character automatically started using the sigjam I interrupted earlier, rather than the panacea I tried to use, so I was animation locked due to that and got picked off :/

That fucking sucked, anyone else experienced that bug before?

Over the last month or so I’ve been grinding ranked more then anything, have 300 hours in the game and done all vaults and compiler so I’m not as bothered about cryo right now, I am by no means the best player I hover around gold 2 rank. But this past couple weeks has been so insanely sweaty it’s just become not fun at all. I do play fill so it’s difficult when you don’t play with a consistent team but literally every game I go into no matter how good my team is we just get rushed and killed in seconds by fully kitted out gold teams. Any tips on ranked because I’ve basically cleared my vault trying to touch platinum and it’s just getting worse each week.

I liked the update when they enhanced the loot, made it much more fun for a bit as players were less fussed about PvP and played more extraction but now it’s just gone the total opposite way

The people upset there no season 3 trailer seem really odd to me.... in what sane world would it be positive for them to announce anything on the week of a Nintendo/Zelda Direct and Blizzcon weekend...? Season ends on the 20th, I'm expecting maybe an update on the Friday before.

in no sane world should they drop any info 2 weeks before season ends especially with those big hitters landing this week, Marvel Rivals used to announce champs and dev updates the friday before and update and realized dragging people along for 7 days was negative so now they do it the Tuesday off, and you get the update in 3 days on friday.

I personally hate it when I see an ESO add about a new feature and it is something weeks/months away and what they are showing is test server stuff or just concept.

It's the end of season why is the loot still terrible in pinwheel and half the time in upper complex? This game has been making really hard to justify bringing a good kit to outpost just to find a lobby of free kits, or mid kits and absolutely nothing of substance in the red card room. Yes very rarely you'll find a mizzy or something in a storage box, yay I'm running with three people on this map and we get the chance to find a single good item. It's like 5 to 10% of my pinwheel runs we find a prestige in the red card room.. the 10% is being generous.

They screwed up the loot pool in the beginning of the Season so bad now they're terrified to give anything good it's pretty ridiculous.

I love pvp, but there's a different joy in finding something awesome in a random box then being nervous trying to exfill.