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The game is amazing but damn we really only get to truly engage with it for 2 levels, imagine if we can have more, a curated expansion on the main game or a vr missions style expansion of levels with battlefield stealth to play with!!!

Imagine getting more battlefield stealth and modding it further(id make it harder to befriend the rebels) for more fun and challenge!

I'm not too keen on the importance of this man or the rarity of this watch so I'd be curious what its value is and its significance amongst collectors

Like when I watch it, I get this feeling like I'm watching the cyberpunk version of record of lodoss war. I swear there's always some new toy or something being introduced every episode, there's always a tool to solve a different type of problem that comes through from the technologically expanded world that they live in. Someone's got a really nice thermal cloak? There's an item run and go get it!(He did not get it in time)

That chaotic battle in the first episode? That really felt like a cyberpunk tabletop battle playing out with all its chaotic back and forths and various characters coming in, you have a hacking battle/issue happening in the midst of gunfire, I love it! It's so wild!

I mean honestly, think about it, the only thing that has to be tuned. Well that's extra work on the part of the devs would be the AI for these runners that move about the map, respond to noise, (uesc already does this) maybe there's some extra stuff like opening a key vault at random or opening Red room but I think that could be fun way for casuals to get to experience the full game.

Currently I like vault breakers, but it's either a good tutorial for people who were starved of the cryo archive as an experience or(with nice rewards!) or, it's a very boring way to grind for keys which I think hurts hurts the average player and that they're going to be tired of grinding for these things Risk-free but also excitement free. This is fine for now But in the best of circumstances, I only see players tiring of it. If this is how they exclusively see themselves interacting with the map and I still see people of this mindset who will be far too jittery about hopping into the full map so why not just make a clean separation that allows the devs to continue essentially working towards adding new content for BOTH player bases simultaneously without having to split attention or content.

Like imagine you're one of the people out there who bought this purely off of the announcement of a Pve mode,there is so much lore stuff you're going to miss out on if you just don't have the mindset to get out there and get your butt stomped for a while you learn how to play this game effectively, like you don't even get cool lore items in vault breakers, but that's exactly the kind of thing. A PVE person would want no?

I consider myself pretty decent at the game and I haven't even done compiler properly yet though I've attempted it many times, I'm generally a huge fan of this Souls-like-esque shooter and while I don't have an issue with there being separate content for separate player bases on principal, it seems quite unrealistic that they would be able to churn out the content enough to satisfy either party sufficiently So I think the cleanest move is the one that allows them to satisfy both with the same type of work simultaneously.

I think Runner AI done well could be quite exciting and fun to fight against.

Edit: I like how some of the responses to what I'm saying so far is some version of " you expect them to make perfect. Human-like AI?!" Nope, not even close to what I said! Thats strike one for reading comprehension.

Knowing I can rely on prime to get stuff like nippon sangoku and the new ghost in the shell(comedic though it may be I feel it's 80s style and attitude is a largely aimed at older audiences) is a boon to me staying subscribed

Anyone saying that this change means that they are pivoting hard to some mini destiny PVE experience should have their trades looked at so you can do the opposite. Not saying they are necessarily wrong but to make that leap over nothing when he's also been the assistant director while ziegler was developing this game, it's not only crazy, it's insulting to human creativity and potential. People are going" well he made stuff on destiny, they must want to do a huge pivot!"🥴 The man is likely able to create far more than just whatever he's done in the past.

Marathon is steering closer to that direction, but it will likely always be trying to pull you towards the primary extraction experience or at the very least, it will simply allow people to choose which box they want to hop into. (Separate modes separate stashes) or give you ways to cool off when you don't feel like getting stomped, we will see but now is a silly time to make assumptions on how they do things, especially simplistic ones.

Personally, I hope they announce a few new titles in the next year so that Marathon could just quietly develop in peace while the talking heads create new narratives around whatever the new games are going to be.

Like yeah, the mods being zoomer prudes is super dumb but I didn't realize that not only are they too worried about that, but they let every hater from the hate subs just infect the place with negativity. I thought it was a community problem but I realize it's an infiltration issue instead.

Whoever team this was, thank you for the donation but man I'd be so pissed at the first guy and the second guy and then myself holy hell.

That's how some of you sound describing the shotgun issue on cryo, it's a shotgun, I get wanting a more flavorful variety of weapons on all maps but your crazy if you think every weapon will perform equally as well at the ' I can smell your breath' ranges that your engaging.

There are changes that should be made but they need to be more thoughtful than kill all shotguns cause I don't have as many as chad

the only way it would make sense for an SMG to out perform the shotgun is if you could move and jump in a way that allowed you to constantly hit the shotgun player while they miss a critical shot allowing you to put dps them. That is not the case, so what can you do to avoid face tanking a player.

Thief drone. While its not a recon scan, a recon scan only tells you where that squad is at, a thief drone can tell you what weapons they are using.

Destroyer shield. If you would be less conservative with your abilities this can come in clutch when pieing that corner you suspect has a team waiting around it, this will allow you and your team to pull back and dip which brings me to my next thing.

Assume misriah: truth is you won't know till your in misrah range most of the time anyway so assume misriah and play around that assumption.

Only engage at your chosen range: assuming you did everything I said you now have this choice and can employ it. Still even after one pick , 2 missies and a few chaotic missed shots on your end will still spell the death of you, defenders advantage is real and good so try not to get to cocky about your push, also maybe don't get push without a plan to use some kind of utility to aid you.

Don't fight!! Truth is even if you do what I'm saying you'll still get caught out, the most successful people I play w simply rotate rotate rotate and have only the intention of getting the loot and getting out which is what the game wants you to do, that's THE POINT of the map I think perhaps somewhat incidentally, is that it's the loot and the getting out that matters more, rotating away and avoiding the enemies will have your vault full w unique golds and accumulating subroutines which you can use to fight later. Even when you know clever flanks often youl run into a third party on the way to that flank so the safer option is almost always that fighting is at best a tool to

Get a pick

Slow the team down

Get your loot while they're waiting for your push

Extract.

Tldr: In the meantime, the conversation around this weapon balance is too brain dead when the idea that a shotgun should dominate over another weapon type in that close of a range is not given it's due weight, thought should be first given to whether tactics are being appropriately utilized before considering nerfs and other ways of balancing the game should also be considered before considering simply nerfing the gun that beat you.

Anybody with a rog nuc play Marathon?/ How does it run?

I'm back to otr trucking and I want something to play Marathon because the steam deck just won't cut it (I checked, 25 FPS)

So I need to set up to play this game but I don't have anything, I'm considering this because it's small enough and I can pack it up when moving due to the bounce of the truck. We don't want any parts getting jostled by mounting it somewhere as cool as that would be, ideally, it obviously should work well, but I know that laptop components can be a little weird sometimes so I wanted to make sure.

Any other suggestions for PC hardware?

I have AT&t firstnet so I think hotspot should do just fine for casual rook runs and casual looting and shooting but we'll see, if I'm wrong. What would you suggest?