r/Marathon

I started building this awhile back first as just an Excel sheet, then it just kept growing into what you see today. The tool allows you to enter your current Cradle level, Cradle Efficiency bonus, then the quantity of items you are saving up for the Cradle. The results screen then shows you what level you should end up at.

All the xp values for the items were collected by me by hand in-game, and some items seem to have some digits behind a hidden decimal point. so the numbers might be off by 100 or so XP when you enter a ton of gear.

I even built some logic into the system to tell you if you are better off buying the Cradle Efficiency.
(spoiler: it's almost always worth it in the long run)

It has been so fun to build out this tool, so let me know what you all think and what you would like to see added to the site. Or take a look at the FAQ to see a few hints as to what is currently being worked on!

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Just as the title states, I would personally like to take out the requirements to kill other runners especially with how low the population currently is. Killing a grey shield runner doesn't exactly feel good when Unsanctioned Hostilities 2/5 tell me to both deal damage and loot their bag. I feel like this would be somewhat fine in a trio setting but considering I am a primarily solo player, I think this causes more people that are trying to pick up the game to either quit or have the less skilled players struggle with quest completion until a golden moment happens.

Additionally, to the Monoclast Vandal I killed on Night Marsh, Apologies for having to fight you. I did not feel good about killing you when we both needed quests done. I was the Assassin in the Cryo Skin.

Funny thing is, this would be how the lore between Assassin and Vandal happened lol

I just don’t understand this.

Maybe don’t execute free kit players in exfil that you can’t loot. The game is struggling enough. Take the knock and move on.

In my 700 hours of play I have never hunted down a free kit player or killed a player in exfil with 2 seconds to go. Yet, I’m seeing this all the time.

What did you gain?

You can’t loot them even if you wanted the nothing nonsense that they have.

If they are avoiding you and escaping then they are likely questing.

What does that one kill do for you? Which does absolutely nothing for you, that you have verified that they are either running away and primed the Exfil and aren’t fighting you, with 1 to 2 seconds left so you can’t loot and are about to be evacuated with the exfill.

This is the exact reason the half a dozen or so players I have tried to recruit won’t play the game.

Consider letting the newbies live for the first few days of the season.

Edit: I’m not referencing myself as the “get gud kid” free kiter. I have played A-LOT. On my 4th cradle prestige

I just really think we could do the game itself a big favor by not sniping or executing grey shield questers in exfil.

They are not going to keep the lights on with 10k global players past next year and to be honest I think the new direction and even PvE won’t bring players back nearly as much as folks may be hoping. Destiny is popping off again. Tarkov animals aren’t coming here in droves.

I usually hate the sappy whole “come together as a community” bull shit… but I really think letting no shield noobs quest if they can’t reasonably harm you is much healthier for the game than farming exfil snipes and executions.

You all do you.

End of season 1 was amazing. My friends list ballooned up, the discords were popping, and it felt like the game was really doing some cool stuff. I had so much fun.

Meanwhile the only good thing to come out of Season 2 reset has been Sponsored Survival Outpost. Getting rid of ranked, not keeping Cryo open the whole time, not turning on all events on all maps, and hell, even the login rewards for the last 2 weeks were purple kits. Even that gold template week was fun, just give everyone gold keys!

My friends list was empty on Sunday. No one wanted to play, not the sweats and not even the newbs. Lots of offers to Sherpa people through compiler went unanswered on Saturday

I know they’re planning a lot for December but frankly it seems like very little effort and thought had been put into the reset.

I’m not sure how to sum it up aside from saying that it feels like they don’t even want us to play the game.

Please let me be clear, I’m not talking about having new content. I am literally just talking about recycling content they already have.

Every piece of loot in game, no matter how cool (Firestorm, my beloved) is straight up garbage, as a matter of in universe world building.

The UESC you mow down by the dozens? Clanky sluggish 3D printed mall cops. Great heat resistance, but you can literally punch them to do death. The guns aren't doing much to them.

The runners, even the gooped up stacked 3 man death squads people mythologize? Trash. All made of flimsy polymer skin. You're just tube of go-gurt with delusions of grandeur. I doubt your gold shields could save you from a bicycle accident.

All the guns are just plastic 3d printed trash. I doubt that'd be much threat to an actual human. How do I know this? The compiler is slightly of above cannon fodder in the originals. In this game he's a really difficult boss battle.

As much kudos as I give Bungie for (like in Destiny) giving you great incentives to just throw all your stuff away, they already gave you the best reason: it's all slop. If you want to race to max cradle next reason remember that.

S2 saw player counts go from low to within the statistical margin of error of no one playing. We lost a Game Director. The economy broke in 72 hours. Marathon doomers were monetizing YouTube content beyond anything we've seen (truly a feat given S1).

I played the hell of out of Season 2. I loved it. In week 1 I didn't think Night Marsh was it - little did I know I'd almost exclusively play Night Marsh for most of the season. Greenhouse is the new Algae Ponds and I'm here for it.

Shout out to the D54, which made the Green CyAc kit the best zero-to-hero kit in the game. Green Shields are a minor inconvenience when you mow down everyone with an OP Gun.

Shout out to the Mall Ninja assassins. Your skin looks ridiculous, and it's telling that every assassin player I ran into had it on. Ya'll aren't the real ones, but you're really something.

Shout out to Sponsored Night Marsh. It showed us what the game could be like if the PvE were actually worth doing. The matches are active, the time pressure to find gear and engage PvE is real, and there are PvP counterplay incentives. It's almost like a real game.

Shout out to the 10 players still playing with me. You know it's a small community when your crewfil says "Oh hey u/one_ill_kevinj! What's up man?" It'd be really cool if there were more players playing and every match wasn't the Superbowl of extraction shooters but dying to someone you play against 8-12 times a week is fun and funny.

Shout out to the Cryo no-lifers who took everything from me every week. I am missing 3 subroutines because ya'll are much better gamers than me.

Shout out to Vault Breaker so I could see what I was missing.

I look forward to seeing the same 10 people Tuesday + hopefully at least 10 new players. Cheers and enjoy.