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@MarnidMB @ItsTomographic "Bad visuals" bro why would you publicly admit something so embarrassing about yourself 🫵😹 im crine 😹

@ItsTomographic Marathon has the most insane marketing budget, I've played bunch of it for a review and it's not "insane" or "complex". It's just a basic fps but with bad visuals and less depth than other extractions. We need to start blocking people that make obvious marketing tweets.

Marathon is being so slept on by the FPS community. It's been really interesting as a content creator, hearing directly from viewers that they refuse to watch because they can’t get past the polarizing visuals to understand that this is truly one of the best feeling FPS experiences in years with tight gunplay, insane tension (genuinely has my heart beating out my chest) and a gameplay loop that actually rewards skill and decision making. But I think that's also the games biggest problem. People like to bash the art style but really I think it's that PvP games just don’t stick like they used to. They’re harder to get into, harder to watch, and don’t have broad, instant appeal. If it’s not immediately accessible or visually “safe” people bounce. So Marathon ends up overlooked, not because it’s bad (it's great) but because it’s different at a time when most players just want familiar. *It's also crazy that Bungie took such a huge risk on a niche game with a niche art style for such a niche demographic so I can understand where the negativity is coming from as far as gamers wanting more than just "another extraction shooter" but they made a damn good one and I hope more people give it a chance.

@SeffVII @ItsTomographic @TheTankBall You haven't seen top rank play on Marathon if you sincerely think it isn't hardcore. The level of skill expression possible in the game is incredible and has much more variety and method possible than Tarkov.

@ItsTomographic @TheTankBall marathon is not hardcore. its middle of the pack at best when compared to Tarkov.

@superhys @alineaanalytics If they added a single player/co-op campaign as a companion piece to the main extraction shooter I guarantee they would double or triple their sales.

Marathon has sold 1.2M copies across Steam, PS5, and Xbox (@alineaanalytics estimates). It hasn't exactly made the splash Sony and Bungie wanted, even if the game underneath the surface is a MASTERWORK of design. Looking at the split between Steam, PS5, and Xbox, Steam is clearly the main platform for Marathon, accounting for a little under 70% of the audience (800K copies sold). Meanwhile, PS5 takes about 19% (217K) and Xbox (including console, PC, and cloud) accounts for a bit over 11% or 133K. Marathon is technically a first-party Sony title, so seeing the home console struggle to break 20% of the volume is a notable data point for the ongoing platform-agnostic debate. PlayStation Studios online games will almost certainly continue being multiplatform (despite Sony reportedly pulling back on PC releases). One topic that came up in a lot of conversations at GDC this year was why Marathon hasn’t hit the same stratosphere as Arc Raiders. On paper, they’re both extraction shooters, and Marathon has the Bungie pedigree – the house that built the gold standard for gunplay in Halo and Destiny. My answer: Players understand the Arc Raiders loop within 30 minutes, while Marathon's UI acts as a massive filter, chewing up newcomers and spitting them out before they can experience the depth of Bungie’s signature gunplay and Marathon's awesome gameplay loop. The Steam copies sold during each game's respective Server Slam paint a picture there. Arc Raiders saw a massive 80% jump in copies sold during its three-day Server Slam. Marathon, meanwhile, saw a 49% increase in the four days following its Slam (Day -7 to -3). Despite the friction-heavy start, the data suggests that those who survived Marathon’s onboarding are loving life. We’ve been tracking cross-platform DAUs, and while there’s the expected post-launch leakage, many players are sticking with it. After peaking at 478K total DAUs on its first Saturday, Marathon has settled into a respectable rhythm, holding 345K DAUs as of yesterday and averaging 380K DAUs across the weekend. On Steam, Marathon’s average playtime has climbed to 27.8 hours, significantly outpacing the console averages on PS5 (16.5h) and Xbox (17.3h). Even more telling than the averages: 22% of the Steam audience has surged past the 50-hour mark, and nearly 7% have already logged over 100 hours. PlayStation and Bungie are at a crossroads here. They can: 1. Double down on Marathon with a long-term Rainbow Six Siege- or No Man’s Sky-style recovery plan, which is something I heard @ChrisRGun smartly mention last week on Sacred Symbols. While this could be a sunk-cost fallacy in action, it could eventually yield the audience the game’s mechanical depth deserves. 2. Shift focus toward the inevitable Destiny 3 or another project, mitigating the escalating opportunity cost and cutting their losses, so to speak. Doing both is an expensive proposition, given the high overhead and burn rate of operating out of Bellevue, Washington. With Sony recently demonstrating a lower threshold for underperforming studios and projects, the margin for error has vanished. Whatever happens, the next six months will determine whether Marathon becomes a cornerstone of Sony’s live-service portfolio or a cautionary tale of vision exceeding accessibility. I’m hoping it’s the former, because Marathon fucking rocks. Big analysis on the free Substack, with lots more data and thoughts (link in bio)

Signal Jammer does the following: - Reduce aim assist (both reticle friction for controller specifically and bullet magnetism for both) - Make you immune to claymores - Obscure both UESC and enemy vision against you (harder to spot) - Makes you immune to flechette grenade tracking (though you can still take damage if you run into it) - Hard counters thief x-ray vision, destroyers prime targeting, volt weapon targeting, recons drone, thief's drone - Thermals - Basically anything that has tracking won't work on you

@Moerthomore @isolatedrook @ZakuXander

@CountSmakula @isolatedrook @ZakuXander It's a beautiful painting, yes - it's pleasing to look at. Something that can't be said about Marathon desings.

Ah yes, everyone's favorite characters: Blue Paint Beard Man and.. Girl. Truly iconic designs that will be remembered for years and years to come.

@xJeebus @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama you seem very happy about something that won't benefit you, it's a bit odd

@CountSmakula @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama Not only did I never say that but I don’t think you could’ve come up with a more loaded question in this context

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

@xJeebus @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama so you are looking forward to the disposal of you and your descendants?

@CountSmakula @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama And if AGI is even possible, that point will eventually be reached. 100% guaranteed.

@MalditoMP @MrMcMayonnaise @kabrutusdeid 🚨weeooo weeooo 🚨 retard alert 🚨 someone come collect this retard 🚨 weeooo weeooo 🚨

@MrMcMayonnaise @kabrutusdeid buddy, art direction requires a direction, making a choice on what to do. Marathon's is just spam, noise, it's a GPU/video-game graphical glitch. There's no rhyme or reason on where each texture or decal is applied.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@sentai_pr @MegaMachina @Alexgrottesco @kabrutusdeid man those Eve numbers drop to 3550 if you filter out ai slop. Arlecchino was came out around the same time, isn't considered particularly iconic and still outperforms Eve. Jane came out like 6 months later and comfortably beats her. You can like Eve but she is no icon.

@MegaMachina @Alexgrottesco @kabrutusdeid Stellar Blade's Eve is the video game sex symbol of the 2020s, she's definitely gonna be remembered longer than any character from Marathon or Crimson Desert.

@xJeebus @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama What the "hate it all you want" comment? Idk what to tell you, if agi develops it's a replacement for humans on every level and it's naive to think the wealth generated by it will be used to sustain a population that the powerful will increasingly see as useless eaters.

@CountSmakula @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama Just read what i told the other guy

@xJeebus @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama That's true but it certainly gives me pause on what life might be like 80 years from now when ai saturation is a fact of life for several decades.

@CountSmakula @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama Now you’re conflating two totally different periods of time that are like 80 years apart at least… it took decades for manufacturing to reach that point

@xJeebus @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama Yeah now we have cheap low quality clothing that fills up landfills due to how poor the durability is, or we have expensive low quality fast fashion that lasts maybe a month before it's discarded to the trash for the next trend. What a great direction for society 👍

@CountSmakula @PDoomOrder1 @KindlyContrary @sama Hilarious how that turned out

@PDoomOrder1 @xJeebus @KindlyContrary @sama They also hated it because the products created by the machines that replaced them were of vastly inferior quality to the work they were capable of making themselves.

@xJeebus @KindlyContrary @sama Do you know who luddites were? You are going to be in their position lol. They weren't crazy irrational people who hated technology because they hate technology. They hated it because they lost their jobs and they along with their families were starving because of it.

@Moerthomore @isolatedrook @ZakuXander so Mona Lisa is the most beautiful woman of all time?

@isolatedrook @ZakuXander What's silly is your incapability to understand that beauty is the biggest factor for great art. People will always prefer beauty over ugliness, no matter what your ideology says, you ugly leftoid.

@isolatedrook uhhhh blue paint beard man has a name I'll have you know John Desert

@theNiFTelement @JakeSucky you can play it casually you just aren't likely to have much success on cryo archive 🤷

So basically the game is elitist. It's only “good” or “great” to a select few. Well you all can have it and I hope for your sakes that you all purchase enough dlc to keep the servers running. This is a game destined for Reddit and discord and self run servers like the pc mods of old.

"It's the most elaborate extraction shooter map I've ever seen in a game... the problem is... is your 9-5 grandma and grandpa gunna be able to do it" Shroud says Cryo Archive in Marathon is incredible, but is it too difficult for casual players

I figured it out. Ladies and Gentlemen, I've found a way to remove your weapon from your HUD in Marathon.

i was so stupid

I wanted to share something I’ve started working on. It’s a Sekiguchi themed PC build! I’ve never built a PC before, but Marathon has me motivated. My current prebuilt doesn’t run the game great. Adding fans, Strimmer Cables that look like the WEAVEworms… I see the vision!

@Pirat_Nation oh is that why the global steam ratings are ABYSMAL 😹 holy cope 😹 game is straight ASS 😹

Anonymous devs from Pearl Abyss have revealed the troubled development of Crimson Desert. The game began as an MMO prequel to Black Desert Online but was later converted to a single-player title after years of work. In its final stages, major leadership changes triggered significant story rewrites including renaming the protagonist and scrapping key mercenary elements. These last-minute shifts left the game with a disjointed narrative, mismatched features, and overly cluttered controls. The issues were only finalized shortly before launch.