Mapocolops

My unrealistic yet hopeful dream for Destiny's future is that they drop a D1/D2 combined re-release, completely playable from start to finish with all prior content. There's a lot that needs to be done within the current state of D2 but to me, this is the break glass in case of emergency moment in a big way. A passionate, lengthy open letter to Bungie and those that have played Destiny over the years. I would love you to read and provide your thoughts. (1/8)

Damn, this Paul guy sure has opinions on Star Wars but wasn't even born when the Original Trilogy was released...can you believe this dude? We all know you can't discuss things that happened before you were born like, it's a fact you weren't there man...you don't know, you can't ever know

So according to your logic, I can’t bring up past Bungie games in a discussion because they might have been out before I was born, even if I’ve played and enjoyed them. You’re a MEDIA JOURNALIST. You work for a major publication and you’re actively crying over being criticized for how your biases have affected your coverage of a game.

@imahyperlover optimistic and curious gamer here maybe to a fault👋 you love outer wilds and I did a series on it so I will have to let you be the judge of character there if that interests you

This is why Iron Pineapple stays my goat forever, don‘t know anyone else who looks at games with this much optimism and curiosity

Just so we're clear about this amazing and insightful analytical commentary from a guy not even working at Sony or Bungie but this former SE exec. Here's a picture to jog your memory as you may not recognise the name. This former SE exec who proudly released the steaming pile of diarrhea called Silent Hill Ascension and almost completely derailed SH's comeback, putting even more pressure and doubt on Bloober's at the time upcoming SH2 Remake. Yeah I don't think we need his input on video games to be honest. Dude has been almost non stop steam chart doomposting mixed in with some frequent AI slop like that's his day job, and not being CEO of his company. #ItsTrauma

@che_Se7eN You realise that if you interact with Marathon posts, your algorithm thinks you are interested and it will show you more. So how about YOU move on with your life and ignore something you don’t want to see for once 🤣

@Mapocolops I wish it wasn’t on my timeline. People begging to inform me how great marathon is.

Marathon is a game with some of the coolest and fun build crafting potential and it’s sadly been frequently reduced to the most boring meta imaginable. Any high level clips I see of the game I don’t even need to finish because you know how it’s gonna end. Copycat loadouts on every team, 5 bubbles, hop around them and shoot a guy with your shotgun of the week, throw/receive 10 nades thrown through a doorway, rinse and repeat. There might still be a gold bully in use acting as a makeshift turret down a hallway. An unfortunate side effect is this is most of what people on the outside of the game see which doesn’t really pull them in, but it’s so much more than that. Bungie is at the top of their game as always with gunplay and it is a shooter lover’s dream. Amazing team synergy with different shells, a lot of fun abilities tied to implants, cores and weapon mods with a genuinely great spread of weapons but good luck seeing someone use anything other than their Misriah rn 🤣 It’s one of the main reasons I’d be so excited for a PvP arena mode because I think you’d start to see more fun anti-meta builds and experimentation either with prebuilt or limited loadouts instead of the do or die extraction environment where if you don’t bring that thing everyone is using you’ll lose all your stuff. Still think this is what ranked mode should be to be honest, climbing through the ranks of Arachne’s skinning arena. (this is a pipe dream I know it’ll still be meta spam but there would be ROOM for people to relax more and be creative instead of meta) That’s why I think Sponsored Dire Marsh works so well as a similar concept because people love this game but sometimes want a warm up, or a cool down type of playlist before it gets to the sweaty stressful stuff. A lot of people play games for different reasons and it’s part of why Marathon can take its toll being a mostly high octane run experience. I find myself wanting to play the game everyday but also not having the energy to commit because I can’t turn my brain off and chill. More of a random scattered thoughts vent post idk what can really be done about it as meta will always meta in a competitive space I just also think it’s boring and doesn’t look fun to play in a game that’s so fucking fun!!

@bonnie1020RBLX Yeah this honestly, and it’s not even subtle lmao Season 2 and beyond really needs to balance upgrade requirements and salvage drops tho

@Mapocolops tbf I do think they need some slightly better loot but a lot of the complaints are just "I played Perimeter and didn't get golds"

People asking for Perimeter and Dire Marsh to have much better loot don’t seem to get “higher threat level = better loot” If you want loot you go to Pinwheel in Outpost or lose everything factory in Cryo If you want to play Perimeter or Marsh you are doing so with the express knowledge that you’re going to those maps more for specific activities and you enjoy the map, not for exfilling with mass riches outside of a key run. Even then just because you didn’t get something doesn’t mean the map didn’t have it, someone got to it first and exfilled. If you decided to do every single activity and POIs on Perimeter and don’t feel that you got rewards that reflect that effort, you actually did. You’re not supposed to clear out a whole entire map and yeah like you can of course but the game isn’t going to analyse your activity, give you a gold star and tell you that you’re enough. You got Perimeter loot on the Perimeter map. There’s plenty of Marathon players under level 50 hell under 30 even, working through these first two maps for contracts and loot relevant to them while you’re looking at your 400/400 vault space with golds asking Perimeter to give you more. Please be so fr and have proper perspective, the maps are balanced and scaled for their threat level to reward ratio 😭

I absolutely agree that salvage overall needs to be looked at for sure especially gold salvage. Some of the total requirements for some of the high tier stuff just seems silly while others are much lower. Hazard capsules are they even real? But this would be another topic that I’d say definitely needs work on loot drops for prestige keys, and Outpost/Cryo drops

@Mapocolops I mean in general the prestige keys barely ever drop if at all for other maps, gold salvage is very limited in every part of the game even the compiler room had only synapse cubes for me three different times this weekend - and in general gold salvage is hard to find.

@sorrytotweet You are walking in some very confusing circles here pal. I’m just gonna leave you to it so have a good one

@Mapocolops Ok, so just to clarify, calling somebody entitled IS an insult but you weren't being insulting when you called me entitled? What does calling me entitled add to the conversation? How does it support your argument? How does it even FIT IN to your argument?

@MrViceKC You get it 💯

Ppl who make those sorta suggestions are generally PvP players and enjoy the maps design for PvP but wanna also get high tier loot from it as well lol. As you said the maps are designed by threat lvls and loot reflects that. They cant have it both ways. Those maps are beginniner and intermediate maps for a reason.

I didn’t say it wasn’t insulting. I said I was not being hostile and there wasn’t an intention to insult. If I expressed an opinion and someone said they feel it to be a little bit entitled I would maybe reflect on that first instead of immediately getting defensive. I think you’re just getting completely distracted by what is even being spoken about now. Like do you actually want a fight this badly? I told you I wasn’t hostile and look at how you’ve decided to continue responding. I don’t feel insulted by that no, as you’re just having a tantrum because someone you don’t know told you how they felt about what you said.

@Mapocolops You can't say something that absolutely is insulting and then just say "it's not insulting lmao". I think you're being a little bit of a cunt. If you feel insulted by that, it is only my opinion.

Ah so you are trying to put words in my mouth but not reading what’s actually being written I got you. I also don’t think it’s a matter of right or wrong about the sandbox, I am speaking on my perspective and thoughts on it from both experience and exposure. I get you wanted to really hyperfocus on a part of my post that you misunderstood but we can just simply move on from that my dude I touch grass daily and live a healthy life thank you for your concern about my time spent outdoors :)

@Mapocolops I didn’t say you said that but it’s certainly inferred. Your argumentation style wreaks of Reddit and you’re just wrong about the sandbox because you watch too much twitch. Touch grass

@sorrytotweet I think it is “a little bit” entitled, yes. If you feel insulted by that, it is only my opinion. I just don’t agree with your take.

@Mapocolops Calling me entitled because I think a games mechanics should be approached holistically is absolutely insulting.

@AEasteppe Where did I say that champ?

@Mapocolops And if someone were to use something else it wouldn’t be considered high level to you. Brainlet in action.

@sorrytotweet Text is hard to interpret tone, but I assure you there is zero hostility or insults, I am just explaining my perspective to your stance. If I am misrepresenting what you said feel free to clarify, but that’s how it read to me

@Mapocolops You're coming at this in a really odd, hostile, and insulting way man. Chill out. Like there's absolutely no need to be calling me entitled or completely misrepresent what I said.

You may be the target audience for thumbnails that need to do big red circles to highlight things Did you need me to point to the “high level players” part of the post for you? As that is what is being referred to. “Good luck seeing” means, you are mostly going to see the Misriah. Most Marathon clips at high level are currently Misriah spam and vaults full of them, it doesn’t mean everyone has that. Reading comprehension

@Mapocolops “Good luck seeing anyone run anything other than misriah” that’s the same thing.

I do think it’s a bit entitled to think you should be able to get everything you want from one avenue. The game has multiple objectives to pursue and non linear progression, you’re not crippling yourself by doing some runs on a different map for a while but the choice is yours. If your focus/objective is loot, then go to the map that has that for you depending on your progress. If I’m pursuing a certain faction’s upgrades their salvage might be on one map more than the other If I’m pursuing a better loadout, I’m probably focusing on Outpost for pinwheel and other players gear.

@Mapocolops Perimeter is my favourite map for gameplay, I think it has the best mix of engagement ranges and compounds, but a game is a holistic thing, I shouldn't have to cripple my meta-progression and loot in order to play a map.

@AnonimoMortaja I won’t disagree with that sure, as Outpost spawns with 4 teams, Marsh has 6 iirc? They have different styles of encounters given the scale of each map. But Outpost’s popularity for loot spawns way more rooks throughout your run to keep you on guard

@Mapocolops The balance feels kinda off, and killing everyone in outpost is easier thab doing it in dire marsh

I mean this is just wrong though There is salvage you can only get on specific maps/areas so there are upgrade reasons to be there, and people play maps for a variety of reasons. If I don’t want anything specific from Perimeter I will still load into it because it’s fun as hell, I love each map’s design and some of my favourite PvP encounters have specifically been in Station on Perimeter. Loot is a big driving factor in the game but not the only thing you have to be playing for at all times.

@Mapocolops The issue with this is that even when you have nothing, there's absolutely no reason to go to Perimiter or Darsh. A free kit on Outpost is going to be infinitely more profitable every single time. A game where you can safely ignore half the maps is poor design.

@imahyperlover Falling into the SW edit hole on YouTube is a dangerous place to be 😭 so good yet so crushing

landed on star wars edit tiktok and im just sobbing

@cernersandals Love to see new runners experiencing peak

Obviously newly on the train but I have been enjoying Marathon a ton over the last week The gun play feels incredible and the gameplay is so hard to put down, game really is a hit if you dont got a bitch in your ear telling you it sucks, please give it a try when you can

I've found myself getting less cynical over media as I've aged. Understanding how difficult it is to make anything of quality just makes grateful that something I liked existed at all. Good, bad, or flawed, what a blessing it is to experience other folks work before its all gone