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🚨NEW: Bungie has confirmed that Marathon will not follow the traditional hero-shooter format: "This won't feel like when you just choose a hero and then get whatever weapon/abilities are assigned to them."
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Wield the powers of Light and Darkness simultaneously to unlock combinations of abilities never before possible.
Learn more from our dev team about everything contained within the Prismatic subclass.
📰 bung.ie/3PWPz0a

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@DestinyBulletn Since then my life has significantly been shortened, I got depression all because I can’t stop playing a video game I hate but still tweet about…
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@DestinyBulletn I pre ordered the final shape to be able to play today, this update better be larger than the taken spring.
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Some things I'd like to clarify on this piece:
- The purpose of this analysis is to estimate *how* low the pre-order numbers are for TFS, especially after the reported revenue decline in 2023
- Emblem.report only tracks "active" players (~3-4 million). So, the "redeemed" number on ER may decrease if a player is no longer active
- Charlemagne tracks all ~66M unique Destiny profiles, excluding private profiles as mentioned in the article
- The numbers cited in the article are directly provided by the team at Charlemagne who did a Guardian scan on Feb 23rd on all public Guardian profiles
- Regarding the relative data for the emblems: I was planning to investigate this for the first three months of each expansion when they are announced. However, the team informed me that the Bungie API does not provide reliable timestamps on the outward-facing part of the API. "For example, Bungie doesn't provide a timestamp of when someone joins a clan, just that if they are in a clan or not."
lastly, I was genuinely curious about TFS's performance, which is why I wanted to do this piece. As mentioned in the article, the figures presented are not exact representations of the official pre-orders. They are intended to provide an estimate of the total pre-orders for the expansions.
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Analysis: #Destiny2 The Final Shape pre-orders seem to be less than 25% of Lightfall's total figures.
This is based on the pre-order exclusive emblems for expansions applied on all public Destiny 2 profiles. Data provided to us by @Charlemagne_Bot.
thegamepost.com/analysis-desti…

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I'm going to be banned by one of these.
A huge trend in gaminng is to enable kernel-level-anticheats, which allow games to read your system and look for cheating programs on your system. The catch is they don't necessarily have to be active or even for that game. They can just be on your system and get you banned.
On my computer I have several versions of CheatEngine. Why? In games like GTA the mouse sensitivity is not fast enough to allow me to play with my disability. So, I use that program to increase the mouse sensitivity. It affects no one else but it allows me to play a game I would be otherwise locked out of.
In another instance, I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Every time I play Escape from Tarkov the anticheat blocks its hooks and warns me I'm using an illegal program. The only thing Dragon NaturallySpeaking does is allow me to type just like it's doing now to allow me to type this post to you.
This isn't a lazy dev problem, it's a lack of hiring security. Using heuristics security professionals can observe metadata to look at your overall statistics and progress as a player. If you are really bad and using one of these programs you are suddenly very good, it's easy to see you are cheating. If a security expert was to look at my gameplay they would see I'm using a cheat program and I am still absolute garbage at aiming and my stats are horrible. But thanks to that program I am able to play the game at all, which means I can have fun being not-gud.
I don't have the magic bullet solution to this problem. Developpers have to be able to protect games from cheaters. But we have to be careful not to get innocent people caught up. All I can say is we must find ways of differentiating people who are cheating to win and disabled people who are using programs that could be used for cheating as a way to access the game and play the game badly.
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@DestinyBulletn @Charlemagne_Bot Man I hope this isn’t true, I know you guys would always fact check and not gaslight for twitter impressions. I’m glad that also the “entire” fanbase and everyone that has preordered also has logged on and registered with Charlemagne. That for sure makes this claim rock solid.
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