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@edwinhammeren @madsssagascar thats exactly the point of art though, it provokes thought about what the artist's intent might have been, what emotions they may have been feeling etc. why this person who spent so much time learning a craft might have taken the time to create this particular peice of art.

@madsssagascar Hm, but running the marathon is the point of the marathon, not the destination. So unless the point of the art is the process itself, the end result is what matters. And if the end result is the same or close to it, this argument holds no water.

if someone ran a marathon and someone else drove 26 miles i wouldnt congratulate the driver just because he ended up at the destination

@Steyn_123 @nkwii671 @kvbrd_YT CD ROM?

@nkwii671 @kvbrd_YT 2016 isn't back in the day. We talking about 2005-2008. I couldn't even install a game because I had a CD ROM and not a DVD ROM.

Why the fuck do modern games straight up refuse to launch if they don't like your hardware? Nigga, I'll play the game, whether it's in 5 fps or not. At least fucking try to launch it.

@pssucks80155 @DarrellNeloms @Housemarque Ruturnal didn't even hit 7000 concurrent players on steam, and you think they gonna bother porting soros?

@DarrellNeloms @Housemarque

Can we applaud @Housemarque real quick? I have never ever seen anything like this in a game! Kudos 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽 👏🏽 #SAROS

@poellll The "+" indicates health, not shield. Right is better

this or that

@irfanil @verge For starters, it's not the same image, the angle is slightly different. Both are screenshots of the same scene but with different timing, so there may be flashing lights, etc, causing the difference. Or one could be ps5 pro and the other base ps5

@verge how come two different posts has the same image but the post processing is different?

Saros is pure action nirvana theverge.com/entertainment/…

@DanniOsu This is 100% the result of the free kit lobby, not sbmm. Anyone that's sick of getting stomped by gold/purple kits are playing matches against same level kits. Not rocket science, and certainly not sbmm

I SWEAR THEY TOGGLED ON SBMM BECAUSE I JUST HAD A CRYO LOBBY AND EVERYONE HAD GOLD SHIELD AND NO ONE DID ANYTHING BUT STALEMATE WITH RECON ULT SPAM AND NADE SPAM WHAT DID I JUST PLAY

@Anna80250301 @niksurs @MarathonTheGame Solo is separated, though. Queue with any skin other than rook and turn off crew fill, you then only get matched with other solo players

@niksurs @MarathonTheGame I think it's too late, but 60+ FPS VRR mode, PS5+Xbox defualt crossplay mode (instead of vsPC), and 3-stacks should be quarantined to their own playlist. The main problem is sweaty 3-stacks making the solo experience incredibly miserable, and most players are solos, so they quit

If @MarathonTheGame can somehow find a way to optimize Marathon to run at 120 FPS on console instead of 60, player counts would genuinely skyrocket imo, it’s a lose-lose between pc and console as pc offers a smoother experience but with cheaters and console offers a safer place to play legit but at 60 FPS in 2026. If console had a 120 FPS option Marathon would see a rise in players who would switch back just to have a fair chance and an even playing field.

@glorpinity @cin_Aamon So you're saying i gotta kill at least 2 runners to make it worth it..... 🤔

@cin_Aamon yes it was solo im trying to farm contracts +5 for every runner you exfil with every 5 exfils is a redemption every redemption is 500 rep 500/5 = 100 you get 50 arachne rep for thirsting

i just got killed at exfil with a free kit guys it's more rep efficient to just exfil with the guy who has nothing instead of thirsting him now you get 5 cyac redemption points per 5x exfils with randos gets you one redemption for 500 that's 2x the xp you get for thirsting

@Geezaws2 the problem is people who have too much free time stomping on people who don't, there needs t be an easier way for low level players to get the better loot, even if there is a level or vault value cap on PvE entry. making high level gear rarer only punishes people with less time

@evret84 you want people playing PvE to be able to collect loot that they can take into PvPvE? yeah i’m sure that won’t be immediately problematic

A thread on how I'd design a PvE mode for Marathon: 1) Separate lockers. Players who choose to engage the PvE mode would be effectively on a different launcher, no single item acquired from the PvP side can be ported to the PvPvE mode, no exceptions. not even a single credit.

@Nades @AbandonedTroll i'd avoid them, they sound great but i've had 2 sets break in the same spot as the above image, was really carefull with the second set and they still broke

@AbandonedTroll Yeah, I’ve seen this a few times. Surprised they haven’t released an update version.

Seriously considering purchasing these. Thoughts?

@888XeR0 @NikTek Who mentioned popularity? Their post highlighted average spend per player per platform. Rockstar earns more money per player on console, that's why console is rockstars priority. For pc to beat ps5 in this metric it would need around 4x ps5s active users

@NikTek Who's the retard that picked GTA Online as an indicator on popularity? Why didn't you look at GTA 5 sales?

This explains why Rockstar Games isn’t focusing on GTA VI PC port so much…

@UncannyKam CGI doesn't run out of bullets

What does War Machine do when he runs out of bullets?

@Pur3_Pineapples Yet to see any evidence of cheating, every clip i see on here claiming cheating is "there is no way they saw/hear us move to this position" when they moved to most likely position and wondered how they got beat.

My 5 cryo deaths last weekend: 1: Cheaters 2: Goo Gun 3: Cheaters when I had a full gold loadout with our only red key 4: 3 Frag Grenades 5: Goo Gun How are players meant to stay engaged in a "hardcore pvp experience" when they don't die to bullets one time in a whole weekend?

@superhys @alineaanalytics Imo they need to add a PVE only mode ASAP, even if it's limited to free kits only, give new players a chance level up, complete some contracts and gain some gear without getting jumped by someone camping objectives/extractions

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)

@eurogamer The only chance they've got of clawing back some of the console market share is going back to true exclusives. No playstation, no pc, only playable on xbox console. If they don't announce that, then they don't want to revive thier console.

"I am committed to 'returning to Xbox', and that starts with console, that starts with hardware" - Xbox's new leaders pledge to bring the brand back again eurogamer.net/xbox-new-leade…

@SaneGamer @mrpyo1 I don't think that many people care about a remake studio, yes it was nice to have some older games with some fresh paint but I'd much rather they focus on new games, something bluepoint wasn't experienced with other than as a support studio.

@mrpyo1 Exactly this. Judging by the comments, it seems like most people already forgot about Bluepoint sadly. Sony needs to be scrutinized as much as possible for the rest of this gen.

Something is very odd here. Sony just had a state play, the Wolverine release date doesn't have any pre order information... I think they wanted to push this info out so people forget about Bluepoint games

@PhiloCat33 @MartinNebelong I believe that part of his post was referring to all other game engines in comparison to dreams.

As if we needed any more proof of what an absolutely incredible achievement Dreams is amongst 3d software and game engines that all seems to agree, that world building in 3d is an engineering task moreso than a creative endeavor. All made on a Playstation - every asset, interaction and game mechanic.

@Gamefan1992 Take 2 just uses a 2:1 (ps5:xbox series) ratio to estimate xbox numbers based on reported ps5 numbers due to the fact xbox doesn't disclose numbers. The 2:1 ratio is outdated and has been a higher split for years

Thanks to Rockstar's data in their new report, we know that: Xbox Series +45 Million consoles. PlayStation 5 +90 Million consoles.

@MicleeMods @BRobo82 They also worked with MM between 2018 and 2020

@BRobo82 Heads up 👀 This could be the PC port, no clue what else would even make sense for House of How to be working on for MM for Dreams. houseofhow.com/games

Woah something ACTUALLY interesting to note, House of How is working on something for Dreams?!?!? PC port???