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@jpbeeman @franmirabella Same. Im level 90, with around 180 hours in the game. I have 11 purple shields and have been able to buy blues for the past 30 hours or so. My "bare minimum" kit for after a few warm up runs are full blue. I play solos exclusively, and have done Cryo once.

@franmirabella I think the grind is a little much, but what you are describing doesn’t sound like the norm. I’ve only got 130 hours in, but I’ve been able to buy blue shields for weeks. I can also buy blue and purple backpacks if I want. I typically have 7-10 purple shields at all times too.

Reflecting after another weekend of grinding. It took about 200 hours to get into the "Blue Shield Club." Shout out to NuCal VIP rank rewards pushing me over the top. (Also shoutout to the CARRI faction XP rep packages.) But it's heck of a grind post mid-season, nonetheless. I can more commonly mix blue shields, green backpacks, etc. But my money isn't ticking up unless I score big in Cryo. Or spend way more time farming Rook runs. Bartering for most anything but basic meds/ammo is still a fairy tale. A blue backpack and shield are still a cautious luxury. As you'd expect with this genre and a Bungie game, you have to spend a lot of time grocery shopping and going to the gym, so to speak. The random fill and solo experience do ever-so-slightly improve, week-by-week. But without a consistent "tested team," it still feels very grindy to reliably try to do things like lockdowns, contested contracts, and sometimes even supply drops. Safe to say that's pushed away a lot of players, already. Of course it should be scary -- it's an extraction shooter. However, for the variety and load time loop (10-35 minutes per run), it feels more like a lifestyle choice than it does a game at times. (*cough* Destiny *cough*) And so that remains my biggest issue. I want to see more depth, and do more, but the gatekeeping is easily 50, 100, or 200 hours more. For reference, I played Arc Raiders for 200 hours and that was enough good fun for me. Marathon may have wanted to be a "polished Tarkov" with some new rules, but it's going to need more consistent reward to keep people going. Like I've barely been in blue or purple locked rooms, because to use a key, you have to bring it in and extract it out before you use it. They're also expensive in terms of time. Do we really need this level of gatekeeping, especially with random team fills? It feels like the grind was designed for 10x the playerbase -- so without all that loot floating around, it's just too polarized. It's not like I'm consistently finding blue keys or purple backpacks on winning runs. In the longrun this could turn into Trials of Osiris again -- a brilliant mode out the gate, that depletes the average player and only leaves behind the suffocating elite. It's a self-fulfilling problem because it's often designed to keep it rewarding and challenging for people who play an insane amount -- but they are not the majority of players, merely the majority of hours. But in 30-40 days all this work will be heavily reset and wiped out. If I can't enjoy all this depth now, then when? On the positive side of things, let me be clear: I very much enjoy playing. It's got a "hook" that pulls me to get better, take more risks, etc. Random-filling Cryo, I've been surprisingly lucky where like 40% of matches are friendly, reasonably experienced players. I would look at buffing the loot/pace in general. And you know things are off when the recent patch doubles the spaces available for depleted meds. I would also look at buffing Perimeter and Dire Marsh. You don't want them overrun with sweats, but it feels like if you don't want to grind Outpost repeatedly you're disadvantaged by a wide margin. And, another one as I've mentioned before: largely ditch the "In a Single Run" contract requirements. In short, I do not want to have to play the game 30-40 hours a week to see and enjoy the depth of it. I also don't want to have to play the game for 12 out of 12 weeks in a season. That's live service for you -- but fewer and fewer yearn for that when there are so many choices. I'm just as happy spending $40 to play a game like Marathon for 150 hours and enjoy the depth. I don't need a mountainous grind ahead of me every week for months or years to come.

@dnmgames @FoxA_R6 ????????

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@Freckleston63 @iSpecialHero @MarathonDevTeam @Ziegler_Dev Not really when you could 2-shot a purple shield with the WSTR. You just had to play around a corner or bum-rush an isolated player.

@ParagonPE @iSpecialHero @MarathonDevTeam @Ziegler_Dev you had to do that anyway

I really think the WSTR Nerf didn't think about its effects on Rook runs @MarathonDevTeam @Ziegler_Dev Like Rooks stand no chance now. it was already almost impossible.

@glorpinity Mida/Seki are good. Mida gives you a Bully and backpack, Seki gives you BR and shields. When im playing with my lower level friends and dont want to use a purple kit or a free kit, a go for one of those.

who was even buying one of the barter / purchase sponsored kits let alone enough to run out of the market limit?

@asalisbury Hello Andy, is the team aware of the need for a shooting range where we can test weapons and settings?

The latest updates are up for review! Enjoy the patch notes - and, as always, keep your feedback coming 🐛

@La_Beggs @XyzccordsL Creo que esos ejemplos están bastante mal porque nadie habla así a menos que le hable a un niño xd Pancito? Chaucito?

@XyzccordsL En todo, pásame ese pancito, dame tu manito, ahoritita, chaucito, etc.

Lo primero que se te quita de la peruanidad cuando migras es el hablar en diminutivos porque nadie te toma en serio si infantilizas todo.

We NEED a practice range in Marathon 🔥 Let us know what kind of features you want in a practice range down below 👇

@MasterEnvi @esperavt Stryder is not that bad, but Volley Rifle does everything the Stryder does but better, and has a good hipfire.

@esperavt A lot of these probably need a more nuanced take. Volt weapons on triage are pretty nice when you get a free emp on someone. Also... I really like the stryder, do people think it's bad? :(

my *PERSONAL* take on the state of guns in marathon currently imo, a lot of guns at the bottom need a little touch of power to make them more usable and to prevent a gun meta funnel like we've been seeing

comer el pollo a la brasa con coca cola debería considerarse crimen, el pollo se come con INCA KOLA

@HilarioPalmieri @VLADOPARD Sí es un buen jugador pero es un completo desconocido, hasta ahora solo es un pubstomper y no se ha probado en competitivo.

@ParagonPE @VLADOPARD lo digo mas porque dice que ni sabía que era su stand-in como desprestigiando el fichaje o tratandolo como si fuese uno mas cuando nocries es un muy buen jugador

S1MPLE ABOUT NOCIRES!! #cs2 #s1mple #nocires

@Znorux @TeamVitality El actual Astralis*. Mejores que Astralis ya a este punto, aunque Astralis se hacía querer más.

La capacidad de @TeamVitality de recuperar rondas y ganar partidos no tiene sentido. El siguiente Astralis.

@HilarioPalmieri @VLADOPARD Está mal traducido. No dijo que no quiere jugar con nocries, dice que lo más probable es que no juegue con él porque es stand-in y solo jugará si alguno de los titulares no consigue la visa.

@VLADOPARD ningun jugador bueno quiere jugar en bc y encima cuando logran fichar a uno lo tratan así?????? yo lo quiero a simple pero el ya no es lo que era antes y ese ego solo lo va a enterrar aun mas.

@sugifps_ @CYBERCRIMEUNIT @asalisbury @Ziegler_Dev @MarathonDevTeam I've never not gotten a purple from a Lockdown, and i've gotten like 2 or 3 gold salvage.

@ParagonPE @CYBERCRIMEUNIT @asalisbury @Ziegler_Dev @MarathonDevTeam i have gone entire lockdown runs of getting literal scraps. lockdown needs a buff for its risk reward factor considering Outpost has 10x the loot quality for barely any real risk

A month in to marathon and i've got a whole bunch on my mind. The game has incredibly good bones but is starting to show some worrying issues. CC: @asalisbury @Ziegler_Dev @MarathonDevTeam This game is phenomenal but these issues need addressing sooner rather than later. <3

@sugifps_ @CYBERCRIMEUNIT @asalisbury @Ziegler_Dev @MarathonDevTeam To be completely fair, this is probably from the first Lockdown of the chain. The third lockdown gives purples and has a chance of dropping golds.

@CYBERCRIMEUNIT @asalisbury @Ziegler_Dev @MarathonDevTeam best money per hour in the game btw

@padua96819 @pcgamer Brother this is for every single online game on console, not just Marathon, and it has been like this for a literal decade.

@pcgamer PlayStation and Bungie are nerfing the flow of players by requiring PlayStation Plus to access the game. I don't mind paying for Marathon or it's expansions but I will not buy PlayStation Plus.

Marathon's most popular shotgun is getting nerfed a second time, as Bungie worries it is 'eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game' pcgamer.com/games/fps/mara…

@Spaddyboi @Ziegler_Dev You are getting harder lobbies because lower skilled players are playing on Sponsored Dire Marsh. I've actually started using blue kit as my bare minimum and i've been extracting much more since the last patch. There is also less rats.

@Ziegler_Dev CONTINUED: Before anyone says I'm bad or crying, maybe I am. Just haven't been having nearly as much fun as my extraction rate went from around 80% to 30% since the patch. Just want to enjoy the game and be able to not sweat my dick off every match

Matchmaking is a complex series of wires and circuits trying to connect players to give them the best time to match while also providing quality matches. In that complex nest of things we found a bug related to regional matchmaking that is affecting a very small set of players that is unintentionally putting them in matches they’re not supposed to be in. We’re prepping a fix to get in for Tuesday morning 4/21 PT to fix this. Thanks for helping us find this, we’ll work on smoothing it out.

@Vohsa_ @TheBarnesyman @Ziegler_Dev Except he mentions regional issues, so people from Europe/asia being matched with people from America.

@TheBarnesyman @Ziegler_Dev That would be the issue being described in his tweet….

@Cloudcrof @Ziegler_Dev Controller is strong as fuck tho

@Ziegler_Dev Hope we have mouse and keyboard on Consoles if crossplay with pc is enabled! Thanks!

@AmosSteward83 @Ziegler_Dev What region are you playing from? I am from South America and i've never waited more than 2 minutes in queue. Most Outpost queues are 30 seconds.

@Ziegler_Dev Matchmaking times are bad, it takes so long in recent times just quit the game after 1-2 runs, dont want to stare at the loading screen for 5-10 minutes each time....