Marathon has been out for a week, what are your thoughts…
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Marathon has been out for a week, what are your thoughts on it?
I bought marathon on release and am level 40 right now. It is an interesting game, but I feel it has some major issues right now. I’ll start off with what I like. The graphics, sound, and just overall feel of the game is great. Outpost feels like the odst map in all of the right ways. They did a really good job of allowing the world to react to other players, making it pretty easy to be a detective following their path from broken windows to opened loot boxes. All of the guns feel pretty great to use as well. I also really like fighting the robots.
I have gotten use to the ui, I still think it could use more tweaks but there is a ton of information it’s trying to convey. I think my biggest issue is matchmaking and other players.
I found out what loot goblin is, so now when I play with random people I have to race to the boxes first or lose out since it is all shared. Of the games I have won, I would say over half the time my teammates get double what I get. I really hate how selfish so many people in this game I have met.
That brings me to my final point, I can’t see myself playing this game long term. The first few days were a blast because no one knew the maps or had the best guns. Now I am having a terrible time playing. I don’t have anyone to play with, so I use squad fill. With the higher level players I am facing now, I can’t win against their maxed shields and guns.
I really dislike solo queue in this game, the maps feel designed for three people so every extraction spot has 15 blind spots. You are going to be sniped or shotgunned near every single exfil.
I feel stuck in the game now. I can’t earn money unless I play rook and just skulk around the map picking up loot and going to final exfil at the last minute. It takes me about 4 games, so almost an hour, to get enough loot as rook usually to queue without a free kit. Then I lose it in 3 minutes and have to farm another hour.
I’m not too sure how to fix this. My dislikes seem to be indicative to the genre. The game makes me feel like i need to find a 3 man to play it at all now. The few people I tried to join did not like sharing loot (self proclaimed loot goblins aka selfish assholes) and kept finger pointing on who made them lose that 10k backpack.
I would love to hear everyone’s else’s thoughts on it. I just don’t have fun losing 90%+ of my games, but in these type of games I guess it can’t be helped.
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I bought marathon on release and am level 40 right now. It is an interesting game, but I feel it has some major issues right now. I’ll start off with what I like. The graphics, sound, and just overall feel of the game is great. Outpost feels like the odst map in all of the right ways. They did a really good job of allowing the world to react to other players, making it pretty easy to be a detective following their path from broken windows to opened loot boxes. All of the guns feel pretty great to use as well. I also really like fighting the robots.
I have gotten use to the ui, I still think it could use more tweaks but there is a ton of information it’s trying to convey. I think my biggest issue is matchmaking and other players.
I found out what loot goblin is, so now when I play with random people I have to race to the boxes first or lose out since it is all shared. Of the games I have won, I would say over half the time my teammates get double what I get. I really hate how selfish so many people in this game I have met.
That brings me to my final point, I can’t see myself playing this game long term. The first few days were a blast because no one knew the maps or had the best guns. Now I am having a terrible time playing. I don’t have anyone to play with, so I use squad fill. With the higher level players I am facing now, I can’t win against their maxed shields and guns.
I really dislike solo queue in this game, the maps feel designed for three people so every extraction spot has 15 blind spots. You are going to be sniped or shotgunned near every single exfil.
I feel stuck in the game now. I can’t earn money unless I play rook and just skulk around the map picking up loot and going to final exfil at the last minute. It takes me about 4 games, so almost an hour, to get enough loot as rook usually to queue without a free kit. Then I lose it in 3 minutes and have to farm another hour.
I’m not too sure how to fix this. My dislikes seem to be indicative to the genre. The game makes me feel like i need to find a 3 man to play it at all now. The few people I tried to join did not like sharing loot (self proclaimed loot goblins aka selfish assholes) and kept finger pointing on who made them lose that 10k backpack.
I would love to hear everyone’s else’s thoughts on it. I just don’t have fun losing 90%+ of my games, but in these type of games I guess it can’t be helped.
#games
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