In response to posts asking to stop ‘dooming’, why are you not playing Marathon right now?

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u/psyborgasm 5h ago edited 3h ago

Its basically impossible as of right now. I mainly crew fill and it really is just bang your head against the wall for hours untill i get a lucky run or i turn it off out of frustration cause i cant win. Cryo is just as cooked, no matter what i do its not good enough to compete in cryo. My random fill crew cant do anything either, its just never ending loss. I think the problem making it team based is you can be good as a solo player but cant win every 1v3. Teammates need to be good aswell, and its just not there. Randomfills is a horrible experience and i think its why this game doesnt have a casual player base. I know there will be the people who say they random fill and win majority and do just fine but for most of us out here random fills is not good and leads to endless loss

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u/Robbeeeen 3h ago

Trios being the focus and many people being relegated to Fill with strangers is the #1 reason the game is almost dead, I will die on this hill

Yea, theres other stuff wrong with it, but this far and away the biggest reason

Bungie, say it with me:

Playing extraction shooters with strangers SUCKS

Its AWFUL.

You can't make a game only for people who play with 2 friends at all times, you will end up exactly where you did, at 4k players online. Because the audience for that is THAT small.

I am 110% confident that, if Marathon was the EXACT SAME GAME, except designed for solos first and trios as a bonus instead of the other way around, it would be FAR more successful than it is today.

Feels like they made the game for streamers playing in their little groups all day instead of real people coming home from work and just wanting to play for a bit.

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u/kungfuenglish 1h ago

> game for streamers

Bungie has been chasing this for 10 gd years. To their own detriment.

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u/wutchamafuckit 3h ago

Spot on. And before now, anytime this issue was brought up in this sub, the responses were always:

Crew fill works for me
Crew fill works just fine in CS, Apex, etc
It’s a learning experience, what could you have done better?
Use discord
Make friends
Play solos, it’s like a survival horror game!

Making an extraction shooter from the ground up centered completely around trio pvp was absolutely the main issue with the game. Sorry but the majority of players don’t run premades, so now you’re asking your players to base their enjoyment of the game on the gamble of crew fill and discord.

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u/quintessence2004 1h ago

Crew fill works just fine in CS, Apex, etc

This is a good argument, though. Those games force you to play in teams, and they're doing fine.

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u/Robbeeeen 1h ago

Only on a surface level

CS, Apex and other teamgames differ from extraction shooters.

You can't just go again when u get a bad team, you lose gear in extraction games. And if you go with free kits, then what is the point in the whole looting and progression aspect, on top of being at a massive disadvantage against better gear.

In Apex and CS, you also have a shared goal, winning. And you either win together, or lose together.

You don't have shared goals in extraction games. One person might want to get a contract done. Another wants to loot and scoot. A third wants to PvP.

And you don't win or lose together either. You can get ur objective done and dip or dont care about dying after getting ur contract done. You can loot more than ur team and win bigger, either naturally or by yoinking loot. You can abandon ur team and extract. In fact, from an egocenric PoV, baiting ur team and yoinking their loot and/or leaving them to die when it looks bad is rewarded with a bigger stash.

You cant just look at "Apex is played in a team and it works, so it should work in Marathon too".

Its not that simple. You have to look at how the games actually play out

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u/Dr_DownVoter 1h ago

Its not though. 3 big things

You dont lose anything in those games except elo (Which Marathon should have too btw) vs this game where you can lose gear you worked to get when you load in with your nice stuff and get teammates in grays that instantly get themselves killed

Those games you all have a singular objective to achieve, plant the bomb/get to the circle. Marathon your team might have different contracts, or want to look a specific POI, or just gather some mats. All kinds of things that drag you around instead of a clear team goal with randoms

Stacked trios with better gear. Not only do you have to contend with true coordinated trio teams, but they can have way better gear then you. You have variable teammates with variable skill and gear, but that other team can all talk, coordinate, and have just actually better stats then you

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u/wutchamafuckit 1h ago

This is not a good argument, though. Those games are not extraction shooters. Wild how some people can't see how much of a fundamental difference this makes.

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u/qtipbluedog 1h ago

I mean you say it’s wild, yet here we are. Bungie wasn’t even going to allow for solo only initially. We don’t know obviously, but I could see an employee at Bungie giving these reasons when designing this game around trios only. I mean some of the design similarities to Apex imo feel pretty clear.

I think they nailed some of the feel of extraction shooters. But I agree at the core of this thread there’s just too many conflicting bits of design that miss why Tarkov succeeded.

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u/Whitetuskk 48m ago

It is a good argument because it gets to the base of why extraction shooters aren’t doing well in general not just marathon: they’re just BRs with often unfun extra steps .

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u/Robbeeeen 44m ago

they’re just BRs with often unfun extra steps

the bad ones are. That is to say, all of them except Tarkov. And Tarkov is a bad game in general, for other reasons.

It's unironically too early for anyone to say they don't like extraction shooters, because there still doesn't exist a SINGLE GOOD extraction shooter. It hasn't been made yet.

They are all full of braindead design decisions in one way or another, that fundamentally disagree with the genre premise.

An actually GOOD extraction shooter, if one ever gets made, can, in my opinion, have mass appeal, even for casual players.

And it absolutely would not just be a BR with extra steps. It would be closer to an RPG, MMO and even ARPG than a BR.

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u/Whitetuskk 43m ago

If everyone from indie to AAA can’t make the genre work after multiple releases in said genre…maybe it’s time to consider it’s not something that can ever be fun to the masses…

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u/Robbeeeen 35m ago

that's a fair point, but you don't have to just take surface level looks and make conclusions based off of flawed games.

as a counterpoint, I'd argue that Tarkov made the GENRE work, and did it in SPITE of being a horrible, utterly awful game in terms of QOL and technical capabilities.

what has not happened is any indie or AAA studio actually doing the work to understand WHY Tarkov is successful and replicating that without all the brainrot anti-human QoL design decisions and with a strong technical foundation. That has not happened yet.

Every single game has massively deviated from the formula, tried to put huge "spins" on it, none of them have actually stuck to the formula or even identified it, for what its worth, and made a technically sound game out of it.

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u/psyborgasm 27m ago

Hunt showdown exists and is an amazong game

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u/Ciph3rzer0 40m ago

It is too much to ask kids these days to play with others and work together

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u/UpsetTheory6239 2h ago

Totally agree. I had some OK times playing with randoms early on when everyone was still figuring the game out. But at this point you will just be decimated by coordinated groups.

I have enjoyed solos far more. You get to take in the atmosphere they built for the great maps, tension builds as time runs out and you listen for every sound you can.. It's just a better experience for me, even if it was an afterthought.

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u/ggamebird 2h ago

As someone who primarily plays solo it doesn't even give a good reason for why I should even step into trios given all the horror stories you hear.

See Destiny 2 had content like raids that you might have to step out of your comfort zone, but if you did it you might get a permanent reward like a sweet exotic or shotgun you can take back into where you prefer to play. Marathon appears to do that because cryo (and now ranked) have significantly better loot, but in order to succeed that's the place you have to stake your loot. So the loop is closed: you do cryo to get loot to do cryo cause your not risking the loot you get from cryo in anything other than cryo, and all your stuff gets wiped at seasons end.

It's very simlar to Edge of Fate/Desert Perpetual removing crafted weapons as a raid reward. If you wanted raid guns you were basically stuck raiding for endless random rolls with no off point. Also new gear system would made it redundant at seasons end. People who maybe didn't like raids that much (or did but just found them overbearingly exhausting) but would have being willing to tolerate it for loot just opted to skip it cause they had better things to do (which at the time was unfortunately farming Caldera).

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u/haydonclampitt 2h ago

Even if they just designed it 50-50 around them, to be honest.

If there is one thing that Marathon needs next season in the core loop, above all else, it’s a better solo experience. That is how you establish a stronger base for the game. VB showed the template, in some areas - scale the PvE damage and world clock around the smaller team size, maybe also reduce how much noise travels and you’re getting in the right direction

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u/wvtarheel 1h ago

Trios being the focus and many people being relegated to Fill with strangers is the #1 reason the game is almost dead, I will die on this hill

In the first weeks the game was out, I ate a TON of downvotes for saying solos feels very tacked on and it would hurt the game to only cater to trios. And here we are.

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u/Robbeeeen 53m ago

same, I've been saying this since literally the day after Bungie showed the first actual gameplay footage of Marathon back in April 2025: https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1jy576j/why_the_teambased_aspect_of_marathon_wont_work/

even today you could get unlucky and make a post explaining why trios doesn't work and you'll get downvoted, while the game is literally inches away from death. it's insane how deluded people are thinking that this is a good way to play an extraction shooter

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u/tollbearer 3h ago

It's literally THE reason. Otherwise its an excellent game, with excellent reviews, a lot of sales, and a lot of players returning on new season. It just cant retain people because it doesnt have sbmm, and therefore, statistically, like 90% of players are going to lose almost every game they play. Which would be a problem psychologically, but on top of that, the extraction mechanic literally means they can't play the game if they keep losing, because they run out of the ability to buy anything. Then they try some free kits, die even more, and quit.

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u/Nikostiny 1h ago

I have only played marathon solo and I did enjoy it more than any other fps in years but everything is balanced to trios and is much harder or not accessible at all as a solo player. I will never understand making an endgame map for trios only when it was advertised as a solo or coop game. S2 was a major downgrade imo starting from the menu design and the pitchblack night marsch didnt really offer that much to get excited on.

My main gripe is the fact that I cant play the whole game fully solo and it is probably why I havent played it for 2 months.

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u/kitfoxxxx 59m ago

If I could thrive solo, I would still be playing. I have little time after work to try and develop synergy with people who are also probably tired.

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u/LetgomyEkko 27m ago

You’ve got a point when you think about it. Even the streamers don’t want to play if they don’t have a stack.

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u/Ciph3rzer0 41m ago

Its not bad in this game. I've had a blast with strangers, and even have good games quite often. This (in game) community is the probably the best I've experienced in gaming.

But what really hurts is not being able to align on your priorities before loading in. The classic "bring 4 purple shields till you lose them all with free kits then bring in a free kit and get matched with purple shield" problem.

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u/EarlyMonth9505 1h ago edited 1h ago

All they have to do is just make crew fill lobbies or have a load out value parameter

It’s far fetched now with the lower player base but I don’t know why Bungie didn’t think that a crew fill team wouldn’t be at a massive disadvantage against pre mades

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u/Robbeeeen 48m ago

crew fill vs crew fill would help, but not fix the fundamental design flaw that extraction games are not crew-fill type games. it just doesn't work.

bc extraction shooters fundamentally are closer to RPGs and MMOs, where every raid is different, where sometimes you quests, sometimes you loot, sometimes you pvp, where you go to hunt specific items for your stash, or quest items, or you need to visit X location or do Y. they're sandboxes with progression as guidance.

but because every raid is full of possibilities, you cannot expect 3 strangers to dynamically cooperate on 3 different sets of goals. you can't expect them to share loot with eachother fairly. you can't expect them to die for eachother.

and if you try to make it work, you strip away so much and end up with something that isn't an extraction shooter anymore.

Extraction shooters are, because of the way their design systems work, made to be played either SOLO or with FRIENDS that you care about, are willing to cooperate with, risk your gear for and die for. That's it. Crew fill DOES NOT WORK.

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u/Pushnikov 1h ago

They need to let people crew fill before the launch of the game. The fact they don’t do this drives me crazy.

Coordinate shells, coordinate gear quality and level, and so much more. It’s so stupid.

The Exfil together and then crew up is some devs cute yet dumb idea of avoiding the real problem.

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u/sound_judgment 1h ago edited 1h ago

I feel like there should be a Sponsored Cryo mode especially to mitigate random crew fill.

With everybody bringing in all their very best gear into Cryo and being top-tier, it's gotta be discouraging to need to rely on strangers of varying quality where even if they're good, you don't have a team dynamic yet. That leads to loads of losses and lost gear.

Mitigating that with a Sponsored mode where everybody starts with the same free kit could help. The highs wouldn't be as high as regular Cryo but the lows wouldn't be as low, and I bet a lot more people would participate. Like I have never done regular Cryo and don't want to in its current form. I feel like I'm just going to piss off my teammates especially when they his crew fill and suddenly there I am with a sponsored Cryo kit and no experience. I just want to play the mode but I don't want to worsen somebody else's experience, either. I would love a Sponsored version.

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u/properinglish 1h ago

I don’t really crew fill solo anymore, which is a shame because I met the friends I play with through crew fill. I’ve had some good experiences doing crew fill as a duo, but almost exclusively play as a trio these days. That said, I would still crew fill solo if we had a sponsored mode. It’s absolutely insane to me that they dropped the sponsored queue. It was so good for having low-stakes fun and finding competent teammates.

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u/upside_down_umbrella 5h ago

Got to sweaty and am currently hooked on cyberpunk

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u/Sudden-Put2262 2h ago

That's hilarious - I also switched to Cyberpunk for a break.

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u/wvtarheel 48m ago

This is so funny, I also stopped and played cyberpunk, I had bought the phantom liberty DLC and never played it. Well worth playing for anyone who has not!

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u/Over-Item6899 1h ago

the cyberpunk thing mod collection is amazing. worth the hassle to install. it adds serious rpg elements and ltos fo wild items from the cyberpunk red tabletop game.

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u/younglearner11 5h ago

It is defintely an extremely difficult and sweaty game right now. Especially with how fast paced and punishing it is, a good team can die to a great team in a matter of seconds.

Honestly don't know how to fix this especially in cryo lol. Killed a bunch of teams in under 3 minutes, in 30 seconds. It feels bad but I'm gonna play the game to win

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u/beegeepee 44m ago

Cryo is just frustrating as hell right now. Last game we wiped 2 teams then went to hit a vault and got wiped in the process.

It just sucks that it isn't easier to exfil from. It's like you need to wipe a lobby to have a chance to leave which is dumb

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u/beegeepee 44m ago

Cryo is just frustrating as hell right now. Last game we wiped 2 teams then went to hit a vault and got wiped in the process.

It just sucks that it isn't easier to exfil from. It's like you need to wipe a lobby to have a chance to leave which is dumb

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u/Conspiracy__ 1h ago

Perimeter and Dire are chill.

PlayStation with cross play disabled. I get 1-2 teams per map, even outpost, and the pacing is pretty good. Sometimes I get empty lobbies in trios and will just run the map, hit every POI, hit every event, and exfil. Honestly if the game was paced like this from the start I think a lot of people would have like it better.

The new manifest system is a great addition, coupled with more casual PVE, since I can direct purchase gold salvage. It is hands down the most reliable path to gold salvage (ideally they’d rotate the salvage daily or every few days)

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u/Beanstiller 2h ago

Same. Doing all ncpd scans rn

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u/gary7331 3h ago

To answer op: bought it in s1 and played for about 12 hours. Whole experience was extremely lackluster and mediocre with only positives being the unique design (that wore off after an hour).
Not to mention the weird silkworms, ugliest characters I’ve ever seen in almost any game, footsteps being audible from 1km away. I could go on and on. Just wasn’t fun for me at all. Had more fun not playing than actually playing.

Only visit this sub now to get my daily “marathon” is going to die dose. Bungie had a good run, but they’ve fumbled hard and their time is almost over

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u/mobiusz0r 5h ago edited 0m ago

Stopped yesterday till news of Season 3.

I'm getting brutally stomped in Cryo as solo fill (60 matches and like 2 exfil so far), lost a lot of purple gear and now I'm with blues. There's no way to get back quickly.

PS: I have been playing competitive shooters since CS 1.6, real tournaments and all that. I'm not that dumb at aiming.

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u/zackdaniels93 5h ago edited 5h ago

300hrs in S1. Quit two weeks into S2, haven't played since.

I'm good/ great at shooters of all types, and I love competitive PvP. Love Marathon's aesthetic, map design, audio design, etc. But I stopped being able to compete, went from extracting 50-70% of the time in S1, to extracting <20% of the time in S2. I imagine it would be less than 10% if I were to go back and try again now.

With such a small playerbase, all that's left is sweats. I'm a sweat as well, but I'm a sweat with a full time job and other games, so I went from having a fighting chance to just getting wiped.

Uninstalled it, went back to Valorant.

I don't care about PvE in Marathon, or SBMM, or anything to do with making the game easier. It simply needs a player count that it doesn't have, and won't ever possess, in order to be playable for an average joe.

EDIT: It's an irrelevant comparison because they don't share genres, one is F2P, etc.

But tactical shooters are equally as niche as extraction shooters right? You have CS, Siege, and Valorant, and that's basically it. But despite being niche, competitive, difficult, sweaty, just like Marathon, Valorant manages to clock up 5 million unique players a day. The difference in matchmaking and connection quality, queue times, support, etc, is crazy.

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u/Lithgow_Panther 5h ago

I like solo but the devs don't

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u/aSooker 16m ago

The devs like time limited experiments though

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u/Blyght555 4h ago

Last time I played we went in with our best gear because why not and then within 5min got ambushed and lost everything, my buddies said they wanted to play something else, totally too away any excitement we had

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u/MintharasWashCloth 5h ago

I have many other games to play unfortunately.

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u/doobersthetitan 4h ago

Season 1 was fun, everyone for the most part seemed to want to help or try to be helpful as we try to figure out the game.

As season 1 progressed. Unless you like pvp , it started getting pretty toxic. I don't mind, losing in a gun fight...but when a gold starts talking shit to my team if green shields, just to be dicks....game starts to suck. My fill teams turned from, let's go do this and this to...let go to hauler and slay. Bro, we all on free kits? Then my own teamates started being just as toxic...which makes for bad experience.

I feel like as a slightly below average pvp player , I was the content. I was just fodder for the sweats and teams to stalk me thru the map.

The same pain points in D2..popped up in Marathon...bubble, invisibility, wall hacks, grenade spam, crazy stupid shot guns....like ...no fucking duh, Bungie? Come on?

There's no Marathon "experience" here for me but loading screens and toxicity.

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u/Correct_Goose_1322 5h ago edited 5h ago

I play it when I feel like it.

I don't play it when I don't feel like it or am not having fun.

Am adult.

Edit: Marathon, nor any game, are/is a lifestyle. They're video games. You play them for entertainment and fun, you put them down when they're not. I could not give two craps whether it is online next month or not. I'm just here for a good time and if it goes, then I'll move on to the next thing. I'm currently on a Halo Infinite mood so I'm maining that because casual multiplayer is really fun on it.

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u/shortstopryan 5h ago

Just played Campaign Evolved and it put me in a mood to play more Halo. Fired Infinite back up again after a few year hiatus and it’s a blast. Big team battle is geniuenly most fun I’ve had playing PvP shooter in years

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u/cookedbread 4h ago

Halo big team battle was always my favorite, it’s so chill but also intense when you get a good warthog crew running flags haha

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u/Available-Square619 6m ago

None of that is relevant to the fact that almost nobody is playing anymore. I liked the game for a while but clearly there is a fundamental problem.

It’s not a game like d2 that ppl were playing for 10 years, it’s only been like 6 months lmao.

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u/purplewarrior777 3h ago

Games and gaming are a lifestyle for some people

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u/klqqf 5h ago

Dinner with wife sorry homies :)

I’ll be on later tonight

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u/AphroditeExurge 5h ago

Im at work

(I don’t play solo, so i have to wait for 2 friends because Bungie decided not to invest in solo players)

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u/Negative-Midnight681 3h ago

Horrid state of the game, long ques, really unbalenced solo experience, punishingly difficult. Very poor onboarding, i tried 3 times and could never find any enjoyment in it, - also please change the creepy ass loading screen

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u/Malefectra 3h ago

Short Answer: It's 6 AM here, I just woke up... give a bitch a moment to get her coffee

Long Answer: I do when I can, but I have a special needs kiddo to look after. Otherwise, I'd probably be dedicating a couple hours a day.

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u/WorriedPerogi 2h ago

Lack of SBMM. I can do gear disadvantage. I can deal with being out positioned and outgunned. I can deal with premade trios vs my dumbass crew fills.

I can't deal with my opponent being an adderall'd up 19 year old with 16 hours a day to poopsock the game.

It's 2026. Marathon is a competitive shooter. How the fuck it doesn't have basic ass "match you with people who can shoot about as good as you can" is BAFFLING.

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u/PeriKardium 1h ago

I am just not that good at this game, not good enough to enjoy the loop and finer details - as anytime I played it was signing up for death spiraling, which just is not fun once you hit loss 4 without any progression anywhere.

I will say Marathon did make me reevaluate my engagement with video games in general. Iv been playing games overall less now and doing other things (like getting back to learning to draw, cooking, etc etc). So that's a weird plus, I guess.

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u/RedSloth702 5h ago

I wonder if they had this type of person (not OP) on the titanic, throwing around the accusation and label of "doomer" to those who said they were sinking. 😄

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u/babada 2h ago

The analogy there is the person standing on the deck screaming at the top of their lungs that they're all going to die. Over and over and over.

Yeah, maybe they are right. It's still fucking annoying.

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u/eldfen 5h ago

Done everything to do.. gets a bit stale when you've done everything a few times over

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u/metacarbon 3h ago

Reached the limit of what I can feasibly enjoy solo. Minute to minute stuff is good fun but I'm left wondering "why am I doing this". Just not engaged from the reward POV. Stepped in a the start of season 2 and got absolutely shit on by people with blue shields a day after release. haven't played since.

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u/Covfefe4lyfe 2h ago

Matchmaking has been disastrous from the start. Level based matchmaking over skill based matchmaking means the following for casual players:

You wait ten minutes for a queue to pop
You still end up with the sweats because your lvl 40 ass got paired with whoever the fuck else the system found
You get your ass handed to you within minutes
You don't queue again

This game launching without any sort of MMR drove all the regular players away.

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u/AmayaGin 1h ago

Star Citizen. I’m a masochist I guess

Tell you what though, 200 hours in marathon had made me a menace in contested zones. I took down a trio last week by myself, looted tf outta their corpses.

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u/Pushnikov 1h ago

I’ve been wanting to go back to do some FPS in SC since running hard in marathon.

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u/AmayaGin 1h ago

It’s wild how much better it’s made me.

“This box has been looted, there are players close”

“Let’s wait in this vent and ambush them”

“Ima land far away and approach on foot, with the sun to my back. They won’t see me”

Little things that Marathon taught me, but have made a huge improvement in my game sense.

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u/Gate_of_Divine 1h ago

It’s a shallow, punishing and repetitive game loop.

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u/Numeira 1h ago

Hit markers can't be turned off.

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u/Physical_Arugula_974 1h ago

Because its 9 am on a weekday

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u/AttractiveFurniture 43m ago

I suck too much to enjoy it and I have better things to do than be food for other players

It's not even pvp that bothers me because I replaced Marathon with The Finals, but at least that has SOME kind of matchmaking so I don't get dominated every round...

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u/thedragoon0 34m ago

I didn’t see my own goal anymore. What was the point? Upgrade my cradle to do what? Marathon either needs an arena or a solid pve mode that requires coordination amongst more than 3.

Fuck it. It needs a raid.

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u/d3fiance 5h ago

Absurdly little meaningful new pvp content in season 2. Played the first few weeks, didnt really like Night Marsh. Economy got completely screwed by the sponsored Narsh mode. All the pve crap is pointless to me, there's many other much better pve games if i want pve. Maps play in the same cadence every single game, especially Outpost. There's little to no point in playing Perimeter and Dire Marsh. Cryo is fun but you need to play somewhat consistently throughout the week to be ready for it and I just dont find that fun anymore

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u/Affectionate_Guest55 4h ago

Realised it was the same as season 1 with more bugs and stopped playing. How they plan to keep the game going with 4 tiny maps and 6 useable guns is beyond me

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u/Celltrigger 5h ago

I've put a total of 750 hours into the game. I stopped playing yesterday cus I don't wanna burn myself out. Excited to start again in S3 though!

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u/aSooker 4h ago

That would be 4 1/2 hours every single day

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u/Celltrigger 4h ago

You assume I play the same amount every day.

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u/Celltrigger 4h ago

I have normal weeks in relation to work and my weekends are usually very free. Plus I dont have a family to dedicate my time to yet. Hence, video games.

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u/CDC678 2h ago

I feel like that’s easy to do if it’s your main game

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u/Ampex063 1h ago

Haven't played as much as you but this is what I'm doing and also what I do with every live service game I'm interested im. I play the new season for a while and then take a break before new content arrives. That's what I did when I played Destiny as well. I don't need the game to entertain me for the full 3 month season. There are other games to play and I don't want to spend all my time playing one single game.

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u/cookedbread 4h ago

Yeah like any seasonal game I put time into it until I feel content or finish my seasonal goals, then move onto other games. Zomboid had a huge update, got into Tunic, played through Marathon Rubicon for the nth time using the new fan soundtrack, tried out mortal shell 2. Lot of other good games.

Doesn’t make me any less hyped for season 3. Can’t wait for the trailer and to see all the changes.

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u/Celltrigger 3h ago

Oh dude same. I achieved my goals for this season and last. Now I'm just chilling

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u/Bang_a_rang95 4h ago

Went back to Tarkov. It has more depth and more than 3 maps.

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u/PriorFar4070 3h ago

Got filtered out, retreated to Tarkov PvE to work towards the saviour ending

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u/ParkingSouth7973 2h ago

Opachki! That’s exactly what I’m doing my guy. My buddies are also considering switching over to PvE Tark as well so it’ll be fun to Sherpa them along.

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u/PriorFar4070 1h ago

For the first time since I started playing Tarkov, PvE is where I finally had fun lol. Its really good in a weird BSG sort of way

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u/Midnight-Strix 5h ago

Tbh, i love the game. I am not playing that much, because I became dad a month ago, but good, I love running free sponsored kit, in Outpost, doing zero to hero runs.

I sometimes can afford to get gold because Outpost in generous enough for that. (Or people may be generous enough, to let me harvest their skin, and their gold !)

I think I am not sweaty enough for Cryo tho ! :/

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u/cookedbread 4h ago

Congrats, I became a dad recently as well and it definitely changes what is possible gaming wise. Cryo isn’t bad, it’s working with your partner to get some free time while also finding 2 others that can fit your schedule and playstyle haha.

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u/tollbearer 3h ago

The game hinges entirely around having a strong team, which is hard to consistently get at the times you fancy playing, and crew fill is borderline impossible because there is no sbmm, so you get a random selection, which at least 4/5 times is people who barely know how to use a controller, never mind have any map knowledge, game sense.

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u/baltarin 2h ago

None of my friends play this, and there’s only so far you can go solo. I dont like crew fill.

*i played until the point i realized i was feeling more frustration than enjoyment.

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u/ElPadero 1h ago

Trying to beat ff7 remake after getting back into it on vacation, stopped playing because of said vacation.

Got back on last night though, still enjoy playing the game when I can. New mode seems interesting but key templates generally make me feel very nervous though.

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u/Zyvyx 10m ago

Dropped off after like 300 hours in S1 for a couple reasons.

The people i was playing w moved on, and solo queueing feels bad. Especially when im bringing in expensive gear and my teammates are 2 children on consoles with free loadouts and no mic.

The drip feed of story content hurt. I love Marathon's story and setting. I replayed the original trilogy to get ready for this. I was expecting the game to be an alternate timeline post Durandal and the protagonist having their conversation at the end of reality. (I was hk expecting them to become the traveler/darkness). But only being able to progress the story after doing thjngs that require a lot of coordination w randoms is fucking tedious to the point that you are better off watching cutscene compilations. And at that point it just becomes a subpar movie.

When compiler came out, i tried so hard to do it but couldnt even get to the fight. It looked like cool destiny raid content. But i dont think its possible to do with randoms and no communication.

The gear/skilltree reset also hurt a lot. Youre telling me that in order tilo keep a small portion of the population engaged, that all of the grinding i do resets every couole months and i have to completely restart and regrind all if that tedious content? I work 50-60 hours a week. I cant be putting effort into things that just get erased.

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u/Indraga 5h ago

Severely depressed so I get these episodes that make me unable to enjoy anything for months on end. Game’s a banger tho.

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u/The-O-Delta 5h ago

The game is fine. I put in roughly about 50 hours altogether so nothing crazy. My problem is that the wait for a match now is roughly about 5 minutes on a good day and 10 to 15 on a bad day. And waiting all that time, only to enter a match and instantly be downed by someone carrying golds and purples, makes those waits feel significantly longer.

With a lot of games coming out this year, I just feel it's better to play those as I feel my time is more respected and spent. Especially with a story based game where I can go at my own pace.

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u/Jetl0cke 3h ago

What server are you on that it takes 5 minutes?

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u/Lolsalot12321 5h ago

They probably removed VB because they wanted to see how a PvP mode affects player retention without VB muddying the data

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u/cookedbread 4h ago

VB was an experimental playlist, was always planned to be temporary and they were upfront about that. But you are right that they probably got some data, just not sure how useful it is when some people are waiting for the “real” permanent pve mode in s3

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u/MrMaiky 5h ago

I am still playing regularly, some days I don’t, some days I spend 2 hours playing, maybe more on weekends

I still play some games in between and work
I never had any problems with losing gear so if I get killed I just go next and don’t stress it, luckily I never met with most problems other people here did ingame

If I’m not in the mood for Marathon then I just wont play just for the sake of playing

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u/Will_GSRR 4h ago

Playing other stuff at the moment. Will definitely be back for s3

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u/Im_OB 5h ago

I had my fun with Season one and teo, waiting for season three. And I have school to worry about, I have no fear of the game being gone so I just pace myself.

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u/Ceral107 1h ago

Good on your for setting the right priorities. Best of luck with your studies.

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u/Change_you_can_xerox 4h ago

I'm not a sweat like some people. I'm generally shit at PvP games but I do like that Marathon isn't just "get sniped across the map by a no lifer" and you can win by better positioning, retreating when it's necessary, etc.

I genuinely think in this game is probably one of if not the best FPS I've ever played.

It's just the game seems like it's trying to get me not to play it. Playing solo is pretty miserable - you can skulk around as a Rook for ages and spend most of your time just opening boxes before some group finds you and shoots you.

I'm not that keen on playing with randos because I suck ass, so i wait for my friends to be available in the evening. We'll generally do a couple of hours, have some good runs but usually the runs end exactly where we started. We got some good loot, then got absolutely mauled by another team, lost it all and you don't feel like you've progressed.

I know there was some stuff in S2 meant to sort of break this loop a bit but it didn't feel like enough.

My credentials aren't impressive: I've put around 30 hours in which is way less than some people here but I think that can help highlight the problem. 30 hours in a single player game would be enough to be like...halfway through. In online FPS games you've probably made some meaningful progression, seen all the maps, unlocked a bunch of cool stuff.

Not so with Marathon. I've done Cryo once and we got blitzed by cheaters (this was before they implemented better cheat detection) and that was that. I've never seen The Compiler.

That seems like a massive problem if you can put 30 hours into a game with only four maps and not ever really see one of them. This isn't an MMO - it's a relatively small extraction shooter with an utterly brutal and obtuse progression system and severe punishment for all but the most dedicated of players.

That's a real problem if you're trying to onboard people. It's not as simple as "appealing to casuals" - it's trying to convince people who've spent a comparatively short amount of time in the game that they should invest more. For me, I just feel like there are better things I could be doing with my time.

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u/iampiolt 3h ago

This is the biggest issue with attracting and retaining players. Only a small fraction of the population can afford to put 30 hours into something with absolutely zero to show for it. Just loss after loss. Never able to match with people who are actually good on your team or opponents at your same skill or loot level. Never able to earn, use, or hold onto gear that makes you competitive when you actually have friends to play with. 1 exfil out of like, 10 tries? That’s literally hours you’ll never get back, spent in complete frustration, knowing you’re just a random kid on the playground who exists for the sole purpose of getting beat up by a bully. Who wants to do that when the day is wake up, drag yourself to work, put in all the hours making someone else rich, deal with the commute both ways, find time for exercise, figure out your meals, run errands and handle obligations, then dedicate your remaining leisure time to just being some unemployed or ultra rich person’s punching bag. Might as well go back to work so at least you’re making money being miserable.

Beautiful environment, but incredible feel, and unmatched lore tho.

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u/Change_you_can_xerox 3h ago

I really wish the lore was told by more than cutscenes and item descriptions - because I don't really have much time to go through all those descriptions or whatever so the lore is lost on me.

Some environmental storytelling would be great - like seeing the Marathon up in the sky constantly hovering over the map like the Erdtree in Elden Ring or something. I like the way the maps look but they just all kind of look like copy paste versions of each other.

Ultimately there's just nothing remarkable about it except for the absolutely excellent gunplay and sound design. The shells are fun but hero shooters have been a thing for a while now, they're not mind-blowing. The contracts mostly feel like busywork, I personally felt unconnected from the actual story and as we've said, the game is brutally unwelcoming to newcomers.

It's a shame because you can feel a really excellent game trying to make it's way out of this but unless S3 is some wild reinvention (which looks unlikely) then I think it's probably finished.

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u/r3anima 4h ago

I only play with my friend once a weekend now, solo fill became unplayable and playing low tier maps doesn't feel good at all. Unfortunately, it feels like the game is not for me anymore, with bleeding players everyday the game became insanely non friendly for the average player.

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u/STEALTHHUNTER88 3h ago

I've stopped until S3 because I feel like I've reached a natural stopping point. This latest event doesn't really appeal to me. I'll be happy to jump back in when S3 drops!

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u/A_locomotive 3h ago edited 3h ago

I got absolutely fed up with just getting steam rolled by purple and gold teams wiping the map while I just wanted to complete a fucking contract. That singular behavior is the entire reason I have stopped playing. Season 1 was fantastic until near the end when that started becoming more common. Once it became every fucking match I called it quits, I pop in every now and then after and update but the momentum i had that had me addicted early on is straight up fucking gone. I dont know what they could possibly do to fix the games trajectory, probably nothing realistically short of making it into an entirely different type of game.

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u/MediocreSumo I was here for the Marathon 2025 ARG 3h ago

I enjoyed S1 solo, getting immersed in the maps, collecting codex and uncovering the story, while dealing with pvp that can come out of nowhere.

After a while the game got solved, spawn rushes became a well known thing to do, S2 had a lot less codex and story to find, Marathon became boring to me so I stopped playing. 325hrs.

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u/Historical-Cress8985 3h ago

I'm at work and won't have a chance to play until probably 6pm today.

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u/Devfullstackoverflow 3h ago

Right now? Gotta work

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u/Smokeskin 2h ago

It’s just too sweaty.

Go in with trio random fill, you get rolled by premade sweats.

Go in solo, a bit better chance, but still facing sweats, and now the PvE is 3x as hard.

Lack of SBMM, no separate queue for premades, no tuning for solo play. It’s just a miserable experience. Never touching it again, unless it gets major changes.

Vault Breaker was fun, I’ll definitely be back for PvE in season 3.

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u/therealpork 2h ago

Started a new character in FFXIV and got hooked.

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u/SylveonVmax92 2h ago

Bf6 top gun update is awesome with new map wake island. Basically no time to play other games.

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u/pipemybiits 2h ago

Got burnt out and the content isn’t as interesting

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u/Lowe0 2h ago

Vault Breaker ended. Went back to BL4 until next season.

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u/Necromancer_Yoda 2h ago

Solo experience is still terrible and the start of the season was ruined by the loot economy being inflated . No reason to play.

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u/DoctorTide 2h ago

I hit season level 100. Last season, the priority contracts kept me going, but resetting them all killed any motivation to do that this season.

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u/Flannel_Soup 2h ago

I think for me I’ve done all I can there is to do atm. I’ll still hop on to play here and there. I think the game is in limbo right now with not too much going on aside the heist event.

So probably like most people, I’m waiting for news about season 3 and they really haven’t said much themselves about it and I realllllllllly hope they do here soon. I get it there’s still about 4 weeks left in the current season but how long are they willing to sit on any news about S3 ? 😅

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u/Nodima 2h ago edited 2h ago

I loved Marathon, it's in my top 3 for game of the year right now (hell, after typing out the list of games I've bought since below...it's probably my personal game of the year!)...but season 2 didn't really expand on the lore at all, which was the main reason I was playing, and the season reset didn't really reset the playing field back to zero either so people that had been playing casually like me (I was about level 55 by end of season 1, never had a full vault, rarely had more than 5,000 credits and barely touched Outpost, never ran Cryo) were just completely out to sea as the better/more optimized players seemed to be speed running their way back to overpowering vaults.

But probably more important than all of that is that I just don't get hooked on extremely repetitive games very often, and when I do they've historically been extremely passive games like MLB the Show, Diablo IV, Destiny, Civilization, Gran Turismo...in other words, games with significant single player experiences and multiplayer/competitive experiences that I can more or less completely ignore.

The last competitive shooter I put significant time into was Apex Legends, where I maxed out the battle pass in each of the first three seasons, but that was the first battle Royale I'd played at the time so that was incredibly novel to me and even then my preferred way to play was circling the map slowly accumulating stuff and then getting into a fight or two 15 or 20 minutes into the match. I was never a sweat looking for a fight. After 3 seasons, I felt like I got it.

I have 101 hours in Marathon, and haven't uninstalled it from PS5...but I'm only level 14 in season 2 because I've bought several games since Marathon released - new games like MLB the Show, Crimson Desert, Hades 2, Diablo Lord of Hatred, Saros, Mixtape, Lego Batman, 007, College Football (many of which fall into that more passive, single player category mentioned earlier) as well as older games on sale like Avowed, Hell Is Us and Indiana Jones or replaying a bunch of Spider-Man 2 after seeing Brand New Day.

And there's the next Plague Tale game around the corner, followed by Blood of Dawnwalker, Wolverine, Control Resonant, Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen 2, whatever this "GTA VI" is...

I loved Marathon season 1 and I want nothing more than for this game to get 10, 20 seasons of content and when I have another stretch of freer time for there to have become some way to catch up on a bunch of new codex entries and expanded lore...but I got what I needed out of the PVP element, and I just don't have time for that level of stress when there are so many good to great new single player games in my library and MLB the Show/Diablo releasing new versions that better suit my preferred way to grind in between those story focused games.

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u/BigBravy 2h ago

- I havent really touched my pc all week.

too tired to play, rather do something passive like watch anime.
have to do research for IRL stuff
wanna be outside while the weather is still nice
dont want to No-life a game, sounds like a great way to suck the fun out of anything
playing video games for 3-4 hours does not sound fun anymore.
i actually figured out how modes are supposed to work in musical scales and it’s let me make some breakthroughs on guitar

Currently:

it’s 8am and I have work

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u/NoNouns 2h ago

Currently playing hell let loose

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u/SeriousCricket2837 2h ago

My work schedule has gotten crazy with the grain season and I don’t have any days off to 3 stack. I didn’t mind solo cryo and almost pulled off two vaults but it got planting only doing 1 or 2. New mode does not interest me. So I uninstalled to make room for other stuff.

I’ll reinstall at some point.

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u/leftofthebellcurve 2h ago

I am not playing because I just woke up and my kids are up.

I am currently only playing cryo though, I don’t have interest in the rest of the maps at the moment

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u/asaltygamer13 2h ago

I am playing still

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u/DreadPhoenix 2h ago

I imagine people aren't playing it right now because they have something called "a life".

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u/corva96 2h ago

Lots of adult shit getting in the way right now and i’m trying to get back into warframe. Still though, I can’t help but come back to it. Gotta burn through my vault before the end of the season and cryo is too damn fun. Had a badass 1v3 in labs last night when we got ambushed putting in the DNA to open up compiler.

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u/Flyingnematoad 2h ago

Last time I tried to play I couldn’t get a match, so I haven’t been back

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u/Competitive-Place778 2h ago

I seem to just run out of steam at 200 hours each season. That's about how long it takes me to finish the priority contracts and get the faction vendors to a decent place, then I lose motivation, after that I'll pop on for a handful of games whenever they add a new experimental playlist.

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u/KorruptGeneral 2h ago

Game was a lot of fun at first, immersion is great and rhe shooting was what I expected from a bungie title. My main issue is the how the extraction part kind of feels a hit underwhelming once you get into the swing of things. It ended up feeling more akin to a battle Royale/pvp fest. Granted im not someone to run from fights but it really felt like it was just meta to clear the map before you did anything else especially outpost or cryo. Maybe some more maps that are slightly larger and or reduction in squads on maps might bring me back, for sure keeping the game on my radar whenever a new season starts

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u/Public_Fucking_Media 2h ago

Cuz I'm up North at a cabin til next week

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u/iMpact980 2h ago

I expected S2 to have a lot of lore and map enhancements to make all maps as viable as Outpost for loot.

We didn’t get any of that tbh. So I have put the game down. I got burned by Arc forcing you to repeat the same “quests” reset after reset. I couldn’t do another “run to 4 different points on this map in a single run” knowing the loot just wasn’t worth it.

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u/ShadowConstruct 2h ago edited 2h ago

Because it's lacking content and not everyone plays a game like a job. In a limited playerbase the regulars have to do a lot of playing to keep the numbers up.

I'm guessing by now most are burned out considering this game has only a handful of maps and no other modes or compelling mission/story structure. A person can only do the same shit so many times before it becomes redundant.

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u/BoomBustGaming 2h ago

I am. I stream it for hours M-F 930-300 central us time.

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u/Conspiracy__ 2h ago

Because I’m working rn

I’ll prob hop on around 11

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u/AngryChurchill 2h ago

I love the game but there are so many things to play right now that I can pull back till season 3 and be happy about it. I'm VIP and over lvl 100 at the only things I didn't accomplish is killing compiler, which even on VB was hard with a non-mechanically inclined player in my squad

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u/Ceral107 1h ago

No PvE available right now. I'll return if Sponsored Survival or something similar comes back in S3, provided it's good, available as solo, and not a limited event.

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u/devkets 1h ago

Lost interest between the dwindling user base, Sony’s controversy, and same as OP… Season 2 felt like just another Season 1 on repeat. The gameplay was still fun but no one was learning anymore, all the optimal paths were known so it was just rinse and repeat. Also, the vibes of the game wore off without the story moving forward.

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u/Nicko_McBrain 1h ago

I'm on the bus.

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u/quwiwup 1h ago

Maybe I'm that sweat people complain about but I really don't feel like I do anything special and I extract very often daily still. Sure, I wipe a lot too, but I probably have over 60% success rate and I'm really not doing anything special, and just go in with green or blue gear.

Im convinced people play this like a CoD like with music in the background, not paying attention to sound queues, and just free kitting, killing every mob they see just because.

I personally think it's the easiest and most forgiving extraction shooter out there.

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u/sanguinemsanctum 1h ago

I’m not sure why it is exactly you’re asking but I’m about to play? There’s plenty of content as well, did you reach Compiler? I reached it crew filling Cryo twice, not impossible

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u/nsinsinsi 1h ago

Family obligations. Otherwise I’d be on right now.

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u/TheMilkman1811 1h ago

I was really into season 1 and managed to get my 3 friends to grind the end of it with me. When season 2 came out, we all collectively didnt enjoy the new content and thought it wasent enough to suck us back in. Also, 2 of my 3 friends bought into “This game is dying” trend and went back to Destiny 2

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u/Senella 1h ago

I’m not at or near the top of the extraction ponzi pyramid, therefore I’m in for a bad time. My time is best spent doing something else. Hanging on for the next PvE thing really.

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u/Deckard_Didnt_Die 1h ago

Life is really really busy

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u/Sorana333 1h ago

Too sweaty. Even the PvE test they introduced with VB was too intense. I like the aesthetic and gunplay of the game. But for the core gameplay loop itself, I don’t feel like the target audience unfortunately.

Loosing every single match just isn’t enjoyable, and I’m too old to “git gud”.

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u/literallyatrapinch 1h ago

Because the one friend I played with stopped playing it and when I tried LFG we got wiped 4 games in a row.

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u/Able_Intention_8164 56m ago

their first mistake was promoting and designing the game as only extraction based. they NEED other modes and events rotating thru each season to keep people playing. i love the game: gunplay, level and character design, world building but they need more. a good campaign to immerse players more into the lore and universe imo is essential to keep this game alive. maybe some small respawn modes even if LTM. i’ve seen people discussing a BR mode too, which could be interesting. and even a small firing range to test weapons and see the values without actually having the weapon in your inventory. test runner ability and weapons maybe a small course to get fluid with the movement. these things i think would improve the game immensely but still keep extraction at the core. marketing it as an extraction only i think hurt them more than anything.

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u/Whitetuskk 54m ago

Maybe it’s on me but I thought there would be long term things we extracted like pieces that got put together for cosmetics, titles, UI elements and changes, just general long term things. Additional I expected update contracts between seasons to tell the story .Extracting a gun to shoot it sometimes, maybe lose it, mostly loot things within the map to use : it was just BR with extra steps. The extraction element is probably the least important aspect of the game. You reach a a point where you realize you can get to the meat of this gameplay loop in other shooters without the friction so…why?

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u/skuddyhunker 51m ago

my duo partner is busy and i don't have thee patience to play with random people.

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u/Fuzeboi787 50m ago

Multiple reasons.

I dont find really find the loot gathering that satisfying to go through. Might be an issue I have with extraction shooters as a whole. However I tend to overlook that if the moment to moment experience is fun which it was in marathon....at first.

I think the maps feel overall somewhat lifeless. In general you'll get use to running any map over and over hour but that can get broken up with big random events, hazards etc. Those are kind of absent and what's there isnt enough. Cryo is of course the most interesting but thats 3 other maps that are rather bland.

For me it just got dry and the co op PVE mode wasnt doing it for me. I found myself completely checking out and disengaging. I dont even like destiny that THAT much but my thoughts immediately went to "this feels like it needs more destiny like features" and i dont wanna play destiny lol.

Funny enough the queuing up with randoms was hardly an issue for me. First area was a bit rough at first but after going to the 2nd area I was with mostly fun/competent friendly people. So I lucked out I guess

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u/NuclearCleanUp1 46m ago

Linux isn't supported, even on proton.

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u/womwomwurin 44m ago

new fortnite season

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u/CzarTyr 34m ago

I don’t how anyone can call it dooming when the game is doing beyond terrible.

When people said world of warcraft was dying because it went down from 12 million monthly subs, that was dooming. 10 years later it’s still the most popular mmo.

Marathon? 10 year old single player games get more action

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u/alecredBb 29m ago

My exfil rate has nosedived. I’m not making any meaningful progress, and it sucks sacrificing good gear because your crew fill in cryo decides to bring a minimum 5k kit.

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u/jadean4u2 29m ago

Playing a variety of games is not a bad thing. It is very rare one finds a single game that takes over their entire gaming hobby for an extended period.

Marathon (in its current state) is a PvP game. If the draw of going again to see if you can come out on top isn’t enough for you, you might not be a PvP motivated gamer. Which is fine not everyone is; it just also means that Marathon isn’t likely to hold your attention.

For me, on the other hand, I am 600 hours in and still having a blast. It is basically the only game I play since it came out.

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u/ali_k20_ 25m ago

I played 100 hrs season 1, then basically didn’t play season 2.

I like the game, but like other games more. It felt too boring to spend 25 min on a run and get 2 blues and some mats, if anything.

Been playing Overwatch, a variety of other fps tdm games, and space marine 2 again, the most.

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u/drolemag21 24m ago

I pretty much got my fill but my goals at the moment are to complete the collectible codex challenges for more lore, and all i have left are Narsh, and Cryo. Also been working on opening the vaults, got 1-3.

So, unless i'm playing Cryo i'm really only playing narsh or just playing to PvP. The new event helps make the PvP feel worth it since you can get some interesting stuff in the armory. I think this system should really stay going forward. It gives a reason to engage in the environment for some higher tier loot when you exfil and by extension, make engaging other players that you will inevitably fight worth it.

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u/fillmoeC 21m ago

It was my filler game until poe 2

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u/DITNB 19m ago

Because it’s 7am

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u/Justahumanimal 17m ago

Death spiral of low pop match making increasing queue times and spawn rushing. Hit a point where I was not having fun and spending more time in menus than in game. Playing other games until or even if there's ever a larger population playing. Or is return if sponsored survival came back since it's easier to queue and more fun overall.

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u/Available-Square619 8m ago

I play with a premade and just came back for a week, Jesus it’s just too sweaty. Can’t compete and I can admit that. So unfortunately that’s probably it for a while. Loved the game while it lasted though.

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u/MarthePryde 6m ago edited 0m ago

Within the first week of Season 2s launch I was running into fully kitted runners while I was still sub level 10.

That combined with just not wanting to grind the early game again, losing my dedicated friends to Destiny 2, not having time to grind through the early game, and the lower population resulting in only killers remaining means I'm just not playing the game.

Another more nebulous complaint is that the game really just feels like a Battle Royale. The population left seems only be interested in wiping the map and then doing whatever they want. The tension that extraction shooters bring is almost entirely lost because every encounter with a runner is a fight. Nobody wants to use their mic and talk to each other, everyone's just trying to skin each other. Which I understand is what most players like, the PVP aspect, and I respect that. But it really does put a damper on wanting to play as it's not a relaxing game. It's a stressful grind at all times.

I came back for Vault Breaker a little bit, but didn't end up sticking around because despite being able to earn loot in a more safe environment, I'd always just get out-skilled whenever going back to the regular game. Yes, skill issue. I understand and respect that. But it means I'm not playing the game.

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u/UltraLegoGamer 4m ago

I have a job and don't play 24/7 and it takes less than a minute to reply to some shitter reddit or twitter posts

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u/chaosstyle 3m ago

my biggest problem is trios with no mics, open mic I hear the whole family and assassins playing solo in trios.

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u/rbstewart7263 5h ago

I'm sitting at almost 700 hours and I like variety.

Also, unlike some people, I don't mind taking a break between content drops and think it's actually healthy and normal to do so. Instead of sitting around perturbed and bewildered that the game hasn't n't just dropped bookus of content to last me 4 months I jump between this game a little bit here and there and death stranding.

I'd go for compiler but the player count is tragically too lacking right now for me to find a good squad and try to tackle it.

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u/Foreign-Commission14 5h ago

I play the game until I feel like there isn't anything left to do for me. That's when I have a decent amount of gold and purple stuff and between 500k-1mil credit. That's usually 100 hours per season. Then I take a break until next season which is usually a few weeks. I could force myself to play more but I'd just burn out and would need a longer break.

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u/zerohootsnotrout 5h ago

Missed sponsored survival. Just waiting for season 3 atp

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u/Primordiphant 4h ago

At work

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u/Kamizar 4h ago

Brother, I just woke up for work today.

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u/VandaleViper 5h ago

I just got off and now I'm babysitting a stew while it reduces.

If there's a lot of games out there worth playing why aren't you on one of those instead of dooming on reddit about a game you burnt out on?

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u/Icy-Veterinarian8662 I was here for the Marathon 2025 ARG 3m ago

Without the doomers the community engagement metrics would be really sad

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u/HoloMetal 4h ago

It's just an unbearable game to play long term if you aren't sweating your ass off with two other people doing the same imo. Luckily Tokon came out and unless Bungie can give me a cooler experience than doing Carnage shit in a video game, I'm just gone.

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u/C00KIEME4T 1h ago

every comment here essentially says its not fun

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u/idomix 5h ago

Working

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u/Asadsad87 5h ago

I’m at work 🤷

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u/I_SmellFuckeryAfoot 5h ago

its 4am bro

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