Marathon

DOA Waste of money

Just pull the plug twin… 🥀

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Great game at first but eventually becomes unbelievably frustrating for many reasons. Sometimes you get put into high ping servers, making it impossible to have a fair fight with anyone. Meanwhile, server side movement also means that sometimes you get stuck on a door that's open on someone else's screen, sometimes you get desynched and don't even get me started on trying to go down a ladder without actually scaling it down, you will be stuck there forever. Everyone praises marathon's sound design for its quality, accuracy and immersion. While I do enjoy the sound design in this game for the ambience, it's absolutely not the best for PVP. The vertical sound is especially hard to decipher, you can hardly tell if someone is above, below or at the same level as you from sound alone. It's so bad that you have to rely on little hints like the slightly muffled sound of doors opening/closing in pinwheel to figure out if you're hearing people inside the pinwheel or outside. Oh, you thought movement was the only thing that was server based? Of course not! There's more. In this game, you can sometimes hit bots multiple times with a knife without the server registering it, all while they shoot you continuously. My personnal record is 5 hits in a row without a hitmarker. It would be frustrating enough if it only happened with bots, but alas, I've died many times in a fight against another player because my knife pierced his body but did no damage. I guess the worms must've used some alien alloy weaving this one eh. On a completely unrelated (not) note, the Zeus railgun is one of my favorite and most hated weapons in the game, depending on whether it feels like working or not. I recently played a cryo match where I shot a destroyer crouching on a beam directly in front of me 5 times. Out of those 5 shots, 1 connected, 1 missed, 3 had their energy beams splash on his body without giving me a hitmarker. In the end, I died to that guy, who missed 9/12 of his magnum shots before finally getting me. In the end, whether you kill someone or not sometimes just comes down to luck. If the server doesn't like you, good luck hitting anything. For a game that has PVP as its main focus and that is so highly praised for its gunplay, this is completely unacceptable. To be completely clear, I'm not frustrated at the difficulty of the game, I've adapted and overcome it a long time ago. But I just had a game where I went solo outpost, intentionally took an incredibly good loadout that I knew I couldn't lose with in order to do 2 gold key template quest. I did everything right and got into pinwheel, got pushed by a very aggressive player, managed to fend him off, was about to go finish him and started lagging like crazy. Naturally, I disengaged as far as I possibly could. When he eventually found me, I played it incredibly safe and caught him off guard, only to go in to finish him with the knife (something I do from instinct because it's my favorite playstyle), only to not have my last hit register die to a guy that made multiple mistakes and should not have won under those circumstances. While I do realize that I could've played even safer, not gone for the knife and likely won the fight, I will also emphasize that it was a calculated risk and I landed every hit/shot I meant to land, only for the game to let me down in the end. It's not so much the fact that I lost that hurts, it's the way that it happened. If I lost the fight fair and square, I would have nobody to blame but myself. But in this game, I wish I hadn't even launched the game today at all, which is not the kind of retrospection you want your players to have, Bungie. I've been patient with this game for a very long time, I've had great ups as I've had terrible downs, but at no point have I felt like uninstalling the game like I did after this previous incident. Furthermore, the state of the game has been horrendous since S2 launched: not only are the queue times longer than S1, but so are the load times, which makes absolutely no sense as those aren't influenced by the game's playercount. Bungie also has absolutely no clue in the world how to balance their game. This is blatently shown with their poor handling of the shotgun nerfs and the way they "addressed" grenade spam. They genuinely have been making bad decision after bad decision for multiple months, seemingly without realizing what it is the players actually want from them. The more I think about it the more I agree with the "Bungie had it coming" crowd. I love the game an extraordinary amount, I've been playing it for half a year now and I wish more people would give it a chance, but then I think of how much I, not so much a casual gamer, often get frustrated with the game, I can't imagine someone with an actual life enjoying this whatsoever. The S3 update looks extremely promising, but with it being delayed all the way to december with seemingly not much new content until them, I can't help but feel disappointed.

the longer i play it, the more i want to play anything else

Painfully generic extraction shooter with class shooter gameplay, but macro progression is pitiful, lore is SHOCKLY shallow for a bungie game, and combat loop is unfun to me, and nothing like the bungie I fell in love with.

♥♥♥♥ ass game